One Million Founders

Grants Proposals
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Proposal to the Hydra Community

Hey everyone,

We’d like to introduce a project we’ve been working on that we believe could become a major catalyst for Hydra — a vehicle to drive adoption, activity, and visibility in a way that’s organic, sustainable, and community-first.

One Million Founders is not a company. It’s not a product looking for customers. It’s a tool — a platform designed to connect people to Hydra through shared ownership. The idea is simple: build a massive community first, and then use that momentum to launch games that bring new users directly into the Hydra Ecosystem.

There’s nothing here that needs reinventing — the games will be simple, scalable, and monetized through ads, subscriptions, or in-game purchases. What’s new is the connection to Hydra. Every gameplay action is logged on-chain. Every reward is distributed in Hydra. Every member must hold a small amount of Hydra to activate their status.

This isn’t just a project for us — it’s a platform for everyone. A way to generate real on-chain activity and build a community-powered gateway into the Hydra ecosystem. The long-term vision is to launch multiple high-engagement games with real earning potential and wide appeal. Games that anyone can play and generate revenue. These games will introduce players to Hydra, one play at a time.

We’ll be working with influencers. We’ll be creating our own content. We’ll do whatever it takes to get this moving. Because momentum is what Hydra needs now — and we believe this project can help deliver that.

Hydra just launched HydraGon. The timing is right to give people something exciting to rally around. A reason to get exited and a tool for everyone in the community to engage with.

This is only one piece of a bigger puzzle for HydraChains success. Many Hydra projects are in the works — and we support them all and hope to partner with all those who wants Hydra to succeed. We hope this initiative resonates with you, and that we can earn your support as well.

We need a grant to make this happen, but will make sure it doesn’t have a negative price impact on Hydra. We are all invested in Hydra and our goal is aligned to make Hydra grow in all ways.

Let us know your thoughts. Ask your questions. We’re here to build this with you, not just for you.

OMF Presentation 20250622.pdf (2.2 MB)

– The One Million Founders Team

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This looks quite interesting! Tell us more details - how much for the grant, roadmap, timeline, final product.

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Thanks for you questions @anchoright,

The Road map is quite straight forward depending on the grant. With a full grant we will have a finished product within 6 months.

OneMillionFounders program with all functionalities for launching will be released within 2 from start. At this point we can start referring friends that signs up and earning NFT’s. - This part is very important since it can have a positive effect on the Price of Hydra.

First game will be launched 3-4 months after start, with a fully functional platform where the games are hosted.

After 6 months we aim to be self sustainable with the income from the games and will then continue to build more game and eventually setting up a DAO in a friendly place like Dubai for a Eco-System that is govern and owned by the NFT holders (similar to how Hydra Dao is set up, which was our inspiration for this setup).

Depending on how the discussion and support for this project will develop, we will take feedback and make adjustments before a vote will take place.

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Looks really impressive! A couple of questions.

  1. Would you be able to share more about the marketing plans? Is there anything in addition to working with influencers and creating your own content?
  2. Don’t you think 3-4 months for the first game launch is a bit long? What will maintain the momentum and excitement during this period?
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Thanks Jamo!

Great question.

  1. Currently we’re talking with influencers and seeing that we have manage to rally a few of them behind the project as purpose partners and not have to pay them money and instead giving them priority access after launch and extra invitation codes to give to their community and thus getting more Gold NFT early. This seems to be a working incentive for many influencers, especially those who actually love the fundamentals of crypto, since we are 100% community owned. This means for those influencers who supports the project early will have more ownership than the creators of the project.

We believe this will be the KEY to have an explosive start, so we are dealing with as many as possible and will continue this until we launch, we see a possibility to have 100+ influencers ready for launch.

To support the momentum after launch, we intend to keep it simple and market on all SM plattforms incl TG and test what works.

  1. If we can finance both MyBoardGames and OneMillionFounders at the same time it would only be 1 to maximum 2 months between the start of OneMillionFounders and the launch of the first game.

We will during this time push OneMillionFounders and share progress on the games and hopefully share the massive growth of the communtity during this time.

Is there anything you think we are missing?

