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    What Is Zed Run? Everything About Digital Horseracing

    By Reethu RaviSeptember 5, 2021Updated:February 2, 202312 Mins Read
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    What is Zed Run?
    Who Created the Zed Run Game?
    How The Game Came To Be
    How Does Zed Run Digital Horseracing Work?
    About Zed Run Classes
    How Is The Winner Of The Race Determined In Digital Horseracing?
    How to buy a horse on Zed Run
    How To Make Money With Digital Horseracing
    How to Choose a Champion Zed Run Horse
    How Does Zed Run Fatigue work?
    Zed Run Breeding: How To Breed A Digital NFT Horse
    How much does a horse cost on Zed Run?
    What is Zed token?
    The future of Zed Run

    Zed Run is taking digital horseracing to all new heights thanks to blockchain gaming technologies. No, you don’t get to buy and race actual horses here. Instead, Zed Run offers a range of digital horses represented by NFTs that you can buy, race, and even breed!

    Zed Run brings horseracing, NFTs, and blockchain gaming under a single roof. With Zed Run’s futuristic-looking horses in a Tron-like world, you can enjoy a good old horserace from the comforts of your home. What’s more, you get to win big from various events held every day!

    So, what exactly is Zed Run and how do you earn by racing digital horses?

    Digital horses of blockchain game Zed Run
    Zed Run has been growing in popularity in recent months. Credits: Zed Run/Facebook

    What is Zed Run?

    Zed Run is an Ethereum blockchain-based digital horseracing game where you can buy and race digital horses to earn money.

    It’s one of the original blockchain games and also one of the most lucrative, with horse owners raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. One horse, for instance, fetched its owner $125,000. However, the reason for the game’s popularity is its devoted community! 

    Zed Run has an incredible community, which was instrumental in its growth. In fact, the game has inspired community-led websites and newsletters. Some of these include The Zed Gazette, Know Your Horses, and Award Racing.

    Who Created the Zed Run Game?

    It was developed by Australia-based Virtually Human Studio, founded by Chris Laurent, Geoffrey Wellman, and Rob Salha. It launched the game in early 2019 with an aim to democratize horseracing, which mostly caters to the rich and elite. 

    Each digital horse in the game is unique and is known by its bloodline and genotype. Chris Ebling, the animator behind movies such as The LEGO Movie and Happy Feet 1 &2, is the creative genius behind these animated NFTs.

    How The Game Came To Be

    On July 21, 2021, Zed Run announced that its parent company raised $20 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by TCG (The Chernin Group) Capital Management, with participation from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Red Beard Ventures. The investment proves the seriousness of the project and its reliability in the long term.

    How Does Zed Run Digital Horseracing Work?

    Zed Run’s creators refer to the horses as “breathing NFTs”.

    “A breathing NFT is one that has its own unique DNA,” Roman Tirone, the head of partnerships at Virtually Human, told The New York Times. “It can breed, has a bloodline, has a life of its own. It races, it has genes it passes on, and it lives on an algorithm so no two horses are the same.”

    About Zed Run Classes

    During each race, the horses are grouped based on their “Class”, which determines their abilities. This ensures that races are fair and that no horse has an advantage over others. While all un-raced horses belong to the “Griffin” class, rest belongs to Classes 1 to 5. Class 1 is the highest-rated class. The first race your horse will participate in is the Griffin Class race. Based on its finishing position here, it will be assigned to the other classes. 

    Each race can be identified by its name, location, class, entry fee, prize pool, and distance. Once you enter a race, your horse will be given gate numbers (between one to 12) on a first-come, first-serve basis. Only when all 12 gates are filled will the race be scheduled. Once the race begins, you can watch it live or even watch a replay later. 

    How Is The Winner Of The Race Determined In Digital Horseracing?

    It is important to note that Zed Run does not directly control who wins a race. This ensures that everyone has a fair chance to win. Then, how exactly does the digital horseracing game determine the winner? Here’s where the racing algorithm comes into play.

