Space Summary
The Twitter Space ️ Gearing up for Hydro hosted by cosmoshub. Dive into the world of Hydro and $ATOM within the Cosmos ecosystem, where upcoming upgrades and collaborations are set to reshape the DeFi landscape. Community support, innovative projects, and advancements in interoperability are at the forefront of discussions, showcasing the immense potential of Hydro's future ventures.
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Questions
Q: What upcoming upgrades can we expect from Hydro in the Cosmos ecosystem?
A: Hydro is set to introduce significant advancements to enhance its ecosystem within Cosmos.
Q: How important is community engagement for Hydro's success?
A: Community support plays a crucial role in driving Hydro's growth and sustainability.
Q: What potential collaborations are in the pipeline for Hydro and $ATOM?
A: Exciting projects and partnerships are being explored to expand the ecosystem around Hydro.
Q: How will Hydro's developments impact the DeFi sector within Cosmos?
A: Hydro's advancements are poised to bring about positive changes and opportunities in DeFi.
Q: What is driving the enthusiasm surrounding Hydro and its future ventures?
A: The innovative projects and partnerships in the works are fueling excitement among Hydro participants.
Highlights
Time: 00:15:42
Upcoming Hydro Upgrades within Cosmos Exploring the forthcoming enhancements and developments in the Hydro ecosystem.
Time: 00:25:11
Collaborative Ventures for Hydro and $ATOM Discussions on the exciting collaborations and projects in progress for Hydro and $ATOM.
Time: 00:35:27
Impact of Hydro on DeFi Landscape Analyzing the potential influence of Hydro's advancements on the DeFi sector within Cosmos.
Key Takeaways
- Hydro is preparing for significant upgrades and developments within the Cosmos ecosystem.
- Exciting projects and collaborations are on the horizon for Hydro and $ATOM enthusiasts.
- Community engagement remains vital for the growth and sustainability of Hydro.
- The potential impact of Hydro's advancements on DeFi and interoperability is promising.
- Participants are eager to explore the innovative ventures and partnerships surrounding Hydro.
Behind the Mic
Introduction and Speaker Engagement
May. I? Was. Your kids, don't. You. Come? So if I need you. Yes. The music that you're listening right now is the music that we usually hear, and it is beautiful. Mister Pa, are you here, sir? Blanky. Are you here, sir? Hello, hello. Lanky. You are connected. I like that. Let's get all the speakers up here, including our very own host, Pamonkey. Just sort of invite. That's a good plan. I would like to invite Aldo to speak. Can I? Yes. Because I think we have, like, very, like, we need more ladies in these spaces. Yeah, yeah, we need more. More women in. Yes, yes. But you are here, man. Oh, my. How are you, gents? Well, it's probably one of the best days in the whole month, since we have a lot of different partners in this one.
Speaker Readiness and Anticipation
Partners. So let's do it, guys. Let's do it. I'm so ready for this. So, so ready. I'm just. Just sending the invites to music protocol. Cornucopias and samurai starter. I just accepted a cornucopia, and I have Sergio Motole. Sergio. Sergio wants to speak from music protocol. Yeah, I want Sergio. Nice name, Sergio. Just, you know, Sergio. I will pass it over to Mister Pamon as people start to come in on this beautiful Monday. So all yours, guys. Let's go. So, well, Pa, I know that you need some worm before starting with this space. And we have a very special speaker today. We have Aldu. Aldu. Oh, extremely wonderful lady. I love protecting her. I love talking to her because she's really funny.
Acknowledgment of Aldu and Space Dynamics
So, Aldu, please introduce yourself and share a little bit about yourself. Yeah, Aldo, go for it. Don't be shy. Oh, wow. Well, there's a million listeners right now. Right now, I don't get nervous, and. It'S important to know, are you a real woman that you are not about? No, I'm not. Wow, man, this. This space is going to be on flames. It's probably the first woman in all the crypto industry that is right now with us. So. Wow, man. Thank you for being here, Aldo. Thanks for adding some flavor to this space. It's wonderful to. To hear you and, of course, seeing you, but I'm the only, like, the very few people that have that privilege in life. So, yeah, it's beautiful to have you here. Thank you, Gregu, for inviting me.
Aldu's Introduction and Contributions
Honestly, I don't have much to say, but just. What do you do? What do you do for a bomb? Please, just in two lines. What do you do for a bone? I'm a creative director. Wow, that's nice. That's nice. Boom, boom. And that's it. I'm out now, so I can let. The stage for you and our partners. So thank you for the space, guys. Thank you, my good lady. Have a beautiful day. All right, all right. People are slowly joining. So I see. Sorry, Twitter has been working quite bad for me. Do we. Do we have Sequoyah with us right now? The sequoia guys. Sequoyah, are you here? Sequoyah. I see cornucopia samurai. I see MBD financials, and I see Sergio from music protocol, but I don't quite see sequia.
Technical Issues and Space Flow
Although, you know, they have slow number one, if I'm not mistaken. They are, like, somewhere in. I don't know if it's Korea or something or Japan. So it's very late for them, and they say they were going to be here, but. Sorry, Twitter is working horrendously for me. Can you see them, Greg? No, no. I cannot see them. Okay. All right, all right. So we have quite many partners today. The way it's going to go today is just. It's gonna. It's gonna be like a long introduction from the partners. Plus, I don't even know if we will have time for follow up questions, but, yeah, if sequoia is not with us right now, then maybe. Then maybe we can just start with slow number two, which is samurai. The samurai guys. Are you guys here with us?
Continued Issues with Samurai Participation
I think you. I think you guys are muted or something. Yeah, I cannot. I cannot hear samurai either. Let's try if they. Let's see if they can. They're trying. Otherwise, if it doesn't work, you might need to log out and rejoin the space. Sometimes a quick reconnect should do the trick. All right, all right. Great. Don't worry. Yes, sir. Tell me, tell us a little bit about your weekend in the meantime. Yes. Well, that was pretty amazing. It was like full family because I really needed to be with. With my loved ones, and that was pretty amazing. I always dream, like, in the weekend to what crazy thing I'm going to do in the bonding with partners.
