by 0xa691ee033b6d0d415047af8febd1915fdde319c0 (epappas#19c0)
Should the following Tier 6: up to $240,000 USD, 6 months vesting (1 month cliff) grant in the Platform Contributor category be approved?
Abstract
Integrate the Metanomic Economic Engine, which helps creators build, balance and run sustainable and profitable metaverse economies and the Metanomic Thunderstruck AI-powered player insights tool to understand users behaviour and motivations through on and off-chain data intelligence, with the Decentraland ecosystem.
Grant size
240,000 USD
Beneficiary address
0xa691ee033b6d0D415047AF8febd1915fdde319c0
Email address
Description
Metanomic helps web3 creators make smarter decisions from the evolving stories that data tells about what keeps people engaged in the Metaverse - after all, human attention is the key scarce resource everyone is competing for in web3. We do this through:
Helping platforms (like Decentraland) and their creators, understand their users through our unique AI classification platform, to improve liveops, monetisation, user lifetime value and retention.*
Providing the gaming and metaverse industry with the only liveops runtime tool for sustainable game economy ideation, creation, simulation & testing, deployment, and ongoing management and maintenance.
We do this with our two core products, the Metanomic Economy Engine and the Metanomic Thunderstruck AI Data Analytics Platform.
THE ECONOMY ENGINE:
A full runtime, real-time, economy engine that plugs into any game, that anyone can use to:
Simply and easily build an entire game economy in minutes rather than months
Simulate their economy,
Deploy at the click of a button,
Balance and update game economy states in real-time,
Feed analytics back to creators and owners,
Segment users and run simulations based on economy changes.
This means, games, metaverse platforms, defi projects, and digital experiences can now transition away from spreadsheets, high-risk timescales, and capital requirements, to our run-time platform.
THE THUNDERSTRUCK DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Allows web3 platforms and creators to:
Classify and categorise any user data for any industry (on and off chain), to enable hyper-segmentation for a massive range of use cases using:
- First-party data - Data collected from website visits, CRM systems, social media, subscriptions, mobile, and apps.
- Second-party data - Derived from a mutually beneficial relationships with another entities (partners, suppliers, etc.).
- Third-party data - From on chain and from web2 websites and social media platforms that can be used to reach a wider audience and augment first-party data to increase scale and reach and improve personalisation.
Because of our Economy Engine, we are creating a new source of active data that no-one else in the world has access to and intelligence from. This economy data can feed in to the AI to provide the highest-quality classifications of users for the entire gaming industry to empower LiveOps campaigns, advertising & marketing, increasing Ad Delivery revenue generation, and so much more.
As a result, we have the best AI platform on the market to:
Enrich any data, (1st, 2nd, or 3rd party data),
Classify and categorise data and contextual behaviours at scale,
Feed creators’ own data back to them to further optimise their experiences for more engagement and retention.
AND TOGETHER
By combining Engine’s ability to manage economic instances with Thunderstruck’s ability to turn those economic instances into actionable insights, which can in turn be used to further optimise economic instances to maximise player retention and engagement in terms of both time and money spent in play and platform, we can help Decentraland, and its creators to design and run more fun, and more profitable metaverse expenses to convert intrinsic value into shared extrinsic value and virtuous cycles for all parties.
Specification
Thunderstruck version 1 is already live.
Engine version 1 launches on the 1st of September 2022.
See our product demo here: Loom | Free Screen & Video Recording Software | Loom
Engine product outline: https://www.notion.so/metanomic/The-Economy-Engine-b6e3b6ca58a14669a8d420acc1727650
Thunderstruck product outline: Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Data connection catalogue (what kind of data our platform can handle): http://eventcatalog.metanomic.net/
Tech architecture map: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GslYHTg-B--5k_HMpcg7s0eRQdTurLU6ErVBhSuCogA/edit#slide=id.g10f846c6006\_0\_0
Our primary focus now is to place these powerful tools into the hands of the Web3 creator economy by partnering with key metaverse players and platforms - like Decentraland. We want our tools to help Decentraland’s community to be able to build, create and optimise the Web3 attention economy.
Personnel
Theo Priestley
CEO/ FOUNDER
20 Year Technology Executive
Author and international speaker
Startup Mentor at HTC ViveX, Alchemist Metaverse Strategist for brands and startups
Evangelos Pappas
CTO/ CO-FOUNDER
Over 15 years experience
Blockchain engineer, full stack developer, co- founder Ocyan (exited)
Elton Savvio Britto
PRINCIPAL GAME DESIGNER Over 10 years experience
Bronwyn Williams
CCO/ CO-FOUNDER
10 years financial experience
Commercial experience in blockchain launches across South Africa, author, keynote speaker
Masters in Economics and Game Theory
Nikos Tzagkarakis
CHIEF AI SCIENTIST
Over 6 years experience Bayesian, Deep Learning engineer
Andrew Wailes
VP OF BD & PARTNERSHIPS
Over 5 years experience in B2B sales
Roadmap and milestones
Key milestones:
2022
Q2 - launch Thunderstruck for gaming player classifications (DONE)
Q3 - launch Engine game balancing (for free) to the community
Q4 - launch Engine simulations and link Engine instances into Thunderstruck insights
2023
Q1 - launch Thunderstruck for general consumer retention and engagement classifications
Q2 - loop Thunderstruck insights back into Engine to create dynamic loyalty (attention and engagement loops for games and general metaverse / web3 participants)