Validator Wars - Gamified liquid staking on Solana

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Inspiration

We got inspired by the Solana ecosystem itself, where Delegators delegate their resources to Validator nodes. We decided to create an additional gamified mechanic for delegators and our own stake management provider. Our GameFi dApp combines a financial service and a blockchain game.

The finance part includes the stake management and staking pool, while the game consists of NFTs as unique game characters, their breeding and development, PvE and PvP modes, and the faction's confrontation.

We believe that by adopting the game element we are creating an opportunity for our users to not only get the liquid token but receive additional benefits and excitement by participating in the game. We are including the faction confrontation option in the game, where users are encouraged to group in factions to cooperate on strategic actions to win over the competitors to get additional rewards.

Impact

Based on our findings we saw an opportunity for our concept to create value for the Solana delegates and the network itself, and in addition, we expect our Dapp to attract new users to the Solana network from other blockchains due to its uniqueness, particularly the popularity of NTFs and blockchain games in general.

How we built it

Metaplex The onboarding and sales process is being supported by the candy machine model integrated in the metaplex framework. The candy machine acts as a dispenser of NFTs to begin onboarding players onto the ecosystem, but going forward we will build upon this by creating marketplaces with the vault system provided by metaplex.

Challenges we ran into

Stake Pool management implementation from a technical point, the stake pool codebase is highly novel and the implications of stake-o-matic if chosen by delegators affecting projections of validator yield that will be generated by our resource management model. A baseline approximation or running approximation of the validator return as a result of delegating to stake - o- matic would be useful.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Establishing a game theoretically sound liquified gaming model both for the game ecosystem and the Defi use. Completing the mathematical proof for our long-term dynamic resource management model.

What we learned

Solana’s throughput is suitable for running a highly integrated gaming and NFT metaverse that utilizes stochastic approximations, neural networks, and a parametric cost function all in a dynamic balance. As the ecosystem grows Solana’s properties will become more pronounced as both the in-game and Solana ecosystem complexity increases. Metaplex candy machine compounds the fee savings for NFT mints as compared to other chains like ETH. The ease of use is an added bonus.