36 Participating Teams Assembled! Hong Kong Web3 Festival Reveals “Web3.0 Demo Day” Agenda

Co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organised by W3ME, the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 will take place from April 12 to 15.

HONG KONG, April 9, 2023 — We are pleased to announce “Web 3.0 Application Demo Day” for the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 will be hosted on April 14–15 on the sub-stage 1 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Web 3.0 Demo Day is co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, with Cyberport as the supporting unit, and ETHVC and MetaWeb Ventures providing technology support.

As a major event of the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023, Web3.0 Demo Day will showcase the latest developments and technology achievements in the thriving Web3 application ecosystem. Renowned investment institutions that have confirmed attendance include:

(Listed in the order of speakers’ keynote speeches)

· Crypto.com Capital

· Fenbushi Capital

· Gaorong Capital

· Hashed

· HashKey Capital

· Incuba Alpha

· NGC Ventures

· North Beta Capital

· Qiming Venture Partners

· SevenX Ventures

· SNZ

Leading Web3 venture capitals and investment institutions will provide targeted advice and guidance for outstanding shortlisted projects during the two-day event. Click https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/web30-demo-day-tickets-598421734517 to register for enter the Web3.0 Demo day event venue and get face-to-face networking opportunities with top VCs and Web3 project teams!

A total of 36 oustanding Web3 projects stood out from nearly 200 application teams and were successfully shortlisted. Shortlisted projects cover a wide range of Web3 technology fields including Web3 infrastructure, DeFi, NFT, social media, gaming, education, and public blockchains. The second batch of shortlisted projects are as follows: 30sec, Bracket Labs, CIVIA, Derivio, Edu3.⁰³, Elven, HAG, Hellven Metaverse, KNN3, MetaBorn, Metabox, Meta Mirror, MMMM, Neopets, Openverse, PooPooPuppy, TON, TONLend, Topia, Zebec.

30sec / 30 seconds

30sec is an app that watches ads to earn and creates a “Time Economy” model. What makes 30sec disruptive is that the fees of advertising by enterprises are not given to the media, but to the users who watch the ads. As a result, users proactively watch ads, enabling enterprises to achieve efficient and cost-effectively brand promotion, transforming the intrusive and coercive way of ad exposure, and fundamentally changing the relationship between ads and users, as they are no longer avoiding or passively accepting ads. 30sec eliminates advertising fees. In 30sec, enterprises advertise and sell, while users watch ads to earn and purchase products, creating a new token-based economic ecosystem.

Bracket Labs

Bracket Labs’ mission is to democratize financial products for all users and more specifically, mainstream leveraged structured products within DeFi. Currently the team just completed Binance Labs Season 5, coming in top 2. Backgrounds of the team members has deep crypto and tradfi backgrounds with senior leadership experience at D.E Shaw, Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Bloomberg, Consensys, DeerCreek, and more. Currently Bracket is live with 3 products on Arbitrum mainnet — Bracket, Channel and Epoch which are options strategies that benefit across high or low volatility across 10 different crypto assets.

CIVIA

Civia is a unique social wallet with real person based social recovery, enabling users to build identities, social relationships and reputations on-chain through the use of SBTs. Civia supports building an open society on-chain.

Derivio

Derivio is a LP perpetual DEX based on the margin model design inspired by GMX as the foundation for a structured DeFi derivatives hub. Derivio optimizes current GMX design by fully decentralizing its infrastrucure and introduce the concept of Market-neutral Liquidity. By leveraging the high performance of zkSync & NEAR, Derivio offers liquidity providers sustainable yield via passive market making and users the best on-chain perpetual+spot trading experience with 0 slippage.

Edu3.⁰³

Edu3.⁰³ is a platform that provides knowledge and consultation services to people, including top-notch global educational resources, legal, psychological, and strategic consulting services, ensuring that wealth and distance are no longer barriers to accessing scarce resources. Edu3.⁰³ collaborates with experienced experts in various industries to train warm robots that can listen, accompany, and engage in inspiring conversations. Technology may be cold, but its application is crucial. Edu3.⁰³ does not aim to replace humans with machines, but rather to help teachers and consultants use technology to warm the hearts of more people. Edu3.⁰³ will not release untested models, all Edu3.⁰³ robots will be warm.

