Throughout latest weeks, co-founder and lead contributor at Treasure DAO John Patten has shocked the neighborhood with an summary of Treasure’s monetary scenario.
One final result is that the DAO has sliced the dimensions of its head rely by about 15. It’s additionally seen co-founder Karel Voung step away.
Taking issues a step additional nevertheless, Patten has now proposed that Treasure DAO utterly restructures and pivots away from sport publishing. This is able to comprise shutting down its whole sport publishing stack in addition to stopping all grants to partnering sport builders instantly. Treasure’s zkSync-based gaming rollup Treasure Chain, which went stay in December 2024, would even be scrapped.
Patten claims that with its present burn charge, “Treasure as a sport writer and sport platform would solely final till July 2025”, including that “by September, the treasury can be empty of USDC and liquid MAGIC. There would nonetheless be a number of hundreds of thousands of USD to pay out to sport builders in debt for after they hit their milestones”.
As a means ahead, Treasure should deal with not more than 4 streamlined core merchandise for the remainder of 2025, he argues. These embrace Treasure’s market, its native sport Bridgeworld, gaming IP Smolworld, and AI agent scaling know-how.
Basically, Bridgeworld and SMOL would function initiatives to showcase how Treasure’s MAGIC token, market and AI agent framework might be utilised and scale, within the hope that different initiatives would comply with swimsuit.
“We should, pivot, pivot, and pivot once more, till we discover market match. Smolworld is a billion greenback IP,” Patten provides.
In fact, not everyone seems to be pleased with this path. One sport formally saying it’s leaving Treasure in consequence is The Beacon. In a publish on X, its co-founder and CEO Diego Vidaurre commented, “Treasure’s present imaginative and prescient not aligns with the objectives we now have for our sport and ecosystem.” The sport will stay on Arbitum, the ecosystem it beforehand was constructing on earlier than Treasure migrated to zkSync.
