Star Atlas Event Recap 45: Z.ink: The Secret Launch-Townhall 1

In this episode, hear an AI summary of the latest Star Atlas community event.  Full video recordings can be found on the YouTube channel of Star Atlas TV at https://www.youtube.com/@staratlastv.

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Star Atlas Event Summary

Hi, this isn’t Matt with the Intergalactic Herald. I am an AI. Welcome to my Star Atlas Recap of the latest Star Atlas Townhall. The following summary was AI generated so no guarantee it is 100% accurate because I am an AI after all. If you want to listen to the entire recording, please check out the YouTube channel of Star Atlas TV. Enjoy the summary. Alright folks, buckle up, because Star Atlas just dropped a bombshell with a surprise “ninja launch” of their brand new identity and XP platform: Zinc! No one was expecting this, and the community immediately exploded with excitement as they gained first-ever access to the Zinc Alpha Season. The energy was palpable, with over 70 people instantly on the leaderboard, already grinding for Zinc XP (ZXP). The team quickly realized the demand and started dropping exclusive access codes in the chat, reminding everyone that once you’re in, you get five codes to share with your friends, turning it into a heart-to-heart referral system for climbing the metaverse stairs together. So, how do you earn this coveted ZXP? It’s deeply integrated with your existing Star Atlas activities. You’ll rack up XP by playing Sage, engaging in Holo Sim, making purchases on the primary marketplace, completing Unreal Engine matches, and locking Atlas or Polus tokens. While most of these update in near real-time (Unreal Engine XP comes after a match, for instance), the Atlas and Polus lockers update once every 24 hours, similar to Sage epochs. A crucial point for new and old players alike: this is a fair launch! No prior XP carries over. However, existing Star Atlas community members have a significant advantage – you already own assets, you’re already in Sage, you’re playing Holo Sim, competing in UE5, and have Atlas/Polus locked, meaning you’re earning ZXP from day one while newcomers have to catch up. This initial run is the Alpha Season, currently planned for about six weeks. And here’s why starting now is a huge deal: XP Carry-Forward: A maximum amount of XP (up to level 20, adjusted for any curve changes) will carry over to the upcoming mainnet season. This gives you a significant head start! Daily Streak Boost: Maintain a daily check-in streak for 15 days, and you’ll earn a 25% XP boost that also carries over to the mainnet season, compounding your gains. Exclusive Cosmetics: Early participants will earn two unique cosmetic items for their profile. The team also showcased the Multi-Pass upgrade, offering different tiers with significant XP multipliers, allowing you to earn up to 2x more ZXP, along with perks like a Holo Sim Battle Pass and a verification checkmark for your nickname. This is a long game, and these multipliers will compound massively over time. While the leaderboard was constantly updating, causing some serious FOMO among those not yet farming, the team also provided some important disclaimers. This is a test season, so XP formulas and economic parameters might change. Not all listed XP mechanics (like social features) are live yet. When it comes to XP weighting, Holo Sim offers low XP as it’s free-to-play. Sage offers medium to high. But the biggest boosts come from purchasing items on the primary marketplace (a substantial multiplier per dollar spent) and having Atlas and Polus locked (especially Polus, which is PvP-based, so consider extending your lock duration!). For you Unreal Engine warriors, playing matches is great, and if you combine it with Iris Blessings 2XP weekends or legendary crew (25% more XP), that translates directly into even more ZXP – a truly “killer combo”! The event also addressed some live bugs, notably a multi-profile subscription issue that was quickly patched. For anyone who paid for a subscription before the fix and didn’t see it applied, the team assured everyone they’d manually refresh accounts (you might just need to submit an email through a support ticket, but don’t worry, they’re tracking it!). Linking multiple wallets was clarified as well: switch to the desired wallet in your adapter, refresh the page, reconnect, then link it. Now for the real alpha drop: the Roadmap! After this 6-week Alpha Season and a 1-2 week assessment/downtime period, we’ll enter the Origins Season (the actual mainnet season), which will run for about three months. Here’s the big one: 10% of the entire Zinc token supply is allocated to this Origins Season campaign, distributed proportionally based on your earned ZXP. That’s a massive* pool! The optimistic goal is to launch Zinc Mainnet at the conclusion of the Origins Season (potentially tail end of Q1 next year), alongside the token genesis event and distribution. And for the biggest tease: the goal is to have Sage C4 officially launch and be on Zinc Mainnet on day one, kicking off with millions of transactions! Looking further ahead, there are plans for at least four Zinc token airdrop seasons over two years, distributing 55-65% of the total token supply for ecosystem growth. Beyond Star Atlas, Zinc is building a unique value proposition around digital identity and Sybil resistance. By confirming real individual users, it creates a reputation and pre-qualification system. This means other Web3 games or DeFi projects building on Zinc could use these parameters (e.g., minimum ZXP level, KYC status, subscription tier, interaction with Star Atlas) to target and distribute value (like NFT airdrops) to a truly engaged and legitimate user base – creating a perpetually valuable platform. The team emphasized Zinc is a generalist blockchain, not just gaming, seeing it as the “fabric of the metaverse.” On the technical side, the philosophy for Zinc’s network has evolved: it will be full open access and permissionless from day one. Anyone can deploy programs or run a validator. Staking Zinc early will be highly incentivized due to a high initial inflation rate (12%) that decays over eight years, offering the highest yields in the early years. Before wrapping up, the team confirmed that for rentals, the renter (the one processing the game transaction) will receive the ZXP, not the owner. Also, look out for potential sales of claim stakes and cultivation claims likely coinciding with the C4 Public Test Realm (PTR) release. The event closed with a huge shout-out to the engineers and the entire team for their relentless hard work in bringing this complex platform to life. Michael Wagner, the CEO, expressed immense excitement, seeing Zinc as a massive opportunity to expand Star Atlas’s player base and get more people hooked on the vision, especially with upcoming updates like Sage C4. So, the message is clear: get your Zinc profile active now! Get those codes, invite your friends, do your daily check-ins, and start grinding. Today is day one, and the early bird truly gets the biggest head start in the Zinc Alpha Season. Zinc out!

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Star Atlas Event Transcript

Ready, >> daddy? Copy and paste.

It’s there.

