Comprehensive analysis of DigiDaigaku: financing of 200 million US dollars, NFT skyrocketing, creating a bear market miracle

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2022-08-30 06:12

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Endorsed by a number of first-line investment institutions, veteran players of traditional games bet on GameFi.

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Author: SofaDao, Twitter: @sofadaoxyz

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This project has been very mysterious since it was launched. Whether it is DigiDaigaku or the parent company Limit Break, its official website has no effective information except two Twitter information and LinkedIn, so today SofaDao guesses from the perspective of the team what this project is going to do What.

DigiDaigaku official website

Team background:

Founder: Gabriel Leydon

Twitter:@gabrielleydon

Gabriel Leydon

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Founder Gabriel Leydon, 40+ years old, has more than 20 years of experience in the game industry. He worked in the arcade game industry for 7 years in game design. His first company was Atari in 1999. The other companies are Global VR, Reload Games and Tsunami Visual Technologies.

After Leydon worked on arcade games for 7 years, the F2P (Free to Play) mode became popular in 2007. Leydon and several partners founded Addmire in 2008, which was later renamed Machine Zone (hereinafter referred to as MZ), which is a game Production publisher (but Leydon has always insisted that he is a real-time technology company), and discovered the opportunity of mobile games around 2010, and assembled a team of 80 people to develop secretly for 18 months, and launched a hit game in 2012 Game of War, and then continued to launch another popular mobile game - Mobile Strike, both games are MMO games, he can do real-time online games for global players, these two games are also among the top ten highest-grossing games It is one of the most popular mobile games, bringing billions in revenue to MZ. In 2016, the market valued MZ at US$9 billion, which shows that the business was developing well at that time.

In 2016, Leydon extracted the real-time data system from MZ's technical architecture and established an independent department——RTplatform; Leydon left MZ in 2018, took away the RTplatform project, and combined blockchain technology to establish Satori—— A blockchain data service company, that is, Leydon will blockchainize RTplatform. Satori is a hosted platform that enables users to connect and process real-time streaming data sources.

The platform provides APIs and SDKs to publish streaming data from applications. Key features of the platform include real-time messaging (exchange of real-time data streams), real-time discovery (SQL-based query views), and real-time reaction (through streaming bots capable of reacting to data streams in real-time). Satori claims to be a free real-time data platform that gives developers continuous access to streaming real-time data. In 2018, Satori announced a partnership with Hedera Hashgraph to build applications on top of its distributed system.

Hedera Hashgraph (Twitter: @hedera) is a new distributed consensus platform that works like a blockchain—but in a faster, more secure way. The goal of Hedera Hashgraph is to solve the existing shortcomings of the blockchain industry, while creating a scalable platform that provides lightning-fast and secure collaboration and transactions without relying on huge computing power. Hedera's Hashgraph uses different mathematical methods to achieve consensus between untrusted parties. This approach is called a directed acyclic graph, or DAG.

With in-depth research on the blockchain and Leydon’s background in the game industry, he began to invest in the blockchain field as an individual investor in 2021. A typical representative is to invest in YGG in August 2021, and invest in YGG in October 2021. Parrellel for solana ecology.

The outbreak of Axie in 2021 has greatly touched and inspired Leydon. He has seen the future development trend of games and believes that the Free to Play model will inevitably die under the impact of blockchain games. This has inspired his entrepreneurial enthusiasm , So in August 2021, Limit Break was established with Hal, the former CTO and founder of MZ. After one year of secret development, the DigiDaigaku NFT series was launched on August 10, 2022.

Leydon's past experience can be summarized as follows:

1. Leydon has a strong forward-looking and global vision. At the same time, he loves to learn and research new things. From arcade games to free games, he predicted the outbreak of mobile games in 2011, and identified the blockchain industry in 2018. Opportunity, and then capture Gamefi in 2021. It can be seen that Leydon is always open to new things or new technologies, and actively participates in them. This is a good quality of a good investor or entrepreneur.

3. Leydon is a person who dares to take risks and make big bets. In 2011, he assembled a team of 80 people, secretly developed it for 18 months, and launched GAME OF WAR: Fire Age, and now Limit Break. It also started secret development in August last year, and only recently launched its NFT series-DigiDaigaku.

