Get ready for a great Town Hall live stream with members of the team from The Walking Dead: Empires, the survival MMO set in the treacherous world of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
The action starts in just 3 hours, at 11am PT. Set a notification and give an early shout in the comments at the link below and we’ll look forward to seeing you there!
Early Access Public Dev Build
Have you started playing TWDE yet through Gala Games? The game is still in development, but the team has opened it up to anyone with a Gala Games account, absolutely free.
Fight off walkers and do your best to scrape survival out of the hellish ruined world of AMC Networks’ hit TV series. You can even play as some of your favorite characters from the show!
Download The Walking Dead: Empires and start playing now on PC or Mac 👇
A series of recent NFT sales in the Gala Games store has made it possible to play as some of the most iconic and beloved characters from AMC’s The Walking Dead. Each Hero Card is available in the standard 6 different rarities (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Ancient), only while supplies last.
All Heroes are sold in increasing price tiers– When each batch sells out, that item will only return at a higher price.
You’ll find more details about the sale and price structure in THIS RECENT BLOG.
NFT collector-players, take your pick from any of the following awesome Heroes:
Glenn
Abraham
Jesus (Paul Rovia)
Prepare for Survival
This game is your chance to collect, craft and survive your way to high status in the chaotic world of The Walking Dead. Play now and you’ll be ready when the real chaos begins!
True empowerment of artists, fans and collectors means revolution in the music industry, and it goes beyond blockchain tech. It exceeds the innovative capabilities of digital assets made possible by web3 advances. It surpasses the expectations of today’s major record labels, whose executives care more about the bottom line than the relationship between artists and their fans.
At Gala Music, we understand that while artists make the music, fans make the music possible. This is why we’ve basically thrown out the traditional music industry’s playbook and created a new system that returns power to the artists and their fans.
One of the most important results of our rapidly growing web3 music revolution is the rise of our All Access Store, where we blur the lines between digital and IRL to bring you All Access Experiences.
Music is Meant to be Experienced
Directly supporting your favorite artists on Gala Music makes it possible for them to make music for a living– That’s the dawn of the new music world. It’s a world that breaks down the barriers separating artists from their craft, rather than building them up. It’s a world that rewards fans for encouraging the most deserving musicians, with multiple layers of incentives. Perhaps most importantly, it’s a world where music goes beyond listening, into the immersive realm of experience.
When you listen to a passionate musician’s track, you can step for a few minutes into their shoes to share both turmoil and triumph. By encouraging our artists to create and sell All Access Experiences, we’re giving you a chance to go even deeper, to immerse yourself in the passion that flows from your favorite sounds.
Check out some of the latest Experiences available in the All Access store, only available for a limited time and while supplies last!
All Access Experiences are limited supply, VIP items offered by artists through the Gala Music platform. So when you find an All Access Experience you like, you’ll want to secure yours as quickly as possible by purchasing the NFT in the All Access Store.
As an exclusive utility sink for Gala Music’s official token, All Access Experiences can exclusively be purchased for $MUSIC on GalaChain. When you generate $MUSIC rewards for owning and hosting tracks or for operating a Jukebox Node, your rewards are awarded as a GalaChain Mint Allowance, allowing you to mint directly to your GalaChain wallet at no additional cost whenever is convenient for you.
Once you spend your $MUSIC on the All Access Experience, you’ll receive a token that is redeemable for the actual experience or item offered. You’ll find your collected All Access Experiences in the “Experiences” area of your Collection page.
If the experience you’re redeeming involves a physical item, you’ll be prompted for additional information such as recipient name and mailing address at the time of redemption.
When physical items are involved, pay attention to the specific item details before purchasing. Some items are restricted by location, and not all physical items are available all over the world.
It’s almost time for an important update to the Gala Node ecosystem that will enhance rewards for the most active operators.
As the Gala ecosystem was building its infrastructure and first proving viability, Founder’s Node operators were rewarded for operation based on their ability to meet the minimum 6-hour uptime requirement during each 24 hour distribution period. This system should be familiar to all Founder’s Node operators today, as it is the system we have used for several years.
In this current system, 1 point is awarded to each Founder’s Node that has met its minimum uptime requirement for the day. Then the $GALA generated for the day is distributed proportionally to the allocation of the points. This straightforward system provides no incentive for Node operators to support the network by operating their Nodes for longer than 6 hours each day.
We’re looking for node operators who support our vision of building the largest decentralized network in the world, so we devised a solution that would a) remove the minimum uptime requirement,and b) reward those who run their Nodes around the clock.
The Long Term Plan
In 2021, it was first announced HERE (and decided through a decentralized governance vote) that the network would eventually shift to such a system. Amid the excitement of opening GalaChain to external development via tools like the GalaChain SDK and the Gala Creator Portal, as well as the web3 buzz surrounding the March 20-21 GalaChain Hackathon GDC competition, we’re thrilled to announce that the time has come.
These updates will go live soon, switching to the new distribution system and rewarding node operators based on a new point system, described in more detail below.
The Point System
The original point system was “pass or fail” with the operator receiving either 0 points for not meeting the requirements or 1 point for meeting the requirements.
The new point system allows operators to earn partial points, creating a more accurate reward structure based on actual operation time.
Every 6 hour period equals 1 point. Therefore the max points for a 24 hour day is 4.
Another way of phrasing this is through the following formula:
Points = (Seconds Online ÷ 3600) x (4 ÷ 24)
While this point structure is changing, the total amount of $GALA available in the daily distribution will not change, except when a dynamic supply event occurs as described in the Gala Ecosystem Blueprint.
The founders distribution still follows the same formula:
Point Value = Distribution $GALA Amount / Total Points
Reward = Points * Point Reward Value
Founder’s Nodes and Common Ground World Nodes
This change will initially only affect the distribution of $GALA from Founder’s Nodes and $DIRT from Common Ground World Nodes.
For Common Ground World Nodes, the 1 $DIRT received per day for an active node will now be the maximum that a Common Ground World Node will generate when active for 24 hours in a day. A Common Ground World Node that is active for 6 hours will receive .25 $DIRT, and so on.
Next Steps
This update is an important step in the process toward making tokenized licenses called Node Workload NFTs, which will allow Node operators to transfer their Node licenses to other users. Shortly after the start of this new distribution structure, we will convert Common Ground World Node licenses to the ecosystem’s first Node Workload NFTs. The tokenization of Founder’s Node licenses will follow shortly after.
Running the Newest Client
With a future update to this system, modifiers will be implemented that reward additional points to operators who run the newest version of the Node client or reduce points for running a deprecated version of the Node client. These details are still being fine tuned and we will share updates as they become available.
Thank you for supporting the decentralized Gala ecosystem, and we look forward to many more years of building and innovating through the power of GalaChain!
