Star Atlas Event Recap 47: November 2025 Star Atlas Economic Forum

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 Economy Forum from the Star Atlas Economy Team. The following summary of the Economy Forum 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, Star Atlas community, settle in because we just wrapped up the 18th Monthly Star Atlas Economic Forum, and boy, was it a packed one! Kicking off with a little technical humor – with our hosts Chris and Jose battling some classic Discord audio woes – the vibe quickly shifted into a deep dive on the recently launched Zinc and its incredible impact across the Star Atlas ecosystem. Chris, from the economics department, opened by sharing the excitement around Zinc’s launch just last week. He highlighted it as a “very clean release,” even with a few initial economic balancing kinks that are now being ironed out, like the discovery that Hollow Sim and Sage were mistakenly awarding the same amount of ZXP – now fixed, with Sage getting its deserved higher value. The goal, he emphasized, is to meticulously balance ZXP over this test season to ensure a robust and successful “Origin Season” to come. Diving into the numbers, Chris revealed some impressive initial stats: over 2,400 total accounts registered, with 844 actively earning ZXP. What’s really cool is that 726 of those have already linked their Unreal Engine 5 accounts, showing strong engagement with UE5. So far, over 42 million total ZXP has been earned! But here’s the kicker and a point of pride for the team: the ZXP distribution is proving to be much more balanced than the typical Star Atlas economy, adhering closer to an 80/20 rule. This means the top 20% of wallets hold about 80% of the ZXP, which is highly desirable for creating a diverse group of future Zinc token holders, rather than concentrating wealth. He also shared a candid moment about a brief “double XP” period many users experienced. Turns out, an early bug caused ZXP from multiple linked wallets not to aggregate properly, leading to everyone accelerating 2-5 times faster than anticipated! This led to some quick adjustments, slowing down the ZXP earning rates as intended. The test phase is currently capped at Level 20, and Chris clarified the rewarding structure for those who reach it: you’ll get the minimum of either the current Season 1 Level 20 ZXP cap or the Origin Season’s Level 20 ZXP cap. Beyond the numbers, Chris also touched on Zinc’s subscription tiers, particularly noting that the Apex tier’s 2x multiplier is providing “insane value” for its $30 price point. Anticipate some adjustments here, with the team likely reducing the multiplier rather than increasing the price, aiming for a more balanced value proposition. The most exciting part, however, was seeing the “intended unintended consequences” of Zinc across other Star Atlas products. The Galactic Marketplace has seen a substantial increase in volume, raking in about $17,500 in primary market sales, as players strategically saved their purchases to earn ZXP. This isn’t just about ZXP; it’s a direct boost to Automata’s revenue. Sage also experienced a healthy spike in daily active users, settling at a higher baseline – a much-needed uplift, potentially driven by the excitement of ZXP earning. And perhaps the most telling impact was on Hollow Sim, where average playtime has “skyrocketed,” despite being between seasons and with its leaderboard paused. This clearly demonstrates Zinc’s direct causal impact on player engagement, even in products that aren’t actively being developed or ranked. In terms of ZXP earning mechanics, Chris revealed that the DAO is currently contributing a massive 70% of ZXP. To achieve their target distribution (roughly 40% DAO, 30% Galactic Marketplace, 15-20% Sage), the team has already reduced DAO ZXP and plans to uniquely boost Sage earnings in the coming days. The underlying principle? Rewarding “value creation” within the Star Atlas ecosystem. Towards the end, Chris gave a heartfelt shout-out to Gareth, a former econ team member who’s moved on to new ventures. In his honor, today’s Iris Blessing code is “GARETH” – so make sure you grab that! The forum also touched on broader crypto trends, with Chris briefly discussing how meme coins and trading tools are dominating Solana’s activity, hinting at opportunities for gaming and social chains like Zinc. Community questions ranged from adding ZXP for faction claims (which Chris thinks is a “good idea” for the future) to the potential for sales campaigns, and the highly anticipated Zinc Token Generation Event and Whitepaper (stay tuned for those details post-Origins launch!). So, there you have it! The 18th Economic Forum was a clear indicator that Zinc is not just a new feature, but a powerful, unifying force across the entire Star Atlas universe, driving engagement and creating a more balanced economic landscape. Keep an eye on your ZXP earnings, as balancing adjustments will continue, and get ready for the full Origin Season. We’ll catch you next month for more updates!

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Star Atlas Event Transcript

Oh, was going to say hopefully I’m on uh decided to to untether myself from my computer.

So, I’m I’m just uh me and the mic on my camera. Uh which feels feels much better. Feels like can go for hours.

Um but the audio might be little worse than it used to be. Hopefully not. All right, good enough.

We’ve lost Jose.

Good morning, everyone. I’m going to be honest. this uh this this snuck up on me.

Um think there was something with daylight savings time. It came an hour early. Uh so that was kind of a fun surprise.

So slapped together something. Um we’ve got bunch of visuals from Zinc. Um it’ll be it’ll be Zinc presentation today.

Uh Jose, do you want No, we cannot hear you. Um, do you want me to to hold tight until you’re can hear your silky smooth voice?

Okay. All right. have have the boss’s uh permission to start.

Well, happy Wednesday, everyone. Um, yeah, it’s uh it’s it’s been very very exciting week. an exciting month.

It’s kind of funny every time we uh Oh, hey, Jose.

We have sound yet for you?

No, it would appear not.

No, we do not hear you. thought was going to be the one with the audio problems. All right, I’m going to jump.

I’m just going to go and then when you get back in, uh when he when he’s able to talk, he’ll just interrupt me. Um uh anyway, yeah, been been super exciting month. Um obviously most of you guys are probably aware we launched Zinc uh last week.

think it went out on the 30th or or the maybe the 29th, but uh it’s been really cool to uh to go through that entire product launch.

