IKONIC platform brings Gamers

The IKONIC platform brings Gamers, Fans, and Esports stars together to create, collect, and earn from the best moments in gaming.

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Introducing IKONIC’s NFT Marketplace for Esports

We are excited to announce IKONIC NFT Marketplace. We have been working hard, and we believe the gaming community will be ecstatic with our platform.

The time has come for the exciting industry of esports to be integrated into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Created by industry veterans, IKONIC aims to build an NFT community in the esports arena. Gaming and esports have become much more mainstream over the past decade, now the second most viewed sport in the United States only behind the NFL. Gaming and esports have the potential to offer much more value to every player.

We’re aware that most IKONIC moments in gaming are gone; think of the EVO Moment 37, The Six Million Dollar slam a 200 IQ moment, or a fantastic FIFA goal. The esports world does not offer many options in terms of revenue streams for independent athletes in particular. This is a problem that IKONIC intends to solve. We aim to encourage each player to create unforgettable moments by using blockchain technology. IKONIC’s NFT marketplace will allow every gamer to showcase their skills while having the opportunity to create NFT’s that can be sold on our NFT marketplace.

We believe the biggest asset of every player is the uniqueness and creativity that they bring to the gaming world. Players create IKONIC gaming moments that fuel our imagination. Until now, there has not been a way for a player or fan to own, and benefit from fantastic gameplays. IKONIC’s ambition is to fuel each gamer’s creative moments through digital assets giving them the ability to turn their passion into a profession.

Over the past year, NFTs have become much more common, but the esports industry has been left out. Gamers, players, artists, brands, game developers, and inspired minds from all over the world can now come together and turn their passion into something bigger — something truly IKONIC.

Another core aspect of IKONIC is to reward NFT artists. NFT artists continue to inspire the world, and IKONIC wants to support their ventures. We have created a platform where artists can not only reach new fans but also can create a truly unique bond with the community that drives them.

IKONIC will be the first esports NFT marketplace in the world. IKONIC was inspired by our team’s passion for collectible items. Remember the sports card collectible boom? It’s still a huge market to this day.

Many inspiring gaming moments have been lost in the esports world over the years but with IKONIC, we can turn esports moments into digital collectibles that will last for eternity. We have so much more than that in the roadmap because what we really aim to do is empower the creator economy, which will open new revenue streams for the artists, and developers to enjoy.

Sebastian Ionut Diaconu CEO of IKONIC says “The IKONIC platform allows users to immortalize their outstanding esports gameplay into video NFTs, the next-gen type of memorabilia for esports. Partnerships and collaborations with the biggest names in esports and rising stars to create IKONIC NFT collections, that will be the foundation for an active ecosystem for the fans, creators, and collectors, with extensive benefits for all participants. In addition to the NFT Marketplace, the Indie game Launchpad allows game developers and the community to come closer together, get access to exclusive content and in-game items.”

“Esports player’s status as athletes has been disputed for a long time. Creating a legacy through memorable moments captured and stored on Blockchain, earning royalties from these NFTs, and share their exceptional capabilities with the world, give them the opportunity to make themselves a legendary or even an IKONIC athlete in the esports world.

Features of IKONIC’s NFT Marketplace

We are the first NFT marketplace in the world for both gamers, and esports fans. We know that it can be difficult to find projects in the NFT industry that have a clear use case — and truly offer sustainable potential. That is why we are also introducing the IKONIC token. The IKONIC token will be your key to unlocking private features on the platform.

IKONIC will make NFTs accessible to everyone; our user interface will be simple and free of the complexities that come with most platforms. Our NFT marketplace will make it easier for fans to discover fantastic moments, and for players to easily navigate within the marketplace.

We believe users should be able to create NFTs with only a few clicks. Complications create frustration and destroy creativity. IKONIC’s NFT marketplace will offer a unique experience to its users. Our intuitive design is built on top of a decentralized marketplace; for us, art and the artist’s experience are most important. Players and fans will own the moment with little to no hassle. We’ll have a lively and secure marketplace for gamers, and esports fans to enjoy.

We aim to be a one-stop hub for gamers. A marketplace where pro players can earn and connect with their community, where fans can access exclusive events and in-game airdrops, and a gateway for gamers who wants to connect with developers. IKONIC will be the one platform for all.

Soon, our NFT marketplace will be fully functional, and we look forward to announcing partnerships with competitive esports players, investors, advisors, and the influencers that drive this exhilarating industry. We cannot wait to show what we have been working on.

IKONIC has accomplished so much already, but we want to be better. As you can see, we will integrate our video editing software for state-of-the-art NFT creation very soon. Our NFT Transaction & Performance Analytics will allow every user to analyze data much more effectively — and efficiently. We will also reveal our Indie Game Launchpad for NFT Games very soon. We are here to revolutionize the esports and NFT industry.

IKONIC NFT Marketplace Features

IKONIC NFT Marketplace is the World’s First Dedicated Esports NFT Marketplace. We created a wonderful experience with gamers in mind. IKONIC is created by gamers for gamers therefore the marketplace will reflect the gamer’s vision.

