IDAA stands for Independent Digital Assets Alliance.

Within the context of being an MLM company, IDAA is a sprawling mess:

What we’re going to focus on in this review is IDAA Games and GrowthPool.

IDAA Games is an MLM opportunity centered around Alpha GamesCoin token investment. GrowthPool is a separate MLM income opportunity marketed within IDAA.

IDAA Games fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

IDAA Games’ website domain (“idaa.games”), was registered on April 16th, 2020. The private registration was last updated on April 15th, 2023.

GrowthPool also fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

GrowthPool’s website domain (“growthpool.org”), was registered in December 2021. The private registration was last updated on November 9th, 2023.

One name we can attach to IDAA Games is Anton “Toni” Federspiel, who I believe is from Austria.

Federspiel is a top promoter of IDAA Games. He is also a top earner in the collapsed OneCoin Ponzi scheme.

In an October 2023 marketing presentation hosted by Federspiel, a marketing slide cites Alex Suarez as founder and President of GamesCoin Group.

IDAA Games seems to fall under GamesCoin Group, so presumably Suarez owns that too (this is left ambiguous).

Suarez doesn’t appear to have any verifiable MLM history.

On its website, IDAA Games represents ties to the UAE through Independent Digital Assets Alliance LLC.

Independent Digital Assets Alliance LLC is purportedly registered as a shell company in Sharjah. Sharjah is just up the road from Dubai, the notorious MLM crime capital of the world.

As a general precaution, any MLM company representing it is based out of or having ties to the UAE should be avoided.

As opposed to the UAE though, IDAA Games appears to actually be operated from Germany:

As per the IDAA Games invoice above, the company operates as Youre Family GmbH, a German registered company.

Presumably the unassuming name “Youre Family” is being used to fool banks and avoid detection by regulators.

Reflecting being primarily marketed in German, for November 2023 SimilarWeb tracked top sources of traffic to IDAA Games’ website as Austria (33%), Germany (26%), Italy (20%) and Switzerland (7%).

GrowthPool’s public facing homepage is nothing more than an affiliate sign in form. No information is provided.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.

IDAA Games’ Products

IDAA Games has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market IDAA Games affiliate membership itself.

IDAA Games’ Compensation Plan

IDAA Games’ compensation plan can be split up into IDAA Games itself and GrowthPool.

IDAA Games

IDAA Games affiliates sign up and invest in Alpha GamesCoin (AGC).

  • Start – invest €199 EUR and receive 8 AGC
  • Basic – invest €499 EUR and receive 22 AGC
  • Bronze – invest €999 EUR and receive 46 AGC and an NFT
  • Silver – invest €1990 EUR and receive 99 AGC and an NFT
  • Gold – invest €2990 EUR and receive 159 AGC and an NFT
  • Platinum – invest €4990 and receive 275 AGC and an NFT
  • Diamond – invest €9990 and receive 565 AGC and an NFT
  • Professional – invest €19,990 and receive 1155 AGC and an NFT
  • Senator – invest €50,000 and receive 2950 AGC and an NFT
  • Founder – invest €100,000 and receive 6100 AGC and an NFT

AGC investment is made on the representation AGC’s value will go up. This is purportedly tied to development of blockchain games that don’t exist yet.

IDAA Games pays commissions on AGC investment via a binary compensation structure. No specific information is provided.

GrowthPool

GrowthPool solicits investment in tether (USDT).

GrowthPool affiliates invest tether into “lots”, which pitch various returns over time:

GrowthPool pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

GrowthPool caps payable unilevel team levels at five.

Referral commissions are paid as a percentage of USDT invested across these five levels as follows:

  • level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
  • level 2 – 4%
  • level 3 – 3%
  • level 4 – 2%
  • level 5 – 1%

Joining IDAA Games

IDAA Games affiliate membership is free. Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires:

  • a minimum €199 EUR investment into IDAA Games and/or
  • an undisclosed investment of tether (USDT) into GrowthPool

IDAA Games Conclusion

IDAA Games is a murky MLM crypto investment opportunity tied to blockchain gaming.

Developed for the global games market, GamesCoin is the in-game currency with ‍future potential.

Having never really taken off outside of slave labor scamming (Axie Infinity etc.), blockchain gaming is pretty much dead.

Outside of crypto bros hoping to scam gamers with various schemes, nobody actually playing games wants anything to do with it.

It is this ruse that IDAA Games has launched its Alpha GamesCoin token into. It’s your typical pump and dump scheme.

Alex Suarez and early investors like Toni Federspiel have a ton of AGC they want to cash out, but in order to do that they need to onboard new suckers to steal from.

That’s essentially the entire premise of IDAA Games.

The whole “gaming” side of the scheme isn’t relevant, owing to none of it actually existing.

Bear in mind IDAA has been trying to get this scheme off the ground for two years…

GrowthPool meanwhile is just a straight up Ponzi scheme. You invest tether, your investment is stolen by earlier investors, and you in turn hope to steal from those who invest after you.

Attached to this is a pyramid scheme, making up the MLM component of GrowthPool.

Be it IDAA Games or GrowthPool, both are Ponzi schemes in which the majority of investors will inevitably lose money.