Why Atomic Hub? - Dark Emblem

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Dark Emblem is ditching ETH and Web3 and moving to WAX and WAXJS. This is a major change and was quite an overhaul of our system, but it&#x27;s also a big step forward.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Why WAX</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">There are a few reasons to move to WAX:</div>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li>Proof of stake</li>
<li>Lower gas fees</li>
<li>Faster transaction times</li>
<li>Lower contract overhead</li>
</ul>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">WAX is a proof of stake blockchain. While ETH2.0 promises proof of stake and lower gas fees, I am not sure about the timeline and I don&#x27;t want to publish an ETH contract that we have to migrate everyone from once proof of stake is released. We had a full set of contracts created, but random card mints from packs proved to be incredibly expensive due to gas. Gas constraints were starting to influence what we wanted to do with Dark Emblem and how we were going to implement it. With WAX, while we do have to worry about RAM costs, we are able to pay for this on behalf of our users via the WAXP used to purchase packs! Our contract will pay for the RAM to buy packs and mint cards!</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We did do a full testnet testing round and found that transactions were incredibly slow on the Ethereum blockchain. Participants would purchase a pack and then sit there waiting to see what cards they got. With WAX, we are seeing incredible response times for transactions and are able to show purchased and opened packs quickly.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">WAX also has a built in concept of assets, asset transfers, and asset ownership. Using this means that others don&#x27;t have to rely on us implementing the ERC721 standard correctly. Dark Emblem can focus on building an awesome card game on WAX, rather than worrying about interface compability, future extensibility, and security around our implementation of ERC721 and ERC20 standards.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">How it will work</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">With Dark Emblem moving over to WAX, you will need to create a WAX account and buy WAXP. The WAX ecosystem make this easy by just going to https://all-access.wax.io/.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Once you have an account, you can just visit our Dapp to start buying and opening packs.</div>

Dark Emblem is ditching ETH and Web3 and moving to WAX and WAXJS. This is a major change and was quite an overhaul of our system, but it's also a big step forward.



## Why WAX

There are a few reasons to move to WAX:

* Proof of stake
* Lower gas fees
* Faster transaction times
* Lower contract overhead

WAX is a proof of stake blockchain. While ETH2.0 promises proof of stake and lower gas fees, I am not sure about the timeline and I don't want to publish an ETH contract that we have to migrate everyone from once proof of stake is released. We had a full set of contracts created, but random card mints from packs proved to be incredibly expensive due to gas. Gas constraints were starting to influence what we wanted to do with Dark Emblem and how we were going to implement it. With WAX, while we do have to worry about RAM costs, we are able to pay for this on behalf of our users via the WAXP used to purchase packs! Our contract will pay for the RAM to buy packs and mint cards!

We did do a full testnet testing round and found that transactions were incredibly slow on the Ethereum blockchain. Participants would purchase a pack and then sit there waiting to see what cards they got. With WAX, we are seeing incredible response times for transactions and are able to show purchased and opened packs quickly.

WAX also has a built in concept of assets, asset transfers, and asset ownership. Using this means that others don't have to rely on us implementing the ERC721 standard correctly. Dark Emblem can focus on building an awesome card game on WAX, rather than worrying about interface compability, future extensibility, and security around our implementation of ERC721 and ERC20 standards.

## How it will work

With Dark Emblem moving over to WAX, you will need to create a WAX account and buy WAXP. The WAX ecosystem make this easy by just going to https://all-access.wax.io/.

Once you have an account, you can just visit our Dapp to start buying and opening packs.

Why WAX?

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Dark Emblem is moving to AtomicHub – the one stop solution for creating, trading, buying and selling NFTs that is already used by hundreds of thousands of loyal users. This will give us a common place to display our WAX NFTs for others to see, buy, and sell.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Why Atomic Hub?</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">You can think of AtomicHub like the OpenSea for WAX based assets. By utilizing the
AtomicAssets standard for Non Fungible Token (NFT) standard, our Dark Emblem cards and packs are able to be interacted with via AtomicHub.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">It offers a powerful feature set while keeping unnecessary complexity to a minimum and focusses on RAM efficiency.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">No RAM Costs for users</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">The RAM cost is paid fully by our Dark Emblem dapps that creates the NFTs. Even when transfering assets, this stays the same.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Powerful Trade Offers</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">AtomicAssets features a native implementation of two sided trade offers (similar to Steam or WAX Express Trade). This allows creating and accepting offers with a single action. The implementation of the offers also allows for peer to peer marketplaces that don&#x27;t require transferring ownership to a market contract.</div>


Dark Emblem is moving to AtomicHub – the one stop solution for creating, trading, buying and selling NFTs that is already used by hundreds of thousands of loyal users. This will give us a common place to display our WAX NFTs for others to see, buy, and sell.

## Why Atomic Hub?

You can think of AtomicHub like the OpenSea for WAX based assets. By utilizing the
AtomicAssets standard for Non Fungible Token (NFT) standard, our Dark Emblem cards and packs are able to be interacted with via AtomicHub.

It offers a powerful feature set while keeping unnecessary complexity to a minimum and focusses on RAM efficiency.

## No RAM Costs for users

The RAM cost is paid fully by our Dark Emblem dapps that creates the NFTs. Even when transfering assets, this stays the same.

