SIP-5 - Supporting Red Cross (with Yobike)

Voting ended 11 months agoSucceeded

Council recommendation: Positive 🙂

TLDR

What

To offer a prizepool of 200k SAND to the The Sandbox community in 2024 in order to relaunch a charity event for the French Red Cross, with the aim of selling NFTs and raising awareness of the association's commitments.

Why

Our aim is to sell at least 400k SAND of NFT in 2024 (more than 80k SAND already sold) via 5 media drops and to position TSB as the Red Cross' preferred Web3 partner.

How

We will be setting up a team to publicize 5 events throughout 2024:

January 2024: 1st NFT Drop. 1000 NFT at 80 SAND each during the "Season Greetings" event (sold out)
April 2024: 2nd NFT Drop. 1000 NFT at 80 SAND each proposed during Paris Blockchain Week
Summer 2024: 3rd NFT Drop. 1000 NFT at 80 SAND each proposed during a dedicated Event
Autumn 2024: 4th NFT Drop. 1000 NFT at 80 SAND each proposed during a dedicated Event
Winter 2024: 5th NFT Drop. 1000 NFT at 80 SAND each proposed a dedicated Event

The last three drops will be boosted by a global Prizepool of 200k SAND for the community contributed via The Sandbox DAO. Each NFT is also a Pass giving access to a Land made up of 14 quests.

At the end of the year, depending on the number of NFTs in the collection, players will be awarded Sand bonuses, NFTs, a Hall of Fame, and other bonuses that are still a secret...

When

3 new NFT-drops during 2024:

1st NFT-drop in summer 2024
2nd NFT-drop in autumn 2024
3rd NFT-drop at the end of 2024

Where

Link to corresponding Discourse (to be added by moderator)

Localisation on the map:

Social Hub (become volonteer) : -186, -132
Flood experience : -185, -130
Marauding experience : -184, -130

Who

The French Red Cross is in charge of this project, with some 70,000 volunteers in the field working with populations in difficulty.

In addition to our in-house team, which determines the objectives of this project, we are working with a partner who is developing our experiment in The Sandbox metaverse: Studio Yobiké.

This studio has been making PC and VR games for almost 6 years, and specializes in metaverse experiences. They are in charge of the development and evolution of the 3 Lands we currently have on The Sandbox, with a dedicated team :

A marketing director
A producer
A level designer
A game artist

SIP Details

Background/Context

Our aim is to raise more than 400k SAND over a year for the Red Cross, through the sale of NFTs, to help the organization carry out projects for populations in need, and to show that the Web3 community is generous and involved in social issues.

After a successful first stage in January 2024, and one underway at the moment, we are going to organize 3 events around the French Red Cross in The Sandbox and we aim to sell 3,000 NFTs at 80 SAND by the end of the year.

To achieve this, we need to mobilize The Sandbox community to promote future events, find partners to give visibility to the project, offer advantages to the community, and finally, have the financial support of the DAO through the provision of a 200k SAND Prizepool for players.

Description

Around three events (summer, autumn and winter), we're going to bring the community to life by updating our three experiences dedicated to the French Red Cross (one of which is only accessible via NFT Pass), we're going to launch 3 drops of 1,000 NFT in order to finalize the collection of 5 NFTs (first aid kit, money box, waistcoat, etc.) and find partners to make these events visible and offer bonuses to NFT owners.

Those who buy NFTs will get rewards via the dedicated Prizepool, win goodies from partners (NFTs, etc.) and the more complete the NFT collection, the greater the benefits.

All players will still be able to visit our three experiences:

The Social Hub, where you can find out more about the Red Cross and volunteer work.
The flood map, where you can find yourself in the shoes of a volunteer and have to take action in a real-life situation.
The marauding map, only accessible with an NFT Pass, which allows you to discover another facet of the volunteer role, much more focused on listening and caring.

Three Events with a prizepool of 40,000 SAND each (120,000 SAND):

During the 3 events of the year an NFT Drop will take place, all NFT owners of the event will participate in a prizepool of 40,000 SAND and will win partner bonuses

A 40,000 SAND bonus prizepool for owners of 3 or more different NFTs

In December, at the same time as the last event, an additional prizepool of 40,000 SAND will be shared among all owners of more than 3 NFTs in the collection, as well as NFT Bonuses and partner benefits.

A 40,000 SAND bonus prizepool for owners of all 5 NFTs

A final prizepool of 40,000 SAND for all owners of the 5 NFTs and rare benefits, as well as their name in a Hall of Fame within the experience.

Total : 200 000 SAND for The Sandbox community

Rationale and benefit

We've noticed and really appreciated the community's enthusiasm for the first event and the commitment to charity shown by the French Red Cross.

We've therefore decided to continue this collaboration between the French Red Cross and The Sandbox to enable new humanitarian projects to be carried out thanks to the generosity and commitment of the community.

If the next three collections sell out, more than 600,000 SAND will have been raised over the year (400,000 SAND via the 5 Drops and around 200,000 SAND in direct donations from The Sandbox). What a proud achievement!

Risk analysis

We want to be at the very beginning of the DAO to show the importance of the community and the strength of The Sandbox members' involvement in humanitarian projects. It's exciting to be part of such a project, but it's also a risk to want to be at the beginning of something new.

Furthermore, this project is intended to be generous and altruistic, and we would like to avoid any speculation on the NFTs sold as much as possible.

We are not including the cost of Catalysts in this request, as this should be covered by NFT’s buyers in the future, but if this is not the case, the cost of Catalysts should be added to this request.

Implementation Plan

3 NFT-drop between May and December 2024 with adaptation of experiments already carried out, search for partners and coordination:

1st NFT-drop during May/June 2024
2nd NFT-drop during September 2024
3rd NFT-drop during December 2024

Resources required.

To summarize: We need 200,000 SAND to offer multiple Prizepools to the community, which explains our submission to the DAO (and the cost of 3,000 “Common” Catalyst if it’s needed).

For our part, we'll be in charge of modifying and improving existing experiences, finding partners, creating NFTs and running events throughout the year.