We have been going crazy looking through all the data, understanding the system as it’s currently designed. Um it’s been really really would say it’s been very clean release. Um it’s been uh obviously it has not been without its issues.

Um and lot of those were kind of on the econ balancing side which is great.

So we’re able to balance the economics going into the full origin season. Um there have been couple of technical bugs. Um it’s been really fun to to find those.

Um it’s been very very collaborative effort like between me and the engineering team.

So been cool to kind of say, “Oh, think that um for example, we we identified yesterday that uh Honim and Sage were giving the same amount of XP. They were not supposed to be giving the same amount of XP.

So, uh, we’ve addressed couple of, uh, different, uh, issues, but yeah, I’m feeling very, very good going into, uh, the, you know, finishing up the first week of the the test season of Zinc and then moving into, uh, you know, when we finish this one, we’ll we’ll have all the data we need to go into very successful season. >> Hello. >> Okay, hear your voice.

>> Oh, Jesus Christ. Thank you.

Sorry, Chris. was like, “Oh my god, Discord, hate you so much. ” Sorry, Chris.

>> It was funny. We were just in meeting and was listening to you talk. >> Yeah, exactly.

Like, it’s this stage. The amphitheater is cursed or haunted. don’t know.

We are having trouble in the last two events, but I’m back now. >> Good. was just filling the silence with my was just droning on about Zinc.

So, how you doing, Jose? >> All good, my friend. All good.

Excited to learn the alpha on zinc.

Actually, need to raise few positions in the leaderboard, Chris.

So, I’ll be taking notes today. >> Okay.

Yeah.

Well, you know, have direct control over Yeah, can just hopscotch you if you need. can just >> you right into first place. >> That would be awesome.

Yes. Thank you, Chris. Um well, you know, the funny thing is was just describing how you we’ve been uh working through little bugs and kinks here and there.

Um and one one of them was that Hollowim was giving the same amount of XP that Sage was. Um and believe it or not, Sage is supposed to give significantly more uh XP than Hollow Sim, as you might imagine. Uh so we’re working through few things, but uh we’re getting there.

We’re going to slowly balance the the ZXP over the entire season. Um but yeah um I’ll go more into the balancing and stuff like that. Um oh what we got all sorts of comments trying to trying to share my screen right now um to go into the presentation.

Are we ready for the the presentation Jose? >> Yes please Chris. >> Okay should be more than all.

Wow that why would UE5 be the most valuable? That seems >> because he he plays U5 all day.

That’s why. >> Yeah. mean, you know, I don’t uh don’t disagree that maybe it could use little lift.

Um we’re probably going to do that by lowering some of the other ones, but um yeah, mean, Unreal is tricky one because you can play that for free.

So, we don’t necessarily, you know, it’s like, would you rather if you could earn the same amount of XP playing Unreal for for $0, it’s just time versus earn the same amount of XP for $100 or $200 locking in the Atlas lock or something like that.

It’s kind of a, you know, it’s tricky tricky question.

There’s lot of um nuance to how you balance that. Uh what kind of behavior do you want to reward the most heavily? Um, can tell you, you know, I think already um presented this couple of months ago in the econ forum with that chart showing the different rewards for the different activities, but we’re kind of really pushing uh Galactic Marketplace and DAO as kind of the top two ZXP earners.

As you might imagine, those are the things that drive the most value in the kind of uh entire ecosystem of Star Atlas and Zinc. Um, so those are the two most heavily mo motivated ones.

And then behind that is like Sage. Uh, then would go Unreal and then would go Hollow Sim if you were to kind of uh rank them in terms of their ZXP generation. Um, so uh anyway, without further ado, and you know, we’ll get more into the discussion of ZXP and and uh our motivation, our goals, uh, as we move into the test season.

uh players are accelerating at rapid pace. Uh can can tell couple of fun stories guess throughout this if uh if they arise.

But uh it’s been really exciting week of launch. Uh the engineering team combined with uh Daniel who was our data engineer in the econ department. He we’ve just got an awesome wealth of information.

It’s been incredible to just see it all come in and we went from zero to 100 so much quicker than any other release.

So it’s been really um awesome to see kind of all the data come in and and be able to have complete and utter control. Uh so this is the 18th monthly SATAS economic forum by the Satlas economics department. Um and uh you might notice that this uh this economics department is uh getting little bit smaller.

did want to give brief update that uh Gareth has uh moved on to bigger and better things. Uh so he’s no longer on the econ team here at Star Atlas and and Automata. Um you know we we it was just pleasure to work with him to see him grow as an analyst.

Uh you know when he was hired here he was junior analyst when he left he was essentially senior analyst.

So uh have super high expectations for his career. Um it was pleasure to work with him and you guys all know the the awesome work that he put out. Um he yeah he he was one of the he was kind of the lead behind the the quarterly report.

Uh and he assisted me heavily in in producing these uh these these uh monthly forums and then obviously he did his own kind of analytics uh that that resulted in dashboards and different projects research. Uh so yeah he he’ll be he’ll be missed and he was an incredible resource.

So, uh, you know, with that, I’ll caveat that put this, uh, combine that with the fact that found out that this meeting was happening an hour earlier than it usually does my own, uh, local time. Uh, the presentation today is going to be smattering of, uh, the stuff that I’ve been working on over the past week since we launched Zinc. Uh, so, uh, let’s move into it.

The agenda is basically just going to be bunch of Zinc stuff. did add in few visuals that thought were pretty cool um from uh the A16Z crypto report. Uh so did want to just talk about some of those.

