The development of core values is crucial for companies and stakeholders getting involved with web3 innovation. By embedding transparency, openness, and honesty into the foundation of a company, web3 has the potential to create a more trustworthy and fair business environment. However, there are still bad actors who use their position of power to take advantage of others, and this can undermine the benefits of web3.

One example of this is the recent controversy surrounding the crypto exchange FTX and its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried has been accused of using his position of power to manipulate the market for personal gain, leading to allegations of greed and corruption. This is a clear example of what can happen when a company lacks a strong set of core values and lacks accountability.

In order for the web3 industry to thrive, it is important for companies to operate with integrity and honor. This means establishing clear values that guide decision-making and motivate ecosystem contributors. It also means being transparent and accountable, so that bad actors cannot abuse their power.

At HiFi Gaming Society, we take this approach to heart. Our culture is built on the core values of unity, sharing, safety, security, and vibrancy.

Unity: Having a strong sense of unity among employees and stakeholders can help a web3 gaming company work towards a common goal and improve collaboration and cooperation. This can lead to better decision making, increased efficiency, and overall success for the company.

Sharing: A culture of sharing can foster a sense of community and inclusivity within a web3 gaming company. This can help to create a positive working environment, attract top talent, and ultimately drive innovation and growth.

Safety: Ensuring the safety of players and employees is essential for a web3 gaming company. This includes protecting sensitive personal and financial information, as well as providing a secure platform for online gaming.

Security: In the world of online gaming, security is crucial. A web3 gaming company must implement strong security measures to protect against hacking and other cyber threats, as well as ensure the integrity of the games and the fairness of gameplay.

Vibrancy: A vibrant and lively company culture can help to motivate and inspire employees, as well as attract and retain customers. This can include hosting events and activities, providing opportunities for personal and professional growth, and fostering a sense of excitement and energy within the company.

These values guide our decision-making and help us create a more inclusive and supportive environment for our community of gamers.

I have personally seen the impact of strong core values in action. In my time at Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh pioneered the development of core values as a way to enrich the company’s culture. This led to Zappos providing an exceptional customer experience, which in turn led to Amazon’s acquisition of the company for $1 billion. This demonstrates the potential impact of maximizing stakeholder investment in a sustainable way.

If the web3 industry does not take the importance of business values seriously, we risk losing the opportunity to build on the innovation of web3. It is up to thought leaders like HiFi Gaming Society to provide guidance and set the standard for how companies in the web3 space should operate. By doing so, we can create a healthier and more trustworthy ecosystem for all stakeholders. If you are interested in learning more, please connect with us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HiFiDeFi.

The sharing economy and the creator economy are both important aspects of web3 gaming, as they enable players and game developers to collaborate and create a more inclusive and engaging gaming experience.

One of the key benefits of the sharing economy in web3 gaming is the ability to share players through player referral systems. By sharing players, game developers can gain access to new audiences and markets, while players can benefit from a wider range of games and experiences.

Player referral systems also increase the sustainability of web3 gaming, as they allow game developers to monetize their games in new and innovative ways. For example, game developers can reward players who refer others to their games, creating a win-win situation for all parties involved. This can help to create a more sustainable and stable ecosystem for web3 gaming, as game developers are able to generate revenue from their games without relying on traditional monetization models.

The creator economy is also important for web3 gaming, as it enables game developers to incentivize players in different ways to try new games. By involving users in the creation process, game developers can create a more engaging and immersive gaming experience, while also motivating users to participate in facilitating the broader adoption of web3 technologies.

One of the key challenges facing the web3 gaming industry is the lack of engagement and participation among users. Many users are still unsure of the benefits of web3 technologies and may be hesitant to participate in the sharing and creation process. In order to overcome this challenge, game developers need to clearly communicate the benefits of the sharing and creator economies and show users how they can contribute to the broader adoption of web3 technologies.

If game developers don’t see the value of sharing players and engaging users in the creation process, it could hurt massive adoption in the industry as a whole.

