What Is CARV?
CARV is building the largest modular Identity and Data Layer (IDL) for gaming, AI, and beyond, integrating over 900 games and AI companies, and serving 10M+ registered players. CARV has 3 main pillars:
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CARV Protocol creates a data infrastructure that empowers users to own, control, and monetize their data, while providing gaming, AI and other data intensive industries with high-quality data to drive innovation. Protocol currently has 6M in revenue YTD.
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CARV First Party Applications, the first flagship, CARV Play, is a gaming focused application on CARV Protocol for community driven game distribution, social, and credentialing systems. Currently integrated with 900+ games & AI companies with 2.5M in registered users.
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CARV Labs, a $50M accelerator arm with HashKey Capital and Consensys for projects with mass adoption into CARV Protocol. BANANA is the first game that's powered and accelerated by Labs, reaching 10M in MAU in 4 weeks.
CARV has raised $50M in total funding from top-tier investors like Tribe Capital, Temasek Vertex, HashKey Capital, Animoca Brands, Alibaba Group and ConsenSys, along with major gaming studios and ecosystems such as MARBLEX (Netmarble).
What is $CARV?
$CARV is the native utility token of the CARV ecosystem, used as a medium of exchange within its platform. It empowers players or individuals with ownership of data, gates games or projects accessing player base & data base and allows participation in the governance of the ecosystem's development.
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Governance signaling
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Retail users’ premium utillities in CARV ecosystem, e.g., gas payment for multi-chains, gaming assets purchases, etc.
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Games or projects gated access of continuous utility of CARV protocol, e.g., accessing holistic and unified player profiles, etc.
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Incentive to bootstrap CARV protocol – the modular data layer, e.g., data owners, providers, consumers
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CARV can be converted to veCARV(s) with 1:1 ratio through staking
What is $veCARV?
veCARV stands for voting-escrow CARV, is a non-transferable token. veCARV is mainly used for:
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CARV Protocol governance (voting & delegation)
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Incentivizes node operators who secure and support the network
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veCARV can be redeemed for $CARV with varying rates and waiting periods
How Many $CARV Are There in Circulation?
The total supply of $CARV will be 1,000,000,000 and will become accessible over four years, starting at the time of the Token Generation Event.
Who Are the Founders of CARV?
The team comprises contributors from Coinbase, BASE, Google, Electronic Arts, Tencent Games, MiYoHo, McKinsey and more all dedicated to revolutionizing data usage in gaming, AI, and beyond.