It’s been a few months since we had our esteemed execs, Nicolas and David, on to the show to talk shop. Patrick was nice enough to collect questions from our community members, and we’re going to go through a few of the best ones. Let’s get to it. Timestamps: 00:30 How things are progressing at Ultra 04:26 Social Components Progress 10:05 Development progress of AAA games 16:52 Roadmap for the rest of 2023 27:45 Taking advantage of Ultra Arena 31:26 WEN 1 MILLION USERS??? 39:15 One more, special extra question!
Welcome back to another episode of Ultra Chill. This week we’re speaking with Raphael Pluta, the CEO of CLD. CLD is the partner Ultra is building Ultra Arena with, and we’ll be covering who they are and how that partnership works. Let’s get to it.
This week on Ultra Chill we have with Jacques Garois from Oxya Origin, a new game dropping on Ultra’s games platform. We’ll be covering what kind of game they are building, how play and earn elements are integrated into it, and how Oxya Origin sets itself apart from other web3 properties. Let’s get to it.
Ultra Arena is about to launch, and we have been running a series of beta tournaments with select community members. Today we’re going to be chatting with Gabriel Martinez, Ultra’s new Tournament Coordinator. He has an interesting history in gaming and a lot of great ideas for how to help Ultra Arena achieve its potential. So, without further ado, let’s get to it.
AI has been booming the past year and we are now starting to see blockchain-based projects that are leveraging some of these innovation on open networks. On today’s episode we’re bringing back Pierre from Agora, Ultra’s exclusive DEX, to talk about their latest Uniq to drop on Ultra’s network, the AI Oracle. Let’s get to it.
A new day and a new dawn. Ultra Games is now public and we’re going to be focusing a lot of what we talk about this season on Ultra Chill at our game partners and their properties that are dropping on our platform. First on our list is Ethan Cohen from the team who is building R3V3NGE, a web3 Smash to Earn game.
For our final show of season 3 we have our esteemed execs Nicolas and David on to the show to talk shop. As we’re about to hit one of the biggest milestones in Ultra’s history, we thought we should cover Ultra’s strategy, game tokenization details, and how things are expected to unfold during the second half of 2023. Let’s get to it.
We had Marcin Skowroński from Legends of Elysium on to the show to give us a quick update on what they have been doing, and to talk about their phygitals effort.
Welcome back to Ultra Chill. This week we’re talking with Sam Peurifoy, the CEO of Playground Labs. They are building games based on blockchain technology, and Sam has some strong opinions about how that should be done.
Let’s get to it.
Make sure to check out: https://www.playgroundlabs.io/
Welcome back to Ultra Chill.
This week we have on a guest from a new game called R3V3BGE that is deploying on Ultra through our partners at Polyland. Nicolas is the head of partnerships there and he’s here to talk about long-term engagement with users, NFTs, and interoperability.
Let’s get to it.
This week on Ultra Chill we had Fabrizio Perrone on to talk about his insights into influencers, brands, esports, and how web3 tech ties it all together.
Today we have with us the team from palepurple who will be dropping a Uniq collection on Ultra that has both a digital and a physical component. In today's episode of Ultra Chill, we talk with them about why sneakers are interesting for collectors, how the design process goes, and what the Palepurple team is trying to achieve.
The community has a lot of questions about how things are going in Ultra’s development, and how close or far we are from releasing everything that we’ve been working on to the public. Let’s go through those one by one.
This week on Ultra Chill, we invited the CEO of Agora, Pierre de Viry to come on to the show. We talked about the details of their upcoming NFT drop on both Ultra and Ethereum. He also explained what products Agora has been building and gave an update on the progress of their DEX.
Let's get to it.
Patrick Walbaum, our awesome community manager, came on to Ultra Chill to talk about how he thinks a community should be managed, how we build loyalty, and how Ultra Arena is going to play a big part of our community engagement going forward. Let's get to it.
This week we have Joshua Owens from Byzantion.xyz to talk about what NFT data abstraction is and how it can potentially benefit developers.
