Onchain Gaming's Bot Problem
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Fully onchain games facilitate everything—their assets, logic, rules, and state—directly on their underlying blockchain.
In this new gaming frontier, every action is ultimately recorded onchain.
As such, this dynamic offers various benefits, like transparency and possibilities around novel game economics. Yet these offerings also attract a deadly efficient type of player: bots.
Can onchain games survive and thrive in spite of the specter of bots going forward? 👇
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A project that has piqued my interest because I've been seeing a lot of crypto teams using it lately is DeForm.
The platform started out as a streamlined form builder for the onchain ecosystem. Its support for wallet connections, Discord, Twitter, and Farcaster have made it a great place for managing and validating info, from allowlists to waitlists.
Of course, that functionality is useful in its own right, but now it's even more interesting alongside DeForm's newest offering, Campaigns. This system, which provides gamified social referrals, lets you deploy quests to incentivize targeted actions in your community.
All that said, if you're looking to build up a project in crypto and want a good resource for learning about and engaging your community, DeForm is a must-try in my opinion!