Name of Project / DAO / Company
Atlantis World
Application type
Launch
Introduction to Atlantis World
Atlantis World is building the Web3 social metaverse. We’re connecting Web3 (NFTs, DeFi + DAOs) with social, education and gaming inside of one lightweight virtual world that’s accessible to everybody.
We believe that existing metaverses set a high-cost barrier to entry and a hardware standard that doesn’t match up with global readiness due to a focus on 3d/immersive experience. We’re building Atlantis as a lightweight, 2d pixel metaverse that will run on any device in the web browser, from anywhere in the world!
We’re curating a fully fledged crypto economy of the metaverse starting with game experiences that plug into Web3 applications. You can even visit digital banks and unlock billions of dollars in liquidity for anything from savings accounts to borrowing, or freely exchange money and trade anything from financial instruments to NFT wearables and other digital goods / collectibles such as land.
We’ll build token gated cities for the top communities in Web3, starting with the founding partners of the Atlantis World ecosystem… Here, communities will be able to host virtual events powered by spatial video/audio calling, as well as NFT treasure hunts, voting in DAOs and using other Web3 applications. We’re also working hard to enable customizability features as well as building SDKs so that leading creators and developers can improve Atlantis World as a global collective. We’re building the user owned metaverse, so want to enable that as soon as possible.
We’re also working toward a planet positive future in collaboration with our users and community… which is why we’re planting a biodiverse, carbon capturing virtual forest inside of Atlantis.
Proposal
Scenario 1 - Harmony Nation
We’ll create an island nation for the Harmony ecosystem inside of Atlantis World. All land parcels / game assets will be tokenized natively on Harmony and all Web3 apps that populate the island or NATION will be native to the Harmony ecosystem.
We’ll work in collaboration with the Harmony community to grow and cultivate ONE home for Harmony token-holders, DAOs and ecosystem apps.
Beyond that, we see Harmony as founding partners on our mission to:
- Democratize metaverse, being lightweight first, enabling anybody from anywhere in the world to access in a web browser, on any device.
- Onboard the next 1B users into Web3 by creating a gamified onboarding framework inside of metaverse.
Aka… 
Connect Web3 with social, gaming and education in ONE lightweight virtual world that’s accessible to everybody and owned by the community.
Inside of Atlantis, we integrate Web3 apps in a novel way whereby DAO clubhouses (complete with existing frameworks, tooling + voting mechanics), digital banks (DeFi protocols), DEXs and NFT marketplaces exist inside of metaverse in a gamified way. Soon, we’ll also launch frameworks so that any developer can build their protocol or app into Atlantis World, as well as customizability features for creators.
We’ll leverage these experiences to build efficient, interactive and incentivized onboarding pipelines. In turn, growing the Harmony ecosystem together with our other partners from across Web3, enabling network effects for all parties involved.
Atlantis World core users, as well as the users of other chains / ecosystems, DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, DAOs and communities that we’ve onboarded, will be encouraged to explore the Harmony Nation inside of Atlantis World and begin interacting with ecosystem apps.
We foresee that our novel Learn2Earn MMORPG-style learning quests will become a core onboarding framework for Web3, since we’re expanding on the proof of concept layer of products like Rabbithole. Users will have the opportunity to earn tokens for interacting with Web3 apps inside of Atlantis World. In the case of Harmony Nation, users would for example be incentivized to visit a money exchange building and swap assets using Curve DEX or another ecosystem app in a totally gamified way, and be guided through that learning process by an in-game NPC.
Total $85k grant funding request
- Design Harmony Nation $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Design custom buildings of 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $15k (to be completed in Q1)
- Design chosen DAO clubhouse $5k (to be completed in Q1)
- Integrate 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Beta launch Harmony Nation with game assets tokenized on Harmony $15k (to be completed in Q2)
Next steps
- Connecting with other ecosystem Web3 apps to enable more integrations + Harmony native utility inside of Atlantis World.