We get lots of questions from people eager to launch on Ultra.io. Many of these people are talented game designers, NFT community members, and others who have specific skills but haven't run the gauntlet of a new web3 project yet. We brought on Tony Drummond from Moonbound Consulting to answer some quick questions about what he thinks are the most important things to focus on when starting a new web3 project.
Let's get to it.
We brought on Holger Mannweiler from Metabrewsociety to talk to us about their NFT project which rewards holders with custom brewed beer! We went over what makes for good utility in an NFT project and how to use the wisdom of the crowd to create the best brand possible.
Let's get to it.
We're ready to start talking about and showing Ultra Arena to the public. We brought on Lucas Haidar to talk about what we built, how it will be used to expand the potential esports audience, and how it can be used by companies to market their games.
Want to see the screens? → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQK5AmaPLI
Bithotel has chosen Ultra to distribute through. To get a better idea about what they are building and why we had Leon Lenan, their COO, on to the show. Together we discussed social gaming, which communities to target, their upcoming games, and why projects like theirs roll their own marketplaces.
Let’s get to it.
Aether Games will be distributing their multi-game franchise on Ultra, so we brought Jens Peeters, their CEO, on to talk about how you build a multiverse, where real value for gamers lies, and how to set pricing on NFTS.
Let's get to it.
It’s been a mad minute since we had David and Nicolas on the show to give us an update about how things are progressing at Ultra. Since last time we launched our Uniq Marketplace, are prepping wave3 and the launch of Ultra Games, and are starting to on-board developers into our ecosystem.
Even with all the market madness, it’s an exciting time at Ultra! I know you guys are keen to hear from the execs, but I also wanted to give you an opportunity to engage with them directly.
Add a comment below and ask YOUR QUESTIONS which you’d like to get answers to. We’ll try to cover as many of them as we reasonably can.
Let’s get to it.
So now we have a lot of data about NFTs and about the huge market of users and apps that actively uses them.
How do we get to that data sensibly? How do we gain insights from that data that we can use?
How do we make it easier for devs new to the space to use that data and build with it?
Today we’re talking with Alex from Blokness and we’ll have him answer these questions and much more.
Just a quick note that Blokness are running a hackathon with our good friends at Polkastarter and the link to that is down below in the description.
You should take a look: https://hackathon.polkastarter.com/
But now, on with the show.
Being able to play a game online and win real money is a dream that literally every kid has. For a very select few who become professional players, it becomes a reality. The thing is that this disparity between the absolute best players and everyone else is based around a legacy technical setup that needs to be democratized and replaced by something more fair. If we want esports to be big (and we do!) that means MORE players winning MORE prizes. Our upcoming tournament platform is really about that. Today we have with us Louis Regis from Xborg to get his take on esports, on-chain data, and how transparency changes everything. Let’s get to it.
At Ultra we believe that it’s critical that we keep an eye on our competition and ensure that we understand the market that we’re building in.
To that end, we’ve decided today that we’re going to bring on one of those up and coming competitors and pick their brain about what they’ve been building and why. We’ll focus on the potential of the market, and how that translates into feature sets which benefit developers and users alike.
It’s going to be a spoooooky episode, so let’s get to it.
(Happy #Halloween from Ultra!)
There seems to be little doubt at this point that blockchain technology is part of our society’s wider technological future. The questions then are: how are we going to use it, how is it going to benefit us, and what is adoption going to look like? Today we have with us Nicolas Moore from utility.ai to help try and answer those questions. We dive deep into NFT utility and how it creates deeper user engagement, how we drive adoption, and how it all starts with providing developers the right tooling to make it all happen.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:45 Welcome to Nicolas Moore
02:59 How we effectively drive enterprise adoption
08:48 How to convince skeptics
11:55 Driving revenue
15:40 The Marketer's perspective
18:03 No-code/low-code tooling
20:41 How to talk about NFTs
22:36 Meaningful functionality
When we have a new partnership to announce, like we do with Kardomance, I like to bring them on the show and talk about the intricacies of designing and building their game. This time we did that, but we also dived deep into how the connection between a game’s developers and its community drives it forward in the right direction. We also covered how NFTs and blockchain technology enable gamers to empower themselves.
