4th Big Demo Day - Central Research
Introduction to BIG DEMO DAY IV
BIG DEMO DAY IV (June 27th, Hong Kong) was sponsored by Huawei Cloud, organized by Central Research and Cyberport, and co-organized by Techub.News. Golden Finance, ChainDD, Odaily Star Daily, and Mars Finance served as strategic media partners.
The conference was held at Cyberport in Hong Kong at 10:30 am on June 27th, and invited representatives from multiple investment institutions and 19 high-quality roadshow projects for matchmaking. Past investment institutions include: Binance, IMO Ventures, Cipholio, CATCHERVC, Foresight Ventures, RAINFOREST, Chain Capital, SUNPLUS CAPITAL, Sky9 Capital, 7 O'Clock Capital, C Capital, A&T CAPITAL, TKX CAPITAL, Web3Vision, Stratified Capital, LABS Group, NGC Ventures, Ausvic Capital, Summer Capital, GBV Capital, OP Crypto, AC Capital, Lbank Labs, MEXC Ventures, Satori Research, Consensus Lab, Redline DAO, Scaling X, Metastone, Bitrise Capital, WESTLABS, COLDLAR, Basics Capital, Tiger VC DAO, Mura Consultancy, Central Research, Bybit, GBV, CrossSpace, Yintai Capital, Mulana Captial, IBG Capital, Mandala Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, Tsing Tech Ventures, OKX, JKL Group, Tencent Cloud, Leading Capital Limited, Xiayan Capital, Hashkey Capital (China) Investment Co., Ltd., Animoca Capital, DOORS INVESTMENT LTD\ IOST, Northbund Capital, IOST, XT.COM, Sharding Capital, MetaTdex, NICE, XT LABS, etc. (in no particular order).
The Investment Speed Dating at BIG DEMO DAY IV was conducted through a combination of online and offline methods. Each project came on stage to present, and interested institutions asked questions on site. The event had an exposure rate of millions and reached a wide audience, including investors, entrepreneurs, industry experts, and a broad group interested in the Web3 field.
Organizers Introduction
Central Research
Central Research is a Hong Kong-based Web3 investment research company, focusing on investing in, researching, incubating, and developing innovative projects in the Web 3.0 field. The services provided include project investment and incubation, BIG DEMO DAY, etc. Since its establishment last year, the company's investment and cooperation projects have covered various tracks around the world.
Cyberport
Cyberportis an innovative digital community that brings together over 1,900 start-ups and technology companies. It is managed by Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, which is wholly owned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
Cyberport's vision is to become a digital technology hub, creating new economic momentum for Hong Kong. Cyberport is committed to training technology talent, encouraging young people to start businesses, supporting start-ups, creating a thriving innovation and technology ecosystem, promoting the development of the technology industry through cooperation with local and international strategic partners, and accelerating the adoption of digital technology by public and private institutions to promote the integration of the new and traditional economies.
Co-Organizer Introduction
Techub.News is an AI-based information aggregation and interactive social streaming platform that integrates multiple modules, including Web3 market quantification, UGC production and distribution, VIP subscriptions, DashBoard ratings, AI chat, etc. As a one-stop solution for Web3 media services, Techub.News focuses on relevant events and news hotspots in the Hong Kong Web3 field, providing deep services for community organizers, participants, investors, traders, content creators, and researchers with interactive social information needs. Techub.News has already attracted the attention of some well-known investors, and its seed round financing was participated in by VCB and Ausvic Capital. The platform was officially launched on April 16th.
Sponsor Introduction
Huawei Cloud is Huawei's cloud service brand. Huawei Cloud opens up the over 30 years of ICT technology accumulation and product solution offerings of Huawei, providing stable, reliable, secure, trustworthy, and sustainable cloud services to support customers, partners, and developers in the Web3 industry. In the face of the rapid development trend of the Web3 industry, Huawei Cloud continues to implement the "Everything as a Service" strategy, aiming to make cloud services ubiquitous and intelligence all-encompassing, accelerating Web3 customers, partners, and developers to quickly build Web3 applications and services, and supporting the rapid development of the Web3 industry in Hong Kong and globally.
