Shadow Era platform describes itself as a ‘full-scale trading card game’ that can be played on mobile. As mentioned in its whitepaper, the platform aims to provide cross-platform multiplayer logins and battles. This implies that the players' accounts remain with them irrespective of the device they play on.

Shadow Era aims to capture the minds of users interested in a card game as a strategic and balanced game. The whitepaper states that the platform includes more than 630 cards. To encourage ownership and involvement of the community, the platform seeks to distribute profit share rewards to active token holders.

Shadow Era comprises a different art style custom-built by professional artists within the industry. With the release of the Shadow tokens (SHDW), the game's ownership was provided to the players, along with the chance of obtaining rewards. The platform comprises blockchain cards that enable individuals to trade cards in-game involving speed and security of the Waves platform. Waves platform is a community-driven stack of decentralized technologies that aim to create user-friendly and scalable apps. One of the unique features that the Shadow Era platform seeks to provide is that the players can continue their battle on any kind of device they want as it is a cross-platform game.

The native token of the Shadow Era is SHDW. According to the whitepaper, SHDW is considered an ultra-premium cryptocurrency, which is used to trade special items like card sleeves, avatars, and playmats. The token holders can vote on various issues presented by the board of directors. Moreover, the token holders with their Waves account linked to the Shadow Era account are eligible for regular in-game rewards.

The names of Shadow Era platform’s board of directors include: Ian Bolton, Kevin Massey, Ador Pantic, Samuel Hendrickson, Kevin Manning, Vincent Boure, and Triton Baldwin. All the board of directors are directly responsible for the game’s development. The token sale of SHDW tokens began on August 1, 2017, in an open market.

The total supply of SHDW tokens is ten million.