Have you heard of OSMI? There are so many projects building on GalaChain that we occasionally have trouble shining a light on all of them, but OSMI is one you definitely want to keep an eye out for!
OSMI is a new AI project built directly on GalaChain. Unlike other AI projects, OSMI is entirely decentralized and will be run through a collection of GPU-based Nodes.
While specific AI is becoming more and more ubiquitous in our world, it’s not necessarily becoming more public, transparent and decentralized. As AI continues to influence our culture and create a new paradigm for how the human race develops, centralization carries a menacing undertone.
OSMI takes the controls of AI out of the few and puts it in the hands of the many. The result will be that OSMI develops and works for people the way they want it to, rather than the way some boss in an ivory tower wants it to.
Why Decentralization Matters
Culture itself is decentralized. A small group of people don’t get together and decide how humanity’s collective consciousness and ideas change over time — that’s all about as decentralized as it gets. Individual attitudes progress and change by the infinitely complex interchange of ideas.
AI, however, is often incredibly centralized. An individual or a small group is determining the parameters, the training data, the goals, etc. This kind of centralization may give normal people some advantage, but the individuals that created it are really controlling where it goes and how it develops.
Now that AI is working its way more and more into daily life, AI’s development will affect the evolution of culture. Centralized AI homogeneity then potentially threatens to partially centralize the evolution of our culture.
The power this gives an irresponsible small group is terrifying, but even more terrifying is the cultural stagnation this could lead to overall. If the same AI models created and curated by just a few people are pushing us all to the same way of thinking, how will diversity of thought continue to thrive and lead to innovation?
The OSMI Movement
OSMI was created for a better way to navigate AI. Just as we propel culture collectively faster than any small group or individual could, we could work together to make AI a better tool that doesn’t fall victim to homogeneity and profit motives.
Decentralization isn’t just a gimmick of OSMI… it’s the entire point. The OSMI team feels that this is THE sustainable way forward with AI and that this is the beginning a very important shift in society towards better AI tools.
Keep an eye out for Node sale announcements coming up and to learn more about the $OSMI token. We’re incredibly excited to learn more about this project and see what the OSMI team can do to revolutionize how we interact with AI!
It wasn’t too terribly long ago that GalaChain’s token footprint was just a few ERC-20s. With the breakout of public development on GalaChain, however, tons of new fungible tokens have joined the Gala Ecosystem!
With so many tokens, it can be easy to get turned around. We thought it was high time that we run through all of the fungible tokens on GalaChain’s platforms and let you know exactly how you can get your hands on some of those rewards!
Please note that we have missed many tokens here. We’ve left out tokens from the Project Token Creation Tool for the moment, preferring to focus today on the tokens that are on boarded onto the GalaChain platform itself. We’ve also left out any tokens without a clear path to rewards.
In the future, we’ll probably do another version of this list with all the off-platform tokens that offer a great chance for rewards! But, that’s another day. For now, enjoy this full guide of where to grab all those great token rewards in the GalaChain Ecosystem!
Legends Reborn
$TOLK: Leaderboard placement at the end of each season awards $TOLK, proportionate to the amount spent in the game during the season’s duration.
$ETIME: Players receive $ETIME daily based on their daily prize points from the previous day, as well as at the end of the season based on their placement in Battle Power, Arena Rank and Conquest Rank. Rewards are proportional to the amount spent in the game, with 60% going towards season rewards and 40% going towards daily rewards
$STAMINA: Each season players may create a limited amount of $STAMINA tokens using 100 of their own stamina in game. These may then be transferred or used to receive 100 stamina through the Gala Games Store.
$SOIL is awarded to players for a wide variety of activities in Common Ground World. Completing daily challenges and racking up Town Points using reward-eligible NFTs, logging in during the day while operating a Common Ground World Node to minimum uptime, or placing in a competition leaderboard will all get you some $SOIL allocation.
NOTE: $DIRT is the off-chain version of $SOIL, and will soon be migrated to $SOIL.
