Venue Services & Perks
What Venues do
A Venue can be upgraded to increase its hourly generated SHING and unlock services.
All Venue services are manageable on the Taco Universe App and the Venue desktop dashboard. Level 0: SHING Production (increasing with each Level Up) Level 1: ONI Production Level 1: Change NFT appearance Level 10: Ingredient Crafting Level 25: Unlock unique Venue Skin (recurrent, every 25 Levels) Level 40: Taco Governance Tokens Level 50: Rename Venue Level 50: Unlock Rooms (recurrent, every 50 Levels) Level 100: Unlock Brigade P2E Level 100: Brigade Customization Level 120: NFT Giveaways Level 130: Staking Level 140: Automators Level 150: Staking Rewards Level 150: EXP NFT Shard Level 180: Venue Logo Level 1⭐: Change NFT appearance Level 1⭐: Combz Sponsorship Level 1⭐: Rent Whitelists Level 1⭐: Ads Banner Discount 10% Level 1⭐20: Ingredient Reroll Level 1⭐40: 500 EXP NFT Crystallize Level 1⭐60: Combz Sponsorship Level 1⭐80: 2,000 EXP NFT Crystallize Level 1⭐100: Unlock Acryptia Dungeon Card Game Level 1⭐100: Ads Banner Discount 20% Level 1⭐120: Combz Sponsorship Level 1⭐120: 5,000 EXP NFT Crystallize Level 1⭐150: Venue Labs Level 1⭐180: Combz Sponsorship Level 2⭐: SHING Chat Bot Level 2⭐: Ads Banner Discount 30% Level 2⭐40: Combz Sponsorship Level 2⭐100: Ads Banner Discount 40% Level 3⭐: Ads Banner Discount 50%
Level 0: SHING production
Each Venue passively generates SHING/h. Upgrading a Venue increases the number of SHING/h generated, based on this formula:
base_rate * [star_level * ( 1.02^200 ) + ( 1.02^level )]
Following the SHING/h production base rate for each Venue based on their rarity.
| Common | Uncommon | Rare | Epic | Legendary | Mythic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
15.12 | 21.06 | 27 | 33.48 | 39.42 | 45.36 |
This service automatically unlocks.
Level 1: ONI production
Each levelled up Venue generates ONI every day: 20% of daily generated ONI goes to Venue owners.
This % is distributed between Venue owners considering all Venues Levels and the single owner Venues Levels, based on this formula:
Owner Venue Levels / All Venue Levels * 0.2 * Daily ONI
Example:
All Venue Levels = 10,000 Player Venue Levels = 1,000 Player will receive 10% of the daily ONI distributed to Venue Owners
In order to store and claim ONI, Collectors are needed. Learn more about ONI.
This service automatically unlocks.
Level 1: Change NFT appearance
With each Level Up, Venue NFT appearance changes.
Level 10: Ingredients Crafting
The Venue owner is able to craft Ingredient NFTs within their Venue. Ingredients can be crafted from a Venue once every 6 hours with a SHING cost of 200k.
The Ingredient produced matches with the Venue type.
Cumin, Cilantro, Chili Powder, Garlic, Lime and Sour Cream are Series 2 Venues. Series 2 Venues can be crafted inside Venue Labs.
Level 25: Unlock unique Venue Skin (Recurrent) [Not Released Yet]
Every 25 Levels, Venue owners earn a Limited-Edition Venue Skin, which is claimable inside the Venue. Each skin pertains to one of Taco’s main products or collabs: Utility, DeFi, Games, etc.
The unlocked Limited Edition Skin is claimable only once. Therefore, if the Venue is traded, only unclaimed Skins will be available for the new owner.
There is no other way to obtain unique Venue Skins than upgrading Venues.
This feature is retroactive.
Release ETA: no ETA.
Level 40: Taco Governance Tokens
Venue owners receive a TACOG Token (Taco Governance Token) every Taco Tuesday. These Tokens allow Venue owners to participate in governance polls which help the Taco Team decide on important matters.
If users have TACOG but don’t own a 🔼 40+ Venue they will not be able to vote.
TACOG are non-transferrable.
The requirement to earn TACOG from Venues is mutable and changes based on overall level across all Venues.
Level 50: Rename Venue
Venue owners are able to change their Venue's name. It will be visible within the Taco Universe, the app, website and games. The name makes it easy for players to distinguish a Venue from others.
Projects and other collections can name their community Venue for partnering up with Taco and to engage their community with a cross-project feature.
To change a Venues’ name, the owner needs a 🪧 Signboard NFT which is burned when used.
Venues can be renamed more than once.
Using profanity, discriminatory and/or derogatory content in your Venue name is strictly prohibited. This also applies to text contained within Venue logos.
Venues found in breach of these rules will receive penalties, including (but not limited to), level deductions and name changes.
Level 50: Unlock Rooms (Recurrent) [Not Released Yet]
Every 50 Levels, Venue owners unlock 10 Rooms.