It’s there. First code who’s getting the first ever access to zinc. And we have special guest here.

Wagner. >> The Zagnar. >> Zello.

Yeah. Gentlemen pleasure. >> Hello, >> ZM.

>> ZM. >> Oh man. >> ZM ZM.

How do you guys like this uh Ninja launch that we just pulled off today? >> I don’t think anyone was expecting this. Honestly.

>> Yes. >> Yes. In time released.

>> Yeah, they are. Oh, see.

We have people in Santi. >> Okay. >> I’m starting to see I’m starting to see some cool stuff.

>> Uh to be honest with you guys, we already have 50 people in here.

So, I’m not I’m not sure how how they got in. >> What? >> But >> hackers.

>> Yeah, 50 people on the leaderboard. >> Wow. >> They already people already grinding, man.

need to step up my game. >> 70. We got 70 in here.

Oh boy, this thing is just blowing up. >> It’s escalating fast. >> We need to give them some codes.

Santi, >> let what if drop 10 codes there? Jose, >> should we also tell them? >> Should we also tell them that uh once they get an access code, they can also share some codes.

They get five codes to share with people. >> Yes, >> that’s important. >> All right, I’ll drop 10 codes in the chat.

Go claim them right now. Let’s go.

Yeah, guys.

So, whenever you manage uh to log in, you can give people order codes.

That’s how you’re doing this from heart to heart. You bring your friends and you guys grind together through the stairs of the metaverse.

Nice. see people get it in. Zack.

The Zachman. >> Nice. Connect.

Let’s go. upgrade is working. Uh upgrade you mean the Getting the pass should be working.

>> Yeah. Uh we did encounter just very very minor bug on this in that if you have multiple profiles, it might not be assigning it to the primary profile that you have selected.

But it is working on the in the background. We’re going to we’re going to fix that up. Um so it will periodically refresh and if you purchased um the Zinc Club premium subscription then it is applying to your XP gains.

see there is bug thing doesn’t see that I’ve locked pol.

So, some of the quests, not quests, some of the XP, um, you receive it daily. think the lockers was one that doesn’t update in real time. Swag.

Correct me if I’m wrong. >> Yeah, that’s right.

Yeah, that that updates once per day.

So, it functions very similar to how the epochs work in Sage. Once every 24 hours, it resets. >> Perfect.

Okay. >> Yeah.

So, what you do get real time, uh, and you know, we’re kind of jumping in, maybe jumping ahead little bit here, but those of you that have logged in, you see that you get Zinc XP for playing Sage, for playing Hollow Sim, for making purchases on the primary marketplace. That is from us as team. Uh, and then, um, playing completing Unreal Engine matches and locking Atlas or Polus in the lockers.

We’ve talked about all of these before. All of those are are uh relatively real time. For Unreal Engine, you will only you get the XP after you complete match.

Um and then for the lockers, those are the only ones that are once every 24 hours. >> Awesome.

Not working for some people.

Some people are getting fail to fetch bug. Need new codes.

There’s lot of codes about centering zon is saying send me code just >> I’ll send I’ll send you send I’ll send you guys some codes. Hold on. got few from my profile.

Channel that dome got to level two with an announcement. Are you in swag? Swag.

>> Uh, am in. >> Nice. Uh nice pugy is puggy is asking about prior uh prior XP.

No, no, you only start earning XP from this point forward. That was very intentional. If we counted all prior XP and mechanics, then there would be no real incentive for anyone that hasn’t been part of the Star Atlas community to participate in this is it’d be completely diluted by by all of the, you know, past three four years of of experience.

So, this is kind of fair launch uh with the one exception and would say pretty significant advantage that Star Atlas community members have, which is you guys already own assets, you’re already engaged in Sage, you’re already playing Hollow Sim, you’re already competing in matches and Unreal Engine, you already have uh Atlas and Polus locked in the lockers.

So you are immediately earning XP on day one where other people that are new to Zinc are going to need to figure all of this out and and buy some assets and buy some atlas, buy some polless, get it locked up.

So there’s bit for them to learn, but otherwise all XP starts from this day forward. And guess uh don’t know if you want me to jump into this right away as well, Santi, but um this is test season.

So this is the alpha season. Um this is going to run for 6 weeks approximately. We might change that but as of right now the tenative plan is to run for 6 weeks.

Um your entire XP cruel does not carry forward but there’s a couple of key benefits to participating now and that is um so there’s three things. Uh the first is that there is going to be maximum amount of XP that does carry forward.

That’s I don’t want to get uh too confusing here, but it’s it’s either going to be uh the the amount of XP up to level 20 or uh it’s going to be um the maximum XP that you earned at level 20 adjusted for any changes that we make to the leveling curve.

So, just to maybe put an example behind that, uh, and this is all just hypothetical values, arbitrary values I’m using, but let’s say it’s 1 million XP to get to level 20 in, uh, in this alpha season, but we decide to expand the the leveling curve when we go into the main net season where you’re actually earning the zinc allocation. And now it takes two million XP to be level 20 in the main season. You would only get to keep uh that one million XP.

So you wouldn’t be level 20. You’d be at say let’s just say level 10, >> right? >> Decent head start.

>> Yes.

And then the alternative is if we compress the leveling curve so that it only takes 500,000 XP to reach level 20. You would only get to keep 500,000 XP, but you would start at level 20 uh in the main net season.

So it’s it’s kind of the lesser of the two, either level 20 or the maximum amount of XP that you earned up to level 20 in this test season.

So that’s that’s one thing that’s going to give you big head start when we get into the main net season. And I’ll and maybe go into why that’s actually important. Um, the second thing is you guys will notice there is daily check-in process uh with daily streak and um after you uh complete daily check-in for 15 days, you get 25% boost to every XP event that you are earning.

and you will get to keep whatever um whatever daily streak you’ve maintained at the end of this season, you’ll get to carry that forward into the main net season as well.

So again, another advantage and that you’re getting an XP boost going into the main net season.

And then the third is cosmetic or maybe two cosmetics um that we add that you’ll be able to eventually apply to your your profile.

some cool benefits for being early. >> Yeah, that all makes sense to you guys. know you’ve you’ve obviously been involved in the process, but was that was that pretty understandable?

