Arenum

Arenum is the evolution of mobile gaming and cryptocurrency which has a feature-rich ecosystem to attract players and engage them for the long term while providing rewarding incentives for developers and gamers alike. Arenum

fuses internal publishing services, and an engine for player-versus-player tournaments as a service, into a unique metasystem existing on a layer above the games, integrated. Integration into Arenum’s metasystem is entirely

autonomous and is seamlessly enabled through a powerful developer SDK. Arenum is not starting its journey anew - the service has been on the market since 2018 with a proven track record of 150,000 paying users. Arenum is the

next step in the evolution of web3, it incorporates a unique and exciting metaverse with NFT collecting and battling and leverages its competitive play-to-earn mechanics for any type of game on its roster; Arenum is the web3-powered

matching engine for eSports.

Outstanding features

Arenum

• Arenum introduces an asynchronous and synchronous. Arenum works with MOBAs, Match3s, puzzles, Arenum is able to serve any game between people.
• Higher retention and opportunity to. Arenum sits at a level above games and remains stable by focusing on using trends to grow as a platform.
• Publishing the game at Arenum will be flexible depending on the game performance (from 5 to 20%)
• All the (PvP multiplayer, referral, reward systems, leagues, tournaments, metagame etc), so the game developers only job is to be focused on building their games.
• Players will never get bored growing list of games published long term draw for players to continue playing as they’ll have access to a and cross advertised by Arenum. At the same time the metagame, leagues, ratings and the social graph will be the even after they’ve beaten or completed the game.

Arenum 2.0 democratizes eSports and monetizes competitive mobile gaming at scale

• Competition is at the core of gaming and drives long term user retention and LTV across the most relevant demographics.
• Casual-competitive gamers are the “blue ocean” of an as of yet untapped user base.
• Both the competitive gaming and casual gaming landscapes have high entry barriers from technological and legal standpoints.
• Arenum covers both professional and casual gamers, so ANYONE can compete and feel the thrill of the victory.
• Arenum team has already launched an eSports platform with a revenue of $750k in the previous year and is ready to scale

Adding crypto to Arenum platform enables:

• Instant and transparent payouts and full censorship resistance.
• Open source toolbox with essential competitive mechanisms and seamless connectivity for any game to join the show.
• Elaborate tokenomics shaping incentives within the ecosystem for all groups of economic agents enabling instant monetization for (a) game devs, (b) gamers, (c) influencers and instant attention capture by sponsors.

Arenum-the first platform DEFI for mobile gaming tournaments

Introduction

The Covid Pandemic that began in March of 2020 has had lasting effects on the

way in which we interact in the modern day. Restrictions on in-person

interaction, the rise of work from home, teleconferencing , and the younger

generations increasingly attending classes via zoom have ramped up the shift

of online interactions amongst people significantly. With all of this in mind, the

logical next step is where are all of these people now congregating if normal

meetup locations, bars, restaurants, concert venues, and the like are continually

under threat of shutdown or onerous in person restrictions? The answer is

online, through various social networking sites such as Instagram and TikTok to

online gaming venues such as consoles, computers, and increasingly mobile

devices.

Mobile devices specifically have been making leaps and bounds since Apple

introduced its App Store back in 2008 with a mere 500 apps; the landscape

now is shared by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon with a combined total

app count of nearly 7.0M between them. Moreover, as the number of people

around the world with access to smartphones nears the 6.5 billion mark by

2022, companies that want to cater to these brand new emerging markets are

going to have to provide mobile apps to reach them rather than develop them

for consoles and computers.

Mobile games are continuing to dominate the overall gaming market place

«making up more than half of the total revenue of the games industry in 2018»,

and only increasing since then because of the growth fueled by the reaction to

the Covid-19 Pandemic. In 2020 mobile game downloads exceeded 80 billion

which is a year-over-year growth of 14% and the amount of money spent by

mobile gamers is expected to reach $138B by 2025. The global mobile games

market is going to continue to expand massively as more and more countries

gain access to better cellular communications, internet, and smartphone

technology only providing more fuel for mobile games as more potential

consumers have access to them.

