We, users of SmartBCH, are probably already aware that there’s not much exposure of the sidechain in the mainstream yet. Regardless of it still being new and young, we cannot rule out the fact that it is indeed still lacking in people and support.
There are a couple of cool projects on the sidechain but only a few people know about it, particularly this project called NFT Club that includes “gamification” in their ecosystem. If you don’t know what gamification is, it is the adding of game elements on non-game products or services. Sounds unique? (Probably not much if you’ve been long, especially, on Ethereum and BSC).
I thought that this project needs a bit of light, thus here I am, to talk with you about NFT Club and its utilities. I’ve been working on this article since the end of May. I've delayed it until now because I am waiting for the launch of their NFT leveling feature. I am glad I can finally post it. Anyway, let’s get started.
The contents of this article may be subjected to change under certain conditions that might occur such as the following: new updates, additional information, a mistake in relaying facts, typographical errors, grammar modifications etc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
>What Is NFT Club
*Pixel Guy Club NFT
*Shorai NFT
*Kensho NFT and Exclusive Kensho NFT
*How and where to buy PGC/Shorai/Kensho NFT?
>What is NFTC Token - NFT Club’s Official Token
*How to Buy/Sell NFTC?
>What is NFT Club - Staking
*How to stake your NFTs?
>NFT Club - Gamification
*Leveling System and EXP Token
*How to acquire EXP token and level up your NFTs?
*What are PANDAZ
*What is NFT Vault Farming
*What are Chests
*What are Elixir
*What is NFT Graveyard
*What are Booster Packs
>What is NFT Club - Lottery
>What is NFT Club - Casino Platform
*Getting to know the NFT Club Casino Platform
*How to play at NFT Club Casino?
>What is NFT Club - InHouse Marketplace (Not Yet Released)
NFT Club is a project that resides on smartBCH, an EVM and Web3 compatible sidechain of Bitcoin Cash. NFT Club is dedicated to building quality standard NFT series with high value and a roof for talented NFT artists.
The project was pre-launched back in early February, 2022 and officially started the minting of their first NFT Collection, Pixel Guy Club, a few weeks after.
NFT Club has, since launching, been constantly delivering new use cases, features and developments that will eventually add value to the whole ecosystem of the project. They now have a total of 3 NFT Collections – Pixel Guy Club, Shorai, Kensho – which all have been successfully minted.
Pixel Guy Club NFT Collection
Pixel Guy Club (PGC) is the first and cheapest NFT collection among the three. As the name implies, the collection is composed of kawaii pixel artworks made by the founder himself, @Phil_2_4, with 10,000 total supply.
This particular series was minted for 0.01 BCH for the first 2,500 pieces, the rest were minted for 0.015 BCH. Each of the Pixel Guys are stakeable and can give you a passive income, the same with the other series.
There are only 16 pieces “specials” in this series, these 16 specials possess high rarity score which means a higher power in staking (more info below) and will give you more room in leveling in the future (though, of course, not better than Shorai and Kensho).
(Video credits to NFT Club)
PGC Contract: 0xC995199DC53922caCE4f6ac14A476eF8c9429387
Shorai (SHO) is the second NFT collection that was released by NFT Club with 10,000 pieces. This particular gorgeous collection is an all-female character with futuristic design and a dystopian era feel to it.
The series have 4 total skins; Water, Psych, Fire, Earth. The 11 specials in the collection, however, have a “none” skin trait and each of them has a fire background.
Shorai was launched in the market back at the end of February, each piece was minted for 0.04 BCH and is stakeable.
Kensho (KEN) is the latest high quality and current most expensive NFT collection from NFT Club that made its big wave back in mid-April. The collection comprises 12,000 top notch Azuki NFT-inspired avatars with different traits and classes.
Kensho were minted in two different tokens, in BCH and NFTC token (governance token of NFT Club’s ecosystem). 2,000 Kensho were minted for 850 NFTC and the rest 10,000 pieces were minted for 0.05 BCH. There are 18 specials in this collection and of course, the whole collection is stakeable as well.
On the other hand, an exclusive 240 pieces Kensho collection was presented for the community after the successful minting of the whole Kensho series. They were free NFTs – except you pay for the transaction fee – you get a chance to mint one for every 50 Kensho that you minted.
