Grassroot Crypto Education | Series 2 Volume 2- Play-to-Earn (Part two): Blockchain Cuties Universe

in Steem Kids & Parents3 years ago

Introduction

It's another precious time to put up an article in the community for the kids. Last week, we started the topic "Play-to-Earn and today, we would be heading to the second part of the lecture as we journey together to discuss one of the fun ways to earn in the crypto ecosystem. The lecture today would expose you to a Play-to-Earn platform that is easy to use and quite educative for our target audience.

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Blockchain Cuties Universe

Blockchain Cuties Universe is an NFTs-based blockchain gaming that utilizes the model Play-to-Earn to incentivize gamers through their gaming activities on-chain. The company behind this great gaming platform was founded in 2017 and has been relevant when it comes to gaming platforms built on top of blockchain leveraging the technology to reward game lovers.

The gaming platform under discussion today is a virtual pet-based Play-to-Earn platform that offers gamers the opportunity to buy assets (virtual; cat, dog, hedgehog, bear, rabbit, fox, alien, owl, and so on), these assets can be purchased on the platform's marketplace while the gamer develops it to what they so wish to. In addition, all assets bought on the platform remain a unique asset of the owner because they are tokenized on the blockchain.

Blockchain cuties universe becomes more interesting for the fact that it is multi-chain, different blockchain networks can be utilized on the platform for gaming activity. It is different from so many blockchain gaming platform that is limited to only one or two blockchains which hinders interoperability to a great extent. As such, Blockchain Cuties Universe can be connected to different blockchains for a user to fulfill his/her gaming activities, some of these blockchains are HECO, ETHEREUM, EOS, TRON, MATIC, and so on.

Assets on the platform are simply referred to as cuties and you will get to understand they are really cuties as we proceed in this article. The cuties can be bought on the marketplace, breed, take on adventures/tournaments, battles, and so on, in that process, they get their level improved and more value is attached to them, remaining a gamer's unique asset until he/she decides to sell it to another user on-chain. To begin the exploration of this gaming platform, you will be required to create an account and I will show you in a few steps.

How to Create an Account on Blockchain Cuties Universe

The first step to starting this isbby visiting the official website of the platform, https://blockchaincuties.com, and select "Start Playing" on the landing page.

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Start Playing

  • I will recommend you create an account with your email address. Select sign up on the next page. And insert your email address, and password (repeat) and click the create an account button. Note: Let your password be combinations of uppercases/lowercases, numbers and characters, and at least 10 lengths.

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Sign Up

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Enter your Credentials

  • A confirmation link would be sent to your email address, confirm that it's you and log in. With these simple steps, you would have created a new game account on the platform.

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Confirm email


Features of Blockchain Cuties Universe

In this section of our lecture today, you will learn about a few important features of this gaming platform, and how to navigate your way around it as a beginner in the quest to play to earn. Let's see some of them.

Marketplace

A marketplace literally means a place where certain assets are being listed for sale, or a place that connects buyers and sellers. On Blockchain cuties, the marketplace is the platform that displays all cuties listed for sale, for siring, and all others. A game player can utilize this place to choose any cutie of choice and buy them as the player owns it to himself/herself.

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Marketplace preference

Above is the landing page of the marketplace and gamers can choose their blockchain network and the type of cuties they are looking for. In the image above, I have selected TRON as my blockchain of choice and cat as an intended cutie for purchase. This filters the available cuties based on my preference and below is the list of cat cuties available on the TRON network on the Blockchain Cuties.

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Blockchain Cuties- Cats on TRON network

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Cats Cutie

You can select any desired cuties to make a purchase, I have clicked on one and that's the image above. For you to purchase one, you must connect your crypto wallet, you will learn about this subsequently as you learn more in the coming lessons.

My Cuties

My cuties section is a collection of your assets (cuties), this is where you find different cuties you have bought and see the information about each, like the cutie type, the level, its generation, and so on. In this section, you can also choose to list the asset for sale, sire, breed, or send on an adventure. In short, whatever you wish to do with your asset can be processed from this interface of the gaming platform.

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Cuties

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Cutie in the collection

If you had bought cuties earlier, you can easily locate them using the my cuties feature of the platform, selected right from the top of the page. Let's proceed to another feature.