It’s a great show, so let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:44 Welcome to Cyprien
02:40 Communication with end users
03:38 What is Kardomance?
07:24 Using traditional card games as a model
10:04 Explaining user empowerment to nft naysayers
12:15 The value of economics as a metagame
14:55 It's not artificial scarcity, it's an experience
16:02 The complexity of interconnected games
18:35 The challenges in creating fair and balanced gameplay
There’s a ton of hype around NFTs, but what are they really? Daniel Soifer, from Chainstack, an expert on the NFT ecosystem, is going to talk with us about utility as it stands today, how we think that utility will evolve over time, and how NFTs and communities are intertwined.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:37 Welcome to Daniel
01:50 NFT utility and functionality
03:26 What NFT really are
05:15 What's neat in the NFT ecosystem?
07:10 NFTs of tomorrow
15:36 How are franctionalized NFTs different than fungible tokens?
18:13 How do communities react to fractionalized NFTs?
With esports, what used to be small, arcade-focused events have evolved over the decades into a huge industry with prizes ranging up into the tens of millions. But, is this what gamers are actually looking for? Today, we have with us Howard Marcus to talk about the esports industry, it’s past and future, and how web3 technology could be an integral part of that.
The future of gaming is about all of us, and primarily happens through you, the gaming audience. So, a quick reminder that every like, comment, rating, or share helps us grow this show and through it the people we can reach to spread the word about what we’re trying to achieve at Ultra.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps:
00:32 Welcome to Marcus Howard
02:00 Esports state of the nation
04:02 How tournaments are played
06:41 Who benefits?
08:34 Is it what fans want?
09:25 The democratization of gaming tournaments
10:17 Indie gaming and esports
11:16 The future of esports
14:46 The potential for positive impact from web3 tech
15:48 Web3 tech's responsibility
We at Ultra believe that there should be a better way to be entertained. This goes for everything from how you explore and play games, to how you use digital assets like items in those games. It encompasses how communities are built and managed, and includes how we play together in things like tournaments or on streaming platforms. Gaming is a big part of our lives today and we think a better, more holistic approach needs to be built from the ground up to enable that future.
Because of how wide this vision is, we’ve started expanding who we talk to on Ultra Chill so that our audience (that’s you!) can get a wider lens on what is potentially possible, and where new innovations are likely to impact how people play. These aren’t all going to be partners or directly working with Ultra, but we think that their ideas and expertise are all relevant and interesting.
Our first guest of this type is Bronwyn Williams. We covered deeply interesting things like economics in gaming, dev analytics tools and their effects, and how PlayAndEarn differs from Play2Earn.
So, let’s get to it.
Timestamps
01:10 Welcome to Bronwyn Williams
03:53 Using analytics tools to make good developer decisions
05:47 How common is it for devs to use tracking features?
07:23 About metadata
09:51 Refined features are for the players
14:42 Play and Earn versus Play2Earn
20:03 The crypto market
Welcome back to Ultra Chill, and welcome to season 3! Last week we talked with Omar Ghanem, the head of Polkastarter Gaming about the new partnership between Polkastarter Gaming and Ultra.
Today we are going to dig deep and learn about funding on Polkastarter Gaming and what makes for a successful IDO and game.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:30 Polkastarter and its internal expectations
05:13 Funding games
11:57 Mistakes projects make
19:22 Addendum
Welcome back to Ultra Chill, and welcome to season 3! Today we have with us Omar Ghanem, the head of Polkastarter Gaming. Our projects just announced a new partnership and today we are going to cover what Polkastarter Gaming is and how this partnership with Ultra is going to play out.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:30 Welcome Omar
05:05 A quick rundown on Polkastarter Gaming
11:18 Partnership details
14:20 Sharing technology
We’re wrapping up this season of Ultra Chill with a special guest, our very own Uniq Project Manager, Douglas Eriksen.
With his help, we’ll be covering content strategy, the Ultra’s Power collection, how we’re building a content roadmap, and what our long view is for Uniqs on out platform. It’s going to be a great show, so stick around!
