Decentral Games Weekly Newsletter #113

GM Decentral Games community 👋

A huge welcome to the new 33,640+ Geckos joining us. It’s good to have you here! Hope you’re having fun with your new skin.

Alright, we’ve got a lot to unpack this week. Let’s get right into it.

Table of Contents

• Referral Program
• Iceyyy Cup
• CoinGecko Partnership
• Spring Skins
• Other Highlights
• Development Focus
• Ecosystem
• Governance
• Tournaments
• Metaverse Events
• Community Spotlight

🤝 Referral Program

Our referral program is here!

Now you can earn free tournament entries for every friend you refer. And we’re holding a competition to see who can refer the most people—the winner gets a set of AirPod Pros!

How It Works

1. Visit the link below to get your unique referral link.
2. Send the link to your friend. They must sign up for a new account using their email, Twitter, or Discord.
3. You’ll get 3 Shine, and your friend will get 9 Shine after signing up.

Learn more and get your referral link.

Leaderboard Competition

Refer your friends and rise up the leaderboard. If you place 1st or 2nd, you’ll win:

• 1st place: AirPod Pros
• 2nd place: DG Hoodie

Competition ends April 13.

🏆 Iceyyy Cup

On Wednesday, we hosted the first Iceyyy Cup: a tournament featuring 6 creators playing for a $500 prize pool.

• Iceyyy
• Joe Ingram
• Brycent
• Crypto Sache
• Classy Crypto
• TSG

Congrats to Joe Ingram for being our first winner!

Thank you to each participant for joining, it was a blast having you. And thank you for tuning into the stream. If you missed the action, you can check out the Twitch recording (it’s a must-watch until the end).

🦎 CoinGecko Partnership

The Geckos are back!

We partnered with CoinGecko for another skin and a Metaverse tournament event. On Wednesday, these 2 Gecko skins were listed on the Candy Reward store—and sold out in a few hours!

CoinGecko Metaverse Tournament

On Friday, March 24th we’re hosting a Metaverse tournament with CoinGecko.

Put on your Gecko skin and come play against the CoinGecko community for big prizes like MacBooks, iPhones, Decentraland LAND, and more.

And we’ll be holding a giveaway during the tournament: 2 winners will get a DG hoodie or hat.

To enter the giveaway:

• Tweet a photo of your Gecko skin at the event
• Tag @DecentralGames and @CoinGecko

Check out the event page for full details.

🍀 Spring Skins

Spring has arrived to ICE Poker. Check out the new Spring themed sign in page.

Pssst Crown owners: check your wallet for a nice surprise.

On Friday, we airdropped some Spring skins to your wallet. Hope it brings some luck to your table.

🗞 Other Highlights

• On Monday, we released a Metaverse update with a new Top Up Chips feature and bug fixes. Check out the patch notes.
• We added new prizes! Now you can win DCL LAND, $DAI, an Xbox Series X, and more. Hop into the ICE Poker Arcade to check out what’s in stock.
• On Thursday, we partnered with Mad Meerkats for a custom Arcade wearable. See you at our Mad Poker event on Tuesday. Check out the event page for full details.

💻 Development Focus

Our focus for this upcoming week:

ICE Poker Metaverse

• Continue integrating player leveling into Challenge Mode and Arcade Mode.
• Continue development for Stage 2 of Assigned Seating V3.
• Polishing Arcade Mode and Blackjack experience.

ICE Poker Arcade

• Continue development for a Free Play Mode.
• Beginning development on ICE Poker Chests.
• Adding new prizes to the Arcade Prize Marketplace.

Marketing

• Setting up influencer campaigns.
• Continuing partnerships with various communities.
• Optimizing blog and adding educational poker content to increase organic traffic.

💎 Ecosystem

• Treasury: $17.7M
• Weekly Revenue: $28.1K
• 83.9K $DG purchased from Polygon validator node rewards
• 1.7M $ICE purchased from secondary sale royalties, USDC from LP, and LAND sale

View treasury dashboard.

🏛 Governance

Active

• XP for Delegated Players

Passed

• None

To submit or vote on proposals, visit Snapshot.

🏆 Tournaments

• Mon: 60 Shine
• Tues: 15 Shine Hyper Turbo
• Wed: 30 Shine
• Thurs: 15 Shine Hyper Turbo
• Fri: 99 Shine Deepstack
• Sat: 30 Shine
• Sun: 30 Shine

All Arcade tournament events start at midnight UTC and last for 24 hours. 3 Shine tournaments are available 24/7.

To see details of each format, check out the tournament schedule.

📆 Metaverse Events

For all upcoming events, check out our events calendar.

Weekly Poker Night in Diamond Hands City @DecentralGames @decentraland #ICEpoker pic.twitter.com/NBObsU3WE9

— Nistu.eth (@Nistu_eth) March 17, 2023

Mon, Mar 20

🎲 Free Game Night w/ $150 USD+ in prizes
9pm UTC/5pm EST, Tominoya

📺 Hustler Casino Live: Max Pain Monday
12am UTC (Tues)/8pm EST, Stronghold

Tues, Mar 21

🏆 Mad Tournament Night w/ Mad Meerkats
1pm UTC/9am EST, Colosseum

💃 DCL Baby Dolls & DG: MVFW ’23 Designer Spotlight Series
10pm UTC/6pm EST, Stronghold

Wed, Mar 22

🏆 Colosseum Tournament Night w/ Gucci Toe
10pm UTC/6pm EST, Colosseum

Thurs, Mar 23

💎 Diamond Hands City Poker Night w/ DJ TRAX & MC Dimo
12am UTC (Fri)/8pm EST, Diamond Hands City

Fri, Mar 24

🏆 CoinGecko Metaverse Poker Night
12pm UTC/8am EST, Colosseum

🎶 Immerse w/ PopRoXxX
7pm UTC/3pm EST, Stronghold

📺 Hustler Casino Live: High Stakes Friday
12am UTC (Sat)/8pm EST, Stronghold

👥 Community Spotlight

Manzier Spotlight

We’re kicking off a new blog series highlight DG community members. Our first feature is: Manzier.

• He’s been involved in the DG community since the doors opened.
• He created his first wearables with PopRoXxX.
• His favorite ICE Poker collection is the Joker.

Read Manzier’s Community Spotlight blog post to learn about him, his journey into web3, and how he found DG.

ICE Poker Clips of the Week

This week’s winners are Ben_01bc and Iceyyy.

Submit your clips in our Discord each week to win Shine and get your clip featured.