Maybe just question out there to the audience. >> think they are absolutely locked in now in trying to get into the platform side. >> Yeah.

Uh no, what wasn’t clear? Alpha Punk, you get some extra XP.

Well, some XP to carry over for the main season, which is Have we said the name or would be leaking if say it?

Okay, won’t say it. >> Yeah, that’s on Michael. >> Uh, that’s on Michael.

So yeah, for the alpha season, you will get XP to carry over to the main season.

So this is test. Uh some things may break.

That’s why it’s closed access. You all have five codes that you can give away to your friends to get them in.

So remember from the from your profile you’ll be able to see five codes which you can send to your friends to get them in and yeah get them involved early so they they start earning XP early on.

So, and then you also have some cosmetic benefits, um, which don’t know which ones Michael mentioned or not, and don’t want to get fired, so won’t say what you’re getting, but there’s also some benefits there. >> Yeah, that’s right. Um, yeah, think Jose, maybe we can explain the dashboard if you want.

Um, on >> Yeah. >> can stream it. If not, will can set it up and stream myself.

>> Yeah, maybe we set up with new wallet and go from the beginning, Santi, if you’re able to. >> Let me see. don’t want to talk to my wallets but >> yeah, let’s just create fresh wallet we can use for this.

>> Yeah.

Okay, let me find fresh wallet.

Okay, so everybody’s in. Anybody needs any codes? see people are sharing codes in the chat.

Which wallet address is the one listed under your name?

It’s profile address. Correct.

You can link multiple wallets from the top right.

That’s also correct.

Now need code. >> Everyone is just earning XP now. >> Yeah, the chat’s on fire.

I’m getting FOMO just from being here speaking, you know. >> Exactly. You’re not farming, bro.

see people raising the ranks. >> Okay. Two different profiles.

>> Look at these guys already earning some XP. Just let me stream. have 275 profiles on here.

Look at that, guys. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I’m unboxing wallet that just skish.

>> Oh, man. took it as my primary wallet. >> Yeah.

Clear the cashi. >> Yeah.

Yeah. Random wallet. don’t know which of my wallets are dogs and which aren’t.

Jesus. Just create new one.

Yeah, need to send Sena to new one, bro. Let me see. >> Gil issues kill issues.

Who’s the number one right now? Jose, let me take look.

It’s [ __ ] >> Oh my god. >> With 1. 5 million XP already.

Jesus Christ. >> 5 million. What?

>> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> No, no, no.

Everybody’s in the thousands.

That’s the highest. >> Yeah.

Sorry. 1,00.

It’s >> Oh, okay. >> American numbers.

Yeah. 1,00 1. 5K.

see Jindo. Jindo’s in first place. >> Really?

Let me update here then. Oh yeah, Jindo. Jindo got the lead.

>> No way. Jinder, let’s go. >> Jindo, bro.

He’s mobilizing his holos fleets right now. >> Oh yeah, >> see Bob. and Dr.

Jwalk Fder BG the guys are fighting Santi. >> Mhm. >> Zanzor drunk Carlos.

Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. >> should also take this moment to mention that none of this XP is guaranteed in any way. Part of this process is us uh analyzing all of the economic parameters that we’ve defined.

So what that means is we might change the formulas for all of the ways that you earn XP. Um and we would make those adjustments before we go into the main net season.

That’s that’s one of the big purposes of this is to identify any imbalances in the way that uh those economic variables are defined right now. Very important disclaimer.

Yes, man.

So good. We launch it. It is working.

Everything’s on time. Ah, life is good.

People are saying spoken like CEO or something. flag. [Laughter] >> we are unsinkable now.

Dominic Vang. >> Yeah.

I mean guys I came here for the gains but not becoming community member. >> We are now community members now. >> Falling in love with it.

>> Okay. >> Okay. >> Random random account.

>> Okay. essentially let let’s go by let’s go through everything on this dash dashboard people need to understand everything how they can farm the XP and think the most important thing to do every day is to do the checking right Santi >> checking >> so this is super important guys because as you see there’s XP multiplier bonus here day one you get 1% % XP boost. Day three, you get 5%.

Day five, 10%, day 10, 15%. All the way to 25% XP boost. Needless to say, how impactful this can be as the season heats up.

So, yes, you you can forget to come and do the checking every day.

Yes, there’s another way just to get more XP though. >> There is and very important way. >> Go ahead and sign up, Santi, and put your credit card information in.

>> Yeah, please sis. Just so we can test real quick, you know. >> Yeah, can do everything.

I’ll put my passport as well. >> Not like you need it to come back home, right?

So yeah guys, here is showing us the multi pass uh upgrade uh tab. Uh here you can buy your multipass for for zinc.

We have three different tiers. Each one of them come with different bonuses and multipliers. uh you you choose which one feels right for you and this will help you boost your XP.

As you can see, you can get even 2x more ZXP which will reflect on your ranking in the season and and also you get other very cool perks like the holosim battle pass. You get your ink domain. uh you get verification check mark check mark for your nickname which is very important.

Uh zinc is all about your identity in the metaverse.

So yeah, make sure to take look on that >> and just just to add to that and on the most important thing for me which is the multiplier. Um you have to understand that this is long game where you will be compounding lot.

So the difference on 25. 5 or 2x like 2x more is goingound over time. The more time that goes by the more that these things start having an impact.

>> So >> yes, it it snowballs >> for sure. >> All right, let’s go back to the dashboard. Uh on the left side you can see all the tasks that earns you ZXP.

So right now we have play Starata’s golden era or famous sage.

We have hollow scene or free-to-play gameplay loop.

We have lock, Atlas, and Pol tokens, which is also massive way to get CXP points.

We have primary marketplace purchases. Anything that you buy directly from Automata, you will award you points for zinc profile. Uh we have this the Epic game accounts connection and playing the U5 game.

Uh basically here, this is important. You click here. This will direct you to the Epic Game account uh tab and there you’ll be able to link your profile to this account which will allow you to grind XP while you play the Unreal Engine 5 game.

Uh and yeah and if you scroll down yes the leaderboard uh the ultimate flex of the zinc universe here is where you see how you are placing in the season. see people talking about the the the lockers just to give you guys some peace of mind. the lockers will trigger at the end of the epoch, you know, uh it it won’t it it doesn’t uh refresh in real time, so don’t worry about that.

