Quarterly Report: Q2 2019
A trip down Enjin memory lane, from the world’s first blockchain-powered Minecraft server to Ethereum’s adoption of ERC-1155 as an official token standard.
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”
— Margaret J. Wheatley
We’ve said it time and time again, but the Enjin community is everything.
After all, we call you the “Enjin Army” for a reason.
You’ve been there for us since our ICO days, some of you even since our humble beginnings 10 years ago. For that, you have our unconditional gratitude.
Whether it’s in Telegram, on Reddit, or the greater World Wide Web, it’s our thousands of community members that provide us with continuous motivation and support in everything from our marketing campaigns and product launches to educating newcomers and providing insight, feedback, and thoughtful suggestions for new product features.
Now, we’re nearly two years into the thick of it all, with core pieces of the Enjin ecosystem coming to life.
It’s been a fun journey together on this road to adoption, so let’s take a short trip down memory lane before the real fun begins in the second half of this year.
Ecosystem Development
Developing 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: mass adoption of blockchain technology.
Here’s what we’ve done so far:
ERC-1155
On June 17, 2018, Enjin CTO Witek Radomski introduced the first version of the ERC-1155 Multi Token Standard on Ethereum’s Github repository and opened an issue for comments and feedback.
Exactly one year later, after receiving an incredible amount of support with more than 50 revisions and 400 comments from the community, ERC-1155 reached final status and was adopted by Ethereum as an official token standard on June 17, 2019.
Now that it has been sealed as “final” by the Ethereum community, ERC-1155 has become the new accepted standard for minting fungible and non-fungible assets, and the development community can build applications that integrate ERC-1155 blockchain assets with full confidence that the current standard is future-proof.
Enjin Platform
- Blockchain SDK for Java: This SDK enables the world’s 9 million Java developers to create, manage, and seamlessly integrate decentralized assets into their games and applications using the language they know and love. As a testament to the collaborative nature of the Java community, we adopted an open-source codebase and encourage developers to recreate the SDK however they wish, build on top of our framework, and build new SDKs that can do things we never even imagined.
- EnjinCraft: Built with our upcoming Minecraft Plugin, EnjinCraft is the world’s first blockchain-powered Minecraft server. As a demo server, EnjinCraft was created to showcase a robust form of blockchain integration made possible by our plugin and demonstrate how the blockchain experience can be interwoven with Minecraft gameplay.
Enjin Wallet
- Binance Chain Support: Following the launch of Binance Chain mainnet in April, we added Binance Chain support to the Enjin Wallet, enabling users to monitor and manage infinite Binance Chain addresses and add BNB assets in the Enjin Wallet.
- Enjin DApp Browser: The Enjin Wallet now features a fast, flexible decentralized app (DApp) browser, providing users a seamless blockchain-integrated browsing experience and enabling them to sign transactions with 100% custody over their funds while enjoying new levels of security and self-sovereignty.
- Enjin Wallet Swap: Earlier this year, we released Enjin Wallet Swap, featuring native integration of Kyber Network, Bancor Network, and Changelly. In April, we added another token exchange platform to this list with the integration of CoinSwitch, enabling users to swap between over 300 coins from 45,000+ available trading pairs without ever leaving their secure wallet app.
- App Linking: This Enjin Wallet update enabled users to link games and apps to their Ethereum address.
Enjin Beam
Our QR-powered blockchain asset distribution system got a fun new facelift.
EnjinX
- ERC-1155 Blockchain Asset Support: In April, we added ERC-1155 blockchain asset support to our EnjinX explorer—a major advancement to the ecosystem needed for widespread adoption of this powerful class of Ethereum assets. With this update, ERC-1155 tokens became public, transparent, and freely browsable via EnjinX, enabling users to search assets and collections by name, address, and token ID; verify token ownership, rarity, provenance, and authenticity; and view melts, mints, transfers, and hodlers.
Adoption
We launched our blockchain game development platform to Ethereum Testnet in March. Since then, over 7,000 people have registered to use it, and our Blockchain SDK for Unity has been downloaded over 800 times.
With the Mainnet version of the Enjin Platform approaching, the world’s 26 million developers will soon be able to create and integrate powerful ERC-1155 blockchain assets backed with ENJ into their games and apps with relative ease—no blockchain experience required.
Enjin Spark
In mid-May, we announced the launch of our Enjin Spark featured adopter program, which provides exceptional developers with various benefits, including early access to the Enjin Platform on Mainnet, consultancy, and a collection of Multiverse assets.
To date, we’ve signed five forward-thinking developers to Spark: Dissolution, Forgotten Artifacts, The Six Dragons, Space Misfits, and Spirit Clash.
The Six Dragons
Less than one week after the release of our Blockchain SDK for Unity, open-world RPG The Six Dragons used it to integrate blockchain item drops, crafting, and leveling. Two months later, the game’s blockchain asset pre-sale sold out in under two weeks. The Six Dragons will feature a huge procedurally generated world of 64 sq. km, more than 1 billion randomly generated dungeons, and a sophisticated crafting system.
