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gDEX Metaverse Announces Its Global Leadership

June 6, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

gDEX, a revolutionary Play to Earn platform powering gamers, creators, and guilds in the Metaverse, today announced its key global leadership team. This team comprises veterans from various segments of both the crypto and gaming industries, with portfolios spanning some of the most well-known names in the world such as Nintendo, Ubisoft, JP Morgan, Disney, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, etc.

Over the last two years, this team has been hard at work to build the first solution in the market capable of unlocking the true potential of the Metaverse. Meet the team that will change the Gaming experience forever:

CEO – J.D. Salbego A Web3 industry veteran and a strategic leader in the blockchain space for over seven years, J.D is the Founder and CEO of gDEX Metaverse. Prior to this, J.D. founded AnRKey X, a multi-release GameFi studio and one of the first to innovate GameFi back in 2020, and is a familiar name in the gaming, NFT, DeFi, and the Metaverse communities. Aside from being a startup mentor in the Web3 division of the global renowned accelerator Techstars, J.D. is also a Cointelegraph.com contributor & member of their Innovation Circle for Web3 Experts. He is frequently quoted by leading blockchain and crypto media, and is a Web3 keynote speaker at leading conferences around the world including the World Economic Forum. J.D. brings in visionary thinking and a global perspective to this team at gDEX along with his inspiring leadership. He is a celebrated market influencer, internationally followed Web3 subject matter expert, and his work over the years in Web3 has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance etc., including being linked to boosting Japan’s economy with blockchain.

COO – Sonalii A Abrol A leader in digital entertainment and Gametech business ecosystems, Sonalii A Abrol has an enviable track record working with exceptional global teams at renowned AAA games publishers and developers. Her experience at brands like Nintendo Australia where she led the execution of releasing multiple 1st party & 3rd party game titles, to Gameloft Australia, and Ubisoft India make her a strong operations leader at gDEX. An engineer turned marketer, Abrol has near 15 years’ experience in the APAC markets, with tactile expertise across multiple domains such as digital business operations, strategic growth initiatives, digital marketing and analytics, brand management, organizational communications, team building, and motivation.

CTO – Benj Roberts Benj is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over twenty years’ experience building high performing development and operational technology teams across traditional finance, FinTech, and blockchain-based financial services and startups with leading global Fortune 50-500 corporations like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, and TD Securities. He inspires a great team of tech professionals at gDEX in building the next generation of gaming tools and experiences. While at JP Morgan, he worked on their Quorum blockchain, for decentralized large-payment interbank settlement (~$26BN across 7,000 transactions), and was the key technology advisor for projects serving the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Australia Stock Exchange (replacement with Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and smart contract structures across core traded asset classes of ~ $3.5BN daily turnover), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (daily transactions totalling ~$5.2BN), and the APAC Fintech Ecosystem. Over the years, he managed the Equity and Equity Derivatives trading platforms across Asia-Pacific (including Japan) building real-time (us & ns) infrastructure and application stacks with 99.999% uptime increasing stability and agility 10-fold through extensive operational, adaptive, and risk management tooling.

CMO – Sesha Kanthamraju A Disney veteran with over 15 years leading marketing and communications for gaming and content across businesses, Sesha joins gDEX to lead the marketing and communications strategy and rollout. He worked across industries including media, advertising agencies to include BBDO India, technology firms like HCL, fintech, financial services and ESG. At Disney, he launched numerous games accross console to mobile and then to online and social including the hugely successful Disney Infinity series, Where’s my water, Club Penguin and built fan communities for Star Wars and Marvel across the region. He co-founded Green Vision, an NGO in India that has worked on environmental awareness and sustainability programs since 1992.

Senior/Lead Software Engineer – Julian Muro Julian is a passionate gamer and developer with over a decade’s experience in this industry. He worked for best-in-class brands and many fan-favorite IPs such as Sega, Pokemon, Konami, Sony, Square Enix, Terminator, Final Fantasy, Assassin’s Creed, and Call of Duty. At gDEX, he is working on creating the world’s most innovative platform for the gaming community. He has been deeply involved in Blockchain development for the past seven years and naturally integrated his passion for video games by combining both worlds. To that end he developed one of the first DeFi based blockchain web games ever made and has helped create many high-level NFT marketplaces that have generated millions in sales.