Anticipation for Upcoming Surprises
So I have some surprises for the end, and we will see what happens. Nice, nice surprises. Us. Like the wonderful songs that you. Yes, that you usually. Nice. Hey, samurai. Yes. Can you try now. The guys from samurai started. I see them as speakers. Just summarize. Just try to be like Tom Cruise and concentrate and feel when you're working with the katana so you can be like the last samurai, like, breathe. Breathe. And don't think too much. Be like Tom Cruise. Don't think too much. Yeah. Otherwise, you know, we can just switch up the order and let's give it one more try to samurai guys.
Switching Focus to Other Participants
Just try to unmute and see if it works. Yeah, I think. I think we need to give them more time and we can try with cordocopia. Yeah. Cornucopia, guys, are you there? Yes, sir. Let's go. Oh, yeah, man. Nice. All right. All right. Just share. Share what we're all about and what. What cornucopias is exactly. I think you know the drill by now. That's pretty much it. You know, you. You have the, you know, the floor is yours to introduce yourself to all the audiences here in this very special base edition. So, yeah, the floor is yours.
Introduction of Cornucopias
Thank you, guys. Fantastic. Great. So, yeah, my name is Josh. I'm the social media manager for Cornucopias. Cornucopias. We're a web three game and we're toying with the genre that we're going to identify with because there's so many elements of what. What our gameplay is going to be going to look like. For a long time went with MMO, which definitely captures a lot of our gameplay elements. But lately we've been toying around with a lot of different stuff. We're definitely open world, we're definitely adventure based.
Gameplay Exploration and Accessibility
We've definitely got survival elements attached to it. Cornucopias, at the end of our long term roadmap is going to be something in the ballpark of 25 times the size of GTA five. So there's going to be a lot of gameplay elements in there for different players that play different types of games to enter our universe and feel like there's something for them. And that'll include things like crafting, it'll include things like PvP, it'll include fishing and those kinds of things. What you would expect to see in an MMO, that'll all be there and more. We're all about accessibility. We're a multi chain project. So we're not just one individual blockchain ecosystem.
Multi-Chain and Free-to-Play Dynamics
We want to get out there and get as many people as possible to be able to get into our universe and have an experience that we've built out for them. And it's not just multi chain, too. We are on base, we're on Cardano, we're on the binance smart chain, and a few others that are a little bit less developed at this point in time. But we're also a free to play game. So blockchain optional is also an element to our universe. Gamers can just enter in as they please to just play the game. I know a lot of the gaming space that we like this term play to earn. We prefer the term play and earn.
Play and Earn Concept Clarity
And the reason for that is because playing is not necessarily tied to earning. People can come into our universe and just play the game because the quality of what it is that we're pursuing is something that we expect that gamers will want to experience in their own right without having to feel like, you know, maybe it's a job or maybe it's something that looking to just grind for money. We're a different experience than that. So, yeah, Cornucopias is we're accessible, it's an open world, and we're all about the game first. That's what we're focusing on, that's what we're pursuing.
Differentiate through Game Quality
And we want people to recognize us as that as opposed to just a crypto project. Amazing. Amazing. We have had quite many gamefi kind of projects here in the past. You know, it's bonded with bonus 21 now. So, yeah, quite many gamefi projects. You know, since we. Since we might not have the sequoyah guys, let me just ask you one question. You know, what would you say is the one feature that differentiates you from the rest of the game? Five projects. You know.
Focus on Development Over Promotions
I think the mission that we're going for, I think it's been very evident throughout our development that we focus on different things up to this point. And we've been in development for something in the ballpark of three plus years at this point, we haven't done any play to airdrop campaigns or multiple hundreds of thousands of dollar giveaways and stuff. And the reason for that is we're focused on developing the game. We're focused on trying to create the in game experience and those resources that are given out to the community. Those resources could be used to create an in game experience that instead of incentivizing people to come and play in our ecosystem, we're creating something that people will want to, of their own volition, come in and play within our ecosystem.
Future Plans for Engagement and Recognition
That's not to say that in the future we won't do tournament campaigns and stuff where people can earn some of our native currency, which is Copi. Copi. But our focus right now, we've spent a lot of time developing, and people are going to start to recognize what that looks like in the foreseeable future. Beautiful. Beautiful. I, of course, check the website, check the reel of the game. I feel like it looks beautiful, you know? So, yeah. Greg, do you have any other questions? Like, I know weren't going to ask many questions in this one with partners because we had quite many, you know, quite many partners, but it looks like the Sequia guys might not make it.
Final Thoughts and Communication
So any questions on your end, Greg? Yes, yes. I would say that when you told us, Josh, that the, like, what you're trying to do different is have a real game to play. What we, what you can say about the game, what we can expect from it. Expect from it. So our in game universe focuses a lot on collaboration. And a lot of people, they observe games as very, I don't want to say conflict oriented, but definitely competitive oriented. And that's an important part of it. But the competitive elements that we build into our game are going to be more teamwork focused.
Collaboration Among Gamers
There will be gamers in our universe that are wanting to collaborate with other people. We want people to interact with each other. We want people to make connections in our universe. We want this to be a very social environment with gameplay elements that are built so that those people have something to do and build together. Amazing. Nice, nice.
The Importance of Connection
Yeah, that's part of the pleasure of gaming, is to connect also, I love adventure games and, well, I sometimes feels a little bit lonely when you are in these adventure games and having the ability to connect with others is beautiful. So, yeah, thank you so much, Josh. Yeah, and also, you know, you connect inside the game but also outside of it. I've been seeing, you know, in chicken guys that your community keeps growing, whether it's, you know, discord members or Twitter followers or, you know, telegram members, so on and so forth. So, yeah, kudos to you guys and maybe time to wrap this one up.
Future Prospects
But, yeah, as always, we like to ask, you know, what's next in the pipeline? You know, September has just begun, so, yeah, what's next in the pipeline for cornucopias? We've got a very exciting next approximately six months ahead of us. We're currently in the pre alpha stages of our game. So the people that are running around in our universe, they are our testers. They're our community that owns nfts and have been with us from the very beginning. But come in the next few months, we're going to start to see a lot more gameplay elements materialize, and we're going to start seeing more people come into our universe as we open up that accessibility.