The Edu3.⁰³ team currently consists of 60 members, including teachers, examiners, psychological counselors, career planners, lawyers, and strategic consultants with over a decade of experience, as well as scientists from Microsoft, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Behind each digital human, there is a team to maintain them, ensuring they are warm and capable of addressing real-world problems.

Elven

Elven is the #1 Platform on Financial Reporting & Compliance of Digital Asset. We provide transparent, compliant and auditable financial statements and special financial compliance engine with daily updates on the fair value of digital assets. We are devoted to increasing transparency and foster trust in crypto ecosystem and helping treasury wallets management, & providing daily updates on company

HAG

HAG Token is a security token based on blockchain technology, issued in accordance with US securities laws through an STO. It is the world’s first security token that permanently anchors BTC mining power and distributes WBTC as dividends on a monthly basis. Compared to direct investment in Bitcoin and stocks of Bitcoin mining companies, HAG Token has significant advantages: — Transparency and immediate distribution of profits: The Bitcoins produced each month are directly distributed to investors’ wallets through smart contracts. — Compliance: Fully filed with the US SEC and issued in strict accordance with securities laws. — Perpetual and constant computing power: A well-designed structure ensures the feasibility of creating long-term value for assets.

Hellven Metaverse

Hellven Metaverse is a paradise for new generation of crypto and gaming enthusiasts based on Arbitrum. Hellven is building a creators’ metaverse around game, social, 3D space and virtual assets with $2 million investment. When users enter Hellven, they can not only experience gaming but also auction, mint and socialize in 3D space with various events. We aim to create a truly open, free and innovative platform that provides a more diverse social experience, and more economic opportunities in a broader digital world.

KNN3

KNN3 Network is a one-stop Web3 User-centric DataFi solution for d/Apps and smart contracts. KNN3 allows d/Apps & smart contracts to interact with cross-platform user-centric data in multiple algo-friendly ways.

MetaBorn

MetaBorn is the World’s First AI-Generated 3D Avatar Protocol. It combines the highly-composable 3D avatar with a universal crypto identity. You can create highly personalized avatars from your selfie or NFT, which can be easily customized by users and integrated in different social/game apps, and evolve based on on-chain stats using powerful AI.

After publishing the 3D avatar with decentralized identity, MetaBorn will open its cross-Metavarse protocol for more content producers to connect to MetaBron’s ecosystem.

Metabox

Metabox is a multi-chain Web3 storage protocol developed by the Mixlabs team, aimed at providing developers with a programmable storage space, supporting customized read and write for dynamic and static data of individuals and applications.

Currently, the Metabox protocol supports multi-chain identity storage and payments for ETH, IC, Aptos, and more, as well as encrypted data sharing and multi-user collaboration. Based on the Metabox protocol, developers can build a variety of application scenarios such as decentralized social networking, data markets, and streaming media players, empowering users to control their data sovereignty. Our goal is to provide developers with more convenient, secure, and flexible data storage and interaction methods, and to co-build a large-scale composable Web3 application ecosystem with the community.

Meta Mirror

Meta Mirror is a decentralized meta-universe e-commerce platform, dedicated to building the largest anime NFT trading platform in Asia for Generation Z. Meta Mirror’s NFT issuer uses smart contracts generated by the IPFS protocol. All transactions on the platform are settled in RMB, and the platform uses diversified anime IP to create a consensus community, combined with physical utility rights, allowing the business to form a circular economy and help promote the development of the industry. Meta Mirror NFT e-commerce platform will work with users and publishers to form the Meta Mirror-Verse interaction matrix, helping more companies enter the WEB3 world through blockchain technology while allowing more users to understand blockchain and NFT through the Meta Mirror platform.

MMMM

MMMM is a Web3-based social-fi and creator-fi entertainment dApp that aims to combine Web3 with the music ecosystem, providing a decentralized music entertainment world for music enthusiasts. It also offers fundamental support through its original AI intelligent scoring system and AI anti-cheating system.

Neopets

Neopets.com is a browser-based virtual pet game launched in 1999, attracting over 150 million players across the globe and with over 1 million monthly active users still playing to this day. Having obtained ownership of the IP, our team aims to revitalize the legendary Neopets game and restore it to its former glory. As part of this vision, we are building a web3-enabled Neopets Metaverse leveraging blockchain technologies and digital ownership to enhance user engagement and create an immersive gaming experience.

