14th Big Demo Day - Central Research

On June 27, the "14th Big Demo Day" held at the Hong Kong Cyberport came to a successful conclusion! The event is a large-scale offline event hosted by Central Research, supported by Cyberport and 852web3, and sponsored by Zeepr, ANTO and WealthPlan. The event brought together many well-known enterprises and experts in Web2 and Web3 industries to discuss and witness the vigorous development of the industry.

Romeo, co-founder of Uweb, Finley Fan, Sales Director of SINOHOPE, and Carl, Scroll's Head of Growth and partnerships in Asia Pacific Leung, ODIG's founder Devin.H, Zeeprlabs' co-founder Norah, Gameland's team representative csschen, Rubbish's co-founder and CEO William Yang, ANTO's business manager and other guests attended the event.

Opening speech

Dylan, co-founder of Central Research, delivered an effusive speech. Dylan Lee first thanked Hong Kong Cyberport, 852Web3, Blockchain Association and other institutions for their strong support, and thanked all the on-site guests, project parties, VC media friends. Dylan Lee said that the Big Demo Day has seen more than 250 projects roadshow, and more than 400 projects signed up to participate, based in Hong Kong, covering the world. Over the past three years, the community has been actively investing in projects and has provided a significant amount of post-investment work for these projects.

​For this year's goal, the plan is to empower more projects, including investment, docking resources, incubation and other services that projects may need. There will also be a larger Big Demo Day event held every month and everyone is welcome to attend.

Keynote Speech 1: DePIN Opportunities: Reshaping Business Models in the Web3 Era

Romeo, co-founder of Uweb, spoke at the event on the theme "DePIN Opportunities: DePIN refers to the use of token incentive mechanism to deploy and coordinate physical infrastructure and hardware networks in the real world, which is roughly divided into two ecological fields: physical resource network (PRN) and digital resource network (DRN). Romeo also shared the industry strengths and development of DePIN, the DePIN ecosystem has grown to more than 650 projects in 2023, covering six sub-areas: computing, AI, wireless communications, sensors, energy, and services.

Keynote Speech 2: Public Chain Development- Hot Spots and Future Prospects

Finley Fan, Sales Director of SINOHOPE, delivered a keynote speech on the theme of "Public Chain Development - Current hot spots and Future Prospects" at the event. Finley Fan shared the discovery and status quo of public chain track for everyone, and proposed the innovation of SINOHOPE in public chain track. SINOHOPE provides enterprises with one-stop, full-stack blockchain solutions, including L1/L2 blockchain solutions, peripheral system suites such as browsers, faucets, developer websites, and basic DApps such as DEX, lending, IDO, NFT Marketplace, and more.

Project roadshow

ZeeprLabs

Co-founder Norah details the development of the ZeeprLabs project, the latest products and future plans. They have accumulated a lot of user feedback and based on this, launched the latest generation of products, Zeepr V3. The product is innovative and adapted to the current untrent propel trading environment, bringing an innovative product form to the market. In addition, Norah also mentioned the progress of the project at the cooperation level, with increasing support from the supply chain and partners. At the TOKEN level, they have also done more detailed and clear planning and perfected the number of governance tokens.

With the launch of the third generation of products, ZeeprLabs has expanded its positioning from Trading layer to Trading layer, serving as a low-level Trading infrastructure to better meet the needs of various types of users. And provide more inclusive support for the diverse Perpetual trading scene. Norah also highlighted their market positioning as not just a perpetual deck, but an underlying trading infrastructure. Their products embed on chain's accelerated planning entry and some underlying infrastructure, which is already implemented in VR products.

Finally, Norah compared the zeepr V3 with GMX, noting that the zeepr V3 takes the product form of PVP AMM, which was previously proposed but not successfully developed by other teams in the market. They have accumulated enough experience through iteration and collaboration over the first two versions to successfully develop the algorithm and plan to apply it to zeepr V3. This innovation will make them the first team in the market to achieve this product form.

Gameland

In the road show speech of Gameland project, the keynote speaker introduced the core technology and concept of the project through vivid language and examples. The presentation highlighted Gameland's modular Agent architecture and AI Prompt Roblox platform, which allows users to easily create, publish, and play games to co-create smarter, more dynamic gaming experiences.

ANTO

During the ANTO Project roadshow, the keynote speakers elaborated on the cognitive and operational barriers of investors in the information barrier gap of the crypto industry, and ANTO followed the trend to provide a perfect solution for investors. Jointly built by ANTO Fund Ltd and ANTO Capital Ltd to provide a full range of financial services.

In addition, the speaker said that as of now, ANTO has obtained legal authorization for legal crypto asset trading and financial business in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the core of ANTO's crypto sector is an innovative exchange traded fund focusing on ETFs. Profit effectively through AI innovative product trading strategies and spot contract hedging transactions.

Finally, the core concept of Antou Exchange, five advantages of trading fund ETF, four business modules, three main products and future planning are elaborated in depth. Antou will actively work with digital asset enthusiasts around the world to promote the healthy development of the crypto industry, help everyone break the barriers of crypto digital asset investment, and achieve efficient and convenient asset management returns.

Rubbish

During the roadshow presentation for the Rubbishmeme project, Rubbish's co-founder and CEO William Yang elaborated on the core elements of the project. They highlight four key concepts: Meme, ERC404, NFT, and mobility. Meme represents the attributes of cultural inheritance and variation, combined with the spread of hot spots, and ERC404 is a widely used protocol on Ethereum, mainly realizing the exchange between NFT and token. In addition, they mentioned that although the current popularity of NFT has decreased, it is still an important cornerstone of the meta-universe and digital asset field, and predicted that there will be a breaking point this year.

​William Yang further explained the positioning of the project. They are committed to creating a new NFT Launchpad platform through the combination of Meme and ERC404 -artsarena.io launchpad. This platform is not only a technical product, but also a commercial application, revitalizing some old NFT, providing liquidity for NFT, and aiming to promote the practical application and liquidity of NFT in the Web3 industry.

Roundtable: SocialFi: The Next Big Wave in the Web3 Era?

After the project roadshow, Carl Leung, Asia-Pacific Head of Growth and Partnerships at Scroll, Devin.H, founder of ODIG, Norah, co-founder of Zeeprlabs, and Dylan Lee, co-founder of CentralResearch, discussed Web3 at the roundtable event The next outlet of the era SocialFi in the next market development.

Guests said that compared with the traffic monetization ability of Web2 social platforms, SocialFi protocol has more advantages in community creation and peer-to-peer interaction, and it is easier to create killer apps, encourage more ordinary creators to participate, and create a prosperous creator economy.

In addition, the guests also discussed SocialFi applications, modularity and other hot topics, which were unanimously praised by on-site users.

Summary and Prospect

The successful holding of the 14th Big Demo Day not only injected new vitality into the Web3 ecosystem, but also provided valuable industry exchange opportunities for participants. Looking ahead, with the continued development and popularity of Web3 technology, it is reasonable to believe that Hong Kong will continue to be an important force in the global capital of virtual assets. At the same time, we also look forward to more excellent enterprises and projects to join the Web3 ecosystem, and jointly promote the prosperity of the industry.