Saga Blockchain Launches ‘Play-to-Airdrop’ Game Contests—Here’s How You Can Get It

Crypto games will be buzzing again as the broader market recovers and continues to emerge. Game-based network Saga It is using the time to get players in before the main network and airs.

After declaring a $5 million seed extension funding round And the community weather plan In November, Saga is now running a “play-to-airdrop” campaign on several crypto games to get users into the ecosystem and test the rewards for running the first games on Saga's testnet.

Saga CEO and co-founder Rebecca Liao said DecryptGG, which the team doesn't intend to offer to game developers to build in the ecosystem. Instead, Saga says it will “sponsor that user acquisition” for games by offering a share of the airdrop, drawing players into the ecosystem and rewarding them with SAGA tokens.

“We're one of the few chains that have focused on the non-live gaming experience, so we're in a unique position to do so,” Liao explained. “And we have a big air drop that can be done with the Genesis. That's really helpful for air-to-air gameplay.”

The air-to-air campaign began earlier this month with a holiday gaming tournament titled “Sweeping Calendar,” but additional tournaments and events will continue through January and February ahead of Saga Minet's planned launch, she said.

The current Saga campaign features games with a fantasy theme Generative DungeonArcade-style game Tolly upan action role-playing game Rogue Nationand a Pokemon Go-esque location game Venity. Another worldA metaverse game that supports avatars based on Boring Monkey Boat Club And Azuki NFT projects are also participating.

The top finishers on the leaderboard for each game tournament will be eligible to receive a SAGA airdrop when the Saga mainnet goes live in early spring. But some parts of the world (including the United States) cannot claim the airdrop, so it is subject to location.

Participating in these tournaments will result in a “double whammy” for some players, Leo said, as some games are offering additional prizes and games may eventually launch their own special tokens.

The Saga protocol was designed as a “chain to launch chains,” Liao explained. DecryptBecause developers get chains called chainlets that can connect to power games and other apps. She likened it to how developers rely on multiple cloud instances when building applications, and how the chains can be shared in different ways.

While Saga is a general protocol that can run a variety of blockchain applications, about 80% of developers in the “Innovators Program” are making games.

One reason for that may be Saga's gasless approach to users, which means they aren't forced to pay every time they take an on-chain action. While game and app developers choose how they want to monetize their games, developers use SAGA tokens to pay validators.

Saga is designed to work with other chains. Saga announced partnerships with Ava Labs and Polygon earlier this year, and such companies see Saga's architecture as a way to support their technology.

“We deliberately positioned ourselves to complement any other layer-1,” Liao said.

And players may get a taste of how it works in the coming weeks, as Saga plans to expand its air-to-air campaign, including for games that work on a chain of partners. Avalanche And Polygon.

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.