An in-depth conversation with DPK developer
1. Host: Can you introduce yourself and DPK platform?
Bill Jiang: Hi, everyone. I’m Bill Jiang. I’m the co-founder of DPK platform and the producer of the game project of the DPK platform. I lead a development team for distributed development in Los Angeles.
I have worked in China and the United States for many years. I have more than 20 years of experience in interactive entertainment product development. I has developed dozens of VR arcade products and games and holds multiple patents. I worked as a developer for Sony Computer Entertainment America, where I was involved in the development of the PSP game, Neopets. While working at TOSE CO., LTD., I developed the popular game Resident Evil Survivor. Later, I focused on the XR field for many years.
In the past five years, the development of blockchain has made me feel that a new world has arrived. I accepted Ethan’s invitation to lead the team to develop the combination of blockchain, games and VR. All these areas are very interesting.
DPK is a decentralized chain game platform with play-to-earn as the core. Players can earn by participating in all games issued by DPK platform. The entire platform has a huge economic system and a complete NFT trading system. It can be said that we want to do an Axie-version of Steam, but far beyond the existing model of Steam.
In DPK, you can get happiness through games, you can also collect NFT assets, buy and sell NFT assets, and more importantly, you can create NFT assets, and every NFT asset has practical uses and is able to provide others with value.
DPK’s dream is to create a metaverse system with games as an adventure space. In this virtual world, complex economic logic is realized, so that many players can enjoy entertainment while also getting the shared benefits of games. In the end, the DPK platform will definitely give all governance rights to all users like Ethereum, which will realize an unprecedented game platform. All games belong to players, all assets belong to players, all economic behaviors belong to players, and benefits are also belong to all players.
2. Host: Can you share why DPK can participate in Binance Smart Chain’s MVB4?
Bill Jiang: DPK is a BSC ecological project, and it is also the only multi chain-game platform with play-to-earn system as its core. DPK has only been in existence for 3 months and has grown to be the 7th chain game project on the BSC chain. DPK’s second game will start internal testing this month and is expected to be officially launched next month. Our second game, Brave World, is also a chain game with a very large investment. DPK’s current active user volume, daily NFT transaction volume, and global rankings are high. These public data have been recognized by everyone. We also hope that with the MVB selection, more BSC users can know DPK and like it, making DPK rank higher and create more value for more DPK users.
3. Host: Can you tell us in detail about the DPK model?
Bill Jiang: This starts with the game asset of the platform: Kreatty NFT. All games on the DPK platform require a virtual identity. We have designed a system that allows players to reproduce kitty NFTs, so that every virtual identity can be created by players and traded freely. And it takes a lot of game tokens, that is, KIT token, to reproduce kitties. KIT tokens can be produced in the game every day through every game.
The large number of produced KIT tokens will be used by players to reproduce kitty NFTs with various attributes. In our Mine Planet project, these kitties can be dispatched for adventure in outer space, and they will be able to obtain the governance token, DPK token, of the entire platform for Planet owners.
The governance token, DPK token, can be used to participate in our DeFi, which has a very high APR. We will launch the DeFi first-mining soon. After internal testing, when the TVL is 60 million USD, the APR is still as high as 1,800%. It is a very worth invested GameFi.
While more than 50% of the large amount of BNB, as transaction fee, in the entire trading system of the platform will be put into the Treasure Fund Pool, so as to continuously reward holders who hold DPK tokens for more than one year.
Every time a new game is added, it will bring new users and new kitty NFT needs, which will drive users to reproduce kitties on a large scale and a large number of transactions. Large-scale reproduction will bring a lot of KIT token consumption, and the market will be stimulated to further encourage users to play games, and the DPK tokens obtained in the game can bring the wealth of the entire platform to share.
So we only need to do a good job in infrastructure, and then continue to bring more and better chain games to users, and the whole cycle can be operated.
Once it runs smoothly, we can support all game developers to publish games on DPK, issue developers’ tokens with one-click, and mine multiple times to further share the fun of the game and game revenue with users. This will bring a steady stream of high-quality games, and will also bring new users who are from other industries, and truly face the billion-level game user market.
4. Host: What are the existing games and upcoming games of DPK platform?
Bill Jiang: The first game launched by DPK is a high-quality casual game. Its type is elimination game. This game type is suitable for all ages in the traditional market and is well-loved by everyone because it is a light game. For the first time, we have realized that a large number of players can obtain digital currency rewards when playing casual games.
And our second product is Mine Planet. Planet NFT is also a very important part of our future planning, because it is the core of the future metaverse planning. We plan to build a metaverse on the Planet NFT in the future, allowing players invite others to build their own Planet together. The plot of the Planet can be shared by the Planet owner and the players. Planet 1.0 version is about to start this month. For now, there are already 1,000 planets that have their owners. Players can dispatch their kitty NFTs to explore the universe and obtain various precious treasures. This is also the beginning of our DPK metaverse!