By embracing the sharing and creator economies, game developers can create a more inclusive and engaging gaming experience, while also driving the adoption of web3 technologies. This is why it is so important for game developers to understand and embrace the sharing and creator economies in web3 gaming.

If you are interested in learning more, please connect with us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HiFiDeFi.

HiFi Gaming Society is a community of passionate gamers who are dedicated to improving the gaming experience for everyone. The society was founded on the principle that the gaming industry should be more inclusive and fair, and that players should have more control over their own experiences.

One of the key challenges facing the gaming industry is the problem of “play to earn” (P2E) games that fail to deliver on their promises. Many players have wasted time and money on these games, only to be disappointed by the lack of rewards and incentives. This has led to a lack of trust and frustration among gamers, who are seeking more reliable and transparent ways to earn rewards.

Game developers are also struggling with the adoption of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other blockchain-based technologies. It can be difficult to understand how to use these tools effectively, and many developers are unsure of how to monetize their games in a sustainable way.

Indie game developers and small studios often face even greater challenges, as they may not have the resources or expertise to engage and retain players. This can make it difficult for these developers to compete with larger studios and establish a foothold in the market.

HiFi Gaming Society is addressing these challenges with its evolution to version 2, which introduces a number of key upgrades to its decentralized player referral system. The new system allows games to publish and promote themselves using a decentralized workflow. This means that games can be featured on the HiFi Gaming Society website, as well as on other platforms and ecosystems through the HIFI+ program.

One of the most exciting features of the new system is the ability for game partners to refer players to other games using the game discovery carousel on the HIFI network.

This allows players to explore different web3 games and earn rewards for doing so, while also helping games to attract new players.

The decentralized player referral system is built on blockchain technology, which allows for a secure and transparent way to track referrals and rewards. Each referral is recorded on the blockchain, ensuring that players receive the rewards they are entitled to. This system also allows for fairness and transparency, as all transactions are visible to everyone on the network.

In summary, HiFi Gaming Society is working to address the key challenges facing the gaming industry with its evolution to version 2. By introducing new features and upgrades to its decentralized player referral system, the society is creating a more inclusive and supportive environment for gamers. If you are interested in learning more, please connect with us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HiFiDeFi.

What is auto-compete?

Every 24h, there will be a new competition online on HiFi Gaming Society. We will hold competitions in our different games and game types. This means it can be mini-games, steam games or other 3rd party games like Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. The competitions can have any format. Some will be high score based and some might track the accumulation of a certain stat, like play time or total kills done. There will be daily competitions but also weekly and monthly competes with extra prizes!

How does auto-compete work?

You enter a competition, you try to get a top-X position and you will get rewarded with Merits! The Merits earned through auto-compete will come on top of your mission or quest Merits. This means auto-compete can help you earn more than 5 Merits each day and claim a bigger share of the daily rewards pool!

What’s next?

After 24h auto-compete, we’ll also launch leaderboards that can make you earn even more Merits! When our userbase grows more, we might also choose to run multiple competitions simultaneously.

Other than that, we will also start hosting private competitions and even develop wager functions where HiFiVers can bet on the outcome of our competes… 🤩

Today we have launched a new way to earn Merits at HiFiGamingSociety.org.

What are quests?

A quest is a task that other companies (games, apps, …) publish on our platform because they want users to try their applications. A quest can involve a download, a certain progress to be achieved, or a purchase. Some are easy and quick while others will require several hours of gameplay, possible more, on a 3rd party game.

How do quests increase merits earned?

Considering Quests usually require more effort, completing them might take several days or weeks. Quests are different than missions. They don’t reset every day like missions. The biggest differences:

• Merits for completing a Quest will get rewarded on the day you have completed it, even if it takes you a few days or weeks.
• Merits earned from Quests come on top of your mission-Merits. That means the total maximum amount of Merits will be higher than 5 on the day you complete a Quest.

The amount of $HIFI you will make with these quest depends on the day you complete the Quest as you will claim a bigger share of the total reward pool, but the value depends on the amount of total Merits that have been earned that day by all users combined.

