Hello, community:
The Grant Support Squad was created to support the grantees in achieving their goals and take care of the DAO treasury.
After thoroughly reviewing this project and receiving many concerns raised by the community, the Squad wants to communicate that we will send this case to the Revocations Committee with our recommendation to revoke the vesting contract of the Grant.
These are the facts that we gathered:
Performance/Quality:
- The scene crashed several times in the web version. This may happen because if you are making constant changes to the scenes and users are testing at the same time, not all assets are converted to a more optimal format for Webgl.
That triggers that the team behind it wasn’t prepared to understand how the Decentraland environment works.
- The texture of the images, assets created and the whole experience were very low quality.
Some examples collected by the community:
Roadmap:
- Live streaming: The events scheduled in the Agenda have had issues regarding streaming: The scene was able to load. However, the audience couldn’t hear or see the video.
Some examples:
Decentraland awareness - a crossover between W3RLDS and DECENTRALAND
- In the Decentraland Biennale, there are many links to visit the Biennale in W3RLDS. But, if you see the Biennale in W3RLDS, there are no mentions of the Biennale in Decentraland.
- Also, the Decentraland DAO logo wasn’t shown in any deployed scenes on the Decentraland and neither on W3rlds (this was a requirement. Recognition requirement)
- In short, reciprocity, as they promised, isn’t present.
Example:
Metrics: The grantee said that the target audience size was: 50.000.
The numbers after the events happened are far from what they promised.
Also, it is not a justification if the audience in W3LDS was more than 50.000 because, as was written above, there was no mention of Decentraland there.
DCL Metrics: (location MAB - 82,0)
Wearables: The grantee promised to mint wearables and send them to the attendees, but many users are still awaiting their wearables due to the absence of an automated setup process.
Here, you can see the collection submitted.
Conclusion:
Several concerns have been raised regarding the quality, roadmap execution, live streaming, Decentraland awareness, wearables and metrics of the project. These concerns indicate issues with project preparation and delivery.
Performance/Quality: The scene crashed multiple times in the web version, possibly due to constant changes and asset optimization issues. This suggests that there was no effort to be prepared to understand the Decentraland environment.
Roadmap: Live streaming during scheduled events encountered problems, including issues with audio and video, indicating technical challenges in execution that couldn’t be addressed, even though they had had enough time to do it.
Decentraland Awareness: While there were links to the Decentraland Biennale in W3RLDS, there were no mentions of the Biennale in Decentraland, and the Decentraland DAO logo needed to be displayed as required.
Metrics: The project’s target audience size of 50,000 was not achieved, and metrics do not align with the promised figures. Additionally, there wasn’t mention of Decentraland in W3rlds.
These concerns highlight issues in project preparation, team, execution, and communication.
We recommend to the Revocations Committee (@maryana @dax @MetaDoge) that they revoke the vesting contract. The DAO Committee ((@HPrivakos @rizk @Tobik)will pause the vesting contract until the Committee takes the final decision.
Also, in this report we are notifying our recommendation to the Grantee (@MetaverseRick)
The grantee will have the opportunity to release a public statement explaining the work done, the issues that they had, their own metrics, and any other relevant points to the Revocations Committee. Last, if more information appears, we will send it directly to the Revocations Committee.
Grant Support Squad.