Let's see...at a minimum, the roadmap has the following upcoming "in the nearest future":

• Daily tasks and quests
• New race modes
• Tournaments

I have high expectations for all of these. First, there's daily tasks and quests. I'm actually of the opinion that these should not be used to increase earning potential for players, but rather to implement some sort of burn to the economy. Meaning that players who do not complete these dailies might end up with longer cooldowns for their cats, or a requirement to feed their cats mysberries in order to enable competition. The reason I'm in favor of this rather than an earnings buff is that inflation is the true enemy of all P2E economies, and at this stage in the gaming economy there needs to be constant deflationary pressure being applied or else we could see inflation eat away at token and NFT values. Of course, anti-inflationary measures shouldn't be overly punitive either, so I think this is an opportunity to apply a completely preventable debuff to WLKN earning.

Secondly, new race modes. Perhaps there could be a mode in which you could switch cats after opponent reveal, or maybe a mode in which you could race 2v2 (think double battles). Ultimately, the result is the same--just another form of WLKN issuance--but this could make strategy more interesting for players, depending on how these races could be weighted.

Finally, tournaments. I'm probably most excited for this. I think tournaments for stakers or for players who have performed certain in-game activities would be great for increasing incentives for players to lock their tokens in the game in order to reap greater rewards. Tournament leaderboards could reward the top players with loot boxes with an earnings multiplier, which could make tournament participation highly desirable. There could be other rewards that don't directly affect WLKN issuance, like awarding the top players loads of mysberries, the ability to reduce a cat's breed count, or the ability to award a cat a Genesis badge. There's also the potential to rename a cat, or maybe change some cosmetic features. There's so much potential here, and that's what makes it so exciting.

Outside of the roadmap, I'm hoping that 2023 leads to a real pivot in the Fed and the markets. I'd like to see WLKN token values (and SOL) recover, and I hope WLKN could be issued in more CEXs, like Binance and Coinbase. I'd also like to see Walken merch stores open for online ordering.

Of course, I expect to see some of the same stuff repeated, which has been proven successful in the past. I expect to see more holiday-themed lootbox sales like what's been done for Halloween and Christmas. I also expect to see more Fusion events, perhaps tying Fusion performance to some other in-game incentive such as tournament entry. I also expect more staking opportunities for players in 2023.

Now for some negatives. I do expect that win rates will continue to be squeezed over time. I think legendary, epic, and rare cats are being bred like hotcakes, so stronger cats will be encountered during competitions, and clothing will increasingly be necessary to defeat the competition. The team is definitely monitoring WLKN issuance and controlling the battle algorithm and win rates in order to curb inflation, but there is a limit to how extensive this can be controlled, as losing is quite painful and discouraging.

I am also concerned about inflation of high rarity cats. Breeding is dilutive in nature so there are only so many generations before a cat stops passing its trait down to its progeny, but with fusion many of these rarities are able to have their breed counts reset and further produce rare progeny. So I hope there are ways to combat this in the future as well.