Here’s our 144th AMA recap!

12 min readNov 6, 2021

Thank you to the Infinity Chain for participating in Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Dragon Mainland October 25, 2021. This guest star,

Jason Dekker — CEO

Introduction

Jason Dekker :
My quick background is I started my professional career as a stock market trader in the late 1990’s trading Internet stocks. I did very well and started my own hedge fund in the early 2000’s. Ran it up to $300 Million USD at its peak.

Then I was a founder of a Biotechnology company sold to a publicly listed Nasdaq company. Had an organic food and beverage company sold to my former business partner.

Then I was the CEO and Founder of a Blockchain company called GoChain. We successfully raised $15 million USD in our ICO in 2018 and won the Binance community listing vote by the largest margin ever, ticker symbol GO.

At GoChain we partnered with several Fortune 500 and public companies like Microsoft, Dish Network, and Enviva. GoChain has primarily turned its focus to Supply Chain with its Chainsparency platform. They also have an NFT platform called Zeromint.

There’s more but I’ve had a very successful corporate background and been active in the blockchain crypto space for the past 6+ years.

And, now I’m the CEO of Dragon Mainland!

QUESTIONS MODERATOR

What’s Dragon Mainland? The idea, how did it start?

Jason Dekker :
DM is a brand new “play to earn” game that’s a fully immersive 3D encrypted NFT collectibles game.

The original idea of Dragon Mainland came from How to Train your Dragon. Dragons have long captivated both Eastern and Western cultures. Most recently with movies and TV shows like Avatar, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and many others.

We feel like the idea of breeding, raising and fighting Dragons 🐉 will captivate gamers and is something exciting.

As we started structuring the game after further discussions we started to form a mythical worldview on the background of Dragon Mainland.

Worldview: Magical Mythology (high level):

This is a continuation of the era after the Dragon Knight where humans rode dragons. Now, there is no longer a need for dragons to be used as mounts to participate in the war. After continuous domestication and training the Dragons are now under the leadership of sub commanders.

Since the start of independent
warfare, the war between people has turned into a war among dragons.

Dragon Mainland is divided into five different territories according to the terrain environment:
Fire flames, Aqua city, Sand kingdoms, Wind dune, and Thunder god hill.

Superficially, harmony exists among all countries in accordance with the jointly formulated plan. And, the rule of existence maintains order although the actual undercurrent is turbulent.

In order to compete for a
high-quality hierarchical tribal system. Various forces are vying openly and secretly. Adventurers are sent to various countries to search for and battle different tribes.

We aim to create a fully decentralized community or a DAO . The community will be able to validate all transactions and activities inside the game which provides a level playing field for everyone.

It’s the intersection of gaming + DeFi + NFTs in a Dragon Ecosystem.

Can you share with us how to play Dragon Mainland game? How can Dragon Mainland combine NFT and DeFi into GameFi?

Jason Dekker :
For the game itself we have 4 combat modes:

1. Single player PvP
2. Multi player PvP
3. Single player PvE
4. Multi player PvE

PVE：

Battle unit: 1–3 dragons on our side, and the same amount of dragons from the enemy. Each can attack multiple times at a time.

Attack rules: If there are no special card effects, priority will be given to attacking the dragon closest in front of the enemy.

If the enemy’s foremost unit is side by side with another the restraint unit will be attacked first among the two. If there is no restraint, priority will be given to attacking the parallel units below the enemy.

Preparation: In this stage, players play the five skill cards in their hands according to their own energy points. Some skill cards require energy consumption, while others do not.

The skill cards played correspond to the dragons one by one. At this stage, only the player manually enters the next step before entering the round battle phase.

PVP
The battle among the players focuses on the player’s choice of placement and strategy for each round.

Players: Both sides can only supply 3 dragons.

Preparation: In this stage, players play the six skill cards in their hands according to their own energy points, some of which require energy consumption and some do not.

The skill cards played correspond to the dragons one by one. There is a countdown at this stage, and it will automatically enter the round battle stage when the countdown ends.

The round battle phase is the same as the PVE round battle phase.

NFTs are at the heart of what makes Dragon Mainland special! Gaming prior to Blockchain didn’t allow any of the users to own their property or in game assets.