Uh think it’s totally viable for us to go outside of Star Atlas in these calls. We want to talk about obviously our our micro our economy here, our our you know local economy here, but we also need to talk about those external uh factors and and the macro economy as whole. Uh so we’ll we’ll chat little bit about stable coins, memecoins, stuff like that, and then we’ll obviously finish as always with our Q&A.

Uh so >> great >> the first uh kind of zinc information that I’ll I’ll present to you guys just some highlevel profile data.

So in the database in the the zinc uh database, we have 244 total accounts registered.

Now, as you guys probably know, if you’ve been using Zinc, you can have multiple wallets associated with single CP profile. And so, of those of those two,44 total accounts, 1,588 are primary accounts.

So, you can think of that 1588, that’s like the base Zprofile. Um, now just because you have Zprofile doesn’t mean necessarily that you’re earning XP. You have to participate in the economy.

You have to play Unreal, you have to play Sage, you have to uh lock in the Dow, you have to purchase on the Galactic Markets, you have to be participant.

So, of those 1,500 um primary accounts, only 844 of them have actually started to earn XP. Uh now, we’re all aware of the way the blockchain products work.

Sometimes you maybe there’s bug, you accidentally link wallet, you create, you spin up new profile.

It’s very easy to do this.

So, we see this in all of our other products. Um, you know, we we’ll we’ll probably see that uh gap between the number of active accounts and primary accounts slowly grow over time as people link different wallets, log in with the wrong wallet. Everybody’s got 10 15 wallets running around.

Um what’s impressive is when you look at the active wallets there 844 726 wallets have linked their UE5 account which is actually really uh really cool to see because that means that there you know 726 kind of active Unreal players which which really seems like lot when you consider that Sage right now although it’s daily active users have been dwindling is sitting around you know 850 daily active users so 726 linked 5 accounts really really solid Um, I’ve got some aggregates for total ZXP earned. Uh, they’re kind of useless if, you know, it’s like these numbers are kind of just uh seemingly random, but 42 million total XP has been earned uh by, you know, profiles thus far. On average, the average account has 20,500 ZXP earned.

Um, one thing that really love about the data thus far, uh, and the way that players are earning ZXP, and this is really, really desirable for us, this is one of our targets, was to create relatively equal distribution.

Not equal is very vague word here, but to create more balanced distribution that follows more clean kind of 8020 paro rule uh, than our star atlas economy, for example.

So what we want is we want diverse set of hands holding the zinc token when it drops.

So the ZXP distribution is currently such that the top 20% of wallets own 80 about 80% of the ZXP. Um which yeah that may may seem like oh only you know 20% own the vast majority of the the wealth.

Well if you think about star uh sorry star sage that number is probably closer to 99%. 20% own 98%.

So, it’s very very um what we call in economics an inequal wealth distribution.

So, this is much more kind of equal wealth distribution. Very desirable.

So, I’m super pumped about that. hope to see that ratio kind of maintain over time. Um do have the top five players over here or the top five uh profiles.

As we move into Zinc, I’m going to have to get used to using user uh as opposed to players. Obviously, you know, we’ve got Unreal and Sage, which are both uh game products, so I’m used to the player terminology, but uh the top profiles you can see are there. Uh two profiles have achieved level 14 already, which uh uh could tell fun little story about this.

Um as you all might have noticed, anybody who’s participating in Zinc probably saw their uh their XP jump significantly yesterday.

Okay, some of you saw your XP jump 4x, some of you saw it jump 5x, maybe 2x for some of you. Um, for the first couple of days of the of the Zinc uh launch, uh, the program was improperly tracking or aggregating all of your different profile, all of your different wallets to your single profile.

So, what this meant was there was bunch of XP that was not being tracked on the leaderboard. Um, and so had fun awakening on Monday realizing that everybody was moving about two to 3x as quick as anticipated. Uh, so that was that was a hoot.

Uh, we kind of got to figure that out and tried to slow down.

So we pulled back on lot of the parameters uh for ZXP earning. And you’ve all probably noticed that you’re you’re maybe accelerating little bit less quickly than you were before.

Well, guess you’re now decelerating. Um, so that’s we pulled that back bit. There are definitely changes we are still working on.

Uh, but that was kind of fun thing where all of sudden realized, uh, oh, everybody’s double XP of what thought or triple uh, the XP that thought. >> We definitely had some acceleration uh, early on. We’ve got couple level 14s, couple level 12elves.

Now, that said, the vast majority of people, you can see the level distribution up here in the upper left hand corner, the vast majority of people are level one and two. Um very very few people are greater than level you know five or six. Um as you may know we are capping the test phase to level 20.

So anybody who achieves level 20 is going to get and I’m going to misspeak this here is going to get an amount of ZXP put towards next season or or origin season the first season of the zinc airdrop. They’re going to get an amount of XP um that is equal to Oh, this also this level distribution visual should point out is old given that it only goes up to level 10. Um so this was ran this before ran the um uh ran this before I uh before they updated my my database.

And this is upside down. Wow.

You can tell how quickly put this together. that visual that visual is not supposed to be upside down. Um anyh who level distribution you can see it’s really kind of nice curve here.

Um most people are level level zero or sorry level one lot of people have advanced to level two 250 or so and then we’ve got 100 people at level three 50 people at level four so on and so forth. Um so nice nice level distribution.

So, while couple of players are uh, you know, gotten up there, they’ve they’ve really kind of uh accelerated quickly, the vast majority of players are are still down there below level five. Um, and they’ll continue to edge up.

You can see I’ve got in the bottom lefthand corner days to level 20 by the XP decile.

So depending on how much XP you have, whether you’re in the 10th 10th percent of the distribution, the 20th 20th percentile, the, you know, 90th percentile, um, here is how quickly you are expected to level up to level 20. And you can see people who haven’t earned lot of XP, they’ve got 10,000 plus days to level 20. Um but for 50% of the distribution if you look at decile six and above most of those people in you know the couple hundred to you know couple thousand days the minimum uh expected time to level 20 is 8.

