[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.
Well, the gaming industry is probably the biggest industry by value in the world. Opening the door for Cardano and Cardano native assets to be used in the gaming industry and the metaverse seems like a very sensible way to build adoption.
I have built The CardanoVerse to demonstrate to other game developers how the Cardano ecosystem can be applied to the gaming industry and brand building metaverse 3D virtual worlds.
By focusing on the Epic Unreal Engine & Unreal Engine for Fortnite community there is a clear demographic and the possibility to introduce 18 to 45 year old people to the Cardano ecosystem.
Here are the locations & activities in our first Island Hub "Central City"
General Introduction
The CardanoVerse Central City Hub is the gateway location to multiple other Virtual Cardano Hubs representing various parts of the Cardano community, ecosystem, and economy.
Numerous Virtual Cardano Hubs will be built by our team that will be linked by portals from The CardanoVerse Global Hubs Tower. We will also offer portals to Virtual Cardano Hubs created by members of the Cardano community using compatible software.
The CardanoVerse Central City Hub is a place where you can develop your navigation and playing skills, have fun, and learn core concepts about our metaverse 3D world, ready to take on more and more challenging missions on specialised hubs.
Following the initial development of The CardanoVerse, which has been entirely privately funded up to now, ongoing development will be supported by the sale of Cardano NFT's and our Cardano HUBS token.
The Expansion of new Island Hubs
The funding requested is a small contribution to the overal cost of expanding this project, now we have established & published "Central City" we are adding more Island Hubs to represent continents around the world and venture undersea & into outer space, here are the new areas we are building:
The CardanoVerse - North America Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - South America Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - UK & Europe Continent Hub*
The CardanoVerse - Africa Continent Hub – North, West, Central
The CardanoVerse – (Middle East) Emirates Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - Oceania Continent Hub*
The CardanoVerse - East Asia Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - South Asia – India
The CardanoVerse - Central Asia Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - Arctic – Ice Sheet North Pole Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse - Antarctica – South Pole* Continent Hub
The CardanoVerse – Sea world
The CardanoVerse – Space Station
The effectiveness of this approach will be simply demonstrated by the number of users engaging with our games and our metaverse 3D World offerings.
Here are some of the locations & activities currently published in The CardanoVerse - Central City:
Here is a full list of features and locations:
The CardanoVerse Global Hubs Tower
The Cardano Hotel
Little Barcelona Village*
ADA Plaza – Cardano Tower
ADA Plaza – IOHK/IOG Building
ADA Plaza – Project Catalyst Building
ADA Plaza – Cardano Hubs Building
ADA Plaza – Cardano Foundation Building
ADA Plaza – Emurgo Building
ADA Plaza – Voltaire Governance Building
Liquidity Lake
The Tesla Turbine
Sky Falls Skydiving
Sky Falls Lagoon & Homes*
Hot Shot Shooting Ranges
Ouroboros (VoltAIRe) Airport
Logistics Port Hub (Pirate Combat Hub)
East Coast Industrial*
Rocket Raceway
Continental Ferry Shipping Port
Off Road Trails
SPOville (Stakepool Operator Village)
Hoverboard Sand Challenge
Super Max Penitentiary (Combat Hub)
Old Banking District
MetaBOWL Stadium
Stadium Village*
Copa Cardano (North) Beach
Twin Falls Residential
Central Homes
West Coast Beach & Residential*
Cardano Hubs & Homes*
Container Town*
[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
Without trying to duplicate the previous statements, the gaming industry is massive and attracts an open coming demographic that will be very attractive to the Cardano ecosystem.
The metaverse and 3D World concept is projected to grow massively over the next 6 years to between $1.3 to $5 Trillion. up to 2030, this concept, like e-mail on the internet, is not going to go away and early adoption is essential so that over the next six years prime movers will derive maximum benefits.
We are opening the door to the 400 million registered users of the Epic Games platform by providing entertainment while raising the profile of the Cardano ecosystem, we are also building awareness of the opportunity and providing education about the Cardano blockchain and ecosystem.
This will Expose Cardano to a wide audience internationally in the 100’s of millions & attract company brands.
[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Again, success will be measured by the number of engaged users. This is why we have accessed the Epic & Fortnite platform as a proof of concept and also as a funnel to introduce our growing number of metaverses and 3D worlds to an established multi million community.
[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
Our projects access and penetrate multiple communities, these communities are looking for opportunity to create value and also entertainment.
The communities we will impact include the following:
Cardano Community
Catalyst Community
Epic Community
The Game’s Community
125k + Carl Henry Global community
[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?
Carl Henry global has been apart of both the Cardano and catalyst community for about two years, we have delivered on every funded project including building 8 integrated payment systems for Coti and promoting the building of Cardano hubs around the world.
Also in fund 9 we made proposals that would build upon our funded work in Fund seven and eight, unfortunately our fund 9 proposals did not attract funding, this did not stop us from continuing to self fund ongoing commitments in our fund 9 proposals. Development of The Cardanoverse was a major undertaking and which we have delivered upon by publishing our first metaverse 3D virtual world on the Fortnite platform.
[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?
As outlined before, we prefer to show not tell or promise, The CardanoVerse exists and is published and available to over 400 million users of the Fortnite platform. You can visit and play today! Free!
[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.
As using milestones is a new approach and we do not know the exact start date, only month numbers have been stated, all funding is in ADA:
[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.
[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.
Most of the work to deliver this proposal will be carried out in house by Carl Henry personally, although due to time constraints and occasionally specialised skill sets we will engage contractors, as we have over the last seven years, through the upwork platform where we have spent over $100,000 which means we understand how to get value for money on how to engage the correct contractors as required.
[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?
This project, as others, will be managed by Carl Henry of Carl Henry global, I have extensive experience over 25 years of bringing together exactly the skills required to deliver on intentions. As I mentioned earlier we have delivered on numerous funded projects including creating software for the Coti payment system.
For further information: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlhenry/>
[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?
In addition to the thousands of hours that have been committed to this project and have been self funded, we are very adept at choosing the correct contractors and due to the bidding system on up work we will always be able to assess applications and ensuring that the best value for money is achieved.
EXPOSURE TO THE FORTNITE COMMUNITY
Epic has over 400 million registered users of Fortnite & other top games worldwide with 70 million monthly players, Unreal Engine is used to build the most games in the world - Giving game builders the option of using Cardano for their game economies will be a massive benefit to the Cardano Community & ecosystem:
