The Zed Run: New Polygon project revolutionizing digital gaming

• Zed Run horses are NFTs; hence are digital assets, but unlike the ordinary NFTs, which consist of pictures, Gifs, and videos, these digital horses are “breathing NFTs”
• Not only does the digital horse-racing NFT provide the unique factor of breathing NFTs, but its blockchain technology also offers the player a profit-possible play-to-earn gaming experience
• Zed Run is a Polygon project and hence functions on the Ethereum network. To start, you will require a Polygon wallet that allows you to communicate with Ethereum’s blockchain technology

Blockchain technology has led to the interoperability of various aspects of Web3. Combined, the Metaverse, cryptocurrency and NFTs have led to the development of revolutionary decentralized applications on multiple platforms. Ethereum has so far pioneered and facilitated various developers to showcase their innovations. The initiative has led to unique startups such as the Polygon Network.

It has followed suit by creating and supporting multiple projects on its network. Zed Run, the digital horse-racing NFT, has taken the hearts of many cryptos and NFT enthusiasts. Its very mechanism and ingenuity have revolutionized the gaming industry and have taken what was once a real-life sport into the virtual world.

What is Zed Run

Chri Laurent founded the digital horse-racing NFT game Zed Run on June 2022. He envisioned a future where individual individuals would be able to take an interest in the Metaverse and take the time to create unique narratives and stories within the Metaverse.

This aspiration led to the development of a sport unlike any other. Zed Run is a digital horse racing platform. Before you think this is just another ordinary game, here s where things get interesting. 

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The Polygon network hosts the game, and it facilitates online races. These horses are NFTs; hence are digital assets, but unlike the ordinary NFTs, which consist of pictures, Gifs, and videos, these digital horses are “breathing NFTs”.

This generally means that the blockchain technology behind the digital horse-racing NFTs is so sophisticated it allows each horse to have various real-life attributes. They have their DNA, and each interaction with them is new. According to Roman Tirone, the head of partnerships at Virtual Human, the Australian studio that created Zed Run, this was an entirely new definition of NFTs.

“These digital horses can breed. It has a life of its own. It races each race depending on how you’ve trained it and how you have interacted with it. Each digital horse is unique in its way, having its unique genetic code, and it lives in its algorithm.”

The mere blockchain technology, AI functionalities and coding applied to each horse, is surmounting. We’ll need at least two articles to cover them all in depth. However, the very concept behind this mechanism is fascinating.

Zed Run’s POE mechanism

Not only does the digital horse-racing NFT provide the unique factor of breathing NFTs, but its blockchain technology also offers the player a profit-possible play-to-earn gaming experience. With the current trajectory of cryptocurrency, most gaming industries are emulating the Metaverse by providing rewards.

This comes from crypto coins for players who complete various challenges and earn specific achievements. Likewise, Zed Run also give such a platform to all its users. The digital horses are so unique that multiple individuals have more than the actual horse-racing events.

One player sold a stable full o digital horses for $252000 while another got $125000 from a single horse race. The sheer hype over these new Polygon network projects has caused a frenzy within the Metaverse and the crypto world. Alex Taub, a tech startup founder in Miami, purchased nearly 48 of them. According to him, ordinary NFTs are only good when bought or sold, but with Zed Run, you can earn money on your NFT by racing or breeding.

How to get started 

Zed Run is a Polygon project and hence functions on the Ethereum network. To start, you will require a Polygon wallet that allows you to communicate with Ethereum’s blockchain technology. A MetaMask wallet would help you get started, and even though the digital horse-racing NFT is a Play-to-Earn game, it’s not free-to-play, so you’ll need Ether to start.

You can connect your MetaMask wallet to Zed Run and begin your journey to owning a digital horse.

Finding a digital would be much easier when using NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea, where most people sell their digital horse. Another alternative is timing the Zed Run drop horses, but this is a rare find and often relies on perfect timing and sheer luck.

The critical aspect when finding the perfect horse in the digital horse-racing NFT lies in two key things; its purity and the ability to race. When purchasing any horse, its bloodline is often attached to it. There are four types; Nakamoto, Szabo, Finney and Buterin.

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The genotype refers to the purity of a horse. The lower the number, the closer the offspring is to the ancestor. When breeding two different horses, it adds the number of the mare and the stallion, resulting in a unique generation number for the offspring. The following article will elaborate on the mechanism behind each horse.

Conclusion

Chris mainly created Zed Run to offer a new exciting sport to the Metaverse. It has applied various blockchain technology, allowing it a certain level of uniqueness that many are yet to know of. It’s a potentially addictive gaming platform requiring you to take time to breed and rouse each horse.

The digital horse-racing NFT game is a POE model that has generated an additional way for crypto enthusiasts to earn, and it’s very entertaining. All you need to do is put in the effort and dive into the Metaverse.