Hi everyone,
During April we finished the Grants Program Season 1 review and selected the grantees, the functional design for iOS in-app purchases to comply with Apple policies came together, the Q1 audit closed with no issues, and the team shipped a lot of work on mobile, the Bevy web client, and our games.
Scope: Apr 1–30
Living Roadmap: high-level goals, % complete, and short descriptions across hiring, projects, and funding.
Financial Dashboard: treasury and ops overview, diversification activity, vault deposits/yields, and spend categories.
Financial Transparency
No MANA swaps in April. MANA stayed below the budget break-even price of $0.26 ($0.0898 at snapshot). Our existing stablecoin reserves keep covering operational expenses, so no extra diversification was needed.
Two treasury movements this month:
- 535,000 MANA sent to fund the contributor Long-Term Incentive Plan vesting contracts (verify on Safe).
- 1,442,308 MANA deposited into the Operational Wallet to fund Grants Program Season 1 (verify on Safe).
Operational Wallet 
DeBank Dashboard
| Date | Assets | Amount | SubTotal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/30/26 | $MANA | 1,951,292.04 MANA | $175,226.03 |
| 4/30/26 | ETH | 0.0194 ETH | $41.32 |
| 4/30/26 | Morpho | - | $343.00 |
| 4/30/26 | USDC | $234,212.74 | $234,259.58 |
| Current Total Assets | $409,869.92 |
DCL Regenesis Labs Wallet DeBank Dashboard
| Date | Assets | Amount | SubTotal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/30/26 | $MANA | 10,738,209.00 MANA | $964,291.17 |
| 4/30/26 | USDT | $99,301.94 | $99,262.22 |
| 4/30/26 | USDC | $0.06 | $0.06 |
| Morpho Smokehouse USDT | $414,134.01 | $414,134.01 | |
| Morpho Stakehouse USDC | $353,835.01 | $353,835.01 | |
| Morpho Stakehouse USDC | $351,804.41 | $351,804.41 | |
| Gauntlet USDT Core | $291,663.48 | $291,663.48 | |
| Gauntlet USDC Prime | $273,071.47 | $273,071.47 | |
| Current Total Assets | $2,748,061.83 |
Grants Program: Season 1
The Season 1 review finished in April. We received 29 valid proposals for a total of $342,300 requested across content and tech categories. The proposals were reviewed with help from AI powered evaluator agents and an improved oracle agent that now cross-references public forum threads and conversations for more context.
After the review, 7 projects reached the bar for funding, around $32K out of the up to $55K Season 1 pool. All the selected projects are mobile-first. One project later withdrew before funding. Kickoffs started on May 1, and payments are processed through Request Finance in MANA, funded by the 1,442,308 MANA moved into the Operational Wallet this month.
Mobile Clients
:android: Android v64 / v65 · 
iOS TestFlight v1.2 / v1.4
Two releases shipped across the cycle, with 57 PRs merged. The bigger one rolled out to the stores right at the start of May.
Movement & Controls
- Double jump and glide fully implemented (#1886), including glider prop animations and matching Unity’s system.
- Proximity (non-pointer) interactions (#1841).
Visual Fidelity
- Skybox visual parity with Unity GenesisSky (#1878): tri-zone tint, cubemap clouds, sun and moon rendering, stars, plus a full shader performance sweep.
- Spring bones minimal support (#1849) per ADR-316.
Social & UX
- Chat mentions autocomplete (#1822).
- Backpack landscape v2 (#1823): responsive layout, emote equip UX and VFX.
- Ban and kicked modals (#1803).
- Email sign-in provider button (#1821).
Platform & Infrastructure
- Godot 4.6.2 migration (#1819).
- iOS deeplink handling for 4.6 (#1842, #1924).
- Install referrer tracking via Segment and Firebase Analytics (#1782).
- Day-1 retention notification fixes (#1915).