Marketing Strategy
We're going to start marketing to traditional gamers and reaching out to that population so that, you know, people can. Can get to our experience, get to understand our experience as we intend it to be. So, yeah, a lot more is going to be revealed about us in the next six months, and a lot more gameplay is going to be shown to people and accessible to people. So that's. That's what we're looking at in the foreseeable future. Beautiful. Beautiful.
Reflections on Time and Progress
Yeah, it's just. Wow. You know, September's here. Only four months to finish the year. I don't know what happened. You know, time really flies. But, hey, looks like a busy last part of 2024 for you guys. I just want to say thank you for being here with us. I know, Gray, if you have anything else, otherwise, we can maybe continue. Yes, sir. Continue, please. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Once again, that's cornucopias. Make sure to check them out.
Navigating Technical Challenges
Yeah. Let's give it a try. Once again, to the samurai, guys. Can you guys hear us this time? There you are. Nice. Yeah, that one clear. Yeah, man. Well done, man. How's it going, guys? Tom cruise help you? That's beautiful. I think it was Tom Cruise. Yeah. Yes. All right, people here? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Don't get nervous. Oh, my palm's sweating here right now. Yeah. You know what makes me nervous? It's the way Twitter works.
Adapting to Changes
You know, we always have some kind of technical issue, but, I mean, we always find a way to. Yeah, just to fix it and to make the space. To make. Yeah, just to make the space happen. So. Yeah, yeah. So I think you know the drill. By now. The floor is yours. Introduce your project for all these people. Yeah. Cheers. Oh, yeah. My name is Paul, and I'm the CEO of Samurai starter.
Samurai Starter Overview
So we're primarily a launchpad. We started off, we've been established in this space since 2021. That last bull market, at that time, were known as Cyberfy samurai. And so we supported about 60 projects during that bull market into 2021, into 2022 under the Cyberfi name. At the time, I was just a member of the community, eventually joining the team as a telegram admin and then moving up the ranks. So, yeah, that bull market was good for the launch pad scene, right? It was the so called Launchpad season.
Market Trends and Shifts
People were earning 100 x's left, right, and center, raising six figures for projects, no problem. And, you know, life was good. Some of the biggest projects that we supported were probably, Quanex is probably our most famous race right now. That's still, like top 500 by market cap, and they're doing really good stuff in quantum resistant blockchain. Our biggest race was actually for metaverse, Lance. During the meta craze that happened there in September 2021, we raised $1.4 million for net, VRK or Netvirk, however you want to say it.
Challenges in the Crypto Market
So, yeah, life was going really well during 2021. By this time, I was moving off to the ranks of the company of samurai. And, yeah, things were good, but then, you know, 2022 rolled around. We moved into that bear market, right. Things became really tough, especially when the Luna crash happened. And, yeah, it was really difficult to raise for projects on launchpads. It was really difficult for projects to realize those gains that everybody wants from launchpads, right?
Evolution of Samurai Starter
So we shifted focus a little bit. We grew into a full service crypto incubator, primarily connecting projects with VC's. You know, we're connected to some major VC's throughout crypto, kols and any strategic partners you may think of, including, you know, eight, bond and others, mid 2022. Long story short, the original founder of Cyberfy ran out of Runway, ran out of motivation. However, I don't know, it's all hearsay anyway. He had no desire to get samurai through the bear market.
Transition to Samurai Starter
So I basically gave him the opportunity to walk away and hand the company over to me. And that's when samurai starter was born. FTX happened like two weeks later, so that was kind of a brutal time, but yeah. So I kept the community in the loop, told them that we're going to build towards, build up this incubator, build up our connections throughout the space, and keep our eye towards Q 420 23 as the time we'll really start doing idos and launching projects again.
Perseverance Through Adversity
So community stuck by me and our team, and we grinded through that whole bear market, and it was really a really tough go. And in the middle of the bear market, the multi chain bridge collapse happened as well. And our original CFI token that got destroyed because of that, because we had 25% of our supply bridged over to BNB chain and Fantom via multi chain bridge. Basically 25% of our token holders got wrecked by that, which is quite unfortunate.
Industry Impacts
And it really affected a lot of the crypto industry, especially on the phantom chain, where Phantom had some big problems because of that, and some major projects fell, which is quite unfortunate. We've come through a lot in this industry, but then the BTCE ETF happened in Q 420 23 and it got a, the juices flowing again. Everybody got excited and we ramped up on the public facing side of things again.
Recent Developments
And we started with our SAm NFT which we minted out on base 2006 nfts. And yeah, so it was very nice show that our community was committed to our long term vision of how we wanted to grow the launchpad and expand our community and you know, the kind of projects that we wanted to attract to our launchpad as well. And with the funds through that NFT mint which was minted at a time when, you know, nobody was minting nfts, you know, you couldn't really, couldn't give away free mints at that time.
Token Launch and Community Support
So we're pretty excited to be able to mint that when we did and those funds completely reused to launch our new token, the Sam token, which is 100% airdropped to our existing CFI community to make sure that everybody is whole from that multi chain bridge collapse. And so yeah, that's on the go. We launched Sam on April 25. We did about a seven x from its TGE price and has actually never been below TgE price, although it's teetering right now as the markets have been pretty weak through the month of August.
Launchpad Performance
On the launchpad side, we've supported about a dozen projects so far. We aim to keep the quality really tight. We're not going to be some g pad that launches any crap project and that 95% of the community expects refunds on. We want to keep the quality tight and to introduce really rock solid projects and rock solid teams to our community. And so far we've done a decent job of that.
Challenges and Community Engagement
Although a lot of the tgs have been delayed because of the market the past few months, which I think everybody, most people in this room are familiar with at the moment. We also started up a ventures group, Community VC, which is behind closed doors for projects that we can't really take onto the launchpad. They probably have exclusive rights with other launchpads or whatever, so you generally get seed round and private round raises in that community VC.
Investment in Projects
And we've invested about 1.5 million us in the past eight months. Some of our biggest, most famous projects upcoming like Peak network was our biggest ticket and Kyma network coming up as well. And Gaiman is one that's already launched and there's about a dozen projects that we've invested in there. So token holders and token holders can get into that group as well.
Future Aspirations
And then, you know, I mentioned that we don't want to be any kind of jeepad and we want to be, you know, bring rock solid projects to our community. And also we want to have a rock solid community for our partner projects as well. And one of our goals through that, one of our means to achieve that is through our upcoming samurai sank platform, which is an engagement platform similar to Galaxy or Zlea or one of those guys.
