Decentral Games Announces Play-to-Earn Metaverse Poker, ICE Token Rollout

Decentral Games Announces Play-to-Earn Metaverse Poker, ICE Token Rollout

Decentral Games is excited to announce the development of free-play, play-to-earn Metaverse poker! Play-to-earn architectures will play a massive role in driving the future of crypto and gaming adoption, and Decentral Games is now a first-mover in this nascent, but promising, space. 

ICE Poker introduces a new way for players to earn real money by completing daily challenges and competing against each other in free-to-play style poker. ICE is the free-play, play-to-earn token and deflationary in-game currency,which users will earn primarily through gameplay. ICE is utilized in the DG ecosystem to incentivize metaverse poker player liquidity. 

In order to begin earning ICE, players will need to obtain at least one exclusive Iced NFT wearable, either through purchase or delegation.


When holding a one-of-a-kind Iced NFT, players will be allocated a set amount of Chips, which are used to compete in ICE Poker.

Players can earn by:

  • Completing ICE Poker daily check-in and 3 challenges
  • Competing for daily leaderboard multipliers based on Chips net winnings
  • Delegating NFT wearables to other players for a passive revenue share
  • Receiving delegation to NFT wearables for a revenue share
  • Minting new NFT wearables and selling them on the marketplace
  • Collecting and speculating on ultra-rare DG Diamond Hands wearables
  • Mining for ICE to sell to other players, which is needed to mint rarer NFT wearables
  • Scoring on the top monthly leaderboard to earn DG, the Decentral Games governance token, which gives holders governance rights and fee sharing in the DG ecosystem

What is Play-to-Earn?

Play-to-earn is a novel gaming architecture featuring an economic flywheel that: 

  • Compensates players with tokens simply for playing games
  • Incentivizes players to burn tokens to mint/upgrade NFTs which have in-game utility and cosmetic appeal 
  • Unlocks higher rarity NFTs through gameplay proof-of-work

Effective play-to-earn ecosystems strike a balance between token emissions and burns in order to maintain the value of the distributed token, which in turn attracts more players into the ecosystem. We view the play-to-earn movement similar to that of DeFi during the summer of 2020. Projects like Axie Infinity have demonstrated that the model can be highly effective in bootstrapping a very strong community around EV-positive (expected value positive) gameplay. 

While it’s easy to fork any DeFi protocol and launch a new token, games require considerably more time and resources in order to develop and foster a strong community. As a result of this need for additional resources, successful gaming projects have a natural competitive moat and defensibility by design due to their high barrier to entry.

Time To Market: DG Is A First-Mover

Over time, we believe several projects will attempt to deliver play-to-earn architectures. However, due to the state of Decentral Games’ current product and community, DG is in a lucrative position to take advantage of this new wave in gaming with a first-mover advantage. We’ve already built metaverse poker, blackjack, roulette, backgammon, and slots, which are games enjoyed daily by our community through memorable events like live music performances, casino night competitions, poker tournaments, and more.

With large, active communities in DiscordTelegram, and Twitter, DG has built an established crypto-native community around a live product ecosystem. This has positioned DG very well in the market as we begin to implement our play-to-earn initiative from a place of strength. 

P2P gameplay is essential for play-to-earn because only then does it make sense to incentivize player liquidity. That’s why we chose to start with poker. With this in mind, Decentral Games will release a free-play, play-to-earn poker game which will create a daily distribution of ICE tokens for players and reward them for both their participation and performance. 

ICE Play-to-Earn Metaverse Poker

The objective of DG play-to-earn metaverse poker, the ICE token, and the Iced NFT wearable market is to establish a defensible economic flywheel that incentivizes deep player liquidity through daily gameplay and competition.

In order to participate in ICE play-to-earn, players must hold or receive delegation to an Iced NFT wearable. The more Iced NFTs a player owns, the more Chips they are allocated each day with which they can play ICE Poker. Players earn daily ICE by checking in, completing 3 randomly assigned challenges, and competing with each other for performance multipliers on the daily leaderboard.

Iced NFT Wearables, Delegation

Iced NFT wearables enable players to earn ICE and XP by playing poker with Chips in order to complete daily challenges. NFT wearable holders may delegate to players who want to play-to-earn for a revenue split in ICE rewards. Initially, the default split will be 70% ICE to the player and 30% ICE to the NFT owner, and XP is distributed only to the owner of the NFT.

Delegation is key for the ecosystem. NFT owners can begin to earn a passive income through the ICE won by their delegated NFT. And for the people who cannot afford or do not want to invest in an NFT, delegation allows them to still participate in play-to-earn poker.

Burn ICE, Unlock Rarer NFTs 

As players accrue ICE and XP from ICE Poker gameplay, they can mint rarer NFTs with higher ICE rewards rates by burning ICE and XP, paying 0.1 DG, and burning the old NFT.

Higher rank NFTs feature a rarer, more prestigious color and aesthetic, and at the apex level 5 Diamond Hands NFTs are fully golden. 

Exclusive Genesis Iced NFT Drop 

To start, 600 Genesis Iced Wearable NFTs will be made available over the course of 3 consecutive drops starting at 0.1 ETH each. Additional specifics on the drop will be announced shortly. 

In order to provide sufficient liquidity in the ICE-USDC QuickSwap pool, 100% of the ETH proceeds will be converted to USDC and deposited into the DG Treasury. Then, half the ETH proceeds will be converted into ICE and burned, and the remaining half will be added to the DG Treasury.

Play-to-Earn & ICE Strengthens DG

Compensating players with ICE tokens for daily poker play provides a constant stream of player liquidity. This will spill over into the other traditional games which generate revenue for the treasury. Wearable NFTs play an essential role in the ecosystem as they will be required in order to participate in play-to-earn. 

You can dive more into the economics around this new play-to-earn utility token and its architecture here: https://ice.decentral.games/ 

In Q4 2021, the DG team will release a native Decentral Games NFT marketplace. All fees will be directed towards the DG Treasury. 

Going Live in October 

We are proud to announce Collab+Currency, gmoney, Hashkey Capital, Ar.ca Funds, Binance Ventures, Decentraland Foundation, and Polygon Studios as launch partners for free-play, play-to-earn Metaverse Poker powered by DG and ICE. 

We’ve been building ICE Poker over the last month, and we are excited to finally announce it to the community. We look forward to launching our first Iced NFT sales this month and full ICE Poker launch mid-October! 

Decentral Games ICE Vision

“The Metaverse is coming; trends indicate our direction of travel. Our next great milestone as a networked species awaits us: 7B digital souls with the option to exist almost exclusively online and participate in a virtual economy with societal impact.”

Piers Kicks

The Open Metaverse is the next evolution of the internet, and play-to-earn ecosystems will play a crucial role in onboarding billions of people to the medium. Our vision is to be an early gateway by empowering anyone to join our community and earn while playing familiar games, starting with Poker. 

The ICE Poker economic architecture is the Genesis of a new chapter in Decentral Games’ development, focused on creating EV-positive economic opportunities for our players in onboarding 7B digital souls into The Open Metaverse

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