Adventures

As humans, we often embark on adventures to get closer to the things in the world we live in and most importantly our immediate environment. These cuties can also be sent on adventures to learn more and gain sufficient experience about their virtual world. Each round of adventures embarked on by a cutie adds up to its achievements and improves its quality on-chain. Let's see a cutie sent on an adventure below.

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Adventures

From the top of the page, select adventure, click on " send on an adventure" under your cutie of choice, and choose a location for the adventure. For the cutie utilized for this lecture, it was sent on an adventure to the magical forest as we await what it comes back with. The cutie is busy looking for a foe in its adventure at the moment.

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Looking for a foe

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Foe of Bears

The cutie sent on an adventure found the foe it was looking for and now, it's a foe of bears which was added to its recent achievements.

Tournaments

The tournament feature of this platform is where your cuties can engage in battles against other cuties owned by other players and in the process earn reasonable rewards. The tournaments take place at different timestamps and there are specific requirements required for each of those tournaments, a cutie must possess the one required for a tournament before it can be eligible for participation.

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Active tournaments

Above is the list of active tournaments on Blockchain Cuties, they are coming up at different dates/times, cuties stand the chance to win armors and other collectibles in the tournament which further level them up to qualify for bigger tournaments subsequently.

BCUG (Blockchain Cuties Universe Governance) Token

Blockchain Cuties Universe Governance token is the native token of the platform, there is a benefit for everyone even if they decide not to play the game. BCUG can be bought and staked on the gaming platform to earn passive income. The staked tokens are utilized for providing liquidity for transactions on Blockchain Cuties while users farm the rewards of their staking.

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Staking Interface

In addition, users are eligible for the governance of this gaming platform for staking BCUG tokens, as such, they can participate in governing the platform to vote for a new development of the gaming platform and so on.

These are a few features of the Blockchain cuties universe, there are more you would learn about maybe in the future lessons when you will learn the act of buying some of these cuties in real-time and monetizing them on the platform, and learn about some of the armor collectibles. Blockchain Cuties Universe enables you to uniquely own beautiful cuties, breed, level them up, and make money through them as you have fun exploring the game.

Conclusion

In conclusion, you have learned about a blockchain-based gaming platform that offers play-to-earn on different blockchains, this is a feature entirely different from other blockchain gaming platforms that are limited to only one blockchain. We have spoken about some of the features of the platform, although you still have more to learn about the platform.

In addition, your beautiful cuties have your identity only and can be transferred to another user only when you are ready to make some money through them. This gaming platform has many in-game earning features to earn more rewards for your cuties, earn passive income by staking BCUG and participate in the governance of the platform. I hope you had a great read today. Thank you.

Homework Task


  1. Discuss Blockchain Cuties Universe. Create a game account on Blockchain Cuties Universe and show the steps on how to do it. (Screenshots required). Your screenshots should have your username on them .
  2. List and discuss at least two features of Blockchain Cuties Universe. (Attach screenshots).

Guidelines


  1. Write an article of at least 250 words. Keep your explanation as simple as possible.
  2. Include the tag #grassroot-educations2v2, #fintech, #steemexclusive, and your club status among the first 4 tags. Also, tag me @fredquantum in your homework entry.
  3. The participation in this lecture/homework task is open to everybody but only entries made by verified kids would be reviewed.
  4. I will check your articles and drop comments on the entries submitted now till 11:59 pm UTC, 16/04/2022.

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 3 years ago 

Thank you for this wonderful lesson again for this week 2 of the season 2. The kids will surely get the best out of it. We sincerely appreciate all you do for the kids in steemkids community. We hope to keep learning from you our dear professor

 3 years ago 

It's my pleasure to continually do this in the community. Thanks for allowing me to serve as well. We #Steem-on.

 3 years ago 

Wow, this crypto knowledge is basic. I'll go through it and do the assignment so as to understand better.. Thanks a lot @fredquantum for always sticking to this

 3 years ago 

Thank you.

 3 years ago (edited)

I really have to admit this, i am learning a lot from the lecture and would like to learn more
My entry
https://steemit.com/hive-139765/@habdallah/assignment-post-for-fredquantum-or-or-by-habdallah