Roadshow Projects Introduction and Highlights
Apus Network
Apus.Network is a decentralized AIGC network that utilizes AI+Web3 technology to make computing power ubiquitous. Currently, Apus has built a Dapp called Dazzle AI, which has attracted thousands of users, and has close ties with the Filecoin and Arweave ecosystems.
NewLand
Newland is a user-friendly Web3 traffic gateway that provides an interaction experience without private keys or gas fees. It pioneers a decentralized point retention system called CPRS (Centralized PointRetention System) plus platform token dual-incentive model, guiding users to learn while earning and enter the Web3 world with ease.
SEER
SEER is a decentralized and privacy-secure Web3 social app built on the SEER NETWORK communication protocol, allowing you to participate in Web3 communities for collaboration, discussion, governance, proposals, treasury management, access control, transactions, and event marketing anytime and anywhere. The accurate activity curation system based on user DID matching truly monetizes user attention and empowers Web3 projects worldwide. At the same time, SEER provides a rich and diverse Dapp and plugin integration, solving Web3 user needs in one-stop-shop and greatly flourishing the App Store ecosystem.
ARKS
ARKS is an all-in-one, frictionless liquidity management public facility. Based on an interactive and accessible decentralized user reputation token, it provides compliant cross-chain asset financing and liquidity management services for developing regions, traditional real estate developers, third-party applications, and DAO organizations. The founding team comes from Google, Goldman Sachs, UC Berkeley, and so on.
Mole
Mole is a DeFi protocol that provides savings, leveraged yield farming, and fund management products on the Move-based public chains Sui and Aptos. Mole provides users with asset management products of different security levels. Savings provide users with the most stable investment returns; leveraged yield farming provides various strategic tools such as long and short positions, cutting through thorns and thistles in bull and bear markets. Funds hedge and balance market risks, fearlessly realizing high returns.
SoulCial
SoulCial is a self-generated social metaverse driven by on-chain behavior and real-world data. Users can create SoulCast NFTs as their personalized social assets with unique personality traits and accumulable SoulScore in collaboration with AI. SoulCasts can be traded, displayed, and freely combined to build their own soul metaverse. All of this will allow more soulmates to meet and attract each other and gain additional connection rewards.
FantasyMerge
FantasyMerge is a company dedicated to leading the change in the digital art field. We are committed to endowing NFT digital art with new vitality through hardware display devices and software platforms, demonstrating its unique value and artistic aesthetics. FantasyMerge will develop relevant dapps and digital asset imaging systems based on the web3 platform, and create the most advanced new interactive device, the FantasyMerge digital picture frame, combining dynamic capture, machine vision, and other sensors. With the ultimate display effect and high-tech interactive hardware, we will create a distinctive and influential digital art 2.0 brand.
Inpower
Inpower is based on blockchain technology and provides selected traditional financial assets to citizens of third world countries. We work with holders of real-world assets to create on-chain and trading solutions for financial assets on a compliant basis. Our platform provides citizens in developing countries with access to international financial markets and tools. In these countries, ordinary investors who want to buy international financial assets in the traditional centralized financial system usually find it inconvenient and costly. As inflation risks rampage around the world, Inpower can provide tokenized 401(k) services to most internet-accessible areas around the world. 401(k) is currently the most popular pension solution in the United States, and we believe that this should not be a privilege enjoyed only by US residents. Any user who wants to log in to Inpower must meet our KYC and AML requirements, but they can hold traditional financial assets without the need to open a bank or brokerage account. All assets that are put on-chain in Inpower are supported by traditional financial assets in a 1:1 ratio and provided by registered institutions. These institutions will undergo continuous auditing to ensure compliance and meet requirements. Inpower will be officially launched in July 2023 on Arbitrum (an Ethereum-based L2 solution).
Daren Market
Daren Market is a project initiated by the Computer Department team of Seoul National University in South Korea in 2020. It has core members from world-renowned universities and internet giants, with deep Web2 and Web3 technology accumulation. Daren Market's decentralized Dapp officially launched at the end of December 2022. Since 2023, it has won multiple awards in various hackathons and has received grants from multiple public chains. Currently, Daren Market has attracted 60,000 registered users, 5000+ registered stores, and 2000+ types of services and goods.
