Throughout latest weeks, co-founder and lead contributor at Treasure DAO John Patten has shocked the group with an summary of Treasure’s monetary scenario.
One end result is that the DAO has sliced the scale of its head rely by about 15. It’s additionally seen co-founder Karel Voung step away.
Taking issues a step additional nonetheless, Patten has now proposed that Treasure DAO utterly restructures and pivots away from sport publishing. This might 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 dwell in December 2024, would even be scrapped.
Patten claims that with its present burn price, “Treasure as a sport writer and sport platform would solely final till July 2025”, including that “by September, the treasury could be empty of USDC and liquid MAGIC. There would nonetheless be a number of tens of millions of USD to pay out to sport builders in debt for after they hit their milestones”.
As a approach ahead, Treasure should concentrate on not more than 4 streamlined core merchandise for the remainder of 2025, he argues. These embody Treasure’s market, its native sport Bridgeworld, gaming IP Smolworld, and AI agent scaling expertise.
Basically, Bridgeworld and SMOL would function tasks to showcase how Treasure’s MAGIC token, market and AI agent framework may be utilised and scale, within the hope that different tasks would observe 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 route. One sport formally asserting it’s leaving Treasure consequently 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 targets now we 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.