The metaverse is no longer a foreign concept, but a possibility that many users actively seek and explore. A digital environment beyond the physical, where time flies faster despite the same intricacies of our world.
This is what Chainers is building – an ecosystem where its creators want to enable users to build, build, live and earn.
In this interview, Chainers CEO Matvey Dyadkov (who is also the CEO of the popular blockchain advertising network – Bitmedia), talks about how he got into the cryptocurrency industry, how he came up with the idea for Chainers, is it And what can users expect in the future.
How and when did you get into the cryptocurrency industry? How did you stumble upon NFT?
It all started 12 years ago when I worked as a developer on a crypto exchange platform. I was interested in everything that had to do with crypto, whereas for most of the people around, the space was like a one-trick pony with no future. At the time, bitcoin was hovering around $50, and few of us believed in the potential behind the blockchain.
Then I quit my job and went all-in to develop a crypto advertising platform. Marketing is my second favorite industry after blockchain, and so it was a no-brainer to combine the two. Think Google Ads but for crypto projects. Our start was not the smoothest, but through trials and tribulations, we began to gain traction and grow. A few years later, Bitmedia, our crypto advertising platform, was already serving billions of ads per month, giving new and established crypto projects the audience they deserved.
Between 2014 and 2018, the crypto space witnessed a growth that no one could have imagined. With this, technologies built on the blockchain also began to spring, enjoying the rapid growth that the space is known for. The end of the 10s is when non-fungible tokens (NFTs) popped up, and cryptopunks stole all the headlines, I knew I had to engage. This solicitation was based not on the evaluation of these new collections, but on the fact that one of our early days, a project called 8BitIcon, was largely about cryptopunks.
8Bitikon is a pixel avatar creator that has become extremely popular among those interested in 8bit-style art. At the time of peak growth, our community was over 1 million users, and as requested by most active members, we had no choice but to integrate NFT Mint. It is then that I began to examine NFTs in more detail and understand the true potential hidden behind the scenes. It was not a value-based interest, but the ecosystem that could be built and the use cases NFTs now allow us to implement.
That’s how the chainers came about. I wanted to create an ecosystem that was very similar to the real world. It should have its own economics, motivating the community to build, create, live and earn.
In your opinion, what is the best use case for NFTs?
We all know that NFTs do well when it comes to providing a level of authenticity to an asset. Every news outlet says this from morning till late evening. In my opinion, the beauty of NFTs comes in being able to allow digital assets to interact with each other, grow and be part of an expanding economy, infrastructure and world. I truly believe that the future of NFTs and their main feature is dynamic. It is this potential that opens up entirely new opportunities and applications.
Can you tell us more about Chainers.io? What is it and how does it work?
Chainers is an NFT-based metaverse designed to let the community be real creators and real gamers. We have taken this a step further and allowed users to create their own games and vote on the games they want us to integrate. Each Chainers NFT character must be treated as a real creature. They all have traits and can evolve, which in turn increases the value of the NFT and its abilities within the metaverse. Then, there are houses, cars, land plots and other items that users can either build or buy.
Plus, we didn’t want to make it all about the construction. There are other metaverses for that. We want our community to play games, earn rewards from our assets and interact with others, creating new economies within the Chainers virtual world.
Why did you choose Solana Network over Ethereum or other blockchains?
There are some good reasons why Solana is growing at such a rapid pace. Its in-depth and very detailed documentation is very helpful when developers start taking their first steps in building a Solana-based app. Secondly, it is as quick as a blockchain and powerful enough to take on a heavy fee transaction load. That’s exactly what we need with Chainers, when millions of people are interacting with each other at the same time.
Do you think we’ve moved beyond the PFP meta, and how do Chainers add additional value to holders?
PFP is just one of a million other ways we can use NFTs, and the more use cases we find for NFTs, the better. As for the price increase of Chainers and Chainers NFTs, I consider it the cherry on the cake of the virtual world we have created. Each Chainers NFT begins its life with the characteristics that are mixed in it at the time of casting. The fun begins when users develop their NFTs by either playing games, building assets in the Chainers metaverse, or participating in events. With this, and just like in the real world, Chainers NFT characters increase their value and value.
Our main goal was to make our virtual world as life-like as possible. We go to school, finish university and start work. We evolve, and a similar evolution has been brought to the Chainers metaverse. Only in the case of our virtual world, time flies very fast, and NFT spirits evolve and have a chance to earn much faster.
Can you tell us what the Chainers community can expect in the near term? What are your plans for the near future?
We have started whitelisting our community members for the first NFT pre-sale. After the pre-sale is complete, we’ll start letting people into the metaverse. We’ve been testing the gameplay extensively for the past year, but this first influx of users will help us eliminate whatever we’ve missed. Overall, we expect the flood gates to open in the third quarter of 2022, and as they say, the world will never be the same again!
What are you most excited about, Cheners?
I can’t wait to see what the creators and our community, in general, will bring to the Chainers metaverse. Considering that they can decide on new game integrations, build homes, design bikes, cars and even furniture, I look forward to seeing what happens to the Metaverse. What will happen. How will people interact with others, and what development paths will they choose for their NFT characters? These are just some of the variables we’ve created, and the future of Chainers is down to the community.
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