We are bringing you a summary of his speech. But first, who is Kyilkhor - Adam?
Ex-Head of Blockchain at Energy Web Chain. World's biggest energy companies onboard.
You can't imagine a better entrance on stage. Kyilkhor walked in wearing a pink unicorn onesie, immediately gaining everybody's attention. Moonsama style!
Beginning with a brief history, Kyilk reminded everyone that Moonsama is almost one year old and started as the first NFT marketplace/collection on Moonriver to have fun and play Minecraft. What began as an experiment quickly grew into a vast ecosystem of various products, services, and protocols.
With so many things to discuss, Kyilkhor focused on the heart of Moonsama - the Multiverse Bridge. It is the protocol underpinning the whole ecosystem, providing utility to NFTs.
The Multiverse Bridge
Metaverses (games, chatrooms), as we know them, are web2 concepts. They exist outside the blockchain, while NFTs/assets/tokens are on-chain. Something needs to connect these two worlds. The Multiverse Bridge comes into play as an integration/translation layer between on-chain and off-chain data/events.
The bridge connects the two worlds of web2 and web3
The initial Minecraft experiment soon led to a more conceptual/generalized solution, able to serve in ANY game/metaverse.
Typically this is what you'd be using/managing on-chain:
NFTs, assets, tokens
addresses
wallets (Metamask, Nova wallet, Talisman)
And off-chain:
accounts
e-mails
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To securely and reliably connect these two "worlds" in as much decentralized a way as possible, Moonsama integrated the KILT protocol, creating a "passport" to log in and interact with various games/metaverses.
The Multiverse Bridge also makes connected games/metaverses "blockchain-enabled," which allows the flow of assets in and out of the metaverse.
Metaverse makes the rules.
The Bridge is also "not-opinionated," allowing the game/metaverse to decide how to interpret information received from the blockchain (Moonsama bird as a playable character in Carnage and a pet creature in Exosama).
Metaverse can also apply its own rules when interacting with digital assets. For example, Kyilkhor mentioned the first virtual hanging of cheaters and burning their game pass NFTs, all decided by the metaverse users themselves.
For another example, you can transfer assets in and out from the metaverse - export Carnage assets, craft bait, moonrod. Import back, fish aFish, export. Give aFish to ancient creature and get Pondsama NFT, which can be imported into Pondsama metaverse.
Composable NFT standard
This standard allows interactions with NFTs while they are bridged, for example:
equip/unequip accessories
change background images
The "magic" is that all these changes are "persisted" in the NFT itself (by providing multiple metadata URIs), allowing the display of the resulting NFT both in its original and modified state. What's more, NFTs are composable cross-chain, aka chain agnostic.
Moonsama's own NFT2.0
You can "equip" your NFT with assets from different chains and display the final result on a marketplace, Opensea, for example.
View / download Kyilkhor's presentation.
Mischievous opinion
By now, you should see how serious the Moonsama team is about making waves in the gaming and blockchain space. Core functionalities are being developed "in-house" with little or no dependency on anybody else. Moonsama has been experimenting and developing tech that many much bigger projects have yet to implement.
With ETH and other chains in mind, we're about to experience some serious paradigm shifts in how Moonsama, NFTs and the whole Polkadot ecosystem are perceived.