Azuki officially enters the metaverse: important clues in the virtual city "Hilumia"

From the day of its birth, Azuki, one of the NFT blue-chip projects last year, has carried various halos - sold out within three minutes, the floor price climbed extremely fast, the two-dimensional trendy brand, and filled the gap in the oriental market after BYAC... Unique Unique art style, diverse marketing methods, and strong community cohesion have all prompted Azuki to break through one obstacle after another and become a phenomenal NFT.

But the founder has a dark history (for specific information, it is recommended to read "The founder of Azuki revealed himself? what happened this morning》) caused the ferment of public opinion, which made most NFT players sneer at their past behavior, and also caused panic selling, which made Azuki's floor price drop by about 10 ETH, and made it less popular than it used to be. Superimposed on the macro environment of the cliff-like decline in NFT trading volume since the second quarter of last year, Azuki has been performing mediocrely and has not made much breakthrough.

In order to gain the favor of capital for a long time and let players see the growth of the community, each NFT project party must innovate its gameplay and find new business or development models.

In June last year, Azuki shared its plan to expand Azuki, and a series of activities such as combining IP, offline art experience, and publishing PBT standards followed. This seems to announce that Azuki's metaverse plan is approaching us.

Today, on the occasion of Azuki's 1st anniversary, the team announced the official launch of the virtual city "Hilumia" built by the community. Azuki NFT holders or community participants can now participate in the exploration. In this virtual city, there are various platforms for interactive experiences, such as Slowpoke's Toy Haven, a toy store, Ember Square, a design platform, Golden Skate Park, a community for skateboard enthusiasts, and Garden Express, an opinion collection box.

As soon as the news came out, the floor price of Beanz Official, the Azuki airdrop project, rose in response, with a 24-hour increase of 69%, and occupied the second place in the Opensea rankings.

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Hilumia: Azuki's Dream Town

It can be seen from the official website that Hilumia presents the appearance of a dream town, with 10 main interactive locations, which can clearly show the role of each location and the plans being implemented, such as:

Ember Square: A design store with the latest designs and styles from every corner (even the alleys) of Hilumia, the place to discover current and future trends. Combining Azuki's recent series of cooperation with fashion brands, such as the launch of limited edition clothing with the Japanese streetwear brand AMBUSH®︎, the launch of XNOR-Assassins virtual sneakers in cooperation with Meta Street Market, and the PBT standard released by Azuki, which supports physical winding and other actions, We can also boldly guess that in the future Azuki metaverse, virtual fashion NFT will be an important part of Azuki's development.

Slowpoke's Toy Haven: A toy store, originally a small stall selling red and blue bean plush toys (that is, Azuki's airdrop project Beanz), of course it will also produce other high-quality toys, but the production time cannot be predicted (guessing that there may be new ones) Azuki airdrop or spin-off project, toy store may also be mint location).

9 Lives Arcade: A game hall. The official presentation is where you can connect fans of classic old games with lovers of modern games. Players can play the game every day, and there are regular tournaments or events. It is foreseeable that Azuki will release a game platform, and the entire building appearance and logo are mainly cats. Is the theme of the game also related to cats?

And there's a community of skateboardersGolden Skate Park, it appears to be possible to collect 9 golden skateboards. Single is Hell for Web3 Love Island, 64 Azuki stayed in the heart-shaped Love Island, and in the end only 2 people were able to find their other half. and community programs56 Fitnessand Tuya platformMODAetc. It can be said that Azuki is slowly enriching its story, and is implementing the initial positioning and building the metaverse ecology.

Azuki's Metaverse Tetralogy

In fact, Hilumia is not the first attempt at Azuki's Metaverse project. As early as June last year, Azuki launched on the world's largest NFT event NFT.NYCOffline event themed "Enter The Alley", showing a variety of art installations, tattoo shops, physical peripherals, etc. This event is also the first display under the World section of Azuki's official website. Alley is defined as the door to the future world for Azuki holders, and there are many airdrop clues left in the door.

Then in July, Azuki official website World section added another oneGame interface of "The Ruins", but doesn't show more functionality yet. The only function is that there are badges of different totems hanging on the stele. Clicking on the badge will jump to an Azuki holder's profile homepage, where the holder can display the badges obtained, the NFTs he holds, and the participation in NFTs Airdrops and other activities. According to the official statement, the personal data setting function is just the beginning, and more innovations will be explored with the development of the community, such as IP interaction, community interaction and other functions, and badges will continue to increase over time.

launched today Hilumia It's the third display under the World section. Of course, we also discovered that there is a fourth plan, which is currently blank, without any pictures and information displayed. But after seeing Azuki's first three metaverse plans, we also saw that Azuki merged the product series and technological updates launched in the past to start a new narrative, and all the characters in Azuki's metaverse have also found suitable Own position, waiting for the unfolding of the plot.

The atmosphere of the community, the creation of users, and the development of future stories are all growing upwards. It can be seen that Azuki is making some interesting attempts. And the next fourth Azuki metaverse plan may herald more surprises.