4 days. Um and so you know we’ll see when people hit level 20. anticipate with the changes that we made we’ll probably end up seeing people hit level 20 in the next two weeks.

Um and you know that was maybe little bit quicker than we had anticipated. Uh given that once you hit level 20 there’s not whole lot of expect you know there’s not whole lot of motivation to to keep participating because we are capping uh XP at level 20. Um, and what was going to say earlier before realized that one of my charts is upside down, um, is that the amount of ZXP that you will receive is going to be, uh, the minimum of either the amount of XP that is at level 20 currently or um, the amount of XP.

Uh, okay, so let me let me just uh, walk through this because I always say this incorrectly. Let’s say that we move the level curve out. And so level two, uh, sorry, level 20 requires more XP in origin season.

Your level, your XP will be capped at whatever the amount is this season for level 20, which think is like 3. 2 million ZXP.

So let’s say that in the next season, level 20 takes 5 million, you will get 3. 2 million ZXP towards origin season. Um on the other hand, let’s say we leave the the curve the same, you will keep 3.

2 that 3. 2 uh million CXP. Um uh furthermore, the kind of final example, if the the curve is pulled in, which very highly doubt it will be, but if the curve is pulled in such that suppose level 20 only requires, you know, million ZXP, then we will give you that million ZXP.

Um, so that’s kind of what meant by the minimum. Um, if level 20 in the next in the origin season is Yeah, thank you for flipping that. Um, would uh would would flip it.

Um, but don’t know, you know, what tabs have open.

This is my company account. don’t want to give you guys any super st Yeah, >> exactly. Um, so yeah, you can kind of Oh, yeah.

You can’t even don’t know how this thing got mean it got mirrored and flipped. That is crazy. Any who, you can see we had really strong growth on the first two days.

Lots of uh users around around 650 users on the first day or or sorry uh on the second day and then on the first day we had about you know 500 users. Uh so really really strong uh user numbers thus far. Obviously, we had pretty sharp uh fall off, but we’re seeing about 100 users per day uh for the last few days.

Um pretty decent fallback on November 5th, and we’ll see what today holds. Um and then the final chart here kind of went in a weird counterclockwise order here. Uh just wanted to break out the subscribers by tier.

So, in the profile, in the Zinc uh system, you can subscribe. Uh this is monthly subscription that will currently the only real benefits think there might be some cosmetic benefits but there’s also uh ZXP earnings uh multiplier.

So if you’re an Apex tier you’re getting 2x multiplier. If you’re an Aura tier you’re getting 1 uh think it’s 1. 5x and then if you’re an alpha tier it’s 1.

25x something like that. Um can tell you enjoy the good times while they last.

we are going to probably end up pulling back the Apex tier at 2x. Um it is an insane value for the money. Uh when you think about the fact that that is $30 uh for for that you was thinking about if you spend $10,000 for example in the marketplace and you spend an additional $30 on this uh subscription for month, all of sudden you’re getting $20,000 worth of XP.

Uh so yeah, pretty uh pretty not surprised to see everyone leaning towards the Apex tier. Um but yeah, we’ll probably we’ll probably pull that down tiny bit. Um there’s basically two options.

There’s the option to increase the price and then there’s the option to reduce the the benefit and we’re going to reduce the benefit. Um so those are some top level stats, super super early, you know, aggregations. At this stage, we’re very much in the data description stage of this analysis where we’re just kind of getting big broad aggregates, high level 10,000 foot view, and then, you know, over time over the next several weeks and months, we’ll we’ll start to do some more sophisticated stuff, look at um you know, price sensitivities, user behavior, um longer term studies where we’re not just looking at, you know, seven, eight days of data.

Um so now moving on to kind of some additional highle statistics with respect to transactions and ZXP. Uh in the upper left hand corner you can see just the total transactions that are coming into the zinc uh system. Uh you can see it’s it’s quite lot of transactions.

Most of those are as you might imagine attributed to Sage and Hollowim. Unreal updates on two-hour cadence.

So basically anybody who has connected wallet is going to get single transaction transaction for Unreal every single you know every two hours. If your your XP and Unreal updated you’ll get um the ZXP appropriate for the amount that you earned. Um and then the DAO as you guys have probably noticed only goes through once day.

We do the Dow check once day at the end of the day. Um not 100% sure on the exact UTC time. Uh but yeah, plenty of transactions coming through.

Um seems like there’s just, you know, there’s no there’s no indication that the the uh the excitement is is dying down. Everything is seems to be trending upward, which is which is great. Um on the right hand side, upper right hand side, you’re going to see the XP distribution by event type.

Now, this is since November 4th because we put to we put through some pretty dramatic changes to the ZXP gains um in the first couple days.

So as you can see DAO is massively kind of uh contributing uh 70% as of the last two or three day or two days.

It’s contributing the vast majority of ZXP. Um we have actually since this figure uh we we are we put in change to that today. We’ve reduced the amount of ZXP that DAO uh receives by small amount.

We’re also going to update the way that Sage uh uh produces ZXP.

So, this will be be getting quite big shakeup in the next couple of days. Uh, so we’ll see what this ends up uh coming out to. As you can see, Hollow Sim currently outsizes Unreal.

Um, Hollow Sim also very recently got big big downturn uh downgrade, which was obviously intentional. Um, so we’ll likely see Hollow Sim fall below Unreal in the next couple of days. Galactic marketplace is is kind of an awkward one because it heavily depends on how much money people have spent.

