Beneath is Half II from our Metablox Whitepaper 2.0, which incorporates our Product Design. Half I on the Imaginative and prescient will be discovered right here. In a while I will even publish Half III (Sport Design), and Half IV (Expertise and Workforce) right here in your comfort too.
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🗺 Rollout Phases (our multi-year masterplan)
Metablox shall be launched in a number of phases with the intention to steadiness pace to launch with a pleasant consumer expertise that brings which means and worth to Neighbors.
💀 Section 0 (MVP) – Tackle reservation
Permit folks to order addresses.
Section 0 goal
The target of Section 0 is to rapidly convey to market a scoped-down model of the product that permits folks to minimally but meaningfully take part.
Launch rapidly
In an effort to launch Section 0 rapidly, we are going to scope down the product.
| In scope | Out of scope |
| Tackle searchSearch resultsBlox pageReserve Blox | Join walletPurchase BloxAdd memoriesLeveling upMetaRent |
Person tales
As an early adopter, I wish to reserve a Blox, in order that I can later purchase it earlier than anybody else.
😶 Section 1 – Buy properties
Permit folks to purchase Blox as NFTs and acquire MetaRent.
Section 1 goal
The target of Section 1 is to open the doorways and permit folks to attach their crypto pockets and buy a Blox.
Shopping for early is vital as you’ll instantly begin to acquire MetaRent.
Person tales
As a Nostalgic Neighbor, I wish to buy a Blox earlier than anybody else as a result of the Blox is significant to me.
As a Museum Curator, I wish to buy Blox which might be significant to me in order that I can ultimately curate its recollections.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to begin shopping for a excessive quantity of Blox with the intention to acquire MetaRent and ultimately unlockbuy landmarks.
Out of scope
- Recollections
- Neighbor Collectives
😐 Section 2 – Add recollections
Neighbors can begin to add recollections to their Blox.
Section 2 goal
Section 2 is after we begin to make headway on our mission — to protect humanity’s extra vital recollections.
The target is for Neighbors so as to add their recollections to the blockchain and degree up their Blox.
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Person tales
As a Nostalgic Neighbor, I wish to add my most significant recollections to the blockchain in order that I personal them and so they’re preserved perpetually.
As a Museum Curator, I wish to add my most significant recollections to the Blox that I personal and plan to curate in order that I can set the aesthetic fashion and tradition.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to begin shopping for a excessive quantity of Blox with the intention to acquire MetaRent and ultimately unlockbuy landmarks.
Out of scope
- Including recollections to Blox that you simply don’t personal
- Neighbor Collectives
🙂 Section 3 – Add recollections to different Blox
Neighbors can start to submit recollections to Blox that they don’t personal.
Section 3 goal
The target for Section 3 is to empower Neighbors to place up a Bounty for recollections. On this approach, even house owners that would not have recollections close to the Blox can degree up their Blox.
Person tales
As a Museum Curator, I wish to acquire and curate probably the most significant recollections in my neighborhood in order that my neighborhood is called the place with the richest historical past.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to arrange Bounties for recollections in order that I can degree up my properties and acquire much more MetaRent.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to purchase Blox from different Neighbors which have leveled up in order that I can acquire much more Meta Hire.
Out of scope
🙂 Section 4 – Neighbor Collectives
Neighbors can start to type Collectives in anticipation to bid for landmarks in opposition to the Moguls.
Section 4 goal
We’re near releasing our very first landmark. To get ready, Neighbors will proceed to refill on MetaRent to arrange for the public sale.
In an effort to outbid the Actual Property Moguls, Neighbors can take part Collectives.
Person tales
As a Neighbor Collective, I wish to workforce up with my neighborhood in order that we are able to outbid others and buy/unlock a landmark.
😊 Section 5 – Landmarks
The primary landmark shall be auctioned/unlocked.
Section 5 goal
The target of Section 5 is to launch the very first landmark. The very first landmark shall be decided earlier than this part. To see a full checklist of landmarks, go right here.
Person tales
As a Museum Curator, I wish to win the primary landmark to turn into acknowledged because the reminiscence curator of a globally famend landmark.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to win the primary landmark as a result of landmarks would be the Most worthy locations in Metablox.
As a Neighbor Collective, I wish to workforce as much as win the primary landmark as a result of they’re probably the most invaluable locations.
😃 Section 6 – New cities
New cities shall be made out there.
Section 6 goal
The time has lastly come! In Section 6, we are going to develop Metablox to cities outdoors of San Francisco.
We’ll decide the following metropolis primarily based on reservations, neighborhood suggestions (on our Discord), and strategic components.
Person tales
As a Nostalgic Neighbor, I wish to purchase the locations on this new metropolis which have which means to me in order that I can add my recollections.
As a Museum Curator, I wish to enter the brand new metropolis early with the intention to declare communities that I wish to curate.
As a Actual Property Mogul, I wish to enter the brand new metropolis early with the intention to purchase up Blox and proceed accumulating extra MetaRent in order that I can unlockbuy landmarks.
As a Neighbor Collective, I wish to begin constructing my Collective early to arrange to outbid the Moguls.
| 💡Future phases: There are various phases deliberate after Section 6. On this White Paper, we’re publicly documenting as much as Section 6. Future phases shall be added to this doc at a later stage. |
🤗 Reminiscence sorts
Recollections are the guts and soul of Metablox.
To the Nostalgic Neighbor and the Museum Curator, recollections add which means to their Blox and neighborhood.
