The Decentraland DAO has a 200M treasury for ecosystem grants. A grant of 0.5% of the fund to a project who has brought over 60% of the daily active traffic to the platform is reasonable. We are looking for temporary support from the Decentraland community until we can launch and stabilize ICE Poker Sit n Go Tournaments, along with other new game modes that will sustain ICE Poker long term. I detail the design here: https://twitter.com/0xMiles/status/1520086507381346304
In terms of metaverse virtual world platforms, Decentraland is still in the lead, but there is a LOT of competition coming. Decentraland’s edge is real users, while competitors are not live yet (at this point in time but they also have billions to invest in projects building on their platforms). Losing all the DAU from DG and ICE Poker will remove Decentraland’s edge by over half.
We understand that 1M is a large allocation, but we have shown that we can deliver, and we are confident that this grant will get us to where we need to be in a few months as we prepare to onboard the next million users into Decentraland.