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Treasure downsizes as co-founder proposes pivot to AI brokers, ditching sport publishing and the just-launched Treasure Chain
Throughout latest weeks, co-founder and lead contributor at Treasure DAO John Patten has shocked the neighborhood with an outline of Treasure’s monetary state of affairs.
One consequence is that the DAO has sliced the scale of its head rely by about 15. It’s additionally seen co-founder Karel Voung step away.
Taking issues a step additional nevertheless, Patten has now proposed that Treasure DAO utterly restructures and pivots away from sport publishing. This may comprise shutting down its whole sport publishing stack in addition to stopping all grants to partnering sport builders instantly. Treasure’s zkSync-based gaming rollup Treasure Chain, which went reside in December 2024, would even be scrapped.
Patten claims that with its present burn charge, “Treasure as a sport writer and sport platform would solely final till July 2025”, including that “by September, the treasury can be empty of USDC and liquid MAGIC. There would nonetheless be a number of thousands and thousands of USD to pay out to sport builders in debt for once they hit their milestones”.
As a method ahead, Treasure should concentrate on not more than 4 streamlined core merchandise for the remainder of 2025, he argues. These embrace Treasure’s market, its native sport Bridgeworld, gaming IP Smolworld, and AI agent scaling know-how.
Basically, Bridgeworld and SMOL would function tasks to showcase how Treasure’s MAGIC token, market and AI agent framework could be utilised and scale, within the hope that different tasks would comply with go well with.
“We should, pivot, pivot, and pivot once more, till we discover market match. Smolworld is a billion greenback IP,” Patten provides.
After all, not everyone seems to be proud of this path. One sport formally saying it’s leaving Treasure in consequence is The Beacon. In a submit on X, its co-founder and CEO Diego Vidaurre commented, “Treasure’s present imaginative and prescient not aligns with the objectives we now have for our sport and ecosystem.” The sport will stay on Arbitum, the ecosystem it beforehand was constructing on earlier than Treasure migrated to zkSync.