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This month South Korea has committed a sizeable chunk of money to creating a national Metaverse project. It’s a good time to do so, since prices of NFT land have skyrocketed in 2021 and are expected to keep doing so this year.
Meanwhile, JP Morgan has become the first bank to open a virtual branch in Decentraland while Tools of Rock, the NFT company and art collection, has opened the world’s first permanent Metaverse concert venue in The Sandbox.
In NFT news, the Murals to the Metaverse project, by six Californian street artists, has discovered a great new use for the tokens: preserving street art from oblivion by making
KMPG is the latest big name to purchase an NFT. In February, they acquired a piece from the World of Women collection for a cool 25 ETH.
Not all news in the NFT space is good however: trading platform OpenSea is experiencing a downturn in trading volume following a couple of incidents that have damaged its reputation.
The 20th century was one of the national cars, but will the 21st be the century of the national Metaverses?
South Korea seems to think so.
The country’s ministry of ICT, Science, and Future Planning has pledged 223.7 billion won (around $186.7 million) to create a Metaverse ecosystem with the goal of supporting the growth of digital content and corporate growth in South Korea.
In an official statement published last week, the Ministry said the funds will be spent on completing four major objectives in creating an all-encompassing Metaverse titled “Expanded Virtual World.”
This platform should allow for expanding the virtual industrial growth of cities, education, and media.
As part of the initiative, content creators will get support on multiple fronts to attract the right kind of talent to help build the Metaverse platform. A developer contest and a hackathon are also planned.
“It is important to create a world-class metaverse ecosystem as the starting point to intensively foster a new hyper-connected industry,” said Park Yungyu, head of communication at the Ministry.
The Metaverse platform is part of a broader push for the “Digital New Deal” in South Korea which is a set of policies aimed at fostering the growth of digital technologies.
In addition to all this, the government agency expects this Metaverse to have a global reach since there will be seamless access to south Korean companies. It also plans to provide support for business growth by offering financial support and technological development.
Tech industry insiders are saying this funding is a positive signal and shows that the Korean government is interested in Metaverse.
“Outstanding companies building a digital economy in the metaverse will be able to thrive with the Korean government’s support,” concluded Jason Ye, co-founder of blockchain ecosystem accelerator DeSpread.
According to reports coming from the media, the virtual land market in the “big four” Metaverses (Decentraland, Somnium Space, Cryptovoxels, and The Sandbox) has exceeded €440 million in 2021. This figure is projected to double this year.
The Sandbox is the Metaverse that saw the largest NFT virtual land sale last year. A plot sold for a staggering €3.8 million this last December.
As the concept of Metaverse exploded last year during the Covid pandemic, many high-profile brands, companies, and celebrities have purchased virtual land to use for various projects.
Some Metaverse project founders are cautious, however. Artur Sychov, CEO and founder of Somnium Space, decried the influx of financial speculation into the Metaverse.
“There is a lot of hype and there are a lot of, unfortunately, players in the market which try to take advantage of people,” he said.
“There’s a lot of people who don’t understand why they’re buying and they’re trying to speculate on it, which is an absolute no go and they should never do that”.
Sychov further explains that all this may be causing a bubble.
“It creates this kind of bubbly thing where people say, ‘Oh my god, OK, there’s an ability to earn some money and I will buy this [land] parcel. Whatever that parcel is, I would never even build [on it or] take care of it. I’ll just buy it and hope that I will sell it later for a higher price,” he explained.
In the beginning, before Mark Zuckerberg pushed the Metaverse hype into overdrive when he announced his company is rebranding to Meta and will pursue this tech as the main objective, NFT land was meant to allow creators and users more engagement with the virtual worlds they inhabit.
For now, however, it seems that speculators are winning. But, if it is any consolation for the rest of us, there are ways to rent virtual NFT land and fractionalization is in the works too which will eventually enable a Metaverse land parcel to be owned by more than one person.
JP Morgan has become the first bank to have a significant presence in Metaverse with the opening of the Onyx Lounge in Decentraland.
Within the lounge, visitors can buy virtual plots of land, and make other cryptocurrency purchases. Before users enter the lounge, they are greeted by a tiger and an avatar of JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon.
“The Metaverse will likely infiltrate every sector in some way in the coming years, with the market opportunity estimated at over $1 trillion in yearly revenues,” said a report the bank has released alongside with the unveiling of the virtual lounge.
