What is Nexium?
Nexium is the cryptocurrency behind the popular game, Beyond the Void (BtV). Beyond the Void is a game on the blockchain which provides an engaging and rich gaming experience for gamers all over the world. There are so many games that have been introduced in the crypto world, but the approach is different. While most games are focused on collectibles, Beyond the Void is making a difference by allowing players to do more than just collecting items.
Most of the cryptographic games that are associated with the blockchain technology are still under development.
However, Beyond the Void is already available, and gamers can find it on Steam. BtV is using Nexium as a medium of bridging the gap between the blockchain world and the world of gaming.
The idea is to bring control back to players. Nexium is supported by the Ethereum blockchain. Therefore, users are in a position to enjoy all the benefits including smart contracts.
Development on Nexium started in 2015. A beta version was released and sent to backers to test and fix any issues arising.
Two years later, more content was loaded onto Nexium, releasing the beta version to the public
What is the problem that Nexium Solves?
The gaming world has for a long time taken control away from the players, and placed it in the hands of tech companies behind the games. This is a problem that has taken the soul away from gaming. What Nexium is doing, is to bring back the power that gamers have, allowing them to genuinely enjoy the games they have access to.
In terms of conferring power back to the gamers, they have the ability to purchase, sell or even destroy the items that they buy in their games. Through Nexium, Beyond the Void is trying to come up with a cross-gaming platform that is a universe on its own. The plan is to have a lot of games that are linked together in one way or the other.
As a result of the Ethereum technology development ecosystem, it is now possible to realize this dream. For example, gamers on Beyond the Void who own a Crystalibur ship automatically have an Amaranthe card in case they also play Spells of Genesis.
Tokens and Wallets
One of the challenges that blockchain games experience, especially when compared to mainstream gaming platforms is the need for ownership of digital assets and purchase of the same. This concept is already a challenge. Together with the fact that the process of purchase, storage and use of the tokens can be difficult and counterintuitive, especially for an average gamer, makes this one of the most challenging experiences for gamers and developers.
On BtV, Nexium is the platform’s token. However, new users can struggle to purchase these tokens. A new user would have to give an exchange their identity, wait for verification, buy the cryptocurrency then get into another exchange where they can buy the tokens and then come back to the gaming site.
For experienced users, this is a normal process and they can plan around it. However, for a beginner or someone who is not a mainstream gamer, this process can be exhausting. This is one of the biggest challenges that Nexium has to deal with.
Players need to realize that they are exchanging real value. This makes a big difference for them, in the sense that they can eventually realize the power they have, in empowering the community of gamers, when the process is simplified.
To simplify this challenge, a digital wallet is all the players will need. In Nexium, there is no need for having to visit an external application or exchange to buy cryptocurrency or tokens. The platform fulfills all and any requirements that would be needed of a digital wallet.
Nexium was built to provide a user experience that goes over and above anything that mainstream gaming platforms are offering. This is achieved through interoperability of the digital assets. By offering a unified front for all games on the platform and a coherent storyline, gamers can simply use different assets in any of the games within the BtV universe.
How does Nexium Solve the problem?
Being the coin supporting Beyond the Void, Nexium is used towards a different approach in bringing the game to gamers worldwide. Most gaming companies make players pay for the games.
However, Beyond the Void is different. It is a free to play gaming platform. Any cosmetic items that players would need in-game are available in the decentralized store, and Nexium is used to purchase these.
All the items that are available in the decentralized store are ERC20 tokens. Therefore, when a gamer purchases any of these items, they become the full owner.
Since all the items are available in short supply, owners also have the ability to sell them on the black market should they feel they no longer need any of the items that they have purchased at some point.
The Nexium ecosystem is specifically built for developers and gamers and powered by blockchain technology. In this ecosystem, you have access to all the games that are/will be produced by B2Expand, the company behind Beyond the Void.
All items that are available for in-game purchase on the Nexium ecosystem are also available here, and any Ethereum tools that are needed by developers are also available.
What makes Nexium better than the competitors?
One of the biggest challenges that developers face in the market at the moment is accessibility. Anyone who is not enthusiastic about cryptocurrency would struggle to get into any environment that requires the use of cryptocurrency like Nexium.
It is important to appreciate the fact that the blockchain industry is still in the development stage, and as an emerging industry, accessibility challenges are always imminent.
However, since Nexium is built on Ethereum, there are more tools that are being developed for it and as time goes, accessibility should cease to be a problem.
Nexium Technology
The technology that was built into the Nexium project is designed to create a link between the world of gaming and blockchain technology.
