AlienWorlds (founded in 2020) is a blockchain game where players compete for the scarce resource, Trilium (TLM), which they use to enhance their power in the game by staking and voting in Planet Decentralized Autonomous Organization (Planet DAOs). Both planets and players compete for TLM, leading to intense competition and collaboration between groups.^[1]

Alien Worlds is a decentralized metaverse (i.e. extensible platform) running on Ethereum, Wax and Binance Smart Chain blockchains. The metaverse currency - Trilium (TLM) - incentivizes explorers to play games and must be staked by users to participate in governance.

Alien Worlds is a game where anyone can earn Trilium (TLM) for mining and have a chance to mine a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) game card each time they mine.^[2]

Planets within the metaverse are decentralized autonomous organizations which receive daily Trilium from the central metaverse smart contracts. Explorers engage through mining, acquiring and renting land, voting for Planetary governance to impact Trilium and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) payouts, and other strategic actions which are likely to proliferate over time as Planets offer their own games and NFTs.

Explorers accumulate and use rare and unique NFTs in their quest to earn more of the native token of the game, Trilium, and grow their influence.

Planets are the means by which blockchain communities can onboard onto Alien Worlds, get their own token and DAO, offer games and services into the ecosystem, and trade NFTs.^[42]

Alien Worlds runs on the Ethereum, Wax, and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) blockchains.

Ethereum is a useful blockchain for storing and accessing Trilium, while WAX is a game and Non-Fungible Token (NFT)-focused blockchain. BSC is an attractive consumer-centric chain with a growing user base and inexpensive transactions.

On-chain components include:

Off-chain elements include:

Trilium is the native token of Alien Worlds and is used to stake to Planets and participate in core games.

It exists on the Ethereum, WAX, and BSC blockchains so that users can store Trilium on either chain subject to their preference and use it for the games constructed on WAX and BSC.^[43]

Planets are the main locus of activity within Alien Worlds - they are where mining and game play occurs, and where governance happens.

Each Planet sets its own resource strategy and games, and players vote for their own Planetary government with the power of their staked Trilium.

At inception, there are 6 Planets.

A Planet is represented by a WAX account and its corresponding smart contract .

New Planets can be created by the Federation.

The terms and conditions of the Planet award will be negotiated between the community and the Federation.

This may include, but will not be limited to, Planetary (DAO) Tokens, Land and other NFTs .

The Federation will also provide the Planets with smart contracts to run their mining and fighting games.

Planets receive a daily flow of Trilium from the Federation which the Planets’ Custodians choose how to allocate down to users.

Planets within Alien Worlds are Decentralized Autonomous Communities (DAOs), each Planet is a tokenized DAO with a dedicated member client portal for Planet token holders to vote for their Governors and allocate Trilium and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) flows.

Here, users become voting members of a Planet by staking Trilium to that Planet.

Users can stake Trilium to an unlimited number of Planets.

Staking to a Planet

Planet Treasury

The Trilium balance held by the Planet DAO.

These comprised of Founding Team (Dacoco) , permissions NFTs and approves new Planets in the Federation , it can remove Planets from Federation in order to comply with legal/regulatory , counts each Planet’s staked Trilium daily and allocates Trilium to Planets and Runs and upkeeps game front-end.

New tokens are minted by the smart contract “federation” through an inflation mechanism. All the new tokens minted from inflation become the Daily Trilium Allocation. The intention of the Daily Trilium Allocation is to disseminate Trilium to users continuously, rewarding activity that grows the metaverse.

Core NFTs are the NFTs created by the Federation (Alien Worlds’ creators) at inception.

The Core NFTs within Alien Worlds are:

The elements of the NFT that are recorded on-chain are:

NFTs in Alien Worlds are depicted as trading cards; these elements are described in the UI codebase.

Land is a series of NFTs in Alien Worlds which represent parcels of land on the Planets in Alien Worlds.

Land ownership is represented by ownership of the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) .

A land NFT defines modifiers that affect gameplay aspects such as: the time between mining calls, the amount of Trilium that the land generates per mine, and the probability that the user receives an NFT per mining call.

Different parcels of land may attract different values (ie Trilium value) based on desirability .

Planets have a finite amount of land on them at inception .

Land owners can set a commission (which is the % of Trilium mining rewards the landowner receives).

Unsold land is owned by the Federation until bought .

Mining on unsold land (ie still owned by the Federation) has a default commission of 20%.

This 20% commission is collected into The Land Fund which pays out to user upon the user opening a new Land pack .

This is to incentivize opening land packs rather than hoarding them, since land is required for game play.^[40]

Landowners will pay Trilium for upgrade items that modify various parameters of the Land.

One of the parameters it is possible to upgrade is the Land Rating.

A higher Land Rating yields more payout from the Daily Trilium Allocation to Landowners (DTAL).

The Land Rating of a Land NFT degrades over time and can be topped up for additional Trilium.

Every time a user mines a piece of land, a default 20% (configurable) percentage of the Trilium mining reward is paid to the land owner; this is called “commission”.

This commission accrues every time a user mines on a Land NFT irrespective of whether that Land NFT has been purchased by a landowner.

Prior to a Land Non-Fungible Token (NFT) being purchased and opened, it is held in an account open.worlds.