This will be the last episode for a few weeks as we line up the guests and set up the schedule and format for the next season. Make sure to subscribe so that you’ll know when the next episode drops!
In the meantime, let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:38 Welcome to Douglas Eriksen
00:52 Douglas' role at Ultra
01:29 Ultra's content strategy
02:25 Ultra's Power collection
07:15 Uniq content roadmap
09:56 The long view for Uniqs
12:24 Community driven development
13:57 What's interesting about NFTs and their utility
As we get ready to launch the Uniq Marketplace to the public at the end of the month, we thought it would be appropriate to bring some of the team on to talk about the vision and the go to market strategy.
Today we’re going to speak with David and Lucas. They have some unique insights into what the marketplace really means for Ultra, and how we’re bringing it to the market.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:30 What was the goal of the Uniq Marketplace?
01:53 What features are still coming?
06:25 Redeem codes as a business enabler for Ultra
07:30 Authorized Minters as a strategy
12:56 The Uniq Marketplace GTM strategy
15:05 The Uniq Marketplace from a business perspective
17:06 Game tokenization?
Our friends at Avant have been making crazy fast progress on their exclusive to Ultra play to earn game, Elarium. If you haven’t been following them on Twitter, you should stop right now and go do that. They drop the most awesome hints and previews! Some of those previews are worth talking about a bit more in depth so I invited Oscar to tell us a bit more about what they have been planning and building.
Let’s get to it.
Referenced tweets:
- https://twitter.com/PlayElarium/status/1549787400783667201
- https://twitter.com/PlayElarium/status/1549056868743536640
- https://twitter.com/PlayElarium/status/1524027049769320449
Timestamps
00:00 Lore video preview
01:00 Welcome back Oscar
01:42 Elarium's pace of development
05:40 Lore as a core mechanic in a game
08:15 Elarium's biggest influences
10:42 The design process for weapons
12:31 Designing NFT resources
Last week we talked about the exciting new partnership with Swissborg and Ultra, called Agora. It’s a way for Ultra’s network to provide liquidity across its many games and apps in a fully decentralized, on-chain way. If you didn’t catch that episode, go listen it now!
Richard and Louis from Agora are still with us and this week we’ll be covering the market potential for GameFi, DEXs and their liquidity pools, and NFT lending and its impact on gaming.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:39 The market potential for GameFi
06:52 Agora's DEX and the Balancer
09:30 Trading NFTs on a DEX?
13:13 NFT Lending
15:16 The effect of GameFi on game design
17:45 Providing functionality to the right actors
We don’t think that there will be many announcements that Ultra makes which will be so fundamentally consequential for the future of the platform as the one that we made with Agora.
Agora is a partnership between SwissBorg, XBorg, and Ultra that paves the way forward for decentralized finance on our platform. In effect, it ensures that liquidity within the many economies that blockchain based platforms create are all interconnected.
Today we’ll be talking with our friends Richard Gray and Louis Régis, who will be walking us through some of the concepts that allow for this safe, fair, and sustainable GameFi hub to come to life.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:47 Welcome to Richard and Louis
01:48 What is Agora?
04:00 What is GameFi?
07:28 Partnership details between SwissBorg, XBorg, and Ultra
12:55 What limits or challenges are there for gaming and finance currently?
21:59 What lessons were learned from DeFi and NFTs?
Phases one and two of the roll out of the Uniq Marketplace have succeeded in their goals of deploying, testing, stressing, and eliciting feedback from our users. We encountered some small issues, but on the whole we think that the system did very well. For the problems that were encountered, our support and triage teams identified and fixed them without issue.
For Phase 3, scheduled for July, we’ll be expanding the pool of users and deploying more content to our platform. Today, we have with us Lucas Haidar to talk about our phased approach and the road to release to the general public.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:45 Introducing Lucas Haidar
02:31 What is a phased approach?
04:02 Why Ultra has a conservative approach to rolling out software
07:00 Primary goals of the phases
14:18 The Road to Release
This week we’re continuing to take the community’s excellent questions from across social media. We covered topics like how Uniqs can be used in old games, whether the PC gaming ecosystem is really worth targeting, how our DEX partner is leveraging Ultra’s tech, and much more.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:24 Does PC gaming have a future?
