The DAO and the people behind it
The Decentralized Autonomous Organization: Learn how we ensure decentralization participation for everyone. Find out how you can take part in the creation and success of the metaverse.
In a nutshell
DAO: Made by the community for the community. Transparent and open:
The creation of a decentralized, autonomous organization was the answer of the initial team to cope with topics that often fall short in the "wild west of crypto disruption."
Roadmap & Whitepaper
Learn more about the details of the Uplift World Metaverse in our whitepaper. Since we are a DAO, every engaged player and community member can suggest new proposals to the DAO. If they hit an initial threshold, they can be voted on and will find their way into the whitepaper. Everyone can make a difference in the Uplift.
The DAO
What is a DAO?
"A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) / (DAC), is an organization constructed by rules encoded as a computer program that is often transparent, controlled by the organization's members and not influenced by a central government, in other words they are member-owned communities without centralized leadership. A DAO's financial transaction records and program rules are maintained on a blockchain." Quote: Wikipedia.com
DAO Transparency and Team Tokens
Every team member, role owner, and committee member has gone through a documented KYC verification process.
All team members have publically documented and confirmed their wallet addresses. You can even see how every member is compensated. You will also be able to review quarterly financial statements about the treasury and expenditures.
Does the team have too much influence on voting and the price?
The initial team can currently vote decisions through by a very slim margin, only if every INDIVIDUAL of the diverse team votes with all tokens, which is normally not the case. Also, the team normally does not interfere with organic decisions of the DAO since we want to have the community in control from the beginning.
The team will also lose its small margin once more tokens get into the hands of other holders.
The team will not "dump" tokens on the market.
We can assure this, not only because of our commitment to sustainability. The largest holder has officially pledged to only give away minor quantities, should this become necessary. You can see the official pledge here.
Privacy and total transparency:
The DAO respects the privacy of its members.
This means you will find team and DAO members with public faces and names, and others that prefer to stay in the background. Despite that, the DAO is also a professional company and every process is even more visible and public to everyone than in traditional companies. You can see everything that is going on, much like on the blockchain.
Initial UDT DAO governance Token Distribution
Total UDT token supply: 100,000,000
The community behind the Uplift World
COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING. NO GAME WITHOUT PLAYERs.
The critical part in the success of every metaverse or game is its community. Ours is based on gratitude.
It only makes sense to unleash the creative potential and to have everyone benefiting from the success the community creates.
The DAO is the perfect tool. All members are holding UDT tokens which enable them to vote on every major decision and also on everyone who is involved in the DAO. Everyone can step up and take part in the creation of the metaverse.
Team & Co Founders
Core Team
The core team is a mix of the initial co-founders who started to build the Uplift in early 2021 and people who have important, compensated full-time or part-time roles in the Uplift that are not Committee roles.
Want to know how the transparency and KYC works, or how many DAO tokens the co-founders currently have? Look here...
Committees
Committees would be proposed and voted on by the DAO, and would be given special empowerment to perform their mandated tasks. This could include server access, the ability to 'represent' the DAO in discussions, power to make new rules, and such. Committees would present budgets for the DAO to vote on.
The DAO would also vote in committee members and an initial chairperson. The actual structure of intra-committee governance will be decided by the chairperson, ideally after consulting the other committee members. A 'one seat one vote' policy is assumed to be the default on committees. It is possible to have a committee with one person on it.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Build Committee
Everything that relates to building structures and landscape in-game (Minecraft servers), designing architecture and planning.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Events Committee
Plan in-world events sponsored by the DAO (End events, scavenger or sign punch events, PVP, and such). Organize the business and product details for partner events (things like boat races, scavenger hunts, or gallery launches). Manage and maintain a calendar of events and work with marketing to bring the people to the party.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Operations COMMITTEE
Servers, tools, databases, monitoring, plugin install and config, minting NFTs, airdrops, feature improvement, front end improvements, enabling the Upliftium service execution team, empowering committees with mod roles or accesses, support and troubleshooting. Primarily run by full-time staff.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Marketing COMMITTEE
Keeps The Uplift in the front of potential new members' minds. Contests, posters, tweets, podcasts. Develops guides, tutorials, and other sources of accessible information. Utilises advertising spend where it makes sense. Works with content creators to maintain momentum. Outreach in some form to market the existing product, and to give additional feedback or request features for defined marketing purposes. There needs to be a close exchange with product.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Creative COMMITTEE
Responsibilities include developing game lore, maintaining a game glossary, producing images and art, writing for various projects as needed, and either produce video in-house or schloop it up from the community. (Schloop is a verb that means to scoop up in the same way one scoops flies out of a pool, but with enormous positivity.
Casting of a wide net to acquire many things that can be narrowed down to acquiring things of immense value.)
The Creative Committee would mostly receive direction from marketing and product.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Product COMMITTEE
Responsible for creating a product that looks and feels awesome in any aspect and can match decent non-crypto productions in these aspects! It works across the whole project, unifying aesthetic features, graphics, and language.
It also manages how the branding, design, style, and UI which is supposed to work & feel like a well-planned, homogenous top product, when it comes to all core parts.
This means the Committee will also decide on what internal standards or style guides are supposed to look like, etc. Committee chaired by and reports to overarching product manager.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Rules & Bans COMMITTEE
Make new in-game rules, work with devs or operations committees for game-based enforcement where possible. Look for violations, ban or shadowban players, listen to unban appeals, develop documents with new or updated information for marketing to make pretty and publish. Members can access moderation tools.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Rewards COMMITTEE
Adjust rewards between seasons. Works with operations to make larger changes to tracking as desired. Adjust overall Upliftium emissions. Propose additions to the current rewards distribution method or even entirely new emission structures. Work with product and marketing committees to develop new miners and adjust miner pool rates. Members can access moderation tools. Members have to waive the ability to earn active rewards, but will be compensated with a flat rate.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
New Worlds COMMITTEE
Decides on details of new worlds voted in by the DAO. Comes up with new world ideas to bring to the DAO for voting. Requests development of features required before launching a new specialty world. All proposals completed by this committee go to a full DAO vote.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
New Projects COMMITTEE
Oversees the allocation of resources including in-house, in-DAO, and external talent to accomplish the projects voted for development within the approved budgets. Can push projects back for re-voting if technical assessment is that more resources are required.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
Budget COMMITTEE
The Budget Committee receives and reviews all budgets and either requests clarity of the committee submitting the budget or presents the budget to the DAO for approval.
The budget committee would be chaired by the treasurer and would liaise closely with the operations committee.
Source: Uplift World Whitepaper
UDT - your Dao Governance Token
UDT Token = participate and benefit
The UDT token is your ticket to become part of the Uplift World DAO with all rights and benefits. Let's build and win together. The most obvious function is that you can vote on every decision the DAO makes. The impact of your vote depends on how many tokens you have compared to all tokens that took part in the voting of a particular decision.
Not satisfied or too few tokens? No problem, make a better suggestion and gather support from the community.
How to Get UDT?
Is the new UDT listed on any exchanges? You can acquire UDT using decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and other "Swaps" ;-) We are looking forward to seeing centralized exchange listings, but can not provide any information about timelines for the usual reasons.
If you want to learn more about the transparency and tokens the team is holding, look here!
UDT Token = participate and benefit
Metaverses are about people, tech is just the enabler. The DAO has a strong compass of positive values that it follows, even if that means not going down some paths.