Recap of the Dogira AMA with Blockchain Space

On Saturday, April 10th, we had the pleasure to welcome to our Telegram chat:

Eoghan Hayes, The lead developer and project director for Dogira.

We asked him questions about the development of Dogira.

INTRODUCTION

Q~ Briefly introduce yourself, a bit of your background and your role in the team?

A~ Sure! My name’s Eoghan Hayes, and I worked with the Dogecoin team as a Developer back in 2013/2014. My primary role at that point was in implementing the gravity well algorithm alongside the Digibyte Team, with additional hotfixes for the 1.6 patch client. I also had the pleasure of moderating the r/dogecoin community on Reddit, and developed various additional services and utilities for the coin in it’s early days.

Over the past few years, I’ve worked across the industry with various start-ups and multinational companies. Recently, with the popularisation of Blockchain 2.0/3.0, and a personal interest in the DeFi/Blockchain space, I returned to the fold to join the $Dogira team, with a focus towards making it the next big community & utility coin.

I’m currently acting as the lead developer, and project director on $Dogira, and am extremely excited for what the next few months have in store for us. Our public roadmap is available at https://dogira.net for anyone who wants to check out what we’ve got in store!

Cassiterite : I see you’re experienced having worked in many industries.

Eoghan : I guess I’ve been around the block! Over the past few years, I worked heavily in the enterprise software sector, alongside diving in to Games Development with a studio, and launching an indie game which managed to reach the #1 spot on Steam :)

Q~ Let’s learn some more about the project. What is Dogira all about, its mission, features, etc?

A~ Our full roadmap is up on https://dogira.net, but our main goal is in technical innovation, and utility/service development. We believe that all new tokens and cryptocurrencies being created at the moment right now need to solidify their use-cases, and ensure that there can be tangible value drawn from them outside of pure speculation, once the bull run comes to a close.

Dogira’s primary feature goals right now are in developing this utility — with our main focus being towards value-generating NFTs (our first investment NFTs sold out in 10 hours — to the value of approx. $35,000 USDT!), alongside directly jumping in to Native Blockchain Game Development. We’re insistent on being at the forefront of the new innovations that Blockchain 2.0/3.0 will bring, and ensuring that we continue developing our token towards generating value for investors and long-term holders.

Furthering on from this, we are additionally developing our own NFT and Token launchpads, which can be used to curate approved tokens for launch on our platform, benefitting these new tokens with much-needed marketing to a wider audience, and allowing our own holders to get in early via Airdrops, Staking mechanisms, and implementation into our Native Blockchain Gaming services.

Cassiterite : Cool, you’re working on Dogira’s NFT!

Is that going to be available anytime soon?

Eoghan : There’s already been 3 developed, and released! If you give me a quick moment, I’ll link our investment NFT here — unfortunately it’s sold out now, but it’s still available to look at from other investors :)

Here’s our investment NFT, which currently has a 0.5 ETH bid placed on it. The investor on this model is looking for a total of almost 7 ETH to re-sell it, though!

https://rarible.com/token/0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:377586:0x865d87ca8452435229e336dabe17104a94fcc120

We’ve also a couple of cheaper NFT’s (cosmetic-only investments) still available at https://rarible.com/rootpew , listed under our verified rarible account :)

We generated almost 20 ETH in sales from that batch, which went directly back into our marketing campaign for the coin. Those NFT’s also guarantee an airdrop of Dogira on April 30th, ensuring returns for interested parties! 😄

We’ll have more of these arriving in the very near future — to the same professional standards, and with investment returns guaranteed via coin airdrops!

The sold-out batch was an airdrop token version! So, we’ve one already launched (and sold out in 10 hours!), and many more to come.

Q~ What does the $Dogira token symbolize, Share with us the tokenomics and usecases of the $Dogira token?

A~ $Dogira symbolises our original vision for Dogecoin — Dogecoin was heavily focused on being a community token, but much of this came from the hard work put in by developers who built and published real services, and utilities from the coin.

The biggest challenge Dogecoin faced in the early days was that scrypt ASICs came out right as the coin launched.. which made it more difficult for us to get the coin into everyone’s hands, with many of them going to big mining farms.

With $Dogira in the DeFi space, we don’t have that to worry about anymore — we developed the tokenomics to encourage users to “buy the dip” (bonus coins awarded for buying after a dip or sell-off), alongside burning and redistributing 2% of all transaction fees in order to award holders who hang on to their $Dogira, and support community development through it. We additionally have funds kept available for users who promote the token, and develop services for it; which ties in deeply with our own Native Blockchain Gaming, NFT, and Launchpad goals.