Alongside the very healthy growth of the mobile games industry, is the

exponential expansion of the cryptocurrency industry. Reaching lows of $1.25T

in 2018 to all-time highs of nearly $2.5T in May of 2021 with an overall market

cap expected to reach $10T by 2030 the cryptocurrency industry is the fastest

growing industry in the world bar none. The intersection of these two industries,

gaming, and cryptocurrency is what is going to supercharge the growth of the

mobile gaming industry and allow the immense amount of wealth and value

circulating within the cryptocurrency ecosystem to make its way into the

mainstream via its application in the realm of mobile gaming.

Arenum is the evolution of mobile gaming and cryptocurrency which has a

feature-rich ecosystem to attract players and engage them for the long term

while providing rewarding incentives for developers and gamers alike. Arenum

fuses internal publishing services, and an engine for player-versus-player

tournaments as a service, into a unique metasystem existing on a layer above

the games, integrated. Integration into Arenum’s metasystem is entirely

autonomous and is seamlessly enabled through a powerful developer SDK.

Arenum is not starting its journey anew - the service has been on the market

since 2018 with a proven track record of 150,000 paying users. Arenum is the

next step in the evolution of web3, it incorporates a unique and exciting metaverse with NFT collecting and battling and leverages its competitive play-to-earn

mechanics for any type of game on its roster; Arenum is the web3-powered

matching engine for eSports.

Gaming and Crypto’s Intersection has Just Begun

The mobile gaming industry continues to outpace many other industries yearover-year and is expected to do so for the foreseeable future. From 2012, when

mobile gaming revenues were a mere $12.7B, revenues increased by almost

1,000% to nearly $110B as of 2021 these are garnered mainly from casual

games which make up more than 75% of global gaming downloads.

Additionally, nearly all of these revenues, 95% of them, are made up by In-App

purchases, which demonstrates that players are willing to spend their money

paying for enhancements to their mobile gaming experiences. On top of

spending their hard-earned money, players are also dedicating serious amounts

of time to mobile games and other apps installed on their phones with some

regions surpassing more than 4 hours spent daily on apps for mobile devices.

Unfortunately, the current model of In-app purchases is such that players spend

their money in one-off instances, this is an outdated and exploitative model.

With Arenum we allow players to purchase tokens, that have inherent value, and

then stake said tokens to gain access to some of the exact same rewards they’d

normally get for making a $0.99 or $2.99 transaction on the app and much

more. Staking has the added bonus of allowing players to be exposed to the

upside of the Arenum token, on top of the access to the multitude of different

rewards in-game and in the Arenum NFT metaverse while having them

contribute as much or as little as they want to their favorite games.

Mobile gaming and the games that make it up can also be looked to as the next

logical step for social networks as the foundations of it already exists in the form

of game discord servers, forums, and gaming groups.

The mobile gaming community is expected to surpass 3.0 billion members by

2023 which vastly exceeds the likes of social networks like Instagram and

Twitter.

Communities that exist around these games want to be able to interact and

engage in different experiences with other members and the metaverse is the

answer. Metaverses are the social networks of Web3.0 and will be formed by

things like PvP tournaments and NFT collecting and battling changing the way

players have previously interacted with each other. Gone are the days of simply

messaging each other or talking over voice chat, with Arenum and its

metaverses players will be granted access to game-changing means of

interaction.

