Campaign Description
This campaign is hosted by Atocha Protocol, a puzzle game appchain running live on Octopus Network. The Near Grand Treasure Hunt 2022 will be a collective puzzle-solving game that will be running throughout the NearCon 2022. The Treasure Hunt will be a Winner Takes All model whereby there will be a collective 30-50 puzzles to be solved VIRTUALLY/PHYSICALLY. Every puzzle solved will unlock a piece of information which the person who collected all 30-50 pieces will be the grand prize winner.
Marketing Type: One-off joint campaign (Sponsor for the prize)
Goal of the campaign
To gather projects that are developing in Near ecosystem to have fun and engaging interaction with the participants of Nearcon2022
To generate interest and reach for each participating projects in Nearcon2022
To help projects that are not present in Nearcon2022 to have exposure to the crowd
To add in the element of surprise for Nearcon2022 through treasure hunt
How to Join The Campaign:
Atocha sends out invitation to Near ecosystem projects
Project team fills in the information through the form attached
Atocha team will go through the RSVP and get back to the project team
Once confirmed, Atocha team will invite the project team to a Telegram group where all the Partners are
Puzzle details will be created in a master Google Doc and shared among the Partners in the Telegram group
Partners will need to confirm the puzzle details (mainly the question and answer)
Once puzzle details is confirmed, Atocha team will start plan the roll out of the puzzle (tentatively 3 days before NearCon 2022 will publish the puzzles)
Proposal to the Project Team:
Atocha team invites the project team to sponsor based on their capability(preferably NEAR/USN/USDC, can be native token or NFT as well).
The collected Sponsor funds/tokens/NFT will be accumulated in the grand prize pool. We are aiming to have a collective 30 Partners to gather a total of $5,000 USD value prize.
Atocha team will sponsor each puzzle created with $10 USD value $ATO through play.atocha.io
Participating projects can also choose to giveaway some extra prize for the Players who successfully solve the dedicated puzzle for the project.
Project team only need to provide details as follow:
Brand asset (logo)
2-3 highlights (info about your project that you want it to be noticed)
Social links
Sponsor preference and total value
What’s in for the Project Team:
Leveraging the community base from each of the project. That will bring more exposure to the players that are solving each of the puzzle.
Leveraging on the resources of each Partners. We believe that with a reasonable commitment from each of the project team based on the capacity, the treasure hunt campaign can become a huge attraction as an side event during NearCon2022.
Leveraging on Partners in NearCon2022. We will distribute QR code plates that can direct IRL participants to scan and engage with the puzzle games. That will largely increase the channel for users to come onboard to play.
Leveraging on the puzzle mechanism. Project team can hide certain tasks and giveaway perks for those who solved their respective featured puzzle. Winners will do task like tweeting, following and tagging friends before the project team transfer the giveaway to the winners.
Leveraging on different media/Near Guild Community participants. We are working with several media/Near Guild Community entities like Near Insider, Nearity, Near Master, Near Vietnam Guild, Near Philippines Guild, Near Malaysia Guild, Near Indonesia Guild, Near Russia Guild, Near Nigeria Guild, Near France Guild, etc. With that, we are collaborating together to get the campaign to achieve maximum reach.
Player Treasure Hunt Experience
The players will be experiencing the treasure hunting in a hybrid way: virtual and IRL:
Players can scan QR code in NearCon 2022 to play or engage through the participating Partners’ social channel which will be sharing the details
Virtual puzzle game will be set up (viewable on a landing page build specifically for Nearcon2022)
IRL (in real life) puzzle game will be set up on physical booth on NearCon 2022 (the details will be published once confirming with the Partners) [Optional]
Players can freely choose the puzzles to solve and whoever win the puzzle will unlock the prize and getting a piece of grand prize’s clue
Players who successfully collected all the grand prize clue pieces will have a series of numbers and letters. The first who successfully submit the correct answer will be the winner of the grand prize.
The grand prize will be transferred manually to the winner by Atocha team.