Why complete quests?

Quests helps us promote our ad partner’s network and they reward us.

• The advertiser gets access to our user-base
• HiFi gets paid for each Quest completion
• The user will get rewarded in the form of extra Merits and $HIFI rewards

HiFi will use the revenue generated to either buy back HiFi off the market, creating buy pressure in the process, or add extra liquidity for growth.

Around a year and a half ago I had an idea about combining crypto and gaming. How can we get back the value in time, energy, and commitment we invest into games and gaming communities? Is it possible to earn income by following our passion for playing video games? I wasn’t the only one imagining a return on investment for playing video games. Many were thinking about playing to earn in the same vein like when bitcoin miners earn BTC for processing and validating transactions.

Within a few months into 2021, “Play 2 Earn” and “GameFi” became the newest innovation in blockchain technology. Hundreds of play-to-earn (P2E) games were getting built. This led to over 23K guilds forming to deploy gamers, around 2M to be precise, toward the most popular P2E games where you could earn crypto while playing games. Axie Infinity becoming the bellwether and validator for investing in the newly born sector of GameFi.

Were any of the P2E games fun to play? Absolutely NOT!

If you talked to any of the gamers, they would call earning a grind. One year later — the idea of playing games and earning had made quite a splash, added controversy, and the critics are still debating the merits of web3 gaming.

At HiFiGamingSociety.org, our optics went through the looking glass into an enormous gaming market and we experimented by building around 40 unity-based games currently active for earnings and competitions on our web3 gaming platform. This included retro games, mobile games, and we eventually shifted toward learning how to onboard off-chain gamers and gaming libraries. Before we go there… let’s put things into perspective about how big the market is for offchain gaming and our subsector….

The global gaming market is $300 Billion.

The global decentralized finance gaming market is $160 Billion and penetrating just 5% of the DeFi gaming market would generate $8 Billion.

There are many questions about web3 gaming prompting our industry and challenging game developers for more mature solutions. Media makes us look bad and off chain gamers aren’t happy with us. Off chain gamers balked at web3-driven, blockchain gaming environments where value is a new layer of consideration in the gamer’s mindset. Another development happened with NFT Gaming. Web3 gaming platforms started integrating Non Fungible Tokens aka NFTs to drive value-generating workflows inside the games. NFTs combine new workflows around a gamers unique journey enabling the gamer to do things inside games never possible but it’s still confusing for the average gamer! More research and development is needed.

Here is a utility chart to show you many different utilities for NFTs you may not realize beyond the infamous and incorrect “copyable JPEG” example. You might have heard the word “metaverse.” Well, metaverses have a long way to go but imagine creating gamified experiences inside gaming platforms and metaverses inclusive of NFT utilities like these:

So..after a year of research and development in play-to-earn, play and earn, gamefi, move-to-earn, x-to-earn, what is it all about? What is the punchline?

Gamers enjoy playing games that are actually fun! Gamers also enjoy multiplayer aspects enabling shared experiences within competitions inside these gaming communities! You would think earnings and increasing owned virtual asset value is the core focus, however, it is only a by-product of enticing gameplay. If you don’t bring the fun and camaraderie, the earnings won’t be enough to keep the gamers playing.

How do we make web3 gaming sustainable?

Where do you play your games? As a gamer, I am passionate about the games and platforms I have already committed to — like Steam, App stores, PS Store, Meta, etc. It’s difficult to convince a gamer to take a risk on unproven games and platforms. We need to inch web3 gaming forward in the minds of our target audience by enabling earnings through the games already being played.

So, at HiFi Gaming Society, we’ve integrated steam games for users who acquire mission packs within our platform for specific steam games. The first step is to link your steam account. Our 3rd party gaming libraries continue expanding. You can link certain app-based games like Clash Royale and Brawl Stars.

Why should guilds, gamers, and game developers look into HiFi Gaming Society?

You can link your steam and app store game accounts and earn while playing your off-chain games. We’ve integrated Steam, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars and other offchain gaming environments and we’re currently researching Playstation and MetaQuest game stores. So…..

