Satoshi meets CryptoBlades: An Interview with Philip Devine and Nick Newcomer

10 min readNov 9, 2021

CryptoBladers, today we have a special treat for you! We were guests in the Satoshi AMA on the 5th of November. In this Recap, we will summarise the top questions asked by you.

After a short and welcoming hello and a presentation of the core team they jump right into the first questions by Satoshi.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Thanks for a great introduction, we have several questions which were selected for the 1st part. Ready to start?

Q1 from Telegram User @Ajpaa

Reading about the CryptoBlades project I noticed that you highlighted the release of V2.0 which will integrate features like Custom marketplace, Seasonal rewards, and Cross-chain Bridge… How will the custom marketplace work and what are its unique features? How will the seasonal rewards be deployed and what are the requirements to be eligible for these rewards? What are your plans for the Cross-chain Bridge? When should we be expecting this V2.0?

Philip Devine:

The marketplace has been developed already and is one of the most heavily transacted marketplaces in the world with over 1,000,000 NFTs sold. The NFT and Token Bridges are both in active development, with our initial Token bridge working on WAX and BSC, and with our SKILL token is available on Polygon, Heco, OkexChain, and BSC. Our proprietary NFT bridge will bring our unique gaming NFTs to all of the above chains.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Wow! these are really great achievements👏👏👏

Nick | CryptoBlades:

Something that I am particularly excited about is our new marketplace. We are developing a program to help younger projects grow and support established projects. A part of this partnership will be to offer their tokens as rewards in CryptoBlades, which will increase token holders. We will also list their NFTs directly on our marketplace for users to spend their tokens.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Please give us a link to your Marketplace

Philip Devine:

https://app.cryptoblades.io/#/market

Something very cool right now is under the “Skill Shop” tab, users can purchase Lands for the upcoming CryptoBlades: Kingdoms using either SKILL or KING.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

It looks great🔥

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

What’s your favorite feature? 😁

Nick | CryptoBlades:

I find myself taking a look at the “Browse NFTs” tab longer than I would like to admit searching for swords that I feel are being sold under their value.

Philip Devine:

Raids are a really unique feature that acts as an NFT lottery in a way, where players stake their NFTs and can win multiple kinds of rare NFTs just for staking. These NFTs can be traded with other players, utilized as power-ups in the future, and even drop the ultra-powerful 5-star CryptoBlades, which offer the most play-to-earn rewards

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

And it’s very tempting 🤩🤩🤩

Thanks for the great answers, let’s go with the second question, or do you want to add something else?

Nick | CryptoBlades:

I was just going to add on to what Philip mentioned. Overall, I think raids are really fun within CryptoBlades, but I’m really looking forward to some features that are on the horizon.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Absolutely agree with you😊⚔️😊

As a gamer, definitely I have to play it 😁

Q2 from Telegram User @JesusFre1tes

Your game model allows me to create powerful NFT weapons and characters to defeat my enemies or trade them in your exclusive marketplace. This is really cool, but we have seen experiences from other projects where the overproduction of NFT leads to a devaluation and depreciation of them. My question is, how will CryptoBlades control this? What methods will they use to keep NFT production from outstripping demand? As with other tokens, will these NFTs have a certain shelf life that allows them to be burned in the short or long term?

Philip [Will Not DM First]:

We have a unique NFT Burning system where you can combine the power of NFTs to upgrade them into one massively powerful NFT. We also are implementing Character Burning which will act in the same way to make a single character more powerful, which also, in turn, reduces the gas required to play the game. Finally, the utility is in their play-to-earn potential as well as interoperability with our metaverse, and other partnered metaverses.

Nick | CryptoBlades:

This is a really great question. One thing that is active right now is the ability to make “dust”. And dust is really cool because it is created by taking weapon NFTs and burning them. You can then use the dust to increase the power of one of your other swords.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Oh yeah… The Metaverse is a crypto trend today. And I love that you did it before it was mainstream.😁

Nick | CryptoBlades:

Yes! Interoperability is a huge push right now for our team. How can we increase the utility and value of our NFTs not only within CryptoBlades but within other partnered projects as well? This is very exciting for us.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Talking about burning, have you any deflationary strategy for your supply of tokens? Burning token event for example

Philip [Will Not DM First]:

Our token does not have burn events, and instead, we recycle them into our rewards pool. So 100% of the income we make in SKILL goes back to our rewards pool!

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Great system.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Another great reason to invest in $KING 😎

Q3 from Telegram User @Cheriemike

On your website, you only have the numbers of those CrytoBlades has partnerships with, which is 16 partnerships. So can we get to know those you have collaborated with to enhance the growth of your project? So far how have they supported your project in terms of becoming the best amongst other platforms? What skills/techniques have they all brought to your platform to make it an enjoyable one for users? I also noticed you had a partnership with Chainlink, knowing that Chainlink is an oracle network. What role will they play on your platform? Are you also in talks to have more partnerships? Please Explain Thanks

Philip Devine:

We have a variety of partners that assist us in:

Advisory and strategy

Marketing support and user acquisition

Play-To-Earn strategy

Networking and Business Development

Technology and Infrastructure support

Funding for large projects such as our Metaverse

All of which came together to help us launch 2 tokens successfully, continue innovating in the blockchain gaming and metaverse space, and drive a healthy community to our project. And there’s more to come!