Participating Partners (Posting a finalized list by 9th September 2022)
Octopus Network
Debio Network
Myriad Social
DEIP Network
Fusotao Protocol
Discovol DAO
Unique One Network
QSTN
Near Insider
Near Master
Nearity
Near Games Guild
Near Nigeria Guild
Near Vietnam Guild
Near Philippines Guild
Near Malaysia Guild
Near Singapore Guild
Near France Guild
Near Russia Guild
Near Brazil Guild
NearStarter
3six9 Marketplace
Near Stars Guild
Vision Chain
9JA Web3 Hub
Holistic Pilgrim
Skyharbour + The Rust Guild
Coinhall
Open Web Sandbox (OWS)
Human Guild
Near Coverage
Mr.Brown NFT
TenkDAO
Vision Chain
Near Stader
(still adding)
UPDATED FINAL LIST (8 September 2022 update)
Octopus Network
Debio Network
Myriad Social
DEIP
Unique One Network
QSTN
Near Insider
Near Master
Nearity
Near Games Guild
Near Nigeria Guild
Near Vietnam Guild
Near Malaysia Guild
Near Singapore Guild
Near France Guild
Paras NFT Marketplace
3six9 NFT Marketplace
Ref Finance
Skyward Finance
NEARStarter
Near Stars Guild
Aurora
Near Foundation (NEARCON)
Vision Chain
Skyharbour (The Rust Guild)
TenkDAO
Mr. Brown NFT
Near Misfits
Together Coin
Roketo
Guild name: Atocha Game Guild (Atocha Protocol)
Funding scheme: One time (for the NEAR2ATO Treasure Hunt)
Expected impact and value you foresee for the NEAR ecosystem/community:
Engagement directly with the participating projects (30 participating projects), which can increase following and social media engagement.
Converting puzzle game enthusiasts from none-web3 background to a Near Wallet owner (winning the puzzle and incentivized to open one)
Leverage the community from each participating project to have cross-marketing.
Metrics for measuring success:
The metrics mentioned will be measured through the Google Analytic tool:
7-9 September 2022 - Sneak Peek announcement and share by all Partners
10-11 September 2022 - Soft Launch of Near Grand Treasure Hunt (releasing 10 puzzles)
11-14 September 2022 - NEARCON 2022 (Full launch of the puzzle)
Treasure Hunt will end once the winner of the grand prize prevails.
Funding Details:
Grand Prize Sponsor: $2,500 USD value of NEAR
Sub-Prize Sponsor (for Near Foundation Featured Puzzle first 10 winners): $500 value of NEAR
Total requested amount in USD and NEAR: $3,000 USD value of NEAR (795 NEAR)
NEAR Wallet ID / DAO: near2ato.near (change to atocha.near)
Wallet owner’s name: Kim Zhao Wei (Atocha Protocol)
Thanks, @Dacha for highlighting this. As the list is not a finalized one yet, we will adjust based on the feedback as well. Noted as both of the projects have not given us any response yet.
Hi.
What are the expectations of your offer for Nearcon2022 and what is the result you can provide? You have written projects with which you will cooperate, but there is no comment about them. You write in the comments about cooperation with the project, but they are not in the list. On what principle did you make this list?
Thx
I am happy to support this proposal, always excited to find new ways to promote existing projects on the broader NEAR ecosystem to help them succeed. It is clear that NEARCON is a great opportunity to present your product to thousands of people, hopefully get a big spike in awareness and adoption.
I do have a couple of questions and comments,
Considering the incentives (a Grand prize) please make sure that the submissions for each project (questions and answers) are done separately. It would be very easy for any project to cheat and look at all the answer from all the other projects. It would also be very hard to police or monitor, just gotta get the design right from the beginning.
My only reservation is the inclusion of Stader Labs. They are yet to compensate the users that lost funding following the NEARX exploit. I am both against them spending any money until they have settled those liabilities and on using community funds to promote them until they make good to all affected users and have successfully migrated their smart contracts, etc. Please consider removing them as partners.
There are still time available for this to go through as we are distributing the prize based on the response from the participants until the end of NEARCON2022 (or slightly beyond based on whether there’s any grand prize winner).
Yes, we have changed the operation model to deal separately with the projects. Only Atocha team has the full access to all the puzzles created and most of the puzzles are created by our team. So that will largely reduce the chance of cheating from any parties.
Sure, we will remove Near Stader from the Partner Listing. As far as I am concerned, they already have their measures to compensate the victims of the exploit but the compensation is in progress.
Hey, thanks for your sharp question. Here are the feedbacks from the team:
Expectation of our offer to NEARCON2022: a continuous campaign to promote about NEARCON2022 (online and offline) via social media channels and also IRL QR card distribution
Result that we can provide: increase of engagement for NEARCON2022 and also the participating projects. This is a model that we will be working on in the coming quarter as well which we hope to first launch for NEARCON. What we aim to generate is a combined and share reach enabled by all the participating projects and maximize the value for each of the projects, including NEARCON.
Comment about the project: We choose the project based on our previous collaboration relationship. We do not engage projects that we are not familiar with, especially those that may involved promotion about NFT sales, token purchase, etc. There are 3 categories in general for the selection of Partners. The first one is community guild which is self explainable, the guild will help us in terms of spreading of the Treasure Hunt to their community members. The second one is projects recommended by reputable entities like Octopus Network, TenkDAO, Paras. Of course, they are our Partners as well and they helped in terms of referring project for us (not able to connect with @Dacha Aurora community yet but we hope to include in the next coming Treasure Hunt). The third category will be Partners that we previously collaborated and have good records.
