Salad Ventures: Education, guild and management of chain games form a trinity ｜ Project Introduction

The outbreak of Play To Earn has attracted a large number of players to participate, but for some players, "lack of game resources" is still an unsolvable problem.

Just like in the well-known Axie Infinity, if you want to participate in adventure mode or arena mode to fight and win SLP, you need to use three Axies to form a team, especially when this game is very hot, The price of Axie remains high. Buying Axie to form the starting lineup still requires a very high cost for some players.

And for another part of players, they have a lot of Axies, but don't have time to use them to earn SLP, and playing on multiple accounts may also be officially banned.

Facing the problems existing on both sides, people gradually explored new solutions, and the Goldsmithing Guild emerged.

A player who wants to play the game but lacks resources is called a "Scholar". Generally, in the guild, the manager provides funds and pools resources to the Scholar. For example, in Axie Infinity, the manager will provide the Scholar with free Axie team, Scholar uses this Axie team to play games to help managers earn SLP and get a certain share.

The well-known gold mining guilds include Yield Guild Games (YGG), Merit Circle, PathDAO, and GuildFi. The Salad that this article mainly talks about was originally the Axie Infinity guild, but now its guild has been renamed Apollo Squad, aiming to reach partnerships with more game platforms. At present, it has cooperated with Crabada, Sipher, Mines of Dalarnia, Happy Land and other projects, which will also provide Scholars with more opportunities to make money from games.

Solve the problem of learning cost

At the initial stage when chain games are not yet popular, people need too high a cost to play games on the chain. Scholar solved the problem of capital cost by joining the Goldsmithing Guild, but players still face learning The issue of cost, especially for beginners, the combination of NFT and GameFi, the understanding of noun concepts, and the game process are relatively complicated.

So the project launched a learning platform called Salad Academy, which is a large-scale open online course (MOOC) platform, similar to "GameFi's Udemy", and some teachers specialize in explaining chain games Relevant knowledge enables students to learn systematically and helps players understand the game.

For example, in Axie Infinity, explain to beginners what a wallet is from the game as an entry point? What is the difference between Ronin Wallet and Metamask? How to find deals on Axie Marketplace? And make a variety of video explanation game strategy tutorials, etc.

Felix Sim, co-founder of Salad Ventures, once said: "I want to create a structured way to teach anyone how to play these blockchain games correctly and profitably." Other guilds have Scholar, want to Maximizing their returns from the game also needs to start with education.

Salad Ventures has also absorbed some Scholars into its guild, and cultivated them through its own Salad Academy learning platform, teaching them "how to form the best combination in Axie Infinity, or how to maximize SLP harvest" Such as systematic game tutorials, so as to maximize the benefits of both parties.

Originally, Salad Academy focused only on free online courses about Axie Infinity, but now the platform is gradually expanding courses for many other games, including Mines of Dalarnia, Happyland, Crabada, MiniRoyale, Sipher and Stepn, etc.

Not only that, Salad Academy is also a "Learn-to-Earn" platform, from which coursework can be completed to mint NFT badges. In order to standardize the Salad Academy certification process, the project has cooperated with Project Galaxy. In Salad, each Scholar will be assigned a new GalaxyID. Using GalaxyID allows players to progress in Salad Academy and complete each certification. Mint NFT badges on the Project Galaxy platform. According to the official statement, all blockchain game courses on the platform will remain free. It should be noted that users need to complete the course materials and complete the online test, and obtain a score of more than 80% to obtain the final certification. Salad Academy has issued more than 6,000 certificates so far.

GalaxyID can not only be used in Salad Academy, but also as its identity in GuildOS, the guild management system.

The operating system of the guild

At present, Salad Ventures consists of three parts. In addition to the above-mentioned Apollo Squad guild and Salad Academy learning platform, there is also GuildOS.

Salad Ventures previously raised $2 million, backed by institutional investors such as Multicoin Capital and Kosmos Ventures, and angel investors such as Anthony Pompliano and Santiago Santos.

