November Updates: Lisbon and New York “Blue Wave”, Africa DAO & Day ONE
In November, the Harmony team and ecosystem engaged with hundreds of partners in Lisbon, New York City, and Miami. We also launched our Africa DAO. Lastly, we will be hosting a year-end event DAY ONE in San Francisco on December 8th to celebrate the entire ecosystem.
Read our November highlights below. Follow us @harmonyprotocol to stay in touch.
Project Highlights
DAY ONE: Web3 Festive Moments — come to our event on December 8 in San Francisco to celebrate 2021 and look forward to all things Web3 in 2022. We welcome everyone to bring your NFT friends and DAO it together! Register at harmony.one/web3.
ONE Africa DAO — The Harmony Africa DAO has launched “to organically reinforce the Harmony African ecosystem, making it a key player on the African continent.” OneAfricaDAO’s first meet-up has already been scheduled in Nairobi and we look forward to supporting an entire continent of builders.
Wyoming Blockchain — Stephen Tse, Harmony Founder, has been appointed to serve on the University of Wyoming Center for Blockchain and Digital Innovation (CBDI) Advisory Board. His mentoring and presence shall further the Wyoming University’s efforts to accelerate the future of blockchain economy.
Cross-chain NFT bridge — has been launched on mainnet. Users may bridge standard ERC721/ERC1155 tokens from Ethereum to Harmony and vice versa. It is an important step of the cross-chain infrastructure provided by Harmony to enable a multi-chain ecosystem and one step closer to the upcoming metaverse. We also have allocated $13M in grants for creators and artists to work on multi-chain NFTs.
Product Launches
Synapse Protocol — Harmony integrated with Synapse Protocol to provide a seamless on-ramp for users to bridge their assets from 6 EVM-compatible chains in Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, and others. Synapse is also an AMM with nearly $600M in TVL which brings deep liquidity to Harmony users.
Stake DAO — Harmony joined forces with Stake DAO, a multi-service DeFi platform to facilitate staking and delegating of ONE tokens. Stake DAO will be working on launching a full suite of DeFi products within the Harmony ecosystem.
Tranquil Finance — has launched as an algorithmic money market protocol. They allow the ONE community to lend and borrow assets in a permissionless way, driving liquidity into the ONE ecosystem.
Powerpool — Harmony partnered with Powerpool to build a suite of advanced investment products and/or asset management solutions. They plan to build the ‘$ONEDEFI’ token — a single investment token to access all the bluechip DeFi tokens on Harmony. $ONEDEFI is actively-managed and automatically harvest rewards.
Gaming Spotlights
Blockchain Game week AMA — Harmony’s metaverse is also growing. We organized an AMA series with four upcoming blockchain games on Harmony.
Defi Kingdoms — is a play to earn game built on Harmony, with a whole ecosystem including a Decentralized Exchange (DEX), its native $JEWEL token and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) that consists of Heroes, Equipment, and Kingdoms (NFT land), all delivered in a fantasy pixel-based format. These NFTs are one of the key features in the game. As they are assigned to go on quests, battle in PVP, or dressed up in gear to maximize their stats, they’ll be leveling up and earning you tokens through the whole adventure.
Freyala — recently funded as a Harmony grant for their development of Cryptids, Freyala ($XYA) is an HRC-20 token built to drive everything in the Freyala ecosystem, ranging from plot NFTs to the multiplayer game CryptIDs. They have created an entire fantasy world, which showcases a map filled with different locations that represent certain features in the ecosystem, world-building and art.
Space Misfits — originally launched on the ENJIN blockchain, Space Misfits has recently received a grant to port their ERC20 Token over to Harmony. Space Misfits is a sandbox MMO with an emphasis on letting players create and experience their own journeys. The game contains challenging PvP gameplay and immersive escapism — but what you experience, create, and do in-game has zero effect outside of your chosen server.
Crypto Royale — is a browser-based, free-to-play, play-to-earn game in which players compete to win crypto with no up-front investment, downloads, or signups. The game is purposefully designed to be simple to play yet difficult to master.
Events & Announcements
LISCON — our team gathered in Lisbon to partner with builders, creators, dreamers, and the crypto community. The Harmony team spoke to over 100 Web3 builders to plan out products and campaigns.
NFT NYC — we were in NYC during the NFTNYC week to launch our billboard video titled “Create Wealth in Harmony’’ in Time Square. Over 200 individuals donned the ‘Harmony’ Blue shirts as “Blue Wave’’ took over Time Square. In addition, for our ONEdreamerDAO, the 50 scholars and builders we funded to go to the event gathered at open cafes to meet and find their future collaborators. ONE Reality artists and creators gathered at the NFT gallery and the Stranger Party. And we had showcases of Gmunk, daVinci, and Timeless on Harmony.
Harmony Hour — A Harmony & MonoX event at Casa Florida, an outdoor venue featuring a 1969 GM bus converted to a cocktail lounge. Our community joined to talk DeFI, DAOs, NFTs, Play-2-Earn, grants and more.
Dcentral Miami — We will be hosting several events during the Dcentral Miami conference starting on 30 November 2021. Join our team in Miami.
DAY ONE — 2021 has been the year of all things Web3. To celebrate and step into 2022, we are hosting DAY ONE in San Francisco on December 8 to discuss bridges, DAOs, cross-chain NFTs, P2Es, and more. Register for the event to meet us in California!
Travel Scholarships to DAY ONE — We are thrilled to be sponsoring 25 students to our year-end DAY ONE event in San Francisco. We will sponsor new talent who need just a little impetus to start fully working in Web3. Apply for the scholarship.
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