Our third product is Brave World that everyone has learned about before. It is a large-scale magical epic-style game, with a large number of heroes, equipment, dragons, skills and other NFT assets. The overall style is exquisite and lovely Q-version. The entire game has various gameplay, and every player needs to play strategically to lead a large number of heroes to defeat the Dark Lord, save the princess and save the world. And it’s not a very tiring game for the players.
There are 82 heroes as the protagonist of this game. The owners of Kreatty/kitty NFT assets of the DPK platform can claim the hero NFTs, Kreatty owners can get 4 random heroes for free, and kitty owners can get 3 heroes for free. Spoiler alert, if you want to play well, the whole faction needs seven heroes and professional cooperation. In this way, players will have a large number of hero cards to trade. Different heroes have four qualities: purple, orange, red and gold. While the best gold quality will be synthesized through the contract in the next stage and has not been made yet, but it must be right to accumulate a lot of heroes.
The Hero NFTs are not for sale in the DPK platform but be airdropped to all Kreatty/kitty owners, which is a big benefit for all users holding Kreatty/kitty NFTs. And this also brings new value to all newly reproduced kitty NFTs.
The whole Brave world is a heroic world, and also a NFT world. The hero’s equipment, weapons, and props are all NFT assets, which can be obtained by the player on the adventure in-game. Brave World is expected to start internal testing at the end of this month, and it is expected to officially launched in February. Here are some pictures of Brave World:
5. Host: Defi has been popular for a while. Many people think that the wave of decentralized finance (DeFi) is over. What do DPK think about this?
Bill Jiang: Our team believes that DeFi1.0 alone is really not easy to continue. Because there is no application scenario for a large number of liquidity mining coins. But at present, the increasingly popular chain games proposed Gamefi but started to generate a new upsurge. Why? It is because the coins produced by GameFi have application scenarios. Strong applications will bring continuous value transmission, and there will be more application space, which in turn will form more user needs, which will lead to the generation of brand-new DeFi value. In particular, equity tokens, like DPK tokens, are backed by the positive returns of the entire platform, so they have more long-term holding value.
The DeFi that DPK launched this month is stablecoin liquidity mining, DPK LP liquidity mining, KIT LP liquidity mining, and DPK single token staking mining. According to our internal testing, the ARR is very high, which can bring a large number of investment preference users and a large number of users to the DPK ecosystem, all these will help our entire ecosystem to accumulate long-term value. In the follow-up development of DeFi, we will also give higher rights and interest rewards to DPK users who have locking DPK tokens for a long time. It will further drive the stability of liquidity and the stability of token price, so that DPK token can truly bring value to everyone in the long term.
6. Host: Can you explain the DPK token situation to everyone?
Bill Jiang: DPK token is the Bep20 governance token of the DPK platform. The total amount is only 100 million, and the team only holds 10%, which will be unlocked in 10 months after 1 year of lock-up. 15% is used for financing at different stages, and investors lock up for 3–6 months and then unlock in 10 months. 15% of market fees and liquidity are also unlocked in 10 months. In addition to the 1% of the 10% for consultant paid to the consultant in advance, the rest 9% is also locked for a long period of time like other investors. 50% is produced by play-to-earn mining, including in-game output, Planet output and DeFi output.
DPK token is governance token and equity token. Users who hold DPK token for a long time can get bonus, which is from 50% of all transaction fees. At the same time, they can also participate in DPK’s follow-up DAO governance construction and have the right to vote.
The acquisition of DPK token comes from three aspects:
1. Contribution ranking. Each platform user can obtain contribution point based on the contribution of reproducing kitties, trading, and playing games, so as to enter the contribution ranking, and receive ecological DPK token rewards every month.
2. Planet adventure. Planet owners are the most scarce resource holders of the DPK platform. They are eligible to dispatch Kreatty/kitty NFTs to obtain DPK token and KIT token rewards based on the number of Planets, as well as NFT rewards for more scarce resources.
3. DeFi: By staking LP of DPK and USDT trading pair, as well as DPK single token staking, staking LP of KIT and USDT trading pair, participating in liquidity mining, and contributing to the ecosystem, will receive DPK rewards.
4. There will be different DPK token output reward methods in different games.
The application of DPK Token is mainly in the following aspects:
1. Reproducing kitties
Reproducing kitty NFTs is the bottom layer of the entire platform, not only requiring a lot of KIT token consumption, but also requiring a certain amount of DPK token. All DPK token consumed by reproduction will be publicly destroyed.
2. DeFi
Players can stake their acquired liquidity to obtain more DPK tokens by combining their own DPK token and KIT token with USDT for liquidity.