On Land pack opening, the Land NFT is transferred to the purchaser’s account and the 20% mining commission (Trilium) begins accruing into the purchaser’s account instead of the open.worlds account.

The Trilium accruing into the open.worlds account from mining on unopened land, goes into the Land Fund.

The Land Fund, when set to operational, pays out to users when they open a Land NFT as an incentive for purchasers of Land NFTs to open their Land packs rather than leaving them unopened.

The payout to an unboxing user from the Land Fund is a random percentage of all the Trilium in the Land Fund pot at that time, varying from 10% - 20% of the pot.

All assets except land have their asset IDs (‘mint number’) created at the point when the user opens the pack the asset is contained within.

Land NFTs have asset IDs that are already in place at the time the user opens the pack.

This is because all Land NFTs have been pre-minted’ because they exist on Planets, and have been distributed into the Land NFT packs for purchase by players.

Avatars are NFTs .

Avatars do not confer powers within the core game elements and are collectibles for aesthetic value.

Avatars offered by the Federation include: Greys, Reptiloids, Little Green Persons, Nordics, and Robotrons.

Tools are NFTs that explorers use to mine for Trilium on land .

Explorers may use up to 3 tools at a time.

Tool attributes include the time delay between mines , a weighted chance of receiving a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), proof of Work modifier and representation of how much of the available Trilium mining pot the tool can collect.

Tool NFTs produce different mining modification when used on different parcels of land .

Rarer and shinier Tools can have increased powers.

Weapons are NFTs that are used in the core fighting game and Potentially any other battling game in the Alien Worlds universe.

They have an attack rating and a defensive rating .

Rarer and shinier weapons can have increased powers.

Minions are the NFTs used in the fighting game.

They are eagerly awaiting the games in the Thunderdome.^[39] Their attributes are an attack rating, a defensive rating, and a move modifier that influences when the Minion can enter a contest or the amount of power needed to move or use the Minion.

Rarer and shinier Minions can have increased powers.

Artifacts are a diverse category of NFT that impact gameplay in a variety of ways. Affect explorer experience and can impact NFT stats. Artifacts as an NFT type do not exist yet and are scheduled for release subsequently. New artifacts may be introduced into the Alien Worlds ecosystem to change the meta dynamics and improve the explorer experience.

Assets are created (ie created on the blockchain and attributed to an account) at the point at which the user opens the pack within which the assets are contained.

The user opens a pack of NFTs by calling the on-chain action “open”.

When the user opens the pack, the NFTs in the packs are created (sometimes called “minted”).

Land NFTs have attributes used in the mining game.

Every item with the Alien Worlds Metaverse has a rarity level.

These levels are (in order of least scarce to most scarce):

All items received by explorers have a chance of having any of these levels of rarity, according to a prescribed probability.

Each NFT has a quality attribute that reflects its shininess.

The shininess levels are (in order of least shiny to most shiny):

More shiny cards often have more power than less shiny versions.

All NFTs begin as Stone, and can be upgraded by the user.

The user sends multiple NFTs and Trilium to a contract .

Contract sends back a new Non-Fungible Token (NFT) with higher shininess .

The Trilium is burned; therefore users ‘shining up’ their NFTs is deflationary.

The amount of Trilium required to be sent by the user in conjunction with the NFTs will be set so as to balance inflationary and deflationary dynamics .

There is no actual inflation in the Trilium supply, but 0.015% of the 5bn allocation retained for tokens is released each day to the Planets .

Explorers are users/players in Alien Worlds.

Explorers require a WAX account (which gives them enough to CPU to initiate gameplay).

Explorers have the choice to stake to a Planet (or more than one) or none at all .

They are onboarded through the WAX Cloud Wallet .

Explorers can set their own name (up to 18 characters).

New Explorers are given a starter ‘pack’ of containing the following basic avatar and a shovel.

To begin acquiring Trilium through gameplay only, explorers mine Trilium. New users will sign up for an account at https://all-access.wax.io/. They can also choose to be part of a DAC (ie stake their Trilium to a Planet account).

Each Planet is governed by a DAO .

Each Planet’s DAO Committee decides how to allocate its budget (ie its Planetary rewards) toward the following expenditures:

Each Planet is allotted a daily release of Trilium proportionate to the amount of Trilium staked by users to that Planet.

It takes two days to unstake from a Planet.

The mining game is a set of smart contracts available to Planets which they can offer to their explorers.

It allows explorers to mine for Trilium and NFTs on Land on a Planet.

Each time the explorer calls the mining action, the explorer receives a Trilium payout.

Additionally, sometimes, a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is paid out.

A fighting game will be offered to players.

A missions game is available on BSC whereby users can send spacecraft on missions of varying durations and receive an TLM and NFT reward.

The number of TLM offered as a reward for a given mission will depend on the number of other spacecraft going on the mission.

One NFT will be awarded per spacecraft per mission to a maximum of 5 NFTs per account per mission.

Mission durations will be 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months.

During this time the TLM fee is locked and inaccessible to the user.

An off-chain game element in which Minion NFTs can be sent to fight each other .

“Mana”, a variable describing the users’ power with deploying Minions, to be integrated into the game.