VP of Digital Technology – Dan Crane As a passionate technologist and digital innovator, Dan has been at the cutting edge of technology for more than 20 years now. From both working in and founding tech startups, to his work at the C-level of large corporations, Dan has the breadth of experience one rarely sees in this space, while still maintaining his thirst for the next big idea. At gDEX, Dan leads the team’s digital thinking and helps connect gen Z with the best-in-world experiences being built here. At Tatts Group ($7Bn MC), an Australian top 50 company, Dan led digital teams as Chief Online Officer as well as CEO of their innovation division, with the responsibility of all online product development, digital innovation, and marketing. He built the team from 20 to 80 strong and grew their annual online turnover to more than $1bn.

Head of Games – Ian Tan Gamer of 15 years and in GameFi and crypto for the past couple of years. Ian successfully built a leading and award-winning SEA esports agency with footprints across more than 20 countries. He leads the mandate to bring in the world’s best games onto the gDEX platform. Ian drove partnerships with a portfolio of leading gaming companies such as Riot Games, Tencent Games, Moonton (owned by Bytedance), Bandai Namco, Blizzard and many more creating high scaling adoption programs and campaigns for user acquisition, partnerships, and community growth. He played an integral role in creating the major Web3 Play to Earn Esports tournament “GalAxie Cup” with Axie Infinity, FTX, AAve Grant, that GuildFi won.

Head of Guilds & Ecosystem – Adrian Sim A Guild Founder & GameFi Advisor to Star Symphony, Lorcan Gaming, Lambda Society. As a previous entrepreneur, Adrian successfully grew his digital localization company to be the go-to service provider for China Literature, Bilibili, Xiaomi, and more. He embraced the Web3 agenda by co-founding two play-to-earn guilds over the years; The Lambda Clan, an offshoot of Lambda Society that has paid out millions to over 600 scholars worldwide, and Lorcan Gaming, a competitive gaming guild that focuses on organizing Web3 esports events. At gDEX, Adrian is the voice of all guilds in constantly challenging the team to build stronger experiences for all. Adrian has organized education programs onboarding Web2 gamers to Web3 and crypto in his guilds and is also a fervent advocate of being a degen.

Head of Partnerships – Cher Chung Cher is a crypto evangelist who comes from traditional M&A in fortune-500 corporations. She leads the strategic partnership opportunities at gDEX working with internal and external stakeholders. She has actively managed investor relations, strategic partnerships, capital investments and business development activities in the blockchain industry since 2017. Cher has dynamic expertise in the digital assets business, specifically in crypto mining, token launches, CEX & DEX listings, venture capital, custodian services and media. She provided token advisory, led investor rounds and is a shareholder in a number of cutting-edge initiatives like NFT, DeFi and Web3 projects.

Head of Marketing – Rohit Kundliwal A crypto marketer since 2017, Rohit formerly held positions across marketing and community with WazirX (acquired by Binance), and was a strategic consultant in Fortune-500 companies. He brings in a unique marketing expertise into gDEX and is mandated to strengthen the community engagement for the platform.

He has experience managing some of the largest crypto ambassador programs and communities, producing crypto content on YouTube, helped launch India’s first crypto merch store by a CEX, and managed some of the biggest influencer marketing programs in crypto.

Product Manager – J.B. Andrew A true gamer at heart, J.B. has over eight years’ experience in the gaming industry, and is incredibly passionate about gaming products, indie gamer development, and is now focusing on the Metaverse & NFTs. He is currently obsessed with making the gDEX Metaverse a platform of many firsts for gamers everywhere. As a Gaming Product Manager and Certified PMP, he started his career working for Japanese publishers, conducting the product development and release management of over 150 Japanese games for Western release including Go! Go! Nippon! and the original Higurashi: When They Cry Series, on various platforms such as Sony Playstation 3, the portable mobile game platform Sony Vita, and Steam.

iBooster: Based in Lugano, home of the first Crypto City echosystem in Europe, launch its strategy for the Crypto Industry

June 2, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

March 2022, the city of Lugano announced, through a partnership with Tether, that Tether, Bitcoin and LVGA (a stablecoin in CHF launched by the city) are now legal tender. This means that citizens can pay taxes, parking fines, tickets to public events and more in cryptocurrencies.