PetGpt
PetGpt is the world's first Web3.0 pet companion platform based on OpenAI. Users can engage in conversation, nurturing, socializing, and other activities with their virtual pets through holding pet NFTs or SBTs and receive rewards. The platform hopes to leverage AI to improve productivity and Web3.0 to transform production relations, allowing everyone to have a virtual pet companion with the same threshold.
XCart
XCart is a Web3 native streetwear brand with "Crypto" as its spiritual totem. It focuses on the "Web3 Lifestyle Aesthetic Paradigm Revolution" and currently gathers many Bitcoin race OGs and crypto artists in the Web3 industry.
Starting with streetwear, XCart will develop a series of crypto-native trendy goods, leading the "Crypto in real life" new Web3 brand. It is committed to connecting Crypto with reality. On top of the diversified trendy art in the real world, such as shoes, clothing, and bags, XCart insists on drawing the lifestyle of Web3 Builders and using these physical items as canvases to carry various elements of Crypto design, including NFC for virtual and physical communication functions. Each art piece's uniqueness on the chain also maps the owner's relationship with the physical asset, eventually immersing the web3er into a new virtual and physical coexistence metaverse.
We welcome small partners who support our philosophy to join us in building the "Crypto in real life" new Web3 brand.
Metarbox
Metarbox is an AR digital space based on smartphones, AR glasses, interactive devices, and blockchain networks, with augmented reality technology as its core and a carefully designed WEB3 economic model.
Jun Cang
Jun Cang is a platform company that explains enterprise digital transformation through the WEB3.0 digital ecosystem. The platform's positioning is a comprehensive service provider for enterprise digital transformation, including system integration, equity issuance, commodity sales, pipeline construction, and market value management. The digital upgrade method is to digitize the enterprise's trademark rights and anchor the brand, service, option, and dividend values, allowing consumers to obtain the benefits of enterprise development while consuming.
AIO News
AIO News is an AI-driven Web3 information aggregation platform dedicated to providing a one-stop Web3 information acquisition experience through AI-driven recommendation algorithms. At the same time, AIO News integrates industry-wide resources to provide one-stop market solutions for brand communication, marketing conversion, offline activities, and other needs of partners.
XOOCITY
XOOCITY is an innovative virtual commercial real estate and gaming platform that provides users with an incredible virtual Hong Kong city to purchase, sell, and develop virtual land and earn profits from it. It is a true metaverse experience that will change the way people travel and invest and drive the development of the metaverse.
XOOCITY is also a comprehensive service platform that integrates metaverse technology development, NFT sales, and metaverse operation and promotion. It will help commercial enterprises and teams better utilize metaverse and Web3.0 technology, expand business and influence, and create more value and opportunities. XOOCITY provides metaverse and Web3.0 technology promotion and operation services for commercial enterprises and various teams.
AKRON
AKRON TWAMM is a decentralized exchange that matches large long-term orders submitted to the Akron TWAMM pool in equal amounts at each time interval (i.e., TWAP) over time with large long-term orders submitted in the opposite direction to the Akron TWAMM pool, called crosses, or liquidity directed at the Uniswap V4 Pool, called Swaps, to fully utilize Uniswap V4 Pool liquidity and Uniswap V4 Hook functionality. Long-term order execution is internally called before each Uniswap V4 modification position and exchange and can be called externally by anyone. Most of the fees generated by crosses are donated to Uniswap LP.
The team is committed to providing maximum benefits for
- traders who submit long-term orders to the Akron TWAMM order pool and;
- Uniswap LPs who use Akron TWAMM Hook as the IHook parameter to provide liquidity to the Uniswap V4 pool.
Mhaya
Mhaya is a money-making game based on NFT, originating from the classic board game "Monopoly." Mhaya's innovative and unique token economy, which has dual pools and seasonal breeding yield rewards, allows players to earn rewards by participating in various game activities, such as buying, selling, and developing virtual properties. The game also has a social aspect, as players can form alliances and compete with other players for resources and rewards.
Mhaya aims to provide a fun and engaging gaming experience while also promoting financial literacy and education. The game's NFT-based economy allows players to learn about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology while earning real rewards. Mhaya has gained popularity in the Web3 community and has attracted a large number of players and investors.