Nifty Island embraced a wide array of established communities in Web3 to help expand its Roblox-style metaverse game. Now it’s rewarding them. The project, which pioneered the now-popular “play-to-airdrop” campaign, just launched ISLAND, an Ethereum-based utility token that serves as the ecosystem token for its in-game economy. Below, learn everything you need to know about ISLAND now that it’s live
ISLAND is the native token of the Nifty Island ecosystem, offering holders “in-game utility and demand drivers” to help power its creator-focused gaming metaverse. ISLAND has a total supply of one billion tokens and launched on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token. The token will make use of LayerZero’s omnichain technology, which will enable it to be utilized on Ethereum layer-2 network Base, in addition to Solana down the road.
The token generation event for ISLAND took place on Tuesday, December 17. The launch was delayed into the afternoon due to the game’s official account on X (formerly known as Twitter) being hijacked in the morning. ISLAND will be primarily distributed to five separate groups of ecosystem participants. The community receives the largest supply of ISLAND tokens, getting 38.6% in total.
The bucket of more than 400 million tokens is broken up into three separate community groups, allocating ISLAND tokens for the Nifty Island rewards pool, ecosystem incentives, and the play-to-airdrop campaign. Those who participated in the nine-month play-to-airdrop campaign will split 12.6% of the ISLAND supply, all of which was liquid and tradable upon the token generation event. This bucket is aimed at rewarding “genuine gameplay and engagement” within Nifty Island.
A player’s ISLAND airdrop is primarily based on the airdrop points they accrued by collecting Blooms, an in-game resource, and their respective collector tier, which is determined by the on-chain holdings of their connected Nifty Island accounts. A snapshot was taken at 11am ET on December 16 to finalize a player’s collector tier ahead of the airdrop.
Users who held at least one of more than 170 eligible partner community NFTs during a March 25 snapshot may also be eligible for ISLAND tokens as part of Nifty Island’s “Wave 3” addition to the play-to-airdrop campaign. Eligible communities are listed in the airdrop section on the Nifty Island website. An additional 175 million tokens—or 17.5% of the ISLAND supply—has been set aside in a Nifty Island rewards pool for real-time earnings through future gameplay.
Lastly, 85 million ISLAND, or 8.5% of the supply, is set aside for attracting developers and creators to Nifty Island. The first installment is being provided to Animoca Brands’ flagship NFT community, Mocaverse, offering 10 million ISLAND to its community via the MocaDrop at token generation. Investors and advisors More than 300 million ISLAND tokes were set aside for investors and advisors to Nifty Island.
Described as “exceptionally long-termist,” Nifty Island’s backers will have 71% of their tokens locked for two years, linearly unlocking over the course of the next two years thereafter. Meanwhile, the additional 29% of their tokens will be locked for three years, and then linearly unlocked over the following three years.
The Nifty Island team has been allocated 19.5% of the ISLAND supply, or 195 million tokens. Like the advisors and investors, team members will not be able to sell their tokens on day one. Instead, 66% of team member tokens will be locked for two years from the token generation event, unlocking linearly for the following two years. And the remaining 34% will be locked for one year from the token generation event, unlocking linearly over the course of the following year.
Managed initially by the Nifty Island team, the project treasury will house 9.2% of the supply, or 92 million ISLAND tokens. These tokens are designed to be used to fund project expansion and promotion of Nifty Island. 2.5% of the ISLAND supply is set aside for centralized exchange liquidity. This was increased from 1% just before the token was generated, with the additional amount shaved from the “Ecosystem incentives” bucket.