In Crypto We Trust, what opportunities and benefits for companies?

The campaign was carried out by iBooster, the reference agency for the development, growth and marketing of Crypto projects, based in Lugano.

In the light of PlanB and this communication initiative, we were very curious to learn more about the real opportunities, and advantages, for companies in the Crypto market, within the new Swiss ecosystem.

The Crypto and Blockchain industry is in its early life years and Lugano Plan B is a project that will allow all companies in the sector to find an ecosystem conducive to future development, populated by professionals in the sector but not only, able to support new companies at 360° from physical headquarters or coworking up to legal advice or marketing. Without forgetting the strength of the network, the potential of 50 or 100 companies in the sector that interact on a daily basis, is huge.

Companies have to build authority and value. Our customers are mostly startups, and what we do is building a growth path with them. Marketing is a fundamental tool for the construction of services and products to sell and to create an authoritative brand that the market trusts. I speak about trust because, especially in the crypto world, there have been too many alleged or real “scams” that have burned many investors. A new project has the burden of positioning itself and working to build a relationship of trust with the market, in a transparent way. In iBooster we are fortunate to be able to choose the projects to work with, and we first, carefully analyze the characteristics of each one, to then understand how we can help them in the growth.

Being in a hurry to get results is understandable, but, we must build a relationship with the target market and in this time has its importance. You can bet on a careful strategy to get visibility quickly, but then you must have a medium to long term plan that brings value to the project. Communicate correctly, use social media not only to promote, but to explain and create culture, involve investors and the public by creating a community that supports the project and that becomes the first marketing channel in effect.

We see too many ideas of value penalized by ineffective execution. The reasons are many, but certainly like any business, proper planning of actions and investments is the basis. An entrepreneur who wants to operate in the world of crypto must rely on professionals who guide and advise him in every aspect, because in this new sector they do not apply the rules of the “old” market, there are new ones and often change. Ignoring or underestimating some aspects can create that “suffering” that we are talking about. iBooster works to avoid problems, prevent them and exploit the opportunities that the market offers.

AsiaPay and Moonland Metaverse join hands to step into a new business payment model of Web 3.0

June 2, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

AsiaPay, a leading payment service system provider in Asia, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with Moonland Metaverse, taking full advantage of the new business model based on Web 3.0. AsiaPay is helping its various Asian merchants embrace the new experience of selling, socializing and making money while playing in the post-Instagram era.

Moonland Metaverse is committed to building a diversified metaverse business solution

Moonland Metaverse is committed to building an easy-to-use and diversified metaverse, with web browsing as the main platform. Individual players or business users can also enter by purchasing one of the 5555 limited real estate NFTs issued by Moonland Metaverse on the Solana blockchain, giving users their own private, customizable space. In addition, NFT holders can invite friends to enter the exclusive space for text or voice chat, and the interactive mode is easy-to-use and direct.

Technology, business and enterprises are actively transforming AsiaPay’s deployment in the Metaverse

Moonland Metaverse is using Solana and its web-based platform as its early positioning, and will actively develop technology and commercial projects such as the AsiaPay headquarters, Metaverse mall, and payment platform. Among them, AsiaPay’s headquarters in Moonland Metaverse will open in the early summer of this year, which is expected to become the new social and business gathering point. It will attract users to participate in various online communication activities, and to understand AsiaPay’s business opportunities from a new perspective, which is vastly different from traditional social platforms and media.