Rewards and Community Incentives
But this is exclusively for people who participate in the idos of our partner projects on our platform. So there'll be like on chain tasks and social tasks and people who participate in the IDO, they'll be able to boost their allocations by participating in these kind of tasks. On top of that, we are Defi Maxis. We're v 33 aerodrome Maxis as well. When we've completed the NFT raise, we set up our tokenomics so that we can provide really solid APR for our LP's on Aerodrome.
Solid Returns for LPs
Currently, LP's on Aerodrome are earning about 180% APR in aero token and our tokenomics are set up that we can pretty much assure that happens for the next. For years. We're not worried about that at all. So I think that our min APR, as long as aerodrome keeps this 50 cent range or higher, then our APR will probably be around 150% for years to come. For Rapth Sam lp's.
Continued Community Engagement
Yeah. So even though the launchpad is kind of quiet at the moment, most launchpads are. We still do lots of stuff with partner projects, introducing them to our community. And then the yield, farming and defi strategies that we have as well. That's us in a nutshell. Please, if you have any questions, I'm happy to have it here. Beautiful. That was quite the introduction.
Respect for Community Efforts
I don't really have many questions of mine. I just want to say respect. It's not easy being in the crypto space, you know, that much amount of time, you know, and I feel like we can relate here, Avon, you know, market changes, freaking bridges collapsing, stable coins collapsing. It feels like the blows, you know, you. You just. You simply cannot foresee them, you know?
Adaptability in the Crypto Space
Yeah, for sure. And you just need to keep yourselves adaptable and yeah, always be rethinking, you know, the. The service you provide, the products you provide. It's no easy task, for sure. But once again, we can really relate to that with a whole transition from Mapeswap into a born, you know, from being an x to being a bonding protocol. So, yeah, just respect to you guys.
Valuing Persistence
Cheers, man. Absolutely, sir. Greg, do you have any other thing to add to that? No, not at all. Because the introduction, I think it was beautiful. What I would say is to highlight the value of continuing with what we are doing, even though the market is crazy, even though some bagman fried is trying to scam us all or whatever, but we keep on fighting here. That's the real value in the project.
Looking Ahead
So kudos to samurai. Cheers. Appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. And just very quickly about, you know, the samurai Sanka platform coming up. We love that. You know, here at a bone, like we use galaxy, we use layer three. I feel like it's super important for especially, you know, those brand new users to have these kind of platforms to, I don't know, just to make. Just to make it a little easier for them to kind of get acquainted, you know, with crypto space.
Positive Expectations for Samurai Sanka
So I feel like the samurai sung up platform is going to be super successful. Absolutely, sir. Absolutely. Cheers. Indeed. Maybe, as always, the last question could be, you know, what's up, you know, what's coming up, what's next in the pipeline for samurai startup? Sure. So, well, right now, we just launched after this Twitter space today, we're going to launch something that we call as Samurai sprint campaigns.
Event Launch Plans
And that is where we're going to attract high value communities to come and learn about samurai. And we're going to incentivize that, of course, with an airdrop. And it's the same thing by performing some galaxy type tasks. And so they can come and learn about us. Get Launchpad access for a limited time offer for free as part of the reward. And on the opposite side of that, you know, we will introduce our samurai community to those partners as well.
Community Interaction
And we will, you know, negotiate rewards for our token holders or our LP's to go and get involved in these partner platforms as well. So that's what we're working on. That's, we're starting right now on the launchpad side, we got, I can't mention any names because, you know, they're under, there's just a dotting the I's and crossing the t's on the contracts. But we have two idos, really super solid ideas coming up from some hype projects and we do some node sales as well.
September Roadmap
And we got a couple really solid node partners coming up as well. So that's the near term September roadmap, basically. Beautiful. Beautiful, sir. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. You know, with us. We love hearing alphas. We just love hearing what's coming up, you know, with the projects we work with. And thank you, of course, for, you know, venturing into the whole kind of bond adventure.
Looking Forward to Future Collaborations
You know, hope to see, you know, many more rounds to come with. Usually, you know, I don't want to shill it too much, but business developers, they've been killing it lately and, yeah, it feels like many projects, they go for round two, round three, so on and so forth. Of course, that's not. That's not up to me, not to say. But anyways, we'll see what happens.
Transition to New Partners
Thank you once again for being with us, but, yeah, it's time to maybe move on with the next partner. And once again, Sequoyah is not going to be with us. So I think it's music protocol now. So can you. Can you guys hear us? Hey, guys, how you doing? Good. Hey, I'm doing good. How are you? I'm very good. Very good.
Introduction to Music Protocol
Great. Nice to see you. But. Alrighty. I think it's time to hear all about music protocol. You know, what you guys do, what you guys, you know, do here in the space, what's your differentials, you know, what milestones you have accomplished so far, what's coming next, so on and so forth. So, yeah, the floor is yours, Sergio.
Personal Background
No, I appreciate. So I'll try to pack it up in a few minutes because I got almost like four years of story to run through. So a little bit about me for a second and. And then I get to music protocol. So I'm Sergio, I'm the president and CEO of the Welfare Music association, which is the main contributor to music protocol.
Welfare Music Association
So, as always, we are a swiss foundation regulated under the FEMA. So we have done all the work for the token for record to make sure it's classified as utility. I'm actually, I don't know very much on the compliance side, especially in this time of the industry.
Background in Regulation and Music Industry Development
I used to be a regulator for a few years of my life, back in 2017. So I know how it's important. We started building around music when? Like 2021, I think. Like at the beginning of the NFT, if you want. I don't want to call it babble, but the NFT pump, I'd say we started really looking with a few friends into NFT application to the music industry. We had a lot of connection and we knew a lot of people from the music industry. We saw a lot of art being exploited. We saw the beginning of Steve Auke and a few artists on the music side to leverage nfTs, and that's where the whole journey started like you're in the bear market. We successfully raised. We have done three rounds until 223, for a total of over 5 million.
