Apeiron Interview: Boldly going where no OnePlanet has Gone Before

Salutations, dear readers! We hope everyone is having a spectacular Tuesday. Over here in the Foonie Magus towers, in high spirits we…

Salutations, dear readers! We hope everyone is having a spectacular Tuesday. Over here in the Foonie Magus towers, in high spirits we recently sat down with the team at OnePlanet for another peek behind the looking glass of Apeiron and its position in the wider metaverse. OnePlanet is an NFT marketplace landing on Polygon on September 6th — today! Let’s see what these newcomers have to offer~

Before we get to the interview, let’s take a moment for a quick news updates.The official Apeiron Marketplace launches TODAY! Head on over and take a look around, and while you’re there, sign up for an account with us and we’ll drop you the first half of our Battlepass NFT to access our dungeon demo! Do it now, go there! Go go go!

Now then, with the news wrapped up, it’s time to buckle up for our exclusive Apeiron x OnePlanet interview. Off we go!

Foonie Magus (FM): Hey guys! It’s great to meet you all. Usually when we do these things we start by asking you to introduce yourselves to our readers. So…can you do that? Lol

OnePlanet (Inch): Sure! I’ll go first. I’m Inch, Business Development Lead here at OnePlanet. I’m probably going to be the one talking the most today, so fair warning haha.

OnePlanet (Sungmo): Hello! I’m Sungmo, Head of business, in charge of marketing and business partnerships

OnePlanet (Yunsik): And I’m Yunsik, leader of our overall marketing team.

FM: Awesome! Well thanks so much for making time to sit down and chat with us today, guys. So y’all are from OnePlanet. What is OnePlanet?

OnePlanet (Inch): OnePlanet is a curated marketplace. We used to be on Terra, but after the crash we’ve been getting ready to migrate over to Polygon — in fact about 50 projects along with 90 collections are following us over to Polygon. And in fact, we’re actually backed by Polygon Studios now! Our goals include helping to pave the way to develop the NFT ecosystem, decentralize digital assets, and give our users the chance to define and expand the utilities of their assets.

FM: A marketplace eh? Like OpenSea?

OnePlanet (Inch): Well yes…and no. OpenSea is an open marketplace. And what that means is that anyone can come in and list their projects. It may be a merit but also costs end users a lot of time and effort to distinguish the genuinity and quality of those collections. OnePlanet, on the other hand, is a curated marketplace. We have an admin control of listing and partner-up only with projects that meet our high standards for quality, and with an eye on long-term growth. We would like to save our users the trouble.

FM: Oh I see…and speaking of high quality projects that are here for the long term, let’s talk about Apeiron (an excellent segway muahaha)! How did you hear about us and what were your first impressions?

OnePlanet (Sungmo): I guess that’s me! Well, you guys were featured through Polygon Studios, and so that’s how we first came across Apeiron. And I have to say, we thought that it looked like an AAA game — very high quality project. We like that your game actually resembles a real universe, and that it has rich lore and deep gameplay — these are the kinds of foundations that we think will prove to be sustainable over time.

FM: Yeah — us too! Thanks for the kind words~ But first impressions are one thing, getting to know each other, another. So what’s got you excited for Apeiron now, at this point?

OnePlanet (Yunsik): I can take this one. There are a lot of projects at the moment, but many of them are…outdated, to be honest. They are too focused on play-2-earn, and spend too much time on their tokenization. Games should be fun: we believe that play and earn games like Apeiron, not p2e, is the future. And Apeiron’s tri-token system is very innovative, and the logic behind it makes sense. So overall we’re very impressed with what Apeiron has to offer.

FM: We’re on the cutting edge! Right, we’ve talked about Apeiron, we’ve talked about OnePlanet — now let’s put ’em together: how do you envision your collaboration with us moving forward?

OnePlanet (Inch): So we see two sides to it, actually. First, from the business side of things, listing your NFTs on OnePlanet brings a lot of benefits. We help you to customize how you present and manage your assets with things like custom filters, detailed property descriptions, and off-chain data monitoring with stats. We also let you guys trade in your own native tokens, so if you wanted to use Apeiros on OnePlanet, for instance, you could do that!

Of course, you can do all of these things in your own marketplace. But the other side of what we have to offer for Apeiron is the community building. We share audiences, information, and experiences, and more importantly we connect all the NFT projects on OnePlanet together into a unified community. We plan to have social features — like chatting and forums — and help the builders who are leading the charge of the next gen of NFT gaming start talking to each other.

FM: That sounds great! And yeah ultimately we’re stronger together. Now then, we’re just about ready to make moves here and close up shop. Buy any final comments before we sign off?

OnePlanet (Inch): Yes actually! Just to kind of follow up on what we’ve been saying already, everyone knows that multi/cross chain is the future, but ETH will always be at the center of it, and Polygon is the best way to scale up ETH. Polygon is without a doubt one of the leaders of the Metaverse now, and that’s important because since the crash — the grafters and grifters have moved on — now it’s only the true builders who are here to stay.

So with that in mind, you look at OpenSea, the most frequently used marketplace — 90% of Polygon trades happen on OpenSea for now, but Polygon deserves a better marketplace, a curated marketplace that is safe, secure, and easier-to-use. We’ve got our relaunch happening soon [September 6th] and watch out for it: we’re not going to disappoint.

FM: Bold words, but we love the confidence! And a fine way to conclude this interview. Thanks again for joining us, gentlemen! We’ll see you next time~

And that’s a wrap! The OnePlanet marketplace launches now, so if you want to check it out be sure to head over to their website: https://www.oneplanetnft.io/

And as always, if you have any questions, reach out to us! We’re all over social media — see our Twitter, Telegram, and especially our Discord.

Thanks for reading godlings! We’ll see you next time~!