Additionally, AsiaPay is also working with Moonland to develop B2B business tools and models, allowing existing e-commerce merchants (e-commerce) to easily transform into meta-commerce. Moonland Metaverse’s three-dimensional space design and NFT trend elements have prompted many merchants who are interested in enhancing their image or reaching out to the new generation of consumers to take the initiative to inquire. Its commercial characteristics is to strengthen the sales scene, use virtual social space as attraction, product display and sales as a reality, enhance the interest and purchase intention of potential buyers, coupled with cryptocurrency-led payment. This may form a new generation of young people’s online shopping habits. At the same time, with Set Sail Venture, we plan to develop the A.I. answering function, and will add the function this year to assist the daily sales of virtual stores.

At present, Moonland Metaverse has started to develop Metaverse headquarters for more than 50 NFT projects together with branded merchants. They are also issuing their own token Moonland Stardust ($MLS). AsiaPay is actively looking into adding $MLS as a payment option to its PayDollar payment system to increase the usage of $MLS tokens.

“We are very honored to be cooperating with the long-awaited Moonland Metaverse on this project,” said Joseph Chan, CEO of AsiaPay, “Web 3.0 is the future trend of the Internet. Cryptocurrencies will have a bigger impact on the future more than the Internet. It will be more far-reaching, and this will create a new global digital economy, and even give birth to a new business distribution model and industry alliance community that may generate a large number of innovations from the bottom up. Every new era has a new group of leaders, and actively grasps the era. It is AsiaPay’s relentless mission to provide our merchants and customers with the most cutting-edge and innovative payment technology.”

Fireblocks Appoints Former Head of Fintech from Bank of England As New Director of CBDC and Market Infrastructure

May 31, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

Fireblocks (www.fireblocks.com), the industry leader and award-winning digital asset and crypto technology provider, announced today it has appointed the former Head of Fintech at the Bank of England, Varun Paul, as its new Central Banking Digital Currency (CBDC) and Market Infrastructure Director. In this new role, Paul will serve on Fireblocks’ Corporate Strategy team and report to Fireblocks’ Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy, Adam Levine.

Paul is a graduate of Cambridge University who earned a Master’s degree in Economics. After college, Paul served in multiple roles at the Bank of England for 14 years, ultimately spearheading its fintech hub and future of finance initiatives.

“Varun brings a wealth of insight and experience from his tenure at the Bank of England that will be invaluable to our team as we engage and partner with leading central banks around the world,” said Levine. “From CBDC developments to the tokenization of traditional financial assets, bridging digital assets and blockchain technologies to traditional institutions at scale will require strong working relationships with the central bank community. We are excited about Varun’s ability to help support the digital asset strategy of central banks and market infrastructures.”

As Fireblocks’ first Director of CBDC and Market Infrastructure, Paul will lead the company’s engagement with central banks and market infrastructures as they begin adopting digital asset and tokenization technologies. In this capacity, Paul will play a key role in educating key decision-makers on secure and scalable solutions to support digital assets and exploring the potential benefits of participating in permissioned DeFi and the secondary economy it powers.

This announcement comes on the heels of a wave of countries that have announced plans to adopt central bank digital currencies. In February, United States President, Joe Biden, signed an executive order that would direct federal agencies to look into the possible infrastructure needed to create a US CBDC due to the $3 trillion dollar in digital asset market cap as of November 2021. According to the IMF, around 100 countries are exploring CBDC projects or initiatives, including the UK, US, India, Singapore, and Switzerland.

“Fireblocks is the clear leader when it comes to providing secure, scalable technologies for digital asset and crypto-forward businesses,” said Varun Paul, Fireblocks’ new Director of CBDC and Market Infrastructure. “Financial innovation in CBDC, DeFi and tokenization is rapidly accelerating, and my new role at Fireblocks allows me the privilege and opportunity to work alongside some of the most forward-thinking organizations in the world as they prepare for one of the sector’s greatest transformations.”

Since launching in 2019, Fireblocks has onboarded more than 1,300 institutional customers who use its platform to secure more than $210 billion in monthly digital asset transfers. To date, Fireblocks’ technology has garnered industry recognition with awards that include Hedgeweek Europe’s Best Custodian Innovation and Best Cyber Security Provider; Microsoft Security Trailblazer Award; and The Hottest Blockchain Startup in 2020 from the Europas.

