INTERGALACTIC GAMING (IG) – The Platform

Our multi-faceted platform will disrupt the way that gamers play their favourite esport titles competitively, particularly by digitalising interaction and exchange of value. The IG platform will provide all users with a stable and predictable framework that enables easy access, navigation and fair monetisation within the esports space.

Our unique competitive gaming infrastructure will draw inspiration from traditional sports, creating an ecosystem that will support the professionalisation of the esports industry — transitioning the activity from a hobby to a career for many gamers, regardless of skill.

Here are five key components of our multi-faceted platform:

1. Competitive Gaming Platform

Our esports platform will create bespoke and innovative ecosystems for each of our supported esport titles, with the nuanced target audience for each game taken into consideration. Users will be able to compete with a team (or individually) against others online for pride, prizes and ranking. Gamers and teams will be incentivised to participate in a variety of competitions, with their performance and experience competing on the platform determining their placing in the ranking ecosystem. This consequently impacts their monetisation potential.

2. Extensive Gamer Centric Features

Gamers are the heart of our platform — so we have designed and integrated significant gamer centric features into our platform that will reward and incentivise participation. These features will cater for all gamers, regardless of skill, providing them with a dynamic way to play their favourite game competitively. The features have been designed to catalyse accessibility, stability and adoption, whilst also significantly improving gamer retention and replay value.

3. Social Features

By integrating significant social features, we can facilitate and incentivise users to connect with each other and help build a global gaming community on the platform. Features will include the incentivisation of connecting, following and positively engaging with other users. Our social features will facilitate networking whilst also improving discovery of players and teams, particularly as their online presence will be significantly boosted through our platform.

4. Galactic Grand Exchange (GGE)

This will most probably not be the exchange you are thinking of. There is a different kind of exchange taking place at the GGE. The exchange will facilitate the transfer of our native token throughout the platform ecosystem, primarily as consideration for products or services from other stakeholders within the IG ecosystem.

5. Innovative Technology

Blockchain technology, smart contracts and a native exclusive digital token will enable our web-based platform to interlink the fragmented sub-ecosystems within the global esports industry, as well as facilitating the quick and secure transfer of data and value. The blockchain will fundamentally change the way users in our ecosystem interact and exchange value with each other, whilst also providing a seamless and unique user experience. Utilising Tron’s existing infrastructure will enable a host of benefits!

MARKETING PLAN

We have several channels that we will utilise to increase brand awareness and increase adoption. The nuances of the marketing plan will heavily depend on the individual game titles we will support.

We will not go too much into our marketing plans today, but we intend to use a variety of both proven and innovative methods to gain exposure. Over the past three years, we have built an extensive network that will support our marketing plan.

Furthermore, due to the excitement around esports- there is unlimited potential with regards to endemic and non-endemic strategic partnerships.

WHY BLOCKCHAIN?

Although many in our team had come across bitcoin many years ago, it is only within the last year that it has gained our full attention.

The two digital tokens that captured our attention were Ripple & Tron. Ripple was causing a storm with their extensive partnerships with Financial Institutions, disrupting the trillion dollar remittance market, whilst Justin Sun literally created a billion dollar company over night. Although Justin was rough around the edges, you could tell he was creating something magical.

From the self-education of the technology, use cases and the innovative projects arising — it was a love at first sight sort of scenario with blockchain and the underlying technology. We wanted to use it in our platform but we did not want to force it. We wanted to watch the blockchain market as we had with esports, patiently.

We continued ideating for IG and then we came up with a feature that changed everything. The consequences of this feature, along with sequential additional features, the blockchain and the underlying technology made sense. Smart contracts and our digital token, IGG, will facilitate the natural evolution of the way we interact and exchange value with each other — within the esports realm. This is one of our key USPs and will be revealed when appropriate.

Smart contracts will enable automatic enforcement and execution of the agreements, removing the need for third parties and hence reducing costs. Furthermore, we will provide set template contracts that will make it easy for stakeholders to enter into agreements with others.

The online gaming market is currently plagued by high transaction fees, exchanges rates, inefficient mediators and slow transaction speeds. Implementing a native digital asset such as IGG will enable scalable transaction of value throughout our ecosystem almost instantaneously, with minimal fees. Furthermore, as esports is a global industry, the universal digital currency will mitigate the substantial issues related to differences in domestic currencies in target locations. Tokenisation will allow quick movement of value, facilitating liquidity within the ecosystem.

