What Are NFT Pets?

An NFT is a unique item stored on a blockchain. In Shadow Era, NFT Pets are cosmetic items that are purchased with ShadowTokens (SHDW). Pets are unique but can have several color variations. For example, one person might own a black wolf while another person could own a white wolf, but there can only ever be one owner of each.

Pets appear beside the playmat, and have idle animations, respond to clicks, walk around, etc. They also help your morale, boost your confidence, and intimidate your opponents!

How Does Purchasing Pets Work?

Pets are purchased with SHDW, either direct on the blockchain or using your EasyBuy balance on shadowtoken.io

Pets go to the highest bidder, with a minimum increase of 25%. For example if you buy a pet at 100 SHDW, somebody would have to pay 125 SHDW to buy it. After the 10% platform fee (12 SHDW), you would get 113 SHDW to your account. If, however, a buyer wished to skip ahead and planned to keep the pet longer (and also make more profit), they could choose to buy at a higher price, for example 500 SHDW. In this case, the 10% fee would be 50 SHDW and you would get 450 SHDW to your account. A nice profit, indeed!

It's important to note that the buyer makes a bid on the price. The seller can't set the price, to avoid people hording the pets and refusing to sell.

When you own a pet, you can add it to your deck just like you would with a card sleeve or playmat. If your pet is bought from you, it will be automatically removed from your deck.

Behind the scenes, all transactions are done on the blockchain using Waves Smart Contracts to transfer ownership of the pet and record the complete purchase history.

How Many Pets Will There Be?

At launch there's a plan for 25 pets with 4 variations each, for a total of 100 pets. Each will start with an initial price of 100 SHDW.