TORANOTEC Adds PayPal to TORANOKO’s Payment Method

May 31, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

TORANOTEC Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Justin Balogh, hereafter: “TORANOTEC”), a financial technology asset management company and mobile application developer, is pleased to announce that PayPal, a global online payment service platform, is now available as a payment method for “TORANOKO” (provided by TORANOTEC through a wholly owned subsidiary).

Starting today, users will be able to fund new investments in and withdraw investment amounts from the TORANOKO investment app through PayPal, creating a seamless coordination between asset management services and payments.

TORANOKO is an asset management service that offers effortless and enjoyable access to full-fledged global diversified investment, regardless of the user’s investment experience. With functionality and partnerships that are closely related to the transactions and consumption of daily life, such as the ability to invest small increments, points and miles, as well as a more regular larger amounts of steady investments, it is a service that naturally allows customers to engage in asset formation and build future wealth. Also included is a unique points reward system where users can accumulate and invest rewards through actions as simple as walking.

PayPal, which has been a leader in the global digital payment field for more than 20 years, uses technology to provide payment services that make financial services and payment transactions more convenient and accessible.

From May 30, 2022, TORANOKO users will be able to use a PayPal account as the funding account for the investment service. Users who complete this setting and link their TORANOKO account with PayPal to make investments will receive a monthly bonus of 100-yen worth of TORANOKO points, which can be used for investing within TORANOKO at 1 yen per point.

Additionally, as a campaign for newcomers to the TORANOKO app, by opening a new account through the PayPal-specific landing page and completing all the required settings including selecting PayPal as the funding account*, new users will receive 2,000-yen worth of TORANOKO points.

Please see the following website for details: https://toranoko.com/go/paypal/ (Japanese only)

* Users are required to register a bank account within their PayPal wallet.

Justin Balogh, President and CEO of TORANOTEC Co., Ltd., said:

“We are delighted to be able to collaborate with PayPal, one of the world’s leading financial service companies as an example of how investment management can form strong partnerships with leading payments solutions with the goal of embedding the investment experience into the transactional cycle of everyday life. We believe that this collaboration will further widen the access point and gateway to the world of investment for more people in the Japanese market. We continue to work towards building a culture of long-term investment and aim for the realization of a world where everyone can be an investor.

Bit.Store Adds Alternative Payments and Pay-Outs Via Alchemy Pay

May 31, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

Asia’s leading SocialFi crypto investment platform, Bit.Store (STORE) has deepened its partnership with crypto payment provider Alchemy Pay (ACH). Further to the current credit card and paypal connections, Alchemy Pay will add popular alternative payment methods to Bit.Store including mobile wallets and domestic instant transfer services.

Furthermore, Alchemy Pay will provide Bit.Store with off-ramp capabilities, meaning their users can convert their crypto funds into over 100 local fiat currencies and have them deposited directly into their bank accounts.

These new capabilities once again highlight Alchemy Pay‘s impressive service within the industry and will elevate Bit.Store‘s app, which has already become very popular in Southeast Asia and Europe. In Indonesia, in particular, Bit.Store has become one of the top social cryptocurrency investment platforms for retail investors. The platform was launched in 2021 and has seen rapid growth. The number of users has grown 30% to 700k since the partners’ first collaborated in November 2021.

With its simple and intuitive design, Bit.Store has positioned itself as a beginner-friendly investment service that allows everyday people to access crypto conveniently and securely. The simplicity of design and functionality overcomes the barrier to entry for many and the app outshines competition by cleverly leveraging social elements and exploring a new ‘SocialFi’ model.

Bit.Store educates inexperienced investors so they can make smarter investment decisions. It embraces the web3.0 era by allowing users to create decentralized communities for the sharing of information alongside experienced and professional investors. The app has multiple groups and forums for trading discussions, as well as up-to-date news and educational items.