The bank has said they plan to play a major role in Metaverse and that it could help with issues such as fraud prevention and account verification.
“This democratic ownership economy coupled with the possibility of interoperability, could unlock immense economic opportunities, whereby digital goods and services are no longer captive to a singular gaming platform or brand,” the JP Morgan report states.
As NFT art rises in popularity, new uses for it are being discovered. Murals to the Metaverse is a collection, by six street artists, that lives on the blockchain.
Before that, these were real murals on the fifth floor of Oakland, California’s most iconic building – The Tribute Tower.
All the murals were scanned into 3D models and then enhanced using augmented reality. For the next two weeks, the artist group led people through the exhibition space, on an immersive tour.
But the most interesting thing comes after this. After only a few months, all the murals were destroyed. Not without being turned into NFTs, however.
Now on the blockchain, art can live forever. It’s an interesting project that highlights the ephemerality of street art. Many murals fade, get painted over, or torn down.
“Buildings can crumble, weather can cause damage, and developments can impede views,” explains artist Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith, aka Wolfe Pack, who led the project. “By scanning a mural and turning it into an NFT, we forever immortalize the art.”
NFT art has definitely opened up new possibilities for artists, especially around getting compensated for their work. And many expect that as people buy real-estate in the form of virtual land, artists may be commissioned to make them prettier.
But the Murals to the Metaverse project has pointed to a new and interesting use for NFTs which is to actually preserve for posterity the kinds of art, such as street murals or installations, that have an inherently short life span in the real world.
Popular Metaverse platform The Sandbox is now richer for one more type of experience it can offer, thanks to former the Bachelor star JJ Lane. Leading onto the Web3 evolution and Metaverse becoming an increasing trend lately, we will see how many users this will attract.
Lane is also the founder of the Tools of Rock NFT music platform, which launched its NFT art collection in August of 2021 and has since seen exponential growth as a company.
For the concert venue, the company has partnered with Lorretta Chen and Ruel Sarmiento, founders of the Smobler Studio, a digital agency and design studio.
While there have already been several concerts in the Metaverse (such as the Travis Scott one in Fortnite), this is the world’s first dedicated venue for music events.
“What we have seen in the last two years with COVID-19 is that tour revenue, once a staple for artists, is not certain any longer…But the TOR concert venue will never close! A venue that’s open globally, 24/7/365, has minimal overhead, and allows the fan unparalleled access to their favorite artists is what will make the Metaverse so powerful for all participants, Lane explains about the vision behind the project.”
It remains to be seen which starts will be attracted to this concept, but the digital venue has also promised a range of “green room” features to entice them to engage with the Web3 world.
KPMG, one of the “Big Four” auditing and consultancy houses, has purchased the Woman #2681 NFT from the World of Women collection.
The blue-skinned female avatar sold for 25 WETH (around $75,000) and was then transferred to a separate wallet. The company has also revealed it owns the kpmgca.eth domain, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain that makes wallet addresses easier to use.
This acquisition of a piece of NFT art comes after the audit company has announced it had added Ether and Bitcoin to its balance sheet in February of this year.
KMPG said the reason behind these purchases was to be able to better advise clients looking to enter the [cryptocurrency, NFT, and Metaverse] space.
“NFTs unlock a new channel for organizations to engage with their customers, while also underpinning innovation through the secure digitization of assets,” Benjie Thomas, managing partner at KPMG in Canada, said in a press release. “Having now gone through the process, we are well-positioned to guide our clients around building a corporate NFT strategy, including acquiring and safeguarding NFTs.”
As for World of Women, it’s a NFT art collection that has had a supercharged flight to the top of the NFT charts, touting an 8.5 ETH (some $24,000) floor price on OpenSea. Famous actress Reese Whitherspoon is in on it, with her media company Hello Sunshine partnering with the project in February.
KPMG isn’t the first finance heavyweight to jump into the NFT waters. In 2021, Visa made headlines after purchasing a CryptoPunk NFT for $150,000.
Over the past weeks, trading volume across OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces, has been in a downtrend. This is according to information from the data analysis company DappRadar.
In the past 30 days, DappRadar data reveals that trading volume has fallen by 10.02%.
These are better numbers than late February when compared to January 25 the volume on February 25 was down more than 46%
Experts consider the downturn to be a result of recent incidents on the platform.