04:16 Is the Defi partner using Ultra's protocol?
05:28 Can you explain why Ultra's network has no max supply?
07:32 Do you have plans for nested NFTs?
10:49 Updated search tools for the Uniq Marketplace?
12:33 Is Ultra laying anyone off?
12:58 Will it be possible to sell game characters/accounts?
13:44 What is the difference between a used and new game?
15:25 What's David's fav Pokemon?
Ultra’s greatest asset is its community (that’s you!). We strive to provide a transparent, authentic view into what we are doing and why. Towards that end, this week, we’ve reached out to you all and fielded questions from across social media with the intent of hearing what you’d like to know most about our project, its progress, and its technology. We talked about security, documentation deployment, in-game fungible tokens, our upcoming DEX, and much more.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps
00:34 Ultra Go mobile development status?
01:45 Ultra documentation goes public when?
04:00 How secure is 2FA?
05:23 Ultra on consoles?
06:21 Fungible tokens on Ultra's network?
09:25 Game tokens and the DEX?
11:01 How will we asses Ultra's success?
12:29 When will the Marketplace be released?
14:51 Could (and should) old games use Ultra's NFT tech?
16:53 What are the challenges surrounding onboarding devs?
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
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Software is a difficult, winding path that turns a vision into an implementation. It’s often compared to building a train and its tracks while rushing forward at the speed of sound. I’ve found this to be the case in most startups and open-source software projects. It is certainly the case at Ultra, as we persevere towards our goal of building the future of gaming.
I think that we should talk about how building a suite of products is not the same as building one product. Because, that’s what Ultra really is: a suite of tools and interfaces that enables people to do things that have never been possible before.
A big part of that suite is the Uniq Marketplace that we’ve put so much effort into over the past two milestones.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Why we build the Uniq Marketplace
4:13 How innovative our NFT Standard really is
7:15 How building the Uniq Marketplace affected timelines
10:26 The Competitor Landscape
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
#nftmarketplace #playtoearn #web3 #strategy
Ultra has been building for a long time, and we’ve accomplished a lot.
We’ve launched multiple blockchain networks (countless Testnets, one awesome Mainnet) that have innovative new features that we think will allow mainstream gaming audiences to take advantage of all the best stuff that blockchains have to offer, without the pitfalls inherent in them. But, sometimes when building hard things, internal progress and public expectations don’t match up.
Today I wanted to have a frank talk with Ultra’s execs David and Nicolas about why timelines slip during software projects and about how they view our progress.
Let’s get to it.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:48 The criticality of the NFT Standard
10:25 The cost of innovation and whether Ultra has had a hard time bringing Ultra's vision to market
13:50 Is Ultra delayed?
15:52 A path of improvement
20:35 Content's role in timelines
23:41 How the execs feel about Ultra's progress
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
Send an email to contact@ultra.io to reach out about deploying your NFT projects on our marketplace.
Today we have with us Janneke from our BizDev team. We’ll be talking about Ultra’s content acquisition strategy, how we think brands can leverage our tech, and what sets us apart from the competition.
Let’s get to it!
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:16 Welcome back to Janneke
00:40 How brands can leverage Ultra's tech
2:52 Leveraging the Uniq Marketplace
5:54 Incentives for content acquisition
7:40 How Ultra's team helps on-board the inexperienced
10:19 About large business' future view of blockchain and NFTs
11:45 What is Ultra's content acquisition strategy?
13:15 For potential partners who want to deploy to Ultra
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
As the summer heats up, and we get closer to a general availability launch for Ultra, I thought it was about time that we bring Nicolas and David back on to the show. We’ll be covering the effect of the bear market on the project, how the launch of the Uniq Marketplace went, and an update on the stuff we’ve been building for our community of gamers and developers.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 The effect of the bear cycle on Ultra
1:54 Join Ultra!
2:50 How did the Uniq Marketplace closed beta launch go?
4:00 Expanded access and what's next for the Uniq Marketplace?