Um, you know, if somebody goes in and makes $10,000 purchase or something, all of sudden the galactic marketplace, you know, is going to make up 40% or 50% of the day uh because of how that scales. Um, did my own internal analysis on kind of the return to the dollar return to ZXP um or of ZXP. Uh, uh, you know, if you were to spend dollar in the marketplace versus, um, you know, put dollar in the Dow for 45 days.

And, uh, yeah, the Galactic marketplace is is quite attractive, would say, in terms of generating ZXP. Um, uh, real quick, Earthther has question. Uh are you waiting Atlas and Polus lockers similarly?

Um the Atlas and the Polus lockers are supposed to um yeah mean the methodology is little bit complex but uh they’re supposed to be uh they should be relatively similar. Like if they’re not exactly the same, they’re they’re very close to the same. Um that’s kind of the the intention.

Um and you know we can we can adjust things over time as we uh break this out. You you’ll notice didn’t break the DAO event uh into BBP versus Atlas. Um I probably could don’t think that would reveal any uh crazy uh information, but it’s currently being tracked as the same thing, though can break it out pretty easily.

Um so we’ve got all this zinc, you know, all these transactions, all this zinc being earned. Um, went ahead and, you know, took the liberty of doing very early analysis to look at, uh, zinc earning from ZXP if we were to do distribution tomorrow. Obviously, this the test season, we’re nowhere near zinc distribution, but just thought, okay, well, I’m going to mess around with all of my different methodologies and and um algorithms in terms of um zinc output.

Now keep in mind uh first of all the methodology behind how this is generated is is obviously highly um uh you know protected.

This isn’t something I’m going to to share especially not right now but using one of the many methodologies that uh that we have at our disposal. just thought it’d be fun to simulate what zinc airdrop would look like. And you can see this broken out by decile, the amount of zinc that uh each decile would get on average.

So you can see the top the top 10% of players would receive on average just around 40,000 zinc of the uh um uh 100 million tokens that are going to be in total circula.

Well, the the total supply of the token. Uh so 40,000 for that top decile on average and then 20,000 for that next uh that 20, you know, that top 20% uh player, the the 80 to 90th percentile, they’re going to receive 22,000 on average and so on and so forth. And you can see that bottom, you know, part they’re still getting something.

Not not huge amount, but uh so it was kind of fun little experiment. This, like said, has absolutely no bearing on what is going to happen in reality. It was just kind of fun little uh simulation uh of my own creation.

Um so yeah, it’s funny. I almost titled this slide unintended consequences, but this is very much intended unintended consequences. Uh here are three of our major kind of programs uh that are affected by uh that that affect your ZXP.

Um, in particular, the galactic marketplace has seen very very substantial increase in uh volume over over the past couple of days since we launched Zinc. Um, not unsurprising perhaps there were people who knew that, you know, who noticed that Galactic Marketplace would reward Zinc or sorry, ZXP and so they said, “Okay, well, you know what? I’m going to save my transactions for later.

” Uh but you can see we’ve generated about $17,500 in um primary market sales on the marketplace. Uh which is which is really great. Um you know it’s it’s super important for Automata uh to to begin to generate revenue in order or to you know to continue generating revenue in order to um uh to deliver uh the best possible product.

So it’s been really cool to see the Galactic Marketplace increase in its um in its kind of activity level. uh you know see somebody gamified e-b businessiness platform um yeah think that is one of the kind of cool things about um about blockchain and web3 products is just the integration you know early on people were always talking about interoperability and think that that’s totally uh totally relevant here it’s like okay we’ve got all these different products that are all linked how can we create single uh profile that connects them all and that’s kind of what ZProfile does so it’s really cool to see the interplay there and we can simultaneously motivate people across all of the different products.

So, you’ve got uh on the upper right hand corner, don’t have these super well-labeled again because just kind of copy and pasted these for my my own dashboards. Um daily active users in Sage. Uh you can see there’s a nice healthy spike up and it seems like we’ve settled on nice uh higher daily active user number.

Uh that’s about 50 users larger than where we were. Uh you can see that that downtrend. There is no question the last couple months in Sage have been have been rough.

Um we are obviously all awaiting C4. Uh we’ve also noticed the macro environment uh being far less than desirable uh you know conditions.

So it’s nice to see that uplift in Sage daily active users. Um you know can we say that this is 100% due to zinc earnings? Uh maybe not.

But think that that excitement, the excitement that comes from new product, the excitement that comes from this beautiful kind of metal medley of all of our products, uh think that it could definitely be major driver in that uptick in daily active users in Sage.

And then I’ve also plotted in the bottom lefthand corner the average play time in Hollow Sim. Again, not super obvious what that is, but the average play time in Hollow Sim has definitely uh, you know, skyrocketed and the, you know, Hollow Sim is currently in between seasons. Obviously, you know, we’re not, uh, we’re not even upticking the leaderboard anymore in Hollow Sim.

So, it has been fun to kind of see that impact. mean, this is this one is is powerful because it tells us that, okay, this is definitely an impact of Zinc.

There’s no question the only reason people are playing hollow sim is is probably to earn zinc uh you know zxp.

So that’s been very satisfying to just see the uh causal impact of this zp profofile system this even test season which is you know we haven’t really distributed super far and wide.

We haven’t done any massive uh campaigns for it because it is test season and we want to make sure it’s working before we we make that push. Um, but yeah, it’s been it’s been cool to kind of see those intended unintended consequences across the entire um entire suite. Um, will pause there and wait for any uh any questions that people might have.

Um, know I’m going little bit fast. We’ve did have quite bit of content to get through. Um, I, you know, I’m happy to to chat about, uh, the the first couple days, your guys’s experience, you know, how you feel it’s going.

Um, kind of explained the ZXP earnings thus far and and how we’re balancing that and and how we will continue to balance that. >> Yeah, Chris, get some water, friend. have been here trying to sneak in this comment for while now, you know, because you have been going.

