EMPIRE Protocol
Proposal overview
EmpireDAO is managing a 6-story building in the heart of Manhattan dedicated to the advancement of web3. The location will serve as a 24/7 multi-chain workspace with NFT-based memberships for co-working, events, courses, creator spaces, game rooms and more. There are more than 200+ DAOs, teams, and individuals on a waitlist to lease space at this location.
The foundation for the workspace will be the $EMPIRE protocol, a Web3 stack solution that will provide a framework to launch physical spaces for communities. The protocol helps onboard and manage additional locations that web3 networks, protocols and projects have to make underutilized IRL spaces discoverable for developers and enthusiasts all over the world.
EMPIRE Manhattan location will be open in late March. We are at the final stages of raising our seed round. We are raising $5 million for 10% of our equity, which will be a SAFE with token warrant.
We are actively looking at various chains for our initial launch and will be adopting a multi-chained approach in the long term. Hence, we are seriously considering Harmony for our membership NFT. We are actively looking for layer-1 protocol for partnerships to launch our very first KYC NFT membership.
Proposal ask
$500k - $750k
Metrics for success
March 4, 2022 - Close our seed round
March 20, 2022 - Open EMPIRE workspace in 190 Bowery New York, NY
April, 2022 - Launch NFT membership
Currently:
1000 Twitter following
200+ users on discord
20 active contributors
4 Core members
This number reflects natural adoption and following as we have not yet begun active marketing or PR. We will be publishing an article with Coindesk early March to announce our project along with several partnerships with various layer-1, layer-2, DAO and web3 projects.