Introduction

It is no doubt since the inception of the blockchain and bitcoins by Satoshi in 2009, the world has experienced a more reliable, secure and fast ways of transacting businesses. The technology has over the years proven to be very viable when it comes to carrying out transactions without the need of a centralised authority. This is what on the blockchain is referred to as decentralised economy. This technology has been integrated into nearly all aspects of economy and government: marketing, medicine, science and technology.
In not so distant time from its time of creation, it found its way into the world of gaming (online gaming).

Centralised gaming posed to many threats to players especially. Anyone in control of the servers can switch it on or off at will and the player would end up losing all that he has worked for in the gaming world. This is one of the major reason why decentralised systems were introduced to take charge of some of the online gaming platform.

Online gaming platforms leveraged the blockchain technology and its decentralised feature to offer users a different feel to online gaming.

• secure payments
• no fraudulent transaction
• relatively lower fees

blockchain and huntercoin

A blockchain online gaming platform to create a multiplayer online games without any central system or servers. Every node is able to verify its current state and also participate in the game. The huntercoin platform was first at so many things:

• first decentralised, massive multiplayer gameworld built on the blockchain
• first multi algo currency
• first human permissible currency.

The Problem

For a game to meet a certain standard, a lot has to go into it. Creating a game requires a great story, impeccable mechanism and topnotch art. The developer must be able to capture the minds of the clients and convince them that the game idea is going to be a success. The concept of the game must be standard. The concept contains all details about the game. If as a developer you pitch a good concept then you get the funding you need.

However, the increasing demand for complex and quality game, most independent game creators or developers find it difficult to get their concept to life. This is owing to time and cost constraints. The cost of setting up the various infrastructure can be daunting especially when it is an independent developer.

For gamers already "plugged" in to the blockchain online gaming platform, they still have problems managing their assets throughout a multiple multiparty virtual environment.

These problems if left to linger, will make online gaming on the blockchain lose a lot of clients. They would not want to invest time and efforts to amass virtual treasure just to lose it to some server glitch or some fiendish server administrator.

XAYA offers them a unique solution.

What is XAYA?

XAYA is a blockchain platform that develops rich virtual worlds in a decentralised manner without the need of any central server.

XAYA VISION

[1] Provide a decentralised massive multiplayer autonomous universe.
[2] Provide a fair virtual item ownership with simple and safer trading.
[3] Provide developers with the right tools and infrastructure to build a truly decentralised virtual gaming world and issue their own currency which cab be traded for any of the XAYA assets.

XAYA PRODUCTS

Developers who want to build on the blockchain, pay a whole lot (time, money, resources) to get their games from concept to release.

With XAYA products model, developers are sure to enjoy a lot of benefits. Some include a broad game engine compatibility and a truly scalable massive multiplayer game development without "breaking a sweat."

Assets owned by gamers contribute immensely to their "rep" and it would not be ideal that the gamer's efforts would be wasted due to loss of assets. XAYA thinks that rewarding players should take a more profound dimension. XAYA offers gamers:

• provably fair game play
• secure virtual asset ownership
• easy to use game launcher
• human readable account wallets and address.

XAYA MARKET

The market will target obviously the gaming industry and cryptocurrency. Allowing developers build on the platform creates a new kind of market. Developers will be given the opportunity to experience a new virtual universe; a more flexible and secure virtual trading and fast concept store lease time.

The gaming market is a vast market with an annual revenue of 108bn USD. This value is expected to grow by 6.2% compound annual growth rate by the year 2020 and XAYA is targeting 75%of the gamers (mobile or desktop).

Currency

Blockchain walks hand in hand with cryptocurrency. These cryptocurrency enable transactions to take place. It has experienced widespread adoption in the last decade but some drawbacks such as regulations and usability still exists. However, the blockchain values rise as its users increase and how much transactions are made or how much these currencies change hands. This on the blockchain is termed Velocity Money.

XAYA is leveraging the technology of velocity money. This means that as more developers and gamers sign on to the platform and make transactions, the more valuable XAYA will become. Considering what XAYA offers the world, widespread adoption and large market would be achievable in no distant time.

