‘Pixelverse’ Expands From Telegram With AI Agent Game on Farcaster

Pixelverse is transferring past its Telegram tap-to-earn success, trying to find a extra Web3-native gaming viewers because it launches Pixelverse Arcade, a brand new gaming platform on Ethereum layer-2 community, Base—and a recreation on the social media platform, Farcaster.

The transfer permits the platform to ascertain extra on-chain options, collectibles, and alignment with different Web3 communities in a extra open surroundings.  

“We had been one of many largest Telegram video games with hundreds of thousands of gamers, actual income, and proof that easy crypto video games can scale quick,” Kori Leon, co-founder of Pixelverse informed Decrypt. 

“We’re nonetheless constructing on Telegram, however Telegram is essentially a Web2-style viewers,” he added. “You may have distribution and income, however you can not actually combine Web3 mechanics at scale. That’s why we’re additionally constructing on Base and Farcaster.”

Set to launch on September 23, the primary recreation within the Pixelverse Arcade is Storychain, an AI-agent powered recreation that hinges on collaborative storytelling by way of decentralized social media platform, Farcaster. 

Guidelines and prompts are created by the agent, and might be inserted underneath any social put up on the platform. Subsequent replies are added to a sequence, which is finally minted as a collectible, one-of-a-kind NFT upon its completion. 

“Totally different beginning factors can produce various kinds of NFTs, with greater rarity when a narrative begins underneath a well-liked or trending put up,” mentioned Leon. “That creates a viral loop: the extra seen the put up, the extra individuals be a part of the story, and the extra useful the ensuing NFT.” 

The quantity of individuals minting accomplished story NFTs might be one of many important metrics Leon tracks in evaluating the success of Storychain. 

The sport may also keep a reward pool of PIXFI, the present Pixelverse ecosystem token that may also be deployed on Base. The token will tie into the complete Pixleverse Arcade, and might also be topic to buyback mechanics based mostly on the income generated by the Arcade. 

These parts are important items of the gaming platform’s transition to Base and Farcaster, which its co-founder mentioned can solely be established on these open Web3 protocols.

“On Telegram, presents and collectibles are managed by Telegram itself, and pockets integration is non-compulsory, which means most customers keep in Web2,” he mentioned. “On Farcaster, each interplay is Web3-native from the beginning, related to Coinbase Pockets and Base.”

“That distinction is important,” he added. “As a substitute of hoping Web2 audiences convert later, we’re beginning with customers who’re already crypto-native, and that makes engagement and conversion a lot stronger.”