Benefits of Blockchain Integration:

Facilitation of Scalability, Security & Automation

Smart Contracts

Native Digital Asset

Low Fees for Transactions

WHY TRON?

Justin Sun, founder of Tron is aiming to decentralise the internet; more specifically the entertainment industry through the beauty of blockchain. It’s goal is to eliminate mediator companies like (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter & Instagram, etc) paving a way for content creators (Musicians, bloggers, photographers, etc) to communicate directly with its audience. Basically, Tron aims to allow users to publish, store and own data freely.

It’s referenced in their Whitepaper that they’re avid fans of the creator of the World Wide Web (Sir. Tim Berners-Lee); believing that a protocol from birth, should be an asset to all human beings, rather than capitalism mentality of making it a profit-making tool for big corporations.

We see the size of the esports market growing exponentially year on year, with some of the biggest developers making billions. But what are the gamers getting for the time and money they’re adding to the space? The lack of revenue shared with the heart of the ecosystem is absurd. We look to tackle this capitalism mentality, and make a platform an asset to gamers a like. We will disrupt and challenge the whole gaming market, bringing power back to us gamers; where once again we’ll have a voice to this ever-evolving space.

We monitored and identified various platforms we could have utilised within the last year, but Tron has come out on top. In turn, we will provide a number of benefits to the Tron ecosystem, namely bringing a lucrative and exciting industry to the Tron ecosystem.

Benefits from using Tron:

Extremely fast transaction speeds

It utilises a reliable network structure, user asset and an ethos for decentralisation leads to an improved reward distribution mechanism.

Scalability

We will have the ability to support huge number of users through their highly effective smart contracts.

High throughput

Handling over 2000 transactions per second, surpassing the likes of Ethereum and bitcoin.

We want to create a gaming ecosystem that like Tron’s vision of a virtual cilivisation is; decentralised, independent, self-governed, equal and cooperative across all stakeholders.

We have the opportunity to build a gaming platform by gamers, for gamers. Thanks to Tron’s protocol, we can raise the funds to develop one incredible platform oozing with gamer centric features; eradicating the need to sell our soul to VCs like every gaming platform before us.

TEAM, ADVISORS & STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Our team consists of a diverse range of individuals who share the same passion and interest in the gaming industry. We understand that having the right team to execute the project is absolutely fundamental and so we will strengthen our team in Q3/Q4 to ensure effective execution of our vision.

We have approached and been approached by a vast number of endemic and non-endemic stakeholders that are keen to get into esports. We have kept these conversations open but timing is everything for execution. We will finalise these conversations in the immediate future to officially announce these prolific team members, advisors & strategic partners to our community.

Some of the key individuals to note currently behind the IG team:

Naeem — Co-Founder

I am from Leeds and have solid academic background and key transferable skills that would be hugely beneficial for my role at IG. I initially studied Dentistry for one year in Newcastle, before deciding it was not for me. I then went to the University of Manchester to study Law. I am currently working as a recruitment consultant at a FTSE 250 company (the Page Group). I have been an avid gamer from a young age. Gameboys (pokemon), PS1 to PS4, PC games (unreal tournament, runescape, WOW) … the list goes on. I have been brought up, as have billions of others, in a gaming culture.

Since 2015, I have spent countless hours observing and understanding the nascent competitive gaming market. I consolidated my knowledge towards the end of 2017 by publishing my first book — Esports: The Complete Guide 17/18 (Available on Amazon). I am now in the process of writing a profile of the esports industry for Business Expert Press (publisher in New York).

Over the last year, I have also been actively involved in the esports scene, from speaking at esports conferences to consulting endemic & non-endemic companies. I look forward to continuing to provide my ‘expertise’ in esports to help drive the industry forward.

Josh — Co-Founder

Since a very young age my desire for both business and gaming have been prominent; where I undertook my own ‘tuckshop’, selling anything from chewing gum to drinks. Rational behind it? All so I could save enough to buy the first release of the Nintendo Wii; with Zelda, Dragon ball Z and Red steel.

I have geordie blood, graduating from Northumbria University with first class in project management, and now finishing a Msc in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation. From project managing multi-million pound projects, to consulting a multiple of businesses using design thinking; has equipped me with vital knowledge and experience for the ambitious project ahead.

Gaming for me started with the Nintendo 64, before the roots of the Xbox engrained to my gaming heart; where I eventually took up arms against the Locust Horde to save humanity! With my best achievement receiving the top 900 ranking in world for guardian on GoW 2.

