What do you get when a billion-plus dollars is poured into gaming? Well, not only do you get multiple successful and fun games, but you also get games at the forefront of the industry Integrating AI, a balanced in-game economy, 85+ million players, and an OMG gameplay That's what @SlingshotDAO is building. @SlingshotDAO is a platform that funds gaming ideas and development based on community votes, powered by $SLING The platform has already launched 11 games, attracting 3.3 million monthly active users and generating 941 million total visits across the ecosystem. One of their biggest hits, Bomb Door Simulator, reached a peak of 2,200 concurrent players and 200,000 daily active users, generating $20,000 in monthly revenue. However, to access the features of the platform, you need the Slingshot app. The app is the gateway into the ecosystem and everything going on over there. It gives you a one-click social login through Web3Auth that automatically sets up a self-custody wallet without the usual crypto headaches. $SLING is the backbone of this platform, and it's a utility token live on Arbitrum that also acts as the native gas token on the Slingshot Orbit Layer 3 chain Locking $SLING gives you power; so, the more you lock, the more power you get, and this power is, in turn, used for voting on which game concepts get funded. How it works? Every month, Roblox developers submit their game concepts to the showcase. The community votes using their locked $SLING tokens, and the highest voted projects get up to $50,000 USD in funding plus resources, networking, and distribution support. In @SlingshotDAO, everyone eats: developers whose ideas get funded, community members who vote and share in the revenue, and players who get to influence what games get made. An interesting part? All the revenue from the games flows back to the Web3 community via SLING tokens. So, when a game you voted for blows up, you share in that success. You're not just playing games; you're building a library of intellectual property that the community collectively owns. Well, talk about putting community first! Some playable games from Slingshot DAO include: →Dragon Blox Ultimate—A Dragon Ball Z-inspired fighting RPG where you create your character, train, fight bosses and other players, unlock transformations, and become the ultimate warrior. It is indeed a classic anime power fantasy with combat mechanics. →Heroes World—This is a ‘My Hero Academia’-themed open world where you unlock powerful Quirks, battle in PvP, and choose to be a hero or a villain. It features tower raids with 100 levels and reward scaling systems. →Blades of Chance—An RNG-based game where you open chests to collect rare blades, battle other players in PvP arenas, defeat bosses for loot, and chase that legendary blade drop. In simple terms, this is a pure gacha mechanic with rarity tiers. →Anime Ball—An anime-inspired dodgeball combat game where you deflect energy balls at opponents while avoiding getting hit. The game features weapons and special abilities from One Piece, Naruto, and Dragon Ball, like Kamehameha, Shadow Clone, and more. →Bomb Door Simulator—A training simulator where you throw bombs at dummies to increase power, then break through doors to earn wins. Players can use wins to buy more powerful bombs like dynamite, gravity bombs, quantum bombs, and galactic bombs, plus pets that give power boosts. →Tree Smash Simulator—A lumberjack-themed simulator where you sharpen your axe, chop trees to earn wins, collect pets for power boosts, and unlock new areas. →Greedy Noobs X—A social donation-based hangout where players donate Robux, and everyone in the server gets a share as credits. → A0PG—An anime-themed game with serpent mechanics It is worth noting that the roadmap of the DAO doesn't stop at gaming either. Slingshot aims to expand beyond Roblox into films, podcasts, and various forms of entertainment. The vision is to become the world's largest community-owned IP library where every game, story, or digital experience is collaboratively built, governed, and owned by its creators and fans. With backing from Dragonfly, Animoca Brands, DCG and Sfermion, plus $3M raised at a $75M FDV, this isn't some fly-by-night project. This is what Web3 gaming looks like when you put gameplay first, sustainable economics next and actual community ownership right after. Cheers @SlingshotDAO, It was a pleasure featuring some of your games during our @Afro_Play game nights and we are sure to play more pretty soon.