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If the proposal gets approved then we’ll start developing the plattforms and while doing this we will actively angage with influencers up until launch, which gives us 6-8 weeks to sign as many influencers as possible (that we see is a good fit, mostly those who show their faces)

Here is one of the influencer (CryptoTrails, Niko) who we have onboard and a message from him: Video greating from CryptoTrails

linktr.ee/cryptotrails

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If you are going to pay influencers, I recommend to have an agreed reward structure in place. If possible, one that limits payment prior to delivery, and also defines delivery in terms of certain metrics (e.g. sign ups that can be linked to them, authentic engagement on their material). Many have fake followers and quite low real engagement.

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Great point. We are looking at making a deal with the influencers where they only get the NFT for their referrals and a bonus/sign-up, so we 1) don’t risk paying someone that doesn’t get signups and 2) We can have a contract with more influencers 3) those who don’t believe they can achive signups will probably not angage with us and filter themselves out :slight_smile:

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I think this project is well structured, very ambitious and could make a real difference in terms of Hydra awareness and adoption.

The DAO funds investment would be risky, but I see it as an opportunity, since we kind of find ourselves in a “all or nothing” situation right now. I say this because Hydra has been in the market for quite some years now, when compared with other crypto projects, it also has recently been upgraded with a lot of interesting features that could make it stand out in the crypto space, the crypto adoption from the general public and institutions is bigger than ever, and still it struggles to get attention from people outside of the community. Something more needs to be done in order to break some adoption barriers, like the historical price chart overview.

I’d support a project like this, with the right conditions - it should be settled from the beginning the existence of monthly checkpoints where the community could access some kind of activity report, and decide if the project should keep going (DAO funds further investment) for current month + 1. This means that the report should reflect last month’s activity, current month would already been financially ensured, but the following month would be judged by the community.
Could this be done and would it be acceptable for the team behind this project?

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Hi Ajaferreira,

Thank for the support and great question on the terms for the funds. I complete agree that not only should it be transparent what’s being worked on, but also conditions that if the goals are not met, then the funding would stop.

I believe the HydraTeam can do something like this, but I’ll let them answer if this is possible.

Replying on the first part of your message, I too have been here from the start (ICO of LockTrip) and it hurts to see how far we have come with HydraGon and still no adoption. The crypto space is super busy with too many fighting for exposure that it’s too hard and costly to be seen.

This was the original question that became the foundation for the project. How can we get attention and connect people to Hydra long term with real utility?

This project has great potential in itself, but more so, it’s built to primarily be a catalyst for Hydra.
We need something to showcase the ability of the chain and a way for us in the community (together with influencers) to talk to our networks and easily get those people onboard and excited and connected for the journey.

This part is something I personally struggled with when talking about Hydra. It was too complicated. I personally had to sit down and get friends onboard. With this project - it’s going to super easy to invite someone.

With the support of the Hydra community, I think we can use OneMillionFounders to build momentum and begin the journey to the top 100.

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Andre raised some good points, which I agree with. Fully funded, this project would reduce the DAO funds by roughly 1/3. It’s a high risk, but we are kind of in a “do or die” situation. But in order to have a chance of passing the community vote, I think the proposal requires more detail. E.g. a description of the platforms themselves (one million founders and myboardgames), how they will work and integrate together, a roadmap with clear and specific goals that are tied to dates and funding approval, etc. The proposal should include a similar review process outlined in Nikola’s game grant proposal system (below):

  • A detailed roadmap with clear milestones.
  • An open-source GitHub repository for DAO oversight.
  • Bi-weekly progress updates (technical reports, gameplay previews).
  • DAO-appointed reviewers monitor progress, with funding paused or revoked for non-compliance.

The oversight would be handled by the DAO, through community reviewers appointed by the DAO. The reviewers could be nominated as part of the proposal.

Since there are currently no details or demos of the games envisioned, which are core to the platform success, it is hard for voters to decide. I think that 6 months just to sell NFTs and build the community, without game production, is too long. So in my opinion the simultaneous execution option is required, however with a payout system that increases over time, weighted against demonstrable progress. For example:

  • Month 1: $10,000 paid out on the condition that month 1 NFT targets and github goals are met
  • Month 2: $15,000 paid out on the condition that month 2 NFT targets and github goals are met
  • Month 3: $20,000 paid out on the condition that month 3 NFT targets and github goals are met
  • Month 4: $25,000 paid out on the condition that month 4 NFT targets and github goals are met
  • Month 5: $35,000 paid out on the condition that month 5 NFT targets and github goals are met
  • Month 6: $45,000 paid out on the condition that month 6 NFT targets and github goals are met
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