Looking at games like ‘Axie Infinity’ which serve as working examples of the

intersection of cryptocurrency and gaming. Axie Infinity is a blockchain game,

with an all-time-high market cap of nearly $4.5B, that has players purchasing

in-game characters and battling them out against other players. Players can

then earn in-game cryptocurrencies and sell their characters for real-world

money. Axie Infinity demonstrates multiple points; first, developing systems for

competitive gaming, attention-grabbing multiplayer, and synchronous engines

for PvP encounters is difficult and not straightforward to build for many games

on the market today. Secondly, lots of gaming communities want to be able to

access PvP and multiplayer encounters for their games but as mentioned earlier,

many developers don’t have the capabilities to give players what they want, the

developers that are able to do so are rewarded very handsomely by the market

as demonstrated by Axie Infinity. Thirdly gameified-metaverses, where NFTs are

able to be unlocked, collected, traded and able to be used with other players’

NFTs, is the Web3.0 enabled future of social networking. Finally, tokenized ingame content where players can take legitimate ownership of the content they

pour their time and effort into and which will remain forever on the blockchain

regardless of a game studio’s continued existence. We know the eSports

industry propels these games to the next level, in 2020 there were 550M users

actively engaged in it with over a $1B in revenue, Arenum is able to take that

success that has been isolated to a small assortment of games and give that

power to any game and add dynamic levels of play with an exciting NFT

metaverse and exciting play-to-earn mechanics.

Arenum leverages Player-versus-Player tournaments and the addition of an

eSports layer to each of the games it supports—to empower developers,

gamers, and influencers. The Arenum platform is a tokenized ecosystem where

all participants interact on-chain in a permissionless and censorship-resistant

environment. Arenum is built by engineers with a background in mission-critical

high load low-latency systems. Arenum platform will be able to deliver state-ofthe-art connectivity to its tournament engine enabling one-click deployments of

synchronous and asynchronous PvP tournaments - PvP as a service. With the

addition of Arenum’s NFT-powered metaverse, players are further incentivized to

compete against each other in the games they love to play to unlock brand new,

unique NFTs which exist in their own game and economy above every game in

the Arenum ecosystem.

Success in Mobile Gaming is Challenging

No game is guaranteed to be a breakout sensation. Games like ‘Flappy Bird’,

‘Angry Birds’, ‘Plants v. Zombies’ are all extremely successful mobile games that

for a variety of reasons, not least of which being their ease of playability, led

them to become smash hits and to really define the mobile gaming industry. At

the same time, games such as these can be easily listed off and are well known

which can’t be said for the rest of the entire market which is absolutely filled to

the brim with creative, unique, and innovative games as well as downright

copies of some of the most famous games. All of these games which took

countless hours of developer time to build need to be part of a large platform in

order to succeed in the current market, it is no longer the case where simply

releasing on the app store is going to get attention on many of these games,

they need to be apart of a platform that is able to supplement their gameplay

with dynamic levels of interaction for players.

In 2021, only 810 mobile games were able to surpass net revenues of more than

$1M. To put that in perspective on just the Google Play store there were over

475,000 games available to be played in the first quarter of 2021. The games

that are successful in generating these revenues are then able to capitalize on it

by investing the money and man-hours required to develop PvP multiplayer,

build multi-level referral systems, reward systems, leagues and tournaments,

metagames, and other mechanisms that are known to generate the biggest

return on investment and retention from player bases. But for most mobile

games none of that is ever built because they lack the initial allure to pull in

players as well as the funding to keep players involved. Many games last barely a

few months and hardly ever make it to the year mark with a meaningful amount

of players playing, the marketing continues to get more expensive and the

amount of competing games only increases. Moreover, those components

which attract players and money are the most challenging to build and are

surprisingly also the ones that generate the highest LTV for these games.

Arenum provides a robust solution to all of these problems, its innovative

approach to skill-based cash gaming adds dynamic and exciting ways to

experience casual and non-causal games. Arenum is unencumbered by the

physical and fiat-driven nature which has previously limited growth, efficiency,

and inclusivity. Arenum allows anyone to initiate a League of Legends

tournament directly from one’s mobile device whenever they want, pick their

sponsors from an automated attention marketplace and settle the prize pool

instantly, Arenum gives control back to the players.

