Dragon City’s MVFW Asia District development This proposal is now in status: REJECTED. Voting Results: * Yes 10% 287,693 VP (79 votes) * No 90% 2,440,089 VP (72 votes)

I am new here in this platform and exploring different proposal and this is a great one for me.

I am voting no because the budget is way too large and very ambiguous. 50K for the Metaverse Fashion Opera with no breakdown of how the money will be spent or what the return on investment will be for Decentraland. I don't believe we should vote on any grants that don't provide a complete tentative budget attached to the proposal and an expense report at each update detailing how the money released has been spent so far.

Voting no because this would use 86% of the quarterly in-world budget. Is it possible to break this up into smaller initiatives spanning the full year? Will the 60 wearables created be sold or giveaways? I personally don't think using $9000 of the in-world content budget for curation fees is a good use. Are there sponsors or external financial backers for the MVFW events and operas? What is the benefit of hosting these events with funds from your own pocket? Will you apply for more funding this year or would this cover the development costs for 2023?

Thank you for such a good heart! :pray: :heart:

Hi Nikki, I appreciate your long response for this grant and doing such a good investigation, but I am sure this is not the whole picture of what you have concluded about Dragon City... We built Dragon City for years, not months, please do more research about Dragon City and what we have done during these years, for example,https://youtu.be/79nA-uv3pHc. This event is one of the most crowded events in the Decentraland. Again, we built Dragon City for years, not months. When you mentioned that Dragon City didn't change a lot and you visited it often, it is not true again. We spent more than 2 months rebuilding the FantasticLand. This is new compared to what we have built in the past in this zone. You can revisit it to see what it is: https://fantasticland.app. and check our event here: https://fantastic.land for the most important festival -Chinese New Year for the Chinese. Since 2020, we hosted this event every year. This is one of the biggest events even in the whole Decentraland community. I would be sad if you still said so because our team is working so hard to build the Dragon City. It means you do not understand what we have done in the past 3 years. I hope you can do better research when you make a conclusion on it. Even the foundation knew what we had achieved in building the metaverse. But I can understand if you are new to Decentraland. About the fund, why is it so late to apply for the grant? One of the reasons is the grant application has been paused for 2 months. And this fund is to build a well-developed MVFW zone in the Dragon City. We would continue to make it one of the most functional zones for our next MVFW. So this is not just a 3-month' fund. Also, we won't stop building Dragon City even 3 months later. Remember that we have built Dragon City for over 3 years, long before you joined DCL. Again, thank you for your feedback, I think this is also good advice to push us forward.

You can check more information here: https://snapshot.org/#/dragonmeta.eth/proposal/0x04a4c426e1ac48ab804bc887d9f1d7681716f114a30413b618911def6c755311 Thank you!

Hey Roy, I hope you can understand the amount of questioning considering a large grant being requested. As a project owner, I am always looking at the places boards and analytics as a whole. I don't think in the last 10 months I have ever seen Dragon City property on the top of the places board. If it was, it wasn't made clear that it is Dragon City related in the marketing/images. I host events every Friday night for the last several months and have taken screenshots of the top places board for comparison against our analytics software and I have yet to see Dragon City on any of those screenshots. If it was Dragon City, there was no mention of it in the title/image. Could have just been a marketing miss, but still noteworthy. It's a little weird that you're claiming to be the "most active community" without analytics to prove that. Unless you're receiving 50+ DAU or 200+ event attendance then that statement is pretty misleading. I've visited Dragon City often, as I have with many other districts, to try and understand what the purpose is for the larger inaccessible regions and what is being built. I have to say, I haven't seen very many changes personally. One could argue that I don't know the project well enough to notice the differences, but I feel if you have a district they should have deployed scenes on them. Especially being so many years post-mint. I've seen many other projects deploy dozens and dozens of different scenes to much smaller regions so it doesn't make sense that a project with so many contributors and so many talented individuals go blank. Also, Fashion Week is only a few weeks away. Usually, with bigger projects like this that you're proposing, there are months of planning in advance. So it comes off as a little red flag that funds are being requested so late. There's a cliff period with grants too so you wouldn't receive funds until well after Fashion Week. So I'm a little confused about the intentions. $200k for one project to participate in Fashion Week seems excessive from my perspective. Abstaining from voting to view more information and do more research. :pray:

We didn't delegate our VP to anyone. To be clear, the lower town of Dragon City was allocated to the original contributors last year. They belong to the individual for now. I appreciate your support of Dragon City. We have built Dragon City since 2019. If you look closely at the Decentraland community, you will know Dragon City is one of most active and well-developed by our team in the last 3 years. Thank you!

