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Industry First Private dCasino
Industry First private Decentralised Casino by AART x Secret.
Project Name: dCasino by AART x Secret Team Name: AART. Payment Address: secret126d4dqs02l5xd4e74vkcdspqeeels7vd7s4txa Delegator address: secretvaloper126d4dqs02l5xd4e74vkcdspqeeels7vd0hmkt5
About AART
AART is a team of skilled associates with expertise in a range of areas such as scientific research, software and hardware engineering, finance, and marketing. As a result of coordination efforts between AART and Secret Network Africa, AART’s first project, Black Jack,gained popularity during its beta-testing stage, where both teams built a community of players through their organised weekly game nights. Due to this popularity, AART have been invited to various podcasts and conference events to demonstrate our dApp, to discuss the work of our team, including:
- June 6 2023, The Cosmos Club's twitter spaces invited AART to their twitter spaces talk
- July 6 2023, The Secret Agency's "Agents of the Round Table" invited AART to their twitter spaces talk
- July 22, 2023, "On-Chain Chaos", hosted in Paris by Secret Network, where Black Jack was demoed as the first successful VRF enabled dApp
- August 8 2023, Secret Network's Secret Spaces, invited Yaesha to discuss Black Jack, Secret VRF, and AART's future roadmap
- September 12 2023, AART team leader invited as guest speaker to Secret Network Africa's "Simplified Decentralized Future" virtual event to discuss blockchain gaming
- September 23 2023, AART invited to Web3Family conference in Barcelona with Secret Network to demo Black Jack
- October 8th, AART core dev team participate in ETHRome hackathon, winning best gaming app from Secret Network, and additionally winning Top 3 UI/UX, for an MVP submission of a decentralised private video poker game.
What is a dCasino?
A dCasino is simply a platform with a suite of casino games. Users can connect their wallets to the platform, onboard and cash in tokens, play casino games seamlessly with their tokens, then cash out again. A dCasino is made possible by on-chain privacy and VRF, which would be necessary for a positive user experience and some core game functionalities, and which are not readily available on other blockchains.
AART will create an instance of a dCasino, with a detailed guide and open source code, so that other organisations or teams may use it as a reference to build their own privacy enabled dCasinos on the Secret Network. AART will use some of its closed source code to implement specific extra features, this code will not be core to the implementation of a dCasino and can be implemented independently, such as payments as peer-to-peer tournaments. The team will provide a detailed explanation on how to implement these extra features on their own should they wish to.
Above: Example of how a dCasino platforl landing page may look.
Already Completed:
Smart Contract API Backend framework:
- Core Mechanics of gameplay on both (singleplayer vs AI) and multiplayer (private party and global multiplayer)
- Admin controls to maintain and rescue game-instances
- Automation of match moderation
- Automation of match resource recycling and management
- Scalable and manageable singleplayer (vs AI) and multiplayer (private party and global multiplayer) for multiple concurrent instances
Web-server Backend
- Network + deployment management, maintenance and repair
- Backend logic to interact with smart contract through its API
Web Frontend:
- Custom retro and modern style tarot card designs for card based games
- Basic user settings and themes, including light/dark mode Example rendition of a dCasino landing page including a suite of games
Community:
- Active Validator on Secret Network
- Stashh collections of limited edition tarot cards Example contracts + frontends:
- Black Jack: a multiplayer card shedding game: https://aart-blackjack.anther.info
- Video poker (slots) MVP video: https://youtu.be/QCv-qxwHm_M?si=al9VXV-T7a8t7qxe
Grant Deliverables
- An industry first decentralised private Casino built with secret SDK.
- Open source example and guide on building a private dCasino.
Go to Market Plan
We aim for the dCasino to be compliant in line with appropriate gambling, crypto, and gaming regulations, especially with EU laws. VC’s, whom we in future intend to approach for further expansion, will want to be assured that we are operating under such a framework.
AART will make a seamless experience for both mobile and desktop versions of the casino. The team will collaborate with existing mobile and desktop wallets to make the on-boarding process easy for new players. Below are some of the Business development and Engineering goals for this project:
- AART will pursue account abstraction solutions with various providers for non web-3 user on-boarding, which will include KYC and AML verification, to verify players, and bringing our dApp in line with relevant regulations.
- AART will utilise legal services to traverse the aforementioned regulations.
- AART will implement smart contract gas abstraction for seamless gameplay. AART is committed to this and has built a 'Fee-grant Faucet' server, already in use on some of its mainnet contracts, where gas allowances are given to on-boarded players.
- AART has considered and tested multiple membership fee models for on-boarded users for it's revenue sources, which included free games after membership purchase, games vs the House (the dCasino smart contract), and multiplayer/p2p games which may take a small commission on player rewards on game completion.
Extras AART may explore token abstraction: So that players can cash in any token, and play games using LP tokens as credits
Value Capture for Secret Network Ecosystem and Targets
KPIs:
- Number of unique Addresses on-boarding.