Currently, NFTs from NFT Club are being traded on Oasis NFT Marketplace, the first NFT Marketplace/Explorer/Wallet on SmartBCH Chain. Here’s the following steps on how to sell or buy PGC/Shorai/Kensho NFTs:
If you are new to SmartBCH, the first thing to do is setting up your wallet and depositing your desired amount of BCH tokens in there. You can use Metamask.
Go to oasis.cash and make sure you connect your wallet. Tap on the “Wallet” and “Connect To Metamask”.
If you are buying, go to the designated link that I have provided up there or find the collection on the marketplace instead.
a.) Scroll down and choose the NFT you want to buy. Simply tap on the NFT and click the “Buy” button. Metamask will ask you to confirm the transaction, simply confirm it and wait for it to process then done, you finally have your first NFT on SmartBCH.
If you are selling, click “Open Wallet” and find the collection you want to sell.
a.) Click the NFT and the sell button. You will have to approve the collection first and pay for a little bit of transaction fee.
b.) A new window will show after the transaction goes through, put on the value of BCH token you want it to sell, the type of Auction you want and the duration of your listing.
There are 3 types of Auctions in Oasis: English Auction (Price goes up as people bid. Last bidder gets the NFT after the time runs out), Dutch Auction (Price goes down as the time you set runs out and until there’s no buyer/bidder yet) and Fixed Price. You can choose any of them.
Click on “List Asset” and confirm, then pay it by confirming it as well with your Metamask. Done.
NFTC is a SEP20 token with a fixed supply of 36M. The team pre-minted 2,144,082 $NFTC and held a presale in mid-March at $0.01144 per token. 100% of the presale funds and 25% of the funds from the Kensho mint were put into the token liquidity pool. The token made its official launch in early April at Mistswap DEX with an initial price of $0.013.
NFTC token is an integral part of the project, it is the utility token that enables the holders/users to participate in the gamification of the NFT Club ecosystem.
Trading is already a given, aside from that, NFTC was used for minting NFTs (only on Kensho for now) also as the reward token in NFT Staking and a currency needed for upgrading your NFTs. You can have NFTC either by buying it on a DEX, winning it on the casino games or lottery or by earning it from NFT staking, which is I think the best way between the four options. As of now, there are only over 3,300,000 NFTC in circulation. It’s extremely scarce as most of the tokens are only being issued whenever someone harvested their gained rewards in NFT staking.
Go and click any of the links above to direct you to Mistswap DEX or SmartSwap. Connect your wallet and trade your BCH for NFTC tokens. Just type the amount you want to spend, click on swap, and approve the transaction on your wallet.
Also make sure you click "Add NFTC to Metamask" so you can see your token balance after the transaction has been confirmed. If you haven't, import this contract: 0x8dd87b3f50bE9C6Ac5EC08458803843F0D294B3d manually on your wallet.
A Screenshot of the Staking PlatformA Screenshot of the Staking Platform
NFT Club offers an NFT staking use case and utility to all of its NFT series. It’s where you allow your NFT to sit in a contract and wait for it to accumulate rewards (in NFTC token). By staking, you don’t only utilize your NFTS to earn NFTC token rewards but also make the supply more scarce as you are actually locking them away from the market.
How to stake your NFTs?
(I won't be providing screenshots as visual illustrations for Staking because the team will soon update their website design.)
To start staking, navigate to NFT Club’s staking website using your wallet’s dApp or on your browser directly with a wallet extension like Metamask or Brave Wallet.
Click on login and connect your wallet.
-Might as well click on the “Add NFTC” if you haven’t imported the token on your wallet yet.
After connecting your wallet on the platform it should show your wallet address, click that and it will show you another option. Choose the NFT series you owned or you want to stake.
Click on approve contract, approving will cost you a few cents for the transaction fee so take note that you need to have enough extra BCH for the gas fees.
- Also remember that any unused gas fees are reverted back to your wallet so don't worry about the cost Metamask will show you whether it's approving, harvesting, staking and unstaking cause it will be less than, you can check the transaction to see what how much fees was really used.
After the transaction goes through, you will be able to see your NFTs and their staking power. Click the "Show Staking", you can manually select the NFTs you want to stake or just "Select All" for more convenience.
Then click on "Stake" beside the "Clear Selection" button. That should trigger yet another transaction, you need to approve and wait for it to be confirmed then voila! You're now earning passive rewards.
- It’s only possible to unstake or stake up to 30 NFTs in one transaction. For example you have a total of 50 NFTs, if you pressed "Select All" and “Stake” only 30 pieces of them will be staked at once so for you to stake the other 20, you need to press to do it one more time.
-Unstaking is removing your NFTs from being staked and making it available again for trading.
-Click the harvest button if you want to claim your accumulated NFTC token rewards.
-You can also see on the Filter button the total number of NFTs you have on that particular collection and see how many are Staked and Unstaked.
You might notice that I’ve been mentioning rarity, power, NFT leveling or upgrading. It’s because the rarity of your NFTs are very crucial to staking. Each of the NFTs from the certain collection are ranked from top to bottom, specials are all equally ranked and are the rarest in the collection. The rarer the NFT you hold the higher its rarity score, meaning the more it is valuable, and the higher its staking power.
Staking power depicts how much you can earn in the staking, more staking power = more token rewards. On the other hand though, your earnings will decrease after more people stake or when they increase their staking power as well. Thus, there’s a leveling system.
With the leveling system, you can level up your NFTs whether it's Kensho, Shorai or PGC with the NFTC token you purchased or accumulated that will be used to buy EXP that is needed for upgrading them.
EXP Tokens
EXP tokens are the currency you need to be able to level up your NFTs. EXP tokens can only be acquired by purchasing it with NFTC token or by moving your NFT to the graveyard. It increases the rarity score of your NFT thus it makes your power higher in staking as well as your earning rate that will result in a higher harvests/rewards. EXP is a stable coin, meaning its value isn't volatile like NFTC and other cryptocurrency. However, unlike NFTC, EXP tokens aren’t tradeable and cannot be used outside NFT Club’s protocol.
How to acquire EXP token and level up your NFTs?
(I won't be providing screenshots as a sample guide for leveling because there will be an update in the website design soon.)
Proceed to the NFT Club staking website, do not forget to connect your wallet.
Find the EXP token shop, enter the amount of EXP tokens you want to acquire (1 EXP minimum) and pay it with your NFTC tokens, and confirm the transactions.
Scroll down a bit to approve the leveler contract, it will cost you a bit but probably it’s not even worth a cent.
After successfully buying your EXP tokens, go to the collection you want to level up or upgrade.
To level up, you have to either manually select the NFTs you want to upgrade or just use the select all button. Then click Upgrade it will show you how much you need to spend in EXP tokens. Just confirm the transaction then you’ll see your NFT’s staking power increased greatly after.
a.) Use the slider or manually input the number to upgrade your NFT to certain levels, for example, from level 15 to level 20.
b.) You can also control or increase the percentage of your NFT for it to reach the next level.
-Not every NFT starts on level 1, their default level depends on their rarity. The maximum level is 100.
- You can check under the ID number of your NFT to see how much power is added to your NFT when you move the sliders, it's the one with the lightning/charge symbol. Or just use the NFT Lookup tool or the search button to see a certain NFT's current level, staking power and check how much EXP it will need to level up. You can use it to look for NFTs you own or not.
-Just input the ID number of the NFT you want to see, choose the NFT Collection by clicking the button beside "Sorting" then click "Add NFT".
-Your NFT gets a 42% bonus power increase every level your NFT surpasses. Plus additional bonuses of 5% increase for reaching level 25, 10% for reaching level 50, 15% for reaching level 75, and 20% for reaching level 100.
-Some NFTs only require 1 EXP, which costs 0.1 NFTC, to upgrade to the next level at first.
PANDAZ (Not Yet Released)
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Based on the litepaper, Pandaz is an NFT Collection particularly for the Kensho series. You can design them by changing their garments and can be put on the shoulder of a Kensho. Each Panda will give a boost in your staking power. It can also be upgraded except for it's traits.
More details to be added when available.
NFT Vault Farming (Not yet released)
On the litepaper, NFT Club will be having an NFT Vault where users, us, can lock using our NFTC tokens and EXP tokens and have NFTs as the farm reward. It's pretty new to SmartBCH but is already the trend and outside the sidechain.
It is somewhat similar to token staking or yield farming where you get tokens like NFTC, TANGO, or MIST token rather than NFTs. It is a a one-of-a-kind concept that gives a unique use case for NFTs in this case, the Kensho, PGC and Shorai.
It is said that the longer the period we lock them the higher the chance we get to generate a rare NFT.
More details to be added when available.
Chests (Not Yet Released)
It is said that Chests are purchasable and contain NFTs that don't exist in the upcoming NFT Vault Farming.
More details to be added when available.
