Web3 Gaming Ecosystem TreasureDAO ‘Bridging Discontinued’, Shuts Down Mainnet Cites Cost-Cutting

ccn.comPublished on 2025-05-06Last updated on 2025-05-06

Key Takeaways
  • TreasureDAO has announced it will officially shut down Treasure Chain on May 30, 2025.
  • The MAGIC token is trading down 5% at $0.16 and has a market cap of just over $51 million.
  • The Treasure team is pivoting its focus to its core tech, NFT marketplace, and AI.

Treasure DAO has decided to shut down its mainnet as its network operation costs far outweigh its revenue.

Now, TreasureDAO claims it will shift its focus towards its core tech offerings and AI agent-integrated non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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Treasure Chain Down

Amid ongoing financial woes, the TreasureDAO team has urged users to bridge out all of their assets from its gaming-centric L2, the Treasure Chain, following a community vote .

The announcement comes just two months after Treasure released its Q4 2024 financial transparency report , which revealed low revenues and troublingly high expenses.

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In April 2025, the DAO’s chief contributor and co-founder, John Patten, revealed that its expenses had surpassed $8 million and that just $2.4 million worth of stablecoins were left in the treasury.

The DAO’s unsustainable burn rate had left the treasury with around $1.56 million worth of MAGIC tokens.

This was projected to reach zero by mid-2025. Furthermore, maintaining the chain costs around $450,000 a year.

Not all is lost, however, as the team explains it’s still in a “strong position” thanks to its USDC runway being extended until Q3/Q4 2026.

This, it says, will give it room to “accelerate” product development and reduce costs, setting itself up for “the next stage of growth.”

Next Stages

Treasure Chain ambitiously set out to create a Web3 gaming network that would support “infinite games” through its Layer-3 Infinity Chains. It began on Arbitrum, but migrated to ZKsync in December 2024.

It was home to titles such as dungeon crawler The Beacon, NFT trading card game Kaiju Cards, and even the successful Mighty Action Heroes, which will now most likely be required to migrate to Arbitrum directly, or to another Layer-2 solution.

This also marks the end of third-party game funding and publishing on the network, which certainly contributed to the DAO’s high burn rate.

For now, TreasureDAO will pivot its focus to its NFT projects and marketplace. This includes Bridgeworld, which serves as a foundational component to its NFT offerings.

The DAO will also focus on AI via SmolWorld, a newer NFT-based character project that integrates virtual AI companions.

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