Uh at the end of the epoch, you get your XP uh both from the Atlas locker and from the police locker. Uh when C4, >> that’s good name. >> Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Let’s do refresh to see how the leaderboard is looking. >> Yeah.

Yeah. Let’s see the competition. >> Oh, whoa, whoa.

Oh, it didn’t update.

Okay. >> All right. >> Yeah, but see people XP moving.

This is so cool. Si, there is also uh on your profile over there, top right corner. Let’s click there to show people where they can get.

So here you can link more wallets, you can connect to your Epic Game account and then there is this button, the redeem codes button uh where you can get the codes to give your friends and be part of this alpha season on Zinc. Make sure to bring your friends aboard. >> Friends, don’t let friends me miss the Zinc alpha season.

>> That’s friendship friendship advice.

Mhm. >> Don’t let your friends miss miss it. >> think we covered everything today.

>> Yeah.

Now all we need to do is let people grind. >> Yes. >> Uh Zind Zindo is saying that he brought platinum pack that awarded him lots of points.

Very cool. >> See?

Nice. >> Yeah, may maybe worth um covering also just the rough waiting that we have for the ZXP earning mechanics right now. >> Sure.

>> In fact, Santi, we could even or Jose, we could pull up the uh that graphic that Chris shared on one of the econ forums. >> Yeah, got it. got it.

Let me open it. One second. [Music] >> Do you see?

>> Yep.

Okay. Uh, so couple of things to point out here. First of all, at least for the test season, lot of these aren’t on here yet.

So, most of the social mechanics aren’t on there. The Discord giveaways is is not included. In fact, it it’ll be easier for me to say really the exclusive mechanics that we’re tracking at least in the early phases of this test, and we’ll see if we start to integrate some of them over the course of the test period.

Um, but the only ones that are available now are the Atlas locker, the Polus locker, marketplace transactions, mainet transactions, um and uh UE5 right?

So, like sharing links on that does not reward any XP right now, but we are looking at adding those mechanics in, especially as we get into the mainet season, which is when you’re actually earning the zinc airdrop allocation. Uh, with that said, it’s pretty straightforward here. Hol sim transactions, those are very low in terms of the amount of XP that you’ll generate.

Uh, that’s because Hollow Sim is completely free to play uh with no actual transaction costs on the network.

So, we still want to reward people. We want people to have an opportunity to come in and engage in the Zinc Airrop campaign without having to purchase anything or without having to spend any money.

But um obviously we are applying much higher waiting to those areas where value is being captured by us.

So hollow sim is low. Uh and then if we go all the way down to uh really the last four the bottom four line items on this um >> Sage mainet transactions those are medium to high uh much higher waiting than hollow sim. you have real costs and you’ve also had to purchase real assets on mainet in order to engage there.

Uh but some of the easiest things you can do are just um purchase anything from the primary marketplace.

There’s pretty substantial multiplier for every dollar spent uh on the marketplace and then having Atlas and Polus locked. And um the point would emphasize on Polus is that it is based on PvP.

So, um you might consider uh extending your lock duration if uh if you really want to maximize the amount of XP that you get during this campaign. PVP is pulless voting power just in case anyone out there is unfamiliar with these starless systems. >> Correct.

>> Awesome. Awesome. And guys, don’t fade the alpha season because this this season gives you the opportunity to to be ahead of everyone in the curve for the the actual air drop coming later this year.

So do your best during this alpha season because this will give you very good start against everyone else. You guys who are here today, you’re you’re already ahead of everyone. you get the first GM, the first checking bonus as well.

>> So, it’s fight on from now on. >> Everything starts compounding again. Like being early, getting the multipliers going compounds over time for sure.

>> Yep. >> Yep. >> Just what are you going to be doing to get some XP?

What is your What is your game plan? >> My my strategy? Uh you know me right Santi really like Polish so I’m adding more Polish to the locker.

Uh am also going to play have substantial fleet on Sage. got all my fleets back from ranting.

So they are full force in Galia right now. And I’ll go farm holosene as well. Time to build up my fleet in Holosim.

>> Let’s go. What about you? Focusing on U5?

Yeah, >> it’s going to be Pol and U5 mainly for me, think. Jose, yes, I’ve been building building up my U5 skills. just need to learn from Onuka on that XP that he’s getting, >> man.

On is going to make his living out of UE5 right now. Uh >> dude, one of the cool things too about uh playing like completing matches in Unreal Engine uh is like part of this whole Iris blessings campaign when we do run these 2 XP weekends. Uh that double XP on your Unreal Engine account will also translate into double the XP that you’re earning on on sync as well.

>> That’s right. >> Yep. Yep.

Yep. Yep. Arius blesses us all.

>> Same for the for earning legendary crew or pre or going prestige with them. >> Yeah, 100%. >> Multiplayers.

>> Yeah. Yep.

So, if you have legendary, you’re making 25% more XP in every match, then you’re also making 25% more XP on zinc. is that that’s that’s that’s combo.

That’s combo. >> Yeah, >> know some people that combined legendary crew with making them few levels some prestige and sync uh pass as well.

So, that’s killer combo. >> That’s the killer combo. >> That’s the meta Yes.

>> Uh, so two quick updates. Um, one, well actually one comment, one update, but for anyone that has already subscribed, if you’re having that issue where you’re not seeing the subscription on your profile. Um, we are fixing that so that your primary profile is the one that is essentially assigned the uh the club membership.

Um, that should be going out in four to 5 minutes.

So, that should all get cleaned up here pretty soon. If you’re still having issues after you’ve paid for subscription and you don’t see it applied on your account, uh we can bombard uh Arthur Darwin and uh we can go through and clean those up. We’ll just need the email address that you used when you were subscribing and we can easily go in and manually refresh that for you.

So, uh but you are getting credit.

And then the the second thing is just want to want to reemphasize because see few in about adding your polus uh or your locker wallets. Um we’ve said this few times but that that is run on daily basis.

So you won’t see any immediate XP for that in real time. Um, that’s actually run every day at uh, well, I believe it’s midnight UTC, what is for me 5:00 p. m.

uh, Pacific time right now. >> Yep. >> Okay.