6:51 What is "general availability"?
7:50 What still needs to be built for Ultra Games to go live?
9:50 Exclusive games update
12:12 Blockchain developer documentation update
16:00 Unannounced partner DEX update
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
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Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
Ultra is about bringing our players excellent content that exists at the intersection between blockchain and gaming.
More and more games are coming to Ultra, and now we’re psyched to talk about the latest one: Inferno. Today we have Dante (not that Dante), the CEO of Clarity games and we’re going to be talking about their new game and the partnership with Ultra. We’ll also be digging deeper into what Dante thinks that the future of blockchain gaming holds (moon).
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Welcome to Hell
4:32 The Right Artists
8:58 The Story
12:08 The Keys
15:56 Infernal Value
19:25 Ultra Benefit
22:04 Driving Adoption
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
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Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
On today's episode of Ultra Chill, we had the pleasure of speaking with the Avant Labs team about their upcoming FPS. Elarium, their newest P2E game, is being built on Ultra's blockchain and will be exclusively available on Ultra Games!
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
Sign up to the Uniq Marketplace closed beta ► https://bit.ly/3waHOuh
Last week, Nicolas and David joined Rami to talk about the current state of NFT technology, the status quo of its utility in things like PFPs (profile pics or avatars), and how that NFT functionality is generally used today. This week we'll close out the conversation by talking about how these concepts can be used within Ultra and its ecosystem. Let's get to it!
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
Sign up to the Uniq Marketplace closed beta ► https://bit.ly/3waHOuh
Nicolas and David join Rami to talk about the current state of NFT technology, the status quo of its utility in things like PFPs (profile pics or avatars), and how the functionality is generally used today. They then talk metaphors and explain what NFTs really are. Finally, the team wraps up by talking about all the myriad ways that NFTs could be used in the future. Next week we'll close out the conversation by talking about how these concepts can be used within Ultra and its ecosystem. Let's get to it!
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:33 How NFTs are currently used
1:50 What NFTs really are
4:45 Use-cases of NFT technology
9:36 How brands can use NFTs
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ► https://bit.ly/3JrShVn
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
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Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
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Rami and Hustle talk about hype in the crypto landscape, what makes influencers pay attention to a project (and specifically Ultra!), the value of good whitepapers, NFTs and Play to Earn gaming, and much more. It was a great time, and we're sure that you'll love Hustle's thoughts on economies in gaming, how research gets done, and what his pillars for a successful project are.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Who is Hustle?
2:41 Does hype drive the NFT gaming space?
6:23 Hustle's 8 pillars
9:52 The importance of reading whitepapers
12:45 The real interest surrounding Play to Earn
15:32 Determining the value of a project
Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
Sign up to the Uniq Marketplace closed beta ► https://bit.ly/3waHOuh
Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ►https://bit.ly/3uleuyT
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
Janneke and Rami talk shop about how content partnerships for Ultra are developed. She breaks down how things went at GDC 2022 (they went great!). They wrapped up by digging into how Ultra's business development pipeline works.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Welcome to Janneke
0:50 What is GDC and how did it go?
2:20 Are game companies talking about blockchain tech?
3:30 How many companies did Ultra meet with at GDC 2022? Who?
6:52 Ultra's Bizdev pipeline
8:38 Strong opinions on NFTs in the gaming community
Main Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultra_io
Gaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ultra_platform
Telegram (English): https://t.me/ultra_io
Telegram (French): https://t.me/UOSFR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ultra.platform
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/j24NEXZYJb
Medium: https://medium.com/ultra-io
Sign up to the Uniq Marketplace closed beta ► https://bit.ly/3waHOuh
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Learn more about Ultra's NFT standard ►https://bit.ly/3uleuyT
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
Subscribe to our channel ► https://www.youtube.com/c/Ultra_io
Find out more about Ultra ► https://bit.ly/3MmLyyD
The Uniq Marketplace will be going into closed beta soon! Since we're close to releasing this highly anticipated and fundamental part of our ecosystem, testing is a crucial next step.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Why are we doing a closed beta?
2:02 What feedback are we looking for?