Partnerships and Ecosystem Integration
We have done a lot of partnership. The one that people knows us more is diesel. We've done a few drops in partnership with Diesel, try to somehow get the power of a fishing house to support emerging artists, breakthrough artists. We have done partnership across ecosystems in which we worked mainly with web three gaming projects. And somehow integrating music into web three gaming. I mean, for me has always been. Metaverse is a pretty silent right now and music license are a bit of a pain to make sure that you can use the assets in a proper, compliant and respectful way. And that's where they all. Music protocol value proposition came into the picture. Like having built pretty much of a. Of a larger network in the music industry with record labeling artists, what we figured is that the main friction has always been around the licensing.
Licensing Issues and Technology in Music
So we started really looking very deeply. Now the market operates other web three, web two, if you want. Music industry operates. And we found out, I mean, the technology legacy architecture is pretty bad. Databases are pretty bad. The way that royalties are paid is still pretty bad. There is a lot of missing data sets. So somehow we came up with a very simple value prop and we started arguing that blockchain is the best technology to manage intellectual property. Sometimes, I don't know, I think were some of the first one that looked into a sort of IP narrative. Together with blockchain today, you got very big projects which are looking at the same, I would say maybe story protocol. It came out of San Francisco and also core protocol with indian imoca brands. And we somehow got to the same conclusion very early.
Expanding Partnerships and Case Studies
And we started really from 223 working with the music industry. I mean, we have over 50 partnership with very large catalogs and record labels. We started very early looking at the case studies and how we could execute. And the biggest interest is not a surprise, but goes on money. And that's where basically we are today. We decided to, as a first execution of the blockchain, work on the real world asset tokenization narrative. So we're working with many catalogs tokenize. We launched, I think a few weeks ago somehow our first product, which is music bond. So we're looking at one token and somehow backed by economic rights from the music industry.
Transition to Decentralized Finance and Future Models
So we are switching a lot on the decentralized finance, define narrative area with asset tokenization. So I mean, that is our core focus. But we still have a few case studies around artificial intelligence and somehow distributing all rights on the distribution side. We're going to need really metaverses and gaming to come up with, how you say, a monetization model, sort of business model. We can effectively plug in IP and make sure that IP produce a lot of money. So in the last, what should I add? I mean, in the last few months, I think the great milestone, I mean, we have done a few foundry liquidity bootstrapping pool exercise in July.
Successful Fundraising and Migration Plans
I think just the week after bitcoin was tanking. I would say that one has been pretty successful. We're very proud of the result and the reward that the community gave us, because I think we've been one of the projects that raised the most money in lbps in the last two to three months, apart from a couple of outliers. So that one went very well. We actually migrated from Uniswap on aerodrome because again, we are fully based as a project. So last week migrated on aerodrome again. Also, that transition has been very well perceived. So now we're going to be focusing on somehow supporting incentivization and the relationship with liquidity partners, but very happy that we managed finally to transition on a full base.
Discussion on User Experience and Industry Understanding
If you want token architecture. And I would say this one is the story. Amazing. What an introduction and what a project, you know? And once again, we can see the diversity here in bonding with partners, you know, going from a game fire project to a launch by one to one that is trying to just change the way we think about music, you know, and I was just thinking, you know, myself as a user, you know, let's say, using Spotify or using, you know, the blockchain to hear to, you know, whatever music I want to. I want to listen to. It's.
User Readiness and Platform Transition
I feel like we, as users, you know, we are ready just to switch from one platform to another, whether the music comes from a database or the blockchain itself. I feel like we are ready for that. As long as you hit the play button. The play button and music actually plays. It's. That's it, right. I feel like the one question I have for you guys, because I'm sure you guys are quite close to record labels or even the artists themselves. Do you, do you feel like a technological gap with the record labels that you need to explain yourselves too much to them, you know, or like, if you go to the end, let's say artists, do you think they understand at once what you guys are trying to come up with and the value you're trying to add?
Understanding the Music Industry's Dynamics
Because it's very clear for us. Right. But I just wanna. I just wanna kind of know what's going on with the music industry as a whole. But it's a very good question. I mean to be honest, I think that we found a very sweet spot because the economic rights tokenization. So basically using blockchain to finance the music industry, that's what we are doing today. It's very much a sweet spot because I don't know how many people from the outside understand how the industry effectively operates.
Targeting the Music Industry Financing
But it's a very exclusive industries, like a lot of them. Like in most cases when you have players which have been there for a long time. So from, I don't know, from retail investors to general family offices, it's almost impossible to get into a deal. The deal are governed by the major labels, they're governed by operators. So you need to have a very tight connection with the industry to somehow access those environments. And I think what we're trying to do is democratize music industry financing.
Historical Context of Music Bonds
And a few people try to do that. But in web two you basically what we have seen is a couple of case study. One is like listed bonds and I don't know, on our website we say we're gonna finish what David Bowie started. Because actually the Bowie bonds, they were like the first, if you want example on how to try and sell the future income of a catalog to the market. After that I think live you have no more than four bonds in an oil industry which is valued I mean over 500 billion. So it's quite a small ratio.
Challenges and Opportunities in Asset Management
The biggest fund I think. I think the u head in the market was named hypnosis. That was supposed to somehow represent it was valued around 4 billion in his all time high. It got back private because at some point in web two I mean creating this sort of large aggregator of catalogs don't really work because you need to value the catalogs, you need to distribute. So sometimes you can look at passive rights. You're going to need to acquire active rights more than I, more than anything else.
Innovative Financing Solutions and Market Access
So within this situation somehow our music bond sits perfectly one side showing that with blockchain you can structure financial opportunities in a lot cheaper and a lot of an automated way on the other side. You have over 2 trillion of capital on the crypto industry. But you also have asset managers. I was at the Goldman Sachs digital assets event and as a manager I'm looking I mean really into understanding how digital assets effectively lower the cost of compliance settlement.
Data Integration and Compliance in Financial Transactions
Because effectively you have a token with all the data sets in the blockchain. So you decrease a lot of paperwork and a lot of compliance checks that you have to do with other financial instruments. So this one, for us, became like the perfect sweet spot to have a very clear and a very easy conversation, because somehow you're sitting with your counterparty and you say, listen, we can give you money. Let's just sit down and understand what are the terms of the transaction.
