The Meme Maze
Milestone Report for Gaming DAO
Report Introduction:
This report will primarily cover items related to The Meme Maze proposal for Gaming DAO funding, which can be found here. Additionally, we have created a generic report for the community that can be accessed here. Below we will cover in detail all the items related to the project budget based on the 3 Stages outlined in the funding proposal.
Stage One: Pre-Launch - May 20th to June 3rd
The Meme Maze Game Build:
We were on schedule and completed the game build in Voxels on time before the launch of The Meme Maze on the 6th of June 2024. The location is currently closed with a token-gate, but we will do a video walk-through to be added to this report for proof.
SIN Honey Bot:
Initially we set out to have the Honey Bot (now named Honey Pot) developed and released by May 27th. We had to change our plan, as we now aim to token-gate the bot with our upcoming NFT launch. The intention is to give NFT holders the early access to mine $HONEY, which they will be able to redeem for $SURVIVE at a future date when our Token is officially launched.
Conversations with Slime have been ongoing and we have all the details around the bot, development and deployment, set and ready to go. So what’s left to do is to create the NFT contract to be included for the token-gating. We will be releasing more detailed information about the Honey Pot and our Honeycomb NFT drop next week and I will update this report to include links to the documents accordingly.
Giveaways:
With everything going on we were not able to run a total of 7 Giveaways in our Phase One. Instead I’m going to put all of the Giveaways we did in total across all the phases. Here are the links to the Tweets we ran giveaways on - 1 2 3 4 5
$10 worth of partner Tokens were purchased and distributed to winners. With the exception of our PotLock promo where we did a total of $20 in Blackdragon tokens (giveaway #5). So, a total of $60 in tokens were purchased and distributed instead of the proposed $100. We would still like to run the remaining 4 giveaways though and have plans to do so.
Deposit 20N in Shitzu Validator:
As we didn’t yet receive enough to fund this aspect of our proposal we used the promotional boosts validator deposit via vandao.near (bootstrap funding wallet) to boost a number of our Tweets. Each tweet boosted cost 1K $SHITZU. 8 posts were boosted in total across all stages. We would still like to contribute to the validator and receive rewards if this can be approved and funded!
AMA #1:
We had initially planned our first AMA for 21st May but we moved it to the 27th to give us more time to prepare and promote it. We included our first $50 in $NEAR giveaway for 5 best questions. Here’s the link to AMA #1. Unfortunately our initial Space got rugged and when we created the new one we forgot to enable recording.
Launch Public TG Group:
Our public TG group was slated for launch alongside the first AMA on the 27th of May but it was delayed until the 4th of June. The link to the group is here.
AI NFT Contest:
We had planned to run a contest independent of The Meme Maze but we ended up including this into our Tasks in the Maze itself. The NFTs have yet to be purchased as we wanted to wait until we had more funds to make the purchases.
NearWeek content submission to DAO:
We did not submit to the NearWeek DAO. Rather, we were invited to join the Alpha Show on the 5th June to talk about The Meme Maze at no cost!
Stage Two: Launch - June 3rd to June 8th
Social Analytics Snapshot #2
We created multiple Analytics documents. As of now we are unable to access the free analytics website as X has gated it for Premium subscribers. See the ones we created already here.
Giveaways:
See the above in Stage One.
AMA #2
We ran our 2nd AMA as scheduled on the 4th of June. We giveaway $50 in Near for the 5 best questions. Here’s the link to listen to the recording
Announce AI NFT Contest winners & purchase the NFTs
As noted in Stage One, we included this contest into our Tasks for The Meme Maze and have yet to purchase the NFTs due to budget constraints. Nor have we announced that we will be doing this, so if it happens it will be a surprise for everyone who participated!
Launch The Meme Maze on June 6th (48hrs)
The Meme Maze successfully launched on June 6th at 12AM UTC and ran for 48hrs. We had a total of 20 participants, 16 finishers. There were 14 Tasks included in the Maze.
Stage Three: Post Launch - June 8th to June 11th
Top 10 Winners Announcement & NFT Distribution
Given the complexity of the tasks involved I realised that it would take longer than just a couple of days to figure out our Top 10 and finishers. In fact it took 3 full days of work on my end and we didn’t make our announcement until the 14th of June. You can find the post here. The NFTs were distributed at the same time as the Airdrop rewards from our 10 partners.
Airdrop Distribution to winners
All Airdrop rewards were distributed together with the NFTs on the 16th of June. A new contract was created on Mintbase to mint and distribute the NFTs. The Airdrops tokens were moved from the DAO to sinrewards.near and distributed to the Top 10 finishers. They were all added to the Alpha Hive TG group. The reason we created a new contract is because Pumpopoly has offered to give Lands to our finishers and wanted to easily allocate based on who is holding the SIN Alpha NFT.
Conclusion:
Based on this report, and our initial proposal, I’ll list out the remaining Milestones that are left to complete in detail.
- Honey Pot Bot deployment
- Scheduled after our Honeycomb NFT Collection drop in July
- Purchase of 10 AI generated NFTs from participants of The Meme Maze
- Payout for The Meme Maze Easter Egg hunt
- 4 More giveaways to coincide with promotional posts leading into our Honeycomb NFT launch
- 20N deposit to the Shitzu Validator