Kepithor Studios Launches Enjin Quest Platform With Sustainable ENJ Rewards

In Brief:

• Kepithor Studios operates ENJ Excavators, an idle mining title on Enjin where players compete on a weekly leaderboard for ENJ, with 600 paid slots up for grabs every week.
• Earnings from an Enjin validator node — pulling in upwards of 15,000 ENJ monthly — bankroll the prize pool, and because only 2.5% of the pot is paid out weekly, the pool keeps expanding.
• Through a Managed Wallet setup, newcomers can begin with just an email and no seed phrase, later moving assets into self-custody — the studio’s angle for onboarding players from outside crypto.

In its Enjin game ENJ Excavators, Kepithor Studios draws player rewards largely from validator node income, a funding approach the studio describes as designed to grow the prize pool instead of depleting it.

ENJ Excavators is an idle miner. Players tap to gather gems, recruit workers and purchase upgrades, then compete on a leaderboard ranked by gem balance. The board wipes clean every Tuesday at 12:00 UTC, with prizes distributed soon afterward in ENJ to the top 600 finishers.

How the money flows

Most of the prize pool originates from an Enjin validator node the studio maintains. By Kepithor’s account, those rewards have reliably exceeded 15,000 ENJ every month.

Since just 2.5% of the pool goes out weekly while validator income continues to flow in, the pot grows steadily over time. As of writing it stood at roughly 80,000 ENJ, with the running total visible on Kepithor’s website.

“We’re transparent about what we’re earning and how it’s distributed,” said Nick, of Kepithor Studios, in an interview about the game.

Advertising, NFT sales and marketplace royalties fill out the rest of the funding. With a 10% creator royalty on the ENJ Excavators NFT collection, the studio earns a share every time items are traded on NFT.io or other Enjin marketplaces.

Onboarding without seed phrases

To store player winnings, ENJ Excavators relies on Enjin’s Managed Wallet feature. Rather than needing a seed phrase or self-custody wallet upfront, a new player only needs an email to get going, and can shift the assets to an Enjin wallet whenever they feel ready.

Kepithor integrated the Enjin Blockchain in roughly two hours and authored a tutorial within Enjin’s documentation so other developers could follow suit.

NFTs and ads as boosts

All 15 Enjin Multiverse NFTs — a collection spread across about 21,000 wallets and assembled over five years — gain utility in the game. These Multiverse NFTs boost the effectiveness of in-game boosters, and each upgrade bears the name of one of them.

The game’s own tradeable Base Goblin Cart NFTs sell for around 25 ENJ on NFT.io. Watching an ad delivers a 0.1% mining boost that carries over between seasons at half strength each time — falling to 0.05% the following season, then 0.025%, and onward.

Everything else resets on a weekly basis. Gems, upgrades and leaderboard positions all reset to zero, and the strategy lies in balancing how much to invest in upgrades against how much to hold in the balance that determines your rank.

Kepithor’s Enjin history

Kepithor signed on to the Enjin Early Adopter Program back in November 2018. Among its previous titles are Kingdom Karnage (official site), the free-to-play mobile strategy game Kingdom Karnage: Heroes, the hyper-casual Kingdom Karnage: Clicker, and Royal Rampage. The studio develops across both BSC and Enjin.

ENJ Excavators debuted on Google Play on March 5, 2024, launching with a $12,500 event. This week, Sky, of SkyGaming, highlighted the game to followers, describing it as a questing platform that pays players real money.

Among Enjin regulars, reactions have focused on the studio’s staying power. “The team is surely the main reason that made this stick around,” one community member remarked. “It is a project meant to last, not one short burn meant to pump and dump like most others.”