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Could you tell us about the main use cases of those tokens?

Nick | CryptoBlades:

We might only have 16 partners listed, but I feel like we have been connected with at least a hundred different groups. Some of our close partners we meet with about weekly to discuss strategy and marketing. We also bounce ideas off of each other. Many times too, different partners are working with projects and they make an introduction. If it is a good fit, which most of the time it is, we work out some type of collaboration. Our partners are invaluable to us and we are incredibly lucky to be connected with such amazing people.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Congratulations, partnerships make projects become stronger, and we are happy to be part of your marketing partners, it is a great honor for our community.💪

Philip Devine:

KING is the native token that drives our Metaverse offerings while SKILL drives the CryptoBlades ecosystem and services we offer there. SKILL is specifically used for purchasing NFTs, participating in our Marketplace, buying power-ups and cosmetics, and upgrading NFTS. KING is collected from resources within our metaverse and is used to reward players in CryptoBlades Kingdoms

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Thanks for the clarification!

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Thanks for clarifying😊 let’s proceed to the next question if you don’t mind🚀

Q4 from Telegram User @kimzyemma

In the gameplay, you stated the four different elements which are FIRE, EARTH, LIGHTNING, and WATER. Going through the functions of these elements I found out that they also possess two different types which explanations about them are not given, can you enlighten us more about the functions of each element? Can users choose their favorite elements or element of the character that will be assigned at random? Before entering combat, how can we mint weapons?

Philip Devine:

Weapons are minted in the Blacksmith after you Recruit your first character from the Plaza. The elements synergize so an EARTH weapon will synergize with an EARTH character and be more effective against LIGHTNING monsters, but weak against FIRE enemies. The idea is to collect a powerful CryptoBlade with the same trait as your character to double up the bonuses.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Could you share images of the live game? Let us check those amazing graphics😃

Nick | CryptoBlades:

There are 4 different elements for both characters and weapons. Weapons, however, have an unaligned option too. Within the game, there is a system where if you fight with a water character and a water weapon, there is an advantage over a fire enemy.

Fire < Water < Lightning < Land <Fire

You are able to create a new character that is a random element, but what I would suggest doing is taking a look at the marketplace and picking up a character that has already been leveled up a little bit, and find 4 that are all the same element. When crafting a new blade it is typically random, but there is an option to select your desired element for a little extra. Again, I would suggest taking a look through the market at listed weapons too.

Philip Devine:

Here is my personal inventory of blades, highlighting my 5-star blades:

Nick | CryptoBlades:

Here is the current raid that is taking place as well as the Skill Shop within our market.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Amazing designs, would be great to have a physical version of them for collectors.

Philip Devine:

And while CryptoBlades Kingdoms is in development, you can also see concepts here at cryptobladeskingdoms.io

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Excellent system and playability, congratulations for your team, you have everything well planned👏

Nick | CryptoBlades:

That is an interesting idea. It would be cool to offer in the future as part of a limited collection or something.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

What is the inspiration behind the designs? Maybe World of Warcraft or age of empires?

Completely agree, I think physical NFTs are the next step of the market.

Philip Devine:

Definitely Diablo-esque as well as high-fantasy!

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Thanks for your great answers 😃 ready to proceed to the next question?

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Great game as well, one of the most popular ever

I think everything is very clear, time to proceed😁🥳

Q5 from Telegram User @Orlemys

I read about something called staKING or king staking on your telegram group. It seems that it is a feature you will release in the future. Tell us more about it. What is it about? Why has it taken so long to release it? Do you have a set date? Will it be better than taking on the LP? If so, how?

Nick | CryptoBlades:

In regards to the KING, staking goes, that is something that @TheKroge has taken on and I haven’t had too many dealings with it. I can confirm that it is something to be released soon and there will be an incentive to drive users to do so.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

https://app.cryptoblades.io/#/stake

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

That’s a great feature of the projects, usually staking is the best option for long-term holders.

Gold Rocket | Satoshi Club:

Ok. Let’s proceed😊 @AndresM77

Q6 from Telegram User @Pavel_Jarosh

The idea of Combat is that a player can select the combatant (among 4 enemy combatants) that they want their character to face off against. The selection will be based on different criteria however it is not described which characters are stronger or weaker than the other ones. Should the selection be done randomly not knowing which character has more chances for a win? How does the engine reacts when 2 identical characters with identical weapons meet each other? Does the gameplay suppose to use strategy and tactics to win? Thank you!

Nick | CryptoBlades:

We also have just completed the lands sale for the follow-up to CryptoBlades, CryptoBlades: Kingdoms. There is a staking mechanism for the NFT lands themselves that is also in the works. We are hoping to release it soon and start rewarding those who believe in CryptoBlades: Kingdoms so early on.

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Thanks, we will be waiting for news about that!

Nick | CryptoBlades:

I would like to say that these have all been fantastic questions so far and want to thank everyone for being here and being a part of it. I’m truly looking forward to reading and answering the community questions now!

Philip Devine:

Likewise!

Andrés M. | Satoshi Club:

Anything else to add about this question before proceeding with the second part?

Philip Devine:

This is explained on the combat page and also through the Likelihood of victory. We also have tutorials on our YouTube for combat!

That was Part 1 of the Cryptoblades X Satoshi AMA!

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