Locked JEWEL Mining Announcement — April 28, 2022

Frisky Fox posted an announcement in the DeFi Kingdoms official Discord sever related to some updates around Locked JEWEL and Locked JEWEL mining on April 28, 2022. Please see below for the announcement.

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Frisky Fox: Hey @everyone, I’m writing to address some concerns about JEWEL mining.

# JEWEL Mining and TransferAll

Right now there is an issue where mining locked JEWELs via the mining quest can be unfairly augmented by transferring all locked JEWELs between multiple accounts, allowing more Heroes than intended to mine the locked jewels at the same time.

We have run multiple internal analyses on this issue and have calculated that the number of locked JEWELs being collectively unlocked via this mechanism is just shy of 12k in the past 12 hours. It takes a veritable army of miners to be able to do this.

By comparison, the total number of locked JEWELs being mined by the Quest is many times that number, and the number of JEWELs being earned via Gardening Quest is much higher than that.

In other words, the locked JEWELs at question represent a really small percentage of the questing rewards. Nevertheless, we feel it is imperative that we correct this issue quickly and decisively.

We had a vote a while back (https://gov.harmony.one/#/defikingdoms/proposal/QmdXf7FrFf2HvGMgWpMhroRkJc3aVekjZqL523eBVbDP5m) to determine what should be done to address this, and the community voted in favor of creating a new Locked JEWEL mechanism that would be able to add a cooldown to transferring locked JEWELs (this is already how it works on Crystalvale).

The code for this is already written but the deployment plan for it is a bit more involved because of the way that locked JEWELs are represented in other sites like CoinGecko, so there are additional coordination steps needed for that.

We have been discussing internally the best thing to do about this today, and here is the plan:

## Immediate Term

To stop the immediate bleeding, we are disabling the JEWEL Mining Quest for now until the short term fix is ready. Heroes that are actively mining JEWELs will be able to finish out their Quests via the new Active Quest log, but no new Quests will be able to be started until we get the short term fix in.

## Short Term (a few days to begin to roll out)

Part of the update to the Quest contracts that we did last week opened up the possibility to implement a Block List, so that Game Admins can prevent Heroes that are breaking the Terms of Use from performing Quests.

Before we take any actions like that, and in the spirit of decentralization, we want to hold a vote by the community to make sure that people agree with this approach.

We will be putting up a vote for this shortly for people to weigh in on, along with more details about how this would impact the other functionality of the Heroes, such as selling in our in-game auction houses, and how they are viewed in the game to denote that they are blocked.

If and when that vote passes, we will begin enforcing it by scanning for any accounts that are breaking these rules from that point forward and putting the Heroes involved on a block list such that they cannot participate in Quests.

Once this block list mechanism is in place, the JEWEL mining quest will be enabled again and scripts will be set up to monitor for Heroes that are breaking the rules.

## Medium Term

The medium term fix is still the same as we have proposed in the past and have been actively working on: implementing a new Locked JEWEL mechanism that adds extra checks in place such as a cooldown on transferring locked JEWELs. This is already how it works on Crystalvale, so this change will be bringing Serendale to feature parity.

As mentioned before, there are additional considerations for this, such as external integrations with CoinGecko, which will need to be updated so that people see the correct numbers for circulating JEWELs.

# Conclusion

The Dev Team is continuing, as always, to work hard on the upcoming timeline features, and we remain dedicated to promoting security and fairness.

Thanks everyone for your continued trust and patience as we continue to take action to improve and secure the game experience and project.

Thanks for being such an amazing and positive community. As always, godspeed and good questing!

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