Octopus Accelerator Star Prize Winners — Winter 2022

Congratulations to the five winners of the Octopus Star Prize!

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Omnity Network

4 min readDec 22, 2022

The Octopus Foundation would like to congratulate the five Accelerator Winter 2022 Octopus Star Prize winners who are now eligible to join in a prize pool of up to 250k in grants!

61 Web3 Projects Participated

The Winter 2022 Accelerator Program drew the most diverse application batch yet, with applications admitted from countries worldwide including:

Canada
UK
Nigeria
Venezuela
USA
India
Romania
France
Peru
Germany
Turkey
Silicon Valley
Latvia
Africa
Ukraine
China
Hong Kong
Vietnam
UAE

Showcase Day

Due to the impressive quality of the applications in this batch, 12 projects were invited to present their MVP for a chance to win the Octopus Star Prize and up to 50k in grants.

OnParty
Histopia
DeepMine
IMPAKT
Reco
motoDEX
Petobots
Frac
Black History DAO
Aridia Labs
Gamifly
Ecoland

And the winners are…

⭐ DeepMine

⭐Aridia Labs

⭐Black History DAO

⭐Gamifly

⭐Frac

Congratulations and thank you to all participating projects!

Let’s explore the top five.

DeepMine

DeepMine is a P2E social economic strategy game in an ever-expanding Sci-Fi Metaverse. With an emphasis on communication and collaboration, DeepMine is reimagining the way players cooperate, develop, and earn together.

DeepMine wants to create a true metaverse economy where different projects can exist separately, but are also deeply interconnected to enhance the experience for all players and create sustainable long-term ROI.

DeepMine’s designing a complex and sophisticated economic system with hundreds of variables that can naturally accommodate new inputs, enabling a seamless integration of other projects from multiple blockchains within the DeepMine space.

Key features

expanding metaverse
balanced economy
political system and factions
inflation protection
fully on chain
advanced gameplay
multi-level interaction
clans and corporations
anti-whale design
multichain support

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Aridia Labs

Aridia Labs is building a comprehensive multichain Web3 Gaming Hub to close the gap between the Web2 and Web3 gaming industries. Aridia wants to provide a simple and attractive digital infrastructure solution for Web2 gamers and developers who want to transition to Web3 without exposing themselves to unnecessary risk in the crypto industry.

Aridia’s first indie game, Everlasting, will be leveraged as a proof of concept to display its streamlined processes, SDKs and APIs, and showcase what its platform is capable of.

You can get in on the beta of Everlasting here.

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Black History DAO

Black History DAO is a web3.0 black history metaverse guild, NFT-based archaeological funding platform, and blockchain archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing accurate stories of black history by immutably anchoring verified information on chain.

The journey of reclaiming accurate black history is a global community movement driven to gather bona fide historical moments and artifacts to accurately chronicle the remarkable dispersion of a people. Unlike privately owned or government funded institutions, Black History DAO will use peer reviewed submissions for historical data while incentivizing contributors who submit factual information.

BHD planned features include a Launchpad, Metaverse, Museum, and Historical Archives, as well educational promotion through their products and conferences.

The BHD Metaverse leverages VR/AR technology to bring Black History to life.
A percentage of the BHD treasury is dedicated to the preservation of historical landmark sites via NFT-based archeological funding.

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Gamifly

Gamifly is a global Web3 gaming gateway with multiple free2play games, supporting tournaments, NFT in-game assets, and player rewards without requiring any upfront investment from players.

In addition, Gamifly’s P2E scheme will reward players in USDC so they can enjoy gameplay without worrying about market volatility. GamiFly’s Cricket Fly is a Sci-Fi themed cricket game currently available on Google Play.

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Frac.

Frac is on a mission to raise global economic prosperity via the fractionalization of alternative asset classes. Frac is designing a blockchain-based infrastructure with open source nodes to provide enhanced liquidity for creators and asset owners. Frac’s services are to include:

F-NFT Marketplace — A fractionalization technology (FracTech) powered marketplace with auction capabilities allowing holders to fractionalize their physical or digital assets using F-NFTs (fractionalized NFTs) that can then be traded on the marketplace.

Asset-Backed Yield Program — Allows individuals to partake in investable asset classes previously unavailable to the public.

Transaction and Treasury Services (TTS) — Designed to increase platform utility and customer returns via staking, trading bots, and debit card withdrawal services.

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