Elixir (Not Yet Released)
First and foremost, have you heard of an Elixir before? Elixir are substances that hold magical power to heal, become immortal etc. They are usually mentioned in movies or comics with magical themes or in fantasy games, like an in-game item.
In NFT Club, Elixir are potions that are used for the NFTs. There hasn't been a reveal of its exact use or effect in an NFT but they are surely not actual potions we drink but NFTs that could also be traded just like an ordinary NFTs.
There will be a laboratory where you can mix two elixirs to have a stronger elixir with better value as a result, it will be called Elixir Alchemy Lab. The laboratory can only be accessed if you have an NFT at level 17.
The ability of an elixir to increase the staking power for; a certain limited time, certain collections, certain classes, or permanently is randomly generated.
More details to be added when available.
NFT Graveyard (Not Yet Released)
It’s like burning or more like hiding your NFTs, another way of making them scarce and rare in the market. You get rewards, in EXP tokens, by moving your NFTs or sending them to the “graveyard”.
It is said that the NFT/s you sent will be removed from the Graveyard after a 3 months period and can be put back in circulation using a chest or a revival elixir. It will go back to the NFT Club ecosystem if it is not and can only be acquired through events or by opening chests/booster packs.
More details to be added if available.
Booster Pack (Not Yet Released)
There's not much info regarding Booster Pack yet. On NFT Club's litepaper, it is implied that by using Booster Pack, one will be able to get new limited edition NFTs quite similar to their upcoming Chests.
Another use case of NFTC token is playing the lottery game. It was said that the game is already working and can already be played. I actually bought 1 or 2 tickets when the link for it was provided to us.
It's easy to play, you just need to connect your wallet and wait for the time you can buy a ticket. Click on buy and pay it with your NFTC tokens of course, you have to pay for the transaction fee as well with your BCH.
You can actually play it for only 1 NFTC and you only need to match 2 numbers in exact order as the 4 winning numbers to win a prize . It's just that you there's no way at the moment to see your ticket numbers but if you ever won, you can just claim your winnings.
Do take note that the website hasn't enabled HTTPS yet so your browser might show it as a "Not Secure" website. It's pretty common occurrences in websites with no SSL certificates, it doesn't mean that all websites are a scam or not legit. Its just that having HTTPS in a URL adds protection and security. The team stated that they will soon enabled it, for now it seems they are pretty much working hard in the background for other upcoming utilities.
Online casinos are the new trend in the gambling world in modern times but crypto casinos are the new favorite in the industry, probably, because it is much easier to deposit and withdraw funds and with the technology called Blockchain, makes it more tamper proof, better in security and more fair.
NFT Club just officially introduced their own casino platform this late-March 2022 and currently have a total of 9 enjoyable games, consisting of American Roulette, Crypto Prediction game, 3 types of Slots (Animal Slots, PGC Slots, Shorai Slots, Kensho Slots), and 3 types of Card Games (Baccarat, Blackjack, Casino Hold’em).
NFT Club Casino uses a provably fair algorithm, the public can verify the process of randomization and fairness of the game. It is totally transparent as you can access the game hash for you to check or verify that the game outcome was not tampered or altered. By having provably fair games, there's no need for a third-party or the authorities to audit or authenticate the casino.
At the moment, you can deposit 6 different kinds of crypto tokens such BCH (mainnet), BCH (smartBCH), NFTC token, LAW token, CashCat token, and EBEN token. And withdraw in BCH (smartBCH) or NFTC token.
Getting to know the NFT Club Casino Platform
1. First, you need to register or create an account on their platform. It may be a turn down to some but the platform requires you an email and password to prevent bots, spam and people from abusing or cheating.
a.) Click on sign up.
b.) Fill in your desired name.
c.) Your email that you want to use and password.
d.) Accept their Terms of Use and Privacy Policy by clicking on the check box.
e.) Complete the captcha or verify that you are not a robot then click on Register.
2. Make sure to verify your email address first, though you can already access the site even not just for added security. Upon signing up, you will receive free 1000 credits plus another 50 for having your email verified. Credits is the currency used in the Casino for playing, you can only withdraw your winnings or deposits though.
3. On this side, you can click on the unknown avatar. It will show other options like your profile settings, security settings and the referral or affiliation tab.
a.) Profile settings is where you can change your name and add a profile photo and it’s where the option for hiding your profits is located too. It is where you can check the "Player Stats" or your game statistics/data.
b.) You can change your account password under security settings as well set up a two-factor authentication (it’s for adding more security on your account).
c.) The last option is where your referral link is located and where you can check or track your referrals. You can earn commissions by referring or inviting people using your unique link, you earn credits when they sign up and play or deposit on the platform. Referrals are divided into 3-tiers, meaning you also get a portion from the invites (2nd-tier) of the people you invited (1st-tier) and the people that were invited (3rd-tier) by the 2nd-tiers.
