Treasure DAO is restructuring to extend its financial runway

Decentralized video game ecosystem Treasure DAO is restructuring as “a matter of survival” to extend its financial runway

Decentralized video game ecosystem Treasure DAO is restructuring in a bid to extend its financial runway to at least February 2026, as part of which 15 contributors will be let go and several initiatives will be terminated.

In an April 2 post on X, Treasure DAO's chief contributor John Patten said that he has resumed a leadership role and is taking a plan to the DAO to streamline operations, eliminate unnecessary costs, and center the organization around a few key projects.

“I will introduce this after all of you provide your opinions at this time. I have my own thoughts, but we must make this decision as a community through long deliberation. The best ideas need to rise to the surface,” he said.

As part of cost-cutting to reduce Treasure DAO's annual burn rate of $8.3 million, Patten says 15 contributors have either left or will be laid off, and game publishing support and the treasure chain will be terminated.

At the same time, he is proposing to withdraw an idle $785,000 from the market maker Flowdesk to increase the DAO’s treasury.

Patten says that, with the current runway, "stablecoins will last until roughly December," but if the DAO approves withdrawing the funds from Flowdesk, this could be extended to February 2026, in "an optimistic scenario."

The DAO's current treasury only has $2.4 million left, and the ecosystem fund holds 22.3 million MAGIC, valued at $2.3 million, according to Patten, but if "Magic falls," the DAO is "unsustainable sometime between December and February."

Treasure DAO to refocus on four products

Patten says the DAO also needs to focus its energy on a few key products and future partnerships will be based on revenue generation for the DAO, where users of the platform will need to generate value through token use.

“The DAO should officially commit to a focused, streamlined approach of four products and four products only, the marketplace, Bridgeworld, Smolworld and AI agent, scaling technology,” he said.

“That’s all that Treasure should be through 2025. Bridgeworld and Smolworld will be use cases to demonstrate how other projects utilize magic marketplace and our AI framework and back end to run many, many agents concurrently.”

TreasureDAO, launched in 2021, provides services to enable game publishers to launch Web3-based games with relative ease by providing them with access to infrastructure and advisory services.

However, Patten says it "didn't have a scalable business model" and hasn’t grown since the Arbitrum airdrop in March 2023.

The Treasure ecosystem token MAGIC is down 16.5% to $0.0872 for the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Overall, the token has shed 98% after hitting its all-time high of $6.32 on Feb. 19, 2022.