- Airdropping Harmony Nation to the community.
- Summoning a DAO to continue building Harmony Nation… in Harmony! Also, the majority of Harmony Nation land/game assets could be owned by the DAO, with the DAO co-ordinating core development improvements and decision making over a long term.
- Hosting virtual events.
- Launching sponsored Learn2Earn quests to accelerate adoption of Harmony.
- Harmony wearables + swag inside of Atlantis World.
Scenario 2 - Harmony HQ in Atlantis City with 3 ecosystem Web3 apps + 1 chosen DAO clubhouse
We’ll design, build + implement a Harmony HQ building inside of Atlantis City. Here, new users will be guided by in-game NPCs to connect to the Harmony RPC on Metamask and begin interacting with the 3 chosen leading Web3 apps of Harmony ecosystem that we’ll integrate in a gamified way. Beyond that, we’ll also build a token-gated clubhouse building for a chosen Harmony-native DAO. Both there, and inside of Harmony HQ, users will be able to host virtual events (powered by video/audio calling), vote in DAOs + use tooling products and other fun activities like text chat and NFT treasure hunts.
Total $50k grant funding request
- Design Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q4)
- Design chosen DAO clubhouse $5k (to be completed in Q4)
- Integrate 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Implement all of the above to Atlantis City with NPCs in Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q1)
Next steps
- Connecting with other ecosystem Web3 apps to enable more integrations + Harmony native utility inside of Atlantis World.
- Airdropping Harmony HQ to the community.
- Hosting virtual events.
- Launching sponsored Learn2Earn quests to accelerate adoption of Harmony.
- Harmony wearables + swag inside of Atlantis World.
Scenario 3 - Harmony HQ + Harmony Nation
We’ll build both a Harmony HQ inside of Atlantis City that will include a portal to Harmony Nation. This enables us to launch on Harmony faster, having Harmony presence in Atlantis City from early Q1, whilst driving more attention to the Harmony ecosystem at the core of the Atlantis World experience.
Total $110k grant funding request
- Design Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q4)
- Design chosen DAO clubhouse $5k (to be completed in Q4)
- Integrate 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Implement all of the above to Atlantis City with NPCs in Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q1)
- Design Harmony Nation $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Design custom buildings of 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $15k (to be completed in Q1)
- Implement chosen DAO clubhouse + already integrated Web3 apps to Harmony Nation $5k (to be completed in Q1)
- Beta launch Harmony Nation with game assets tokenized on Harmony $15k (to be completed in Q2)
Scenario 4
On another note, it would be possible for Harmony to commit to “Scenario 1” and commit a follow-on grant to build Harmony Nation in the future, depending on how well received Harmony HQ would be by the community.
So put simply,
$50k grant funding allocation to build Harmony HQ
- Design Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q4)
- Design chosen DAO clubhouse $5k (to be completed in Q4)
- Integrate 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $25k (to be completed in Q1)
- Implement all of the above to Atlantis City with NPCs in Harmony HQ $10k (to be completed in Q1)
Then,
$60k follow-up grant to build Harmony Nation
- Design Harmony Nation $25k
- Design custom buildings of 3 ecosystem Web3 apps $15k
- Implement chosen DAO clubhouse + already integrated Web3 apps to Harmony Nation $5k
- Beta launch Harmony Nation with game assets tokenized on Harmony $15k
Team
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CJ Hetherington - Co-Founder, Product Lead
CJ has been a digital rights activist since the age of 8, and a tech entrepreneur since the age of 10; when he tried to raise $600k for a virtual casino way ahead of the crypto economic infrastructure that exists today. CJ hacked together one of the first ever gamified yield farms last year, building in the NFT space when transaction volume was below $200k USD / day (continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate but currently over $200M). -
Rev Miller - Co-Founder, Growth Lead
Rev is a serial entrepreneur with over 8 years experience building and growing media, FinTech, 3D / XR, and Web3 networks. He’s also leading adoption at Witnet, the decentralized oracle network. -
