Karate Combat Airdrop Review: You will Get Free KARATE Tokens

About Karate Combat Airdrop

Karate Combat Airdrop is the top striking league within combat sports. The league is designed from the ground up for the next generation of fans. Karate Combat has approximately 130 exclusive fighters that compete for championship belts across10 weight classes.

Karate Combat will be the first sports league structured as a decentralized autonomous organization (“DAO”). The $KARATE token governs the DAO, and Karate Combat’s founders have pledged to give half of the tokens away for free to fans and athletes over time.

Karate Combat is airdropping free KARATE tokens to new users. Visit the airdrop page and submit your email to register for the airdrop. Eligible users will get free KARATE in December.

Problem

Television audiences for traditional sports leagues are aging.i Some surveys indicate a “dramatic reduction in sports fandom in Generation Z”.ii Nearly half of NFL fans aged 18 to 34 prefer watching highlights to full games. This preference stands in stark contrast to the viewing habits of older fans, and it threatens the television rights ecosystem that supports traditional sports economies.iii

However, less superficial studies uncover a more complex reality. Younger fans demonstrate markedly different – and in many cases deeper – engagement patterns that provide massive opportunities for fast-moving sports formats. A recent study by Nielsen and LaLiga Tech shows that nearly half of fans under the age of 34 prefer to watch sports on their phone.

Karate Combat further observe that ubiquitous mobile social streaming is benefitting the growth of long-tail sports formats.iv Younger generations grew up with social media and gaming culture, and they expect a different level of access, participation and interactivity.

For instance, 28% of Americans aged 21 to 34 bet on sports at least once a month. This compares to 10% for Americans aged 50 to 64 and 5% for those over the age of 65.v There is a massive secular trend towards the gamification of sports content, and younger fans are leading the way. According to YPulse, 39% of male fans aged 20 to 38 say that sports are only interesting when betting is involved.vi

Solution

Combat sports have repeatedly driven disruption in the media industry. The first broadly available sports radio broadcast was a boxing match in New Jersey.xi The earliest big successes of the pay tv industry were fights.xii Wrestling was a #1 show at the birth of cable tv.xiii And today, combat sports’ quick, action-packed format is proving exceedingly popular with younger fans.xiv

Karate Combat Airdrop was designed from the ruleset up as a combat sports league for the mobile internet, built to engage the next generation of sports fans.xv The league’s scoring heavily favors aggression.xvi Rounds are three minutes long, in contrast to five-minute rounds used in the UFC.

While grapplers dominate the UFC, wrestling is largely outside Karate Combat’s ruleset. Kicks between the knee and waist, which can slow down fights, are forbidden. Fights are held in the league’s signature pit. The pit forces the action and provides excellent line of sight for fans at home.

Front-end Clients

The league intends to foster independently developed front-ends for its Up Only Gaming Application. To that end, Karate Combat will open source the initial internally developed clients fully. At launch the league will release two front- ends.

1. An ios mobile app, which includes a Hedera wallet.
2. A webapp to play with your preferred wallet on the Hedera and Ethereum Networks.

Karate Combat mobile app allows airdrop recipients to securely collect their free tokens, back up their seed phrase and send and receive $KARATE and $HBAR tokens. Both clients allow token holders to pick fighters for each event by voting securely off-chain, gas-free and instantly using Snapshot. Further, players can see community-determined fight odds and their game results. The Ethereum webapp client also allows players to claim their winning tokens.

Tokenomics

Karate Combat primary initial use cases for the $KARATE token are DAO governance and Up Only Gaming. While DAO governance participation rates are notoriously low, research indicates a strong desire by community members to influence fighter contracts, fight matchups and league rules. Secondary $KARATE token use cases include token-gated experiences such as live event ticketing and community-developed applications.

Although the initial ownership of the tokens will be concentrated among the founders, the founders have pledged pledged to give away half of the league’s $KARATE tokens over time. Founders, contributors and investors will be subject to long token lockups, and their stakes will be transparently detailed in full prior to launch.

The ongoing airdrops are inflationary. However, so long as the league remains data driven and iterative, growing the community of fans and fighters may be accomplished without sacrificing token fundamentals. The league believes that hard money, scarcity-mindset values in the broader cryptocurrency space need to be abandoned for the web3 industry to reach mass adoption.

KarateDAO

Community governance of the KarateDAO will be accomplished through a constrained delegation model inspired by Yearn and other web3 pioneers.xxi The model allows for flexibility in decision-making while allocating the ultimate authority and control of the league to $KARATE holders. $KARATE holders will delegate actions within specified domains to delegates engaged by the Foundation (“DAO Suppliers”),

Who, under the oversight of the DAO, are empowered to form teams of doers who are granted freedom and agency to execute essential operational tasks. The delegation of power reduces the voting burden on Karate Combat Airdrop holders and facilitates fluid and nimble decision-making by contributor teams, while minimizing the delay and inefficiency inherent in collaborative decision-making that plague DAOs.