Tamatarou

Tamatarou is an NFT collectibles game built on the Stellar blockchain. It has cheap cost of creation and transactions. It will also have gameplay in the future to make assets more tangible.

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My Inspiration

I was drawn into the blockchain space in 2017 by Bitcoin and Ethereum. I later found Stellar, and became an investor and advocate for blockchain and Stellar. I loved the idea of NFTs and played CryptoKitties religiously, but the implementations on Ethereum just did not make sense. The transaction fees were high and they did not settle in real time. I got the idea of creating something like cryptokitties using Stellar instead. I put this idea aside for a few years because life got in the way, and earlier this year I finally found the time to start building this project. It's still a work in progress but with a little bit of funding I think it can become something really amazing!

How It Works

Similar to Litemint's solution for creating NFT's on the blockchain, Tamatarous are also created on the blockchain as Stellar accounts. Each unique account ID also serves as the DNA for the Tamatarou it represents. Instead of the NFT accounts issuing a token as means of transaction and proof of ownership, the accounts(NFTs) themselves are transacted by changing signer accounts which prove ownership. Since there's no on-chain protocol on Stellar for listing/exchanging ownership of accounts directly, we've created a second layer solution(marketplace) to facilitate peer to peer exchanges that eventually settle on Stellar as one transaction chain.

What it brings to the table

By always having the current owner of each NFT as the signer account, the NFT account is no longer limited to its original metadata that was set during creation(it doesn't need to be locked). It enables us to introduce other gameplay elements later on like character progression/development on the NFTs, since the NFT accounts can become token holders for any gameplay tokens we issue.

What's next for Tamatarou

Tamatarou is far from finished, and I'm continuously working on it in my spare time to release features and make it better. I want it to be something the Stellar community can enjoy, and a platform that will inspire more developers to build on the Stellar blockchain.

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