Interview: Our Director of System Economy on Wasder’s wallet integration, and what’s next.
Starting today our users can connect their wallets to Wasder, marking a key step towards our goal of becoming the entry point to the Metaverses. We sat down with Florian Ziegler, our Director of System Economy to get the play-by-play on what’s next.
We recently announced two strategic partnerships with Web3 game store platforms Elixir and Ultra. Today, we took the next big step towards becoming the entry point to the gaming Metaverses by implementing our wallet integration on Wasder.
In order to give you the proper inside scoop we took the opportunity to sit down with Florian Ziegler, our very own Director of System Economy. Florian has over a decade worth of successful game design leadership working with free to play economy & monetisation for leading companies within the gaming industry.
So first things first, what do we mean when we say that we will become the entry point to the Metaverses?
[Florian] “It means that when it comes to anything gaming related in any Metaverse you hear it first on Wasder. If you wanna get cool items for the hottest games this is where you get them. Wasder becomes your base camp if you will, where you come back to refuel, hang out with your friends and put your favourite things from your adventures on display for all other adventurers to see”
That sounds exciting, can’t wait to experience that. So what happens next?
“Yes, so right now we’ve taken the first step on this journey which means that our users are now able to connect their wallets to Wasder. Over time we’ll implement seamless wallets for an even better user experience. If you’re a Wasder user you will just have it, and if you want to connect other wallets you will of course be able to do so. But for our first step we will take this time to verify that everything works as intended, is secure and optimized before we unleash the next stuff.”
Unleashing the next stuff, that sounds fun. What is it?
“The next stop on the roadmap is to enable our users to compete to earn $WAS. We are getting ready to roll this out as we speak, but I’m afraid I can’t say more than that it’ll involve a leaderboard and that it’ll be fun!
Another thing that is coming is what we call creator rewards, these are essentially more opportunities for our users to earn rewards by creating content and being a fun member of the community. This involves tipping other creators and creating tournaments with prize pools. The idea here is of course to reward social engagement among our users.”
Who doesn’t love rewards, what will you be able to do with these?
“Something we’re really big on at Wasder is to give our users fun ways to express themselves through gaming. In the near future we’ll introduce a 3D Avatar and Showroom that our users can customize as they wish using all the cool stuff they’ve picked up on their adventures. There will also be rewards that you can use to make an impression when you engage with the community, in chats and on the feed for example.
We will also introduce the Cosmetics Marketplace. When that’s implemented you will be able to buy cosmetics to really make your Avatar stand out. We’re talking stickers, digital clothes and even reactions here, just to name a few examples. These cosmetics could be created by Wasder or any of our partners.
Then we have the integration of our NFT Marketplace. This is where it’s all starting to come together, at this point you’ll also have your fully integrated 3D Microverese on the platform, where you can show off all the unique things that you have picked up from the Marketplace, competitions or even a game.”
You’re mentioning NFTs here, what kind of utility can we expect?
“You can expect everything from being able to use NFTs as your profile pick to NFTs that’ll give you access to special events or others that works as a key to unlocks things like restricted chats on Wasder, for example. This is a fun space that is moving fast and you can be sure that we’ll move just as fast, if not even faster, when it comes to the utility of our NFTs”.
