MIXMARVEL ECOSYSTEM: CHASING THE METAVERSE DREAM
How Did MixMarvel Come into Being?
They have always been fascinated with video games. It is not strictly for the rich gameplay, visual components, or time-spending, but for how they pictured new worlds. For many years the game industry was rich, immersive, and beautiful. However, with time, they began to feel that the worlds they loved are not evolving anymore. With all the technological changes, the virtual universe stayed changeless yet still beautiful and fascinating. But they saw endless possibilities and new experiences of the virtual world in the real one’s technological progress. They knew they were not the only ones to think so.
Grasping their dream, they started acting. They believed that to create an organic system to allow the virtual worlds to flourish again, to find a new direction, they should use new technologies and disciplines like token economics and create a realistic Ecosystem. There was enthusiasm for new technology in their hearts, and blockchain, as one, became the underlying architecture of the open world they were eager to build.
Eventually, they accomplished their dream. You know it as MixMarvel.
The Beginning of MixMarvel Ecosystem
HyperDragons: MixMarvel Strives to Expand Decentralized Application Gameplay
Back in the days, MixMarvel started its journey with a benchmark project in the blockchain gaming world, HyperDragons. The Ethereum version of the game was first launched as early as March 2018. In just six months, the total number of users and daily activity surpassed CryptoKitties on Ethereum. HyperDragons became the top blockchain game at the time. Shortly it also launched on other public chains and had the dragon’s image as one of the ten leading blockchain figures in 2018 by CoinDesk.
The core gameplay of HyperDragons revolved, no surprise, around cultivating dragons. The dragon assets gained in the game by players could be used for training or trading.
CryptoKitties and the current NFT blockchain games mostly have simple gameplay, with only collection and breeding functions. HyperDragons went further by integrating competitive gameplay and designed an economic system cycle. Besides, different public chain versions of the game also created unique gameplay based on the chain’s characteristics instead of simply transplanting and copying.
For example, players could conduct HyperDragons Rocket Arena and mine through the dragons they held. The mining revenue was distributed according to the percentage of computing power. Does it sound familiar? That is the beginning of the current “NFT mining” created by HyperDragons as early as two years ago. The NFT mining in HyperDragons was one of the world’s first attempts in realizing NFT DeFi and is now being used as a reference by many decentralized applications.
Rocket Protocol 1.0 Attempts to Increase Decentralized Application Performance
The bold idea of HyperDragons required specific technological advancement. MixMarvel did not stop seeking further improvement for its released and future products despite such outstanding accomplishments. In this process, MixMarvel realized there were several technical issues that they and the whole industry were facing. The industry could not support large-scale applications: blockchain systems, especially public chains, generally had low performance and expensive handling fees. The development, operation, and maintenance system of blockchain dapps was challenging to be used by large-scale games and applications.
To solve these problems, MixMarvel came up with Rocket Protocol. Rocket Protocol 1.0 was designed as a Layer-2 scaling solution based on Ethereum. Ever since the Rocket Protocol creation, MixMarvel has enjoyed the pleasing outcome of the cooperation with Rocket Protocol. By combining Layer-2 and Layer-1 smart contracts, it solved the cost and performance problems of in-game high-frequency state updates while also retaining the decentralized characteristics. By combining layer-2 and layer-1 smart contracts, Rocket Protocol 1.0 significantly reduced each operation’s time, allowing simultaneous asset transfers from layer-1 to layer-2 while minimizing the costs. For such reason, layer-2 can operate efficiently during the Ethereum congestion period, effectively fighting congestion. While solving the technological issues MixMarvel was facing, Rocket Protocol also vastly expanded other development possibilities and a mechanism that can shuttle NFT among multiple dapps to help users efficiently reutilize their digital assets.
Rocket Protocol Evolvement
With the track of time and ideas within MixMarvel brilliant minds, Rocket Protocol kept surpassing itself. The 1.5 major updates brought an efficient VRF+BLS consensus mechanism, introduced proposal nodes and verification nodes, and the block generation verification (node governance). Multi-chain identities, DID architecture, bridging, and chain-crossing were also integrated into the protocol.