Expanding Industry Understanding with Technology
Then slowly they get excited, and that's where we can start somehow opening up the conversation, start making them understanding how AI and blockchain could work very well. And I think, I mean, at the end of the curve, we're going to also look into distribution. But for us, I mean, it's really about the real world asset. And the financial side right now is the best conversation that you can have for the industry. Amazing.
Convoluted Industry Dynamics
Thank you. Thank you for that answer. You know, it's just a convoluted kind of industry. So many different parties, you know, the artists, the record label, the technological companies such as you guys. And last but not least, of course, the end user, the one that actually listens to the music, to the product. So, yeah, that's why I asked the question. And it feels like you guys are really finding that sweet spot to add value to.
User Experience and Monetization
So amazing. I was about to say, sorry, but what you said before is exactly the adoption narrative. Now. You said, as a user, I just click play. And I know that the music is monetizing for the artist, for anyone. They own the rights. So that's always our play. Like, how many products are we gonna have as reward asset? How complicated that gonna be for normal people to understand? And somehow a music bond, that's the only thing that you have to understand, as many people are going to keep on click play.
Simplifying Concepts for Broader Adoption
That is what is going to guarantee that I'm going to receive my yield and my investment back, which we believe is a very strong and a very simple adoption narrative. Sorry, I'm unmuted. Oh, no, sorry. Oh, yeah. 100% agree. 100% agree. And it's nice to have the answer from someone that comes, you know, from within the industry itself. So.
Engagement and Further Discussion
Yeah. Thank you, Sergio. I don't have any further questions. Greg, I think you have something, right? Yeah. Sir, I would like to say that first of all, I, Sergio, two important things. I'm a little man. I'm just a regular person in this universe. And I need to say that the, probably the best song of all the world cups in the history was the italian song, like the n. So.
Cultural Connections and Shared Experiences
Well, that's the first thing I wanted to mention, because I hear you talking. And yeah, that was probably the best song of all the world cups in the world. And the other thing that I love to say when I find someone from Italy is this, like, really common phrase for all the Argentinians. That is some words that sport Ankur mentioned in the Italia. In la copa d'Italia is some of Guadala della Copa. That's the only thing I would say that is like, the best thing that I share with it, telling people.
Navigating Conversations and Cultural Nuances
I remember I was in Rome going in the bus, and they say that. I appreciate the song. I didn't understand what you usually say. La copa, what? It was in Spanish. La Copa is like the worker. Sorry. Sorry, Sergey, but I need to do the job. When I talk with an Italian, I need to do. I get it, I get it. I'll take it.
Light-hearted Exchanges and Language Mix-ups
I'm a little man. Sergio, please entertain. Oh, my word. I think you're mixing French with Italian with everything. But, you know, we're gonna be. We gonna siamo 40 the bonding with partners very soon. So I think it's time to move forward. Thank you. Thank you, Sergio. Once again, very interesting conversational.
Exploring Diverse Perspectives
Just a different perspective on the whole music industry. So thank you. Thank you for that. But actually, you know, we have the sequoia guys back with us. Can you. Can you guys hear us? Hey. Yes. Good evening from my time. Glad to be here, guys.
Connecting Across Regions
Hey, sorry, you say you're from Korea? Japan. What was it again? From Indonesia. Oh, Indonesia. Nice, nice. Where are you guys at? Jakarta. Bali. Oh, you've been here? Yeah. Oh, you haven't? I live in Bali for, like, ten years, but now in Jakarta.
Casual Conversations and Life Experiences
Oh, beautiful. Well, I hit both cities without knowing, what are the odds. Anyways. Anyways, so, yeah, we are quite into the bonding with partners now. We. No worries, though, because we managed to switch the audit up. So we have first corner copies and samurai last.
Management and Future Directions
We had web three music guys, but, yeah, now the floor is yours. And maybe you know the drill by now. It's just the floor is yours to introduce the project to all the other people here. That's pretty much it. Sure. Thanks for. Thank you very much for the time.
Introduction and Future Prospects
Sorry. Previously I was, like, having, like, 1 hour difference to the space. It's good that, you know, I checked the group and then you guys chat there, so. Oh, my God. Yeah, I need to jump in, say, I'm Josh, the co founder and CEO of Secure Multiverse. Glad to be here.
Gaming and Community Engagement
So basically secure itself. We going to share some things we play in, like in the field of gaming community and also racing. It was very interesting that we combine it with the racing because like in the gaming itself, we actually working together with the sea level of the aircraft and also vainglory to create the mobile rpg.
Play-to-Earn Focus in Gaming
And then we know that in this web three space, most of the players is the gamers are the people that looking for a play to earn, right? So they want to play and then after they earn, they are going to do another thing. So. But in fact, if we go into the world, gaming is actually like the number one most played hobby in the world.
Market Insights and Future Directions
So the biggest hobby in the world, sexual gaming with the total market is about $200 million right now. That's super big, right? It's even bigger than movies or music. The question is that are we going to focus only in the web three or we're going to expand to get, you know, to tap into these new gamers.
Targeted Growth Strategy
They're able to play the game. So the question definitely we want to have more users. So we go into the second option, right? So we go into the first one, which is the web three, but also to the second one. But when we go to the second one, we don't want to go into only the retails.
Market Expansion and Consumer Engagement
We want to get into the people that actually spending. So they want to have fun and spend. And guess what? Actually in the racing people that goes into the racing, they. They actually like the untouchable market, right? So we. We cannot get into the racing people through the Kols or like to in a promotion with them.
Community-Centric Market Approaches
It didn't work like that for them. So the way that we go into this market is to be able to be part of their community.
Unique Market Experience
This market is very unique and like totally high end because like, for example, when we go into this race car, into the Mandalica that actually like the one in on the pin is like yesterday, which is like our bracing team with Hanna Barton from Japan. We just won the number one in the time attack, which is the fastest radical car there together with like the Praga, BMW, Audi. But we're glad that we are the fastest, one of the fastest during that time. So when the first we go into the circuit, people that goes and play their race car, they're coming from helicopter. So they just came with the helicopter. They play and then they get, they go home. And then if we go like into the other thing, they can go and have fun. Like, oh, yeah, yeah. I'm going to buy my plane next month, for example. I want to expand my Fila here like that.