Co-Funder: Halbertnakagawa

Twitter:@halbertnakagawa

Halbertnakagawa

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Chief Creative Officer: Thomas"HOON" Hong

Twitter:@illosbyhoon

Thomas "HOON" Hong

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Thomas is the chief creative officer of Limit Break. According to LinkedIn information, he is inferred to be a Korean-American, about 50 years old. In DigiDaigaku's first Space, Thomas was highly appreciated by Leydon, who predicted that he would soon become one of the most well-known artists in the NFT field. Thomas has been engaged in the game industry for about 27 years. He has been doing creative design all the time. He is a candidate with a very senior game background. He also worked in MZ founded by Leydon from 2010 to 2012. The core made the first hit game Game of War :Fire Age, judging from the background of the game’s creation, Thomas should have been a member of the core team that developed the game after it was closed for 18 months at that time. It is inferred that the relationship with Leydon is very good, and the cooperation trust and cooperation should be very high. During the secret development of Limit Break, he joined the team again, playing alongside Leydon and Halbert nakagawa again.

Other members of the team:

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Summarize:

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1. From the perspective of the entire Gamefi field, the strength of the founder and the team is definitely the first echelon.

Leydon and Halbertnakagawa have more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in the game industry, and the Machine Zone game company they founded was valued at 9 billion US dollars in 2016, which is extremely successful. The current team is founded by the founder and former CEO and CTO of MZ. Coupled with the addition of "old partner" creative director Thoms, this is definitely the first echelon entrepreneurial team in the GameFi field.

2. Leydon wants to make a game that global users can play online at the same time.

Because of the limitations of the Android and IOS platforms, Leydon has always wanted to make a game that global users can play together. It was not fully realized in the web2 field before, but now combining blockchain technology and NFT, he is very confident that he will realize this idea. (He mentioned this repeatedly in his Space).

3. The working style of the team is based on a long-term accumulation. We choose to start secret development in the bull market and start the first stage of the bear market, which is enough to see the confidence and pattern of the project party.

Unlike many Gamefi teams who are developing and promoting while developing, the Limit Break team has accumulated a lot of knowledge. They started to secretly develop the project around August last year, and did not disclose the relevant information until early August this year. Whether it is a bear market or not, it is enough to see that the team is doing The determination of the matter, the team's goal is to make a No. 1 Game (this information comes from Leydon's first Space).

4. The threshold for future games will not be high, and NFT will definitely play a very important role in it.

A game that players all over the world can play at the same time. From the perspective of the game, the entry threshold must not be high, but the technical requirements are very high. Leydon is very confident in himself and his team, and believes that this goal will be achieved. Leydon has his own unique understanding of NFT, and attaches great importance to the role of NFT in establishing property rights. In Space, he has repeatedly emphasized that the NFT they issue will not only play a very important role in the game, but also have other empowerments. In short, following the team will far exceed expectations.

5. The team has strong marketing ability, and there will be a lot of marketing in the next project.

The founding team managed hundreds of millions of dollars in annual marketing expenses during the MZ period; the team secretly developed Game of War for 18 months in 2010, and started a lot of marketing when it was launched in 2012, and it has long been in the top ten of the game rankings. The team is very good at marketing and marketing. According to information disclosed by Space, there will be a lot of information disclosure in Limit Break.

6. The team's investment is extremely high. The founder designs the game himself, and the probability of project success is relatively high.

The founder, Leydon, has been designing games for many years. The two most successful mobile games during the MZ period, Game of War: Fire Age and Mobile Strike, were designed by him himself. Currently, Limit Break is also designed by Leydon himself. According to information from space, Leydon spends at least 10 hours in business every day. He is particularly optimistic about the blockchain and is currently devoting himself to it. Moreover, the team members are also very invested, working crazily to make the No. 1 game.

7. The capital behind it is bright, especially the participation of Paradigm, which is famous for its deep participation in project construction, is extremely beneficial to the development of the project.

Matt Huang, the founder of Paradigm, has always praised Leydon. According to Paradigm’s past experience, he will definitely bring a large amount of web3 and Gamefi resources to the team for co-construction. In addition, there are FTX, Coinbase, Yield Guild Games, Sfermion, Standard Crypto , Buckley Ventures, Genblock Capital and other industry-renowned institutions provided initial capital and provided a good endorsement for the team.

8. If you are interested in such a team, it is recommended to focus on it. According to the Space information on August 16, new key developments will continue to be revealed in the next week, and you can continue to observe.

Note: All information in this article comes from public sources, without any investment advice.