The gaming world has a lot of interest, and in the recent past, there are so many people and brands who have invested heavily in this industry.
By advancing it on the blockchain platform, Nexium is showing that there is so much more that brands and users can take advantage of if they embrace blockchain technology fully.
Besides, being the first multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) ICO, Nexium has gained interest and appreciation from a lot of enthusiasts, putting it ahead of the pack.
No Whitepaper
A whitepaper is an important part of any blockchain project. It provides interested parties a blueprint of the progress that the project is making, as they attempt to map the way forward for the future.
This will also help them determine whether their investment in the project would be worthwhile. Most projects that do not have a whitepaper barely ever get good attention.
However, Nexium has managed to succeed even without releasing a whitepaper. How is this possible? Nexium took a different approach compared to what other projects have been doing.
While a whitepaper gives users an idea of the architecture and technology behind a project or the roadmap of progress in the project, Nexium simply built a working project and released it to the masses.
This, in itself, is a confidence boost for naysayers, because it is a working model that has already won plaudits for many reasons, and is a fan favorite in the gaming world.
Fun in Tech
A lot of the blockchain projects that have been built seem to focus a lot on the element of currency than anything else. There are so many projects that were designed to fix some of the traditional concerns that are experienced in the financial market. This is where Nexium takes things a notch higher.
With Nexium, users are looking at a project that introduces a lot of fun and games in the blockchain world. Through the Beyond the Void game, users take up a strategy game where they command a spaceship through a major battle in space, in an attempt to beat the enemy opponent.
Value Proposition
Over time, the Nexium tokens will be burned. This is to make them scarce especially as the number of players grows. In the long run, burning the tokens should help increase the value of the token.
Players who back the token also have so much to look forward to, especially since tokens are awarded according to the player’s rank in the game. Therefore, the higher you rank in the game, the more tokens you can receive. These tokens can then be exchanged for items in the games, like skins for your battleship, boosters, avatars, and titles in the game.
Titles and ranks earn players different number of coins. An Army General, for example, would earn up to 50,000 NXC, while a Ship Pilot would earn 1000 NXC.
No Mining
A lot of projects out here are so focused on mining and do not address the inherent challenges that they might have based on the same. Nexium, however, is not about mining. In fact, users cannot mine Nexium tokens. 100 million tokens were created. 15% of these coins were distributed among developers and founders, another 15% set for communications and marketing. The rest was put up for sale in the 2016 ICO.
How can Nexium be categorized?
Nexium is a smart token that was built for the gaming industry. It introduces a new way of accessing in-game assets, which can be shared across different games as long as they exist within the Nexarium ecosystem. Nexium has also helped to reduce the cumbersome nature of transactions that gamers have had to go through in order to get cryptocurrency and buy tokens for the games they like, by introducing a wallet that brings all of these services in one place. This does not just reduce the amount of time gamers have to wait to get the tokens, but also makes work easier, and their transactions safer online.
What’s Nexium’s vision on Security?
Security is one of the most important or crucial elements of gaming online. Most average gaming platforms would have to store gigantic records of their customers on their platforms, especially in a central server. By introducing Nexium to gaming, this is different. Gamers, developers and gaming enthusiasts no longer have to worry about the risk of centralization of data. There is a lot on the blockchain that would help projects like Nexium champion a revolution in online gaming.
Nexium is built around the Nexarium ecosystem. This is a project of B2Expand, which was designed to support the availability of blockchain products in-game. All the assets are centralized within the gaming ecosystem, allowing users the benefit of accessing partner games and applications that are built on Ethereum in one place.
The products are designed with artistic direction and consistency. Ethereum projects are backed by smart contracts. These are lines of code that are written to perform specific actions when certain requirements are met.
Examples of Nexium use cases/applications
Gaming Assets
What B2Expand has done with Beyond the Void, is to make sure that through Nexium, users are able to enjoy complete and true asset ownership. Users can purchase cosmetic assets in the Nexarium ecosystem. These assets live in and can be managed within the Nexium blockchain. Therefore, they are also independent and fully portable within the game platform.
This means that as a player, you can collect assets in the games you play and either ruse them or keep them. You can also sell them to other players as entities built on Ethereum. The idea here is to introduce and support the cause for cross-gaming trading. This forms a part of the playing experience, allowing gamers the ability to trade and move assets from one platform to another.
Corporation Shop
The corporation shop was specifically designed for users to buy and sell cosmetic limited-release items. These are items that are very rare to find in the games.
Resources
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