4. The platform also has a chat function, this is where it is located:
There are currently 3 chat rooms – Main Chat, SmartBCH Zone, Solana Zone – you can see them when you press the drop down button which is shaped like a cone. Beside it is where you can see as well the number of people who are currently online aside from the online indicator on the upper part of the website.
5. This settings option is where you can disable the game feed and the sound. Game feed will show you notifications from play results if turned on.
You might notice that I'm using a different account here, it's because I took screenshots of the other one months ago and I already forgot my password as well my email password. I shouldn't have censored the screenshot for my casino account lol.You might notice that I'm using a different account here, it's because I took screenshots of the other one months ago and I already forgot my password as well my email password. I shouldn't have censored the screenshot for my casino account lol.6. This option is where you can make deposits, withdraw, see your account transaction history and claim from the faucet.
a.) On Transactions is where you can see the history of every incoming or outgoing credits on your account.
You might notice that I'm using a different account here, it's because I took screenshots of the other one months ago and I already forgot the password as well my email password. I shouldn't have censored the screenshot for my casino account lol.You might notice that I'm using a different account here, it's because I took screenshots of the other one months ago and I already forgot the password as well my email password. I shouldn't have censored the screenshot for my casino account lol.
b.) Go to Deposits if you, obviously, want to make a deposit. Currently, the Casino is supporting 4 types of token – Bitcoin Cash (Mainnet), Bitcoin Cash (smartBCH), NFTC token (NFT Club’s official token) and Banana token (Gambling Apes official token).
-The platform supports web3 wallet, you need to connect your wallet after choosing the token you want to deposit. After connecting it will automatically read your wallet address, confirm it by signing with your wallet.
-There is a 100 credits minimum amount in depositing. Put the exact amount of credits you want to have and it will show you how much in the certain token you will need to spend.
-Click on Proceed, pay and confirm the transaction. Regardless of the token you use to make a deposit, any of them will automatically be converted into credits.
c.) For withdrawals, there are only two options of tokens which are Bitcoin Cash (smartBCH) and NFTC token. 500 credits is the minimum.
-Withdrawing is not that complex as well, just put on the amount of credits you want to withdraw and paste your wallet address then submit and confirm.
d.) Regarding the Faucet, the Casino supports a credit faucet where you can claim 100 credits for free every 48 hours. Basically, anyone can try playing even without spending a cent added that you also receive a thousand bonus credits upon creating a new account.
7. On the left part of the platform where sits the Navigation or Menu part. There you can access the different games like Baccarat, the Slots games and the Crypto Prediction game or just scroll down in the Main/Home Page, the Leaderboard and the History section.
a.) It is where the Leaderboard section is placed as well, you can see the player rankingsin there.
-Did you know, you can see other players or account’s playing stats by clicking on their name. You will be able to see how much they have won, how many bets they did and such, thus, there’s a “Hide Profit” option available.
b.) The History section is where you can see how many bets, wins, losses and gains you get from the particular games. You can also see what are the recent plays, wins/losses history of the players in the entire Casino, verify the game server secret/seed/hash, and actually view the result of the game like their winning card or numbers, their game score (that’s how transparent and fair a blockchain-based casino).
How to play at NFT Club Casino?
Each game in the Casino has an instruction available on how the game works. Click the green color button with a card icon, it will show you two options: the button with the check icon is for the seed and hash that you can generate yourself and the other one with the iicon is the How to Play botton.
An InHouse Marketplace will be offered too by NFT Club as part of their roadmap.
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A launchpad is a platform where your project can be hosted, gain exposure and raise capital, giving your investors an early access benefit. A launchpad helps and provide tools, resources as well promotional support for a project.
Based on the NFT Club litepaper, they will release a launchpad feature after completing their NFT Marketplace. It was not mentioned if the launchpad allows both NFT and Token projects or if it's specifically for NFT projects.
More details to be added when available.
Thanks for reading :)
Disclaimer: All materials, info used credits to NFT Club. The cover/banner and even the illustrations for Shorai and Kensho were made by me with materials produced by NFT Club.
It's a pretty big trend and the best of all is that it's fairly new.