Biweekly update, July 25th 2024
Hey, SlingShot community!
It’s time for another exciting roundup of all the latest happenings in the ecosystem.
Let’s take a look at the incredible progress and achievements everyone’s made together!
🌟Highlights
- SlingShot now has over 22k followers on X! Follow the account to stay up to date on all of the action.
- The first Zealy campaign was a massive success, and the rewards have been distributed!
- A new Zealy campaign is live. Join now to start climbing the ranks.
📣 Marketing & Community
- New Zealy Launched: Now is the time to get involved. Begin to climb the Zealy leaderboard and win from a $1000 prize pool.
- Alpha Guilty/Qappi: Over 1,146 participants in Alpha Guilty/Qappi. The campaign is running until the end of July. Don’t hesitate to join the quest or else you’ll be missing out on a 250 USDT prize pool!
- Slingshot Squadron: The new community initiative led by the most loyal members is live, and the Squadron members are making major contributions, hosting events, and moderating the community. Join the Squadron, be a part of the inner circle and earn additional perks.
- New Marketing Partner: SlingShot has a new marketing partner to boost brand awareness in the Web3 space. SlingShot’s name is going to be everywhere!
- Farcaster Milestone: Our Farcaster account hit 500 followers! Follow SlingShot on everyone’s favorite Web3 social app.
🎲 SlingShot Game Statistics
The three live game titles keep shining brighter and brighter!
Bomb Door Simulator 💣
- Total Visits: 6,000,000 ▲ +5.51%
Tree Smash Simulator 🌳
- Total Visits: 2,641,458 ▲ +11.53%
Westport City RP 🏠
- Total Visits: 1,911,389 ▲ +46.08%
🎮 Game Development News
Cats of Olympus 🌄
- Exciting new VFX and combat mechanics
- Environment and lobby are being polished
- New pets and enemy models incoming
- Better pictures coming soon with the new version
Take a look at what battling with legendary pets looks like!
Animal Control (Dirty Doggies) 🐶
- Big revamp underway to enhance the dog escaping and capturing experience
🛠️ Product Updates
Check out the many product updates which are being worked on at this very moment!
- dApp Navigation: It’s being completely overhauled for a cleaner, more scalable, and clearer user experience.
- $SLING Migration: The UI is being upgraded to seamlessly migrate $SLING from Polygon to Arbitrum.
- Dashboard UI: New UI will show users the latest updates, key stats, and metrics associated with SlingShot and their account.
- Liquidity Provision: New UI will allow users to provide liquidity.
- Account Creation/Login: Revised experience in the works.
- In-App $SLING Purchasing: New UI to enable purchasing with stablecoins.
- Improved Wallet UI: Enhancements underway.
- Website Updates: Working on new updates to better explain the concept and benefits of SlingShot to Web3 users.
🤝 Collaborations
- Slingshot Episode 6: How Does Web3 Change Gaming? Another successful X Space with over 200 listeners! You can still listen to the full episode, even if you missed it.
- Set your reminders for more X Spaces from the Slingshot account every Thursday!
- Don’t forget to follow community member @Ezincr as he spreads the word about Slingshot all around Crypto X.
⚖️ Governance Highlights
- MPC Wallets: Research & development is currently underway to address the community’s feedback regarding the difficulty of reconciling two distinct user experiences which depends on whether one uses a Web3 wallet or social login to connect to SlingShot.
🔵 Token Updates
- The token migration from Polygon to Arbitrum is underway and going according to plan. It’s exciting to be able to bring millions of gamers into the Arbitrum ecosystem and more details on the Arbitrum launch will be shared soon.
👥 Community & Contributors
Check out the new list of Discord events! There is a total of 6 activities on a weekly basis, 4 of which are completely new. A total of $150 worth of $SLING and 975 Zealy XP is up for grabs across the board!
Here’s what the complete schedule looks like:
- Topical UGC contests (Mondays 17:00 UTC - Fridays 17:00 UTC, $45 worth of $SLING + 450 Zealy XP prize pool)
- SlingShot quizzes (Mondays 13:00 UTC, $30 worth of $SLING + 175 Zealy XP prize pool)
- Squadron-led games (Wednesdays 18:00 UTC, $15 worth of $SLING + 75 Zealy XP prize pool, rotating between a few games)
- AMA/Gaming sessions (Wednesdays 19:00 UTC, $15 worth of $SLING + 100 Zealy XP prize pool)
- Gaming/Web3 quizzes (Fridays 13:00 UTC, alternating between the two topics, $30 worth of $SLING + 75 Zealy XP prize pool)
- Gaming sessions (Sundays 19:30 UTC, $15 worth of $SLING + 100 Zealy XP prize pool)
The Slingshot Squadron members hosted a couple of events already. This was a community first!
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