WHY HIFI?

• Play and earn on your favorite steam games like Counter Strike: GO, Age of Empires, PUBG, Worms, C&C, and Final Fantasy. Our platform integrates steam’s game library and users can acquire mission packs to begin earning on their favorite off-chain games.
• We’ve integrated popular games like Clash Royale and Brawl Stars from the app store! We’re looking into MetaQuest and PS gaming libraries as well. HiFi intends to have unlimited games where users can P2E.
• Create a guild and build your gamer workforce while earning commissions! If you invite your gaming clan/community from Clash Royale or any other games we integrate, you can earn daily commissions for their gameplay.
• Complete side quests to generate crypto and fiat rewards! We’ll use the advertising revenue created through conversions to buy back $HIFI.
• HIFI aims to have unlimited game choices where users can P2E.

WHAT IS NEXT FOR HIFI?

R&D is underway to shape “as-a-service” offerings for competitions, gamefi, guildfi, gaming publishing/listings, and data. Each designed to sustain our ecosystem with scalable revenue, continuous buyback/burn tokens, and to provide real business value for our customers — gamers, guilds, and game developers.

WANT TO GET STARTED?

Play and earn at HiFiGamingSociety.org, but first learn how to link your steam or clash accounts here: https://hifi-gaming-society.gitbook.io/hifi-defi/.

Hi everyone!

In this article, we’ll teach you how you can actually earn crypto while playing your daily plays on Clash Royale or Brawl Stars. We will describe every step in walkthrough-style. If you are new to crypto, this might seem a bit complex, but it really isn’t.

Let’s get started…

The wallet

To interact with a web 3.0 gaming platform, every user needs a wallet. In this case, we’ll describe the necessary steps for Metamask. If you already have a metamask or trustwallet wallet, you can skip this part.

What you should do:

Either you download the metamask brower plugin, either you download the mobile phone app. Once downloaded, you should create a wallet by following the steps in the app. We’re guessing you can manage the above on your own.

Once you have an active wallet, you’ll need to connect it to the correct network. In our case, that’s the Binance Smart Chain or BSC. You’ll need to add this network manually with these settings:

Congratulations! You have just created your first crypto wallet!

The platform registration

Now that you have a wallet, let’s connect it to our platform. Use this url: https://hifigamingsociety.org

Click ‘connect’ on the top right. This will prompt a approval message in metamask which you should approve (obviously). Once that is done, you should choose a nickname and you’re all done.

The role

There are several roles someone can play on our platform. As a new player, there are 3 roles that you can choose from:

Free player

A free player earns up to 5 Raffle tickets each day by performing missions. More about these missions below. At the end of each day, we draw 1 lucky winner out of all players that have earned raffle tickets. This person will win up to 10.000 $HIFI (depending on the amount of participants). This is actually a good way to test our platform for the first time. The odds of winning the daily Raffle are small however.

Full earner

If you want to become what we call a full earner, you’ll need to make a small investment (not a payment, the amount stays yours). You can do this by either buying an ‘Into The HiFiVerse NFT’ (starting 0.37 BNB) either by buying and staking 75.000 $HIFI (equivalent of 40usd at the moment of writing).
Full eaners earn up to 5 Merits each day. These will give you a claim on a share of the daily prize pool of approx. 215.000 $HIFI. The more players have played, the lower the amount of $HIFI, but the more the coin will be worth.

If you are new to crypto and need help making a first purchase, you can join our Telegram community and we’ll help you out: https://t.me/HiFiGamingSocietyPlatform

Scholar

If you want to earn $HIFI without making any initial investment, you can also become a ‘scholar’. In this case, you can go to the Tavern under the ‘Guilds’ section. Here you can either create a work offer OR you can accept a scholar offer:

When you become a scholar, you basically ‘work’ for a guild (other articles describe these dynamics). By joining the guild, you will earn Merits instead of Raffle tickets, which give you a claim on a share of the daily prize pool of approx. 215.000 $HIFI. As a scholar, you’ll have to share your daily earnings with your guild according to the terms in the contract.

