Hello TreasureDAO friends,
INTRO
Some of you might already know me, others might not. My name is Ali Husain (x.com). I’ve been an active part of the Treasure Community since 2021 right when it launched. Over the years, I’ve tried to help bring projects to the Treasure ecosystem, such as BitMates, and I currently serve on the Treasure ARC.
Also built Ruffion Reborn (mint still live 
) - https://www.ruffionreborn.xyz which has all its code and art available under MIT and CC0 so folks can make their own Treasure games. We never got the smart contract integration done because it was all self-funded and the mint funds were going to be used to offset some of the cost (mint made like 9k at the time).
I am currently Co-Founder and CEO at Navigate (https://nvg8.io) which is a decentralized big data platform owned by its community. Your data is valuable, you should be able to earn from it. That’s the TLDR.
You can find out more about me here: https://linkedin.com/in/ali-husain1
INTO THE DUNGEONS
The reason for this post today is that we are now getting close to launching our first game from the Into the Dungeons IP (think DnD x Star Wars) that I’ve been working on since 2019.
Once again, this has all been self-funded, which has primarily hurt speed. Now we’re at a point where I want to accelerate and build this out much quicker than we have been.
The plan is to launch Arenas of Ryst (AoR), a multiplayer casual/competitive game on TON to see the player engagement, improve that, add more features and also develop our main game - Machinata (think DnD x Warhammer on-chain).
We’ve spent a bunch on the game protypes, a PFP collection, art for the game, etc. The initial launch of AoR will exhaust our current resources and we are looking to bootstrap development + community building (via brand dev).
There are only two chains we’re considering building on - either within the Treasure ecosystem (Treasure Chain) or ApeChain (I’ve been an Ape since 2021 and would like to see that ecosystem succeed).
The Pitch Deck: https://www.figma.com/deck/2STJSAzCowoeT8KLllqIA5/Into-the-Dungeons—Seed
THE ASK
I want to see if the DAO is open to funding ITD development and growth with an amount of between 50K to 100K USD. This would not be a grant, in the sense that the DAO would be getting 0.5% to 1% of the token supply of the ITD tokens which would increase in value (hopefully) as the ecosystem grows and the IP grows.
If the DAO agrees, we would request the funding be done in 2 tranches (25k each or 50k each) and those would be tied to milestones around development and growth.
CONCLUSION
Thanks for taking the time to read this. We initially went to the Arbitrum DAO with the proposal for Machinata but the DAO rejected that because they were working on the GCP.
We are looking to move forward with speed and since we would like to tie the game to either the Treasure or ApeChain ecosystems we figured it would be more appropriate to go directly to the source.
Happy to answer any questions.
Thank you, Ali