## Powerful Trade Offers

AtomicAssets features a native implementation of two sided trade offers (similar to Steam or WAX Express Trade). This allows creating and accepting offers with a single action. The implementation of the offers also allows for peer to peer marketplaces that don't require transferring ownership to a market contract.


Why Atomic Hub?

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<div class="text-base text-gray-50">It&#x27;s been a while since the last State of Play Update blog post, but that&#x27;s because
I&#x27;ve been busy migrating the entire contract, app, and card generation system over
to the WAX blockchain.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Splash" src="media/2022-01-31-state-of-play-update/splash.jpg" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Testnet Countdown</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">You may have noticed, but we added a testnet countdown timer to the <a href="https://www.darkemblem.com/">Dark Emblem website</a>.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><img alt="Dark Emblem Countdown" src="media/2022-01-31-state-of-play-update/dark-emblem-countdown.png" style="max-height:500px;margin:auto;text-align:center"/></div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Anyone who participates in the testnet will get DREM when the contracts go live.</div>
<ol class="ml-4 list-decimal p-0">
<li>Early Supporters will get 10 $DREM on release</li>
<li>Testnet users will get 5 $DREM on release</li>
</ol>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50"><a href="/docs/testnet/participating">Join the testnet</a>!</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">New Cards</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">We added a bunch of new cards to round out the GEN0 season. We will create follow up blog posts to feature each card type.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Core Functionality</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">All the core functionality hase been migrated over to the new <a href="https://darkemblem.com">dapp</a>, including Ascending cards, Transmogrifying cards, viewing cards, buying packs, opening packs, and getting notifications.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">The WAX protocol is also much faster than the Ethereum equivalent, so expect transactions to feel almost instant.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">WAX Benefits</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">With the new WAX based protocol, I opted to use AtomicAssets. If you are familiar with WAX, you will be accustomed to staking RAM (think ETH gas fees) to purchase NFTs. With Dark Emblem using AtomicAssets you do not have to worry about staking RAM. Our contract auto-stakes RAM for our NFTs.</div>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">You will see throughout the Dark Emblem dapp links to AtomicHub for auctions, sales, and viewing you assets.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Open Source</h2>
<div class="text-base text-gray-50">Since I have abandoned using the Ethereum protocol for Dark Emblem for the foreseeable future, I have open sourced the Ethereum contracts. You can view them
on the <a href="https://github.com/Dark-Emblem/dark-emblem-eth-contracts">Dark Emblem github account</a>. Look forward to future open source projects there.</div>
<h2 class="text-gray-50 text-2xl font-bold text-gray-50">Other Changes</h2>
<ul class="ml-4 list-disc p-0">
<li>We updated the whitepaper. The official whitepaper can now be found on <a href="https://www.darkemblem.com/downloads/Dark_Emblem_White_Paper.pdf">our website</a>.</li>
<li>We updated the roadmap. The official roadmap can now be found on <a href="https://www.darkemblem.com/roadmap">our website</a>.</li>
<li>We added documentation on <a href="/docs/auctions">auctions</a>, <a href="/docs/buying-packs">buying packs</a>, <a href="/docs/nfts/pack-ids">how pack ids work</a>, and more.</li>
</ul>

It's been a while since the last State of Play Update blog post, but that's because
I've been busy migrating the entire contract, app, and card generation system over
to the WAX blockchain.

![Splash](media/2022-01-31-state-of-play-update/splash.jpg)



## Testnet Countdown

You may have noticed, but we added a testnet countdown timer to the [Dark Emblem website](https://www.darkemblem.com/).

![Dark Emblem Countdown](media/2022-01-31-state-of-play-update/dark-emblem-countdown.png)

Anyone who participates in the testnet will get DREM when the contracts go live.

1. Early Supporters will get 10 $DREM on release
2. Testnet users will get 5 $DREM on release

[Join the testnet](/docs/testnet/participating)!

## New Cards

We added a bunch of new cards to round out the GEN0 season. We will create follow up blog posts to feature each card type.

## Core Functionality

All the core functionality hase been migrated over to the new [dapp](https://darkemblem.com), including Ascending cards, Transmogrifying cards, viewing cards, buying packs, opening packs, and getting notifications.

The WAX protocol is also much faster than the Ethereum equivalent, so expect transactions to feel almost instant.

## WAX Benefits

With the new WAX based protocol, I opted to use AtomicAssets. If you are familiar with WAX, you will be accustomed to staking RAM (think ETH gas fees) to purchase NFTs. With Dark Emblem using AtomicAssets you do not have to worry about staking RAM. Our contract auto-stakes RAM for our NFTs.

You will see throughout the Dark Emblem dapp links to AtomicHub for auctions, sales, and viewing you assets.

## Open Source

Since I have abandoned using the Ethereum protocol for Dark Emblem for the foreseeable future, I have open sourced the Ethereum contracts. You can view them
on the [Dark Emblem github account](https://github.com/Dark-Emblem/dark-emblem-eth-contracts). Look forward to future open source projects there.

## Other Changes

- We updated the whitepaper. The official whitepaper can now be found on [our website](https://www.darkemblem.com/downloads/Dark_Emblem_White_Paper.pdf).
- We updated the roadmap. The official roadmap can now be found on [our website](https://www.darkemblem.com/roadmap).
- We added documentation on [auctions](/docs/auctions), [buying packs](/docs/buying-packs), [how pack ids work](/docs/nfts/pack-ids), and more.