3:32 Why the Uniq Marketplace is so important
6:15 Features in development
7:17 How to enter the closed beta
7:55 The Uniq NFTs available on the closed beta
Download the Ultra platform ► https://bit.ly/3HCqLTZ
In the second half of our two-part episode with Cross The Ages, Sami and Nicolas dive into the nitty gritty of NFT-based play-to-earn game design!
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Today with have with us Sami from the awesome up and coming blockchain-based, play to earn card game "Cross the Ages", which is set in a world that bridges fantasy and science fiction. Ultra announced this past week that our two projects have a new partnership. If you haven't checked that out yet, you really should!
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:49 About Cross The Ages
2:41 Cross The Ages' NFT cards
4:29 Physical cards and digital NFTs
7:35 Blockchain solving key issues
8:40 Ultra and Cross The Ages' partnership
12:57 NFT card packs for Ultra players?!?!
14:37 Cross-chain bridge between Ultra and Polygon
We revealed the long-awaited Ultra roadmap this week and we're excited to bring on Ultra's Co-CEOs, Nicolas Gilot and David Hanson, to dive into the ins and outs of what we have planned for this year and beyond.
We covered:
- The Uniq Marketplace
- Ultra Games
- Exclusive AAA games
- Tournament platform
- Ultra Wallet updates
- Mobile app
To kick off the new year, we dedicated this episode to answering your questions about all things Ultra!
We cover a range of topics, including how in-game NFTs can be used, if music NFTs will be coming to the Ultra platform, our thoughts on competing marketplaces, and if it's possible to crowdfund using NFTs and more. Download the Ultra platform
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 In-game NFTs explained
4:58 How Ultra's NFT marketplace will stand out against competitors
6:53 Cross-game NFTs on Ultra
9:18 Renting NFTs
11:35 Authenticating and segmenting NFTs
13:28 Limitations
15:33 Crowdfunding through NFTs
16:46 Crypto games and UOS
18:36 Music NFTs on Ultra
22:50 Ultra expanding to mobile
23:12 Ultra's NFT standard compatibility
23:58 Trade offers
25:06 cross-chain wallet for Ultra?
26:41 Ultra in China
29:11 Ultra's interoperability with other blockchains
For episode 11 of Ultra Chill, we brought on Nicolas Bouillet from Ultra's Product team to talk about our upcoming feature set in our Uniq Marketplace with Ultra's co-CEO David Hanson.
In this episode we talked about:
- 02:10 The Marketplace as a product
- 17:13 Our approach to product development
- 42:06 The Uniq Marketplace as a business driver
We joined our friends over at SwissBorg to chat about the Ultra ecosystem, the metaverse and how it plays a role in the games industry, what's to come for Ultra, and answered some of the community's questions in our latest Twitter Space!
We're joined by our resident visionary, David Hanson, to talk about what the grand vision is for Ultra.
DISCLAIMER: Some of this is definitely on our roadmap, and some of it is just stuff we're interested in, curious about, or think that the industry is likely to move in that direction. We're not confirming features, we're just Ultra… Dreaming.
Timestamps:
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:33 Ultra evolving as a product
- 4:07 What Nicolas and David's vision is for Ultra
- 7:14 The evolution of Ultra's ecosystem
- 11:40 Tackling the negativity surrounding NFTs
- 21:42 Social in Ultra
- 23:25 Ultra's NFT Standard
- 33:16 Where is NFT technology going in the next 3-5 years?
As the NFT ecosystem heats up, Ultra proudly announces the firsts of many publishers for its platform. Today we have with us Yves from Microids, our latest announced publisher!
Last episode, we talked briefly about the incentives for game developers to create games that give gamers a positive experience. This week we’ll be talking about the business focus on NFTs for publishers and developers.
We’ll be covering how NFTs make for better economic models in games, how publishers and developers view Play to Earn, the problems with Pay to Win, and much more. Going to be a great show, so stick around!
Contents
- Welcoming Microids to the Ultra Family
- Ultra’s market advantage
- Challenges for game developers and publishers
- Economic models as a way to grow audiences
- Community Q&A
In the previous episode of Ultra Chill, we talked in depth about our NFT standard and how we use Token Factories to fulfill Ultra’s business needs.