Our mission is to increase the economic freedom of gamers, and esports pros. By enabling more gamers to join the creator economy and profit from their most memorable gameplays. We know that NFTs have an important role to play in this mission.

IKONIC NFT marketplace makes NFTs more accessible by building gamer-friendly interfaces that put hard work behind the scenes. Complications create frustration and destroy creativity. IKONIC’s NFT marketplace will offer a unique experience to its users. Our intuitive design is built on top of a decentralized marketplace; for us, gamer experience is important.

IKONIC Vision

Gaming is about passion. In today’s world, we can see that gaming is the new entertainment medium for the younger generation. This depends on several factors. Over the years the development of technology allowed gaming to be accessible to large audiences. For example, a person in Canada can play the same game as a person in Belgium. This is a sense of universality brought gamers around the world closer to each other and showed us bigger communities forming inside the gaming world.

This improvement in tech also brought forward new mediums such as mobile gaming. Especially in the Asian and Southeast Asian regions we see that mobile gaming is really thriving. But of course, this mobile gaming growth led to something else which is demonized by gamers, in-game monetization.

Today many gamers hate monetization within games, and even try to fight against the aggressive policies implemented by the companies. For example remember the time EA” stocks dropped 5% just because they had messed up monetization mechanics within Star Wars: Battlefront 2?

Gamers are having a hard time competing with the aggressive policies of the companies. Let us face it the gaming companies will never give up monetization because it is extremely lucrative. They do not care about the cries of the communities over the price of an in-game item because a significant portion of gamers continue to buy the monetized content and at the end of the day it is always about money.

An IKONIC Approach

IKONIC is all about giving freedom back to the gamers. What we aim to do is beyond just esports. We plan to help gamers achieve economical freedom, by monetizing their best moments in gaming.

On average gamers spend several hours a day playing their game, but most games do not allow gamers to earn from it. That is why play-to-earn games have became extremely popular within the last few years and this is just the beginning.

We believe that every gamer is unique and they have fantastic moments to share with the world. IKONIC will allow you to create NFTs from your best moments in gaming.

Let’s say you hit a fantastic goal in FIFA, but if you are not a big-time YouTuber or a streamer you do not earn anything from that fantastic moment. Our state-of-the-art video creation tool will allow you to create an NFT of that goal and earn from your gameplay.

Another aspect of this problem is that regular players cannot get the recognition that they deserve. IKONIC will allow you to get featured and show your skills to the world. On our platform, each player no matter their background will have the access to same tools. Maybe you are even better than esports stars, and this is your chance to shine.

IKONIC has a lot more features coming soon. We cannot wait to show you what we have been working on.

IKONIC is created by gamers for gamers. This is your chance to OWN THE MOMENT!

IKONIC Roadmap Explained

IKONIC will be the World’s First Dedicated NFT Marketplace for Esports. Our NFT Marketplace will allow gamers to buy, sell and collect the best moments in gaming history. IKONIC believes that the most valuable moments of gaming history are lost forever with the current technology and the current revenue models completely ignore the huge potential of merging blockchain and crypto worlds. Our goal is to provide a solution for gamers.

But how will we achieve this goal?

We are aware that our followers are eager for the roadmap of the IKONIC Project. In this roadmap you will see our achievements and what is coming soon. Without further ado let us begin.

History of IKONIC

IKONIC NFT Marketplace idea was incepted in early 2021, the goal was to immortalize the unique moments in gaming. Soon afterward we have gathered our team for the initial planning phase. In May 2021 smart contract project was ready to begin, which was an exciting moment for us. In June 2021 our first alpha testing stage began. The results were extremely promising, therefore at the beginning of the summer, we have decided to launch ikonic.gg website.

Jan 2021 — idea inception

Feb 2021 — recruiting team and initial platform architecture and functionality design

May 2021 — smart contract development started

June 2021 — blockchain alpha released initial testing

June 2021 — rebranding

August 2021 — Ikonic.gg site

Q1 2022

Even though we were happy with the results we knew we could do better, therefore we spent most of the last year and Q1 2022 on improving our platform. We have accomplished so much over the last several months. Let us take a look,

Native token and USDT support on Ethereum, Polygon and Binance

Ikonic token support on Binance Token Burning

ERC-2981 NFT Royalty Standard Configurable service fees

Video Editor and Templates for State of the Art NFT Creation

Mint/Buy/Sell in Marketplace

Our Plans for The Future

For the first time, we can say that we are close to launching and we want to share our future goals with our community members. Remember IKONIC is for gamers, therefore we have created this NFT marketplace with gamers in mind. We are so close to our goals and we can safely say that we will launch in Q2 2022. But it will not be only our launch, we did not create an empty husk without anything in mind for gamers. On the Ikonic platform, gamers will have quests and tasks to complete to win rewards. Leaderboards to determine who is the most IKONIC of us all? We are sure that you will be happy with what is coming over the next few months.

