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Abstract: This proposal seeks 5 ETH to fund Tales of Tasern (ToT), an initiative that gamifies public goods funding through blockchain technology. By combining storytelling, gaming, and collectibles, ToT turns passive support for sustainability into active participation. The grant will fuel innovative liquidity pools and NFTs that perpetually support clean water, clean air, and renewable energy initiatives.

How Does This Initiative Support Public Goods? ToT leverages blockchain’s transparency and DeFi to sustain public goods funding. I have developed the character and game over many years of playing Dungeons & Dragons. For the past year, I have been building pieces of the game on-chain. Using AI, I brought the characters from the game alive. Each character is minted as an ERC-1155 NFT. Then, liquidity is deposited in LPs, and these positions are sent to the NFT address. This locks the pools that generate yield and fees into the NFTs. We call this gamified structured liquidity.

Now for the fun part…funding public goods. We have gamified structuring liquidity around several assets to add value and impact over time. In our liquidity pools, we pair wBTC & wETH (driving value), DAI & USDGLO (for stability) and EARTH (additional impact) against our eight ToT game tokens ($PKT, $LGP, $DHG, $EGP, $IGS, $DDD, $OGC, $BTN). We then pair these eight ToT game tokens against carbon credits ($CCC, $NCT, $BCT, $MCO2, $CRISP-M), renewable energy credits ($JLT-B23, $JLT-F24), litter removal credits ($LTK and $RTAZC) and tokenized solar lanterns ($LANTERN). By building diversified portfolios of impact assets, we increase the APYs of liquidity pools created from AMMs, rebalancing the pools when external markets shift removing the demand for active traders to create baseline APYs for the LPs. These APYs earned in tokenized public goods from permanently locked liquidity perpetually fund public goods year after year.

How Is It Non-Excludable? Anyone with access to X (Twitter) can participate in ToT stories and games. Contributions to public goods are embedded in the gameplay, allowing global access to initiatives that benefit society without needing personal funding or excluding non-participants. Also, the impact funded by the game benefits everyone.

How Is It Non-Rivalrous? Contributions to ToT’s ecosystem do not diminish the value others derive. Instead, the platform thrives on shared participation, benefiting all users from the impact of gamified structured liquidity.

ToT is a positive sum game, and the diversity of assets in the game creates demand over time; the more communities we work with, the better the mathematical outcome will be. This structuring of assets has already been shown to create positive market pressures for associated assets. Because of this, we actively find and support all available eco-credits on Polygon, where we are building, because it is morally and mathematically the right thing to do.

Why Does It Need Funding Right Now? Funding will help scale the impact of ToT’s unique gamified structured liquidity model, securing its market presence and driving adoption. The funding is needed now because we want to actively compete in the upcoming 2.7mil pol meme battle from Polygon, which is about to start in less than a week and will run for a month. This added liquidity will significantly improve our odds of winning a top place in the meme battle. With public goods needing urgent support now more than ever, this funding will help fund impactful projects that align with global sustainability goals. A portion of any winnings from the battle will go back into the development of the game and the LPs.

Who Am I: My name is James Magee I am a passionate environmentalist that dedicates as much time as I can afford to helping people and the planet. I am a full time father of four and a small business owner. I process local waste wood into useful things. I enjoy carpentry, gardening table top role playing games and learning more about new ideas.

Budget/Deliverables:

2 ETH: Step One - Lock 1 ETH against 1ETH evenly split between the eight ToT currencies ($PKT, $LGP, $DHG, $EGP, $IGS, $DDD, $OGC, $BTN) to sustain growth for the ecosystem.

2 ETH: Step Two - Used to purchase ToT currencies, paired with 1 ETH worth of impact assets for liquidity. Token-weighted voting will take place on Charmverse to determine which eco-credits to include. Deposits will be attached to gamified NFTs and placed on the market. A portion of the ETH spent ends up in the LPs made in step one.

1 ETH: For the time and energy to set up the gamified structured liquidity pools and continue developing, marketing and maintaining the game.

Generated liquidity yields in ETH from the deposits made in phase one will buy Public Nouns used for prizes fostering community engagement over time.

Public Nouns holders will receive custom Tales of Tasern NFTs that perpetually support the public goods of the in-game nation of their choice.

80% of the funding remains on-chain as TVL perpetually supporting the growth of public goods eco-credit markets on the blockchain. 20% is used for overhead and staff.

Requesting 5 ETH total

ETH Address: 0x0780b1456D5E60CF26C8Cd6541b85E805C8c05F2

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