    Before every race, the algorithm runs thousands of simulations taking into account factors such as bloodline, speed, genotype, distance, and more. It then randomly selects one of these simulations for the actual race.

     

    A digital horserace on Zed Run
    A digital horserace in progress. Credits: Zed Run

    How to buy a horse on Zed Run

    There’s a limited supply of Zed Run horses, making them a scarce and valuable asset. There are two ways by which you can buy horses in Zed Run: the primary market and the secondary market. 

    In the first, the game drops new NFTs during its Drop Events, which are organized events announced via its social media channels. During these drops, the horses sell out in a jiffy, so you have to come prepared. Here are the steps to follow ahead of a drop:

    • Sign up on Zed Run using an email address or MetaMask.
    • Create a stable, which you can customize with a name, description, and profile photo.
    • Have enough funds in the form of WETH in your Zed Run wallet to purchase the digital horses. It is important to note that your WETH must be acquired using the Zed Run wallet itself.
    • Now, just keep an eye on the drop schedule and purchase the NFTs from the Zed Run marketplace as soon as the drop goes live. 
    Zed Run marketplace to buy digital horses
    You can buy the horse NFTs on Zed’s marketplace during a drop event. Credits: Zed Run

    If you are unable to get an NFT during a drop, don’t worry. You can purchase them from secondary markets like OpenSea.

    How To Make Money With Digital Horseracing

    Basically, if your horse wins, you will receive your rewards as WETH in your wallet. Zed Run’s digital horseracing has opened up a world of new possibilities. Armed with strategies and skills, many players are earning big as stable owners, trainers, and more.

    A digital horse race in Zed Run

    Digital horses taking part in a race. Credits: Zed Run

    How to Choose a Champion Zed Run Horse

    Needless to say, your chances of winning a race, and in turn, earning, entirely depends on your horse. The better your digital horse’s abilities, the higher will be your chances of winning. Therefore, it is important to choose the best horse that is well suited for the corresponding tournament.

    The abilities of each horse in Zed Run is based on its bloodline, breed type, and genotype. The rarer a horse, more faster and expensive it will be.

    In the Zed Run metaverse, there are four bloodlines: Nakamoto, Szabo, Finney, and Buterin. These bloodlines determine a horse’s qualities when its minted. While Nakamoto is a rare bloodline and expensive to breed, Finney and Buterin are more common. 

    Zed Run digital horse bloodline
    The bloodline of the digital horses. Credits: Zed Run

    Now, what makes a horse unique is its Genotype. It represents “how far down the lineage” it is from its ancestors. A horse’s genotype is represented by ‘Z number’; Z1 horses are the purest (and can’t be created by breeding) and Z268 horses are the least pure. Of course, the horse value directly relates to its purity.

    Meanwhile, the “Breed Type” helps identify a horse’s genotype. There are six in all: Genesis, Legendary, Exclusive, Elite, Cross, and Pacer. Genesis breed (Z1 to Z10) represents the first generation of horses and are sold by Zed. These are the rarest of the lot and are limited in supply—only 38,000 in all. 

    Digital horses in Zed Run
    Some of the futuristic-looking horses in the game. Credits: Zed Run

    How Does Zed Run Fatigue work?

    Mid-last year, Zed Run introduced a new feature to the gameplay—fatigue. Put simply, the fatigue factor indicates how fatigued your horse is before its next race. In other words, every time your horse goes for a race, its maximum potential speed reduces. Once the fatigue factor diminishes completely, it takes 24 hours to replenish.

    The idea is to ensure Zed Run mimics the conditions of real-life horseracing. Indeed, physically, no horse would be able to race continuously without impacting its performances. With the introduction of the fatigue factor, after each race, you can see your horse’s level of fatigue on the fatigue bar. It’s important to take this into account whenever you are getting your horse ready for the next race as it will impact its performance.

    a shiny brown digital horse
    You can see the fatigue level of your horse in the game.