Okay. What else do we have to cover here, Jose? think uh we can probably talk little bit about don’t know Swag maybe this one is for you more than than Jose so Jose doesn’t get fired.

How much can we talk about the the road map here or like what’s next? Um because we have countdown on the website that gives believe 43 days. >> 42 days.

>> Yeah. 42 and change. >> Yes.

Um let me just out there. >> Yeah. And let me just uh answer one more question before jumping into the road map.

Uh because Zion has uh has noted this with an image. There is little bit of quirkiness about how you uh manage linked wallets. Um so you have your pro primary profile and the wallet address or the pub key that you connected with.

Uh that’s your profile. What what you need to do is change to whatever other wallet you want to link.

So, make that the wallet that’s selected in your um wallet adapter. Refresh the page. Uh connect with that other wallet and then you’ll be able to go into that manage uh wallets link wallet and you’ll see the wallet that you’re now connected with and it will affiliate that new wallet with your primary profile.

kind of confusing. I’m sure we can put some documentation together for this, but um it is that process. Select new wallet, refresh the page, reconnect, and then you’ll be able to link that wallet.

>> Yeah. Need to add refresh instruction.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, we have some instructions there.

It’s it’s nice.

So yeah, we can cover bit the the road map piece uh Michael just so to give some clarity for the people here on what’s the countdown, what is the alpha season and what else can we mention about what’s coming next. >> Yeah, mean I’ll do this without sharing any specific dates because um there’s still you know quite bit of uncertainty. We’re going through this test period right now.

uh depending on on uh the performance of the test period first of all determines when we move into that mainet season. guess I’ll leak the name. don’t think we’ve we’ve shared the name, but that’s going it’ll just be easier than me saying mainet season.

So, sorry Dom, if you’re listening in and you wanted to keep this tight or can give you two seconds to tell me no, >> but but uh all good.

Yeah.

So it’s that’s going to be the origins season when we get into mainet.

So we’re in alpha season now.

That’s testing. Origins season is next. Um so this this right now we have it defined to run 6 weeks.

That’s about the only date that I’ll share. Uh we’re probably going to have short windown window because what we’ll want to do is assess all of the data that came in. and we’ll be rebalancing along the way, but we want to make sure we can identify if there were any exploits at all um in the XP systems as well.

So, we’ll probably have week of downtime, maybe two weeks of downtime.

And then we get into uh then we get into this origins season and and the tenative plan is to have that run about 3 months.

So, you can kind of do some math and know that we’re getting into the tail end of Q1. Um uh don’t hold us to any of these dates as said, but uh that’s essentially the tenative road map. You’ll have three months to earn as much ZXP as you can.

should probably point out here as well that um there is fixed pool for distribution.

There’s 10% of the zinc token supply that’s going to be allocated to this uh Origins season campaign and you’ll be getting proportional share of that.

So it’s um there’s not fixed amount of zinc that you get per XP. It it depends on the total amount of uh exp that was generated over the campaign. >> That’s important info, guys.

Take notes. >> 10% of the supply is huge.

It’s huge. It is huge.

Yeah. Um but essentially at the at the conclusion of that campaign, and these are these are uh aggressive goals. don’t know if we’ll hit these targets, but uh in the most optimistic outcome uh at the end of the season, we’re rolling out Zinc mainet.

Uh so that’s the network genesis event, the token genesis event, uh token distribution out to users, uh anybody who participated in this campaign.

There’s possibility that we do token sale.

Not really sure on that just yet, but we’re we’re considering it. Um and I’ll tie this back into Star Atlas little bit. Uh this is kind of big tease, but again uncertain on dates.

Uh but the but the goal would be to have uh Sage C4 officially launch and be on Zinc mainet on day one.

So the network genesis event uh uh consists of both launching the network and launching Sage C4 and kicking off with millions of transactions uh on day one. >> So that’s Yeah, go ahead. >> No, no, that’s alpha.

That’s awesome.

Yeah, love this. >> Again, this is optimistic. We’ll see how everything plays out, but uh if things all went to plan, which they never do, but if they did, uh that would be the result at the end of it.

And then um and then can kind of uh everything else from there is bit vague, but will say the tenative plan right now is to to have at least four zinc token airdrop seasons. uh and those are probably going on some type of two-month four-month cadence where it’s 2 months off four months on.

So that um the entire series of four airdrops are um essentially four events that are 6 months each.

Right?

So this takes us out 2 years of distributing value out of the ecosystem fund of the total zinc allocation. Uh which is in and of itself. We’ve shared some of these numbers before and there’s we we want to maintain some flexibility in those numbers as well.

But you know it’s going to be roughly 60 to 65% maybe 55 to 65% of the total token supply which is allocated to ecosystem growth.

Now that’s the airdrop campaigns um that’s grants out to other teams that are building on the network and then other forms of growth that might also consist of marketing. Um, so even after this first campaign, there’s still going to be three more after this that we’re planning for as of today. And I’ll also mention that big part of what we’re building at Zinc.

And the reason why this digital identity piece is so important is that um what we can achieve as form of civil resistance uh because of this digital identity which just means that we can to some higher degree of confidence uh confirm that this is real individual user.

It’s not bot.

It’s not multi- account. It is some legitimate individual real user taking these actions.

Well, that builds part of of reputation system and pre-qualification system.

Now, we can leverage that that reputation system to work with other teams that are building on Zinc. This might be another web 3 game, for example, and uh we can effectively work with them on some other form of value distribution. Uh which is, you know, let’s just use the airdrop terminology.

Um, let’s uh I won’t use specific example, but let’s say another web3 game wants to build out some functionality on Zinc and they would like to do an airdrop to people who are users of Zinc uh because they believe that that is good marketing avenue for them to be able to acquire new players into their game. And so, you know, they come to us and say, “We’ll we’ll do character NFT drop to users of Zinc. ” However, uh their requirements are that user must be minimum level 20 on the network.

So, we know it’s not just some brand new account that was started yesterday. Um perhaps they want to ensure that you’ve completed the optional zero knowledge KYC when we get that service built out. Um and you know, they might also want to see that you’re uh um Zinc Club premium subscribing user.

But essentially, they can take those parameters and oh, and and they want to make sure that it’s somebody who’s interacted with some other web 3 game like Star Atlas, right?