Rocket Protocol 1.5 opened the doors for MixMarvel’s other legendary games. For instance, HyperSnakes. The HyperSnakes was the first multiplayer real-time competitive game in the blockchain circle. This game inherits the core gameplay of the renowned Snake. It innovatively introduced multiple modes such as snake farm management, matching chaos, and random battlefields. HyperSnakes broke through the dual-drive method of quality and technology, allowing mass users to play blockchain games with zero thresholds, enabling them to easily experience blockchain games’ new entertainment models. Due to Rocket Protocol’s vast update, the HyperSnakes application was able to be released on ETH, Tron, and ONT almost simultaneously. The popularity of the game after the launch also proved the distribution strength of MixMarvel.
Based on the 1.5 updates, the relatively recent Rocket Protocol 2.0 has brought even more advanced upgrades. The state machine was upgraded to Ethereum-compatible EVM, the cross-chain smart contract upgraded to a verifiable multi-signature smart contract, and the bridge and cross-chain technologies were upgraded to PoW consensus-based relay chain. The NFT standard protocol was upgraded to Dapp-based NFT protocol for data isolation and supporting asset shuttle. Web3 SDK was combined to transform Rocket SDK to make Rocket browser compatible with Ethereum browser. Rocket Protocol has also added the Rocket browser to view transaction data and NFT exclusive data. Rocket Protocol 2.0 is safe, fast, supports NFT and is fully compatible with Ethereum-based digital assets and decentralized applications. Rocket Protocol 2.0 indicates the improvement of blockchain games’ underlying technology and provides technical support and convenience for blockchain games’ mass production.
The New Generation of MixMarvel
Rocket Protocol 2.0 innovations have inspired MixMarvel to present a whole new generation of ecosystem products. In 2021, MixMarvel extensively upgrades its strategy to provide digital distribution services based on well-known IP and high-quality content. MixMarvel intends to link investors and mass users through scenarios such as trading, creation, and asset issuance and create a new decentralized application ecosystem. With such intentions, MixMarvel is planning the launch of the MixMarvel Pocket.
MixMarvel Pocket: A Powerful Entrance to the MixMarvel World
MixMarvel Pocket, now undergoing an internal testing process, is a multi-chain wallet application that connects digital identities, digital assets, game platforms, and the investment ecosystem. It aims to solve the inconveniences of users managing standard tokens and NFT digital assets simultaneously, such as the complicity of transaction processes, the poor performance of value transmission, the insufficiency of blockchain performance, and other inadequate application scenarios. The eco wallet has a unique cross-chain and cross-contract technology, combined with its high-performance blockchain infrastructure, to provide a robust infrastructure for the digital asset field and promote digital assets application and development.
Unlike other wallets with vital tool attributes, the MixMarvel eco wallet has its specific game genes. Downloading the wallet and registering a digital identity is more like obtaining a pass to travel through the game ecosystem. It opens a door for the new business model of Play to Earn. The ecosystem mentioned here refers to MixMarvel’s ecosystem + collaborative ecosystems, including the partners’ games already released by MixMarvel. The ecosystem is the foundation of prosperity and development. MixMarvel welcomes users to experience the ecosystem and participate in ecosystem construction. The pass for all this is the digital identity. The wallet is the carrier of the digital identity, so the wallet is the ecosystem entrance.
MixMarvel Pocket is a gamified wallet with community attributes with fast performance based on MixMarvel technology. Players can use the eco wallet identity to travel around the MixMarvel world and use it as the wallet entry key. Using the MixMarvel eco wallet, players will intuitively experience the rugged charm of Rocket Protocol, a blockchain infrastructure in the MixMarvel ecosystem. Rocket Protocol’s high performance and cross-chain capabilities ensure the convenience and security of eco wallet users. Players will have one-stop asset storage and management platform for NFT and FT. Besides, MixMarvel will continuously increase the amount of supported token types. Players can deposit their wallet assets, buy and sell corresponding assets in the wallet, and even participate in investments. Players can use their existing NFT assets to participate in the game experience in the wallet. They can also experience the cutting-edge technology application of NFT asset reuse among different games. Content providers can also independently develop dapps or connect dapps to the MixMarvel eco wallet.
