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10 months ago 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 .
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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:
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.
Already Completed:
Smart Contract API Backend framework:
Web-server Backend
Web Frontend:
Community:
Grant Deliverables
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:
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:
Value brought to Secret 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:
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:
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.