So now we have all of these data points and we can say, well, this person is an individual person. Um, they’ve been on the network for some time and they’re gamer.

So we’ll distribute this character NFT to those people specifically. And so what we achieve is much more targeted marketing channel for partners of the Zinc network.

and then those partners can distribute value out to users.

So even though the major emphasis of this initial campaign is all Star Atlas, Allst Star Atlas mechanics, um, and what you’re earning is the is zinc token allocation in the future, we envision this as great platform that can perpetually distribute value out to people who are active on the network and are legitimate real users. >> That’s very unique value prop >> that only provides.

Yeah, don’t don’t know another blockchain doing this, you know, like it’s the perfect place to be if you want to be gamer, if you want to grow metaverse, something massive as that. Zinc is really something quite unique. >> Yeah.

Um, and want to want to address I’s question here. Uh, but but also, you know, want to say it does extend beyond gaming. We’re not positioning zinc as as web 3 uh game chain like this is it’s generalist blockchain.

We are already in conversations with many teams about building out uh various um crypto infrastructure pieces that include things like DeFi.

So AMMs and liquidity pools and perpetual markets and um and borrow lend platforms.

So, you know, any of those uh could also be interested in distributing value to people based on whoever their target market is. And so, really do think of zinc as this fabric of the metaverse, this fabric of cyber nation. Um, and this is why we also used Ink as that exotic exclusive resource in Unreal Engine because there is uh convergence point between what we’re doing in digital universe and um kind of the substrate of uh uh digital society of the future and that’s that’s the combination of zinc and star atlas.

So they’re very complimentary. Um, just to circle back on Icy’s question, he said, “Can we also use that to distribute higher rewards in Star Atlas? ” Theoretically, the answer is yes.

You know, it’s it’s definitely possible that if we know that someone is unique individual user with one account, uh, that we could perhaps apply multiplier to economic incentives because they’re not just scripting, emboding, and extracting value from Star Atlas.

So, it’s possible.

That’s not necessarily in our road map right now, but theoretically that is possible.

Yes. >> Very nice. Very nice.

Um, okay. uh swag one question that know some people had and don’t know how much we can say about it but looking bit into the future uh once the the chain is live some people have asked um how to become validator or how that will work or are we going to be permissioned or permissionless um think we could cover little bit of that if we’re comfortable with it >> sure yeah mean so when we originally presented this back in August. Uh the the thinking internally was that this was going to be permissioned at the start.

Um, so that we, you know, big a big part of this, as you guys all know, we wanted to solve two considerable issues that our Star Atlas players were encountering and and that was um network congestion issues on Salana that led to failed transactions and also these priority fees issues which um you know given the sheer quantity of transactions that Star Atlas game systems produce and all of those fees, those transaction fees being borne by our users um we wanted to identify path where we could deliver better stability and lower overall costs and so the the thinking the philosophy was well let’s have tight control over this at the start so it doesn’t just run away from us.

Now we’ve had number of discussions since then and we’ve actually um had change to our philosophy and that is that we are going to be full open access and permissionless which means any team that wants to build on the network will have the capability of uh deploying program on sync as soon as we go live on mainet. Uh so there’s no restrictions to the types of applications that can be launched on the network at all. And that also means that if you want to be validator on the network, you will be able to run the validator code, operate node, um you’ll have to go out and purchase uh some stake.

Obviously, you’ll need to go out and purchase zinc uh for your stake weight. And you’ll have the ability to also receive uh staking deposits so that you, you know, the same way it works on Salana today. Um combination of user staking plus your own balance that you hold.

Uh we we actually think this is really strong net positive for tokconomics though because uh the yield curve um that has been um designed thus far for uh zinc emissions which is um function of inflation over time on uh what’s called an exponential decay function.

So that inflation rate just um declines at consistent rate over time instead of nominal value over time. Um it it starts very high. It starts at 12% inflation over the circulating supply.

And so if you want to capture portion of that higher inflation at the beginning, then it’s really to your best interest to be immediately staking and delegating your token balance in in over the first couple of years. Um so the the decay rate is uh is quite high as well.

So what we do is over the course of eight years at consistent rate we go down from or we go from 12% inflation over circulating supply down to perpetual target rate of inflation at 2%. Um and again that happens over 8 years. think the um can’t actually remember the specific decay rate, but it’s something like 15% or 20% per year.

Uh don’t quote me on that. I don’t remember the specific number there, but uh it’s something like, you know, 20% lower inflation rate every single year.

So, uh again, it’s it’s to your best interest to be staking and delegating your token supply early on because you’re picking up the highest yield off of staking in those early years. Uh and we think this could be good stimulus for not only uh people purchasing the tokens to run validator uh or people purchasing tokens to stake and delegate themselves in addition to um all of the new use cases that can be introduced on Zinc beyond Star Atlas where you know we believe our users are going to want to hold balance because you need Zinc to process all of your game transaction fees.

But opening the floodgates and letting anybody build on the network means now there’s um any number of new applications and innovations uh that require zinc for transaction fees. And so um and so we walked back we stepped back on the let’s go let’s close this and make sure that we have tight control over it. The one risk is that the network just absolutely explodes on day one and you get all these projects building on it and then and we get into the scenario where now we have high network congestion and now we have high priority fees again think that’s relatively unlikely.

think that’s pretty low risk. Um but uh in in that scenario uh where the two problems we initially set out to solve uh become problem again, we do at least have the advantage of uh the Automata team and the Star Atlas DAO are both substantial stake weight holders on the network uh will be earning this network inflation as well as transaction processing fees and we would at minimum have the ability to go in and subsidize Star Atlas game transactions using our earning things off of the network itself.

That’s something that we can’t do on Salana today.

We can’t afford to subsidize all of the user transactions on Salana. Um on Sync, we could.

So, uh all in all, think we’ve landed on really strong strategy for rolling this out. >> Yeah, thank you so for sharing the details. Definitely lot of advantages to being involved early not only on this alpha apha lounge but also uh becoming validator or staking your tokens once the DGE happens.

So yeah um lot of value to be captured by the stratus committee also for being early participants and also understanding how everything is going to roll out.

So yeah, >> Mhm. Um, let’s see what else can we cover here.

