Meta Description: As a major update of Ordinals, recursive inscriptions have given the BTC ecosystem a new innovative application direction. Among them, PixelWar, as the application with the most recursions on the market, deserves our attention. This article will introduce you to PixelWar’s mechanism, economic model, and issues you need to pay attention to. BRC-20 inscription
introduction
Recently, with the rebound of the encryption market, people's attention has been drawn to the BRC-20 tokens in the BTC ecosystem. These tokens have experienced a period of silence, especially after Unisat announced the launch of the SWAP function, and it exploded again, as if in 2023 The mid-year inscription event is once again happening. After half a year of construction, the BTC ecosystem has produced many new things, which are completely different from the last time.
BRC20 is gaining popularity again
According to data on Dune, the number of BRC-20 transactions in May once accounted for 50% of all Bitcoin transactions. After a short period of silence, starting from the end of October, the number of BRC-20 transactions exploded again. BRC-20 transactions accounted for 68.7% of all Bitcoin transactions on November 12, and remained at around 50% for a time. The proportion of non-BRC-20 Ordinals inscription transactions has remained at a single-digit level.
Source: https://dune.com/cryptokoryo/brc20 , 2023.11.13
BRC-20 token transaction fees accounted for 36% of all Bitcoin fees on November 4, and currently remain at 20%-30% depending on market popularity.
Source: https://dune.com/cryptokoryo/brc20 , 2023.11.13
Introduction to recursive inscriptions
On June 12, 2023, Raph, the chief maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, merged the recursive inscription (recursive inscription) #2167 update proposed by Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor into the Ordinals code on Github. Before the advent of recursive inscriptions, ordinal numbers were depicted as isolated and finite islands. Although text, images, and codes can be inscribed, they cannot be referenced between them. After the introduction of recursive inscriptions, the situation has changed, and there is no longer the awkward situation where each inscription was isolated and unconnected. Recursive inscriptions, through their quotable nature, break this limitation and create the possibility of free combination. Simply put, recursive inscriptions refer to the ability of one inscription to refer to the content of other inscriptions. With the introduction of recursive inscriptions, users will use less capacity and lower fees when creating inscriptions on the Bitcoin chain.
Features of recursive inscriptions:
Enhance interoperability, reduce costs, and allow inscription size to exceed the 4MB limit, etc.
Application directions of recursive inscriptions:
Using recursive inscriptions can realize inscription disassembly and combination, Bitcoin music, Bitcoin chain games, generative art, decentralized websites, etc.
Source: https://medium.com/@gryphsisacademy
Due to the flexibility of recursive inscriptions, this provides a stage for artists to display their talents, and creative projects further explore the boundaries of various possibilities of Ordinals. PixelWar is a typical representative of this.
Introduction to PixelWar
PixelWar is a new social experiment, the team is anonymous, and no relevant information can be found on the Internet. Currently, most chain games only use blockchain as a medium for the distribution and transfer of their ecological tokens, but there are also some blockchain-native game developers and players who are trying to create a purely on-chain game experience. PixelWar seems to be like this. team.
PixelWar is not only a BTC full-chain multiplayer game based on recursive inscriptions. Participants create on a 256*256 pixel canvas. You can directly click on the pixels to create, or you can place the pixels generated by uploading images onto the canvas. Each Submit will generate an inscription of the latest status of the entire canvas. Each inscription generated refers to the inscription status that has been generated last time. The inscriptions are recursive layer by layer. This may be the project with the most recursions on the market currently, and it is also a recursive inscription. Application field A landmark application.
PixelWar is also the new BRC-20 Launchpad on BTC. As the project develops, PixelWar will gradually open up its permissions. Finally, everyone can create pixel canvases and tokens on PixelWar.
PixelWar Mechanics
PixelWar proposes a new standard - BRC721Cofound, which utilizes recursive inscription to allow all users to create on the same canvas and record their process. Each moment in the creative process is an inscription that contains the currently newly added or updated pixels and contains references to previous inscriptions.
In PixelWar, the game provides a public digital canvas with 256*256 pixels, in which any player can add color. In PixelWar, players can submit single or multiple pixels on the public canvas, or submit and upload images on the desktop. They can create on a blank space or cover the previous player's pixels. All pixels work together to create a collective artwork.
Earn Tokens: Each time you place a pixel in PixelWar, players will earn 10 $BPIX tokens. After submitting the pixel, you can redeem the token on the official website.
NFT: Each pixel a player submits on the canvas is permanent and cannot be tampered with. It will not only contribute to the completion of the canvas, but also reward players with an NFT image containing the latest status of the canvas.
How to play
1. Set up a Bitcoin wallet
Create a Bitcoin wallet: Create a Bitcoin wallet on Unisat and save the seed phrase.
Deposit Bitcoins: Deposit some Bitcoins for processing fees and the cost of purchasing pixels.
2. Enter the game
Visit the website: Visit PixelWar's website.
Connect wallet: Click the wallet icon in the upper right corner of the screen to associate the BTC wallet with the game.