I’m dreamer, ideator and inquirer; with the mindset for sky’s the limit. I’ve helped sculpt IG to where it is today, with combination of passion, visions and ideas; I’m certain our project will smash all expectations!

We have a number of other key team members & advisors on board, some more vested than others. They come from extensive business backgrounds, gaming, esports and blockchain.

We have one individual on board who has the 6th ever made PlayStation 1! That is all we will say on this part for the time being.

More information about our full team, advisors and other stakeholders will be released in the coming weeks, when appropriate.

POTENTIAL CHALLENGES FOR IG

Now you have a better understanding of IG — we would like to be transparent about the potential challenges the IG project may face. Here are a few:

Funding — This is a big challenge as a lack of funding can result in a poor execution of the vision.

— This is a big challenge as a lack of funding can result in a poor execution of the vision. Team — We have an ambitious, driven and committed team that has proven to be extremely resourceful. We have made significant progress over the last few years, but we understand that we will need to further strengthen our team in areas that we lack expertise. We will begin mitigating this challenge very soon as we bring on individuals to add value to our collective ability.

— We have an ambitious, driven and committed team that has proven to be extremely resourceful. We have made significant progress over the last few years, but we understand that we will need to further strengthen our team in areas that we lack expertise. We will begin mitigating this challenge very soon as we bring on individuals to add value to our collective ability. Technological Expertise — Although we have some absolute gems in technical staff, we appreciate that we lack extensive experience in aspects of the business — particularly to build a platform of this nature. For this reason, we will most likely outsource the majority of the development of our platform.

— Although we have some absolute gems in technical staff, we appreciate that we lack extensive experience in aspects of the business — particularly to build a platform of this nature. For this reason, we will most likely outsource the majority of the development of our platform. Adoption — This is of course crucial. The IG platform needs to have active users that participate within the ecosystem — within the users the platform will simply not work. For this reason, we will be strategic in the esport titles we will support to ensure longevity and a bespoke approach to the established community.

We have measures in place to mitigate these risks — but with anything in life, there is still always risk. Nevertheless, we have demonstrated over the last week that there is a clear need and a market for what we are going to create.

THE IG JOURNEY — ROADMAP

A more detailed roadmap will also be released in due course.

The below roadmap is provisional – we anticipate being able to fly through these milestones in a much quicker timescale with the help of the Tron community

Distribution of Available Supply:

6 Billion — Offered to the Tron Community in exchange for TRX

3 Billion — Airdrops & Community Rewards

1 Billion — Community & Ecosystem Development

The remaining 40 billion has been frozen for 3 months. When these are unlocked in October, we will then pursue listings on exchanges. There will also be a 1:1 IGG airdrop following the unlocking of these tokens. More information on the distribution of the frozen supply will be released in due course.

Use Cases of IGG

Value of IGG will be determined by the market and hence susceptible to supply and demand economics. For there to be increased demand and adoption of a token, there must be real world use cases.

IGG will have extensive use cases for all key stakeholders within our esports ecosystem. This includes use cases for gamers (regardless of skill), teams, professionals, brands and the wider public (audience, fans, investors…).

We will reveal our use cases over the coming weeks. Here are a few;

Teams can pay their players a salary in IGG for completing matches whilst representing the team.

Utilised in the GGE to purchase products or commission services.

Prize Pools to gamers for Esports Competitions

Loyalty rewards to users

Use of TRX Raised:

We will provide a detailed plan as to how we will utilise the TRX raised. We have a lot of variables in place depending on the amount we raise. The more we raise, the more we can spend on aspects to ensure effective execution of our vision.

Key costs will be in the development of the platform and marketing to ensure we have mass adoption across the world.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

There are two ways you can participate in the IG Project:

Tronscan Offering

You are able to login to your wallet on www.tronscan.org and then head over to ‘Token’ and click on ‘Participate’

You will be able to find IGG on their from Friday 3rd August at around 13:00 UTC.

500M IGG AIR DROP

We will carry out an initial 500M IGG Airdrop to the Tron Community that hold IGG, where the value received is based on relative Tron Power (obtained by freezing TRX).

This will be beneficial for the Tron community, TRX price and encourage voting as well! We will announce logistics of the airdrop and how to participate by the end of the week, giving enough time for all to become eligible and participate. We will look to carry out the airdrop between 10th — 12th August 2018.

We will carry out a number of additional airdrops over the coming months to reward the Tron Community, including a 1:1 Airdrop within two months.