Julio Alcantara - Lead Game Developer
Julio is our lead game developer who has an additional 6 years of experience in design. He’s currently overseeing core development of Atlantis World, whilst working across the tech stack from PhaserJS, UI/UX design and Web3 integrations, as well as even creating game assets. Julio led the Atlantis tech team to win Best DeFi Project on Polygon as well as prizes from Aave and Audius at HackFS, and a winning effort in NFT Vision Hack’s Rarible track. In the past, he’s also led teams and won hackathons at Mintbean. -
Ilayda Pinarbasi - Lead Designer
Ilayda is our lead game designer with over 4 years of experience designing and even developing games. Whilst currently studying game design in Istanbul, she recently completed an exchange program at Seoul National Tech University in Korea. Also, Ilayda is a Youtube creator with over 500k views and enjoys Twitch streaming. -
Rachit Srivastava - Blockchain Developer
Rachit has been programming in Java since age 13 and is a full stack blockchain developer. He loves to build/chat/research anything blockchain related, aiming to contribute to the ecosystem by building solutions, with a primary interest in DeFi. He’s also a solidity developer at Nethermind, as well as a contributor at Harmony. -
Austyn Studdard - Game Developer
Austyn is an experienced game developer with over 5 years of experience, as well as being official developer support in the PhaserJS Discord server for over 2 years and making contributions to the core PhaserJS framework. He recently joined us from Treeverse, a sci-fi and fantasy based blockchain MMORPG. -
Chris Diperio - Game Developer
Chris found his way into software development having almost fully automated his financial analysis role as an operations manager at Xerox using SQL and becoming restless. He then became proficient in Java, C++ and C# before being captivated by Javascript, eventually joining Atlantis World as a game developer. Chris is comfortable wearing many hats across our tech stack.
Metrics for success
Some key success factors for Harmony Nation and HQ (inside of Atlantis World) that we see moving forwards are as follows:
- Harmony ecosystem growth (focusing on WoW, MoM, engagement, retention).
- Number of Harmony ecosystem Web3 apps integrated.
- Network effects between Harmony, other chains and the wider Atlantis ecosystem.
- Onboarding new users through Learn2Earn quests and other initiatives.
- Community engagement (virtual events, community gatherings, gamified DAO voting/governance, NFT treasury hunts, etc).
External Links
Co-founder CJ chatting with Harmony founder Stepehen Tse at Liscon:
Website: https://atlantis.world
Demo: https://demo.atlantis.world (NEW ALPHA VERSION COMING Q4-Q1)
Final Notes
We’re currently building hard on a completely new version of Atlantis which we’re planning to ship before EOY. On our first prototype / demo version we currently have over 2k active users, for the new version we have over 6k early access sign ups.
We’re still fully bootstrapped, managing to scale our team to 7 full time core contributors on the back of grants, collabs + our own capital. So, the support of Harmony would be huge to us in helping us build the user owned metaverse for public good whilst accelerating the adoption of both Harmony ecosystem and Web3 in general. In terms of user ownership, we want to enable that ASAP, though we’re exploring alternative methods vs launching a token as it stands right now.
Our current ecosystem partners have social media communities of 2.5M+ users that will be invited to beta test Atlantis and become our early adopters. Joint marketing is a core part of our GTM and we’re onboarding new partners at an unprecedented rate.
We also plan to enable network effects for all parties involved, by incentivising and encouraging different partner communities to try each other’s products inside of Atlantis. As well as this, we’ll also target non crypto natives with interactive learning for DeFi and other Web3 building blocks like DAOs, blockchain games and blockchain wallets, even creating core Web3 onboarding and wallet creation experience.
We also have super active 5k+ Discord users, with 700+ mobilising to make a contribution to our GR11 grant (in the early days when we had only around 1000 community members).
to have the Harmony community participate to ask questions and provide feedbacks.