    Zed Run Breeding: How To Breed A Digital NFT Horse

    Zed Run has a breeding program using which you can breed two horses to produce offspring. To breed, you need a male horse, a female horse, a stable, and WETH to pay stud fees. Female horse owners have to pay male horse owners a “stud fees” to breed. While male horses can breed three times a month, females can breed only once a month. Besides, during breeding, horses will not be able to join races.

    But first, let’s understand the different types of Zed Run horses.

    Types of Zed Run Horse

    Mainly, there are four types of horses in the Zed Run universe:

    • Colt – Male horse that hasn’t yet produced an offspring
    • Stallion – Male horse that has produced at least one offspring
    • Filly – Female horse that hasn’t yet produced an offspring
    • Mare – Female horse that has produced at least one offspring

    Currently, the game doesn’t support private breeding. As a result, owners of the horses have to place their horses in the Stud Farm and select a minimum price and the number of days. The stallion/colt owner has the liberty to set a breeding price. While the owner of the mare will receive the offspring in their stable, the stallion’s owner will receive the breeding fee. The minimum fee is 0.075 ETH and can vary depending on the horse’s bloodline and breed type. 

    Players can keep their horse in the stud for 1, 3, and 7 days. The longer you keep the horse there, the higher will be the breeding fee you get. Each offspring will have three distinct features: Ability Score, Distance Preference, and Fatigue Factor. Additionally, its genotype will be a sum of the genotypes of the mating horses.

    Zed Run digital horses breeding
    Two Nakamoto horses selected for breeding. Credits: Zed Run

    Additionally, a horse to be mature enough to breed. To explain, you have to wait at least 28 days after a horse is born to breed it. Besides, your horse cannot breed with its brothers, sisters, parents, or grandparents.

    Now, why exactly is breeding important? A stallion can breed up to 84 times a year, giving you that many chances to earn stud fees. Meanwhile, Mare can breed up to 24 times a year, giving you that many offspring. 

    Choose a Stallion carefully and the resulting offspring can be a champion racehorse and have higher market value. This is because the parents will pass some of its features to the offspring. For instance, if you breed two Genesis horses, you will get a Legendary offspring. Thus, make sure you carefully analyze a horse’s DNA profile and performance history before breeding. 

    How much does a horse cost on Zed Run?

    On secondary marketplaces like OpenSea, Zed Run’s floor price is a mere 0.0015 ETH (about $1.8, at the time of writing). Naturally, rarer horses will cost much higher. The highest last sold NFT, for example, is the ‘Creation of Mortals’. Last sold for 48 ETH, the NFT features a Z2 Genesis Nakamoto horse with Chrome Yellow coat.

    What is Zed token?

    In July 2022, Zed Run announced the launch of Zed token, Zed Run’s utility and in-game currency. These are ERC-20 tokens based on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains. To clarify, the game previously used Polygon ETH as its in-game currency. This has now been replaced by Zed tokens, which players can use to make payments, participate in special events, get in-game functionalities, and more. Starting July 28, all eligible players were able to claim their tokens for free for 90 days.

    Zed Run distributed the tokens based on players’ ownership and activity parameters. Essentially, the players were scored based on their engagement in the game, including in racing, breeding, and skin ownership, among others. Players then received the tokens based on the airdrop score—the higher the score, higher the number of tokens.

    The future of Zed Run

    As mentioned before, Zed Run is backed by a strong community that is growing day by day. They are the ones who have helped in the game’s growth and they are the ones who’ll continue to support the game in the future. 

    Currently, the game is in beta and the final version will be loaded with all new exciting features. Zed Run’s vision is for the race to resemble real-life racing as much as possible. In this regard, it recently implemented fatigue element in the game, by which a horse’s maximum speed potential will decrease in a 24-hour period. 

    Furthermore, an upgraded racing algorithm and referral programs are already under development. The game sure has a bright future ahead and its fans have much to look forward to in the near future. Check out the zed run website to learn more.

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