Now that we have Michael, we can ask him some questions, guys. Are there any questions there in the chat? Any questions there?

>> So Jindo, Jindo’s asking, just see the latest one here. Jindo’s asking if the referral codes count for anything.

Not in this. Uh this is just to to help you get some friends uh in if if you want to refer people.

This is relatively exclusive and again we wanted uh we wanted to introduce some benefits to participating in this alpha season but not just go full open doors on this because some things might break along the way and we’re going to be making changes and updates as we go through this. Uh so so um we want to keep it little bit tight and also reward people who are uh participating.

So, those referral codes don’t give you any particular perks or bonuses right now. Um, we’ll we’ll see if we add anything later, but as of right now, they don’t. >> Okay.

Um, so see Zarlos asking question.

So, the XP updates once once per day.

No, it depends on the on where you’re earning the XP.

So, lockers and Epic Games, yes, they update uh once per day if I’m not mistaken. The rest should update pretty much in real time. >> Epic Epic Games uh is or your your Epic account.

That’s more frequent. Uh think it’s between two and four hours, not necessarily real time, but we’re also stress testing our uh uh API call limits right now as well. >> Yes.

And another thing see some people bought the pass and they didn’t get the the rewards or they or it didn’t show. Don’t worry, like we’re tracking that issue.

No need to for all of you to create ticket. Um we are aware of it. Uh we have tickets already in the backlog and it’s been reported.

So no need to create ticket for that right now. If you purchased pass and and it’s not showing, we we will take care of it.

Yeah. Um and just on that point, so we do have the fix out. anybody that uh purchases uh the the uh the Zinc Club membership now it it will work properly.

I’m going to check with the team. Uh we can probably just re-trigger all of the existing web hooks uh just to make sure that everyone’s account is is properly updated.

But um Santia it there’s manual process there.

So, actually, if if they want to submit ticket again, we just need the email address, believe, and then we can manually refresh their account and it’ll work. >> Okay.

Well, Zarwin, good luck, my brother.

It’s going to be night. Uh, >> well, it shouldn’t be. Ju just um there were only 32 subscriptions.

say only um actually quite few people are subscribing, but there were only 32 subscriptions at the time we made the patch.

So that’s kind of the theoretical maximum worst case is 32 support tickets. >> Okay.

Well, create ticket if you have that issue. If you don’t have enough level, um we can give you some XP or you can spam the chat little bit to get there. Um you have to be level three to create ticket.

So we we did that to avoid spam and bots opening tickets basically.

So >> Michael Andromeda is asking about how the rental works for the generation of XP. Uh I believe that the one making the transaction like doing the mining transaction with the ship that he rented will get the XP, right?

Not the owner of the ship. >> It’s really good question. would need to get back to you guys on that one because don’t have uh don’t immediately have the answer on that with uh with any certainty.

So, but yes, um the XP is generated through the transaction process.

So, uh whoever is controlling the asset and processing the transaction is the uh wallet or profile that should be getting the XP.

But, um, let us get let us get back to you on that one. All right. And think we’re going to just go uh and refresh all of these subscriptions.

So, maybe we can save Darwin little bit of trust evening. >> Yeah, he’s he’s messaging me right now. Um, >> he’s nervous.

>> He needed to capture emails. Swag you said >> uh yes so that we can match the uh so we can match the payment with the user. >> Okay.

Uh bug reports on sync website.

You can give those via tickets or in the chat. Uh, we should probably create bug reports chat or something or feedback as we did go through the flow on linking several wallets. You have to switch to the wallet that you want to link, refresh the page, reconnect, and then you’ll be able to link that wallet and it will uh associate it with your primary profile.

Um, Sanfal is asking on documentation, more specifically for the zero knowledge part. He believes he has use case for it. Um, I’m guessing that’s going to come later down the road, right?

>> Yeah.

I mean, in in fairness and full transparency, we haven’t even started on that integration yet.

Okay. Any Swiss Alpha?

That’s uh they they almost got me.

So on the brew yesterday. >> Yeah, >> they almost did.

Yes. just shared the tweet that you made to avoid getting myself in trouble. >> Good man.

uh critical mind. I’m not familiar with uh with this framework. They need to look into that.

>> Yeah. >> What is multipass? They’re asking.

>> Uh so yeah, so that’s good question. Um and and that’s something that we very likely won’t add until we get to uh the origins season. Uh but multipass is is kind of an additional battle pass layer with separate uh ranking and uh like um XP curve associated with it.

Uh multipass is specifically going to be distributing additional digital asset rewards.

So, this is not the zinc token allocation, but this is um for example, we can layer in Star Atlas cosmetics, skins, uh game assets, tokens there.

You know, anything that and there’s there’s bunch of different uh rewards that Danny’s already defined. We just are not adding it to the test season.

But when you’re subscribing user, uh you will unlock access to the multipass. Um, and and I’m trying not to be confusing here, but there are two layers of earning XP.

Now, they’re all based on single XP value. Uh, your profile, which is your Zprofile, that is um that is permanent.

So, outside of the test period, but that is permanent.

So, when you earn XP towards your Zprofile, that’s always going to, you know, you’ll always be the same level and leveling up. Uh, Multipass is going to be periodic system of reward distribution for people that have an active subscription. And um, using the same amount of XP that you earn towards your profile, it gets applied to this multipass rank.

And right now, it’s it’s something like 30 different levels. And as you level and rank through the multipass, you earn the rewards that are included in that.

So, it’s way for us to add additional value to to the the subscription service.

Right now, the subscription service is pretty much uh exclusively giving you the XP multipliers.

That’s the main thing that you’re getting, but we’re, you know, the plan is to layer in bunch of value in there over time. Very cool. Very cool.

Okay, let’s see. If there are any other questions out there, >> we didn’t uh VB didn’t have any forewarning of this, so we probably did not record this. >> Yeah.

Yeah, he’s recording. >> Oh, yes.

Okay.

Okay. >> Mhm. He is recording.

Yes. >> Guy doesn’t miss beat, man. >> He’s legend.

>> Legend. >> The goat.

Yes, >> people are asking because they just want to hold this against us when when something changes, you know. >> Yeah.

So, VB actually fired. >> BB, delete delete that recording. >> Okay.

Deleting is tensing. [Music] That’s cool.