The Dragons themselves, Dragon Skulls which allow you to upgrade your Dragons, and the dragon eggs are all NFTs. Early in 2022 we will be launching land and buildings as NFTs as well. They can be bought and sold in the marketplace and they are all stored on chain. There are more NFTs planned in future versions as well.

“Dragon Mainland Marketplace” What are the benefits for users?

Jason Dekker :
Our Marketplace will only list Dragon Mainland specific NFTs. We have a vibrant in-game economy in which all in-game assets are NFTs.

The benefits of the DM marketplace for users are the ability to buy and sell all in-game assets. I think this is pretty straightforward.

There’s a lot more in terms of how the Marketplace fits in with the gameplay from the standpoint of breeding dragons and being able to upgrade them into stronger dragons.

All of the dragons at various different skill levels can be sold. Dragon skulls which allow you the ability to upgrade your dragons are also available in the marketplace.

So, this is a long winded way of saying the marketplace is beneficial to users of all skill levels to use it in different ways to suit their specific needs.

Can you tell us about Dragon Mainland economic model? What use-cases of $DMS and $DMP tokens in the Dragon Mainland ecosystem?

Jason Dekker :
We have a dual token model with DMS being the governance and ecosystem token and DMP the functional Utility token.

The total supply of DMS is 1,000,000,000 and no additional DMS will be issued.

The full release will take place over 5 years or 60 months.

Token Allocation：
Mining Rewards 45%，
Foundation Reserve 15%，
Team 21%，
Advisor 4%，
Token Sale 15%

Team, Advisor, and mining reward tokens are locked and released monthly in equal increments over the 60 months.

There is a fixed max supply or DMS but we have several mechanisms to make sure our DMS supply is deflationary to protect the value of it over the long term.

The advantage of holding DMS is that if you stake your tokens and participate in our DeFi opportunities you will earn more DMS!

Next, 50% of the marketplace revenue will be used to buyback DMS and permanently freeze it. This means that there will be buy pressure from gameplay on a daily basis and the overall available token supply will continue to decrease on a daily basis.

The more people play the game the more DMS tokens that will come off the market. This in itself should drive investors to stake the token and hold it AGAIN decreasing the available supply on the market.

We strongly believe in deflationary token ecosystems to create long term value for our holders and we believe in rewarding our token holders that stake their tokens to earn bigger returns.

We feel it’s a very strong model and one that aligns the incentives of the players, investors, and the ecosystem.

DMS tokens are used as follows：
1. Marketplace Payments: Trade various NFT in Marketplace
2. Game consumption: Dragon breeding and nurturing (skill upgrade/absorbing dragon bones/dragon bone fusion) all require a certain amount of DMS consumption
3. Governance: DMS token holders will be allowed to pledge tokens to participate in platform governance voting
4. Staking: By pledging DMS tokens to receive weekly rewards.
5. Liquidity Mining: Provide DMS liquidity to the Revenue Aggregator in order to receive DMS token rewards.

DMP tokens are functional utility tokens issued by Dragon Mainland. The total supply of DMPs will not be capped and will be issued as a reward after passing the level.

They are necessary to reproduce between any two dragons. Each reproduction requires a certain amount of DMP and the number will increase exponentially with each subsequent breeding. DMP is also required for all training and raising activities inside the game as well. Dragon skulls synthesis and Dragon Devouring require DMP consumption.

What is Dragon Mainland vision for the future? Does Dragon Mainland have any special plans to attract more users in the future?

Jason Dekker :
Our vision is create a mutually rewarding GameFi platform where the incentives are aligned for all the stakeholders. We aim to facilitate new economic opportunities in the “play to earn” space.

In layman’s terms what that means is we see “virtual economies” being as important as the real economy as industrial automation and robotics take over much of the work force. As such, our vision is to be one of the leaders in the play to earn GameFi space facilitating new economic opportunities globally.

In terms of what special plans or incentives there are for users to choose our platform they are:

1. Epic 3D graphics
2. Rich engaging gameplay
3. DMS token staking (ecosystem token)
4. NFT staking
5. Deflationary token ecosystem
6. Defi — Revenue aggregator
7. High payouts

There’s definitely more but we feel the above combination should be extremely rewarding for those that play our game and will help attract many new users.

