Dear Astar Community,
thanks again for your support of GameDAO and its way into Astar L1 and beyond.
I am writing today to get a sense and promote our project to you again. While the actual contribution currently does not heavily impact our tier 2 placement (thank you to all stakers!), we still believe working with Astar beyond checking in on timelines and reports is crucial to establish an innovation culture effectively bringing more quality products, in our case video games and related magic and witchcraft, into Astar and Soneium. Therefore we see UCG as a key conviction to build upon.
In the following I am trying to show our plan and tap the community brains for feedback.
Contributions + Achievements
So far, our main contributions and achievements in that regard are:
1. Reached Tier 2 through 153 stakers reaching 75.969M ASTR (excluding UCG)
This enabled us as a small team to continue the work on Astar, including BD, Product, Architecture, Engineering and even Marketing.
2. Providing 5M GAME token as incentive program for current and future dapp stakers
GAME token is a compliant governance token, issued by GameDAO AG, a Liechtenstein based entity to issue token and operate frontends enabling users to participate in game curation, governance and more. GAME token issue is capped at 100M token and GameDAO dedicated 5% of the total issuance to the Astar Community as a sign of appreciation for their staking efforts.
GAME token distribution and claiming across chains will start somewhere January 2025.
3. Stakeboard, a staking dashboard beta
Stakeboard was born out of the need to integrate rewards for dapp stakers in a web3 fashion. The current state can be seen on astar.gamedao.app and provides introspection of stakers, TVL and in the near future the estimation of staking rewards.
To give back to the community, this will be open sourced in a way, that other teams can utilise the frontend to calculate their own rewards for stakers based on a contract and configs of curves. This can be extended to enable calling extrinsics to claim rewards.
4. Listing GAME token
GAME token can only be acquired through Astar dApp Staking at the moment. GAME token has been integrated in to the following networks, enabling the rewards to be transferred and also traded in the future.
- Polkadot Asset Hub
- Astar L1 native + evm
- Hydration DEX, featuring initial setup of GAME/ASTR and GAME/DOT trading pairs
- Final step missing to fully integrate into Astar Portal UI
- Uniswap, Polygon, … tbd
Protocol
The previous achievements and contributions are a requirement to make sense of further protocol integration, as GAME token is existing primarily inside the Polkadot ecosystem, but token utility alone may not be sufficient, therefore we aimed for cross chain functionality and the possiblity to trade ASTR/GAME and DOT/GAME.
To utilise the token, GameDAO developed UX/UI in the past, making use of native protocols on our L1. At the current point in time, the core protocol is being implemented in ink, providing the creation of unstoppable collectives, collecting fees, managing memberships. The next iteration will feature voting and execution of spending proposals, based on the existing protocol design on GitHub - gamedaoco/gamedao-protocol: GameDAO Protocol.
Here we have been delivering too slow and plan to dedicate more power over the next two months to provide a working frontend with deployed contracts.
Products, Games, Roadmap
Planning for this and the following dApp Staking period includes in order of appearance:
GameDAO Core Functionality
- Migrate and extend GameDAO Protocol to WASM/EVM
- Collectives
- Governance
- Fundraising
- Integrate Astar specific UX and UI
- Account Abstraction
GAME Staking, Rewards
Enable GAME staking rewards for dapp stakers: GameDAO is dedicating, 5% of the currently possible total GAME supply, 5_000_000 GAME token to reward early stage dapp stakers on Astar, based on the staking amount and tier achieved. Details will be announced and we will reward all contributions made from the first day of dApp Staking, therefore giving back to the community treasury as well.
- List GAME token on Astar, now available on AssetHub, Astar, Hydration and Zero
- Build frontend to enable staking protocol interaction
- Integrate calculation and claiming of GAME as staking rewards
Grow Community
- Build up a creative collective at the intersection of video games, creative work and Astar
- Enable the discovery and curation of new games for GAME token holders
- Re-establish the weekly MOTHERSHIP call to curate and promote games and builders
Games
We aim to produce and release one mid sized indie game over the next 12 months with GameDAO as a publisher in the Astar ecosystem.
- Launch one MVP game, funded and governed on GameDAO Astar, from scratch
- Publish our work on games, currently behind the scenes, in MOTHERSHIP
Conclusion + Ask
The groundwork has been made and relevant additions are in development to make GameDAO work on Astar and Soneium. The final steps are outlined and the real market proof apart from staking will be the bootstrapping of a game, no matter the size, through the Astar community.
To achieve this we need your support, not only as stakers or funding contributors, but mainly as a community participating. Where should/could this happen?
Join our discord and / or telegram:
Thank you again for your support and the time reading this till the very end.
Marco
disclaimer: this post reflects the current state of information as is, we are trying hard to be concise, transparent and accountable, if you feel like missing out, let us know!