Spending Habits and Demographics
So there are people that doing things for fun, but they spend a lot. And fortunately 50% of them coming from the racing, which is they love cars, but the other 50% is coming from the gamers. So they play games. They play games like the simulators and then they go into like the racing into the real one. So this is the market that we want to tap in. So that's why we also expand into the racing, which also got the government support for both, which is the gaming and the racing or the gaming. We are going tokyo game show in this month representing Indonesia country. And for the racing we got the government support which is to go for the sport tourism initiative in the country. Maybe that's a bit about secure.
Innovative Platforms and Engagement
So we got one other platform which is secure labs where you can open it. Labs secure IO, where in that when you log in, you use your social like Gmail, a telegram and everything, but what you actually create in your wallet. And after that, when you collect the badges there, it's actually NFT. So we didn't use like the word of NFT or blockchain there because that's how we believe it can actually target the audience without them to need to learn new language inside of it. And we already partnered like with some events also there. We plan to do that for the Tokyo game shows with Indonesia country. So hopefully it can be done.
Token Benefits and User Adoption
So the last question will be like, because we are in the bonding with partners, right? What's the beneficial of the one that holding the token? So it's as simple as everything that you listen just now will be circulating using the token. Even though like in the platform it will be guessless. You go into the game, it will be guessless because it's off chain, but all the total supply will be the same. So basically like we make it easier for people to be on board without need to learn about like what's this token? What's this blockchain and everything? But yeah, we hope it can easily make them use the product by the end of the day because I believe it's the dream for everyone of us here to be able to make sure that the product will be used by the users.
Reflections on Previous Partnerships
Yep, maybe that's the short introduction and information from us, Greg and Pa. Amazing, amazing. Thank you for that. And if I'm not mistaken, you guys were part of a previous bonding with partners, right? I think it was nice. Yeah, it was bonding with partner 17. I remember you guys very well. I remember went through the sequoias multiverse, the huge community of over 2 million people that you guys have this sequoia token, this sequoia bond, the milestones and yeah, what's, what was coming next, you know, for sequoia, I think bonded with partner 17. That was like a month and a half ago, something like that. So it's nice, you know, seeing that things are still looking amazing.
Transitioning Between Web2 and Web3
Support, you know, from the government, going tokyo soon. I don't know, things are looking very nice. I don't really have a lot to say. Greg, do you have anything for the Sequoia guys? No, no. I really love what they're doing. I really love the huge and amazing community that they have, and that's something so relevant for all the producers. So, yes, thank you guys for participating and sharing with us. Yeah, it's our pleasure. It's our pleasure. Thank you. I'm really happy that, you know, you guys kind of, you know, you guys made it, although a little late. Doesn't really matter because I think we're gonna have enough time to fit every single partner.
Introduction to MBD Financials
And last but not least, we have the MBD financial guys. Can you ice yours? Yeah. Can you guys hear me? Yeah, loud and clear. How's it going? Good. It was great to hear other projects, really inspiring what everybody else is doing in the space. Thank you for having me here. My name is Mae Mahboob. I am the co founder of MBD Financials. And a little bit about what we're building. Ultimately it's a photorealistic, a business district in the metaverse. So we are metaverse project, but we're taking a different approach than most traditional metaverses. So what we realized is that especially being within photorealism, we want to tie our use cases to real world utilities.
Focus on Real-World Utility
So bridging some of the largest gaps in DeFi web three as well as metaverse space. And the way we aim is bridging the virtual and real world. So we focus a lot on solution building first to onboard users and then transition metaverse as added features. We believe that, you know, some of the challenges when you look at metaverse projects like Decentraland and Sandbox is they're active users. And one of the best metaverse use cases is when you look at like Roblox, right? So it's like a developer and gamification user kind of ecosystem. So we've launched, within our metaverse, we're launching various pillars. So financial as well as education, e commerce, kind of tied into one.
Bridging Web2 and Web3
We see web three being very fragmented space, which creates a huge barrier to entry for web two. Users to transition into the web three space. And the best way to kind of really transition into the space, we feel like we'll have a more mass exposure, is targeting a lot of the commerce space. So it's your products, services you look at like some of the biggest brands that are transitioning. Walmart has a presence, Gucci. Most of the brands actually have a presence in Roblox. So we take a different approach beyond just the marketing aspect of. So we've built a, we've already launched our financial solution, which is Adex.
Innovative Trading Solutions
It's called Hybridex and it's a seamless cross chain trading platform, has like instant settlement, gasless limit orders and AI integration. So it provides that additional assistance for web two users that quite don't understand web three. And our core platform, we're actually gearing up to launch, which I think is going to help with the narrative of transitioning into the space, is basically your Amazon of web three. It's a AI cross chain digital marketplace with RWA components. So what it is it allows web two organizations, so businesses in the commerce, to seamlessly transition into this space.
Offering Tangible Benefits
So if you're a web two brand and you want to launch just web two products, your clothing line, or it could be your services, you're able to do that and still be able to have exposure and dip your toes into web three. But if you are a brand that want to kind of see, you know, be able to offer web three solutions, you're able to create digital twins of your products, services. And we've tied in the social aspects. So it's from a user perspective, from a UI, you're able to earn points and rewards for leaving reviews. So it ties in the commerce with engagement and community, and brands being able to have direct contact within the platform with their users and their consumers.
Key to Transition and Adoption
Consumers, of course, AI integration with analytics and it ties into the web two CRM system for brands. So analytics, so it allows that transition to be very seamless. And when you look at brands that have a challenge where it needs to be either web three or web two, it kind of limits that where it connects with the current technology that already exists. Let's see. One of our core beliefs is that accessibility is the key to really allowing individuals to, whether it's financial freedom or whether it's exposure to web three. And we focus a lot on the accessibility aspect.
Final Reflections
So being able to create solutions that are simple, seamless and ties into everyday use cases and that's kind of what we're focusing on. Amazing. Amazing. Thank you so much for the introduction. That was super insightful. And I was, you know, while I was listening to you, I was, like, thinking about a bond. And, you know, what we do in the end is just very much pretty similar to, like, a treasury bill from any bank in the traditional finance kind of system. Right? So this whole closing day between web two and web three is such a complex thing to do, but so necessary in the end.
