GIP-55: Fund Dark Forest DAO for Arena game mode on Gnosis Optimism
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GIP: 55
title: Fund Dark Forest DAO for Arena development on Gnosis Optimism
author: cha0sg0d @cha0sg0d
status: Draft
type: Funding
created: 2022-06-26
Simple Summary
Dark Forest DAO (dfdao) is a team of developers and players that has been building on top of Dark Forest, an open-source, web3 game.
We reached an agreement with the former xDAI team in mid April to fund four months of development (April - July) to build a new game mode of Dark Forest on Gnosis Optimism.
The payment was in two phases: Phase 1 was the development of the new game mode. Phase 2 is hosting competitions and stress testing Gnosis Optimism.
The xDAI team paid us for Phase 1, but disbanded as part of the Gnosis merger before paying us for Phase 2. This proposal is to request payment from GnosisDAO for Phase 2 of our work, due to the xDAI / Gnosis merger.
Specification
We agreed on 3 goals with the xDAI / Gnosis team:
- Develop a new game mode of Dark Forest on the Gnosis Optimism (GO) chain
- Test GO infrastructure for transaction capacity and developer pain points.
- Bring 500+ Dark Forest players to the GO chain.
Here is our progress relating to each goal:
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We created Dark Forest: Arena, a fast-paced, beginner-friendly version of Dark Forest. Due to the low costs of Gnosis Optimism, this game mode has been free to play.
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We have tested the GO infrastructure, documenting broken URLs, identifying infrastructure problems such as Blockscout UI lag and downtime for the Graph node, and stress testing the network with a community round totaling over 200k transactions in one weekend.
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Our first official game mode has been the Grand Prix, a single player time trial. Players spawn identical universes and race for the best time across the map. We have run 4 Grand Prixes this month, totaling 348 unique users and over 1,000 races run.
We still have one month to go on the contract, with some new game modes and competition formats dropping soon. We will also be releasing an Optimism Builder's Guide
, sharing tips for future Gnosis developers.
Motivation
Here is the funding allocation in our agreement: $159k
Engineering time for 3 developers (2 full time, 1 part time):
- $109k
Strategy and comms time for 1 community manager and 1 game design advisor:
- $28k
Miscellaneous funds for prize pools, client + testing infrastructure, accounting support, and micro-grants to other contributors.
- $22k
Implementation
dfdao has a multi-signature wallet to administer the funds allocated to fulfilling the mandate. The details of this multi-sig wallet are as follows:
Multisig address on ETH mainnet: 0xe20Ce9B9Fe3E91B92eBe719909c5623675722a77
We request $159,000 to be sent to this address in a stablecoin (USDC, DAI, or USDT).
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