January 02, 2021
The Beginning
The Founders, Kieran and Aaron Warwick, conceptualize Illuvium in September of 2020.
Illuvium opens to the public its
Twitter, Discord, and Website.
February 09, 2021
Founding Team Unveiled
Illuvium unveils the Australia-based core team behind its game studio that will be building the Interoperable Blockchain Games.
February 23, 2021
Illuvinati: Introducing The Decentralized Council
Illuvium has created a system for community governance called the Illuvinati Council, along with a way for members to suggest changes through a proposal system.
Additionally, Illuvium introduces the Illuvium DAO Vault which distributes revenue earned from the platform to community members.
Mar 11, 2021
Seed Round Announcement
Illuvium closes a $5 million seed round led by Framework Ventures.
March 19, 2021
Cinematic
Reveal Trailer
The trailer release pushes a sudden spike in community growth to 10,000 members in Discord.
April 03, 2021
Token Sale
Token launch through Balancer.fi raises $38 million and reaches $90M in traded volume.
July 01, 2021
$ILV All-Time-Low and Live Staking
$ILV drops to an all-time-low value of $29.23 a week before staking goes live.
Staking is deployed and starts revenue distribution from the DAO Vault to the ILV and ILV-ETH stakers.
October 30, 2021
Alpha Gameplay Trailer and Final Co-Founder Identity Reveal
Illuvium broadcasts its latest trailer and bonus gameplay footage as the Discord community reaches 100,000 members.
Kieran unveils the last co-founder and brother under the pseudonym of Von Neumann as Grant Warwick, one of the best CGI artists in the industry.
December 03, 2021
$ILV All-Time-High and YGG Partnership
Illuvium’s token reaches an all-time-high value of 1,911.26 USD three days before it stamps an earlier announcement of a partnership with Yield Guild Games, one of the largest web3-native gaming guilds in the space.
December 31, 2021
Discord Security Incident
A major hack in Discord happens just before New Year.
Victims are later reimbursed.
January 03, 2022
$sILV Exploit
The team discovers a serious vulnerability in the V1 staking contract which enables hackers to mint unlimited amounts of $sILV.
More information here.
January 17, 2022
Post-Mortem
A detailed explanation of the recent incidents as well as a compensation application form for the affected individuals and groups were posted.
The $ILV token price starts to plunge.
June 05, 2022
$72 Million Land Sale
Illuvium launches a land sale event for its city builder companion game Illuvium: Zero adding $72,189,104.77 to its treasury.
September 28, 2022
Illuvium: Arena
After the initial success of Illuvium: Arena – Private Beta 1 in the first quarter of the year, the team updates the autobattler survival game to Private Beta 2 adding features, game modes, and giving more access to a larger player base.
Kieran ambiguously mentions 1.5M players have registered to play Beta.
December 28, 2022
Illuvium: Overworld
Illuvium: Zero
and Best RPG Game of 2022
Illuvium releases its open-world role-playing game and city-building game in Illuvium: Overworld and Illuvium: Zero in the same month.
The studio wins Polkastarter‘s Best RPG Game of 2022 while getting nominated for five other categories.
March 07, 2023
Illuvium: Beyond
Following the 2022 releases, Illuvium proceeds to launch its fourth game – Illuvium: Beyond. Illuvium: Beyond features a collectible card game usable as accessorized profile pictures named Illuvitars.