A four-fold increase in PSI is an arbiter of the difference between the Risk to Earn proposed by Trident

In Greek mythology, Trident is the symbol and weapon of Poseidon, the god of the sea. It is said that he wields the Trident to split mountains and cause storms, tsunamis and even earthquakes to control the ocean.

In the 18th century, Britain became the hegemon of the sea. In William Dyce's oil painting "The God of the Sea Grants the Power of the Sea to Britain", Poseidon handed the Trident to Queen Victoria, symbolizing the authority of the sea to Britain.

Back To the GameFi field, recently Arbitrum's last project "Trident" proposed a sustainable GameFi economic model of "Risk To Earn", which has attracted the attention of players and communities. And after its Token public surge for Arbitrum ecological heat the highest project.

Trident believes that games are becoming homogenized, not just in crypto games, but in the broader game industry, as game developers rehash the same formula over and over again in existing IP. Next, Trident will create a free game that removes all Pay to Win and wins matches based on skill, not just for crypto, but for ordinary gamers.

Could Trident live up to its name by gaining the power of Trident and taking control of the Red Sea circuit GameFi? BlockBeats will tell you about this project.

Project introduction

Trident is a 2D MMO, procedually generated infinite universe game developed by Geyser Forge Studios, which proposes a new sustainable GameFi model "Risk To Earn" to enhance players' game economies.

Pets in the game are procedurally generated and come from a given set of limbs and body parts, some of which can be captured and some of which can only be purchased in the game mall. In addition, there is a limit on the number of planets generated in the game, which is an anti-robot measure.

Risk to Earn

When a player plays a P2E game, their play time does not translate into anything, because their data or time does not have any effect on the agreement, and therefore the game party does not shift its focus beyond the economic player's gain. P2E will be more effective when participants are speculating on in-game assets and will crash in the face of a huge growth stall.

In Risk To Earn, players who are skilled and comfortable with the game get more attention and points, but players drop everything when they die and then move on to the player who survives or wins.

This is similar to "trading" in financial markets, where when a person wins a game, they receive a "risk on" reward from the loser, which is why it is called "risk on". The model would be sustainable, both players would have to bet, and the bounty would flow back and forth between players. For unskilled players, the game is free to play and practice without the risk involved.

Also, games should not be a job, but a form of entertainment, providing opportunities for players who spend time improving their skills while providing value to any audience of their game content. As such, Trident also supports spectator betting, where players can simply bet on other players who they think are good at matches, whether it's an MMR-matched Sprite duel, or Duel PvP mode.

Players on the sidelines, if they win, collect a fee from the people who bet on them. In this way, they will be incentivized to promote and produce more content around their gameplay, and improve their game skills to bring more rewards to the audience.

In addition, players can choose To make their own sub-games based on the preset mechanics Trident provides to users and hook them into their Risk To Earn contract.

Game play

Trident currently has two games in development: Trident MMO and Trident Sprite Duels (Sprite duels), as well as Trident's practice mode Legacy Trident, and integrate Risk To Earn mode into its gameplay. Trident's smart contract runs on Arbitrum, with plans to eventually expand to other Tier 2, such as StarkNet.

Trident MMO

Trident MMO is a procedurally generated infinite universe in which players explore a vast and unique development world, harvest resources, fight for territory control, participate in bounty missions, and poached alien creatures from distant lands. Currently, the Trident MMO is not available, and a Pre-Alpha version is in development.

Sprite Duels

Sprite Duels is a Pokmon-inspired fighting game powered by Trident's Risk To Earn engine that allows players to capture or buy procedurally generated pets and pit them against each other in a turn-based strategy style.

To access the Trident website, players first click the "Play" button in the upper right corner to connect to the Ethereum wallet and Arbitrum network, then sign a message to register or log in. Then, click the "Sprite Duels" button to start the game.

In Pet battles, each Sprite has various features that give them unique features such as health, attack, and defense statistics, and the type of Sprite determines what type of attack they are weak against.

In addition, each Sprite has 4 attacks, and each attack has type, power (base damage), accuracy, effect, and recoil. Effects and recoil are not yet running in the game, but will be added soon. Attacks may also have unique effects, such as defensive penetration, self-healing, percentage damage, critical hits, etc.

Once the match between the player and the opponent begins, the game continues until one or both players are defeated. Each player will take turns choosing different attacks and abilities to use against the Sprite currently selected by their opponent. When a Sprite is knocked down, it automatically switches from top to bottom to the next living Sprite, meaning that the order in which sprites are chosen can have an impact on whether the game is won or lost.

Economic system

Trident NFT

Items in Trident can be cast into NFTS. These are standard NFTS that can be combined with other smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Currently, both Mmos and Sprite Duels are in pre-alpha, and players will use the ones used for Mmos in the gamePseudo Kraken NFT, and used against petsDegenScore BeaconNFT (DegenScore Beacon is a soul-bound NFT earned by demonstrating noteworthy on-chain activity and reputation).

Pseudo Kraken NFT, launched by Trident in October 2022 to celebrate the release of Sudoswap. This is Trident's first NFT series, hosted on the Ethereum mainnet, mint is priced at 0.03 ETH with a supply of 3000, and serves as a future voting mechanism to influence content publishing within the project.

PSI

PSI is the official utility Token of Trident, which will be used in future versions of various games to purchase items, redeem NFT, place bets between players, etc. Trident will receive a fee for each successful bet and then destroy it forever. Once the integration of Risk To Earn is complete, the supply of PSI deflates.

PSI official address: 0 x602eb0d99a5e3e76d1510372c4d2020e12eaea8a

On February 5, Trident announced that it had raised $3 million per PSI ($14,305) through a Token public offering, The public offering is open to owners of DegenScore beacons, CryptoPunk, or Pseudo Krakens.

It is worth mentioning that this fundraising is also overraised by about 4.91%, but the overraised portion will be supplemented by the tokens held by the team, and the total amount of tokens will not change. In addition, PSI circulating supply reached 2,097,902, the FDV market value was 16,500,412 USDC, and the market value outstanding was 3 million USDC.

Since Trident announced public financing through Token, according to Dextools data, this project rose to Arbitrum ecological heat project, its Token (PSI) price once reached 7 dollars, an increase of more than 400%.

Background resource

The Trident team is a group of experienced gamers and game developers.

So far, though, Trident has avoided VC funding and plans to stay that way. Trident says it has seen a number of web3 games that venture capital has invested in collapse with the change of vision, so the core of Trident will be the gamers, and we don't want to impose VC's oversight and vision on the players to the detriment of the players.

Future plan

Shortly after the relaunch, Trident is expected to launch OasisSwap, its native dex on the Arbitrum chain, in a week or so.

In addition, during the first quarter of this year, Trident will continue to flesh out the game's foundations, such as the Triangle combat system (melee, ranged, and magic), introduce the first few items and inventory in the game, enable basic trading of in-game items, and introduce equipment, loot, and new interactive creatures, including the first resource gathering in the open world.

Player leaderboards and public account statistics followed, and the Alpha version of the Trident MMO was released, along with duel PvP matchmaking, Risk to Earn bets, and funded content creation.

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