There has been a lot of buzz in the gaming media recently surrounding NFTs. We get the sense that there is much that people still do not understand around the integration of blockchain systems, and NFTs in particular, into games.
So today, we’d like to step back for a moment and try to make a more general case for NFTs in gaming by talking about the things that people don’t like or have misconstrued.
This episode covers
- Different use-cases for different users of Ultra’s network and platform
- Legacy digital assets versus NFTs
- The downsides of blockchain technology
- Concerns about how NFTs will degrade the fun of games
- About Ultra’s place in the Metaverse
Episode 7 covers:
- The news that Valve has decided that their game platform Steam will not support NFTs and other blockchain technology
- A discussion of the business goals that defined Ultra's take on its NFT standard
- What are Token Factories and why did Ultra implement their NFT standard around them?
Answers to burning community questions like
- Will we be able to get random NFTs while staking, playing, streaming, etc.?
- Modding and NFTs? Possible?
- What would be the process to develop an app on the Ultra ecosystem?
- If a game is deployed to multiple platforms, but only Ultra players can take advantage of NFT tech, how will that work?
Tech Focus on Ultra’s Our first tech focused episode features our very own Lead Data Architect, Romain Gilles!
Romain and Rami explore what data actually is, event-based architecture, why open networks require better data architecture, and how we're preparing to scale Ultra to millions of users.
This episode covers:
- Romain's background
- Ultra's data team
- What is event-based architecture?
- Why an open network requires better data architecture
- Preparing to scale Ultra to millions of users
Ultra announced it's partnership with Theta last year and now we've officially integrated the streaming service within our own platform! The partnership comes with a lot synergy and Rami speaks with Theta's Head of Strategy, Wes Levitt, and our very own CEO, Nicolas, to understand more about why this partnership fits within Ultra's ecosystem so well.
Episode 5 covers:
- The background of Theta
- How Ultra and Theta are connected
- Play to earn models
- Advertising on Theta and Ultra
- Targeting lower income countries
- Future strategies
On this week's episode we're joined by Ultra's CTO, Michael Dunn, to discuss all things technology, agile, and philosophy. Rami, David, and Mike delve into the processes needed to build a robust tech team from the ground up, the challenges Ultra has faced and overcome, how we structure our teams effectively, and the balance between business product and technical demands.
Episode 4 covers:
- Wave 2 and why we're doing things the way we are
- Mike's background and role at Ultra
- How the Ultra team is built and structured
- What makes an exceptional R&D team and why we've implemented a flat structure
- How we balance the demands between business, product, and technical
- If and how we've changed course
- Community Q&A
Rami and Nicolas are joined by Edward Moalem, Ultra's Chief Strategy Officer. During this episode, gain exclusive insight into Ed's role at Ultra, how we navigate partners, and our strategy when it comes to games.
Episode 3 covers:
- Ed's experience
- What we look for in partners
- Ultra's spiel and how brands react
- The connection between crypto and gaming
- The art in crafting an effective strategy
We announced our partnership with AMD in 2019. Since then, we've been working closely together to gear up Ultra for launch and trust us, we've been hard at work. On this episode, Rami, David, and Nicolas are joined by AMD's Director of Blockchain, Joerg Roskowetz, to discuss our partnership in more detail than ever before!
Episode 2 covers:
- Joerg's background in the blockchain space
- Community Q&A
- Ultra and AMD's history
- AMD's view on blockchain internally
- The largest impediments when it comes to mainstream adoption of blockchain
- The future of blockchain technology
Ultra's favourite trio discuss what it takes to design a mainstream blockchain product and delve into the progress made with one of the platform's highly anticipated features, the Ultra Wallet.
Episode 1 covers:
- Nicolas and David's past ventures
- Is Ultra is living up to Nicolas and David's expectations
- Ultra's hiring surge
- What needs to be decentralized and what's reasonable to be centralized
- The reasons behind Ultra's release slippage
- How the Ultra Mainnet and wallet-only client launches went
- Community Q&A
