Thanks for the feedback and support everyone!
Similarly to our strategy with onboarding merchants, instead of talking to merchants / games one by one, we work with aggregators or mass enablers to roll out adoption faster. For games, we are working with a partner focusing on crypto-enabled tournaments on MMO games. They use Overwolf, a gaming overlay toolkit already connected previously mentioned game titles. If you’ve played League before, you may be familiar with op.gg, porofessor, mobalytics, etc - these systems use Overwolf.
This enables us to tap into the gaming audience of those titles, providing better redemption opportunities for players.
We will be announcing specifics on this partnership quite soon.
We are really grateful for the UCG program and the overwhelming support we’ve received, and although we’ve had to change our 3 month outline, I think the progress we’ve made is more impactful than our original goals.
Although we would like to continue, I have some questions about the UCG program since the changes of staking v3.
We applied for UCG during dapp staking v2, and during it dapp staking v3 was activated. This changed the staking rewards we calculated from UCG significantly, we are earning less than 1/3 of v2 calculations.
Furthermore and more importantly, with the current system it seems that whether we get the UCG delegation or not, the staking income doesn’t change for us as we will still be in T4 tier. If the grant doesn’t change the staking income, it may be better to not reapply until the UCG program is changed, so we don’t lock up 2M of treasury ASTR without result.
It may be better for us to understand the future of UCG program before continuing. In any case, we will still be updating our progress in this thread.