We use AAA Gaming to capture the world's idle GPU compute, giving us an unfair advantage across every AI product we build.
A self-sustaining AI ecosystem where games acquire users, users power decentralized infrastructure, and infrastructure fuels the AI solutions and revenue that builds better products.
With team that worked with huge names on next generation solutions.
An ecosystem supported by industry titans
$200K Grant Recipient
Bridging the divide between traditional product quality and the $3 trillion crypto industry market.
Inference costs are skyrocketing. GPU capacity can't keep up with demand. The result: prohibitively high costs that lock out most builders.
The crypto industry introduces meaningless friction instead of real value. Wallets, seed phrases, gas fees - all barriers, no products worth using.
A self-sustaining loop that turns gamers into GPU compute infrastructure for AI products.
Users → Infrastructure
↓
AI → Revenue
↓
Better Products → More Users
High-fidelity games (Ascend the End) acquire users.
9.5h average session times keep users online.
Background DePIN software aggregates idle GPU compute.
Compute for internal AI products and external clients.
Web3 is the only culture where people already volunteer their hardware at scale - mining, staking, running nodes. We channel that into AI.
Inference costs are skyrocketing. The market needs cheaper, decentralized GPU power now.
AI products are growing at 35% CAGR - a massive market waiting to be conquered.
6 products across Gaming, AI, and DePIN - each one a stage in the self-sustaining loop.
Tarkov: $38.9M first month on Steam. Arc Raiders: 2M+ wishlists pre-launch. Extraction shooters are the fastest-growing FPS subgenre.
AI content creation: $19.6B (2025), 32.5% CAGR to $80B by 2030. Google-backed adoption phase, then DePIN compute undercuts all competitors on cost.
Interactive fiction: $4.3B (2025), 12% CAGR. Chapters and Episode earn $10-12M/year from 200-300K users. Extreme whale monetization.
DePIN: $19B market cap. AI inference: $103B projected. Render/Akash require dedicated setup - Ascend Infra piggybacks on gamers with high-end GPUs. 20-30% commission.
Think Talking Tom - but it actually talks back. Voice AI companion for children: real conversations, stories, emotional intelligence games. Fully offline - no data leaves the device. Outfit7 earns $130M+/year on characters that repeat what you say. Ray thinks, responds, and teaches.
AI companion market: $37.7B (2025), 31% CAGR to $435B by 2034. Talking Tom: 25B+ downloads, 470M MAU - doesn't actually converse.
Transaction fees on every cross-game trade. B2B partnerships for third-party integration. Turns 8 user bases into one.
Most popular game on
mean session - 19x the 30-min industry average
5,300 registered players for test to airdrop
Ascend Hub, Guildium, DEXEC, Ascend Stories and Descend Fortune live
Team of 15 professionals, secured a grant of $500k in 2022, secured additional $420k grants in 2025
19k followers on X, 15k on Instagram and 3k on Discord
Three verticals, all growing 12-32% annually.
Extraction shooters · Interactive fiction ($4.3B)
Content creation · Companions · 31-32% CAGR
DePIN: $19B market cap · AI inference: $103B
Ascend the End
Microtransactions, Ads, Tournament Fees
Guildium
Subscriptions + Marketplace
Ascend Infra
DePIN 20-30% Compute Commission
Ray the Friend
Subs + IAP
Ascend Stories
IAP + Gems
NFT Royalties
5% Secondary Sales
$ASCEND BUYBACK ← All product revenue feeds the token
Ascend the End
Microtransactions, Ads, Tournament Fees
Ray the Friend
Subs + IAP
Guildium
Subscriptions + Marketplace
Ascend Stories
IAP + Gems
Ascend Infra
DePIN 20-30% Compute Commission
NFT Royalties
5% Secondary Sales
$ASCEND BUYBACK
All product revenue feeds the token
User Acquisition Strategy
Viral loops, Steam, influencers. Crypto-invisible UX.
Revenue engine
$ASCEND token, airdrops. Staking yield, DePIN income.
Organic reach
Clan Wars - tribal NFT identity as hook.
Capital
Guildium tools, 80% rev share, AI-powered distribution.
Content supply
One-click DePIN. Passive income scales with network.
Infrastructure
$ASCEND powers the entire ecosystem, designed with deflationary mechanisms and high utility to drive long-term value.
$ASCEND
Total Supply: 1B
| Category | % | Tokens | Pricing | Lockup | Vest | TGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 4% | 40,000,000 | - | 12 mo cliff | 24 mo linear | 0% |
| Private | 6% | 60,000,000 | - | 12 mo cliff | 24 mo linear | 0% |
| Airdrop & Fairlaunch | 22% | 220,000,000 | $0.02 floor (discovery) | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| Public | 1% | 10,000,000 | $0.02 floor (discovery) | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| Liquidity | 5% | 50,000,000 | - | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| Team | 15% | 150,000,000 | - | 12 mo cliff | 36 mo linear | 0% |
| Advisors | 2% | 20,000,000 | - | 12 mo cliff | 36 mo linear | 0% |
| Foundation | 12% | 120,000,000 | - | 6 mo cliff | 36 mo linear | 0% |
| Future Community Rewards | 33% | 330,000,000 | - | 1 mo | 24 mo linear | 5% |
| Total | 100% | 1,000,000,000 |
25% of all platform revenue → automated $ASCEND buyback → Foundation → governance allocates: redistribute to stakers, fund growth, or burn.
Creators earn 50% rev share in $ASCEND from their assets.
GPU providers earn $ASCEND with halving schedule. No node purchase required. Gamers’ idle GPUs auto-join. Part of the 33% Future Community Rewards pool.
Stake $ASCEND → tiered discounts across ALL products.
25% of platform revenue → buy $ASCEND on market → lock in Foundation for 12 months → redistribute as staking/ecosystem rewards.
Lock $ASCEND for 3–12 months → earn boosted rewards. Longer lock = higher multiplier (1.5×–3×).
Target Valuation
TGE
Three phases to scale the Ascend Universe from launch to token liquidity.
Mainstream users never see blockchain. Email login, fiat payments, zero friction - 3B+ addressable users, not few millions in crypto.
$ASCEND rewards creators in UGC campaigns, not farmers. Crypto is the go-to-market engine, not the product.
Games → DePIN infrastructure → AI at below-market cost → revenue → $ASCEND buyback → better products → more users.
8 products built, 5 live - 9.5h sessions, 57% D1 retention, $920K in grants.
AI handles devops, liveops, content generation, and QA across 8 products and 4 verticals.