$GALA is awarded every arena season based on each player’s acquired Victory Points. Victory Points are acquired from each victory, based on the number of NFT Champions used in the battle.
$GALA is awarded daily to each player based on the Legacy Tickets that they hold from the previous day’s competitions. The amount of $GALA rewards are proportional to the amount spent in the game during the past day.
$GALA is awarded each day proportional to the amount players have spent on the game. This reward is allocated to all players based on the Stardust that they hold, with half their Stardust being burned each day and replaced with the appropriate amount of $GALA allowance.
$GALA is awarded each week through the Gala Leaderboard based on a player’s final position. Points are acquired by participating in the normal weekly event while using an NFT Hero on your team, with more points for using more than one NFT Hero.
$VGX is distributed based on each player’s V Points, which are achieved by completing tasks in the season pass. Note that $VGX rewards are delivered through a user’s RFLXT account, not the Gala platform.
In Last Expedition, only one team makes it out alive. That means the winning team gets to harvest the resources while the rest are stranded on the planet with theirs. There are four fungible tokens that a user can acquire playing Last Expedition.
$LECHAR is awarded each time a player gains enough XP for a new rank. These can be used to unlock new characters in Last Expedition
Each of the following is a tokenized version of one of the resources you can find on Aura. These are occasionally used to buy new skins and other features that are intermittently available on the Gala Store:
$LEMIN, or Last Expedition Minerals,are awarded based on the amount of minerals you manage to get off the planet!
$LECC, or Last Expedition Core Chunks, are awarded based on the amount of core chunks you manage to get off the planet!
$LEFC , or Last Expedition Fragment Chunks, are awarded based on the amount of fragment chunks you manage to get off the planet!
Calling all decentralized music pioneers! We hope y’all can join us for the second bi-weekly episode of our newest live series, $MUSIC Fireside – Look for us live on Gala Music at 3pm PT this afternoon, Wednesday, October 30th, 2024. Watch on the Gala Music app or platform, powered by GalaChain.
For this episode’s artist interview, we’ll be talking with Beyond the Call, your current favorites in the Gala Music and LabelRadar NextUp Contest, where voting is down to the wire. Don’t forget! You have less than 24 hours left to cast your vote… The top 5 finishers will win cash prizes, along with a featured spot in our upcoming NextUp Mystery Box!
Out of hundreds of submissions, Beyond the Call has collected the most votes so far, but anything can happen. Everyone with a Gala account gets a free vote, and extra votes can be unlocked by spending some $MUSIC.
Beyond the Call is an electrifying musical ensemble hailing from Tweed, Ontario, with members bringing their diverse backgrounds from across Ontario and Canada. Comprised of Mick, the charismatic frontman, Brad on bass, Jimmy shredding on lead guitar, and Matt keeping the beat on drums, this dynamic group crafts a unique sound that defies genre boundaries. Their music is an exhilarating blend of rock, folk, funk, rap and pop, showcasing their vast experience and eclectic styles.
Halloween Showdown
IFKYK 👻 Live on the show, we’ll be hosting a final showdown for players in our Halloween Secret Adventure from Discord. If you missed out on that one, maybe you ought to spend more time in Discord from here on out.😉
We started with 66 participants who answered the spooky riddle to get access to the secret lair. Now the field is narrowed down to 10 brave souls who will go head to head in a life-or-death ultimate trivia showdown challenge… ok, it’s not really life-or-death, but the winner will take home 10 Trick-or-Treat Mystery Boxes for a chance to win some serious $MUSIC 😎
More Treats than Tricks
Speaking of Trick or Treat Mystery Boxes, your opportunity to unmask $MUSIC rewards will soon cross over to the other side. But for now, you can still pick up any number of Trick-or-Treat Mystery Boxes for $GALA, USDC, USD-T or credit card to win collectibles and various amounts of $MUSIC for use throughout the Gala Music ecosystem.
Don’t miss this special Halloween episode of $MUSIC Fireside, live on Gala Music with your hosts, Jaehoon and Leila! The fun begins at 3pm PT. Set a notification at the link below!
