Hire Linkky at Illuvium

[thick elbow]

📢 Proposal: Hire Linkky & Support a Stable Community Platform

Friends, I believe it’s time to take an important step forward:
Let’s officially bring Linkky on board at Illuvium — to develop and maintain a single, stable, and constantly evolving community platform.

⚠️ What’s the problem?
Right now, we don’t have even one consistent fan site that is reliable, well-maintained, and actively developed. Let’s review the situation:

1️⃣ Scoriox’s fan site — was great while it lasted. But eventually, it died.

2️⃣ IlluviPro — promised us notification features and offered paid access. It disappeared after collecting funds, without delivering.

3️⃣ Illuvidata — had potential, but at this point it’s unclear whether development is ongoing. We still don’t have even the basics — like proper tournament lobbies or avatar customization.

⚠️ We’re building the best Web3 game in the world. But this “Illuvi-site of the week” approach is not sustainable.

💡 The Solution: Support Linkky and illuviVault
Linkky has already shown his dedication and talent. He’s not just building a website — he’s creating an intelligent, structured ecosystem with:

Multi-language support

Deep in-game analytics

Tournament functionality

DAO–community transparency tools

A long-term development vision

🧠 He’s someone we know. He’s been in the community for years — one of the top Overworld players, and now a passionate developer.

✅ My Proposal
Give Linkky an official role focused on developing the Illuvium community platform.

Pay him a fair salary (in ILV or other reasonable form), so he can dedicate himself fully.

Recognize illuviVault as an officially supported community hub — something stable, long-term, and trusted.

I understand the team is going through budget optimizations, but this is not an expense — it’s an investment. A reliable platform builds trust, retention, and a stronger ecosystem.

I'm not asking for myself.
I'm asking on behalf of someone who deserves it.
I'm asking for the community.
I'm asking for Illuvium.

💬 What do you think?

I tagged the new council. Your opinion is important and needed.

@wanton minnow @pulsar inlet @inland crane @tawny lake @lime flame @latent dawn

[wanton minnow]

Here a little description of illuviVault Platform
https://twitter.com/illuvivault/status/1921226374280368172

illuviVault (@illuvivault) on X

Voting for Linkky is voting wisely – for Illuvium Main Council (IMC) 🔥A builder with vision, action, and real tools for the community. Change starts now!
@illuviumio #ILV #illuvivault #IMC #DAO @Steve_in2_futur

Vote here: https://t.co/ZvREpBXMsM

X · May 10, 2025, 3:30 PM

[warped plover]

<@&814435151307866142> I support the motion, but the DAO should contract directly with Linkky as an indepedndnt contractor to complete the buildout of IlluviVault. This project should remain a IMC/ICC level as sentiment/confidence with Labs production is at all-time low.

[inland crane]

I will give it some more thought but off the top of my head a community platform should be built and maintained by the community.

The DAO shouldn't fund or hire someone to do this.

If the game is good enough and your community site the best then it can be monetised and you'll do well out of it.

Illuvium picking Linkky as a "winner" is also a bad look. It's an open market for anyone willing to make an Illuvium community site/content.

Illuvium should support anyone serious about building with the tools they need such as APIs etc but I don't think they should be hiring anyone for this.

[thick elbow]

Regarding website monetization, I suggest considering a practical example.
There was a wonderful site called IlluviPro.
It had three competitive advantages:

1️⃣ It was very minimalist and fast.

2️⃣ It offered filters based on stats.

3️⃣ It had filters for the number of perfect stats.

4️⃣ It promised to introduce a notification feature.

Many people liked this, and we paid for access to the site.

Then Illuvidex was updated.

1️⃣ Illuvidex remained terribly slow.

2️⃣ Filters based on stats appeared.

3️⃣ The filter for the number of perfect stats is still not added.

4️⃣ No notification feature, and none is planned.

What did IlluviPro do? They simply shut down the site.
So, having lost sufficient monetization due to the missing second point, they decided to cash out and leave us hanging.

I don’t want IlluviVault to suffer the same fate.
There’s no 100% guarantee that the project will always generate profit for Linkky. If at some point he realizes it doesn’t bring income, he’ll likely focus more on his main job to secure his livelihood.

But what we need is consistency.

What do you think about this? @wanton minnow @inland crane

[inland crane]

You shouldn't put constraints on the teams solution aka Illuvidex.