Lastly, we plan to reinvest heavily in future versions of the game and marketing to attract a global audience.

QUESTIONS TELEGRAM

Can you list the features that your project have and other similar projects don’t and Can you convince me to invest in your project as compared to others which are similar to yours?

Jason Dekker :
Our top 3 features of Dragon Mainland:

1. Deflationary token ecosystem: 100% of blind box DMS revenue is burned and 50% of our marketplace transaction fee is used to buy back the DMS token. It will then be permanently frozen.

2. Dragon devouring: Stronger dragons can devour weaker dragons to upgrade a random. This will decrease the proliferation of Dragon NFTs.

3. Dragon staking: stake your dragon NFTs to earn DMP

AUDIT play an IMPORTANT role in enhancing the stability of any PROJECT. Do you have AUDIT CERTIFICATES . Or are you working to AUDIT your project to make it more secure and reliable?

Jason Dekker :
Platform security is of the utmost importance and it’s a huge focus for us!

We fully expect all the hackers and scammers and fraudsters to come. They are already here and already trying to disrupt our ecosystem. At this point happening so early we’ll take it as a compliment.

Hacking is always a concern and we take cyber security very seriously. To protect the project we are tons of penetration testing, audit all the smart contracts, hiring hacking groups to try to break in, and using FileCoin and IPFS a to protect the NFTs.

All smart contracts are in the process of being audited by CertiK, a very well known smart contract auditing firm. We will publish the audit certificates publicly when the audits are complete.

To protect the NFT’s using FileCoin and IPFS provides a massive advantage because of the way they use content addressing. This ensures that if a breach did happen all the NFTs should be protected. This creates a truly decentralized solution to manage this problem.

This is an ongoing issue that will never go away and we will stay vigilant to protect our platform and our community!

Are you a global project or local project? At present, which market are you focus on, or is it focused on building and growing to gain customers, users and partners?

Jason Dekker :
To really expand our market we are partnering and focusing on our regional communities. Without a strong communities nothing good can happen.

We plan to focus heavily on Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East where the play to earn gaming markets are strong. We hope to partner with the likes of YGG and other similar Guilds or groups that will help accelerate user growth.

There will be a huge focus on working with different community leaders to build telegram groups and the like in different languages so there support and a communal network. We are already working with KOLs and groups to make sure we provide all the resources necessary to support the communities in every region.

We are also focusing on a lot of non-English speaking regions. We are also working with our developers to potentially allow users to choose their language when they sign up and sign in.

The global community is going to be what makes Dragon Mainland successful and we plan to support them as much as possible!

IS This Your project only for elite investors, how about others with small funds, is it open to everyone?

Jason Dekker :
Our GameFi platform is for all crypto skill levels. It’s more of a game and you won’t really even know you’re using crypto.

We are definitely targeting the mass market and as such we need to make it as easy and user friendly as possible to do so.

There’s no way to gain massive user adoption if it’s only for super experienced crypto veterans.

Outside of the game itself there will be tons of tutorials, support groups, YouTube videos in many different languages to help make it as easy as possible to learn every aspect of the game.

Can you share some Details about Recent Major Achievements done by your project? Also, what are the Future Roadmap & Targets of your project?

Jason Dekker :
We feel like we’ve achieved a lot in the last year in building the project. Here’s what we’ve done:

1. Fully built a super fun highly engaging game. DM is fully immersive 3D with rich game play. The full game launches officially in early December.

2. An incredible in game economy! Players need to be able to earn good returns while they play. We aim to be one of the top payout GameFi platforms. In addition, we think our deflationary token model + DeFi with our staking and revenue aggregator and liquidity mining help a lot.

3. A proper successful model for marketing and user adoption. We have a very powerful proprietary user acquisition strategy already in place and we are working on major partnerships and working with KOLs globally!

4. TIMING! We started developing about 10 months ago and we are ready launch 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
A lot of competitors are 6+ months behind us. We are catching the wave just perfectly!

5. We’ve built a vibrant community of 84K+ on Telegram and 85k+ on Twitter.

6. We’ve successfully completed our Genesis Dragon Egg Rush Series.

We are super proud of our efforts and very excited to see all of our hard work pay off for both us and the community.