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I believe in Jesus Christ. He saved my life from cancer and He will continue to be my Lord and Savior. Sharing my cancer testimony below: https://x.com/chevy_jai/status/1853651557168148899?s=46&t=am_lEn4AEMgdnk6iBZex8g Whenever I feel stressed or overwhelmed, I pray and there is always peace in my heart. Whenever I need directions and wisdom, I pray and God will provide in His time. There is simply too many things we can’t control in life, but what we can guard is our hearts. We can always choose hope over despair, joy over sadness, self-improvement over jealousy/comparisons, love over hate. God is my strength and my fortress. There is nothing I lack when I walk with Him. He is the reason I am energetic, positive and willing to serve. Happy to share more about my faith whenever :)
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Was coincidentally sharing three tips on this on LinkedIn this morning! Lemme share here :) 1) Find your niche For Anichess, our niche is 600M+ chess population worldwide, which is growing at historical speed thanks to Chess.com, Esports World Cup Foundation, Twitch and influencers like Magnus, Hikaru and Gotham. If your product is for “anyone”, likely something is missing. 2) Build your community Without players, a game is worthless. Same applies to any platform if you can’t get your users hooked. Enable UGC, reward and co-create, together with your community. Start from getting your first 100 loyal users and scale. 3) Optimize your UX A big hurdle for mass Web3 onboarding is too many jargons and poor first-time user experience. The North Star should always be to allow user to own their first #NFT or #token without them knowing. Education will take time but a good product experience should be self-explanatory.
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Following Q7, this mainly ties with 1) tournament buyins & rewards powered by $C and M8 points 2) true digital property rights of in-game NFTs, aka freely transferrable, tradable, and able to derive income from. The vision here is with a smooth UX, players will be onboarded to Web3 without even knowing it. Example flow: they win a tournament, receive token rewards, click withdraw to their wallets. In the mid-long run, users will gradually understand more about the tech behind tokens and NFTs and what Web3 is about, instead of overwhelming them with Web3 jargons right from the start. We believe this way is much more frictionless for Web2 onboarding.
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Apologies for the delay replies! Personally I am most excited about tournament feature for sure. Coming from a semi-pro poker player background, I was very into poker tournaments both online and offline. With spell mechanics that Anichess brings to the table, we have made online Anichess tournaments with a big prize pool, powered by token rewards a reality. Looking forward to seeing professional Anichess players in the future, making a living out of playing a game they love! There can also be branded tournaments as well for different communities - a new way to bring communities closer :)
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https://x.com/chevy_jai/status/1913134681362760126?s=46&t=am_lEn4AEMgdnk6iBZex8g
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We truly value our community, as a game without its players/community is completely worthless. Especially building in Web3, we are actually very grateful and fortunate to have a highly invested community to take part in tournaments, campaigns and to provide timely feedbacks for us. Some tips 1) Always have a way to collect feedback, be it a #feedback channel on discord, TG or Google Form, as long as there is a way 2) Surprise your OGs with giveaways, campaigns, or simply something they never expect 3) Keep them engaged - if they are competitive, host regular tournaments/leagues. If they are creative, art/meme challenges 4) Keep shipping - be it product features, bug fixes, new marketing initiatives, partnerships. Community loves it
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Game stats so far: 1M+ UAW since mini game launch 300k+ PVP players since PVP Alpha ~50k MAU I would say we are still very early in our attempt to convert chesscom players. We are not really in a rush here as education takes time, for people to get use to the game design, the monetary angle, and the fact that they have true digital property rights with in-game assets. So far we only launched 1 big activation and already saw 50k signups. More activations will come. The playbook I was referring to is for projects to search for mass Web2 communities (like 600M global chess community) with a clear value proposition, instead of creating a Web2 replica game in Web3 to target “Web3 gamers”. The latter will always be short-lived and the target audience is actually very limited but the former is true mass onboarding and real value creation.
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https://zora.co/coin/base:0xf0258abfc38640caface0987b3b559c21e2d5972?referrer=0x1f9d2840d33dfa477d093d624b4435a5bd55c90b Defeating cancer in Jesus’ name!