The Complexity of User Transition
Yeah, I think it's complicated because, like, you're a web two user, and everything works in the web two kind of space. Right. But in the end, we know that web three works so much better. The technology is so much more transparent, you know, cheaper, faster. But, yeah, it's just the lack of information, I guess. And as you said, the lack of adoption in the end of some web three kind of tools, some web three kind of services. For now, all I can say is a bone. You know, we go for web three users, native users, or at least users that kind of know quite much about the web three space, crypto space, you know, blah blockchain technology, so on and so forth.
Building Bridges
But if we ever have to, let's say, in the near future, go for a web two user. I don't even know how we would approach such a user. You know, like, because there's. The gap is huge. So I think my point is, kudos to you guys, because it's such a complex thing to do, like just creating this bridge between the two realities, you know, web two and web three. And, yeah, it's very necessary. I don't really have any other question, you know, about the service itself, you know, the prog, the product itself.
Web3 Innovation and User Transition
But, yeah, it's just something that really makes me wonder how. What's the correct approach, you know, it's such a complex thing to do. I don't know if you have anything to add to that, Greg. It's just really mind blowing. Whenever we have this web two into web three kind of projects, it's like, wow, you know, this is hard. Well, yeah, just to kind of add in. I think what's, what we see within web three is that when we talk about projects and tokens being launched, there's so much innovation and we're growing at such a rapid stage that it.
Rapid Web3 Evolution
We're not really stopping and allowing web two users. It's like hot potato, right? You go from one to project to the other, and a web three investor, especially, whether it's a utility token, whatever it is, you're diversifying your portfolio into several projects. So it's almost like you drop your lowest performing project to jump on the bandwagon of a new project that you see come up. And within that case, we're not really looking at the conversion of web two users into web three. And how do we do that?
Integrating User Experience
Well, a big focus is around bigger organization or businesses that can onboard their current users or consumers into this space. And the best way to do that is I think people want touch, feel, and not only have digital things in their lives, especially when you look at like web two, you know, Gen Z or even prior to that. And I think the conception is that when you hold something tangible, it's real. So that's one of the reasons why we're tying in that phigital where, you know, the way, the simplest way to explain it is not only are you getting a physical product, but you get this digital twin and now you could create, you know, various use cases and utilities behind that.
The Future of User Engagement
And it almost acts like, you know, within a metaverse. I explain it as like, it's like your skin or are these assets that you buy for a game where now the new generation, that's all what's about. Right. So speeding up a game and you spend money in robux and various things like that. So it's, how do you tie all of that in to allow like some of those users to transition over. Beautiful, beautiful explanation. Yeah. Having something tangible is so important.
Audience Connections
Important. Especially so for those users that, yeah. Just not too acquainted, you know, with the web three space as a whole. I would say so, yeah. 1 second. I think it's really cool what you guys are doing. I don't know, Greg, do you have any particular questions? Because I really don't. That was such a nice introduction. It's just, it just puts my mind to think a lot of different things.
Collaborative Efforts in Web3
Yeah, yeah. Not for me. Not for me. Was, was amazing. Thank you. Amazing. Amazing. Maybe. Oh, we're slightly past schedule, but as always, we like to give the opportunity to every single partner to, you know, just the one question we always ask, you know, what's next for MBD financials in the near future? Yeah, what's next for us is, like I said, we're gearing up to launch our platform. I personally come from web two space.
Expanding Partnerships
I was executive for some of the top beauty brands and one of my goal is to build that pipeline of brands which we've been working on to onboard onto our platform as well as web three projects, NFT projects. It's a mix of web three and web two and combining that and giving that exposure. So that's kind of what we've been focusing on, partnerships and really expanding our utilities as well as various chains, which is why I'm really looking forward to our partnership with eight bond and adding in the base chain. We're currently on Ethereum base, so the more exposure we have, the more expansion that we have, the more users as well as people really understanding what we're all about.
Continued Growth
Amazing, amazing. We're so aligned with that, you know, more partners, you know, more blockchains. You know, that is something we really pay a lot of attention to because it feels like, you know, it's such an integral kind of strategy. In the end, if you do that, then the users will come eventually. So it just makes a lot of sense. I just want to. A quick kind of side note is that we have 45 live vons right now on Avon. So yeah, it feels like the whole partnership side of things, you know, it's been going great.
Positive Forward Momentum
So I like, my point is, if you pay attention to that, it all kind of is going to end up just happening, you know, alongside more users, more revenue, a better product, a better service, so on and so forth. So. Yeah, nice. But yeah, as I said, we're slightly past the initial schedule. I just want to say thanks again to every single partner that joined us. We had cornucopias, samurai, Launchpad, we had sequia, music protocol, and last but not least, MBD financials.
Closing Remarks
So thank you, thank you all. On my end, you know, I just have one single thing to say. One last thing to mention is that as you guys know, this was the base edition. And our base bonds will go live tomorrow at 17 UTC. But yeah, no further comments on my end. And as always, we're gonna finish with Mister Gregg Mundo because I think he has something special for us.
A Musical Conclusion
Yes, yes. First to mention again that we are going live with these beautiful bonds of these partners tomorrow. So get ready at 17 UTC. And for closing this, I have a song that is originally from Queenden and we added some lyrics so we can sing all together. And this song is really easy. And probably you can sing with us in the chorus. Like if you want to unmute yourself, you can. But please be ready. The chorus is super easy. We will bond you. We will bond you.
Audience Participation
So then I think the birds go something like that. Please be merciful with me. Sergio, open your ears because this is going to be real music. So get ready. So get ready for this. Look like this. But if you make a big win playing the crypto game being 100 and you got a bun on your face discount rates, kicking your money over there singing we will bond you bond you we will bond you come on, partners. You can do it.
Encouragement and Final Goodbyes
Unmute yourself. You need to be courageous. This is the moment for shining. I will sing again the verse. Sergio, please, you're in the music industry. You need to help me with this. You're only invited to sing in the chorus, okay? This is like this, buddy. You're an ed. Make a big win the crypto game. Gonna be a hundred, Dex. Gotta bond. On your face discount rates kicking your money over the place again we will bond you bond you we will bond you thank you, everyone.
Music and Celebration
God bless you guys. Oh, God blessed. God bless. Keep on, keep on being alive. I will never forget you. You're the best fucking audience I have ever had. I love you guys. Thank you, guys. Like, it's your turn to close this one, but, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Let's go.
