1st Big Demo Day - Central Research

Initiated by Central Research, co-organized by Web3Hub, and supported by MarsBit (Mars Finance) and other media, the large-scale Web3 offline Roadshow event in Hong Kong — Big Demo Day was grandly held today (March 4) in Hong Kong Cyberport. Front-line active organizations in the industry and Web3 Builders, VCs, and KOLs from different projects gathered at the scene to share and discuss industry trends and hotspots in 2023, to communicate around the development direction of the project in the new year, and to plan in-depth cooperation opportunities.

At the opening of the event, Central Research Co-founder Dylan and G-ROCKET CEO Huang Junlang, Secretary-General of the Investment Committee of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Development Fund, officiated the ceremony and delivered a speech.

Dylan said that Central Research is a research institution based in Hong Kong, providing research and investment and financing services for global project parties. Big Demo Day is jointly organized by Central Research and Web3Hub to provide a platform for global project parties to show themselves. Thanks to major exchanges, BNBChain, Tencent Cloud, media, institutions, etc., for their strong support for the event, and hopes participating projects can get better development opportunities through activities.

Huang Junlang said that Web3Hub, as the co-organizer of the Roadshow event — The Big Demo Day, was established in Cyberport on January 9 under the witness of the leaders of the SAR government. On the one hand, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government's continuous favorable policies from the virtual asset declaration to the current policy, the Hong Kong government hopes that many domestic and overseas enterprises will gather in Hong Kong to achieve a common goal. First, the Hong Kong government hopes that many domestic and overseas enterprises will land smoothly. Some large companies and large funds have reached cooperation, and Web3Hub came into being. So far, from January 9th to today, a total of seven to eight weeks or so, Web3Hub has received 350 projects from all over the world to register in Hong Kong, understand the situation, or even land.

MetaTdex Capital

Yang Jingran, vice president of MetaTdex Capital Operation Department, introduced that MetaTdex is a decentralized exchange which uses the order model, with a current trading volume of one billion US dollars. So far, MetaTdex has covered users in more than 53 countries around the world. The number of users who have actually traded on MetaTdex is 300,000. According to statistics, the number of users with an account holding more than 500 U has exceeded 100,000. In addition, MetaTdex also has a large number of community builders.

Staynex

Staynex Bernard Lau introduced Staynex as a platform to log resorts, hotels, and vacation properties on Web3. Allows members annual access to resorts worldwide and the ability to earn rewards for holding memberships. Staynex allows users' properties to create their own Timeshare products, by embedding the annual accommodation plan and user loyalty program into NFT. NFT represents the membership's qualifications and the number of stay days allocated to members at the hotel. Create an additional revenue stream through a second product.

Magpie (PicaPica)

Rebecca, the founder of PicaPica, introduced the application prospects of NFT in the vertical field of the magpie ecology, emphasizing its functionality, practicality, payment, and equity. There are no mature competing products, and it is easy to become an advertisement and brand Xuanxiang is the number one brand of application-oriented NFT, occupying users' intellectual resources and market gaps. At the same time, Web3 Blog Space will also be opened for each NFT issuer to interact with fans in the form of graphics, short videos, and short audio, and fans can also carry out more two-way communication through embedded AIGC and other tools and brands. Construct a set of NFT-SocialFi paradigms that keep pace with the times.

Reverse Market

Reverse COO NISHANT introduces Reverse Market, which combines Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 to provide users with a brand new shopping experience. Users can use fiat currency or cryptocurrency to purchase coupons that can be used at online or offline merchants. The Reverse market uses blockchain technology to implement smart contracts, ensuring the transparency and security of all team sharing and transactions, and protecting the privacy of users.

MarkerDAO

MarkerDAO CPO Daksh Joshi introduced MarkerDAO, a decentralized labor crowdsourcing market focused on AI dataset annotation. Usually, training AI models requires a large amount of manually labeled data sets. At present, artificial intelligence researchers provide services through traditional centralized labeling companies, such as Scale AI and MTurk. In the era of Web3, MarkerDAO has realized a trustless, permissionless multinational labor market with the help of blockchain technology, and opened up cross-border payments through cryptocurrencies, greatly reducing the cost of labeling AI datasets.

LinkAI

LinkAI CEO Vishwas introduced that LinkAI is a decentralized AI model marketplace that allows developers to buy and sell AI models in a secure and transparent way. LinkAI uses a token-based economy to incentivize model creators and validators, ensuring the quality and accuracy of the models. LinkAI also provides a platform for developers to collaborate and exchange knowledge, fostering innovation in the field of AI.

Being.com

Xu Le, CEO of Being.com , introduced Being.com as a brand new Web3 platform. The platform uses innovative Web3 blockchain technology and operating concepts to provide users with a truly free operating model. The product vision is to become the leader of the global Web3 healthy lifestyle, allowing users to "zero investment, become healthy, and become rich!"

GEMS

GEMS CEO & Co-Founder Andy Koh introduced GEMS is the world's first eSports 3.0 aggregation platform that connects Web 2 players to Web 3. GEMS' O2O ecosystem provides unique activities and solutions for players to learn, connect and immerse online and offline.

YieldKingZ

YieldKingZ project leader introduced YieldKingZ is a social competition project based on WEB 3.0, which allows users to receive cryptocurrency as rewards. YieldKingZ users utilize NFTs to compete against other holders in social competitive games on the platform to earn points and redeem tokens with earned points. More importantly, YieldKingZ has a "club system" — Web3 Feature, which defines that the system is purely operated by holders, and all profits belong to holders.

GeniusClub

GeniusClub COO Jacob introduced that the mission of GeniusClub is to build a multi-functional Web3 community for students from the world's top elite schools, break down the knowledge barriers of the Web3 industry, and continue to provide high-quality talents for the industry.

GeniusClub has established cooperation with the top 100 well-known universities in the United States, including many Ivy League schools, and the top 500 well-known universities in the world to create a Web3DID identity system for students of prestigious schools, and provide Web3 knowledge learning, Token and NFT airdrops accordingly. Professional services such as task release and claiming, skill competitions, job hunting resources, etc., build a bridge and platform for students from prestigious schools to communicate with the world's top Web3 companies.

This event mainly invites entrepreneurs and projects in the Web 3 field. As the organizer of the event, Central Research will provide a full range of incubation services for participating project parties, including market services, financing services, VC docking, and exchange recommendations.

Overall, the Big Demo Day event provided a valuable platform for global Web3 projects to showcase their innovations and network with industry leaders and investors. The event demonstrated the growing importance of Web3 technologies and the increasing interest and investment in the space.