In January, due to an issue with the user interface, some users were able to purchase NFTs below their actual price. According to details released by the company, an issue would arise when users create listings for their NFTs and then transfer those NFTs to a different wallet without canceling the listing.
OpenSea is not able to cancel the listing on behalf of the users, OpenSea explained at the time.
Tackling the issue, the platform released a smart contract update in late February requiring all users to move their listings to Ethereum to the new smart contract.
Then, however, it seems the company fell victim to a phishing attack.
Company representatives stated that the affected users (around 17 of them) have at some point approved the malicious smart contract.
Kishor Mansinghani started his career with an OTC Broker and thereafter worked in USA (Silicon Valley) with Asia-Tech a B2B Marketplace. He then moved to Singapore and started his own hedge fund. He then founded Future1Exchange a licensed Cryptocurrency exchange in Europe , Estonia.
He then joined Propine as Director Business Development. Propine is a Singapore MAS regulated Tokenization and Custody service provider for Digital Assets serving Institutions/Funds/FamilyOffice/VC and Crypto Exchanges. Thereafter he joined Playermon a Play To Earn NFT Gaming Metaverse as Chief Growth Officer. He is currently CEO of www.crowdfundjunction.com a community driven Crypto Venture Capital. Founder of www.cryptofans.social a NFT DAO Platform where you come to learn everything about Crypto and Co-Founder of OffChain Singapore Chapter a global networking community for Blockchain , NFT and Crypto enthusiasts.
He received his MBA from ITM in association with Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, USA ,Mastering Alternative Investments Certificate from INSEAD Campus in Singapore, his certificate in Computer Network & Internet Applications Course(CEP) from IIT and educated in Derivatives instruments from the University of California Berkeley (Ext), USA.
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Serdar Bisi, founder and CEO of Tycoon, has been trading successfully in the forex and stock market since 2013. After recognizing the potential of cryptocurrencies, he focused almost exclusively on trading with Bitcoin & Co. This passion became his overarching goal in 2018 with the founding of Tycoon. Many years of corporate and leadership experience help him grow steadily with his team and drive innovation. He uses his skills as a trader to push product development and the functional design of the platform.
Joshua Johnson’s interest in crypto began in 2016 when he was introduced to Abra. Abra’s innovations in cryptocurrencies challenged and opened his eyes to the potential of bitcoin early on. In 2017-2018, Sinopharm’s efforts in China within supply chain technology in healthcare inspired Johnson to connect the brand’s activities with blockchain technology. Since then, he hasn’t looked back on the possibilities in the blockchain industry.
Beyond Meta, registered in Singapore, is the parent company to everything Joshua does, in partnership with Lian Pham. Through data, science, and accountability, the multiple ventures he leads work to scale economies and help individuals worldwide to thrive despite their challenges and pain points. Joshua strives to come alongside individuals, businesses, and governments to help them leverage their influences and technology for creating solutions.
Beyond Meta accelerates Web 3.0 adoption through digital and spatial education and community building. He believes creating digital twins of products with middleware can bring brands more revenue. He also supports fans’ dreams by connecting tools for DAOs and brand communities, aligning fragmented Web 3.0 companies, giving structure, and pushing back the boundaries faced by Web 2.0 companies by integrating cutting-edge Web 3.0 middleware into current IT infrastructure.
Through fundraising for investors, company empowerment to host physical events with AR, augmenting brands’ communities with metapods, connecting NFTs across games in the metaverse with metalware, and users earning from companies’ royalties through games prelaunch, Johnson and Co create opportunities for a decentralized marketplace. Metapods allow people to experience XR, VR, and AR in a physical container packaged for brands as a drag and drop solution for event activations or daily commerce – think of Decentraland in the physical world. Therefore, Johnson, through Beyond Meta, creates a new sustainable income stream for brands through NFTs sales and crowdfunding for existing and upcoming projects.
Johnson’s voyage in the blockchain industry doesn’t end with Beyond Meta; with a mission to help communities worldwide, Johnson’s Digital Value focuses on creating a no-code template format for companies to connect their bottom line to the community. Digital Value is a smart contract template and data insights middleware company purposed to increase businesses’ bottom line (money) and community (users). On the other hand, Beyond Meta’s consulting arm is geared towards scaling money and community tools selectively focused on a handful of clients in Dubai that are heavily related to government and utility infrastructure. Building a platform that connects money and the community is essential for success. Therefore, smart contract templates make it possible to combine these two cohesively, offering an easy way to scale both money and users anywhere.