Okay.

Okay. How’s the leaderboard so far? Let’s see any changes in there.

Let me refresh. Oh yeah, some changes in there. NDR position number three.

Henrik number two and O2 KD VS UC [Music] is number one, which know who it is, but >> know who that is, too. >> No, don’t see your name in there.

Sorry. Going to call. >> It’s secret.

>> Yes. >> might have an answer back on the on the rentals system question as well. Just just waiting on clarification on one piece.

>> Michael, meanwhile, Katier is asking when claims take sales. Uh I’m glad you brought that up and actually it’s very very relevant given again you’re going to be earning sync XP as part of making those primary merch uh market purchases actually should leak it? don’t know.

Uh we we do have couple of sales planned not necessarily just for zinc but for uh various um stylus product releases as well.

So uh yeah it’s day of celebration. and we’re at the party. Uh very likely going to be releasing additional claim stakes and cultivation claims when we release C4 PTR.

>> Let’s little bit of alpha with little bit of vagory. >> Yes, sir. >> like it.

>> like it. >> We’re just letting that be ready for C4.

That’s all That’s all we’re doing. >> That’s right.

So um on the rental it is the uh the renters’s player profile.

So the person renting the asset is the one that gets the ZXP for those transactions which is is how it should work.

So you get your ships from the market and you can leverage up your CXP ac crew.

Nice.

That’s good.

Yeah, Fund Cracker, you won’t be able to use um any of the mainet assets in C4 PTR, but we think that that’s probably good time to introduce sale is when we roll that out. Um probably some limited quantity sale at that time.

It’s really interesting trying to uh connect the dots between who’s who uh from the Star Atlas Discord and the Zinc Discord. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

That’s actually very cool. >> Most of us have the same name with Z. >> That just confuses, you know.

It’s zero knowledge. >> Zero knowledge.

It’s secret. secret.

Okay. What else? Do we miss anything here, Swag?

Anything else you want to cover, my friend or just think we we did good job here, Santi. We covered lot.

We are over one hour of party already. >> Yes. Uh don’t see any more questions coming in.

So >> maybe we can drop some codes. Santi, >> let’s drop bunch of codes. >> Let’s be kind.

>> Let’s be kind. >> Time limited. They’re not time limited, but they only last for this season.

>> Yeah. And remember guys, today is the first day.

So create your profile, get that checking in. Make sure you start compounding those XP points.

Yes, just dropped 10 codes in the chat. It is impossible to connect the OKX wallet. don’t think we have support for it, do we?

Uh it depends on if the don’t remember the exact terminology but there is um like Salana wallet connect codebase that we use. If OKX is compatible with that then the way all of our applications work is it will detect any wallet extension that you have that is compatible with that and it loads that into the list of wallets. >> Okay.

So if you have the OKX uh uh you know extension and it’s not showing up then my guess is that it’s not compatible with uh that Salana framework.

Okay, need code.

Somebody said it’s evolve. dropped 10 codes that you can go claim. >> PG is asking if there’s uh going to be benefits for the claim stakes.

>> Uh we don’t have anything.

No, we don’t have anything integrated for claim stakes or or faction fleet right now for that matter. >> Okay. >> Might be something we look at for the claim claim stakes specifically.

We’ll have to think about how we how we manage that.

Yeah. >> Uh so Dakota is asking for the UI game, it shows after two or four hours because don’t get don’t get CXP on the profile and it’s still lock task. It shows every two or four hours, but believe that if you connected the Epic your Epic account correctly, it should show with green tick.

I’m not wrong. >> Uh Ryan is asking why am skill skill issue. Skill issue skill issue, bro.

>> For what? Skill issue. or for Brian.

He didn’t realize he’s winning XP from from Sage. >> Yeah, it’s from Sage. >> If you have your fleets running on Sage, you will be earning XP constantly.

So yeah.

Okay. Uh several people are typing. Let’s see if there’s any other questions.

If not, think we can break here. think it was quite quite smooth release for us. >> Yes, think the the best one.

>> Probably one of the best. Uh, shout out to our engineers. see couple of them in the chat.

So, shout out to them, to Jim Eves Donovan just everybody that was involved. I’m I’m checking who here so don’t forget about anyone but yeah Jerry also absolute legend >> Jean Ryan. Yep.

Legends. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

This ended up being a much bigger lift than we anticipated and not being nearly as far along as we thought we were. And uh so the team was absolutely grinding and putting in the hours over the last couple of months getting us to this point.

So I’m glad you mentioned that. Big thank you and shout out to them. >> Yes, shout out to every in the chat.

So now it’s in the chat. >> Uh smooth release. Let’s go.

>> Um Santi, I’ll just I’ll I’ll just close with one kind of um inspirational piece, which is uh you know, we see this as really big opportunity to expand all of the things that we’re doing at at Automata. uh but really considerable opportunity to expand um the player base in Star Atlas as well. Uh you know, we set out to solve some significant issues that you all were facing and we’ve turned this into really big marketing and distribution opportunity.

We’re able to distribute value. Uh but we’ve also coupled that very closely with engaging in actual Star Atlas mechanics. and we’re driving all of that initial user activity and any of the growth off of this campaign directly into Star Atlas engagement.

And think we have really good uh chance and opportunity here to help grow the Star Atlas base and get more people um uh educated on what our vision is there and get them playing. And really genuinely think that if we can just get more exposure and get more people to try Star Atlas for the first time, we’re going to get them hooked. Um, and obviously we have lot of big updates coming across Unreal Engine with Sage C4 rolling out.

Um, many updates across the platform. And so think this is great opportunity for everyone who’s been supporting us at Star Atlas and all of these new people that are that are jumping in to get involved, get more deeply ingrained in the ecosystem. And um, think it’s really big it’s big win the way that we ended up executing on this.

So, uh, super happy about that, super excited about the future, very optimistic about where things are going and, uh, thank you guys for for supporting us as always. >> Absolutely. >> Yes.

>> Nothing to add there.

So, think it’s it’s been an amazing night for me here. Um, smooth release and we can only compound from here.

So, let’s go. Zinc, >> zinc out. >> Let’s go.

>> Byebye. >> Bye everyone. See you.

>> Thanks everyone. Bye-bye. >> Thank you for joining.