Chainlings

Introduction

Chainlings are blocks come to life! They're ready to partner with a Chainlings Charmer (you) and cling onto assets, games, and chains to bring you Bling!

Chainlings exist in our world as NFTs and are charmed (by minting or trading) into your blockchain wallet, where they build their home. They will then work (stake) or play (play to earn) while returning shiny things they find ($BLING) - like a loving pet leaving a present at your doorstep.

BLING can then be spent on Chainling activities, upgrades, or trading that returns a portion of BLING back as community rewards, charitable giving, and to the dev team for further development and growing the Chainlings Universe.

Why own an NFT that only works in one, specific universe?

The idea behind Chainlings is to create a simple way to visually represent you between games, universes, and other assets by leverage blockchain technology, while having fun and earning you additional assets (coins, tokens, NFTs, etc.).

Here's an example. Think of your favorite video game character - let's take Mario for example (we're not affiliated with them in anyway, this is just an example). Everyone knows that mustached guy and what he looks like. He comes out in a bunch of different games too: platformers, go-karts, golf, and many others!

Well what if you owned your own, notable character? Your very own Mario.

Well you can! That's Chainlings.

You own it, a unique character, that you take from game to game - but it's always you. We believe the metaverse will be a bridged, interoperable collection of experiences that span multiple blockchains and digital properties; Chainlings will be set up in a way to be bridged and connected by starting simple for easier migration.

Given the beauty of blockchains and web3, it is possible, with all the security that blockchains provide and other benefits too - like earning you coin!

How? Well a few ways, there will be staking rewards (parking your Chainling), lending rewards (letting others borrow your Chainling to play and sharing the rewards), play to earn rewards, and that's just to start.

We really want to make it easy for you to have fun, earn, and bring a simple character from game to game to still look like you, no matter where you go and so even if the hype dies down from a certain world - well you and your character live and earn on!

We are also advocates of decentralization and empowering the community to build into the Chainling universe and will aim to provide tools and incentives to make that happen.

So that's the plan, start the spark of Chainlings with NFTs, build some integration examples and games, reward and empower the community, and then have it grow bigger than us based on what the community wants - helping others along the way. That's Chainlings!

Ideals

Part of the Orin Project, Chainlings is the launch of bridging life to enable good through blockchain. Our team will donate towards these types of charities, depending on what the project aligns with most.

We believe Chainlings will enable Safe to Be You and will announce which organizations will receive donations from Chainling proceeds soon.

Background Story

The Genesis Spark

The Chainlings speculate on their own origin but some Chainling Scholars attest it all started during the Genesis Block. The spark that initiated the blockchain, the Genesis Spark, brought about their existence. Most Chainlings have a great amount of gratitude for whoever secures the blockchain and allows for their safe environment.

The Emergence

Knowing that there is more to their world, Chainlings seek to explore the land of their creators and interact with other blockchains, games, and assets. Their curiosity is boundless; though, they are cautious and trained a small elite force to emerge from the blockchain first and pave the way for other brave Chainlings to follow after them. The first wave of ELITE gallantly emerge, the EXPLORERs will follow soon thereafter and reinforce the first wave. They know they will need more help and look to the outside world for that.

The Great Charming

Finding a way out of the blockchain, Chainlings are lured out of their homes and partner with Charmers who commit to them by pledging native tokens that resonate with and warm the Chainlings. For a strong, but brief moment, native tokens makes them feel like back home, even though they know they are now in dangerous, unexplored lands. Charmers, like you, support them outside their native lands and in exchange, Chainlings offer trinkets they find while out exploring. They are unaware of what is valuable to their Charmer companions, so they collect anything that seems shiny and good - generalized as Chainling Bling.

The Remarkable Adventure

Each Chainling is unique. Looks, traits, and personalities - you build the story for them - meaning while normally goodwill at birth, they may not all have the best intentions. Where their partnership with you, the Charmer, will take them is yet to be seen but they are eager to cling to new ways of being as they seek an understanding of the world around them.

Characteristics

Chainling Alphas are the purest form of Chainling, straight off the blockchain, and no "Cling" onto any other game or asset yet.

Visual Characteristics

Much like a human being born, Chainlings are born from a mysterious spark when blocks are constructed and grow within them over time. While you can't determine all the traits, you can see the tier of Chainling from the color of the block. What determines the tier is still unknown...

Post-Status (revealed)

Chainling Alphas may have up to 8 physical characteristics displayed through the visual NFT:

• Tint

• Eyes

• Mouth

• Ziptab

• Faccent

• Hats

• Pet

• Aura

They are your unique characteristics that you will be able to bring from game to game and know it's you. The descriptions will be included in the metadata so other games can use them. There will be additional metadata, not visually shown, that will serve as attributes and traits that will be optional pieces for game to use.

Visual Rarity

🔬 All Chainlings have a tint, eyes, mouth, and unusual zipper tab. The mysterious zipper tab allows Chainlings to "Cling" and capture other objects, items, or creatures - quite interesting.

🔬 Some Chainlings have unique facial features (faccents), like blush, freckles, and scars.

🔬 Rarely Chainlings arrive with head gear they've found on their way to you, but it's super cute when they do!

🔬 Very rarely a Chainling finds a companion (pet) that follows them around - they're all so freakin' adorable!

🔬 In extremely rare cases, a Chainling has an aura about them, you can feel their presence and identify it just by looking at them - how magnificent!

Metadata Only Traits

There will be random generated skill scores that can be leveraged as in-game stats, and unique traits that can help further personalize your Chainlings once it enters a game. These will be optional metadata developers can use as they bring Chainlings into their universe. Think of them as base stats, that should be used as a starting point across gains for your characters.

Skill: Range 1-10. While we feel 10 should be the highest value, but really its up how developers integrate these into their games. These typically would be tied to in-game stats.

Traits: Range A-E. Our vision for these don't include any priority and should all be equally weighted. Think of them as options for backstories, classes, guilds, factions or other flavor items that give character or categorize the players.

These again are all optional, but provide some standardization for Chainlings across the metaverse.

💰 Tokenomics

Chainlings are new to our world, so they aren't really sure what's valuable to us. They do love shiny things though! They will collect these shinys as they work and play, and return them to you as $BLING. Chainling bling! What you do with them from there, is up to you!

This will be a fair-launch token, minted by the community from staking, playing, and other methods as a reward for playing with Chainlings. You charmed them, and they love you, now they want to bring you back trinkets!

Since this will be fair-launched (start from 0), our team will not provide liquidity. The community can mine and earn and determine value; our intent is 1 token = 1 token and used as future in-game currency.