Atocha: Creating and Solving Puzzles Made Profitable
Octopus Network Showcase Day 2021
Octopus Network launched a series of introductory videos to the Octopus Network and projects building on it during its Octopus Network Showcase Day 2021. This week we will take a look at the presentation by Zad Yu, CEO of Atocha, a puzzle game protocol that allows puzzle lovers to earn from creating and solving puzzles.
Atocha: A Community Owned and Run Protocol for Playing Puzzles With Real Prizes
The market for puzzles has been steadily growing in the past years. There are over 10000 puzzle websites worldwide and thousands of apps, and tens of puzzle TV shows across the globe. The interest and passion for puzzles and riddles is something that can easily be explained by our psychological need to create order and structure in a world that is increasingly more complex and ungraspable, but also from our natural aptitude for creative thinking and curiosity that made us advance in all aspects of human society.
Atocha recognises the importance and value of puzzles and riddles, and put in place a system to make it easy for puzzle/riddle creators and solvers alike to engage in this rewarding and stimulating activity in the most profitable way.
“By embracing blockchain technology, Atocha Protocol will give people abilities to create puzzle games, bet money on it, and use it as a battle arena to interact with a large audience.” -Zad Yu
Atocha was created with the two-fold intent of allowing creators and solvers to monetise their passion and empower them to take control and ownership of their platform.
“By using Atocha Protocol, developers/gamers can easily create puzzle games, and put Ato Coins on it as a prize. Other people need to pay a bit of Ato Coins to solve it, so if the puzzle is balanced in difficulty and entertaining, it will accumulate a big amount of Ato Coins and attract lots of treasure hunters.”
Atocha Architecture
Atocha is an appchain built on the Octopus Network which provides clients an easy interface and a high degree of interoperability.
“We use blockchain intercommunication protocols, so other blockchain users can use their assets from other blockchains to our appchain. In particular, we use Octopus bridge to use NEAR Protocol so we can connect to Ethereum Network.”
Clients coming from other blockchains will be able to interact with Atocha and use their assets from different blockchain are able to create and solve puzzles in the most simple way.
How Does Atocha Work?
Developers aside, Atocha’s ecosystem is composed of puzzle creators, solvers, and puzzle judges. The puzzle creators pay in order to publish their puzzle with the answer, deadline, participation fee, and price, and get paid when no one submits the correct answer by the deadline. Puzzle solvers on the other hand, pay to submit their answers and get paid once they get the right answer.
For things to run smoothly and to guarantee the validity of the puzzle, there are puzzle judges that are paid to judge the validity of a puzzle. Their service can be requested by solvers, and in case the judge deems a puzzle invalid the solver is granted a refund of the participation fee.
Atocha Roadmap
In July, Atocha completed another run of funding before its Testnet goes live at the end of September. In October, the seed round will be completed and by December of this year puzzle lovers will finally be able to get involved in the Atocha community.
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