Tubbygotchi

tags: m3

Are these devices and the current applications how we expect crypto to scale to billions of users and decentralize the web? I'd argue no, and that they're a means to an end but we're also running out of time to get it right.

https://blog.trezor.io/1001-games-new-console-firmware-for-the-trezor-model-one-5b9438a07fc6

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Why Tubby

• Pets are a good schelling point for ownership
• Pets are also a perfect vessel for "dumb AI"
  • More forgiving for less intelligence
  • Smaller LLMs easier to self host
• Tubby Cats are CC0, enables remix culture

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Specifications

• Servers as cold storage for NFT data (clubNFT.com)
• Spawns a local web server for interacting with tubby in WebXR
• Does NOT store private keys for your wallet

Community ideas

• ETH or L2?
  • if L2, I can have another machine next to it, symbolized with a change machine / atm, to open up a site for bridging ETH to that L2
• Supply limit or open edition?
  • Have a goal in mind for certain 3D initiatives we want to do
  • Since tubby is 0.03 and machine shaped like gacha, then maybe low cost (0.01) open edition on L2 makes most sense
• Utility or just art?
  • One idea I had was that each tubbygotchi = redeem for 3D services
  • Another could be voting on 3D ideas / activations together

Gud Response

1. launch it on Base to appease the American CEX gods
2. make it defined supply so you don't end up with a random number from OE
3. for utility, grow Tubby gotchi from egg, feed, pet etc, then battle later, and you need to give it pilk erc-20 tokens to keep it alive
4. earn pilk on base by staking ETH Tubbies in ETH contract

can run scheduled battle times like we do for Among Us

If Tubbygotchi dies then the NFT or ERC 1155 is burned.

To start over you or someone has to breed a new Tubbygotchi for you, but supply is hard capped at like 2000, so another Tubbygotchi must perish before a new one can be bred

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Prototype / Demo

lasershark has lots of digivices, also a Flipper chip. Can mod the trezor / pitrezor into something cool.

https://twitter.com/antpb/status/1002623104231800833?s=21

• https://lostintranslationmon.com/project-digishell/
• http://www.tamashell.com/

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Concept Art

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/tubbygotchi-3d-concept-art-26d364eb3d00440cb8f50d25aff41c6d

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Grant Proposal

wip

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Notes

• https://twitter.com/Trezor/status/1401903528256409600
• https://blog.trezor.io/1001-games-new-console-firmware-for-the-trezor-model-one-5b9438a07fc6
• https://github.com/trezor/trezor-hardware
• https://wiki.trezor.io/Open-source_hardware
• https://www.pitrezor.com/2018/02/pitrezor-homemade-trezor-bitcoin-wallet.html

https://booth.pm/en/items/2756183

Could act as an awesome backpack design as well

Feed pets dank nugz?!

https://twitter.com/webaverse/status/1363569345859907585

Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yEFqlCuIk

Circle of life?

https://twitter.com/SproutAndroid/status/1485273920978698247

https://twitter.com/CupOJoseph/status/1659544815204179968?s=20
https://decrypt.co/140730/old-game-boy-could-next-bitcoin-ethereum-wallet

Inspiration

Dreamcast VMU + Chao Garden

• https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2022/05/next-gen-vmu-vm2-coming-soon-from.html
• https://www.inverse.com/input/gaming/how-to-mod-your-dreamcast-vmu-into-the-ultimate-mini-retro-emulator/amp

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