League Of Kingdoms, Aurory | Hidden Gems – Gaming and Metaverse
Review Date: June 27th, 2022
TOKEN METRICS WATCHLIST
We scored many projects this week, and these are 2 we think you should know about:
- League of Kingdoms
- Aurory
Please keep in mind that some of these projects have not yet been subjected to our code review process, but we want to call them out here for preliminarily catching our eye based on our fundamental analysis process.
League of Kingdoms (78%)
Website – Documentation – Blog
League of Kingdoms is one of the first blockchain MMO strategy games. Players can build kingdoms, farm resources, battle monsters, forge alliances, and compete with enemy kingdoms for land plots (NFTs), tokenized resources, and other in-game assets.
Why we like it
League of Kingdoms offers a Clash of Clans-style gaming experience, only with real-world assets. Users have the option to play single-player mode to build their own kingdom, PvE mode to farm resources and battle enemies, PvP mode to battle other players and take over their territories, and MMO mode to participate in alliance warfare against other factions of players. In addition, it is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store for mobile devices. So far, League of Kingdoms has seen 15,000 concurrent players, 80,000 daily active users, and over 400,000 monthly active users.
Investors
League of Kingdoms raised $3 million in one private funding round in December 2021. Notable investors include a16z, Sequoia Capital, Hashed, Binance Labs, BlockTower Capital, and Yield Guild Games.
Team
League of Kingdoms was created by NOD Games, a blockchain gaming studio founded in 2019. The team has notable experience from Electronic Arts (EA), Samsung, and LG Electronics.
Token Utility
League of Kingdoms features a dual-token model: $LOKA and $DST. $LOKA is the governance token used for staking, purchase of in-game items, and decision-making. $DST is the utility token with the main function of Drago breeding (in-game characters).
Where can you buy the token
Binance, KuCoin, Gate.io, Bitmart
Aurory (80%)
Website – Whitepaper – Blog
Aurory is a free-to-play, tactic-based Japanese role-playing game built on Solana. Players are able to choose between different game modes, single-player or two-player. Players follow the quests of Helios, a cat-like protagonist, and complete quests, converse with NPCs and defeat enemies to advance the plot. Defeated opponents will be earned as NFTs, which can later be used in multiplayer mode.
Why we like it
Play-to-earn games have skyrocketed in users over the past year. The biggest difficulty these games have seen is user retention. Aurory offers a roleplaying game with an interesting storyline, quests and objectives for players to complete, and earn NFTs / $AURY tokens as rewards. In addition, Aurory offers an in-game marketplace for NFT trading and purchasing assets using in-game resources. Aurory relies on Solana’s Serum DEX to facilitate this trading of assets. Users can even use their NFTs as collateral to borrow liquidity on the Serum DEX. Aurory has already seen substantial growth: over 150,000 NFTs have been minted, the largest IDO on Solana thus far, and over 3,000 daily active users.
Investors
Aurory raised an undisclosed amount of capital in two private funding rounds. Notable investors include Animoca Brands, Solana Labs, Sfermion, and CMS Holdings.
The Team
Aurory is a 53-person team. The platform was co-founded by Yann Penno and Paul Vadillo. The team includes experience from Atari, Ubisoft, EA, Warner Bros., Google, Gameloft, Spearhead Games, and Oneiric Tales.
Token Utility
$AURY is the native token of the platform. It is used for in-game rewards, staking, purchasing NFTs, and transaction fees.
Where can you buy the token
FTX, KuCoin, Huobi, Raydium