You can also join us in telegram or discord and negotiate with a guild there: https://t.me/HiFiGamingSocietyPlatform

The account linking procedure

When you have chosen your role, you’ll need to link your Clash Royale and/or Brawl Stars account to your profile. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Go to https://hifigamingsociety.org
2. Go to Profile -> External Integrations

3. Enter your Clash and/or Brawl # and confirm (You can find it in the profile page that you find in-game.

3. Send a screenshot (like the one above) of your profile to @Mcgutter or @DrSipp in Telegram to prove you are the owner.

4. We check it, and we check that the same # does not get used twice 🤣

5. We activate your user #

The above procedure is a temporary way to approve profiles. This is to avoid fraud. In the upcoming weeks, we’ll work on an easier method.

The mission pack

In the missions section of the platform, you’ll now need to activate the correct mission packs.

Click on: ‘Get new mission pack’ and activate Clash Royale and/or Brawl stars. By activating these mission packs, you’ll see that a certain amount of missions gets created randomly each day.

The earning

As described above you will earn up to 5 Merits each day for completing the displayed missions. Now this is very important:

You can just start playing the games as usual. The only thing you have to do to make sure your missions get registered on our platform is connecting to the platform once a day (after you’ve played and completed the missions) and refreshing the stats. By refreshing, our platform will retrieve your progress and will register which missions you have successfully completed. For certain missions, you can also check your progress to see how much more you need to play.

The conclusion

Once the above is done, you’re all set to start earning crypro with Clash Royale or Brawl Stars! From that moment on, you only have to connect once a day to our platform to register progress. How easy is that…

Now, the big question: ‘How much will I earn’?

That’s a difficult question to answer. You’ll earn $HiFi, which has a certain value. In the market conditions of the time of writing, most crypto currencies are on a low value so you’ll probably earn about 15usd/month but hey… you would play anyways, right?

The smartest thing to do now is earn and accumulate. You’ll quickly have a nice wallet of $HIFI which will become a lot more valuable in the future…

Lastly: don’t forget to show this to all of your friends and family! Why would you just play if you can earn…? You can even make your own guild and register all of your friends as scholars! The way to do that is described here:

HiFi Gaming Society’s Guild System

For all other questions: https://t.me/HiFiGamingSocietyPlatform

We are thrilled to announce gamers will be able to earn $HIFI by playing their favorite games from their favorite platform! At this point, we have a Steam integration and a Supercell (Brawl Stars, Clash Royale) integration. We’ll explain below how this works.

1) What games will you get to play and earn?

Basically, any game that shares its data openly can be integrated with HIFI. This includes off-chain games (like steam games) or on-chain games (any P2E game that shares data with us can be added).

Our community will help us decide which games we add and when. If you would like a specific game, join us on Telegram and tell us!

2) How will you play these games?

That’s the cool thing. Once you have synced your 3rd party account on our platform, you don’t actually have to play ON our platform. This means you don’t have to be connected to the platform while playing. The platform will retrieve 3rd party data every few minutes so all gaming activities will get pulled in and synced.

In some cases, like steam, it is necessary that you adapt some privacy settings in your profile so that our platform can retrieve your gaming stats. For Steam, this is the way to do it:

1. Go to steamcommunity.com and login into Steam
2. Go to ‘view profile’
3. Click on ‘edit profile’
4. Click on ‘Privacy Settings’
5. Set following elements to ‘public’: ‘My Profile’, ‘Game details’ and ‘Inventory’

3) How will you earn?

You will actually earn in the exact same way as with the mission system we have created similar to the mini games on HiFi Gaming Society. You unlock mission packs for a game in our catalog and then you will earn a Merit for any mission you complete. This mission pack will consist of one-time missions that are built in into the games and repeatable missions that we create ourselves. We can create any kind of mission as long as it can be measured and tracked.