But yeah, lot >> Yeah, lots of information.

It’s super cool. And while you do that, will read the questions here. Uh the first one come from Rome.

Chris, any plans to add faction claims to ZXP? >> Honestly, um that’s really good question. am at this stage I’m not opposed to doing it.

Uh not at all. don’t know how much internal discussion there has been um for doing that. Um believe it was at least one point it was in the brief.

Um but yeah, mean it seems like pretty lowhanging fruit. Um to be honest, haven’t put ton of thought into it. I’ve been so distracted with with the current um uh with the current deployment, but don’t see any massive issues with with um adding ZXP to uh for for faction claims.

>> Yeah, especially claim stakes, right? think those deserve some some love.

Yeah, because mean that’s we we often say with with uh faction claims, oh, we want you to play Sage, so we’re okay with faction claims being, you know, ignored and neglected. Um, which, you know, think over time our our our feelings about that have have shifted, but faction claims don’t currently have an alternative. Um, they won’t have an alternative until C4.

So yeah, it seems like a potential potential place for uh opportunity. >> Tango Mike also asked it, are you happy with the locker weight for XP so far? >> Um not not quite.

Uh as you could see, it’s it’s making up about 70% of the ZXP uh earnings.

Now after today have have adjusted the system uh that that percentage will reduce and then we’re also planning on bringing Sage up little bit um in in unique way. Obviously trying to stay vague in terms of how all that works but um you know we we’ll probably see Sage come up and DAO go down over the next couple of days. think in an ideal world with moderate galactic marketplace spend uh we would see roughly like 40% DAO 30% GM 15 to 20% Sage and then everything else fills in in the gaps um is basically how we kind of those are the targets that we set for ourselves.

So we would like to try to hit those. Um and again we’re we are emphasizing value creation in the Starless ecosystem. If you are willing to uh you know put put value into our into our suite of products then you’re going to get more ZXP out.

>> Very very cool. Very cool. Um, let’s see.

Any other questions, guys? Or can Chris keep moving forward? do see comment from Larenor saying that Hollis proved that they can’t combat alts properly.

Um, that’s that’s not entirely true. uh you know this is this is slightly off topic but we did have list of I’ll say um data scientifically um determined polyim alt accounts uh basically meaning you know I wrote an algorithm that went out and and found alts um but you know we determined kind of internally we determined that it was uh it would be better to Um there is risk associated with that. Obviously I’m not you know don’t claim that this algorithm had 100% hit hit rate.

Um there was chance that it would miss some and there’s chance that it would it would improperly uh claim some and uh just because of the the you know the internal resources and and our motivation between different products uh didn’t seem uh didn’t seem worth it to accidentally punish the wrong person or not punish the right person.

So there were bunch there’s complex uh set of reasons why we we decided ultimately not to enforce those but you know we do especially actually now that you know from our learnings from hollow season 1 chapter one uh it’ll be much easier to you know that the accuracy of such an algorithm will be even higher so should feel pretty good about uh that in the in the following season um okay >> probably yeah sorry go ahead No, no. Just saying think this is good moment to share today’s code. And >> yeah, and today’s code is Gareth in honor of our friend Gareth, who we love very much.

Yep. Go get your uh Iris blessing.

Okay, there were couple of comments saw. There was good idea to to give hollow XP only for accounts of battle pass. Um, that’s an interesting idea.

I’m not entirely opposed to that. Um, the tricky thing there is if you have uh well, we could build that in. was going to say if you if you’re Zinc subscriber, then you’ll automatically have the Hollison battle pass.

Um, but yeah.

Yeah, that’s that’s not terrible idea. Um, we do like the idea like we want to reward participation in the ecosystem. uh that’s hence unreal, right?

Um so we don’t necessarily want it to be that there is complete hard uh gate such that you must spend money in order to earn zinc.

It’s just that you’re not going to probably not going to earn as much as if you had uh you know, you know, put put uh value into the ecosystem.

So um I think it’s an interesting idea. Uh, but think that because the battle pass is built into Zinc, you’re already earning more from Hollow Sim by being battle pass subscriber.

So, it kind of does it.

It’s already built into it, guess. Like, you’re going to get more from Hollow Sim if you have the Battle Pass anyway because you’re getting higher resin multiplier. Um, so it’s an interesting idea.

I’m not entirely sure that it’s it’s worth implementing um just because with the recent update to hollow sim that that XP is greatly reduced. Um what pro what econ is worth 40% less than the ship?

Yeah, they are they are asking me to bump the amount of tickets you get from the ecom forum code, but told them that since it’s the community team that creates the tickets, we can arbitarily add more tickets to our events, you know. >> Nice.

Okay. All right. Let’s uh let’s let’s let’s move on.

Okay.

So, actually speaking see speaking of my substack, um I did want to just address the uh the A16Z uh put out a nice like very nice um couple of visualizations and and report on the state of crypto. Um now, keep in mind this came out like think this came out two weeks ago.

So, this was before the most recent uh you know, crypto market downturn. Um, but you know, thought there were some really interesting learnings in there. Um, actually wrote this up in my my blog.

just haven’t posted it yet because I’m I’m was going to say I’m lazy, but it’s because I’m working so much on zinc stuff. Um, but yeah, um, thought there were couple of interesting learnings uh that wanted to bring up. One was the kind of the top the figure that struck me the most was just NFT volume.

Um, and now they, you know, they they’re kind of, uh, spinning this as, well, NFT volume is down, but the number of traders is up, which don’t totally disagree with that that take. think that that’s that’s probably true. Um, mean, you think about product like Stratus Crew, the whole point of that product is that, hey, we’ve got this really interesting uh technology called compressed uh non-f fungeible token.