Privacy & Compliance
- Privacy Policy updated to cover Firebase data collection for Android, with a geographic exclusion for Europe.
Bevy Web Client
37 PRs merged · 14 issues closed
Avatar & Animation System
- Scene-driven movement animations (#723): scenes can now control avatar animations via
PbAvatarMovement, synced to remote players. - Scene-driven physics impulses (#717): apply impulses and forces to avatars via
PBPhysicsCombinedImpulse/PBPhysicsCombinedForce. - Foot IK with pelvis lowering (#742): inverse kinematics that plants avatar feet on slopes and uneven terrain (toggle with
/footik). - Spring Bones minimal support (#708).
- Nametag bone tracking (#707).
Platform & Infrastructure
- Social client WASM support (#711): the social client now works on web builds.
- Web fullscreen support (#700).
- Multi-line text input for scene UIs (#743).
Cross-Platform Feature Parity
- Double-jump and glide defaults (#734).
- Input modifiers forwarding
disable_double_jump/disable_glidingfrom scenes (#746).
OpenDCL: Agentic Scene Builder
13 PRs merged in April
OpenDCL Studio shipped some good editor improvements and the first version of the asset catalog pipeline:
- Asset catalog system: an R2-hosted catalog with a browser UI, a category filter, and React Compiler integration (#37, #42).
- Editor fixes: the Monaco editor now updates correctly when switching files (#36), image upload to chat (#30), and lazy-load plus PageSpeed optimization (#29).
- Preview improvements: Bevy UI (minimap, chat) is now hidden during scene preview (#41).
- Landing page polished: hero, footer, and feature cards (#33, #27).
Games & Content
Three titles in active development during April, with 77 PRs merged between them.
Dead Surge (52 PRs)
The survival zombie game got its biggest update so far: 4 arenas (#250), a lava floor hazard system with progressive difficulty patterns (#205), a leaderboard (#263), a teammate HUD (#262), limited lives with a heart UI (#235), and a unified upgrade shop with persistent gun upgrades (#192, #181). The visuals also improved, with GLB bullet models, muzzle flash VFX, blood effects, and a damage overlay.
Cozy Farm (17 PRs)
The OpenDCL experiment kept growing: a fertilizer system (#33), a worker wage system with offline simulation (#21, #23), a beauty score system (#15), mailbox and neighbors (#16), and auth-server integration for persistent storage (#13).
Tower of Madness (8 PRs)
We launched the wearable prize tournament (#125), added cinematic camera onboarding (#123), and fixed a black avatar bug that was blocking players (#109).
We consider Tower of Madness finished at this point.
Legal & Compliance
- Q1 2026 Audit completed by our external auditor, with 2 minor findings and no material issues. The full report will be published together with the Q1 transparency report.
- Data Processing Agreement (DPA) between the Decentraland Foundation and RGL in progress. It was triggered by the Firebase SDK implementation for campaign tracking. It is under review with the Foundation’s legal team, and we are targeting an early-May close, retroactive to the mobile launch.
- Privacy Policy and Terms of Use updated on decentraland.org/terms, coordinated with the Foundation and external counsel.
- The legal process around DAO-controlled assets still held by former DAO Committee members continues. We will report to the community on the steps taken as soon as the situation allows.
iOS In-App Purchases
This was the main operational workstream of April. After the Apple review meeting, the team agreed on a credits-based system as the way forward:
- Users buy credits through Apple in-app purchase (credits don’t expire, and there is no withdrawal).
- Credits are 1:1 with MANA, priced with a markup to cover Apple’s commission.
- Credits can be used for wearables in the marketplace. There are no in-app marketplace transactions.
- Daily purchase limits and a refund-aware markup are built in from day one.
Apple compliance target: early July. The work needs to land in June, and we are on track.
Comms & Community
- Grants Program Season 1 is live: grants.dclregenesislabs.xyz · Forum thread
- We held an All Hands community session in April and shared team updates live with the community.