We have had a very positive start to 2019. Members of Intergalactic Gaming had an invaluable opportunity to attend TRON’s first ever niTROn Summit in San Francisco. For those of that haven’t already, be sure to check out our niTROn summary:

https://medium.com/@info_91865/nitron-summit-2019-c8eefa23e799

As we look to an exciting quarter ahead, we have loads going on in the IGGalaxy: including IG FIFA 19 Tournaments, Yannick Bolasie’s recruitment of FIFA players to his team, Esports BAR, exchange listings and much more! We are driven by our vision for a more connected world through competitive gaming and we look forward to continuing to share our updates with you through our progress reports.

Alpha Update

We wanted to let you know that we have decided to push back the launch of the Alpha platform by a few weeks. Although we have made fantastic progress, we have identified areas that will undoubtedly benefit from extended time in development and testing. Those that have been involved with product development will recognise that this is not unusual; it is the very reason we create Alpha versions and do testing after all!

We know it is a bit disappointing (even more so for us as we hate to miss deadlines). Looking at the bigger picture, it is not the end of the world; it is only a few weeks and will not be detrimental to our overall timetable as we have trebled our headcount over the last two months. We have made incredible progress in a very short period of time — it was only last October when we started work on developing the IG platform, and late December that we launched our Alpha v1.0 TESTNET. In truth, we were probably being over ambitious trying to get all this done by the beginning of February.

As you would expect, we have been taking the results of testing to make important modifications to the Alpha, improving both aesthetics and functionality; we are sure that you will feel that this short delay will have been worth it.

Last week, we launched our new website. It includes the same features, but will now also serve as the portal to the Alpha. Please remember those of you that had already signed up will be required to do so again, however signing up with the same email address will not require you to resubmit KYC documents. As previously mentioned, users will not immediately be able to log in to the IGGalaxy; they will need to wait for their email to be whitelisted. For those that have already signed up, we kindly ask for patience while we introduce users to our platform.

See our recent announcement below for further details:

https://medium.com/@info_91865/psa-new-ig-landing-page-9aff195e4501

Over the course of February, we will be ‘whitelisting’ Galacticans’ accounts granting them access to the Alpha platform. To allow us to concentrate on Alpha development, we have also decided to postpone our FIFA tournament until the weekend of 23–24 February 2019.

IG Platform Development Phases:

We would like to share an updated outline of the three phases of our development plan, with expected development dates.

Alpha Phase: October 2018 — February 2019

This phase is the very beginning of our journey. The objective of this phase is to develop a minimum viable product where FIFA players will be rewarded for participating in competitive online tournaments. By the end of this phase, we will effectively have the foundations to a platform that will facilitate online FIFA 19 tournaments on demand, in turn enabling us to begin building a community around the game.

Beta Phase: Q1 — Q3 2019

During this phase, we will radically transform the Alpha platform by integrating additional planned features, whilst also providing a greater user experience through gamification. Categorisation of users will take place in this phase whilst further utility of IGG will be demonstrated throughout the platform as we continue to integrate smart contracts and increase our value proposition. As we increase the number of users with access to the Beta, we will implement measures to continually stress test the infrastructure, working towards the public release.

Public Phase: Q3-Q4 2019

The final phase of the development plan entails the public release of the platform, operating on a freemium model. With a subscription service, we will seek to continually innovate to provide Galacticans with an attractive replay value. The platform will have many more features integrated, a growing user base and a maturing token economy. We will also begin to diversify, creating bespoke infrastructures around other top competitive electronic games.

FIFA 19 Tournament Overview

Duration: Saturday 23 February — Sunday 24 February 2019

Console: PS4 and Xbox One

Player Capacity: 64 players per tournament

Game Mode: Ultimate Team/Classic (to be voted on by participants)

We will release a separate document outlining the details of our first FIFA 19 Tournaments this . Unfortunately not everyone will be able to participate in our very first tournament.

Sneak Peak of the Alpha Platform

We will continue to provide frequent updates pertaining to developments on the platform and Intergalactic Gaming as a whole.

