Scholarz Candidates

GM Scholarz! Happy new year and we hope this year will be a better year for us! Today, we’re gonna share about the importance of Scholarz Candidates in our ecosystem.

First of all, what is Scholarz Candidates? Scholarz Candidates is the second collection in our ecosystem after Scholarz Genesis. Remember when we had Aliens and Humanoids in Scholarz Genesis? Scholarz Candidates now will have Human and Pongo as your new options for your PFP. What else is the difference between the Scholarz Genesis and Scholarz Candidates? Scholarz Genesis is the key to activate our ecosystem where you will need Genesis to activate your land and earn $EXP in a more passive way such as spending 1 min every weekday in doing homework, check-in/Skoolvote, and earning endowment fund from your upgraded house.

Now what about Scholarz Candidates?

Scholarz Candidates will be the key to our active earning from play and earn and learn and earn ecosystem.

• Play and earn. As we have discussed in our whitepaper about our vision (yes some info there need to be updated to reflect some changes we made during 2022, but most of it is still true), we are building mini games for our play and earn ecosystem which will be the first mini game, and it is almost ready to launch (we are in testing and final debugging process). More details of the mini game and the play and earn will be released once we are closer to the release of the mini game.
• Learn and earn. Besides our mini games, we are also building our learn and earn ecosystem which we have prepared 3 modules consisting of 30 chapters each for our first learn and earn. These modules will cover topics such as Cryptocurrency, NFTs and Technical analysis which we hope these first 3 modules will be relevant to our holders and helping new people understand about these 3 topics.

Now let’s dig deeper about it. What is the role of Candidates in each of our ecosystems?

When we release our mini game, initially, only Candidates can play the game and earn from it. The game will be free for all to play but you can only earn $EXP if you hold Candidates.

Okay I did say “initially”? Why? Because we’re planning to have Mini Scholarz. Let’s dig a bit more about Mini Scholarz too.

The Mini Scholarz will be a way for you to give scholarship to non-holder to earn in our ecosystem via learn and earn or play and earn. Mini Scholarz can only be produced by Scholarz Candidates using $EXP and have limited lifetime. You can set the percentage of earning you want to share to your scholarship. This percentage you’ll need to decide before giving out the scholarship and cannot be changed until the end of the Mini Scholarz lifetime.

In the long run, these Scholarz Candidates could give more yield than the Scholarz Genesis, from active involvement in the ecosystem, both from playing and learning by yourself or by providing Mini Scholarz to others but Scholarz Genesis will still always be the key to unlocking our ecosystem.

Similar to the play and earn, you’ll need either Scholarz Candidates or Mini Scholarz to earn in our learn and earn ecosystem.

To mint your Scholarz Candidates, first you need to burn $EXP to roll each body part. Each part will have a different cost:
1. Body 500 $EXP
2. Eyes 170 $EXP
3. Mouth 170 $EXP
4. Headgear 250 $EXP
5. Suits 250 $EXP
6. Background is free, and randomly assigned when minting .

To mint a Scholarz Candidates, you will need at least a body, eyes and mouth. Suits and headgears are optional and background will be randomly assigned when minting the Scholarz Candidates. So the minimum you would spend for mandatory parts would be 840 $EXP. But hey, the good news is, the first roll for each part in your new lab would be FREE!

And there would be an option to burn the parts too if you don’t like it to get a 50% $EXP refund. There is a limit on how many parts you can hold in one Lab, so building more Lab will help you to store more parts. You will also be able to sell the unwanted or maybe a rare part in our marketplace for $EXP, later on. (read our Laboratory medium post for more details on this).

After selecting your preferred combinations of Scholarz Candidates, you will be able to mint them during the early weeks of February 2023. The mint will be opened to holders and also to the public. The public will incur a slightly higher $EXP cost and random parts will be assigned for the public mint of Scholarz Candidates.

For now, you can only roll the body parts, as the minting into candidates will come a few weeks later. Body parts are offchain, and will be onchain when you mint it to Scholarz Candidates. When the minting is open, it will be first come first serve, so when a combination is minted, you cannot mint using the exact same combination (we have a tool to check this), so there won’t be 2 exact same Scholarz Candidates. Scholarz Candidates will be limited to 7,500 total supply, so it won’t be an instant mint out. But the early bird will get a chance to mint the combination they want. Now you know about the importance of Scholarz Candidates, go to Lab and create your own Scholarz Candidates!

Now you know about the importance of Scholarz Candidates, go to Lab and create your own Scholarz Candidates as the parts will be available for you to roll as of 17th of January 2023 at 3AM UTC! Minting date: TBA (approximately 2–3 weeks from now).

That’s all for now, happy experimenting, Scholarz! If you have any questions, just jump over to our discord to ask!

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