$Dogira may have a meme on the front, but it is not a meme-coin; we have the community spirit, but we understand the technical challenges, and requirements for tokens to maintain their value long-term, and not suffer to pump-and-dump, or overhype during the early stages. With this, we’ve held our value well during our early launch stages, and are looking forward to continuing back on our upwards climb, creating sustainable investment returns for our holders.

QUESTIONS FROM BITCOINTALK

Q~ First thing that came to my mind when I came across the Dogira project was Doge, Are you a fork of doge, if no, how does Dogira distinguishes itself from Doge?

A~ No, we’re not a fork of Doge — but as I noted above, I was one of the developers on the Dogecoin project!

Dogira is a DeFi token based off the ETH Blockchain, which offers us far greater flexibility in tokenomics, and connectivity to various exchanges such as Uniswap. Under the DeFi space, our token is deflationary; meaning there’ll never be more tokens in circulation than there are right now. Every day, more tokens are burned, which increases the value of current tokens.

Along with this, Blockchain 2.0/3.0 allows us to build far better on-demand services; such as hooking our tokens directly into services which can run in the browser, such as Live Games which rely on the blockchain in a native fashion :)

Q~ You mention in your roadmap that you want to implement native Blockchain Games. Can you tell us more about this? How widespread game development will play a more immediate role in the Dogira ecosystem and what benefits will these games bring to Dogira users and those new to cryptocurrencies? What role will Dogira’s tokens and NFTs have to give a rewarding result to users?

A~ Native Blockchain Gaming is a huge part of our ecosystem moving forward; it’s an innovation which has seen a lot of talk, but not a lot of development to date.

As an example of it’s usage; imagine say for example, an online poker game. Everyone can call their initial stakes, which would directly be tokens. These wouldn’t need to be pre-deposited or held in a massive house pot; you can just directly enter with your tokens. You can verify that the game is played perfectly to the rules, because the logic for the game is on the contract itself. It’s fully open and fair, and can be audited. The rules could never be secretly changed or altered, as it would invalidate the contract; these are set in stone.

Then you can look at more advanced use-cases; what if we were to implement even a single-player game which utilised native blockchain elements, instead of being fully native? You could trade with non-player characters, and they could offer you new tokens launched via our token/nft launchpad.

The possibilities are endless, and offer a whole new innovative experience to those either with a casual interest in gamified tokens, or to those more core gamers who want a full experience, fleshed out with having real value, and verifiable ecosystems running behind them.

And of course, NFTs function in the exact same fashion — you could raise one at a poker game, display it in your virtual world, or just sell it on to an interested trader ;)

QUESTIONS FROM TWITTER

Q~ I found out that I could get paid to be part of the Dogira community, can you explain how this works, also are there any other benefits supporters and holders can enjoy with Dogira?

A~ We have community incentives in place for users who promote, and develop for the token — one of the most important aspects for any well-performing token is in attracting new community members, and developing content for existing members to enjoy. This can range from services, to running community hubs (such as setting up or contributing to Discord/Telegram groups), or even drawing art or creating sticker packs.

On top of this then, if that sounds a bit much like hard work — our tokenomics reflect 1% of all transaction fees back to holders, meaning if you want a quick way to get paid dogira; simply hold some dogira in your wallet!

Q~ Dogira breaks the current stereotype of what NFTs stand for, they propose to perfect the creation of dual Asset / Utility tokens with tangible long term value and real use cases, how do they hope to achieve this? who are the team of experts behind this vision?

A~ Currently, we are airdropping investment returns to holders, based on the existence of our investment NFT’s in their wallets. Thankfully, Blockchain 2.0/3.0 makes it very easy for us to do this!

We’re currently in the midst of developing an upgraded V2 for our contract, which we aim to include functionality within for further supporting these investment NFTs, and having it easily verifiable via Solidity to increase the safety, and assurance on projects such as these. It’s worth also mentioning that this type of system could also be used to safely run smaller/more basic games via NFT entry; such as raffles, or lotteries, where the odds are verified in stone, for the entire blockchain to approve.

Additionally, hooking these NFTs up into our own gaming or virtual-world experiences will ensure that there’s always a use-case for them, outside of “hope they can be re-sold for higher” :)

This functionality was proposed by myself, and brought in-house around a month ago with our team; so far, we’re ecstatic with the uptake from the community, and are definitely seeking to build far more. We all want to continue working towards adding real tangible value to NFTs — and ensure they remain a useful asset to investors as they become more normal in everyday life 😃

Q~ One of your plans on the roadmap is to support and enable charitable causes for animals, is this only limited to only Dogs charities, have you started working with any charities, also I know a few animal charities needing donations, can I drop my suggestions?

