Octo Gaming - History and Road Map
"From a chatbot to a 4M downloads mobile app"

2018 - The Idea:
Allow players to monetize the time they spend playing video games → everyone plays for hours and earns nothing, while a few pro players, like in Fortnite, are earning millions.
Gaming is becoming the number one entertainment industry → the gap needs to be fixed.

The idea behind Octo emerged while the founders were still in school: BetOnYou was born.
• Incubator training (no code, no dev experience, no money).
• Quick go-to-market product creation.
• 40k users reached in 7 months with a simple Chatbot.
• No communication and marketing.

2019 - The Octo Gaming app V1:
• Secured a €30k grant from BPI in France.
• Invested all that money into our first devs and interns to get started.
• Octo Gaming was born after months of hard work and laughter.
• On launch day, the app ranked as the 12th most downloaded app in France.

2020 - The Big Jump:
The idea is to create the first app that allows users to bet for free on their own skills in popular games and win prizes. All of this while having a sustainable B2B business model.
• Raised €1.25M.
• Recruited a top-tier and experienced team of designers and developers.
• Complete overhaul of the app → full focus on building the Octo Gaming app V2.
• Total rebranding of the visual identity and creation of a new logo.

2021 - To The Top: Octo Gaming app V2:
The app is a huge success.
• 2M users worldwide, Octo goes global.
• The app breaks records → most downloaded app:
- TOP 9 in Europe
- TOP 11 in the US
- TOP 2 in Mexico
• The team keeps expanding with a full support team.

2022 - Hello Web3 on Solana:
Players want even more. Physical products from our partners are no longer enough; they want to win digital prizes = cryptocurrencies.
Rebranding to Octo Gaming to align with our identity: the Octopus logo and the upcoming Octo NFT collection.
• Introduction to NFTs!
- The Octo NFTs sold out in 8 seconds.
- Octo NFTs in-app integration.
- NFT holders can earn Solana.
- The Octo NFTs holder airdrop v1.
• Octo starts to develop its own games with its own identity → we finally control the entire activity funnel, from matchmaking to point allocation.

2023 - Bridging Web2 and Web3:
• End of collaboration with major games like Fortnite, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Call of Duty, etc., because 99% of games on Octo are now played on our own games → providing a much smoother gaming experience and eliminating friction for users.
• The $OTK launch on April 12th during the bear market, right after the FTX crash.
Even though the timing may seem risky, we don’t back down because we know we will keep building, and we have confidence in our strengths.
Solana is the perfect place for our mission.
Our investors, Solana Foundation, Moonrock, Kucoin, Funfair, etc., trust us and support us.
• The idea behind Octo is also to bring popular Solana IPs to life through gaming.
It’s also about taking a different approach from current Web3 games, which are complex and have long development times, to produce hyper-casual games that are accessible to everyone, while democratizing Web3 usage for Web2 users, mainly through wallet creation and rewarding players with $OTK for competing on the leaderboards.
• Over 1 in 2 downloads result in a wallet creation.
• A series of game launches in collaboration with the biggest Web3 projects on Solana and ETH:
- Launch of Drop Out with DAA
- Launch of Origon with ABC
- Launch of Clayscape with Claynosaurz
- Launch of Flaplab with Ovols
- Launch of Monkey Munch with SMB
- Launch of Dojo Master with Chimpers
• Users can now also use $OTK to gain access to raffle prizes, allowing them to win even more prizes.

2024 - Scale ignition and transition:
Octo continues to professionalize, creating more immersive games, improving retention, and collaborating with some of the biggest projects in the ecosystem.
- BONK = 2 games released
- SAMO = Solana's first memecoins
- PSG = The #1 football club in France, TOP European competitor.
• The app's features are multiplying, making the user experience even better.
- Integration of $OTK as both a utility token and a reward token.
- Leaderboard with $OTK entry fee.
- Integration of partner tokens.
• Team restructuring with freelance profiles and experts in gaming, blockchain, and marketing. To scale the project, we need an international and versatile team.
• Focus on our NFT holders, who are the heart of the project and our innovations: the Octo NFT holder airdrop v2 continues and will keep going.

2025 - Gaming SZN: the future is bright:
The idea is to create a gaming hub to bring more utility and usage to popular NFT collections on Solana, as well as memecoins with large communities, while developing a B2B (with projects) and B2C (with users) revenue model that will allow us to continue developing features to increase retention and the number of active users of the app.
• Partner token integration with usage.
• Partner NFT integration with usage.
• Expansion of our game catalog with:
- Launch of EPIK Tap with TEH EPIK DUCK
- Launch of Ponke Bounce with PONKE
- Launch of a mystery game with a TOP Solana memecoin
- Launch of a mystery game with another blockchain
• The community remains at the center with ongoing Octo NFT airdrop v2 and new features.
• Beyond the app, Octo continues to innovate with upcoming marketing and tech developments you will soon discover.

Octo Gaming has a promising future; we are still early 🐙