IG Token Swap Update

Total in IG Wallets: 38,210,568,193.82 — See LitePaper for Distribution Plan

Total IG Gold in Circulation: 9,404,554,377.21~*

Total IG Gold Supply: 50,000,000,000

*Please note that this is changing due to the ongoing token swap:

TokenSwap Wallet: 2,141,097,915 (as of 31/01/2019)

This wallet holds the IG Gold reserved for Galacticans to convert old TRC-10 IGG tokens to the new TRC-20 IG Gold tokens.

Please read our article if you find you have sent IGG to our conversion wallet and have not received anything back:

https://medium.com/@info_91865/important-notice-regarding-trc-20-tokens-213053617edb

Our partner, TronWalletMe, will be releasing an update to for TRC-20 tokens to be supported on their wallet API. Although we do not have a specific date, ledger support should not be far off. We will provide any more insight on the matter as soon as we hear anything.

IG Super Representative (SR) & IG Loyalty Rewards

Prior to the token migration, we had two reward scripts in place; these included:

Community Plan for those that voted Intergalactic-Gaming for SR.

As per the TRON SR Candidacy section of our LitePaper, we are currently in Phase 2 of our SR rewards:

85% TRX earned from producing blocks on the TRON blockchain to voters, proportionate to the percentage of contributing votes.

The remaining 15% TRX earned is sent to the Intergalactic Foundation Wallet.

IGG at a 150% rate for every TRX rewarded to the voter.

Since the transfer to TRC-20, we have continued to distribute the 85% TRX earned. We have retained all the data of those who have voted for us since the suspension of IGG rewards so that we are able to backdate rewards. We are now working on the script to retrospectively distribute the IGG rewards voters.

Our IGG SR rewards will be distributed and resume tomorrow. The total amount of backdated IGG (at 150%) to be distributed is: 4,953,578. This figure does not include the rewards from today or tomorrow.

IG Loyalty Rewards, based on IG Gold holdings.

We also distributed IGG on the basis of IGG held by the voters. The purpose of this additional reward structure was to reward those who were holding IGG.

This has been indefinitely suspended now as we will look to replace with the initiative with the ‘Freeze’ Function.

IGG ‘Freeze’ Function

The ‘Freeze’ Function feature will be available to all Galacticans, enabling the “storing” of a chosen amount of IGG safely within a smart contract on the TRON blockchain, whilst being rewarded for doing so.

We are currently working on our model and script to ensure an effective reward structure. We will release more information regarding this function soon.

EXCHANGES

Current Exchanges:

TRX Market — https://trx.market

Tronscan DEX — https://tronscan.org/#/exchange/trc20?token=IG%20Gold/TRX&id=37

CryTrEx — https://crytrex.com

Bitexbook — https://bitexbook.com

This month:

TRONTrade — https://trontrade.io

Sistemkoin (#42 on CMC — $67m daily trading volume) — https://sistemkoin.com/#/

LATOKEN (#26 on CMC — $168m daily trading volume) — https://latoken.com

In Q1, we expect to list on numerous exchanges that rank within the top 50 exchanges on CoinMarketCap. This is fundamental to increasing the liquidity within our tokenised economy, and thus functionality of our token.

We are the first TRC-20 token to list on exchanges outside of the TRON network and on CoinMarketCap Top 100. Notwithstanding, we must be patient with exchanges to ensure safety and security while trading.

Social Media

We recently reached an amazing milestone, reaching 5,000 followers on Twitter! As our social media presence begins to grow, next stop will be the 10,000 mark!

At the beginning of the year, we began our migration to Discord. Whilst we will still be using our Telegram channels, we will look to use Discord as our preferred means of communication.

We Look Forward To:

Esports Bar Cannes 2019 — IG will be attending to introduce itself to the Esports business world at large. We will be there to promote the vision of IG and the TRON blockchain.

https://medium.com/@info_91865/ig-attending-esports-bar-conference-2019-150e7b1f9d29

Alpha Phase Completion: Our Upcoming FIFA 19 Tournaments hosted on the IG platform will mark the end of the Alpha phase of development. Following from this, we will have a platform that will enable online competitive gaming tournaments to be hosted.

To keep up to date with developments, please follow us on our various social media channels:

Website: www.iggalaxy.com

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/igg_esports

Discord: https://discord.gg/5kx4tKR

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/user/Intergalactic_Gaming

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/IG_Galaxy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IGGalaxy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intergalactic_gaming/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intergalactic-gaming

Medium: https://medium.com/@info_91865