Bit.Store’s co-founder, Carl Moss said, “It is a big step forward to offer the flexibility of Alchemy Pay’s easy, secure payments to our users. Acceptance of mobile wallets are crucial, in particular, to our Asian users where so-called alternative payments are now becoming the dominant method. Additionally, the ability to pay-out from our platform via Alchemy Pay puts us way ahead of many of our competitors.”

Alchemy Pay now boasts over 300 fiat payment channels globally and is expected to integrate its crypto ramps on a larger scale in Q3 this year. John Tan, CEO of Alchemy Pay, said, “Our focus right now is on our ramps that are integrated onto crypto and web3 services. The ability to onboard users to platforms directly via global and local fiat payments, and then offer the chance to cash out again makes for a seamless, user-friendly experience. We are expecting to make a huge impact on the web3 movement with these ramps.”

IDEG launches Flagship Institutional Digital Assets Summit 2022 to foster conversations about the shifting crypto landscape

May 31, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

IDEG Asset Management Limited (IDEG), a professional digital asset manager, held its flagship Institutional Digital Assets Summit 2022 to share valuable insights on the digital assets market. Topics covered include the trends, opportunities and challenges that institutional investors are looking at and strategies to navigate the shifting crypto landscape.

Themed “Seize the Times“, the summit was hosted over two days from 26 to 27 May 2022 at Fairmont Singapore. Reflecting the summit’s thematic focus, speakers highlighted the changing nature of the digital asset ecosystem, and how it was yielding opportunities despite the risks. Better regulation and stronger institutional support have boosted adoption of digital assets, speakers said.

The summit received over 200 participants, including industry leaders and experts from crypto-native firms, traditional financial institutions and regulatory bodies. Across the two days, guest speakers from industry leaders, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), PWC, BlockFI, Fireblocks and COINBASE, discussed the most pressing issues and megatrends shaping the crypto world today—from Web 3.0 to NFTs, the metaverse to De-Fi—as well as the upcoming big moves impacting institutional investors.

Raymond Yuan, Chairman of CTH Group, the supporting group of IDEG, said: “Web 3.0 is inevitable. It is the next Internet era that is creating a completely new economic paradigm. We will witness true globalization enabled through decentralization, rules-based permissionless governance models, as well as new models such as ‘X-to-earn‘ that will redefine people’s jobs. While we are seeing increased investments in this space, there remain unanswered questions on ‘what’s next?‘ for the road ahead. Our inaugural Institutional Digital Asset Summit 2022 aims to encourage dialogue on how institutions and Web 3.0 technology leaders can navigate, collaborate, and thrive in this brave new world.”

The MAS shared during a panel discussion that the crypto ecosystem is a potentially transformative technology. It enables high-value assets to be fractionalized and this can unlock new economic value, enhance financial inclusion, and enable more seamless and efficient financial services. The MAS added that its approach is to be adaptive, continually evolving and consultative as this is a fast-moving space.

On the topic of crypto becoming mainstream, Rishi Ramchandani, Head of APAC at BlockFI, opined, “Crypto is now in a validated state, and our team is working hard to reduce the friction to encourage institutional partners to move into the crypto space.”

Stephen Richardson, Head of APAC at Fireblocks, added, “We have noticed that the market is adopting a more cautious take on upcoming crypto projects and the infrastructure, as compared with past deals where there was more enthusiasm over the rapid crypto expansion. We see investors doing more homework and due diligence, in preparation for a tough market ahead.”

Wilson Cheng, APAC Lead in Institutional Sales at COINBASE, shared his views on digital asset adoption in the traditional financial world. He opined, “while it is exciting to see so many financial institutions recognising crypto as a real asset class, we anticipate that more time will be needed to educate the broader market about the crypto universe.”

David Shin, Head of Global Adoption at Klayton, also opined on the role that NFTs will play in the coming years: “We see Web 3.0 to be driving a lot of the NFT adoption in the next five years. Interestingly, the second-level adoption of NFTs is becoming more functional and dynamic, and there are vast opportunities for us to bring outside data in, to the creation of NFTs, and we believe this will ultimately drive change in this industry.”

