Star Atlas is a science fiction, metaverse game set in the year 2620. In this space-themed game, players will be able to influence a war taking place between three factions whilst earning $ATLAS, the in-game currency. This currency can be used to purchase items in the form of NFTs or can be sold for financial gain. $POLIS, the second of Star Atlas' two tokens, is used for governance aspects. After a two to three year period, the Star Atlas team will begin transfering their governance power through a series of DAOs towards $POLIS holders until they are no longer the majority stake holders. Star Atlas is built upon the Solana blockchain in order to facilitate high transactional demand for their severless, online multiplayer game.
Star Atlas had their seed round led by Serum and MoonWhale Ventures in January 2021. They proceeded to have both an IEO and two IDOs launched on 08/26/2021 via FTX, Raydium and Apollo-X respectively amassing a total distribution of $2 million of tokens. Currently, 6% of the total $POLIS supply is in circulation with more tokens to be released via the staking of $ATLAS (40%), providing liquidity (4%) or tokens from the team, private and public sales being sold when applicable (54%). The team has completed their goal of building an asset marketplace and is continually introducing new assets. They have completed the digital marketplace along with faction leaderboards. Upon the game release, the marketplace will also contain job listings posted by players allowing others to earn by completing in-game tasks. The team is currently working on the release of a fully functional 3D browser and metaverse usernames. Their mini-game was released on December 16th and allows spaceship owners to stake their NFT on-chain. Spaceship holders were airdropped the following resources: food, fuel, ammunition and toolkits. These resources allow them to enlist their ship to battle under a faction thereby earning a yield in $ATLAS. Stakers have to replenish their resources via the marketplace when they begin to run out, otherwise they will stop earning $ATLAS. Star Atlas aims to become the leading blockchain game by creating a captivating and immersive experience for its users in their open-world MMORPG. This will be achieved by seamlessly implementing politics, economics, strategy and play-to-earn mechanisms within a role playing game. Players will be able to join factions, explore space, engage in combat and more whilst being rewarded as they play. A thriving real-world economy is a crucial goal of the project, Star Atlas wants players to be able to translate their time within the game to real-world income. This will be done via the marketplace, where users will be able to buy and sell their digital assets in the form of NFTs. There are upcoming plans for the marketplace to integrate player created content too. Additionally, the project aims to become fully decentralised over time with the implementation of DAOs and the project's governance token $POLIS. They also aim to implement a 3D experience via Unreal Engine 5 allowing for a revolutionary first person adventure while flying one's spaceship. Part of Star Atlas' long term vision invovles expanding to other blockchains and also utilising a gamer's computational processing power to make actual universe discoveries via projects such as SkyHub.org.