Arenum Serves Developers and Players

Arenum is built from the ground up to reward both the players for their

engagement in the games they play as well as the developers for the games

they labor on. Arenum brings its asynchronous and synchronous PvP multiplayer

solution which can be integrated into any game genre from MOBAs and

Shooters to Puzzles and Match3s. Arenum is able to serve a massive variety of

developers and player communities.

The aforementioned issues of player retention that would normally have to be

solved by the developers are instead taken care of by Arenum. Via the CrossGame exposure, Arenum is able to make marketing cheaper and insure the

entire platform against ‘flash-in-the-pan’ games. Arenum sits at a level above all

of the games and is able to help direct the flow of players to new and existing

games on the platform. On top of that, developers are also able to publish

games via Arenum which provides developers a much better alternative to the

currently available publishers on the market as games that come out of Arenum

are going to have the support of the entire Arenum platform and everything that

entails.

Arenum’s additional meta-layer on top of the base game on the platform, which

includes multiplayer, referral and reward systems, leagues, tournaments, and

more, increases player retention significantly and opens the gateway for long

term retention of many players and at the same time allows the developer to

focus on building their games and make their systems exciting and enjoyable for

players rather than having to worry about systems to specifically ensure player

retention. With Arenum supporting a game, players will never get bored as

they’ll have growing access to a catalog of games published and cross

advertised on Arenum, in addition to, the intense metagame and social network

built into Arenum, there will be a long term draw for players to continue playing

long after they’ve finished the original game.

Arenum Allows Developers to Shift into Overdrive

eSports has historically been a select group of competitors that require a fair

amount of funding and resources for them to play as well as to set up the

tournaments that they’re playing in, Arenum revolutionizes the eSports industry

by democratizing eSports back into the hands of the average player and

providing monetization of competitive mobile gaming at scale.

Competition is at the core of gaming and it's the primary feature that drives

long-term player retention, casual-competitive gamers are the ‘blue ocean’ of an

as yet untapped marketplace that is ready to be served and catered to. But both

the competitive and casual gaming landscapes have high entry barriers from

technological and legal standpoints and there are plenty of well-positioned

competitors that will be a challenge to compete with. Arenum, therefore, covers

both casual and competitive gamers provided systems for both of them to be

able to compete amongst each other and experience the thrill of winning

against someone else. Arenum already has demonstrated its skill and has

launched an eSports platform that had $750k in revenue in the previous year

and is ready to scale.

By adding crypto to the Arenum platform we’re able to instantly payout winners,

provide transparency of money flows, and be completely censorship-resistant.

The Arenum open-source toolbox has essential competitive mechanisms and

seamless connectivity for any game to join the platform. The elaborate

tokenomics of Arenum allow the shaping of incentives within the ecosystem for

all groups of economics agents, the developers, the players, the influencers,

and instant attention capture by the sponsors.

Arenum provides its tournament engine for a variety of mobile games and

demographics. For the younger audiences we target 100+ daily tournaments in

games like PUBG, FreeFire, Call of Duty and Brawl Stars, for audiences in the 30+

range we target casual games like puzzles, bubbles, match3s, card duels, and

other types to add an additional layer of excitement to their games. By offering

its services to a variety of gamers Arenum targets the mass market and is

focused on giving them access to services and features previously exclusive to

eSports teams and much more skilled and active players.

Arenum’s tech is built of four main features:

The\PvP\multiplayer\Engine\(SDK)\for\game

PvP multiplayer as a service is a collection of smart contracts and infrastructure that enable any game developer to integrate them into their games and get leaderboards, tournaments, leagues, referral and reward systems, and a deep metagame all in 1 tool.

NFT Metagame

Players can earn resources through tournaments to get NFT collectible animals, breed them to make more powerful creatures, and participate in PvP auto battles with a unique and powerful army of NFTs

Platform for game developer and influencer

A set of tools from the multiplayer SDK engine allowing the game developers

to publish their games as a standalone product and perform one-click deployment of tournaments for instant monetization of influencer’s communities.

