Quick overview of the current state and plans for the future

The last couple of days, you’ve seen many positive news about SpeX. Obviously, our project is steaming up; we are getting traction and moving into a higher gear. Everything is happening according to our plans, but we have to tell you that this is not even the beginning.

Because of that and also to welcome the newcomers (future ROD owners, citizens of our multiverse, aka Wanderers), we decided to drop a couple of paragraphs on what will happen next.

1. First, allow us to emphasize the fact that we are here for the long haul and we are building something real, something great, something with enormous potential that is just starting to reveal itself.

2. Second, let us tell you what we are not: we are not some kind of financial “hit and run” project based on pure speculation and gathering energy not from real sources but only from the hype.

What we mean and really want you to understand is that we are the real deal, real builders, and we are here to stay, to contribute to the entire crypto ecosystem, and we want to leave a trace that will shape our mutual future.

So now you all fasten your seat belts and read carefully:
We want and we will turn the [crypto] game around.

By putting the crypto technology back on track, we are making a next-generation trustless blockchain platform, designed for rapid creation of metaverses, immersive user experiences, and easy development of complex decentralized applications, which we called SpaceXpanse Multiverse, where people can communicate, create, and have fun, and which can be easily accessed by anyone from anywhere.

A taste of the things to come with SpaceXpanse Multiverse /SpeX/:

Entertainment part

SpaceXpanse: Wanderers - Huge space exploration game in its own metaverse /TBD/

Closed-source
For-profit - Legal entity operated
A real-time, massively multiplayer, open-world sandbox game with realistic look, physics, and economics
Our storytellers have been working on the plot for a long time. Brace yourself, because we have no intention of being boring. Our goal is to blow your minds with the game concept and the game play, and for you to have the opportunity to make money while having fun. Sounds like a win-win, doesn’t it?

• Developed on top of SpaceXpanse Metaverse Simulator with the help from various development tools /TBA/.

• Made with Unreal Engine 5

• Sophisticated gameplay: Player versus Environment aka PvE /possible addition of PvP/, massive near-real economy, tactical combat and strategic skills development

• In-game communication in real time through Metalog /see below/

• Creation and customization of avatars

• NFTs for ownership of land, objects and goods

• Artificial intelligence for automation of the gameplay /TBD/

• VR gaming

Technology part

ROD Blockchain
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Main cryptocurrency /ROD/, fungible and nonfungible tokens /NFTs/ - creation, storage and transaction

• Decentralized DNS aka dDNS /derived from Namecoin/ which can serve .rod and/or other domains /TBD/

• Digital IDs for platform-wide trustless user identification which can even hold and transfer value in the ROD blockchain

• Secure storage of data in the blockchain itself.

• Decentralized Proof of Stake aka DPoS masternodes and peer-to-peer nodes for secure data storage outside blockchain by using SQLite /or other/ database engine /TBD/

• Atomic trading to exchange in-game assets (fungible game currencies as well as non-fungible items) in a trustless manner.

• Human mining aka Play To Earn model which allows parts of the mined block rewards to be "placed" inside an application, game or other, where users can pick/win them up and bank them to their on-chain address. /WIP/

SpeXQL - Decentralized database management system using ROD blockchain as medium for data transfer, interconnection and operations /WIP/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Implemented using both DPoS masternodes as Block Producers and peer-to-peer data storage nodes as Data Miners, which can store platform’s data and files /public and private/

Side Channels /WIP/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Programable trustless interconnection inside the blockchain which allows two or more parties to interact through temporarily made sidechains in a very scalable, off-chain and almost real-time fashion.

Development part

SpaceXpanse Metaverse Simulator - A playground for testing different environments, tools and objects in the platform /WIP/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Real-time realistic solar system with major celestial bodies, terrains and environment

• Gravitational and other forces, affecting all objects accordingly /physics/

• Fast rendering with realistic level of detail /TBD/

• Node-based programming logic /TBD/

• Scenario programming through Lua - lightweight, embeddable programming language designed for scripting and extensibility

• Python support for modeling of mathematical and other scientific inquiries /TBD/

• Support for Universal Scene Description /USD/ for collaboratively building 3D sceneries, intended for large-scale production. /TBC/

• Easy creation and editing of new solar systems, planets and satellites, vehicles and other multi-part and multi-seated usable objects

• Simplistic interconnection with any other elements of the platform environment through dedicated API

SpeXID - Digital Identification application for SpaceXpanse Multiverse platform /WIP/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

An application built on top of the ROD blockchain, that turns each reserved name into a secure digital identity similar to NameID

SpeX Library /WIP/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Programmable trustless interconnection between the blockchain and third-party applications to help developers have useful environment for effortless development of DApps in the platform

Community

Metalog - Decentralized Social Network /TBA/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Full-blown platform-wide social network in the blockchain, usable within every platform's metaverse and/or DApp, using SpeXQL to store user's private data and ROD bockchain for user's public data.

SpeXDAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organisation /TBD/
Open source
Non-profit - Foundation operated

• Full-blown platform-wide application in the blockchain to serve as crowdfunding hub for user's projects within the platform and more

Legend

WIP - Work in progress
TBA - To be announced
TBC - To be confirmed
TBD - To be determined

Further sophistication of the subject is covered in the SpaceXpanse Multiverse whitepaper.
To get a sense of the timetable and completeness of these intentions, visit SpaceXpanse Multiverse roadmap.
Follow this link to download the SpaceXpanse Metaverse Simulator.

More about the project

Website: https://rod.spacexpanse.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacexpanse
Discord: https://discord.gg/uPJdncgrBe
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceXpanseROD
Fundamentals: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/spacexpanse
Wallets: https://github.com/SpaceXpanse/rod-core-wallet/releases
Buy ROD: https://graviex.net/markets/rodbtc, https://graviex.net/markets/rodbtc, https://graviex.net/markets/rodusd
Explorers: http://explorer1.rod.spacexpanse.org:3001/, https://chainz.cryptoid.info/rod/