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No problem! $C is not a single game token, but an ecosystem token that powers every project/game that builds towards the vision of cultivating a global movement of strategic and competitive thinkers. Indeed Anichess is the launch partner, and there will be more to come. If you are a builder out there and you are interested to adopt $C in your project/game we are always happy to chat. https://x.com/checkmatefdn/status/1910607705175400690?s=46&t=am_lEn4AEMgdnk6iBZex8g Checkmate Foundation recently announced the Checkmate Affiliate Network - a curated alliance of strategic minds shaping the future of onchain gaming, culture, and digital property rights. We are also open to chat if your community is interested in participating, as long as the vision is aligned. $C will be the core utility token for Anichess as well as partner projects. In Anichess, players will be able to use $C for tournament buyins, in-game skins, voting & governance, creating community tournaments, publishing UGC spells etc. It will serv...
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100%. Animoca Brands has provided us access to top influencers which I never dreamed of speaking with, let alone playing and strategizing a game together. Magnus Carlsen is the greatest player in the history of chess, a 1,500 years old game, and he loves Anichess. Let that sink in. During ideation phases of the project, there were concerns around whether top competitive players would like the idea as this really changes the rules and reduces their competitive edge with the spells. However, the feedbacks have been really positive so far. Magnus thinks it’s fun and very playable. Anish Giri thinks its exciting and fun to play. Luca Netz thinks its really fun and he had a great time playing Magnus. Gotta give it to @ysiu as he made Magnus think for over 1min on a move!
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Absolutely. Currently we have been prioritizing both product and marketing. On product side, we are building the Anichess Gambit mode, where players can put in tokens to battle and winner takes all. This could greatly increases competitiveness and invite more competitive players into the game. At the same time, casual players can also grind for tokens through in-game quests so they can also participate in tournaments and shoot for the top prizes. On marketing front, we are doing a lot of quick experiments thanks to AI. We have a few vibe coders in the team who are passionate and able to ship really fast to generate attention and create hype, especially before TGE. Genius Score is currently live, where people can find out their composite onchain intellectual rating. Crypto MBTI is coming, along with the Anichess Sandbox, a UGC platform for community to create new spells and vote for the best ones for us to develop in game, making it truly community-driven. We have a few targeted markets to expand into: the...
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Great Question. For Anichess - just to clarify we are not fully onchain as of today as we are still in Alpha. Player experience is still very critical. I think fully onchain games are still in its infancy stage TBH. I feel the long run equilibrium for games is a mix of web2 (centralized servers, databases) and web3 (tokens, NFTs, reputation), while fully onchain games would only make sense for some niche games. I think the reason why many Web3 games we have seen in the past cycle were perceived as “unpolished” and “unplayable” is due to the fact that they put too much emphasis on “Web3” but less so on “game”, meaning it has to be fun, playable, that people will still stay around regardless of bull or bear. For a Web3 game to succeed in the LR, gameplay has to come before the Web3 parts of it (nft/token/staking). No other ways around it. Thanks to the partnership with Chess.com and best players in the world like Magnus, we have the opportunity to co-create the new Anichess gameplay which i...
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Love the experiment! https://zora.co/coin/base:0xaad1300f103513925b2738e0094a7bfcc3d422ec?referrer=0x1f9d2840d33dfa477d093d624b4435a5bd55c90b
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Hello everyone! Chev here, servant at Anichess. I joined Animoca Brands 3 years ago and started working on Anichess Game since 2023. We came in with a simple vision - to revolutize chess, a timeless game with 600m global players, and onboard the masses to web3. I started my Web3 journey with trading ETH in 2018 and really went into the rabbit hole with Axie Infinity and trading NFTs in 2020. My MBTI is ENFP :)
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Happy birthday and God bless!☺️
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thanks potato bro :)
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https://x.com/techinasia/status/1911977988926628060?s=46&t=am_lEn4AEMgdnk6iBZex8g Spot on take by @ysiu - With @anichessgame and @checkmatefdn $C, we now have the unique opportunity to bring financial literacy to chess, via web3, and onboarding 200M+ @chesscom players. This is a brand new playbook of web3 onboarding and @CheckmateFDN is going beyond chess.
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Gm fc :) What’s everyone building today?
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Gm mates! Who’s around?🫡
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Introducing ‘Genius Score’ - join the intellectual revolution, showcase your proficiency, onchain activity and social influence, and secure your $C airdrop rewards. Check your score now: https://checkmate.foundation What’s behind your Genius Score? 🧠 Real signals, not fluff: – X reach – Trading volume + PnL (ETH mainnet) – Blue-chip NFT + token holdings – How early you were to OG ERC-20 projects – Your chess skill (@anichessgame + chess.com ELO) 💡 Best flow = MetaMask on desktop. Mobile can get clunky with wallet switching. ✅ Once you see your score, sign with your wallet to lock it in and become eligible for future $C airdrops and rewards.
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