Project Title
Betterverse
Description
The World’s First Charitable Metaverse
We’re building a platform where you can donate to any cause you
care about with FIAT or Crypto and in return receive a unique 3D
NFT that represents and visualises the real world impact of your
donation.
Through our “play-to-give” metaverse, we’re gamifying the act of
donating to charity and therefore incentivising higher donations
and allowing charities/ NGOs to tap into new demographics.
Manifesto/Vision
To build a virtual environment called Betterverse where both retail level and corporate donors can represent and showcase their donations in an entertaining way.
Problem
In a digital-led world where Gen Z and Millennials expect highly
engaging, intuitive and easily digestible experiences, the act of
donating to charity has stagnated and tree planting certificates
aren’t doing it for users anymore.
Solution
A platform and 3D metaverse that holds the hands of charities into
the often overwhelming world of Web 3/ Blockchain, providing a
highly engaging experience that tells the story of each users’
donation and provides a way of visualising/ sharing the good
people are doing for the planet, its animals and people.
Product Features
Q3 2022 - MVP Release, this is a donation platform where users can donate to a specific tree planting cause (with a charity we have partnered with) and view the impact of their donation(s).
Q4 2022 - Bettercoin (our in-game currency) release where users can stake their token on their donation NFTs.
Q2 2023 - Betterverse metaverse where all donations can be represented virtually and interacted with to see their impact.
Validation
Partnered with three tree planting charities (OneTreePlanted, More:Trees, TreeNation).
Progress
- Token and smart contract development 90% complete.
- NFT procedural generation workflow 100% complete.
- Web app front-end & back-end 80% complete.
- Three charity partners
- Supported by Polygon Studios
Differentiation (from other projects)
There is currently a great organisation called The Giving Block that allows users to donate to charities with crypto. However, first of all users cant select a particular cause, so no trackable donation, secondly, their is no reward for the donors to feel incentivised and entertained by.
Team of five co-founders
George Ing (CEO) -
Hayden Sherwood (CTO) -
Torsten Power (Creative Director) -
Finn Judell (CFO and Tokenomics Architect) -
Jack Lomax (COO) -
Grant Request $
$25,000
What the Funds Are For
This grant will be enough to get us to our MVP. If we start this last MVP development phase it will take us 6 weeks to release.
- Finalising our smart contract
- Finalising our procedural generation workflow and final renders
- Web app front-end and backend development
- Website assets
Additional Resources, Links, Portfolio
www.betterverse.app
https://smileymovement.org/news-list/betterverse-charity
https://techround.co.uk/guides/metaverse-startups-to-watch-2022/