LeCube: Dedicated to Further Expansion of NFT Lifecycle and According Blockchain Technology
The other significant innovation of the MixMarvel platform is the NFT creative community, LeCube, currently under testing. In LeCube, users can compose Cubes and create entirely blockchain-based NFT assets with traceable copyright. LeCube is committed to becoming an utterly open UGC (User Generated Content) community. Compared with the business model of providing sales services for company-developed content, the UGC community has a more diversified perspective. It can create richer content and burst out more substantial users’ self-propagation willingness. In the well-known UGC community of Lego (LEGO), creators worldwide continue to inspire each other, inspire high-quality content and fresh gameplay. Although this is an old brand, which has been established nearly 100 years ago, it continues to glow with vitality.
In the LeCube community, NFTs created by community users will also more easily resonate with other community members, thereby forming a broader and stronger consensus on the work. At the same time, in LeCube, not only professional artists or talented creators can enjoy the fun of creation. LeCube’s original citation section will significantly reduce the difficulty of creating NFT works. A large number of ordinary users can make secondary creations by quoting NFT works created by others. The cited author will enjoy the benefits of copyright quotations. It is conceivable that the more famous NFT creations are made, the more benefits will be gained. The more famous creations are adopted, the easier it is to create high-quality works. This section will realize a positive cycle, continuously strengthen the community’s consensus on NFT creations, and make NFT more vital.
Nonetheless, the existing NFTs face two main problems. One is that NFT pictures and NFT functions in applications are stored in a centralized server. The survival of an image depends entirely on the service time. Its utility depends on the project party’s service capability. The use of IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) for NFT image storage will be a future trend. However, the stability of the IPFS network itself needs to be verified. The other problem that NFT faces is the credibility of the image source. Since the blockchain network cannot identify the image creator, a picture downloaded from the Internet can generate NFT assets and even be auctioned off as an artwork NFT.
However, images stored on centralized servers and assets of hard-to-confirm content sources are difficult to be called actual digital collectibles in the long run. Therefore, LeCube hopes to go further in the NFT direction and make digital collections more decentralized, coded, and capitalized. LeCube will provide a brand-new NFT creation and application paradigm, allowing on-chain native artwork creation so that images can be expressed in a decentralized manner. After Rocket Protocol is fully integrated with LeCube, this process will become a lot faster. At the same time, the costs will be significantly shortened, allowing much higher-definition NFT images.
MixMarvel vs. the Future
Being a fond metaverse fan, MixMarvel constantly works on modifications and expansions that can become the core that puts together the world anticipated by many. Currently, MixMarvel has come with at least four features up for changes: open world, free construction, asset interoperability, and community construction. MixMarvel has partially achieved this conclusion with the help of blockchain development, but there are still shortcomings.
Seeing the current infrastructure’s inefficiency, MixMarvel is trying to solve this problem for more interoperable blockchain games and complex applications. The cost of the existing networks for interaction is already too high. As the games’ complexity increases, the operating frequency will be even higher. At this state, only Rocket Protocol can respond to such needs on short notice. Regarding standard protocols, most of the standard protocols currently used in the NFT field are still ERC-721. The application of this protocol in more complex scenarios is still relatively thin. MixMarvel believes that it is time for NFT protocols, powered by Rocket Protocol or not, to replace the standard ones. As for metaverse organization, several people or teams must not monopolize its organizational form. It must be a community or organization composed of its participants, at this stage, mainly meaning UGC and DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).
MixMarvel is, first of all, a community that connects high-quality content, players, and developers. In the idealistic point of view of MixMarvel, developers can obtain long-term benefits by sharing content. At the same time, players can find a good range, acquire and manage their digital assets. In plans, developers and players will be further empowered by the blockchain value network. They can easily find the elements of production content, and through creation, join the value network to obtain valuable feedback. In addition to that, MixMarvel makes sure that players have data rights, communities have rule-making rights, and value creators have revenue rights. MixMarvel also insists on applying the latest technologies and concepts and continuously updates and upgrades the virtual world’s content and services. MixMarvel constantly seeks ways of creating and expanding. It will further enrich platform services through the MixMarvel Ecosystem and community developers’ composition, taking a further step into the virtual world of its dream.
