HypeSaints, the first Web3 project led by STEPN's parent company FINDSATOSHI LAB, recently launched the first test of the App in a low-key manner. Surprisingly, this test was deployed on the Polygon mainnet, which means that all users' assets will be retained. From the information we have learned, the official release test of the App is an important milestone for HypeSaints. Users have a more practical experience and start to obtain tokens.
We will take a quick look at the highlights and follow-up routes of the HypeSaints project from four aspects:
Web3 Gaming track, combining handheld game play with DePin concept
The gaming track has always been a hot track in the current cycle, and there are also many industry competitors, including many elites from the traditional gaming industry. From a traditional perspective, handheld and console products usually position themselves as a gaming platform, absorbing various game studios and producers to aggregate content and distribute it to more players and users. We can also see that many Web3 gaming platforms are being built according to similar logic.
HypeSaints has taken another path: all game cartridges (NFTs of different game types) will be centered around the HypeSaints IP, and the project has established a relatively complete world view, story, background, and characters, which will provide players with a consistent experience and form a more unified understanding of HypeSaints. In the future, the right to use HypeSaints' assets will be given to players, allowing them to build richer game card content.
The most important step in HypeSaints' roadmap will be at the end of the year, when the project team will officially announce the physical handheld product, which will truly realize the DePin concept. According to official information, this will be a hardware product that integrates wallets, content OTA updates, play and earn, and social and computing power sharing based on geographic location.
NFS: NFTnomics beyond the Token Economy
Non-Fungible Story, non-homogeneous story - this is the unique feature that HypeSaints has been emphasizing to users. To put it simply, the game cartridges launched by the project are an important carrier of NFS. When players join in the creation of NFS, a large amount of unique content will be born in the entire product ecosystem. Player creators can package, chain, price, sell, and even put advertisements and bounty tasks in the game cartridges they produce. This not only brings more income possibilities to creators, but also brings more experience to users who consume content.
As the core consultant of HypeSaints, STEPN's co-founder Yawn provided a lot of effective experience of STEPN in the past for the economic system design of HypeSaints. The project party explained another purpose of designing NFS in many AMAs: it is NFTnomics outside of Tokenomics, which will bring players more abundant "optimal solutions". Each player is good at different game cartridges, and different game cartridges require different optimal solutions for handheld consoles. This makes the entire system have no absolute unique optimal solution, and also makes all NFT assets in the App (such as different components) have a "place to use".
App quick start: very similar to playing a Switch
The use of the HypeSaints App is both familiar and fresh. Buying a handheld game console, DIYing a handheld game console, buying game cartridges, inserting game cartridges, these operations are familiar to gamers, just like playing a Switch or GameBoy handheld game console. The new thing is that the NFTization of assets brings a higher degree of freedom. DIYing a handheld game console can improve performance while changing the appearance, and the pending orders for handheld game consoles and game cartridges will also become more efficient and free.
In the current test version, the project has opened up the development, DIY, mining, and looting of the handheld game console. Functional tokens have also been launched and can be earned during the experience. In the first week, players only need to pay 50MATIC to buy a handheld game console to start playing and earning. The App is in the form of PWA and can be opened and used by PC or mobile browser without downloading. The wallet also supports Gmail registration without the need for seed phrase, which also provides convenience for new players.
Subsequent route: TON will be the next realm of HypeSaints, TGE in summer
The HypeSaints project team announced in March that it had been selected as a member of the first batch of TON Foundation's Asian incubation accelerator. After the graduation season in May, the TON version will be delivered, which will allow HypeSaints to log on to Telegram in the form of a Mini App and officially open the new realm of TON after Polygon.
Following closely will be the launch of the governance token $HYPE, or TGE. Among the first round of investors in HypeSaints, we noticed the presence of CEX, and it is expected that the project will release more TGE information in Q2.