Openverse

OPENVERSE-Snowpaw Technologies, a cutting-edge creative company, focuses on Avatar technology (VAOH 娃偶™️). With cross-industry backgrounds partners and talented staffs in Singapore US and China, they collaborate with world-class IPs and brands to develop 3D internet products. The core team, from renowned internet firms, employs AI algorithms to create distinctive virtual WaWou avatars. They offer an AIGC-stylized platform for easy avatar creation and foster a virtual-real interactive community through personalized generative dialogue. Embrace uniqueness by cultivating one-of-a-kind VAOH 娃偶™️.

PooPooPuppy

PooPooPuppy is a Web3 Social Game based on AR and LBS Technologies. Users can communicate verbally, nurture, train and play games with their NFT AI puppy companions in Augmented Reality. They can also walk their puppies outside to collect rewards and socialize.

TON

The Open Network (TON) is a revolutionary technology to unite all blockchains and Web2 internet into one open network. It was born to empower billions of Telegram users with genuine Web3. Originally introduced by the Telegram team inheriting its freedom and openness ethos, it has been run as an open-source community project since 2020. TON’s layer-1 architecture is designed to scale up to 2 to the power of 32 workchains, each of which can be subdivided into up to 2 to the power of 60 shardchains. It can support millions of transactions per second near-instantly.

Telegram has helped people stay connected. TON will transform the communities into economies. Learn more: https://www.ton.org

TONLend

TONLend is the decentralized commercial bank to provide financial services on TON integrated to 700M telegram users and third world bankless with frictionless and interoperable financial infrastructure for billions of population in the near future. We will build a universe of infrastructure and DeFi ecosystem with key partners to onboard billions of real-world users with best UX in web3.

Topia

Topia is the first dStorage Layer2 solution. Topia will greatly improve the interoperability of smart contracts and distributed storage, scale Ethereum’s Key-value data storage capabilities while significantly reducing data storage costs. Ultimately achieve fully on-chain applications and personal data sovereignty.

Zebec

Zebec is developing the first multi-chain ecosystem for streaming finance; offering solutions such as Per-Second Payroll, Per-Second Token Distribution and Token Vesting in both the Solana and BSC ecosystems (with more to come). We are also rolling out the first Mastercard-backed Solana Debit Card in over 20 countries, as well as launching Nautilus Chain, a new L3 staging chain for developers to build payment and financial infrastructure applications and protocols.

Want to know more? Check out our latest event agenda, speaker and partner line-up here.

Purchase tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/hong-kong-web3-festival-2023-tickets-531397453087

Contact the Organiser: w3@blockchain.org

About the Web3 Festival

The inaugural Hong Kong Web3 Festival (12–15 April) is a virtual asset-focused conference co-hosted by the HashKey Group and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and organised by W3ME at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event will draw more than 10,000 offline attendees and will also feature over 100 crypto projects as exhibitors and 300 distinguished industry leaders, venture capitalists and senior executives from finance institutions as speakers. The Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 will be held in sync with the Hong Kong International Innovation and Technology Exhibition (InnoEX), organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). Together, this series of events are branded as the Business Week of Innovation and Technology (BitWeek) hosted by HKTDC.

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About Wanxiang Blockchain Labs

Funded by China Wanxiang Holdings in Sep.2015, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs is a non-profit research institution with Vitalik Buterin, Founder of Ethereum as its Chief Scientist. Aiming to accelerate socioeconomic development with blockchain technologies, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs has been gathering global experts together to research such topics as blockchain technology R&D, commercial application, industrial strategies, etc. and providing practical instructions for startups and useful references for policy makers.

About HashKey Group

HashKey Group is an end-to-end virtual asset financial services group in Asia. The Group provides a complete ecosystem across the entire virtual asset landscape, ranging from trading, custody, venture investment, technologies to Web3 infrastructure. HashKey’s senior team has decades of investment and trading experience and deep market insights gained from tier-one banks, regulators and FinTech ventures. By bringing together the most advanced blockchain research and development and technologies, HashKey identifies potential opportunities and delivers end-to-end solutions that operate within regulatory frameworks with the highest compliance standards. The Group has operations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, and extensive partnerships with FinTech and blockchain solutions providers, academic institutions and associations.