Introduction to ESUNA
Esuna is the first trading card game built entirely on Tendermint. It has been in development for over a year and has gone through countless redesigns.
Inspired by the fantastic Splinterlands, we’ve attempted to develop the concept to allow for more strategic depth, freedom and of course feeless transactions.
The native token is ESUNA, the backbone of the project. Users will also be able to lock up ESUNA to earn the secondary utility token; MYTHRIL — more on that later.
There will be thresholds based on total ESUNA held by a user that will provide boosts to various elements of the game. It has to be stressed that simply having more ESUNA than another user will not significantly correlate to success. We have spent a long time ensuring that ESUNA will not be a pay-to-win project. The boosts provided by owning ESUNA are small and primarily luck based — such as slightly increasing pack drop rates etc.
You are not able to buy card packs with ESUNA, nor can you buy individual cards or items. The primary purpose is for staking and governance.
ESUNA Distribution
There is an initial supply of 100,000 ESUNA. Distribution is as follows:
Airdrops (25,000 ESUNA)
There will be two airdrops prior to main launch.
Two snapshots, one of which occurred on 3/20/22 00:00:00 UTC and the other was taken on 3/25/22 00:00:00 UTC. The first snapshot was made prior to the public announcement of the airdrop and had a significantly larger reward pool of 20,000 ESUNA. The second was announced two days before the snapshot with a smaller pool of 5,000 ESUNA.
Our reasoning behind the pool amounts was simple; reward those who were already part of the ecosystem, but also reward newcomers. We believe airdrops to be a fantastic way to grow the greater community.
The requirements to receive the airdrops was the same for both:
- 10 ATOM (staked/LP)
- 20 OSMO (staked/LP)
- 10 JUNO (staked/LP)
- 0.2 NETA (held/LP)
- 50 SECRET (staked/LP)
- 200 STARS (staked/LP)
As a supporter of the NETA project, we also rewarded a bonus to those who held 0.2 NETA during either snapshot. The bonus will be a founders NFT pack on main launch. We anticipate the value of this pack to be significant (higher rarity on average) and a deserved reward for those who saw potential in NETA from the early stages.
We will also release an additional pack to those in the NETA ‘devotio club’. These are users who provided liquidity within the first 48 hours of NETA’s launch.
Incentives/Rewards (20,000 ESUNA)
A fund of 20,000 ESUNA will be put in a reward pool, distributed via in-game events and tournaments. During the launch week we will also challenges that users can complete to earn bonus ESUNA. More information on this at a later date.
Liquidity Providers (20,000 ESUNA)
We plan to greatly reward those who provide liquidity on both Osmosis and Junoswap. More information on this at a later date.
Foundation (15,000 ESUNA)
This fund is for the project team to allow for further development and expansion. We’ll go deeper into the team behind Esuna at later date.
Community Pool (20,000 ESUNA)
A fund of 20,000 ESUNA will be controlled by governance, allowing the community to have control over the direction of Esuna.
MYTHRIL — The utility of ESUNA.
MYTHRIL will be the primary ‘currency’ of Esuna. Almost every function will utilize MYTHRIL, be it combining cards, purchasing cards from others, buying items or dungeon crawling.
There will be an initial supply of 1,700,000 MYTRHIL. The entire supply is reserved for the community, allowing for staking rewards, sales, card dusting (destroying cards for MYTHRIL) and dungeon rewards.
As previously mentioned, MYTHRIL can be earned by locking ESUNA. The amount earned will be based on many factors but the primary adjustment is based on lock duration. Rewards are distributed hourly.
More details on staking returns coming in a later post.