XAYA TECHNOLOGY

[1] Proof of Work

XAYA combines the strengths of Namecoin and Huntercoin to offer a shared proof of work system with a difference. Unlike bitcoin , namecoin , a payment protocol using bitcoin stores data within its own blockchain transaction database. Combining with huntercoin, Xaya solves any scaling problem that may arise.

[2] Fair Trade

Trading on XAYA will be much faster. Xaya is taking a hint of colored coins. Items can be trader for other items or for the XAYA currency CHI. Xaya will leverage the concept of atomic transactions.
Items to sold and the CHI or items to be used as payment are sent to an atomic transaction. The transaction must be signed by the parties involved before the trade can be completed.
The seller ensures he is getting the right payment for his item and the buyer ensures that he is paying for the right commodity before sigining the deal. One does not happen before the other.

[3] Game Channels

Scaling data is no small task in the blockchain world but XAYA has a different approach. They will be making use of sidechains. These sidechains are basically blockchain mechanism that allow digital assets to be used in a separate blockchain and moved back to the original blockchain IF NEEDED.

Game channels uses sidechain to store record of moves for a turn based game. The digital signatures cannot be forged or moved backwards.
If players agree on the outcome of a game, the prizes are distributed. But in the event of a dipsute, the player is given a chance to make his case.

The initial design of the game channel is to resume state after any dispute is resolved. During resolution , the process is handled by the main blockchain and this incurs transaction fees to be be paid by the players involved in the dispute. A cruel player can take advantage of this an keep on raising disputes for resolution leading to disruption of games and loss of assets due to fees paid. This is not ideal for an honest player. Therefore, XAYA uses ephemeral timestamps to curtail this exploitation.

[4] EPHEMERAL TIMESTAMPS

Ephemeral simply means happening for a short time. In the context of blockchain , they are chains that exist for a short period of time but long enough for a consensus to be reached. Common with IOT devices. The IOT devices can administer their own network, keep data for set time and when the disk is full, it clears the disk.

The timestamps used by XAYA serves scalability and fairness purpose.

• A data D is sent to be time-stamped by the public p2p network and the blockchain. Space is not consumed and fees are not paid.
• in dispute resolution, the time stamps can be used to prove that a game participant could have a data D at a time T meaning he didn't follow the rules and ultimately claim prize money. Any player that defects in rules of the game will foot the bill of dispute resolution fees incurred on the bllockchain. He will forfeit his prize to the honest player.

XAYA TOKEN CHI

Bitcoins will be transferred by interested participants who wish to purchase the XAYA token CHI. The token fuels may things:

• account creation
• account transaction
• coin transfers
• game transactions

Monetization

• A percentage of the mined coins go to developers
• A one-off fee to join or subscribe to the game.
• in-game stores contain items , power ups, healing etc that can be sold to gamers.
• in-game advertising
• in-game trading platform

Annual Revenue Per User (ARPU)

Token Sale

Token Distribution

Fund Allocation

partners

Roadmap

XAYA and VR

Virtual reality
Virtual reality or VR as it is mostly known by is a novel way to view data. Everything is like the world we live in but it is virtual.
Items gotten on VR do not have real world values because they are "easily" gotten. For the items to be considered to have real world values, they must be scarce.

no one would think the iPhone X is a phone of sheer class if everyone has it
Decentralisation guarantees the scarcity of these items.

But why put VR on the blockchain?

The answer is simple, permanency. If the these virtual items of real world values would last, then people would want to invest more. With blockchain, developers and gamers will be properly incentivized and be able to trade their various assets.
The gamer sells his virtual item for real world currency or other cryptocurrency at ease and with no central server posing a threat to his assets.
Virtual Games like TREAT FIGHTER and SOCCER MANAGER will enjoy the benefits of gaming on the blockchain.
For treat fighters gamers, they enjoy 100% uptime and for the soccer manager gamers: a fair game play, true ownership of assets and the ability to gain from being a manager.

TYPES OF GAMES SUPPORTED

The following are a few of the games a developer can build or access on Xaya:

• Real-time strategy games (RTS)/
• Multiplayer online battle arenas (MOBA)
• Turn-based games
• MMORPGs
  There are other genres as game types beyond the three popular online categories mentioned.