Rooms are customizable NFTs which can be distributed by Venue owners to their community members.
They can be personalized by their owners, using different items (e.g. collabs, skins, etc.). They are places where players are able to display their progress and Taco experience.
They are the first step towards our future 3D Metaverse, where anyone can explore Venues, Rooms and access games from it.
This feature is retroactive.
Release ETA: No ETA.
Level 100: Unlock Brigade
Brigade is a Free to Earn game that enables anyone, anywhere, to earn Taco project tokens.
By executing works, players earn SHING rewards and increase their chances of winning NFTs. Venue owners receive a portion of the SHING earned based on their set fee.
A daily SHING pool is assigned to Venues that have reached 🔼 100. Venue owners can set a percentage fee (up to 50%) on the SHING rewarded to volunteers for work.
A limited number of NFTs are distributed every 24h from the NFT pool to active volunteers. For every 4 venues at 🔼100, one pack is added to the pool with a maximum capacity of 500 packs.
The Venue must be named at least once to be able to unlock Brigade.
Learn more about Brigade here.
Level 100: Brigade Customization
Venue Owners are able to customize their Brigade interface with different NFTs.
The customizations can be different for Desktop and Taco Universe App.
Each Taco Universe Season has its own collection of skins.
Brigade Skins NFTs are divided in: Wall; Wall Objects; Counter Objects; Side Objects; Table; Chairs; Claim Button; Signboard; Tasks Board.
Level 120: NFT Giveaways
Venue owners are able to assign daily NFT rewards to their Brigade players.
They can stake NFTs inside their Venue and select how many NFTs they want to distribute between their players, randomly, on a daily basis.
Once there aren’t enough NFTs staked, the service stops until more are staked.
This system is not linked to the Daily Pack Lottery on Brigade: a single player can win a Brigade lottery pack and a Venue NFT on the same day.
Level 130: Staking
TACO tokens can be staked to Venues to increase Experience Points (EXP) gained from activities done by customers such as executing Brigade Works or completing ranked floors in Acryptia.
1 staked TACO equals 0.01% bonus EXP to activity.
Maximum staking: 10,000 TACO, equivalent to 100% Bonus EXP.
Staked TACO can be retired only 48 hours after the last stake.
Anyone is able to stake inside a Venue. Staking Bonus takes effect at Level 150.
UNSTAKING Minimum amount for unstaking is 1 TACO.
EXP is not a token and cannot be exchanged, traded or sent to other Venues. It can only be used by the Venue that gains it.
Level 140: Automators
Venue Owners can choose to enable this service to allow Automators from all users to work inside their Venue. By enabling this feature, the Venue Brigade fee is automatically increased to 25%.
Automators are robot NFTs which can execute works inside Brigade Venues every 4 hours.
For each work, Automators produce SHING for their owners, and EXP for the Venue Owner. These works don’t increase chances of winning NFTs through Brigade Daily Lottery or Venues NFT giveaways.
To execute work, Automators need Energy which can be bought with ONI tokens.
Venue Owners can use Automators on their own Venue.
Learn more about Automators here.
Level 150: Staking Rewards
Based on the amount of TACO staked inside the Venue, Brigade players can produce up to 100% SHING for their work inside that Venue.
Maximum staking: 10,000 TACO, equivalent to 100% Bonus.
Level 150: EXP NFT Shard [Not released yet]
Venue Owners can convert EXP NFTs into EXP by sharding their NFT. There are three EXP NFTs:
500 EXP
2,000 EXP
5,000 EXP
Once the NFT is sharded, it gets burned.
Release ETA: November 2023
Level 180: Venue Logo
Venue owners are able to change their Venue's logo. It will be visible within the Taco Universe, the app, website and games. The logo makes easy for players to distinguish a Venue from others.
In order to change the picture Venue owners have to upload an IPFS hash, which could be created in third-party services such as Pinata and NFT Storage.
Venue logos must not contain NSFW content, this includes graphic violence and nudity.
Venues found in breach of these rules will receive penalties, including (but not limited to), level deductions and image changes.
Level 1⭐: Change NFT appearance
By reaching the star level (200), the NFT appearance change. When a new Star Level is gained, the normal level returns to 0.
Level 1 ⭐: Combz Sponsorship (Recurrent)
At Level 200, Venue owners unlock Combz Sponsorship. Combz Sponsorship is a recurrent service: every 20 levels owners unlock a new one. The final Combz Sponsorship can be unlocked at Level 600.
Combz Sponsorship will be progressively released. Not all will be released at once.
Sponsorships allow players to boost their production of one or more resources for free. The Venue owners earn 1% of the total production after the player claim.
Venue owners 1% is not deducted from player's production.
In order to activate a Combz Sponsorship, owners need to spend EXP. Once the Sponsorship is active, players within Combz can use it.
Once the Sponsorship the maximum amount of uses, it deactivates, and the owner has to activate it again.
