As the year is set to end, Kusho World released its 2024 recap and roadmap for 2025, emphasizing its transition into a “Community Protocol” that fosters creativity, collaboration, and sustainability within its ecosystem.
What’s the significance: Kusho World’s “Community Protocol” focuses on a decentralized model where creators and contributors share success, driving long-term community growth.
- Its decentralized model is also expected to allow community members to use Kusho IP for projects, share in the success, and contribute to a growing ecosystem.
Between the Lines: Kusho World’s evolution highlights how web3 empowers communities to co-create and co-own IP, driving decentralized innovation and showing how web3 projects can succeed in tough market conditions.
Key Details: In a recent X post, the popular Filipino-founded NFT collections shared a recap of its 2024 achievements and outlined plans for the coming year, recognizing the key role of the community’s contributions.
- The recap reflects on significant milestones, the current state of Kusho World, and the focus for 2025, highlighting the collective effort required to advance their vision of becoming a Community Protocol standard in web3.
2024 Recap:
- Initial Challenges: Kusho World noted that its early comeback efforts, led by Joe Josue’s network, struggled due to the bear market and lack of community involvement.
- Strategy Shift (January): Focus shifted to recruiting and nurturing core community talent and attracting peripheral talent (developers, founders, artists) aligned with Kusho’s vision.
- Success of the New Approach: Close collaboration with the community and a focus on growth led to increased active members and talent, fueling Kusho’s development of the Community Protocol.
- Community Protocol: A decentralized model supporting creativity and economic opportunity:
- Key Principles of Kusho World:
- Open Creativity: Members use Kusho IP to create products (e.g., games, apparel).
- Shared Success: Revenue from projects goes into a shared fund, transitioning to a community treasury.
- Network Effect: More creators increase the value of Kusho for all.
2024 Milestones:
- New Additions and Collaborations:
- Welcomed legendary creator @kookoocryptotv as an advisor and contributor.
- Absorbed Hyrax Guild, transforming it into the “Hyrax Kusho” Protocol Research arm.
- Added 3 key contributors: Sibyl, Sakk, and *Heavensent.
- Formed a Developer Mentor cohort of Filipino Web3 Dev professionals.
- Community and Product Launches:
- Introduced the Community Protocol.
- Launched Kusho World website and Kusho Web Shop.
- Launched Adarna Bot (Discord music player with airdrop functionality).
- Kickstarted Arkada (private testing ongoing).
- Launched Pixels Guild “TFK” on-chain.
- Introduced Kusho Podcast with upgraded production, hosted by @masterkamote_.
- Partnerships and Recognition:
- Won YPS Game Jam by Sovrun (formerly BreederDAO).
- Accepted into Ronin Community Collections.
- Key partnership with YEY Technologies.
- Partnered with University of the Philippines for blockchain-focused events.
- Community partner for Philippine Blockchain Week.
- Featured in PhilStar for apparel and store launch.
- Community Engagement:
- Launched Weekly Tambayan: an open forum for direct community feedback.
- Bolstered the community team with Niks, Kai, and Drake taking on more responsibilities.
- Launched Familiars Instagram account for community engagement.
- Creative and Merchandise:
- Launched Kusho Classics Collection apparel.
- Expanded Kusho YouTube/LoFi content.
Kusho World Focus Areas for 2025:
- Sustainability & Treasury: Build revenue to sustain operations, support contributors, and grow a community treasury through strategic partnerships, airdrops, DeFi, and community products.
- Governance Exploration: Increase community involvement through on-chain voting for NFT holders, councils, and working groups, amplifying community voices in decision-making.
- Content Scaling: Expand content initiatives, collaborate with creators and artists, and explore web2 channels to increase brand distribution, access, and popularity.
Key Quote:
“Our mission is to bring the most online nation, on-chain. With that, we are excited to continue to thrive with Kusho World going into 2025.”
Joe Josue and Roikyuu, Kusho World
The bottom line: Kusho World’s focus on community, sustainability, and governance in 2025 positions it for continued growth and success in the evolving web3 ecosystem.
This article is published on BitPinas: Kusho World 2024 Recap, Plans for Community Growth in 2025
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