Space Misfits
Space Misfits is a complete 3D space sandbox MMO with space PvP, trading, player-owned stations, and planet colonization. A testament to their talented development team and the usability of our tools, Space Misfits completed blockchain integration with the Enjin Platform in just two days and shortly after launched Space Misfits RUSH, a blockchain-integrated single-player version of the game.
Forgotten Artifacts
Two weeks after the public launch of the Enjin Platform to Testnet, action role-playing hack and slash dungeon crawler Forgotten Artifacts showcased Enjin integration and launched with playable ERC-1155 blockchain integration less than two months later.
Forgotten Artifacts is available to play now on forgottenartifacts.io.
Spirit Clash
Developed by a team of long-time Enjin supporters, Spirit Clash is a blockchain-based trading card game and battle for supremacy where players must clash their way through the three spiritual cores of Mind, Body, and Soul to claim victory.
Dissolution
Dissolution is a tactical FPS set in a cutthroat universe ravaged by an ongoing war of extinction between human and AI. Currently in pre-alpha, the team ultimately plans to create an open-world MMORPG where players compete for blockchain-based resources and territory.
Dissolution early access is currently available on Steam.
A Turret’s Life
A Turret’s Life is a single-player first-person tower defense game for PC and VR where the player takes control of an automated sentry turret to defend the facility against endless waves of attacking robots. With blockchain-based items, you can craft overpowered dream guns and bullets backed with real-world value and trade or sell them freely.
Kriptomat Mint Portal
After announcing their adoption of the Enjin Platform to gamify trading earlier this year, regulated cryptocurrency exchange Kriptomat announced yet another Enjin-powered project in May—the Kriptomat Mint Portal, which enables anyone to mint their own custom fungible and non-fungible ERC-1155 blockchain assets.
Nestables
Created by Tribal Gaming, Nestables is an interactive crypto collectible game in which users can collect, trade, and breed cute, blockchain-based 3D “Cubes” and design, create, and decorate “Nests” for their Cubes to live in.
Crypto.com
In April, Enjin Coin (ENJ) was listed by Crypto.com, enabling users to easily purchase ENJ with fiat, as well as spend it in the real world at over 40 million merchants with the MCO Visa Card.
Partnerships
FIO
In our continued effort to make using blockchain technology as simple and easy as possible, we joined the Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO), a consortium of leading blockchain wallets, exchanges, and payment providers that seek to accelerate adoption by reducing the risk, complexity, and inconvenience of sending and receiving crypto assets.
FIO is developing the FIO Protocol, a decentralized open-source blockchain protocol that will enable greatly enhanced user experience for FIO-enabled wallets, exchanges, and applications — including the Enjin Wallet.
Events
Our team attended, spoke at, and sponsored major events and conferences across the world, from Unite Seoul and E3 to EDCON and Consensus.
World Blockchain Summit MARVELS
April 3 / Seoul, South Korea
Speaker: Danbee Lee
AMA hosted by Binance
April 4 / Binance Telegram channel
Participants: Maxim Blagov, Witek Radomski
CoinFest + Witek Radomski’s Blockchain Wedding
April 6–7 / Vancouver, Canada
Speaker: Witek Radomski
EDCON Sydney
April 12 / Sydney, Australia
Speaker: Simon Kertonegoro
Consensus
May 13–15 / New York City, USA
PlayX4
May 9–12 / Goyang, South Korea
MakerDAO / Original Protocol DApp Meetup
May 10 / Seoul, South Korea
Speaker: Noah Lee
Unite Seoul
May 21–22 / Seoul, South Korea
Enjin Korea Meetup
May 22 / Seoul, South Korea
Speakers: Danbee Lee, Noah Lee, Ethan Jung
IndieCraft K-Game Festival
May 30 / Pangyo, South Korea
E3
June 11–13 / Los Angeles, USA
Speaker: Andy Anderson
Looking Ahead
Enough nostalgia, let’s look ahead.
The second half of this year will be a significant time for the Enjin ecosystem.
The 7,000+ users currently tinkering on Testnet via the Enjin Platform will be able to create next-generation blockchain assets backed with real Enjin Coin and integrate them into any type of software—allowing ENJ to be used to its full potential as a minting resource.
The gold standard for digital assets.
And this potential is even greater with Efinity on the horizon, which will enable these same developers to perform nearly infinite volumes of near-instant transactions at next to no cost. In the words of our CEO, “Efinity is the key to unlocking the universe.”
With the technology in place, still the challenge will remain: convincing the gaming industry that there’s no better time than now to take advantage of the marketing, monetization, and crowdfunding solutions made possible by blockchain technology.
We are creating a new games market where every developer and player can take control and ownership over their destiny, and we call on the Enjin Army once again to spread the word throughout the blockchain and gaming communities, with the ultimate goal of bringing them together as one.
