Priming is here!

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ParagonsDAO

5 min readNov 14, 2023

We’re proud to share that we’ve officially launched Priming’s Public Beta!

Priming is our new asset management platform built for web3 gamers , helping you optimize win rate and yield across premier gaming titles — starting with Parallel.

We pride quality over everything, and thus, our relaunch has been a long time in the making. A former staple of the Parallel community, our old site limited our future growth — so we poured all our energy into stripping it down and building it back up.

With the support from ParagonsDAO, the Echelon Foundation grant (including overwhelming community vote, and subsequent guidance from the Emissary Primes), and our community of early testers — we’ve reached an important milestone.

What we’ve launched today, the Explorer, is the nucleus of a powerful web3 gaming analytics platform built for scale, breadth, and flexibility — starting with support for Parallel TCG.

Check it out now!

A first look, hosted by Game Cellar

In case you missed it, yesterday, RarityCapital joined Game Cellar for a Priming’s first-look livestream. Check it out now to hear more about Priming, the vision, features, roadmap, use cases, and more!

Watch VOD from Game Cellar’s stream

Features and roadmap

Explorer

The Explorer is the core of Priming, providing advanced metrics and aggregations for web3 game assets, starting with Parallel TCG. Explorer brings together current and historical financial data, standard and imputed metadata, and very soon, gameplay statistics (Parallel just turned on the API) to help you discover and share trends and opportunities at both a gameplay and financial level — we believe the most valuable insights require data points from both of these.

It’s empowered by powerful custom filters, grouping, columns, and custom tags to help you flexibly discover insights. It also includes helpful metrics that are difficult to uncover elsewhere — like a card’s keywords and mechanics, the most accurate ownership metrics available (ascribing cached cards to their owners), and more.

*An example of Explorer’s current filters and custom tagging*

Today, explorer supports Parallel Alpha collection. Very soon, you can expect to see Echoes, Battlepass cards, Avatars, and Planetfall cards.

Other near-term improvements include the ability to save and share custom views, default global views that help serve quick insights to casual users, and of course, integrating gameplay statistics for Parallel.

A little further down the track, we’ll also integrate marketplace action into our Explorer — from buying and selling, to lending and borrowing — helping users turn insights to action with a click. It’ll be relatively simple to turn on these integrations — but first, we aim to learn more about how Sanctuary works.

Portfolio: our next major milestone

We’re now turning our attention towards delivering on our next major commitment, as laid out in our Echelon Foundation grant proposal: the Portfolio view.

Building off the core we’ve formed through Explorer, Portfolio will provide comprehensive, aggregated views and personalized views of users’ web3 gaming portfolios. Through deep comprehension of the nuances of web3 game ecosystems (starting with Echelon’s Prime ecosystem), Priming will provide deep and detailed insights that can’t be met by current portfolio aggregation services.

Portfolio will provide profit and loss insights to help you understand and maximize your yield. From insights on costs basis and yields, recognizing your assets no matter whether they sit across your wallets or in a caching contract, to uncovering optimization strategies for your assets. Portfolio will also be the structure that powers our new and improved Leaderboard — an old fan favorite that we’ll reanimate.

What’s still to come

Of course, our Echelon Foundation grant proposal also outlines our Content feature — enabling creators to easily share their insights with friends and followers, while providing incentives to those who are able to drive the greatest impact in the ecosystem. This’ll be the next major milestone after launching Portfolio.

And throughout our milestones, we’ll be introducing our tiered subscription model (targeted to power users), which will provide a Prime sink back to the Echelon community.

In yesterday’s Game Cellar, we also introduced “Sleeves” — helping you pool your cards with others to maximize your yield, while still being able to use them in game. We’ll launch Sleeves in a few weeks — watch for more information shortly!

Get Started with Priming

To help you get started, we’ve prepared step-by-step guides and some video demos on our Docs page.

Here are some great guides to help you get started with Priming:

Try Priming now!

Decode and share to win!

As you explore Priming, you’re bound to find some insights of your own. We want you to share them with the world!

We’ll come up with two themes over the next two weeks, and ask you to share your insights about one or both of them, using Priming to help you. The top 5 submissions will each win $40 in PDT, and all submissions will qualify for entry into ParagonsDAO’s monthly Portal draw. All other participants will be entered into our monthly Portal draw.

All you need to do is publish a Tweet (or Thread) on your Priming analysis, tag @priming_xyz and #Decoded. Access this Zealy quest to learn more and get started.