Owners can have max 1 active Sponsorship: in order to activate a new one, no Sponsorships can be active. Owners can deactivate a Sponsorship anytime before it reaches the maximum amount of uses.
Resources gained from fees can be claimed within the Venue Service.
Venue Sponsorship is applied to individual Chainfield productions. If a player intends to run multiple Chainfield productions simultaneously, the bonus must be applied to each Chainfield separately.
Venue Owners can also set Whitelists to allow only certain players to use their Sponsor.
List of active Venue Sponsorships
| Level | Bonus | Resources | EXP Cost | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
5% | Hyperium | 2,500 | 30 | |
6% | Luminalgas | 2,750 | 30 | |
6.5% | Oxenorite | 4,600 | 30 | |
7% | Magnetum | 5,000 | 30 | |
8% | Novacomb | 6,700 | 45 | |
9% | Stabilium | 7,000 | 45 | |
5% | NovacombOxenorite | 8,800 | 45 | |
6% | LuminalgasMagnetum | 9,000 | 45 | |
8% | HyperiumNovacomb | 11,000 | 60 | |
9% | MagnetumStabilium | 12,000 | 60 |
Level 1⭐: Rent Whitelist [Not released yet]
Venue owners can create whitelist for NFT renting within Taco Games.
During each transaction, the NFT will be kept in Taco smart contracts to guarantee the maximum safety of the asset.
Release ETA: December 2023 for Combz
Level 1⭐: Advertising Banner Discount (Recurrent) [Not released yet]
Venue owners can create book advertising banners for a discounted price.
By booking a banner, users receiver three placements at the same time on three most popular Taco platforms:
Taco Dashboard (app.tacocrypto.io)
Discount:
Level 1⭐: 10% Level 1⭐100: 20% Level 2⭐: 30% Level 2⭐100: 40% Level 3 ⭐: 50%
Release ETA: November 2023.
Level 1⭐20: Ingredients Reroll
Venue owners can burn two ingredients of the same rarity to craft a Single Ingredients Pack, which contains an Ingredient of a higher rarity.
Level 1⭐40: 500 EXP NFT Crystallize
Venue Owners can convert 500 EXP into a 500 EXP NFT for tokens + crafting items. The EXP NFT can be transferred and re-converted into EXP by sharding it.
Level 1⭐80: 2,000 EXP NFT Crystallize
Venue Owners can convert 2,000 EXP into a 2,000 EXP NFT for tokens + crafting items. The EXP NFT can be transferred and re-converted into EXP by sharding it.
Level 1⭐100 : Acryptia
Acryptia is a free to play, PvE desktop game playable on browser. It is a skill-based dungeon card game in which players have to beat Rug’O to advance to new levels, climb the leaderboard, and win prizes.
Players have to select a Venue before starting a new game. Venue Owners earn points based on the floor completed inside their Venue, during ranked games.
At the end of the Season, Venue Owners win prizes based on their points share.
Acryptia also has in-game skins and a PvP mode.
Learn more about Acryptia here.
Level 1⭐120: 5,000 EXP NFT Crystallize
Venue Owners can convert 5,000 EXP into a 5,000 EXP NFT for tokens + crafting items. The EXP NFT can be transferred and re-converted into EXP by sharding it.
Level 1⭐150: Venue Labs
Venue Labs are crafting laboratories where players can create Taco NFTs.
Taco blends can be executed only inside Venue Labs. Taco blends are:
Brigade Equipment Upgrade
Brigade Equipment Enhancement
Brigade Pack
Series 2 Venues Blend
Collectors Upgrade
Skin & Skin Packs
Acryptia Gear Pack
Acryptia Mythic Gear
Brigade Equipment Break
Acryptia Gear Break
Ta-Cores Creation
To craft NFTs, players will need to use:
Taco NFT
Item NFT
SHING
SHING fee set by the Venue Owner
Every NFT has a different crafting recipe, decided by the team.
Venue Owners & Players can unlock crafting recipes by using ONI. The more recipes are unlocked, the higher will be the cost to unlock a new one.
When a recipe is unlocked, it remains open for one week. After one week, it locks again.
Level 2⭐: SHING Chat Bot
The SHING Chat Bot is a Discord Bot that can be activated in one or more channels of a Discord Server. Every day, the bot counts each message sent by users in the activated channels and distributes the SHING pool rewards base on this formula:
user_messages/total_messages*pool_daily_amount
Each 2⭐ Venue has a daily SHING pool that can be assigned to a server which has enabled the Chat Bot. 2⭐ Venues can distribute their SHING boost through Venue Services.
The SHING Chat Bot Venues Pool operates on the following scheme:
1–5 2⭐Venues: 1,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
6–10 2⭐ Venues: 2,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
11–50 2⭐ Venues: 5,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
51–100 2⭐ Venues: 10,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
101–1000 2⭐ Venues: 30,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
1001–2000 2⭐ Venues: 40,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
2000+ 2⭐ Venues: 50,000,000 SHING total pool per day, distributed among the Venues that unlocked the Chat Bot
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