Thank you for your response. Here we make some clear information: 1. The team didn't sell any land of Dragon City so far. We have not profited from these sales. The lower part of Dragon City was allocated to the original contributors. You can get more info here about that: https://snapshot.org/#/dragonmeta.eth/proposal/0x04a4c426e1ac48ab804bc887d9f1d7681716f114a30413b618911def6c755311 I appreciate your support.

1. Dragon City was formed just like Vegas City and Aetherian, initially contributed by the contributors. 2. We reallocated 40% of the land to the contributors last year. 3. We didn't sell land; the contributors sold their lands.

Can you link us to these documents that include the list of contributors? Thank you.

1. Dragon City was formed just like Vegas City and Aetherian, initially contributed by the contributors; you can read the community rules about that. 2. In the last year, May 2022, Dragon CIty's 40% of the land was reallocated to contributors; that's what you see the lower part of Dragon City has different owners. The list of contributors you can find in the official documents. Also, you can find the list of Vegas City. 3. We didn't sell the land of Dragon City so far.

actually, this fund will continue to build MVFW Asia for future uses even after MVFW 2023.

1. We hold many events every year; you can check the events.decentraland.org; for example, Dragon boat festival, Mid-autumn festival, Chinese New Year festival, MVFW Asia 2022, and every event you can find on this official events website. 2. No, we don't host weekly, only big festivals; btw, Dragon City was formed just like Vegas City and Aetherian, initially contributed by the contributors; you can read the community rules about that.

I think that many of the builds in the Asia District are beautiful and well made. I don't think that spending $197,900 to create venues for a one week event (Metaverse Fashion Week) is a good use of DAO funds. I have supported other grants that have asked for less than that to onboard new users and artists throughout an entire year. I can't see how spending that much of the DAO's funds is going to have a return on investment that will make it justifiable. Aside from that, I am curious to hear your answers to Sinfulmeatsticks questions. We don't know much about how the Asia District was formed, and now that land is being sold off. From here on out, I will need full transparency before voting to give more DAO funds to *ANY* district here in Decentraland.

We have never sold dragon city's land so far.

I can see that lower part of Dragon City has different owners and some of the land is for sale  Have you profited from these sales? Can you give some more details about why the lower part is divided like that as I am not familiar with history of this district? Anyways I will vote 'No', 197k is a lot to ask for 3 month work and as you write "small team". Start by asking for a smaller grant.

Hi, thanks for proposal. Can you please answer next questions that SinfulMeatStick asked : 1. How was Dragon City District formed ? @hardtruth 2. To whom belongs land ? To contributors or @roy personally or hybrid ? Please answer in detail if possible. 3. Could you provide info on the sales of Dragon City district land?

Just voted yes! great proposal :D

I will need some time to come to a conclusion to how I will vote on this. I will have to do some research on Dragon City before my time here on Decentraland. I can only speak for what I have seen in the last year and a half, which is maybe a hand full of events and rumors of some of your VP being Delegated to an NFT project that has promoted to use your VP as a utility for their NFT holders. I will give Dragon City their flowers for hosting 1 widely attended stage during DCL Music Fest on their beautiful build. the Asian community came out in numbers to support. I also noticed the Chinese New Year event . But I have not seen to much more happening in Dragon City. Perhaps I missed some events due to me not operating in the Asian time zones. 1) could you provide us with some references to past events 2) Does Dragon City Host any weekly events? (it would be so valuable to Decentraland if Dragon City Provided a platform for Asian community members) I do see @hardtruth comment that leads me to ask How was Dragon City District formed? was it a list of contributors that contributed their land? or did all assets belong to @roy ? are there multiple land owners in the Dragon City District? also @hardtruth would you have any data you could provide on the sales of Dragon City district land? If any of my Information in the first paragraph is wrong please let me know.

Think about how much district land you guys sell each day on the marketplace, that's not enough to fill Roy's pockets.

**Hanfu Museum**: https://hanfumuseum.com **Metajam**: metajam.com **Dragon Art**: [https://dragon.art](https://dragon.art/) **Dragon Live**: [https://dragon.tv](https://dragon.tv/) Social platforms: Dragon City Twitter: https://twitter.com/dragoncityIO Bilibili : https://space.bilibili.com/453802781

**Some projects' websites:** 1 **Metaverse Labs**: [https://metaverselabs.com](https://metaverselabs.com/) **Dragon City official**: https://dragoncity.org **FanatasticLand**: https://fantastic.land **Archverse**: https://archverse.org **MVFW 2023 (Asia)**: https://mvfw.io **Metaverse Fashion Opera**: https://mvfo.org

I appreciate your support! What we have done in the past three years include: (you can directly click to enter the Dragon City in the Decentraland) **Wuji Island**: https://dragoncity.app **Archverse** (collaborated with one of the top 2 art universities in China): https://archverse.app https://beibei.city **Events zone**: https://dragontv.app **FantasticLand**: https://fantasticland.app **MVFW Asia**: https://mvfw.app