3. Players can stake their own DPK token to obtain DPK token. Users who hold DPK token for a long time will continue to receive dividends from the Treasure Fund Pool.
7. Host: Where are most of the DPK users in the world today?
Bill Jiang: Our users are all over the world. Generally speaking, there are more in North America, Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. There are fewer users in Russia, Africa and Australia.
8. Host: What is your main plan in Asia?
Bill Jiang: We are currently developing long-term partners in the Asian market and are committed to helping partners provide better game content. Due to the high barriers for blockchain, we are very happy to see that more and more communities are willing to help new users understand DPK, and we also give a lot of support to the community and game guilds. At present, communities in various regions of Asia such as Vietnam, Turkey, the Philippines, Thailand, etc. are developing very well. There are a large number of users who love games and blockchain are willing to continue to develop with us, continue to harvest, and finally achieve joint governance of an innovative blockchain platform.
9. Host: Is there any plan for DPK platform in 2022?
Bill Jiang: We are continuing to update the whitepaper, and made some changes of roadmap. You can continue to follow our news. In the first quarter of 2022, we will have continuous large-scale project launches. It is expected that we will launch the first phase of DeFi and the Planet 1.0 version in January, and in February, we will launch the second game Brave World. At the same time, we are continuing to prepare for more transactions. It is expected that we will list on a large exchange in March. It is expected that in April, our third game, a large-scale competitive game will be launched soon.
This year we have more plans, including more game development and agency, including Planet VR, metaverse, sidechain development, own wallet, etc. We hope that through continuous development and product iteration, all users can see the strong growth of DPK and the great future. We will continue to announce specific plans to you, and I will communicate more with you.
10. Host: Is DPK platform now or about to cooperate with well-known investors or institutions?
Bill Jiang: DPK token’s private round investors include The9 Limited, SAMSUNG’S EVERY GAME, GMC, Hot Labs, 7 O’Clock Labs, and other dozens of investors. For strategic round, we are talking with larger funds such as Sequoia Capital, IOSG, YGG, etc. NFT issuance partners include OKExNFT and Element. And we have long-term cooperation with Daosarter and other platforms. In terms of audit, Certik has always been our guardian, and has conducted meticulous audits and guarantees on our contracts.
11. Host: What do you think is the most challenging part of the work? What is the most interesting?
Bill Jiang: In fact, the most challenging part is that the rise of chain games and even metaverse is just the beginning. Every day, new technologies are born, new content appears every day, and every new project has the opportunity to rewrite history. We have to keep learning, and we have to keep innovating. Sometimes, our whole team are like a pot of porridge, all are brainstorming, and all kinds of ideas explode. This is a very challenging and interesting state of work. Continue to create history and continue to use algorithms and codes to change the direction of human evolution. This is what I think is the most fun. Blockchain also has this magic.
12. Host: How did you come up with the name Don’tplaywithkitty? What’s the meaning?
Bill Jiang: Our partners like kitties very much. In our base, we also have a very cute kitty, so we came up with the idea of using kitty as the image of NFT. One day, our digital artist AngelaX used an algorithm to generate a kitty. We all found it very interesting. In this way, the first Kreatty was born. Since we are distributed working, so our members often have remote meetings, and our kitty often make trouble, and then some staff just play with the kitty and don’t focus on the meeting, so our team has a rule, during the meeting, don’t play with kitty, but we didn’t expect our founder secretly registered this super long domain name www.dontplaywithkitty.io and suggested to use this as the main site. We all felt crazy at first, but the more we thought about it, the more fun it became. Everyone voted unanimously and decided to use this domain name.
All Kreatty/kitty NFTs are the user identification of our platform. We believe that the Internet in the future should be a virtual human identity, and our virtual identity is an indelible digital kitty. We very much hope that people can live a carefree life like kitties in the future. We very much hope that people from all countries in the world can be happy, and we strive to make more good games truly free to make everyone happy.
13. Host: Is your team all American developers? What is the biggest difficulty you face?
Bill Jiang: Our team actually comes from all over the world, North America, Southeast Asia, Europe, Asia and so on. We also face the problems of cross-cultural communication and low efficiency of remote collaboration. But this allows us to better understand the situation of players in different cultures and different regions in the dispute, and let us understand everyone better. We firmly believe that the blockchain should be distributed and global. Therefore, we resolutely go forward with our partners.
Our goal is to create DPK to be a chain game platform with hundreds of millions of users, that is, there are thousands of games for players to play, and the socialization and creation of virtual spaces can be realized. There is continuous development investment in it, and all of us have a belief, that is, stick to it, stick to using code to speak, when the amount of code changes from quantitative to qualitative, we believe that DPK will definitely change the game world.
