Roadmap — Combo Moves, Not Empty Promises
🧠 The9bit Roadmap — 2026 (AI-Native Gaming Era)
✅ Live Now (Foundation Layer)
The9bit is already operating at scale, with real users, revenue, and on-chain activity.
🎮 50+ casual games, quests, tasks & ads live
🧩 IP reseller rights live — Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter
🏗 Spaces live — community hubs with on-chain mining
⛏ Mining & loyalty rewards fully operational
💳 Local fiat on-ramps + custodial wallets (Web2-friendly UX)
💰 $500K+ revenue processed in first month (as of Aug 17, 2025)
This phase validated product–market fit and built the user + transaction base for AI expansion.
🚀 2026 Focus: AI-Powered Expansion
🤖 AI Assistant (Q1–Q2 2026)
The AI Assistant becomes the front door of the9bit:
Smart onboarding & wallet guidance
Personalized game, task & reward discovery
AI customer support + in-game companion
Creator & Space owner assistance (content, ops, analytics)
👉 Goal: Zero crypto friction, AI-guided everything
🧠 AI Game Development (AIGD) (Q1–Q3 2026)
Turning players and communities into creators:
Prompt → playable game creation
AI-generated logic, assets & balancing
One-click publishing into Spaces
Revenue-sharing via $9BIT
👉 Goal: Anyone can build, launch, and monetize games
🧩 AIGD × IP Layer (Q2–Q4 2026)
Reinventing how gaming IP is used and monetized:
Modular, tokenized IP participation
Community-created games using licensed IP
Transparent on-chain IP revenue splits
New IP incubation born from AI + community
👉 Goal: From closed licensing → participatory IP ownership
🏗 Spaces → AI Game Studios
Spaces evolve into AI-native studios:
AI-generated clips, blogs & fan content (In-lapse AIGC)
Community-driven game launches
Creator-led economies powered by staking & rewards
🛒 Marketplace & Economy Layer
🧺 Gamers Marketplace — P2P trading of in-game assets
🔐 Staking Portal — lock $9BIT to boost mining & creator rewards
⚔️ Esports Layer — tournaments, missions & prize pools
🧩 Game CP SDK — studios plug in new IPs seamlessly
🌍 Global Scale
Regional rollouts: SEA, LATAM, Middle East, North Asia
Expansion of AAA store & top-ups toward Steam-level coverage
🎯 2026 Objectives
Establish the9bit as the AI layer of gaming, not just a platform
Transition from play-to-earn → play-create-own
Scale transaction volume toward hundreds of millions USD, driven by AI-created games, IP participation, top-ups & ads
Build a self-reinforcing AI flywheel:
AI Assistant → AIGD → IP → Spaces → Marketplace → Staking → AI
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