Source: https://btcpixelwar.io/
3. Create works of art
Select pixels: Select pixels on the canvas to add color to, or use a drawing tool or drawing robot to make an image. Any pixel can be overwritten while authoring.
Submit pixels: After selecting the pixels, follow the instructions on the screen to clear or purchase the pixels selected by the player. You can choose to purchase when the BTC network is in good condition.
Source: https://btcpixelwar.io/
4. Get tokens
After the creation is completed, click the Claim button in the upper right corner of the game to exchange for tokens. One pixel corresponds to 10 tokens.
Source: https://btcpixelwar.io/
5. Auction
As the PixelWar game progresses, when the number of remaining pixels is less than 3,000, the remaining pixels will be auctioned, and the remaining pixels will only be sold in the auction session. Players can bid on the remaining pixels, and the highest bidder at the end of the auction wins the right to buy them. If the highest bid within six blocks is not updated during the auction, the remaining pixels will be automatically auctioned.
PixelWar economic model analysis
$BPIX Token Details
Name: BTC PixelWar
Symbol: BPIX
Total supply: 21,000,000
Maximum supply: The maximum supply is fixed at 21,000,000 $BPIX
Current number of currency holding addresses: 882
Total number of transactions: 4,007
$BPIX will become an equity token in the future. During the BRC-20 token distribution process, most of the inscriptions will be engraved by robots first, and robots often raise the GAS to compete for the inscriptions that players are inscribing. This violates the fairness of BRC-20 token distribution to a certain extent. . PixelWar will develop a robot called BTCBOT on the BTC chain. $BPIX will be used as an equity token, and token holders will enjoy multiple rights such as priority experience, profit sharing, and exclusive robot functions.
How to get $BPIX
Pixel Rewards: Players will receive 10 $BPIX for every pixel they submit on the canvas.
Free pixels: The official gave away some free pixels in the early marketing activities. When you use these free pixels to create on the canvas, you will earn $BPIX (the airdrop activity has ended now).
Guild rewards: After joining a guild, free pixels will be awarded based on the guild's ranking. These free pixels will also earn $BPIX when creating.
Marketing activities: You can get certain pixel rewards by participating in official marketing activities, and you will earn $BPIX when you create.
Personal ranking rewards: Individuals who draw the number of pixels every day and enter the top 10 of the day's rankings will also receive additional rewards (the ranking will end after the fourth halving).
Secondary market purchase: You can go to Unisat's secondary market to purchase or wait for the project to be listed on CEX.
Source: https://pixelwar.gitbook.io/btc-pixelwar/tokenomics
How the halving works
A maximum of 50,000 pixels can be submitted at the beginning of the game. As players add pixels to the canvas, the cumulative total number of pixels will increase, getting closer and closer to the critical number node of the total supply. The first halving occurs when the cumulative pixels reach 50% of the total supply. This means users can only submit 25,000 pixels at a time. The second halving occurs when the accumulated pixels reach 75% of the total (50% of the remaining pixels). This pattern repeats for 5 rounds, with each halving reducing the available pixels for each submission by half.
The PixelWar halving mechanism is more than just a countdown, it’s a strategic challenge. Since the total number of pixels is fixed, and each submission of pixels will bring the game process closer to the next halving, it is easy to drive players' enthusiasm for participation.
What are the advantages of PixelWar?
1. The encryption market is silent and needs a new narrative. The BTC ecosystem is currently in the construction stage and has already caused a huge sensation. Its developability is huge, and with the arrival of the BTC halving, the crypto market’s attention to the BTC ecosystem will continue to increase;
2. PixelWar is the first recursive inscription game in the BTC ecosystem and adopts the new standard BRC721Cofound. The game design is quite creative, with a great story and playability;
3. In the later planning, the PixelWar team will gradually open up permissions and make PixelWar a BRC-20 Launchpad platform;
4. PixelWar will develop a BTCBOT robot. Give token holders multiple rights such as priority experience, profit sharing, and exclusive robot functions;
5. Compared with traditional chain games, PixelWar has a lower threshold for participation;
6. PixelWar has a competitive mechanism, which can easily trigger fomo among participants.
What are the current issues with PixelWar?
1. BRC-20 tokens have the advantage of fair distribution of user public opinion, and PixelWar’s token distribution is carried out by the project party;
2. BTC network handling fees remain high and block generation is delayed, which not only increases the cost for players to participate in the game, but also affects the player's gaming experience;
3. $BPIX tokens can currently only be circulated in a few secondary markets such as Unisat, and such platforms are extremely vulnerable to DDOS attacks. The secondary market circulation of $BPIX tokens is not smooth. But as the game is launched on the CEX exchange, this problem can be solved very well.
Summarize
Generally speaking, the explosion of BRC-20 tokens has driven the development of the BTC ecosystem, and PixelWar, as an innovative and iconic BTC multiplayer full-chain game based on recursive inscriptions, has provided a platform for many people on the Bitcoin chain. It opens up new possibilities in the field of human gaming applications and also demonstrates the potential of recursive inscriptions in the gaming and social fields. As the BTC ecosystem improves, the development of PixelWar is also worth looking forward to.
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