A~ Originally, we looked exclusively to dog shelters — but as the team discussed it in detail (and community members pointing out we should donate to our scaley friends too), we expanded this to cover all of our animal friends 😁

We’ll definitely be looking to the community for suggestions towards in-need animal charities once we launch this program — so hop into our telegram at t.me/dogiratoken , and you’ll be the first to know!

QUESTIONS FROM TELEGRAM

Q~ If people looking to improve their Token and NFT asset portfolios without having gaming experiences want to know what would make them trust your project, what would you say to give them the confidence they need? By increasing your passive income by locking your tokens, what is the guaranteed reward you offer? How do you know if that reward will be delivered?

A~ So, the best thing about our NFTs having use-cases for token return investments, or within gaming experiences is that it adds an inherent value to them.

If there’s an NFT which is judged to have a value of $500 within a game, you don’t need to play, or even have any interest in that game to derive the value from it — there are sellers willing to pay $500 for it’s use-case, and market listings/trade books would help someone inexperienced see immediately what their NFT is worth.

On locking tokens, we’ll be making staking services available to those who simply want to mine NFTs for investment returns — whether you want to sell them immediately at market price, or use them within a game world or otherwise is completely up to you 😁

Q~ It strikes me that Dogira is a memecoin. Currently there are many memecoin on the market, such as DOGE, MEM, BAN, and many other projects are starting as memecoin. My question is, what differences does Dogira have from other memecoin and what plans do you have to be more than a memecoin and not even reach a simple shitcoin? What are your short and long term goals to make Dogira a successful project?

A~ Just going to quote our mission statement from https://dogira.net here 😉

Dogira has a meme on the front of the coin — but it is anything but a meme coin. Dogira symbolises a creative, and fun environment within the Blockchain 3.0 landscape — and spearheaded by a team of Industry Professionals, Dogira sets out to perfect the formula in creating a dual Asset/Utility token with long-term tangible value, and real use cases.

We don’t consider ourselves to be in the same space as other memecoins which have launched, and have been 100% reliant on what is essentially FOMO and hype to get people to buy in. We’ve seen a lot of pump and dumps happen with this, and witnessed a lot of bag holders being created. $Dogira by contrast, has not gone through any pump/dump cycle; Dogira is a token we’re building with real, long-term value and use-cases. We want to ensure we’re still running strong in years to come, and we’re focusing on innovation & tangible development to get us there.

Q~ What happens when people lose interest in a certain game? Can a user convert or trade their item/character into another ingame-token with Your token? Can we play the next new game, and still use our token there?

A~ The tokens would be $Dogira — and used across multiple platforms, and retain their use as a deflationary asset :)

You can move them across games, or simply sell them via an exchange if needed. In the event where we would say, add a token that featured on our launchpad (or an additional chain solely to act as currency), it would be on a public chain such as ETH/BSC, or possibly ADA with their new smart contracts arriving soon. These would still retain all their use cases outside of the game — such as being purchased and sold on exchanges, or simply transferred into another game 🙂

Q~ Binance smart Chain blockchain is having high transaction speed and cheap gas fees, Are you planning to launch your mainet or switch to other blockchains in the future?

A~ Currently, lower gas fees is a big priority for us. We’re watching the developments across ETH with their scalability solutions arriving in soon, alongside closely watching the developments of smart contracts on the ADA network. With this, we can of course see the merits in BSC too, but we remain aware of the difficulties in purchasing BNB for some users based on their location, alongside the centralised components on that network.

With the above in mind, it is certainly important for us to avail of lower gas fees in order to effectively allow for microservices/utilities with native blockchain gaming taken into consideration; and we’ll be continuing to provide updates on this as our development roll-out continues.

Q~ How do you intend reaching the global audience?

A~ This has been a big part of our marketing ramp-up; we of course want to bring $Dogira to communities which would not have English as their native, or a commonly-spoken language. We’re currently working with our community managers to begin setting up groups for non-English speakers to discuss the token, alongside looking towards advertising & exchange listings in areas which would not be commonly served, or supported by our current CEX offerings.

CONCLUSION

For anyone still on the fence: we have a huge amount planned over the long-term future, but we also have a lot planned on our marketing ramp-up over the next week. If you’re thinking of getting in, do feel free to join our community over at t.me/dogiratoken — there’s some exciting stuff happening very soon 😁

Check out our roadmap at https://dogira.net — and remember that if gas fees are a problem for you, we’re also trading live on WhiteBit with USDT pairs, at https://whitebit.com/trade/DOGIRA_USDT !

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