- Rate of monthly game-instance completions on each category of game
- Revenues generated by smart contract commissions.
- Webpage analytics: Weekly active users.
Value brought to Secret Network:
- Buying SCRT tokens by new users for participation
- Raising awareness of Secret Network through social media, bringing new people into the secret network dApp ecosystem.
- Promotion and showcase of VRF and the SDK, Attracting new developers to build on Secret
- 10% revenue share with secret labs for all mentioned casino games.
- 20% revenue share with secret community pool for all mentioned casino games.
- Open sourcing of implementation which uses with documentation.
- On-boarding of new players into Secret Network from within cosmos ecosystem and beyond. Network.
Team Members
Team’s Experience The project's Team lead is Yaesha, who was also the Team lead of the Black jack project - the first mainnet smart contract and web-3 game to successfully use Secret VRF using the Secret SDK and secretJS.
Yaesha has 5+ years of experience as a software engineer primarily in the Scientific software engineering sector. At STFC, a world-class research facility for the UK, He led the design and implementation of high throughput data acquisition computations for x-ray, neutron and muon beamline experiments. As a research engineer, Yaesha worked on simulation software for joint neutrino experiments at Fermilab and the Sanford Underground research facility. Later, he worked as a backend software engineer within the Fintech industry, specialising in automated trading of equities. Yaesha holds a Degree in Physics with Particle Physics. Yaesha is an associate at AART.
Samuel has 5+ years of experience as a software engineer. Samuel worked as a Software engineer at ARM, working on Deep Learning for Computer Vision and dynamic hand gesture recognition, and as a lead Machine learning Engineer at Expedia. Most recently, Samuel is a Deep learning Research Engineer, specialising in volumetric capture and processing. Being a multi-talented individual, he holds degrees in Physics and in Fine Arts. He has worked as a creative technologist with theatre company Link In My Bio Productions. Samuel is an associate at AART.
Katie has 3+ years of experience as an accomplished Research Scientist at NPL, a leading national measurement institute which holds many UKAS accredited measurement techniques. NPL specialises in a number of areas, including the development of atomic clocks, calibrations of secondary standards, and advances in Quantum Metrology. Katie is a leading expert in conductivity standards, specialising in AC conductivity, and currently developing standards for DC conductivity, which are critical for the aerospace and medicine industry. Katie is an associate at AART.
Talitha has 7+ years of experience as Social media and digital marketing professional supporting B2B and B2C organisations to establish and grow their social media presence, exceed KPIs, and increase ROI. From capturing and editing videos to organising photo shoots, she is an all-around creative with extensive technical and organisation skills. Talitha is the Senior social media lead for Westminster City council in London, overseeing numerous campaigns across the council, including Young People, City Lions, Lord Mayor, Finance, Environment, and Public Health. Talitha is an associate at AART.
Roadmap Milestones and the Ask
These milestones may be completed earlier/later than the estimated completion date. Updates will be made available to the public on a recurring basis. These milestones focus on Mainnet release in two phases; development will commence on approval of the grant.
The total grant request for the development of a suite of casino games equals to $30,000 USD to reach successful mainnet launch of our dCasino platform and games in 3 disbursements. Disbursement in SCRT is also accepted. The team also requests a delegation to their Validator to the sum of 1M SCRT.
M0 (Bootstrap): 15% awarded at the time of grant approval to bootstrap our project and cover personnel costs.
M1 (Mainnet Launch phase 1. Est: 6-8 weeks): 42.5% of the grant paid at the end of the first phase of development and testing of the dCasino landing page, mainnet launch of the first game and reaching KPI targets to be agreed before time of launch:
- Development of the dCasino landing page
- Mainnet Release of video poker (slots)
- Reach at least 500 total users onboarded
M2 (Mainnet Launch phase 2 Est: 12-14 weeks): The remaining 42.5% of the grant paid at the end of the second phase of development and testing of the dCasino, mainnet launch of the second game and reaching KPI targets to be agreed before time of launch:
- Mainnet Release of 21 (Vingt-et-Un AKA american blackjack)
- Reach at least 1000 total users onboarded
Post Mainnet: By end of M2, the team will continue any further maintenance and bug fixes required for the dCasino. The team will focus on regulatory compliance with gaming, crypto, and gambling laws. The team intends to explore existing KYC and AML solutions with the guidance of its legal support, and during this time seek to integrate these necessary features into the dCasino.
Further plans will be made for additional games such as Texas holdem, crash and roulette.
Updates to these estimations will be made available.
Updates have been made per discussion:
- Reduction of games from 5 to 3, including texas holdem, video poker, 21 (Blackjack).
- Minimum number of users onboarded for each milestone at mainnet launch.
- Update in total ask amount reflects former changes .
- Pivot to focus on two main games in first mainnet release (can add more games later). This will allow extra focus on onboarding experience and UI/UX.
- increased KPI target users.
- reduction in total ask amount to reflect former changes.