Marketplace

Players use the marketplace to trade and acquire rare NFT animals which they can then merge together to level up and earn even more rare NFTs.

How Arenum Works

All games have access to the Arenum Multiplayer PvP SDK which they can

integrate into their games in order to connect to the tournament engine. From

there, influencers and sponsors are able to integrate their tournaments as well

into the Arenum engine for whichever game they want to sponsor. Players select

which games and tournaments they want to compete in and then betting

markets are able to bid on the outcome of tournaments. The rewards of this

metagame are the NFTs which can be collected, traded, and bought on the

marketplace and then used to auto-battle for tokens and other rewards.

Setting up a tournament is a rather straightforward and streamlined process:

1.The tournament creator sets up the tournament and the prize pool target

size, and creating a tournament requires having the Arenum token staked

2.Gamers have to put up a token prize pool (that can be delegated) effectively

depositing a fixed minimum contribution or a higher one.

3.The amount contributed will define one's pro-rata allocation shall he or she

be eligible (by e.g. winning the tournament). 750% of the total prize pool is

distributed back across the winning players (or likewise, those who have

satisfied more exotic criteria based on the in-game achievements).

4.Arenum receives 73% of the Prize pool for providing the platform

5.A Game Devs must stake tokens for their game to be eligible for hosting

tournaments. The stake can be delegated by the community or other

interested parties. They are also eligible for the remaining 73% of the prize

pool.

6.When the games and tournaments are created by Arenum, the platform acts

as both the tournament creator and publisher and earns rewards in the same

manner as mentioned above.

Tokenomics

Outlined below are the various tiers players can acquire by staking the Arenum

token; these include all of the list benefits and the tiers range from ‘Free’ or zero

tokens staked, to ‘Developer’ which requires a large number of tokens staked.

1.Tier IV (FreeM No amount required for accessU

Players have confirmed their wallet on the platformW

Players can participate in Arenum tournaments.L

With a limited prize pool.L

Players have access to basic bidding on regular tournaments.L

Not branded or PvP games between pros.L

Players has access to the NFT metagame on the blockchain (the higher the

rank of eggs the higher the chance to win).L

Players can share 1 level deep referral links.L

Ability to generate referral links.L

Players may buy and sell on the marketplace.L

Use money and referral points, reward points (from daily activities like

sharing links, participating in tournaments, daily check-ins, etc)to

purchaseML

Tokens, Magic Boxes.L

Players can withdraw their prizes.L

Highest amount of commission fees.L

Players can begin staking the Arenum token.L

High initial cast out fee of 5% should the user choose to unstak^

Tier IV Profile Badge

2.Tier III (Noobs; Stake 22tokens);

Everything from Tier IV-:

Players are awarded a free starter pack that contains one egg-:

Players are able to participate in all Arenum tournaments with the base-tier

prize pool, and magic boxes-:

Players may now bid without participation in lower-tier tournaments:

Increases total prize pool for players:

Players now have a chance to obtain high-grade egg(s) from magic boxes:

Players get a 5% bonus from referrals and get benefits from child referrals

only(first and second level referrals),

Players can take part in challenges and special missions-:

Players have a chance to get a random airdrop of a magic box at the end of a

match;:

Chance increases as players increase their stake and ascend in tiers-:

Players can withdraw their prizes-:

High amount of commission fees-:

Tier III Profile Badge which is a;:

NFT Badge:

Perks allowing one to enter special events, etc

3. Tier II (Pros: Stake 80Tokens ):

Everything from Tier III.B

Player+ gain access to a premium-tier prize pool, including magic boxe+.B

Player+ may start bidding without participation in all tiered and branded

tournaments:B

Increases total prize pool for players.B

Players get a higher chance to obtain high-grade egg(s) from magic boxes.B

Players get a higher percentage from referrals and get bonuses from the

referral matrix (depth is still limited).B

Players have premium support 24/7.B

Players have the ability to withdraw their prizes:B

Lower amount of commission fees.B

P2P marketplace for NFT items.B

Tier II Profile Badge which is a:B

NFT BadgeB

Perks allowing one to enter special events, etc.