What if we were to use that to create millions of unique uh crew assets on chain that could be used in video game? Um now each of those the value of each of those because there’s millions of them. You’re not going to have you know every single one of those isn’t going to be worth $10,000.

The average price is not it’s not going to be boarding yacht you know club token or something like that. The average price is going to be more like two $3 or a$150. Um so you know when we think about that paradigm shift this visual makes lot of sense.

Uh there’s less emphasis necessarily. It might be that case that you know there’s less emphasis on super high value oneshot NFTTS and maybe more of hey let’s see this as technology and let’s use it and the price is much more what would say grounded in reality. Um so we’ve kind of seen the activity level uh increase while the volume has decreased.

Now one thing to note is that like lot of this increase has come from base and abstract which are which are two you know kind of new entrance uh into the well abstract is new entrance into into the the the system. If you look at Salana, Salana’s uh monthly active buyers has actually kind of started to come down uh bit especially since uh 2024.

So if you look at our ecosystem, uh the number of buyers is is uh coming down and the volume volume is obviously also coming down.

So that’s just kind of an interesting uh trend that we should be aware of. It is basically counter the opposite side of that is the fact that meme coins uh and stable coins for that matter have just completely exploded. Uh you can see uh application revenue on Salana um now this is not like market cap or anything.

This is actually revenue generated on Salana um in the bottom right hand corner there of memecoins has just completely uh kind of taken over.

So memecoins are basic, you know, if we think about speculation, memecoins have replaced NFTts in that way.

Now, this seems like pretty natural direct, you know, uh, evolution. Memecoins are fungeable. They’re much easier to value.

You know, every single one is exchangeable with another one.

It’s much more of headache to deal with an NFT. If you’re trader or an arbitrageer, it’s just, you know, it’s much more straightforward to trade token, you know, fungeible token like a cryptocurrency than it is to trade complex NFTts with characteristics and all this stuff.

So, this to me seems like market just becoming um little bit more don’t know, can’t think of the right word. want to say um uh efficient, but that doesn’t seem like the right word to describe. Nature maybe.

>> Huh? >> Nature maybe. >> Yeah.

Yeah. guess mature. Um maybe maybe that is the best word, but you know, it’s like kind of seeing people move into these easier uh to trade assets.

Uh and and you know, don’t have strong conclusion from this. I’m more making observations. Um but yeah, mean there’s there’s lot of different ways to to read this data.

You can see huge spike in activity on base, but you also see most of the other ones kind of coming down little bit. Um, and then you can obviously see the massive amount of value being generated on Salana, but most of that’s in memecoins. Is that good thing?

Is that bad thing? Um, you know, is is the value simply transferring from NFTTS to memecoins or is there new type of market emerging emerging? Um the the important thing here is that you know uh that they’ve pointed out is that Salana is the hub of economic activity you know and point out I’ll point out that yes um but the vast majority of that is memecoins the vast majority of that is trading tools and trading tools actually think is is good thing but um you know that to me this uh this really opens up the market for gaming chains for um social chains obviously viously like zinc uh but you’ve also got your SU sooie uh chains you’ve got your avalanche chains AVAC all these types of uh chains that really have an opportunity to um execute on this uh gap that Salana has left in the market gap you know Salana wants to be Visa they don’t necessarily want to be um you know the roadblocks of of web 3 so that’s that’s something that that’s important for for us web 3 uh gaming ecosystem systems to to keep in mind.

Uh but anyway, enough on the A16 stuff. We’re got about 10 minutes left and think it would be good opportunity to uh didn’t even put Q&A on the final slide. Oh, it’s been it’s been long week.

But we’ll go into Q&A.

This is supposed to say Q&A. Uh know you guys have already asked few questions. think this would be good Yeah, good good time to just open it up.

Anything and everything. Um, doesn’t have to be specific to zinc, but you obviously happy to answer questions on zinc. Um, >> uh, one question that saw here, uh, can Chris leak some sales so can use my 25% bonus wisely after reach 15 days checking streak.

Are you guys thinking about something like this, Chris? >> Oh, man. Wait.

Okay. Can Chris leak some is the question. Should they delay until they have their their the biggest possible uh streak bonus?

>> Yeah, people want to use the maximum multiplier for the their zinc XP approval for marketplace, you know.

So, they are asking if you are thinking about doing some promotion or sales campaign. Um, we actually have, um, we definitely have been thinking about different different promotions, different campaigns we could do. Um, probably won’t address any of them, uh, specifically but uh definitely something on our radar.

Um, and the fact that, you know, you you guys are mentioning it in the comments is, uh, think encouraging for us. Um, we know that it’s not the ideal economic uh macro environment, especially for for gaming tokens and and and altcoins. Um, you know, it’s really been year for the top eight to top eight coins, top 100 coins, but it’s it’s not been super great for for us smaller guys.

And so, um, you know, we want to be sensitive to to the, you know, to those uh to those conditions.

But yeah, mean if if you guys are are interested in uh some sort of sale that that that’s even encouraging for us because it kind of yeah reinforces what we were already thinking. >> Great. Another another cool question that just saw from here.

Can you talk more about zinc TG and any details you can share about it? >> Um we’ll save we’ll save that for once Origins launches. How’s that sound?

>> Okay, sounds that’s fair.

That’s actually fair. >> Yeah, lots of uh lots of complexity there.

There’s there’s tons of complexity with with the TGE event. Um so, or that was redundant statement, but with the the generation event.

So, um think it’s bit too early to discuss those. >> Uh Chris, when zinc white paper people have been asking me this. >> That’s actually really good question.

Um we have uh we have we have documents internally um but uh don’t think anything is um don’t think anything’s polished yet but yeah would assume we’ll launch white paper. Um know uh Michael Wagner has been kind of would say meh on white papers. Um, you know, think and it’s totally fair, you know, it’s like think about Atlas, Polus.