The community offering should be a site version of something like Wow add-ons are for Wow.

It gives people access to tools or something Illuvium doesn't directly.

There's never guarantee for profit.

If you offer innovative things people want access to that increases user/player quality of life and they are willing to pay then you have good PMF and build on that.

However once you have something with PMF others will copy and bring similar potentially cheaper ways to access simular features.

Such is business.

[thick elbow]

Thank you very much for your response and for sharing your point of view.

[latent dawn]

Hi winnie thank you for bringing this forward

i do appreciate linkky and i think he has done a good job.

here comes the but
i agree with josh here.
the dao should remain objective.
linkky should apply for a position if theres an opening. or labs could buy the codes if we need his works.

otherwise we should treat it as other 3rd party service providers

[thick elbow]

Hi, thanks for your response.
Are you planning to create such a position?

[lime flame]

I agree with what Josh said, I'll just add that if anyone seeks DAO funding they should be the ones submitting a proposal for the DAO.

[inland crane]

I will say if the games player counts and revenues increase with the MMO, or we secure new funding.

It's more likely I would be personally more open to giving seed funding to community projects via a grant process.

At the moment every dollar spent should be focused at bringing about the above.

[stoic talon]

The community should have voted Linkky for IMC. To support his hard work we need to get him into the ICC

[lime flame]

how would being in ICC support his work in any way? Wouldn't he actually have less time to develop the website if he's in council?

[unborn moss]

I think f4eth sees council as a pay check to people liked by community, not a role people need merit for or do work in, like a pseudo creator support programm.

[latent dawn]

thats not up to the council. it's labs prerogative

[stoic talon]

Financially. Perhaps he could take a day off of irl work here and there to work on Illuvivault because he makes a bit of money from being on council.

Filo, you will learn the work load for council is not much, ask @latent dawn some days IMC wouldn't even have a meeting because Kieran didn't show up. Why do you think he wanted to reduce pay

[latent dawn]

[past horizon]

Wanna hear something interesting
I had Linkky top of my list to reach out to if Data team would ever hire again

[latent dawn]

https://tenor.com/view/sold-ray-ray-butani-schitts-creek-ep204-gif-20106341

[stoic talon]

I find what people do when not on council valuable. Unless there are IIPs that need to be talked about or passed then council work is minimal so knowing someone does other things outside of council work is important to me and in my opinion brings value to the DAO

[unborn moss]

Should advocate for a creator program or something similar then, compared to outsourcing that to council pay imo.
I agree with treating council as that is theoretically optimal, if someone can fill both merit and value outside of their job there. Shouldn’t be the main objective though, if people are able to bring in enough value that would warrant rewards/pay anyways, could certainly have something else for that.
(I do think this incentive has been lacking in general)

[stoic talon]

I mean sure if someone like @sinful moth wanted to be on council I wouldn't care if he helped new players on discord everyday or made informative content or tracked and made fuel sale charts for investors, but in general I do care about these things

[unborn moss]

Yeah, but then advocate for changing the rules/systems in place.

I´d agree on the take that labs/dao haven´t been very supportive of people giving value to community in general or from their pov people didn´t provide enough I guess.

The main point I refer to is, feels scary to me to reason someone should be council cause of the extracuricular work, instead of how they deal with IIPs.

[stoic talon]

No we don't need more rules. I will just vote how I want. I only explained myself since you commented about me on how you think I think and what I believe.

[unborn moss]

Yeah, so I was right, you see council as outsourcing a creator programm.

[stoic talon]

Is being in discord everyday helping new players content creation?

[unborn moss]

yeah

bro it is, and if people expect to get future rewards and are grumpy if they don´t get them...

[stoic talon]

no wonder you didn't make it onto council. talking about grumpy

[unborn moss]

You realize because I did speak critical and honestly about how bad things look, people like you who are pretty delusional about the current state are upset, right?

[stoic talon]

I think the team is working hard to make the game better

[unborn moss]

Working hard and being able to do it, might be different things.

[wanton minnow]

Stop drama plz for on topic....

[unborn moss]

idk, just another ad hominem, I literally considered the EP1 and how refunds were handeled soft rugs at best, not like I was positive game/team before elections, certainly wanted to help make things better though, pretty disappointed with things have been again though.

avg web3 KOL also considers gauntlet a prototype of a game, I am lot more fair even on that end, sry if it hurts bagholders feelings

[unborn moss]

bro, runway is short, they won´t hire you atm

[lime flame]

well if there isn't enough work load for ICC maybe it's time we restructure it or even suspend it.