IMPORTANT: at this moment, you can only earn up to 5 Merits each day but you can complete more than 5 one-time missions. All one-time missions that are completed when the 5 daily Merits are already reached, won’t count anymore to earn Merits afterwards.

4) Is it free?

It will be free at the launch. After a few weeks of testing, players might have to pay a fee to unlock a mission pack for a specific game. This fee will be calculated so that it represents a certain value. We will regularly update these fees so they stay more or less stable in relation to the earnings that can be made.

5) What about Guilds and Scholars?

The specific way to unlock mission packs for scholars will be communicated later! At launch, everyone can test for free anyways!

Have fun HiFiVers!

The HiFi Gaming Society platform works on PC and mobile through Metamask or Trustwallet. These are the conditions to start playing and earning on HiFi Gaming Society:

1. You need to create or own a wallet on Metamask or Trustwallet

2. You should have a minimal amount of BNB to pay gas fees

3. Connect your wallet to our platform on https://hifigamingsociety.org

2. How to earn

a. Becoming a full earner

A full earner is a player/gamer that plays and earns. You can become a full earner in 2 ways :

1) Buy and stake 75k $HIFI

You can buy $HIFI at apeswap.

2) Buy an ‘Into The HiFiVerse’ NFT

If you buy an NFT of this collection, all earning mechanics will be unlocked for you. However, there is a lot more you can do with that NFT. More about that below.

You can buy these NFTs on 4 marketplaces :

- NFT Key

- Pancakeswap

- The Bull Society

- Liquid Collectibles

b. Become a guild

A guild is a ‘Into The HiFiVerse’ NFT owner that registers scholars on his free NFT slots. The guild decides the earning split between guild and scholar. You can find all details on these mechanics in this article.

c. Become a scholar

You can become a scholar buy accepting an offer from a guild. You can find a guild through our ‘tavern’.

d. Win the daily raffle as a free player

If you have fulfilled the conditions described in step 1, you can just earn Raffle tickets on our platform and you will have a chance of winning the daily raffle.

Let’s guide you through our system. We will show you the full functionality in this article. Please note that, depending on your role in the guild, you might not see all of these screens.

1) Dashboard

This a general overview of the statistics of your guild. There is a short explanation for each of these values on the bottom of the box.

2) Members

Here you can see your guild members and also all pending invites & requests. Something very important to note is that a scholar is not considered a guild member. Scholars shouldn’t be invited as guild member, but rather as scholars in the next window (if you already did, you can always switch afterwards).

What can be done here?

a. You can invite other HiFiVers into your guild

Just search using the Player name and invite!

You can manage your actual members

Choose the role a guild member should have. You can find an overview of the different roles in this article: https://hifigamingsociety.medium.com/hifi-gaming-societys-guild-system-9129d1dc9d6e

3) Scholars

Here you can see and manage your current scholars and your pending invites & requests.
Very important: If a scholar is added here, he isn’t ‘active’ yet. A scholar needs to be added to a guild first and then added to an empty scholar slot to become active.

You can:
a. Invite scholars
The search option here will only show you ‘free gamers’ so you won’t find any ‘HiFiVers’ because they are already earning for themselves ;-).
b. Kick scholars

4) Scholar Management

Here you can manage your scholars on your NFTs. As stated before: only when a scholar gets assigned to a scholar slot on an NFT, will he become active and earn $HIFI for the guild so don’t forget this step!

In this screen, you can also see various stats like how many scholar slots are available on your NFTs and how many are used. You can also see the earnings that have come from a specific NFT. For each of the scholars, you can see their contract conditions and their ‘productivity’ in $HIFI and in Merits.

5) Notifcations

You can see all of your notifications here ;-).

6) Settings

Here you can set your guild settings like the name, the avatar and also some default parameters like the default commission and guild tax.

7) Communications

All communication between guild and all roles that interact with it will happen trough the new ‘Notifications / Messages screen. This will be visible on the ‘Profile’ page.

That’s it! Have fun, earn and stay tuned for the new missions, mission packs, auto compete and much, much more!