While we’ve stayed true to, you know, almost the entire tea of those white papers, um, in an environment like, uh, crypto that’s changing all the time, why would you back yourself into corner, write yourself into corner um, by saying things that, you know, who knows what the the environment will look like? Who knows what the technology will look like? Uh so we’ll see TBD on the on the white paper whether we actually launch like an official one.

We obviously have tons of like tokconomic documentation and and stuff like that and planning docs, but uh not sure. see question. >> All right.

All right. Flareinor, do we have somewhat rough estimate how much zinc worth we get? Um, mean, as far as how long we’d be able to pay for fees with the airrop proportional to what is generating XP and siege.

Um, interesting.

Okay.

So think this is question about like um so honestly this is probably question more so about the blockchain uh how the blockchain will work how the zinc blockchain will work in terms of like uh fees. Um don’t want to talk to it because I’m not 100% sure what that looks like. Uh don’t think know that the zinc blockchain will have fee.

I’m not really sure how that works. know we’ve talked about um on the business side, we’ve we’ve talked lot about how we’ll manage uh fees and and especially with like the subscriptions uh you know with with the Zprofile um you could imagine you know hey uh Apex subscribers you know wave fees or something like that or or uh maybe maybe they get reduced fees um we’ve got all sorts of interesting technology that we can play with um but yeah with respect to the the technical details it’s more kind of on the blockchain side and still have yet to get very strong brief on how Zinc uh blockchain will work but more more to the point of direct relationship between ZXP and Zinc um uh yeah mean that it’s definitely something that won’t talk about uh now might never talk about um yeah so so I’ll shut is asking, “Do you see becoming sort of stable coin one day, Chris? ” [Music] >> Well, that’s that’s an interesting one.

Um, you could imagine, mean, one could imagine um, web 3 game economy that functions similar to how um, there’s game called uh, Intropia Universe. I’m sure many of you are familiar with it. It is it’s kind of an interesting system.

Uh the reason like it is because it doesn’t generate value from nothing. Any value that comes out of it was originally put into it.

Now that means that there are winners and losers. Um and it also means that the company responsible for building tropia universe um think they’re called Arkmind or something like that. Um that uh that business is literally registered as bank.

Uh you know and there’s there’s whole bunch of regulatory stuff that comes with that.

Now you imagine putting that on chain where it’s an entirely decentralized system uh where the flows of value in and value out are determined by blockchain programs. Uh think it gets really interesting.

So yeah, could imagine very easily could imagine um and I’ve thought about this lot in the past a web 3 game or you know uh play to earn system that utilizes stable coin. Um now the tricky part obviously with like Atlas specifically is that well you need to turn you need to create stable coin and stable coin is something that requires an immense amount of capital in order to generate.

So, um, you know, the practical components there are, um, are, you know, questionable when it comes to Atlas specifically, but you could definitely imagine building stable coin driven play to earn economy. >> Interesting. >> Last questions, guys.

Speak now or forever hold your peace. >> Katier says he would love to hear you talk about powering Atlas with C4 in game. >> saw this question the other day.

Um actually wanted to address it. Um so think what Katir is saying um is and you correct me if I’m wrong. What think you’re saying is um C4 is going to be generating rent from claim stakes.

So if you put your claim stake down, you pay rent and that goes to the DAO and using that DAO revenue in order to power Atlas emissions. Is that what you’re saying, Kier?

Some buyback tricks for Atlas.

Not 100% sure what that means. Oh. Uh, so basically, are you just saying like if C4 is massive success and we’ve got tons of dough rolling in, we’ll do token buyback?

Is that the question?

Yeah. mean, in terms of um Yeah, in terms of ship, you know, ship component losses in battle being an alysync.

Yeah. C4 solves lot of lot of our problems. Um, for those of you who have been around for while, you know that when we launched Sage, um, well, when we first launched the like thing that that sparked Sage, it was literally like movement system and you could click button that would randomly drop you loot.

Um, and that we called that escape velocity. Um, and Sage was obviously massive massive improvement on that. Um, but for the most part, it was not terribly different system.

All things considered, it was like basically the same kind of concept.

It’s just had more moving parts.

So, uh, hey, now you warp around, you mine stuff, you bring it back, you pay fees, you craft, you have this complex thing, but at the end of the day, you get, um, Atlas.

Now, what combat with ship components and claim stakes with rent uh provide us is with obviously randomness and and skill needed to uh place those things and make sure that you’re um you’re being safe and you’re not going to get blown up. Um but obviously like an immense amount of syncs uh tons and tons of atlas can be sunk and we can use that.

You know, the Dow can use that. Um or you know there’s there’s lot of interesting tokconomic opportunities there. Um, just talk about C4.

Anything?

Well, we’re we’re up on time. don’t know if have enough time. Arthur just wants just wants to hear hear I’ll record I’ll have an AI just like populate me talking about C4 and then I’ll just send it to you.

It’ll be like two hours. All right, everyone. Chris, thank you for your time for everything.

It was really interesting forum. Brought much needed clarity on some topics of zinc and yeah, we can’t wait until we get to the orig I’m really looking forward to it. Doubles in the chat for Chris.

>> Yeah, thanks guys. And yeah, hopefully I addressed uh questions, concerns. cuz know there’s like there with with such large product suite, it’s very easy to um you could just talk about each one of our products for hours.

So, there’s tons of questions. Um and yeah, you know, I always try to do my best to answer um but also want to not put my foot in my mouth.

So, uh thanks guys for being accommodating and appreciating when am unable to answer question. Um but yeah, it’s always been it’s always pleasure. Um, will see you all next uh next month.

>> Thank you everyone. Bye Chris. Bye.

Cha cha. Bye guys.