[stoic talon]

There isn't enough work load for IMC either (pay has come down alot so that's good) that is why I value what people do outside of council work before they get elected or during their epoch

[lime flame]

I'm not so sure on that. IMO being in council is about how much you wanna do, not how much work load there is.

[wanton minnow]

I truly believe there’s meaningful work to be done around ICC or IMC. The real issue is the lack of vision. We need to innovate — we’re operating in Web3, it’s our present reality. It would be wise to fully leverage its potential.

[warped plover]

great reply. I think we agree the solution would benefit the community. hope the imc will perform due diligence and do something that supplies better transparency and reporting than what we have now.

[stoic talon]

Exactly that is why like I said a person doing good work for the community when not on council is a good sign they will make a good council member

[ashen lynx]

Happy to hear this actually. The team reaching out to the truly motivated community members is probably one of the greatest perks of a DAO. You have a lot of talent hidden in the shrubs between discord scrubs ^^

[eager plover]

I appreciate Linkky for what he gives to community. One day, I hope Illuvium Labs will be in the position to start hiring again and I am happy to read that Linkky is on Perry's radar. I like that Illuvium Labs looks within the community when hiring.

[unborn moss]

I think this is true but also the opposite, making discord active guy a criteria seems exploitable.

[ashen lynx]

Not talking about "discord active guy" at all in this case. I dont think fraggy or Jaganite's heap of messages would qualify them for IMC.

Ive worked with Linkky, he is a trustworthy, hardworking and analytical guy. So i simply vouch for his ability. Not the number of messages sent.

[past horizon]

Yeah it's not about community participation per se, but he's showing his skill through it in this case

[warped plover]

I just like seeing tangible output out of linkky. If the DAO (not Labs) was my company everybody would be under a SOP and this burn would have slowed years ago.

[wanton minnow]

👀 My Vision for Illuvium
I firmly believe that any respectable business must have metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). These tools are essential to make informed decisions and dynamically adapt monetary and human resources. In today's world, this is non-negotiable.

⚠️ Rethinking Our Strategic Direction
Right now, I have serious concerns about the direction of energy allocation—especially with regard to Arena.
Let’s be honest: Illuvium is in a fragile state, and every move must be strategically calculated, because our resources are limited.

💸 From a Profitability Standpoint
Why is so much effort going into Arena, a product that isn’t generating revenue, and instead is draining our strategic reserve (the ILV reward pool of 1 million tokens)?
How much is left in that pool? Investors—and the community—need to see this in real time.

This misalignment of focus raises red flags. We must prioritize long-term sustainability.

🔄 The Need for Synergy and Clarity
The situation is critical. Illuvium’s reputation won’t be rebuilt on visuals alone, but through a clear synergy of priorities and execution.

Yes, Beyond Wave 4 is promising. Yes, ADRs are creating new revenue streams. But at the same time, some KPIs are stagnating on our dashboard, and interconnected systems—like an intelligent Illuvial burn mechanism—are still missing.

📊 A Clear Path Toward Transparency and Profitability
That’s why I’ve created a dashboard prototype to present the key KPIs that will guide Illuvium toward profitability and transparency.

Analyzing data is like going to the doctor for a health check-up.
I want to see Illuvium healthy, growing, and thriving. Don't you? 🔥

[thick elbow]

Me too.

[stoic talon]

Would be cool if you made a chart showing all onchain data from new players to new Illuvial/Illuvitar owners, fuel sales for both eth and stripe sales. Heck even Discord activity, twitter activity. This would be cool

[latent dawn]

dont worry he did this last election too lol

[stoic talon]

yes I saw this tweet. That is when I lost respect for him

but we are getting off topic. Sorry Linkky

[alpine jasper]

To clarify, illuvialmaster was in no way mine. Towards the end of it I was the UI designer, but it was owned by Sky and Artemis.

As for Linkkys site, it's an awkward position. If U hire him it would then no longer make it a community site and you'd be surprised how much that slows things down.

A better approach would be to build an ILV fund where community sites can win from a weekly/monthly prize pool depending on their popularity, helpfulness and any other metrics.

[latent dawn]

lets vote linkky for ICC and get the analytics for free