To the Actual Property Mogul and the Neighbor Collective, recollections degree up Blox, rising the MetaRent potential.
Forms of recollections
- Pictures
- Pictures would be the first reminiscence kind out there so as to add to a Blox. The kinds beneath shall be made out there in future phases.
- Video
- GIFs
- Audio
- Recollections don’t must be visible. Music and audio recordings can invoke emotions as properly.
Different NFTs (artwork, characters, trophies, automobiles)
Though Artwork NFTs received’t be added to a Blox as a reminiscence, they will nonetheless be added to a Blox or neighborhood as a solution to construct the aesthetic and tradition of the realm. In future iterations, you’ll be able to discover varied neighbors inside our platform or AR (Augmented Actuality) and see an entire avenue of Bored Apes, finest replays of NBA Prime Shot, and Star Atlas spaceships hovering above a house.
🧐 Reminiscence moderation
Reminiscence moderation is critically vital to construct a platform that’s significant and protected.
It’s inevitable that folks could add recollections which might be NSFW, violent, and even pornographic. In an effort to mitigate this problem, we should create the precise steadiness of proactive and reactive moderation.
Unhealthy actor deterrents
Unhealthy actors are inevitable, however we’ve a number of deterrents that we count on to lower their incentives/actions and their impact on the platform.
- Including recollections prices MetaRent: The one solution to acquire MetaRent is to purchase Blox on Metablox. As well as, it takes rooting time to plant recollections. The price and time funding for recollections act as deterrents.
- Including recollections requires a gasoline payment: In an effort to add a reminiscence to a Blox, the Neighbor should pay the gasoline payment (on the MATIC community, which isn’t excessive however not zero). The price of this gasoline payment acts as a deterrent.
- Strict punishment for Phrases of Service (TOS) violations: A Blox is an NFT, so when a Neighbor buys it, they personal it. In the event that they then add a picture that violates our TOS, we can’t take the NFT from them. Nevertheless, we are able to nonetheless reactively reply with strict punishments on our platform:
- Cease serving the Recollections on Metablox
- Cease MetaRent assortment
- Blacklist the sale of this NFT property immediately on the Metablox platform for an prolonged time frame (comparable to a 12 months)
- Disable potential for pockets to buy additional NFTs from Metablox
- Disable potential for pockets to promote NFTs on the Metablox platform
- Disable potential for pockets to take part in landmark auctions
Reminiscence flagging
Neighbors are capable of flag recollections that they consider violates our TOS. After a flagging threshold is met, our workforce will manually evaluate the reminiscence. If our evaluate reveals it does violate our TOS, then we are going to take the next actions:
- The reminiscence will instantly be faraway from serving on Metablox
- We’ll ship a warning to the Neighbor to take away the reminiscence inside 48 hours
- If the reminiscence shouldn’t be eliminated inside 48 hours, then punishments listed above will begin to take course
🚀 The place we’re going with this
If we’ve performed a superb job with speaking Metablox, then by now you must perceive why our NFTs shall be invaluable and why folks worth recollections.
If not, please go away us a query or remark (feedback are open for all), and we are going to do our greatest to enhance.
So, the place are we going with Metablox? If we succeed, how will the world change? The easiest way to speak that is by means of our Neighbor sorts.
The Nostalgic Neighbor
The Nostalgic Neighbor has the consolation and satisfaction of proudly owning their most treasured recollections, perpetually on the blockchain. After they have a life milestone, comparable to an engagement, a child, or a profession transfer, the Nostalgic Neighbor captures the reminiscence in a photograph, video, gif, or audio and provides it to their Blox in Metablox.
Because the Nostalgic Neighbor grows older, they move on their Metablox NFTs to their youngsters, who proceed the legacy of documenting the household’s most vital recollections. After many generations, the complete household tree and legacy is captured on the blockchain so that each one members of the family perceive and respect their household historical past.
The Museum Curator
The Museum Curator proudly owns and curates a neighborhood or a landmark. They’ve spent years, possibly even many years, accumulating the perfect recollections in that space: recollections from a myriad of individuals, dates from a 12 months in the past to many years in the past, and even curated what sort of NFT artwork is for show.
Carnival — Folsom at 4th Road. Gif credit score.
San Francisco is thought for its great avenue artwork and tradition. Folks from everywhere in the world come to take excursions of the road artwork and to hearken to the wealthy historical past of town.
By turning into the bridge between the metaverse and actual life, folks within the metropolis will be capable to stroll the streets of cities everywhere in the world and see the magnificent recollections and NFT artwork that the Museum Curator curated.
If and after we succeed, we envision a world the place vacationers expertise the tradition of a metropolis by means of their very own eyes and thru the lens of the Museum Curator.
The Actual Property Mogul and the Neighbor Collective
The Mogul and the Collective try for asset appreciation. To this finish, they’ll compete to seize probably the most invaluable locations in Metablox — the landmarks.
Block by block, metropolis by metropolis, Moguls and Collectives want to purchase Blox with the intention to amass sufficient MetaRent to outbid the opposite. To additional enhance the rate of their MetaRent, Moguls and Collectives will search to buy excessive degree properties and communities pushed up in degree by Nostalgic Neighbors and Museum Curators (excessive degree properties earn extra MetaRent).
If and after we succeed, Moguls and Collectives will amass wealth by means of the economics of shopping for and promoting landmarks and high-level Blox.
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