To wrap up the two-day summit, Kevin Loo, Head of Investment Insights and Managing Director at IDEG, said, “Despite the uncertainty in the digital asset markets, the market sees both short-term and long-term opportunities emerging. Further, this cycle is different from past crypto winters. With more institutional involvement compared to 2018, the ‘reaction function’ for recovery will be stronger, meaning digital asset recovery will be quicker than we have experienced in prior cycles. As a professional assets manager, we continue our mission of growing the market with best-in-class compliance and value-add diversification strategies and services. This event firmly showcases IDEG’s corporate reach and influence across digital asset verticals and horizontal services, an indication of the strong advocacy of institutional standards and growth for the long term.”

3-time MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo launches the X-Fuera NFTs with MADworld and Animoca Brands

May 30, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

MADworld and Animoca Brands proudly announce a partnership with Jorge Lorenzo, the 3-time MotoGP World Champion, to venture together into the metaverse. This collaboration consists of multiple NFT (non-fungible tokens) drops, and will lead up to MADworld’s upcoming play-to-earn (P2E) game experience, which ports all MADworld P2E NFT projects into a common racing ecosystem. The campaign will include exciting giveaways, never-seen-before utility, and some incredible real and digital world experiences with Jorge himself.

Lorenzo is considered one of the most skilful and adventurous riders of this century. X-Fuera or ‘Por Fuera’ meaning ‘Around the Outside’ is the nickname of Lorenzo, earned after making the famous move during a race in 2003. The 3-time MotoGP World Champion taps into the metaverse environment by sharing memorabilia accessible to the public in an exclusive digital experience tied to a physical event.

“I’m super excited to be collaborating with MADworld and Animoca Brands in providing new, exclusive experiences to my global fans. I can now engage with them in a whole new way never seen before and the opportunities awaiting are endless,” Jorge Lorenzo said. “I have worked all my life to become a motorcycling champion and I am still closely linked to the world of competition. This year I will make my debut as a MotoGP commentator, which is a new challenge for me. I want to continue to inspire my followers and let them know that I continue to take on new challenges and try to improve myself every day. I’m going to bring on a show to make our NFTs very valuable and in demand.”

“We are delighted to have him in joining us for this fascinating collaboration,” Robert Tran, CEO of MADworld added. “Our vision is to make sure that athletes can share this Web3 experience with their fans, whilst leveraging some amazing artists through MADworld’s vast array of digital talent. Traditionally, athletes’ participation in live events are bounded geographically. We want to increase their reach so they can extend this relationship in the Web3 world.”

The MADworld and Lorenzo pairing represents an exciting and important step for MADworld’s growing offering. Arnold Concepcion, the chief of operations at Animoca Brands, commented: “By enabling NFT artists to work with renowned individuals such as Jorge Lorenzo, we are able to explore the breadth of MADworld’s capabilities and can expand beyond simply defending the artist, instead promoting them to the global stage of NFT dominance. It will be an exciting collaboration to explore sports opportunities in the metaverse.”

The X-Fuera, gearing up for the race of a lifetime

The X-Fuera, a collection of Lorenzo-styled and themed avatars, will be launching Jorge Lorenzo into the metaverse, offering 9,999 X-Fuera riders and 9,999 superbikes ready for MADworld’s growing ecosystem. Owners can fuse a Rider and a SuperBike together by collecting one of the MADserums in drop 2.5 and unlock the playable characters and earn UMAD.

The utility doesn’t stop there with amazing real world experiences involving Jorge Lorenzo himself, memorabilia giveaways, virtual events and much much more. MADworld will bridge the Jorge Lorenzo campaign into its much larger family consisting of many other brands such as BAPE, B.Duck and others.

Key Drop:
Drop 1 – 9,999 X-Fuera Riders
Drop 2 – 9,999 X-Fuera Super Bikes
Drop 2.5 – NEW! MADserums
Drop 3 – MADworld Proprietary Physical to Digital – Genuine Jorge Lorenzo mini helmets paired with MADworld NFTs

The X-Fuera campaign is set to be full of adrenaline, MADreturns, amazing original content and much more. Stay tuned for X-Fuera going live soon.