Principle to make the list: The main concern for us is not to involve projects that may not transparent background and clear goals. We want to ensure that we are delivering a Treasure Hunt that does not involve any malicious projects.
There is a misunderstanding going on for who the Grand Prize winner is as the rule is not understood correctly. The team would love to clarify through the Twitter thread.
Anyhow, we are finalizing all the winners including the 30 puzzles that we put together. The prize will be distributed as stated in each puzzles and all transactions record will be published here.
We are still pending for the funding from Marketing DAO, Octopus Network and few other Partners.
Hi.
The terms of this contest are violated on the following points in my opinion and this is the opinion of the Atocha chat community and Twitter subscribers.
The contest conditions specify the time 6:00 UTC, how can the puzzle be solved 90 minutes before the official time? Why don’t you respond to messages on Twitter and Telegram? Why is your winner anonymous? Share the winner’s information on your version. A person who considers himself a winner has shared his information openly. Here is the evidence for my arguments.
Thanks for getting to this issue and I would personally like to clarify all the doubts.
First of all, the team and I will never want to be “cheating” or getting behind the community just to “scam” for something that isn’t ours. We standby the value of Treasure Hunt which is to explore and expect the UNEXPECTED.
Let me reply to your concern one by one:
The contest conditions specify the time 6:00 UTC, how can the puzzle be solved 90 minutes before the official time? The FINAL PUZZLE is not a puzzle on the landing page (web2) but on our Webapp (web3 that is onchain). The complaining community members do not understand the difference and hence causing the confusion. We do apologise for the earlier creation of the puzzle in this case but that we believe will not affect the fairness in anyway. WHY IS THAT SO? So here are the points that everyone should be aware of:
The FINAL PUZZLE is an onchain puzzle created on Atocha Protocol. The puzzle was created on chain 90 minutes earlier than the stated time (which was then removed from the main page as we do not want to over promise the manual work of creation but was screenshot anyway). However, there is 1 hour gap before the FINAL PUZZLE was SOLVED by a user. Here are the onchain record: https://twitter.com/AtochaProtocol/status/1570897730947645441?s=20&t=gwlaZ4o8d9OmnqK25VzbrA
Therefore, there is no unfairness in this circumstance. We do not make any announcement in regards to the creation of the FINAL PUZZLE. It was simply picked up by the users who are browsing our webapp (play.atocha.io) and managed to solve it first. In this 1 hour gap, anyone can access to the puzzle and solve it.
Why don’t you respond to messages on Twitter and Telegram? YES, I have personally responded to all repeatedly. The chat history is there on Discord and Telegram. There is no need for me to prove further.
Why is your winner anonymous? THE WINNER is not entirely anonymous. We have gotten in touch with the winner which is DOX in Discord and also polkadot wallet address. We have published the verification and transparent about it. Here are the vefication:
Proof of time stamp of the winner solving on chain and the complaining community member that he/she claimed the wallet. The winner solved the puzzle onchain first which will result the answer to be PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. Therefore, the complaining community member has no RIGHT to claim that he/she is the winner as the answer is already there: https://twitter.com/AtochaProtocol/status/1570897720289931265?s=20&t=gwlaZ4o8d9OmnqK25VzbrA
A person who considers himself a winner has shared his information openly. YES, he did share his information to me and I wrongly claimed that he is the winner. After he failed to proof that he is the owner of the wallet (5EkUNqgj8jBijAHScd78QSVy1LcpUw3U75chNi34ygh2yRdf) then only I realized I was too rush to make the announcement and has explained to him about the rule of the Grand Prize. He did not listen and proceed to make complain on every channel.
I am deeply saddened to see such thing happened to the NEAR2ATO Treasure Hunt which we spent a lot of time putting resources together. I do hope that the community can stand by us as the proof is solid as rock that we are doing this professionally. Of course, we are sorry that we did not follow the time strictly to create the FINAL PUZZLE, we admit that but the result is FINAL. We still stand by the ONCHAIN RESULT which is ultimate.
Sir first of all they release their final puzzle before one hour of official announcement how can we know ,puzzle is started we wait for time.
They said final winner have not active twitter account ,but in rule we need to follow both near and Atocha account on twitter to be part of winner
They put one more concept Easter egg that is not mention on Guidelines what is that.
Why they deleat their winner announcement tweet this if they are not wrong swe their Discord and telegram chat history community not satisfied with unfairness
