The metaverse is just barely starting to take some shape as gaming companies and players prepare for the evolution of crypto, gaming, and the internet.
One of the phrases being thrown around a lot is "passive income" and I implore all of my readers to please make sure they do extensive research before investing in anything related to that term because most "passive income" opportunities actually require a good bit of non-passive work.
With that being said, this is one of the best passive income opportunities that I have discovered recently that meet my requirement of having a low initial investment.
Today I am talking about a new game that I have been playing for a few weeks now called NBM, which stands for NFT Battle Miners.
The reasons I like this game are as follows:
1.) Low initial investment, of course, because the last thing anyone wants is to drop a bunch of money on a game that sucks or that just isn't for you.
2.) Simplicity of earning passive income. You can set, forget and collect.
3.) Awesome Devs based out of Ukraine.
4.) Cheap land in the metaverse.
5.) PvP card game that allows you to bet the income you have earned on matches against other players. (Optional)
NBM is a gem of modern gamefi that anyone can get into for as little as $10. In fact, the cheapest land is 15 WAX on atomichub.io which is about $5. Then you just need an active card to start mining your land, which can be acquired for as low as $1 each at the time of this writing.
Another low cost way to get started is to acquire card pieces. Card pieces are air dropped to miners that NFT mine and can be combined together in a process called "blending" to create packs which may then be opened for a chance to get complete card NFTs. It takes 5 card pieces blended together to get a card pack.
Cheapest active cards avail at time of writing.
Cheapest land cards at time of writing.
Watching to the price of land in Axie Infinity, Alien Worlds, and Decentraland, over the past year or 2 has been wild. It is probably safe to say that the right land in the metaverse will be a good investment opportunity for anyone with some extra crypto they are looking to invest, as long as they don't need the money for living expenses within the next year or so!
NFT Battle Miners has stated in their blog that they are also designing a 3D universe (metaverse) that players will be able to interact in with their NBM NFTs. This will include mining, traveling to other planets, and PvP vs other NFT hodlers.
Depending on which NBM land cards you collect will determine what resources you can mine. In order from common to rarest there are 4 resources: Fusium, Actium, Minium, and Constructiom.
Lands can be used for resource mining or NFT mining and some land cards can be upgraded to mine more then 1 resource.
The amount of resources or NFTs that you can mine will be determined by the active cards and construction cards combined with the land itself.
All land NFTs also give players the option to try their luck at NFT harvesting instead of resource collection. The % chance to discover an NFT will depend on your cards. Every card has a RES and NFT score. Every operation that you send out will either be mining for resources or NFTs.
The NFTs in your mining operations will take damage from mining excavations so you will need to use your resources to repair your NFTs, luckily there is an auto-repair function so as long as you have resources within your in game wallet, you will be able to repair automatically as you go.
In order to save money on repairs you will want to use cards of the same mining type together, such as air mining cards with air mining land (Constructium), ground mining cards with ground mining land (Fusium), this is important for Construction cards which represent the large mining facilities you build on your land.
Once you have resources in your in game wallet and have auto-repair enabled, everything you earn is all passive income. The only thing you need to do is collect your income once in a while and refill your in game wallet. How often you do that will depend on how much of each token you keep and how large your operation is.
Collecting your income is as easy as recalling your mining operations and then depositing some of the earnings to your WAXP wallet. alcor.exchange is used sell for WAX so that you can use it to stake in your wax wallet, buy new NFTs, or you can exchange the WAX for BTC or ETH on Bittrex.
Another way to build on your passive income and help with auto-repairs is to take advantage of the liquidity pools on alcor.exchange by adding liquidity to the NBM pools because you will get rewards deposited directly to your in game wallet.
In order to deposit funds into the liquidity pool for NBMFUS, NBMACT, NBMMIN, or NBMCON you will need to swap 50% of your tokens for wax. Then add 50% NMB 50% WAX to 1 of the 4 pools. If you have a stake in each pool then you will get a % of NBM token rewards deposited into your in game wallet, everyday. How much your rewards are going to depend on what % of the liquidity pool you own.
The liquidity pool rewards are especially nice for anyone who wants to NFT mine because the only downside of NFT mining is that your mining operations are taking damage. If you are only NFT mining then that means you aren't bringing in any resources to cover repairs. The good news is that as long as you have enough NBM tokens in liquidity pools then the rewards coming in directly to your NBM wallet will be enough to cover repair costs! This lets your NFT mine to your hearts content without worrying about damage to because you aren't earning resources.
As for PvP you will need 14 active cards to build a deck. A player can have 3 decks at any 1 time. It is suggested to build a common deck, a rare deck, and an epic+ deck. Players will be matched up with other players that have decks of the same rarity. You can wager resources on your matches, winner take all!
Here is a video some players released testing out the new pvp system
If there any NBM NFTs left over in your wallet after building a battle deck, and setting up mining operations then that is okay because the devs have put in a couple of mini games for us to play. This a nice added value knowing that no matter what NFTs you collect, they can all serve a purpose.
So far the 2 mini games you can play on the website are the mining grid and the active team guess.
The mining grid is simple, you put your spare cards in a spot on the grid and if it is one of the few selected each hour then you will win the resources on that spot. The details are in the rules.
The active team guess is a little different in that you join a team and which ever team wins gets the resources every 6 hours. Read the rules for the details.
The devs on this project have been absolutely phenomenal, they listen to the community, and allow community voting on proposed changes and additions. They are based out of the Ukraine and were still able to help me out with the only 1 issue I ever had (with the blending API) during the freaking Russian invasion-- so hats off to these guys, seriously.
You can learn more about the project on their website, here:
Website: https://nftbattleminers.com/
Blog: https://nft-battle-miners.medium.com/nbm-ultimate-guide-table-4c3444f6c318
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NFTBattleMiners
Discord: https://discord.gg/NxUpNDfdGK
You can follow me on twitter for more crypto gaming news http://twitter.com/kryp70kn1gh7
You can support my work by using my ref link to buy/sell wax on bittrex:
https://bittrex.com/discover/join?referralCode=4I5-CL0-NLR
If you got any useful info from this post or any of my other posts then please consider donating so that I may continue to research upcoming gamefi opportunities on the wax blockchain.
WAX:
4ghqy.wam