X-Fuera: Discord | Twitter | Instagram

Huobi Asset Management Wins “Hong Kong Outstanding Asset Management Company Award” 2022

May 30, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

We are pleased to announce that Huobi Asset Management（Hong Kong) Limited (“Huobi Asset Management” or the “Company”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huobi Technology Holdings Limited (1611.HK), won the “Hong Kong Most Outstanding Business Award” (“HKMOB Award”) for Asset Management category in the award ceremony held on 26th May, 2022, confirming the company industry-leading position in Hong Kong and the market recognition of its business performance and product innovation.

Organized by Corphub, the award aims to recognize the contributions and achievements of international companies in various fields and showcase their unique business practices to the industry and the public. The award is judged by a professional panel of industry leaders, chamber of commerce members and authorities from all walks of life. The award is based on four criteria: corporate management, financial performance, product innovation and social responsibility.

Ms. Vivien Wong, General Manager of Huobi AM, said, “This award is a high recognition of our capital management services and fund products by the capital industry and the public. Since our establishment in July 2020, we have been developing and offering a wide range of virtual asset fund products for professional investors by integrating the advantages of virtual assets and traditional financial assets in our services and product development. She added, “As one of the first asset management firms in the Hong Kong market to be approved by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to manage 100% virtual asset funds, we will lead the industry in continuing to focus on market needs and strive to provide investors with innovative products and services that represent cutting-edge investment ideas.

Top derivatives DEX ApolloX launches Spot Trading

May 30, 2022 Published by TheBlockchainExaminer.com

ApolloX, one of the top decentralized crypto derivatives exchanges, has launched spot trading and listed trading pairs including its native APX token.

Simply by connecting their decentralized wallets, traders can make limit, market or stop-limit orders for BTC/USDT, BUSD/USDT, APX/USDT markets and more markets instantly.

ApolloX DEX will offer the best selection of trading pairs based on market demand and user suggestions. Utilising an order book system means ApolloX avoids risk of high slippage and long transaction times commonly seen in automated market makers (AMM) exchanges.

“While we are a prominent derivatives DEX, spot is simpler for many crypto traders and useful in trading strategies. As one of the top DEXes by total trading volume, the addition of spot trading creates more value for our users and builds an inclusive ApolloX ecosystem for the entire blockchain community,” said the Founder of ApolloX.

Shaping the future of decentralized trading

Since its inception, ApolloX has been walking the talk of lowering barriers to entry for crypto and blockchain.

ApolloX has expanded DEX futures trading on the ApolloX mobile application, built a multi-chain ecosystem supporting ERC20 and BSC networks, and partnered with other prominent DEXes including PancakeSwap, BabySwap and Leonicorn Swap to offer derivatives trading to more traders.

More importantly, ApolloX is executing its forward-looking plan of ApolloX 2.0 — burning 5.7 billion APX tokens and implementing DAO decentralized governance, thus shaping the future of Web3 trading.

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gDEX Metaverse Announces Its Global Leadership

iBooster: Based in Lugano, home of the first Crypto City echosystem in Europe, launch its strategy for the Crypto Industry

AsiaPay and Moonland Metaverse join hands to step into a new business payment model of Web 3.0

Fireblocks Appoints Former Head of Fintech from Bank of England As New Director of CBDC and Market Infrastructure

TORANOTEC Adds PayPal to TORANOKO’s Payment Method

Bit.Store Adds Alternative Payments and Pay-Outs Via Alchemy Pay

IDEG launches Flagship Institutional Digital Assets Summit 2022 to foster conversations about the shifting crypto landscape

3-time MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo launches the X-Fuera NFTs with MADworld and Animoca Brands

Huobi Asset Management Wins “Hong Kong Outstanding Asset Management Company Award” 2022

Top derivatives DEX ApolloX launches Spot Trading

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