Greetings to you @Gunit and the entire Astar community,
First of all, I would like to say that your questions, conclusions, and concerns are absolutely legitimate, and we appreciate your care for the Astar ecosystem.
As you mentioned, in the October last year, we added liquidity for Ceres and Demeter and also funded the Celer Bridge service to enable a bridge to the Astar network, giving the community the choice of whether to hold their tokens on Astar, Ethereum, or SORA. Unfortunately, until now, no liquidity has been locked on the Astar network. We had some contacts who were interested, but it didn’t materialize as we can see. We hope that in the future, new projects and investors will recognize the importance of using our DeFi services (token locker and liquidity locker) to enhance security and transparency. Our lockers are not a tools for every user on the network, it is intended for new projects to lock their liquidity and tokens so we think Zenlink, Arthswap and Astar should notify new projects about that.
DEO Arena has also been integrated into the Astar network, and according to our seasons leaderboards, it has been reasonably well received at the end of each season. The challenge with this game is that it is multiplayer, so if there are no players online on the other side at that moment, the game cannot be played. Developing a bot that can play on behalf of another player in such situations is one of the development priorities for the game. We also need to emphasize that the development of the game (and Ceres Tools as well) and the provision of part of the season rewards were funded by the SORA community, while integration with the Ethereum network and Astar network were done without any incentives, and our team financed the rewards for players on those networks. We had meeting with Vincent from Astar last week to see how we can improve the game and promote it together.
Our current plans regarding the Astar network include building the Ceres Launchpad and further developing the DEO Arena (on the SORA network, Astar network, and Ethereum) to prepare for the upcoming bull run, where we believe parachains, including the Astar network, will play a significant role.
The Ceres team has always been transparent and has built dApps based on community demand. We are certainly interested in continuing to build on the Astar network, just as we have been doing on SORA for years. The funds collected from Astar staking will undoubtedly be used for development on Astar, enabling us to have faster and higher-quality development. We are not a team funded by VCs or any other means; we are solely supported by tokens, fees, and grants, and we are extremely proud of the support from our community, which appreciates our work.
Thank you for feedback. I hope we answered your questions in the proper way.