Q2 2022

🚀 Ikonic TGE

Ikonic Platform Launch

Gamification of IKONIC

Environment for

Improved UX (Badges, NFTs & Status)

Leaderboard — See Who’s the Most IKONIC Of All Users

Season 1 Contests Introduced

Begin Metaverse development

Esports Hall of Fame Gallery

Live esports

Gaming

eCommerce

Real Estate sales

In Q3 2022 IKONIC NFT Marketplace will improve its offerings much more. Features such as ERC-BSC and BSC-Polygon bridges and batch minting will be introduced in Q3 2022. We will also create an Indie Game Hackathon to reward the best of the best. One of the most interesting features is going to be your personal analytics table which will allow you to track your performance.

Q3 2022

Building bridges: ERC-BSC and BSC-Polygon

Investigate Cross-chain/Crosslayer asset transfer

Batch Minting

Auction/Make an Offer

Analytics — NFT Transaction & Performance History

Initial edition: Indie Game

Hackathon/Incubator

IKONIC Collection Pack Drop 1.0 w/ one-of-a-kind esports Moments & Stars

Begin multi-player game design

3rd party KYC attestation (Platform & Metaverse)

Well the final quarter of the year, is even better. We can be an NFT Marketplace but why not create a Metaverse for gamers, our Metaverse will launch in Q4 2022 alongside $IKONIC staking.

Q4 2022

🚀Launch Metaverse v1.0

Easy Access

Buy $IKONIC Token, NFTs &

Gear w/ Fiat (Fiat Converted to$IKONIC Token)

$Ikonic Staking

IKONIC Collection Pack Drop 2.0

IKONIC is completing its roadmap one by one. We are working hard to deliver you, our members the best possible experience. If you want to learn more about IKONIC please join our Telegram group for the latest updates.

Meet The IKONIC NFT Marketplace Team

Hello everyone, it has been so exciting to see our community growth, the IKONIC family is growing every day and we have some really exciting news coming up, very soon.

You had questions about the project and we noticed that our community wants to learn more about the leaders within the IKONIC NFT Marketplace. Today we are going to delve deeper into the IKONIC family. IKONIC NFT Marketplace is led by industry veterans, and our teams have specialists from different industries. We work with crypto specialists as well as esports veterans across the world.

At its core, IKONIC is a multicultural workplace, our leaders and our teams are coming from across the globe, and the fun never ends here because of different time zones. But enough chit-chat for now.

Let us take a look at our leaders.

Sebastian Diaconu — Chief Executive Officer

Sebastian Diaconu is the CEO of IKONIC, World first dedicated NFT Platform for esports and gaming collectibles since July 2021.

Before joining IKONIC, Sebastian had 5 years total experience in the Crypto and Blockchain space, focusing on Blockchain Enterprise Solutions through an accelerator established in Dubai, named Avantas Technology Accelerator, and established a centralized, regional community-centric digital assets exchange called MBAex, reaching over 150,000 active users and over $1 Billion daily volume in 9 months from the official launch. He was also one of the initiators of Maxonrow, an NFT native Blockchain Platform based on Tendermint, launched in March 2019.

Small local tournament finalist at FIFA 2000, gamer for almost 30 years, mainly sport and racing games, as well as RTS and TBS games.

Maxime Sebti — Chief Marketing Officer

14+ years in branding, marketing, and growth. Led several blockchains & community-led projects. Maxime defines himself as data-driven & ROI-Obsessed. Marketed a couple of sold out NFT collections; he is also an avid gamer, his personal favs are, Madden NFL as well as CS when it was just a Half-Life Mod on PC.

Alex Binesh — Chief Technology Officer

A telecommunication engineer for over 2 decades before entering the Blockchain world. Involved in a number of early blockchain projects such as Cosmos, Ethereum, Starport, Gravity, and EOS for such use cases as KYC and AML, among others.

Co-founder of the first decentralized NFT/Gaming/Metaverse/AI platform, Metacraft.pro. NFT enthusiast, generating NFT collections using AI engines, among others. Involved in the Smart Contract side of NFT technology, leading technical teams in designing and fine-tuning NFT marketplace. Early proponent and designer of NFT presence and trading in Metaverse. Early proponent and designed of NFT gamification both in and out of Metaverse

Michael Cohen — Director of Partnerships & BD

12 years of history at start-ups, business strategy & organizational operations. 9 years of investor & VC advisory and completing 3 company acquisitions. Launched over 15 brands including a TV studio, digital magazine, esports investment holding, and live streaming platform; now working in crypto-gaming. Featured: Monster Energy, Polygon, PCGamesN, EsportsInsider, InvenGlobal, GosuGamers, NASDAQ, Mark Cuban.

Aaron Sparks — Product Manager

22 years of experience in project management and web/software development. Aaron specializes in leading distributed teams to implement mission-critical applications on schedule and within budget. As a servant leader, he draws on his knowledge as a Certified Advanced Scrum Master (A-CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP) as well as his work experience delivering projects in the face of challenges. He is a proven multitasker, often managing several projects while coaching and driving the enterprise agile process. Aaron’s first game was Pong. He went on to become obsessed with Atari 2600, Nintendo, and FPS & MMORPG games.

Here are our leaders at IKONIC. IKONIC family is always growing and we already have more than 20 members working tirelessly to deliver the best experience for you, a shoutout to them. As we have said before prepare yourself for the upcoming week as we have many exciting news coming soon.