Cat themed play-to-earn (P2E) NFT Sport Nyan Heroes is aiming to avoid wasting 1 billion cats from euthanization in animal shelters throughout the U.S.

Nyan Heroes is an upcoming NFT battle royal shooter type sport constructed on the Solana blockchain that may allow gamers to compete with one another utilizing NFTs depicting animated cats which are used to pilot mech-robot NFTs within the sport.

The U.S. based mostly undertaking has been in growth since October and the sport is ready for launch in This fall 2022. Its first NFT drop is presently accessible for hodling and buying and selling on marketplaces comparable to Fractal.

In response to knowledge from Solana Artwork, Nyan Heroes is the fourth-highest NFT undertaking on Solana by way of seven day quantity and market cap, at $279,000 and $18.2 million, respectively.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Nyan Heroes co-founder and Australian Wendy Huang outlined the agency’s charitable imaginative and prescient shifting ahead, together with offering a rundown of the upcoming sport.

Huang has been concerned with crypto since 2016 and has additionally constructed a profitable profession as a content material creator starting from vlogs to DIY movies, pranks and music and has amassed nearly 14 million subscribers on YouTube.

Save the cats

Huang said that her, and fellow co-founder Max Fu’s, love for cats was a key driver behind tying animal-focused charity work to Nyan Heroes. She mentioned they’ve an bold objective of “saving 1 billion cats” from euthanization in animal shelters by way of charitable donations generated from parts of the undertaking’s NFT gross sales.

Nyan Heroes revealed their first efforts on this space on Dec. 24, when it introduced a $250,000 donation from the proceeds of its first NFT drop to the non-profit Greatest Buddies Society. ‘That was one of many proudest moments I’ve had on this undertaking,” she mentioned.

Crypto saves lives!

Thanks @nyanheroes to your wonderful donation of @ethereum for the animals! Their fundraiser raised $250,000 to assist cats identical to Pumpkin ^ac pic.twitter.com/MTCKEYUTtp

— Greatest Buddies (@bestfriends) January 3, 2022

Greatest Buddies Society supplies a “no-kill” sanctuary for orphaned animals and in addition prevents cat and canine deaths in shelters throughout the U.S. by its charity work. The group estimates that its “no kill” motion has helped cut back the variety of cat and canine deaths in animal shelters from 17 million yearly to round 347,000.

Huang revealed that the sport undertaking can be launching a DAO that may give its members voting rights on the place Nyan Heroes donations can be allotted sooner or later.

“We’ll be making a younger hero DAO. And a part of that DAOs duties can be deciding the place to donate funds to, to which animal shelter and to what causes in that specific realm.” she mentioned.

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Nyan Heroes

Huang highlighted {that a} main sticking level for P2E blockchain video games is sustainability over a protracted time period. She mentioned many P2E video games are reliant on a continuous stream of latest customers to stay worthwhile and undergo from gamers regularly cashing out and taking worth out of the sport.

“We do not know what number of gamers can be coming into the financial system. So we have to notice that constructing a sport isn’t solely concerning the sport play, however concerning the financial system and the way sustainable every little thing is,” she mentioned.

Huang mentioned Nyan Heroes sustainability mannequin is constructed off a number of elements comparable to introducing an in-game stablecoin to scale back volatility of the its belongings, staking rewards on NFTs and a triple A gaming expertise just like Fortnite which has “traditionally attracted gamers” who need to spend cash on the sport:

“The way in which we handle it’s to provide you with a greater sport the place customers will really need to play the sport and inject worth into the system to steadiness out the gamers that come into the ecosystem to take worth out.”

“We maintain the in-game token steady in order that the worth of your in-game objects is not going to crash and burn. And we really feel like that is what gamers have to need to stick with a sport. You do not need your in-game objects to be price $1,000 someday after which $10 {dollars} the following,” she added.

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— Nyan Heroes (@nyanheroes) December 29, 2021