4. Tier I (Pro-Influencer: Stake 160 Tokens)

Everything from Tier II.

Player! can pay 100,000 token! to place banner! on the platform for different

amount! of time a! well a! in different location! on the platform"

Player! get the highe!t chance to obtain high-grade egg

Player! can organize their own tournament

Player! have the ability to withdraw their prize

lowest amount of commission fees

Tier I Profile Badge which i!

NFT Badge

Perks allowing one to enter !pecial event!, etc

5.Tier 0(Developer:Stake1,000Tokens)

Everything from Tier I.)

Developers can add new games to the platform.)

Developers have a personal support manager.)

Developers have access to infinitely deep referral links.)

Developers have a premium banner spot)

Developers can create custom prize pools for organized tournaments:)

Includes off-line items.

6.Extra offer:

For 10,000 sBaked tokens, users are able to place a banner in the premium

location.

Regardless of a player’s participation in the tier system, players do not need to

stake to have access to the platform. See Tier IV above, they merely need to

have their wallet connected to the system. Participating in tournaments requires

users to pool tokens. 90% goes to the winners [2.5% goes to game devs, 5%

goes to originators of the tournament, 2.5% goes to Arenum*]. Bidding on the

tournament outcome requires followers the exact same structure as

participating.

There will also be an initial token burn as well as an ongoing token tax. The token

tax will be 2.5% on all withdrawals from every pool, and there will be a 10% tax as

a cast-out fee from unstaking tokens. The burn will last the first four quarters of

Arenum’s operation and consist of a 50%, 25%, 12.5%, and 6.25% of the

platform’s revenue to be used to buy back the token and burn it every quarter

for the first four quarters of operation followed by a 6.25% burm of the

platform’s revenue every quarter after which goes on ad infinitum.

Regardless of a player’s participation in the tier system, players do not need to

stake to have access to the platform. See Tier IV above, they merely need to

have their wallet connected to the system. Participating in tournaments requires

users to pool tokens. 90% goes to the winners [2.5% goes to game devs, 5%

goes to originators of the tournament, 2.5% goes to Arenum*]. Bidding on the

tournament outcome requires followers the exact same structure as

participating.

Lastly, the egg system work as follows: the size of the user’s stake affects the

chance to loot some high-grade egg(s) from magic boxes, but this is not always

guaranteed. Eggs can be merged, which costs tokens each time, in the case of a

successful merge players are rewarded with a higher grade egg, and in the case

of an unsuccessful egg merge, players will lose one of their eggs.

Towards a Multichain Future

To attract retail consumers, cryptocurrencies must be able to enter mainstream

industries and dominate the landscape. Our development approach is to begin

initial deployment on the Polygon-Matic network and then start building out to

multiple chains culminating with Solana. If we are to attract the widest range of

crypto-enthusiasts and gamers we need to be able to be interoperable with

some of the most popular and used chains in the space. By becoming a

multichain platform we can connect all dApp games in the crypto space and

break down the barriers between all communities and bring us under one

banner to be united purely as gamers. Arenum is entering the mobile games

industry with proven success and taking cryptocurrencies and leveraging the

massive adoption of the NFTs to revolutionize the mobile games industry. By

developing a platform that can support and publish mobile games across a

variety of chains, Arenum is able to lift a significant burden from the shoulders

of developers giving them time to focus on building their core game mechanics

while Arenum introduces an exciting PvP layer and NFT metalayer to any type of

game. Gamers are able to supercharge their normal gaming experience with

access to Arenum’s PvP tournaments for their game and take part in an NFTmetaverse that exists upon all games in the network. Arenum combines its

exciting NFT metaverse, unique PvP SDK for developers, and play2earn

mechanics to ensure that developers receive much-needed support and players

continue to have exciting gaming experiences.