Bloktopia is a virtual skyscraper in the Metaverse comprised of 21 levels to pay homage to the 21 million total maximum supply of Bitcoin (BTC). Ow
Bloktopia is a virtual skyscraper in the Metaverse comprised of 21 levels to pay homage to the 21 million total maximum supply of Bitcoin (BTC). Owners of its BLOK tokens will be known as Bloktopians. Users will be able to buy and sell nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, purchase digital ad venues, own real estate, and more in the Bloktopia virtual reality. Meanwhile, Bloktopians can also earn revenue by selling or leasing virtual property in the skyrscraper to interested buyers.
Bloktopia in-game footage | Source: Bloktopia
The project, set to launch sometime next year, is built on the Polygon network, a layer 2 Ethereum (ETH) scaling and infrastructure development network. In addition, Elrond, a blockchain sharding protocol, is to become the anchor tenant in Bloktopia, with its virtual HQ being featured on level one, where all players spawn. During an exclusive AMA with Cointelegraph Markets Pro users on Discord, Bloktopia co-founder and CMO Paddy Carroll discussed the key aspects of its virtual ecosystem:
Cointelegraph Markets Pro: First of all, how do regular people access the Metaverse? Are special glasses required? How do you walk around and interact?
Paddy Carroll: We will make entering Bloktopia as accessible as possible. We are finalizing our roadmap and will be sharing it very shortly. We envisage a version with VR glasses and a downloadable version in time.
CT Markets Pro: In what stage is Bloktopia right now? What are the next steps?
PC: We are building Levels 1 and 6 and the auditorium. We will be holding some events in the near future. We hope to have a beta version of Bloktopia ready for March 2022.
CT Markets Pro: What is Polygon? Does the company effectively control Bloktopia?
PC: Surely people have heard of Polygon? If not, Polygon is a scaling solution that aims to provide multiple tools to improve the speed and reduce the cost and complexities of transactions on blockchain networks. We are building Bloktopia on it. It doesn’t control Bloktopia; more [to] facilitates transactions.
CT Markets Pro User: Also long back, 1) I entered in lucky winners for ReBlok’s Google form, No communication on that. 2) I am keeping my BLOKs to buy ReBlok on Level 1; I even selected a few from their maps that they released last month, but now this JOBE thing has taken over. I don’t know when the real land sale will happen. 3) I heard last month there will be a Bloktopia wallet, but still no wallet. I would love to have a communication on the above things if possible. Thanks.
PC: As you mentioned, we put a statement out on tokenomics, which I think you have acknowledged clarifying your first point. To cover the other questions, they all stem back to the fact that the Bloktopia NFT Land Sale Portal is still in development and not ready to be released yet. But I am hopeful this will be ready to go very, very soon. More to come, I promise.
CT Markets Pro User: Will there be other Bloktopia skyscrapers? Either geographic or time-based? How essential is VR to the experience? Who is the main target audience to start with? A centralized place in the Metaverse seems like an oxymoron. When did you realize that you were onto something?
PC: We have no plans for other skyscrapers at the moment. VR is part of our thinking but not mandatory. The main target audience is anyone with a vested interest in crypto. We love the decentralized nature of crypto and wouldn’t want to change it, but ultimately, it is fragmented and time-consuming; Bloktopia pulls everything together to make it easy. It doesn’t alter the decentralized nature of crypto. When we realized this was a big problem in the crypto world and started having several conversations with people who agreed, we realized that we were onto something.
CT Markets Pro User: Can you share more about the BlokPad? There are plenty of gaming launchpads and already a Metaverse pad too. So what’s unique about yours (other than it’s a reason for people to hold BLOK).
PC: Sure, this is our new launchpad, which we have just announced this week. We have plenty of reading material about BlokPad on our Medium. We are in a position where we have a Metaverse that will hold hundreds of the best crypto projects there are. We also have had one of the most successful IDOs [Initial Decentralized Exchange Offerings] that there has ever been. So projects are asking for our help, and we have a tried and tested formula. We are in a fortunate position where we can be selective and only choose the best projects in the marketplace. Then of course, we also now have another utility for BLOK, which is great.
CT Markets Pro: Is there an NFT marketplace within the Metaverse? Is that exclusive to Bloktopia, or can other projects create their own?
PC: Yes, there will be, it will be ready in the next couple of weeks, and more details will be shared then.
CT Markets Pro: Why do you think some NFT collections are worth U$ 10 million while most others are worthless?
PC: There is an argument to say that NFTs sales are a bubble…
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