BIG DEMO DAY III was Successfully Held in Hong Kong
From May 29th to May 31st, 2023, the large-scale Web3 roadshow event Big Demo Day III was held in Hong Kong. The event was co-hosted by Central Research and Cyberport, co-organized by Techub.News and Jinse Finance, and sponsored by Huawei Cloud. Nearly 100 projects and investment institutions gathered together to showcase and exchange innovative projects in the Web3 field, including Layer2, DeFi, NFT, social, security audit, AIGC, and other sub-sectors.
The host, Central Research, is a Hong Kong-based investment research organization focused on Web 3.0 projects. Their main business includes investment, incubation, and organizing big demo day events.
The co-organizer, Techub News, is an AI-based information aggregation and interactive social news streaming platform, aiming to bring a new social news experience to Hong Kong and global users. As a one-stop solution for Web3 media services, the platform will integrate professional Web3 market quantification, UGC production and distribution, VIP subscription, DashBoard and rating, AI chat, and other sections. They also support event publishing and registration functions, making events easily accessible and helping participants find like-minded individuals through online interaction.
The event received widespread attention and participation from many industry elites, investors, and cooperative media. Attendees included Hong Kong Legislative Council member Wu, Ausvic Capital founder Chen Ping, VCB representative Li Shiyuan, MetaTdex Ventures representative Yang Jingran, Multichain Capital co-founder Alfred Xu, Web3 Hub leader Huang Junlang, Web3 Hub Eco-Fund leader Cai Yaoting, Shuidi Capital co-founder Zheng Yushan, Xia Yan Capital executive director Chen Chuanyao, Web3vision leader Yang Linyuan, and Central Research co-founder Dylan.
In the previous two successful editions of Big Demo Day, more than 20 investment institutions and projects were successfully connected. The number of participants in this event was several times higher than the previous two editions, with over 70 roadshow projects participating.
Click the links below to view all roadshow projects:
May 29th roadshow projects: https://www.techub.news/details/24724
May 30th roadshow projects: https://www.techub.news/details/24725
May 31st roadshow projects: https://www.techub.news/details/24726
Projects such as Star Protocol, Uniearn, Dsign, Bool Network, Topia, Authento, GARAN, Omnize, Ink Finance were favored by investors and some even successfully connected on-site.
In addition to the 24 investment institutions from previous editions, this BIG DEMO DAY III also added institutions and family offices from countries such as Dubai, South Korea, and Singapore, including Web3Vision, Stratified Capital, LABS Group, NGC Ventures, Ausvic Capital, Summer Capital, GBV Capital, OP Crypto, AC Capital, Lbank Labs, Matcha Ventures, Satori Research, Consensus Lab, Redline DAO, Scaling X, Metastone, Bitrise Capital, WESTLABS, COLDLAR, Basics Capital, Tiger VC DAO, Mura Consultancy, and Central Research.
The event also invited strategic media partners such as Mars Finance, ChainDD, PANews, Cointime, Asia Times Financial, and streaming media Knowhere to conduct online and offline activities simultaneously.
Star Protocol: Leveraging the LayerZero protocol, Star Protocol provides a full-chain domain name service. Star Name Service and Optimism Name Service have already been launched on Polygon and Optimism, respectively. Unlike Ethereum Name Service (ENS), this full-chain service enhances interoperability, allowing the use of the .zk suffix at various levels on different blockchains. As of April 2023, monthly registrations have exceeded 100,000, far surpassing ENS’s 27,000 new registrations in April.
Roadshow Projects Introduction
Uniearn
Uniearn focuses on “on-chain automatic follow-up/following trading,” and relies on data recommendations and analysis to simultaneously support on-chain spot trading follow-up, on-chain derivative trading follow-up, on-chain NFT trading follow-up and other businesses. It enables ordinary users to earn money like professional investors and supports rapid scaling of any on-chain behavior. The project is currently valued at $6.67 million, plans to raise $1 million, and will offer 15% equity and 7.5% token distribution. (Expected IPO time: Q4 2023)
Dsign
Dsign is a Web3 privacy electronic signature software that allows users to have data privacy and legal effectiveness while seamlessly compatible with the web2 market. Dsign is built on the Arweave public chain and uses facial DID to verify identity, ZK to verify content and selective leakage, and post-quantum encryption to ensure security.
Bool Network
Bool Network is a cross-chain interoperability protocol based on multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proof, and trusted execution environment. It is permissionless, fully trustless, and highly scalable. BOOL Network proposes a unique distributed signature mechanism that solves the impossible triangle problem of cross-chain. The mechanism can realize encrypted asset transfer and arbitrary information transmission between heterogeneous networks. The current valuation is $25 million, and intended investors include Hashkey, Dragonfly, Binance Labs ABCDE, etc. (Expected IPO time: Q2 2024)
Topia
Topia is the first Layer2 shared data availability protocol layer, aiming to bring interconnectivity of data availability to Ethereum’s Layer2. Through the POC of cross-chain communication achieved by sharing the DA layer, Topia will achieve two goals for Ethereum’s ecology: firstly, to provide a shared DA layer specifically optimized for Ethereum Layer2; secondly, to connect the data communication between Layer2, achieving thousands of Layer2 data interconnection in the future.
Authento
Authento focuses on privacy and regulatory compliance, helping DeFi platforms, token issuers, and digital asset service providers establish trust, reduce risk, and ensure compliance through KYC/KYB/AML technology solutions.
GARAN
GARAN is the world’s first Web3 meditation platform, connecting monks and believers, helping monks to make good connections, and assisting believers in their spiritual practice. Against the backdrop of a growing global Buddhist market, GARAN uses Web3 technology to integrate and innovate Buddhist studies and meditation business, bringing users a unique meditation experience. Users can complete daily meditation activities such as chanting and praying through the built-in on-chain law body NFT on the platform, and experience vivid virtual Buddhist social interaction in the metaverse, helping to relieve anxiety, reduce spiritual consumption, and create a pure land of the mind.
Omnize
Omnize is a team of Web3 geeks. Team members are full-stack engineers with 5 to 10 years of work experience, covering all the technology stacks of Web3, such as Solidity (all EVM chains), Rust (Solana, Polkadot, Near, etc.), Go, Cpp, as well as resource-oriented Move (Sui, Aptos) and Candence (Flow).
Omnize is the initiator of the EIP-6358 proposal — the total ledger protocol — and its solution has received grants from multiple ecosystems, including Polkadot, Near, and Flow. Omnize has also won awards at hackathons multiple times, including the Near Global Hackathon, Avalanche Asian Hackathon, Polkadot Hackathon Amazon Choice Award, HashKey & Alibaba Cloud Tokyo Hackathon Third Prize, and a Polkadot Hackathon Championship.
Ink Finance
Ink Finance is a Web3.0 financial management SaaS, a no-code infrastructure that integrates ecosystem decentralization governance, financial control, investment management, and financing management.
The project already has benchmark users in its main track (Metaverse financialization, DeFi Protocol, VC & Trading Fund on-chain, RWA on-chain). Ink Finance is an SaaS model improved based on Web3.0 concept. It has already completed the test network release, and is expected to be launched on more than 4 EVM-compatible mainnets before the end of June after completing the current security audit.
