So far in this series of articles, I have covered getting paid in crypto while you browse the web using Brave browser and getting started with Alien Worlds; a free-to-play digital card-game which occasionally pays out random NFT prizes. I've also covered the process of trading in your mined TLM virtual ore for other crypto or actual cash.
If you've been following along, you should now be familiar with WAX and you might have noticed a load of other NFT's on the AtomicHub market-place. Today's tip comes from the CryptoMonkeys collectible cards. Apparently if you stake your trillium (TLM) to planet Neri, you could win free CryptoMonkey NFT's to add to your collection.
I need to check if this is still ongoing, but the monkeys have also published a guide of which of their plots you should mine. You need to mine a minimum of 19 TLM on one of their plots to qualify. This link shows the lands they own and some mining strategies for each plot.
Is it worth trying?
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Well you have to balance the possibility of a free NFT from them with their high TLM mining commission (19%? ouch... there are lands as low as 0.5% - like Naron 12:14 at the time of writing). Then again if there's a good market for their NFT's, you could possibly end up with more WAX this way than from a whole week of mining with newbie-tools. Remember it can take several days to unstake your TLM so maybe check on Alcor first and decide if your trillium is going up in value (when you might want to sell) or down in value (when you could stake some for a rainy day). Of course another option might be to wait it out for a good transfer rate between TLM and WAX and then convert to WAX tokens which you could then stake to the WAX network, possibly earning interest.
At the moment, the Alcor exchange is down for TLM/WAX conversions but it should be back on Tuesday. The reason it's down is for a new feature called 'Teleport'. It sounds as though TLM miners might very soon have the ability to trade their TLM for other currencies via the Binance exchange. Another item on my list of things to look into then.
Haven't played it yet?
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You might want to check out this article on Publish0x.com from a player who got lucky with NFT drops and cashed out some, but reinvested part into better mining tools. So far I haven't had to pay out anything to play Alien Worlds. It seems to be free to play, has random rewards, a fair amount of strategy and a growing community. And speaking of strategy, I noticed another article on Publish0X about selecting mining tools. I would love to find some info on NFT drop rates but so far master Google is still in another galaxy.
Twitter on the other hand appears to be where the A/W crew are putting out their future plans. I found this tweet quite insightful regarding the fighting & questing aspect which hasn't made it into the game yet.
The last additional topic I want to mention relating to the A/W universe is R-planet. Apparently you can stake A/W NFT's here for additional rewards in Aether. I haven't had chance to look into this yet so I will update as and when.
Finally... A postcard from Naron 16:2
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My son has been mining here and got a free NFT this week in the form of a postcard from Naron; a nice scenic snow-topped mountain. It's a nice touch and shows how the community are adding more to the base-level content.
