Quarterly Report: Q3 2018
Creating the Enjin ecosystem is a carefully executed voyage that involves hard work, brilliant ideas, and pioneering solutions— meticulously forged with a single goal in mind: planetary-scale adoption of blockchain technology.
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
With the advent of the Information Age, the term “technology” gained an additional meaning — this time describing not only tangible products like machines and tools, but something entirely abstract and incorporeal: code.
Being able to program computers to do our bidding gave us almost magical abilities, ushering in an unprecedented era of scientific, economic, and social progress.
When it comes to creating the language of machines, we are nowhere near the finish line.
Science fiction terms like “artificial intelligence” have been around for a while, making their first significant breakthroughs when machine learning started flourishing in the ’90s.
AI is like a sparsely colonized, fully explored planet in the Solar System.
Blockchain is like a fuzzy, mysterious exo-planet in another galaxy.
Building a blockchain-based platform is a journey that takes place on the bleeding edge of technological progress.
There are no blueprints, designs, or proven concepts to help you build a working product. In the quest to invent the future, the only choice you have is to explore the unknown, embark on a path of ruthless experimentation, and push the enigmatic boundary with each technological step.
Creating the Enjin ecosystem is a fun, complex, and exciting journey; it’s a carefully executed voyage that involves hard work, brilliant ideas, and pioneering solutions forged with a single goal in mind — planetary-scale user adoption of blockchain technology.
We’re building a castle in the clouds .
Here’s what we’ve done so far:
Ecosystem Development
In the past three months, we have:
- Launched Enjin Coin Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Mainnet, giving life to the core foundation of ENJ — the heart of our platform, the carefully designed blockchain highway, the decentralized substrate that underpins and powers our massive infrastructure. We used over 3.8 million ENJ to mint the first ever ERC-1155 items!
- Deployed the Enjin Wallet Collectible Update, bringing ERC-721 & ERC-1155 support to the world’s most secure game collectible wallet. The update also brought a plethora of new features — everything from auto-rarity theme support to game metadata support.
- Kickstarted the first decentralized gaming multiverse ever — as the ultimate showcase of pioneering, bleeding-edge capabilities of our platform. Six games banded together and made history by implementing the first multi-dimensional ERC-1155 items.
- Launched the third Enjin Wallet update, bringing melting & sending features, two new games — and a detailed security audit.
Events
- In early September, we sponsored Asia Drone Championship in Singapore. Winners of the drone race received ENJ-backed ERC-1155 virtual trophies.
- Around the same time, half-way across the globe, our Production Director Kim visited Minefaire in Chicago!
- Enjin VP of Communications Roger Walco and our Korean team joined hundreds of indie game developers from around the world at the country’s largest indie game developer conference of the year, Busan Indie Connect (BIC) Festival.
- Enjin CTO Witek Radomski delivered a simple message at the Blockchain Game Summit in Lyon: mainstream games of tomorrow will be powered by ENJ.
Partnerships
- We’ve partnered with Changelly to bring in-app trading to the Enjin Wallet, enabling hundreds of thousands of Enjin Wallet users to trade between over 100 altcoins.
- We took a step toward mainstream adoption by teaming up with California-based Sustany Capital, a venture fund for blockchain companies, all with the aim of promoting blockchain to the wider gaming world.
- Enjin & Ubisoft are now a part of the Blockchain Game Alliance, a coalition of gaming and blockchain companies committed to advocating for the democratization of blockchain within the gaming industry.
Adoption
Eight new studios have announced ENJ adoption in the last three months:
9Lives Arena
Featuring innovative permadeath game mechanics, blockchain-based characters, and an AI companion, 9Lives Arena is a competitive online RPG designed for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
CryptoFights
Featuring in-game sidechain and Delegated Proof of Stake, CryptoFights is a 1vs1 turn-based fighting game that backs all of its in-game items with ENJ.
Age of Rust
Age of Rust is a picturesque role-playing adventure game and the first ever to implement a blockchain-based peer-to-peer rental market using Enjin’s smart contracts.
Forest Knight
Forest Knight, a turn-based strategy game for Android, is utilizing the blockchain to integrate a real-world economy featuring blockchain-based characters, items, and rewards.
Bitcoin Hodler
Bitcoin Hodler is a single-player arcade-style adventure featuring blockchain-based assets and rewards, as well as a real-world 24-hour altcoin price tracking gameplay mechanic.
Cats in Mechs
A top-down shoot ’em up mech-building RPG, Cats in Mechs features blockchain-based items and accessories that players can buy, sell, and trade to upgrade their mechs.
Born to the Sky & Helihunter
An immersive VR wingsuit racing game, Born to the Sky features blockchain-based costumes, skins, special items, and season passes.
Helihunter is a first-person augmented reality helicopter shooter, featuring blockchain-based weapons and upgrades.
Score 11
Built by Flixy Games and utilizing blockchain as proof of fairness and blockchain-based rewards, Score 11 is a decentralized fantasy sports betting platform that features a tokenized point system and accepts ENJ as a deposit method for contests.
It’s been a wild ride since the launch of our Early Adopter Program, with hundreds of applications pouring in from all over the world.
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What’s Next?
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
— Michelangelo
We’re at a point where the picture of the ENJ platform is crystal-clear.
For this year, we have an ETA on the following items — these are estimated time frames and we cannot promise any specific dates on releases:
• Blockchain Unity SDK
• Trusted Platform for Unity SDK & Web SDK
• EnjinX: Universal Blockchain Explorer (ETH Release)
• EnjinX: Universal Blockchain Explorer (BTC/LTC/DOGE Release)
• EnjinX: Developer API & Game Support (pending further review may push to early 2019)
• Enjin Wallet: 1155 extra features update including notifications & app linking
• Enjin Wallet: Gamified Airdrop System
• Enjin Wallet: Token to Token Exchange System
• Enjin Wallet: Buy BTC with credit cards (pending further review may push to early 2019)
• Enjin Wallet: Support for all 1155 games and native support for more 721 games
• Web SDK (pending further review may push to early 2019)
• Minecraft Plugin & Java SDK (pending further review may push to early 2019)
• Godot SDK (pending further review may push to early 2019)
What we’re trying to do is no small feat of engineering at all: our project is essentially a usable, scalable, secure blockchain ecosystem, both for developers and end-users.
I gotta be honest here — it’s super-strange to see our entire ecosystem nearing completion. Every update we push, every new product we launch, I’m just…
Baffled, in a way. Confused that we managed to pull it off, flawlessly.
And then again, it shouldn’t be surprising at all. I guess that’s where you end up when the entire team is striving for perfection.
The journey to here was hard — but it was also extremely fun.
The trek from this point on won’t be any easier. The blockchain statue we’re chiseling into existence is almost liberated from the abstract, technological rock — and damn, I gotta say: it looks epic.
It’ll be a fun, heroic journey into the legendary unknown — if you’d like to join us, hop over to our Telegram channel and say hi.