Just two days ago, Salad Ventures announced again that it had raised $13.5 million in private equity financing. This round of investors included Alameda Research, C2 Ventures, Crossbeam Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Gemini Frontier Fund, Winklevoss Capital, Polygon Studios, and others.

Officials say the funds will be used to build GuildOS, a software designed to help guilds run and manage their players, and is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2022. As the guild's operating system, the team developed a proprietary set of processes that enable it to organize, manage, and scale a dispersed workforce.

GuildOS has now integrated two games, Axie Infinity and Pegaxy, simply because these two games are the most popular among guilds in the P2E field. Salad has also been effectively managing the Apollo Squad guild through GuildOS, from which he can systematically check the basic information of the Scholar, understand the winning rate and growth of the Scholar in the game, and display it in a visual statistical chart to understand the best and worst rankings. It is also used to generate payroll and pay wages for its Scholar. According to Salad, their HR team saves at least 100 hours a week.

Salad display Partial interface of the system

Add bricks and tiles to the infrastructure construction of blockchain games

Based in Singapore, Salad Ventures was founded by Singaporean entrepreneur Felix Sim and professional event host and anchor Wesley Mathews. The current team has more than 20 members and has established partnerships with more than 10 games and projects.

The main business of this project is Apollo Squad, which is called to make gold by convening Scholars. Due to the emergence of Salad Academy created by Salad, it specializes in P2E games like Axie Infinity and provides free courses, which greatly lowers the entry barrier for beginners in blockchain games and makes Scholar more professional. Coupled with the upcoming GuildOS, similar to the company management system, it greatly simplifies guild management.

And the GalaxyID mentioned above can serve as the Scholar's Gamefi universe identity throughout his career. As more and more games are added to the platform and the modules are gradually improved, this ID may even include their scores in various games, their own progress, and collecting these NFT badges also authenticates and demonstrates their own to others. proficiency, skill level. It can even be used as a qualification criterion when applying to join a guild.

When this article is published the The project has not yet released a white paper (the white paper was recently released on May 11). Compared with that time, in addition to the Apollo Squad (guild), Salad Academy (learning platform), and GuildOS (operating system) mentioned in the article, the project has also Three pillars of Omnivoyant.AI (GameFi intelligent oracle), PHLEET (NFT lending), and Sustainable Ventures (venture capital) have been added.

And the project has also released the Token economic model, the Token is named SALD, and the total supply is 1,680,000,000. For Scholar, Scholar can use SALD to learn, unlock advanced courses, study materials and exclusive content, and Scholar candidates on the Apollo Squad waitlist can exchange SALD for a Priority Pass, thus gaining application priority. For union owners, stake SALD to enjoy platform rates on GuildOS accounts, transaction fees for new ecosystems like Omnivoyant, PHLEET, and unlock advanced features of solutions not accessible to the general public. GameFi project parties can use SALD to promote games to the Salad community, or to purchase booths for game promotion. Below is the map of Token distribution:

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As shown in the figure, 20% is used for treasury and reserves, 10% is allocated to teams and consultants, of which 44.18% is allocated to the community, and 3.5% is used for public sale , 23.32% is used for private placement.

The above Token ownership diagram shows , the public sale Token will be issued directly, the private placement and advisory part will be locked for 12 months, and then gradually released within 12 months, the team and founder part will also be locked for 12 months, and then gradually released within 24 months, the treasury and the community Parts will be released gradually over 36 months.

Similarly, there is Yield Guild Games, which integrates education and management. As a gold mining guild in the Philippines, it also recruits Scholar, conducts asset lending, and trains players. Currently, it belongs to this track faucet. Blockchain Space is a guild that focuses on education to empower the game community. The platform can also track member performance and perform accounting. The game platform Rainmaker Games also has game evaluation videos for users to learn, and users can also participate in the game to obtain RAIN Token to obtain certain permissions.

Compared to Salad Ventures, it is more systematic. From cultivating scholars to managing scholars, these three projects empower each other, and GalaxyID is also connected in series, which reflects and proves personal achievements. The construction of this project has also promoted the improvement of the infrastructure of the GameFi industry to a certain extent, and we will see how the blockchain game will develop in the future.

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