In 2022, Johnson is partnering with Dawson Racing, D3esport, and Smart IoT to create Hydrogen world and Meta Hydrogen to gamify, educate, and license innovations and intellectual property around green hydrogen and define with data-driven barometers what it means to go green. The overall innovations bring the physical and nonphysical world together, connect brands with their loyal fan base, and create a sustainable environment with renewable energy.
Looking at the bigger picture, Johnson’s next milestone is to take the Catalysts Community and connect it to the Marlowe Marketplace and the rest of the internet via middleware. The same basic structure can be applied to any chain with multi-chain financial product capabilities in a no-code template platform.
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“Tey’s story is an unlikely one. Labeled as The Invisible Man at the age of 5 to becoming one literally in the Netherlands 25 years later.
He is an early adopter of Bitcoin, Pioneering the use of blockchain to break financial and identity barriers.
Tey started a tech4good company that helps others like him. His journey ultimately led him to the realization of his life’s mission: turning invisible people into invincible ones.
Through his work in a tech company, writer, speaker, and a holder of MSc in Digital Currencies and Blockchain Technology he is determined to become a billionaire.
Not in terms of money but in positively touching the lives of billions of people. Tey’s story is a passionate account of perseverance and determination that will leave you on the edge of your seat.”
BIJAN ALIZADEH (Founder & Partner, Cypher Capital) Bijan is one of the leaders in the blockchain ecosystem in the Middle East and is the co-founder of Phoenix Technology, which is building one of the biggest Bitcoin mining farms in the UAE and has 450 MW of operational mining farms across Russia, Canada, and the USA. Bijan is also the founder of Phoenix Technology VC, a venture capital fund that has successfully invested USD 10 Million into Blockchain startups in the past two years. Following the great achievements of Phoenix Technology VC, in 2022 Bijan has embarked on establishing another firm, Cypher Capital, a Dubai-based blockchain focussed Capital Venture company, a self-funded 100 Million USD private fund, which is investing in token projects. In addition, Cypher Capital is building a 10,000 sq. feet hub for crypto startups in Dubai Jumeirah Beach Residence which is set to open in August 2022 and will provide mentorship with legal, licensing, security, technical, financial, event consulting, media & marketing requirements, along with a fun place to work and network with the crypto community in the UAE.
The AIBC Balkans/CIS Awards will take place on the 23rd of August, 2022. The gala evening will celebrate the industry’s highest achievers, bringing bright ideas under the spotlight and recognising the contributions shaping the future of emerging tech.
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Shining a spotlight on some of the most intriguing and creative tech projects to challenge the conventional role of technology are the tech players changing the face of the industry as we know it – it’s time to BUILD the future.
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The UK Treasury is preparing new legislation that will regulate cryptocurrency markets in the same way as traditional financial products, with the changes expected to come…
Fabio Pezzotti, Founder and CEO of Iconium, is a tech entrepreneur with experience in the industry from 1998. Following several roles in business development and strategic consulting for global companies’ business across Paris, London, and Milan, Fabio founded numerous ventures, including:
Xoom Spa, an internet company which quickly became the leading web community in Italy (acquired by SEAT Pagine Gialle); Mobango Ltd, a unique mobile user content platform and one of the first Android App Stores (acquired by People Infocom, funded by Sequoia and Intel Capital); and Xandas New Media Ventures, a venture studio co-founding and investing in seed startups. Fabio was also a seed investor of Vertical Response Inc, later acquired by DeLuxe Corporation (NYS: DLX).
Iconium is a leading crypto investment fund focusing on supporting amazing teams to disrupt blockchain, DeFi, Web3, and Metaverse.
Iconium has established itself as a de-facto leader in identifying, assessing, and investing in early stage blockchain projects dating back to 2018. With an array of successes ranging from Terra Luna, Efinity, Secret Network, Thorchain, and Algorand, Iconium has developed a sharp eye for industry-changing blockchain projects and digital assets.
Since discovering Bitcoin and Blockchain in 2017, Fabio has actively devoted himself to researching and selecting the best cryptocurrency projects in the world, building an experienced and international team to found Iconium.
He graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University.
SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.
Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.
AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.
Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.
The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.
