Throughout current weeks, co-founder and lead contributor at Treasure DAO John Patten has shocked the neighborhood with an summary of Treasure’s monetary scenario.
One consequence is that the DAO has sliced the scale of its head depend 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 fully restructures and pivots away from recreation publishing. This could comprise shutting down its complete recreation publishing stack in addition to stopping all grants to partnering recreation 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 charge, “Treasure as a recreation writer and recreation 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 hundreds of thousands of USD to pay out to recreation builders in debt for after they hit their milestones”.
As a approach 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 recreation Bridgeworld, gaming IP Smolworld, and AI agent scaling expertise.
Primarily, 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.
After all, not everyone seems to be proud of this path. One recreation formally saying it’s leaving Treasure because of this is The Beacon. In a submit on X, its co-founder and CEO Diego Vidaurre commented, “Treasure’s present imaginative and prescient now not aligns with the objectives we’ve got for our recreation and ecosystem.” The sport will stay on Arbitum, the ecosystem it beforehand was constructing on earlier than Treasure migrated to zkSync.
