AMA Recap — SIPHER (02 Sep 2021). On Tuesday, September 2, we had the…
By: Felicia Phua
Tags: Features, Featured, Events

Section 2: Answering questions from the community

First question from @tuan_iker:

“Could you please tell us the story behind the name SIPHΞR? How did you get the inspiration to build your project? How will this name effect people in your opinion?”

Ok good, warming up with the name

When Tin mentioned the name SIPHER to me for the first time I thought it would be cipher, which means an algorithm for encryption or simply put, a code.

When he elaborated that it was a combination between Surrogate + Cipher I understood right away where he was headed, creating a world in which your alter-ego (surrogate) can exist by being a code (cipher) in this metaverse called Sipheria.

And as for the special character in our name, hold on Ξ

We thought that would be something cool standing out making us special, and our community loves it 🙂

Our inspiration for building SIPHER came from our mutual passion for Crypto, Gaming and Art. And as passionate gamers ourselves we felt that the majority of blockchain games are just not fun at all, or even real games with real graphics and art. So that’s was kinda sad for us to see and we decided that we want to change up things in the market.

We therefore hope that the name SIPHER will give people the opportunity to take a break from the real life and enter a metaverse with their NFT characters to enjoy themselves.

Ok, second question from @Ally0836 :

“A lot of scam projects are out there, what guarantees that your project is different from them?”

Surprisingly we got asked this question a lot when we started out, which is kinda sad for the NFT gaming space and crypto space in general.

Questions like why we are different and putting our real names and faces on our websites, which should be self-explanatory we thought until we found more about the black sheep stories in this space…but the good always outweighs the bad imo.

As for us though, we have nothing to hide with having other businesses running as well and not only for the sake of our reputation but also in the name of our investors and partners we can assure you that we won’t run away with our investor’s money and scam everyone.

Besides that it won’t be difficult for everyone to find us anyways so we would appreciate you having trust in us like we have trust in our community. Thank You.

Hope no one will ask us this again 🙂

The next one is from @luckyjem02:

“A strong community not only brings interesting ideas to the project but also attracts larger partners. So how #SIPHERxyz planning to build its community? And is there a plan to recruit people with Blockchain experience to the #SIPHERxyz team?”

We are all aware of the following scenario that NFT projects get hyped up until the NFT Launch Sale and then afterwards the whole community is shrinking more and more day by day until the majority lost all interest in the project already. This applies mostly to NFT art collection projects though that like their description already says, sell NFT art collections.

So not all NFT projects will have investment funds behind and need to build a metaverse or game and have a roadmap with milestones that need to be achieved, but we do.

We will keep constantly communicating and engaging with our community and update them about our new races, our token, our partnerships, our gameplay development and of course the Play To Earn factor, which plays a siginificant role.

With our Play To Earn model we hope to attract new players and keep old players playing every day helping the community to grow with all players earning rewards while doing so.

And in case we should have chose a wrong direction and the community is not happy and reminds us of that, we will take the time to listen to players feedbacks and don’t want to act like we are the boss and know everything he best.

Like a very famous entrepreneur once said:

“There is only one boss and that is the consumer. And he or she can fire everyone in the company from the chairman on down by spending his or her money somewhere else.”

And none of us want to get fired lol

As for plans to recruit people with Blockchain experience, we are already lucky to work with the best and most experienced team regarding Blockchain in whole Vietnam with our Co-founding Advisors from Kyber Network, who are one of the very first here to enter the blockchain world and therefore we trust them completely with everything related to blockchain development, smart contracts, security and audits.

Ok the next question from @cryptoMoonerJ:

“How does the @SIPHERxyz retain community and attract new players to stay on the game after the initial hype went off?”

Ah similar question to the one before, but I love questions regarding the community 🙂

Ok just to add some more things, we actively reached out to several social media influencers the past weeks and being very selective choosing only partners that are really passionate about our project like we are.

But for the big part we attracted big influencers who found out about us first and were really nice offering their support for the project without asking money in return. I think this is a good example how we attract more members and that the hype is of an organic nature.

Also so many of our Discord members have contributed great fanart, community activities like a puzzle game throughout a whole week, several songs and videos exclusively produced for SIPHER to name a few.

We are super thankful to everyone and believe that the contributions will keep coming in and the hype won’t go away.

Last question from @OnlyGam18270560:

“Currently the world is experiencing a global crisis due to Covid-19 and several projects were declined. Is this gonna impact your business? If so, how could the team manage your projects to stay on top?”

This is a good one, with everything going on in Crypto we often forget about what is going on out there. Unfortunately Covid-19 has affected everyone and everyone in this world and of course without the pandemic our business would run more smoothly

Lucky for us though, we are working in the tech and crypto space that not necessarily need us to have physical interactions with each other. Also we consider us to be fortunate to be based in Vietnam, with so many talents in game development and tech around us which helps us giving us an edge in this market.

Being able to hire the sufficient manpower we need are a reasonable cost compared to some other projects overseas that were promising but got all funding declined due to those restrictions.

For the future we also see that many other NFT Blockchain Games will try to find developers in this field here seeing how successful projects coming from Vietnam can be and no need for me to name any examples even. So we are positioned in a very good spot here currently despite Covid-19.

All I hope for is that everyone will stay safe & healthy during this pandemic and that we will overcome Covid-19 altogether soon.

Thank you everyone for listening to me today, it was my pleasure.

I hope to see you all in Sipheria! 🙂

About Sipher

The first 10,000 Sipherians SIPHER, the combination of two ideals: Surrogates and Cipher, are the adventurers in the world of Sipheria. The first race, INU, of the 1st Fleet “Sipherian Surge”, were created by our mad scientists. A product of animal CRISPR-genome extraction and ethereal elements. 10,000 possessing unique looks, sub-racial traits, abilities with the first mission to establish the first World Block in Sipheria.

Rare sub-race traits are available as BioZ, Cyborg or Cosmic. These are limited with a cap for each type as 1500, 1000 and 500 respectively. Each sub-trait carries unique abilities that will impact gameplay and rewards.

Sipherian Surge 1st Fleet come with a random mix of rare costumes and weapons, allowing adventurer to assemble uniquely rare set of costume. Costumes will determine attributes buffs while weapons will determine the class of that character. A complete set of Costume will grant unique attributes bonuses for more gameplay rewards during expeditions.