Hi everyone,
Omar here, founder of Cosmicrafts. I’m excited topropose the launch of the Cosmicrafts DAO via an SNS!
What is Cosmicrafts?
Cosmicrafts is a futuristic real-time strategy (RTS) game built entirely on the Internet Computer. It’s designed for fast-paced, strategic gameplay where players command fleets, own their assets (NFTs), and participate in a player-driven economy. We aim to be the first fully on-chain gaming franchise with real ownership economics.
Why an SNS Launch Now?
After 8+ years of development, surviving multiple market cycles, and significantly rebuilding/refining the game, Cosmicrafts is ready to meet its market.
- We’ve received invaluable support from the ICP community and DFINITY including 2 DFINITY Grants during 2021-2024 which helped us as incubator for Cosmicrafts on Web3.
- We won the Supernova Hackathon Community Choice Award in 2022.
- We’ve had over 10,000 real beta testers with strong engagement metrics that we shared publicly.
- We’ve built a solid community 6k+ Discord, 18k+ X.
- The game has been live for a while and featured on platforms like Epic Games and sure why not, also Itch.io among many others we’ll dive in.
Our focus now shifts from core development to driving adoption, scaling our user base, and achieving true decentralization. The SNS is the natural next step to empower our community, fund growth initiatives, and solidify Cosmicrafts as a leading franchise on the IC.
Key Information for the Community:
(1) Tokenomics (SPIRAL Token)
- Total Supply: 1 Billion SPIRAL
- Core Purpose: Governance, staking rewards, ecosystem growth, premium features, cross-game utility.
- Initial Allocation:
- DAO Treasury: 76% (760M) - Controlled by the DAO for ecosystem growth (marketing, development grants, community initiatives).
- SNS Decentralization Swap: 12% (120M) - For public participation.
- Developer Team (Cosmicrafts Foundation): 8% (80M) - Locked in an 8-year dissolve delay neuron to ensure long-term alignment.
- Seed Investors: 4% (40M) - Early backers with varied vesting schedules (quarterly/yearly releases, detailed in Whitepaper).
- SNS Swap Details:
- Amount: 120M SPIRAL (12% of total supply).
- Vesting: Tokens released in 8 equal quarterly installments (15M SPIRAL each / 12.5% per release) over 2 years.
- Funding Target: Minimum: 100,000 ICP / Maximum: 1,000,000 ICP.
- Participation: Min 100 ICP / Max 100,000 ICP per participant.
- Planned Use of Funds: Primarily focused on User Acquisition (marketing, partnerships, content creator programs) and Ecosystem Growth (community initiatives, potential CEX listings, liquidity provision), as core development is largely complete. Detailed plans subject to DAO proposals.
- Utility & Mechanics: Governance participation (1k SPIRAL min stake), staking rewards (starting 8% APY, reducing over 8 yrs), deflationary transaction fee (0.01 SPIRAL).
(2) Governance
- Token Allocation for Governance:
- Community (SNS Swap): 12% (120M Tokens) - Goes to swap participants.
- Dev Team (Foundation): 8% (80M Tokens) - Locked in a single neuron for 8 years (with 1-year vesting).
- Seed Investors: 4% (40M Tokens) - These are separate early backers (2Link, Anmi, Genesis), not the dev team. Their neurons have varied, shorter lockups defined in the YAML.
- Treasury: 76% (760M Tokens) - For the DAO to control later.
- About Initial Voting Power on SNS Tool (~63% Dev/Seed vs ~37% Swap):
- Accountability: The SNS tool chart shows calculated voting power right at launch, it doesn’t account for token distrubution and the potential voting power or the Seed parties that are not part of the Dev Team.
- DevTeam HODLs: The Dev neuron (8% tokens) is locked for 8 years (+100% bonus), and some Seed neurons (4% tokens total) also have locks. This gives them a higher initial calculated power. The analysis tool groups the Dev Team and all Seed into that ~63% number.
Key Distinction: Core Dev team only has the 8% token neuron. Seed investors (4% tokens - 2Link, Anmi, Genesis) are all separate, independent entities who invested earlier.
- Key Parameters: Min Stake: 1k SPIRAL, Rejection Fee: 1k SPIRAL, Vote Period: 7 days, Max Bonuses: +100% for 8yr lock & +100% for 1yr age. Rewards start at 8% APY, decreasing over 8 years.
(3) Technical Overview
- Architecture: Single-Canister Architecture (Motoko) for core game logic, NFTs (ICRC-7), and tokens(ICRC1/2/3). This significantly enhances performance and reduces latency compared to multi-canister designs. Real-time gameplay uses WebSockets.
- Cycles Management: Leverages the IC’s reverse-gas model (Cycles) for a seamless user experience – no player gas fees. Cycles management uses tools like Cycleops.
- Open Source: Core smart contract code is open source: Cosmicrafts DAO Github
- Reproducible Builds: Instructions for creating reproducible builds from the source code are available in the GitHub repository README it’s basically running the init.sh script, it comes with frontend and backend.
- Dependencies: Key dependencies include Unity (current engine, planning migration to Bevy for full open-stack), ICP.NET, IC WebSocket Gateway. These primarily affect the game client; core logic is on-chain. The Bevy migration plan aims to reduce reliance on proprietary engines. Full list in Architecture docs.
- Security: We follow security best practices and conduct internal reviews. A formal, third-party security audit is planned post-SNS launch as the user base and treasury grow, subject to DAO approval, we know we have great code auditors here in the community.
Links:
- Website: Cosmicrafts
- Whitepaper: Cosmicrafts Whitepaper
- Roadmap: Cosmicrafts Roadmap
- GitHub (Open Source Code): Cosmicrafts DAO Github
- Init: sns_init.yaml
- Discord: Cosmicrafts
- X/Twitter: https://x.com/cosmicrafts
