Following the successful listing of EHrT on Bitrue exchange, we held another live AMA with the VeChain community in their Telegram Group. As in our previous AMA, we received a lot of important and insightful questions and we were again blown away by amazing questions from the active VeChain community.

For those who missed it, here is a recap of the AMA with our CEO John Dempsey and Lead Blockchain Engineer Sherman Meredith.

Before we get started, here’s a brief introduction of 8Hours from our CEO John Dempsey and Lead Blockchain Engineer Sherman Meredith.

John Dempsey is the founding director of 8Hours Foundation — working on this project for a couple of years now. He has a strong passion for games and collectibles and dropped out of his college studies of Computer Engineering to pursue his passions in the startup industry.

Sherman Meredith is a game developer for 9 years and a blockchain programmer for almost 4 years now. He has designed and written the smart contracts and ecosystem for 8Hours Foundation.

The 8Hours Foundation is building a platform to bring people together via social games. It’s right in the name… we strive to bring meaningful experiences to people for at least 8Hours a week.

We believe that’s what it takes to build and upkeep the most important social bonds in our life. And at the end of the day, that’s what the 8Hours represents — time spent with your family & friends.

The 8Hours platform revolves around VIMs — our smart NFTs, and VIMworld — our digital collectibles. VIMworld sets the stage for the gamification of VIMs and the use of EHrTs feeding those VIMs. It’s an app platform complete with games, collectibles viewing, a marketplace for trading, leaderboards, etc.

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The Whitepaper for VIMWorld can be downloaded here, which includes the full details of our ecosystem.

In the previous article of the VIMWorld content economy, we elaborated on our visions for VIMWorld and EHrT ecosystem with the community. As we are approaching the first exchange listing of EHrT, we hope to shed some more light on the VIMWorld from the community developer’s perspective.

While VIMs will initially be minted and distributed by the 8Hours Foundation to be used in first-party games, VIMs are designed to be flexible. As explained in our previous article and in the whitepaper, Badges in S-tier VIMs, as well as other markers such as colored tokens, can be used to assign additional context and points to a VIM.

VIMs excel at accumulating user-generated content. As VIMWorld is designed as an open ecosystem, using examples cited earlier, VIMs can be created using user-generated content to give life to toys, cards or figurines of popular historical or branded characters. As long as they contain an approved colored token distributed by 8Hours or third-parties, they could be used in gameplay just like their mass-produced counterparts.

Imagine making a free IP toy of your favorite character from SanGuo (Three Kingdoms), Pokemon, or PlayTable’s Battlegrid, then being able to play with that toy on our platform, charting a unique story for your character that truly belongs to you.

It also opens up the possibilities of a vibrant secondary market that allows for the trading of both physical toys and the digital VIM (NFT).

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