Philippines: The next big adventure! #HBARtoManila

BenXs
HeadStarterOrg
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6 min readJun 30, 2023

The HBARbarians are heading to the El Dorado of GameFi: Manila, Philippines!

And we are involving the broad community like never before.

HeadStarter and our amazing partners will showcase the benefits of building on Hedera at AIBC Manila on July 19-22 where we feature some of the leading projects:

We’d love to see you in person at our #BuiltonHedera conference booth or at the 2 side events we’ll be organizing with our local web3 community partners on the 18th and 19th of July.

We are particularly excited to roll out special access and perks for our biggest HBARbarian community members. All events will be interactive for remote participants through livestream access: panel discussions, presentations & live interactions broadcasted live as they unfold.

Our mission in Manila:

  • Evangelize & promote Hedera and its leading ecosystem projects.
  • Onboard new users to Hedera & convert web3 people to HBARbarians.

Don’t just see us, we also want everyone to see you! Send us a video of yourself talking about your journey and experience on Hedera or present your project so everyone can see you across screens in Manila. Email your 20 secs recording links to manila@headstarter.org.

Kicking off #HBARtoManila

We are extremely thrilled to be announcing this groundbreaking partnership with some of the leading Hedera projects for a historic ecosystem collaboration that will take us all to this year’s international AIBC Asia event that will be held in Manila. The collaboration includes featured projects such as Astra Nova, Earthlings.land, Legends of the Past and Web 23 with the support of Saucerswap, Stader, Hashpack and Blade Labs.

The Philippines have consistently shown during the past years that they are a fertile ground for web3 gaming. Its growing and vibrant web3 community no doubt is a force to be reckoned with and represents a captive market for the projects we will be showcasing at our booth.

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Not only will the Hedera ecosystem and projects gain exposure to a wider community of avid web3 gamers and crypto enthusiasts, it is also a tremendous opportunity for us to seek opportunities for tech talents and facilitate exposure & capital raise.

Last but not least, while in Manila we’ll be looking to make a lasting impression and secure a more permanent footprint for Hedera builders by meeting government officials akin to tech and web3 industry leaders.

The Gist of the Details

#HBARtoManila is another ecosystem enabling initiative of driving exponential growth for Hedera’s retail and developer adoption.

Our full schedule of meetings and events around the AIBC Summit will feature engaging onboarding campaigns with the help of our wallet and partners as we’ll be distributing a large number of NFTs and FTs for new community members.

The events will be packed with educational and exclusive content. (spoiler: HeadStarter will be exclusively demo-ing the latest DeFi innovation in crowdfunding)

Past community feedback highlighted the desire to have a wider exposure and participation in Hedera themed events. With #HBARtoManila, we are going to make AIBC Manila as immersive as possible.

Together with our amazing partners we have thus compiled a unique, utility-packed, limited edition commemorative digital collection to mark the unprecedented collaboration and facilitate wide campaign engagement.

Which are these utilities? Glad you ask. Let’s find out:

The Hash Bash Vol. 1 — #HBARtoManila NFT collection

This collection of 400 NFTs is appropriately themed to showcase the trailblazing collaboration and was designed with love by some of your favourite Hedera projects to stretch the horizon of community engagement and fellowship.

Base Utility set

All 400 NFTs hold the following perks:

  • #HBARtoManila Events live stream access & interactions
  • Lottery ticket for 4 HeadStarter Select OG card NFTs
  • Lottery ticket for 4 AIBC Manila event tickets
  • Access to exclusive discord channel with hosts, participants & partners
  • Decide and design on the theme of t-shirt and event swag items

Project specific NFT Utilities

Each of the 4 partners for the event will feature unique project-specific utility for their features 100 NFTs respectively:

Astra Nova featured NFTs (100 pax)

  • Allowlist for $RVV IDO on HeadStarter
  • RVV airdrops

Earthlings.land featured NFTs (100 pax)

  • Allowlist for $STEAM token IDO on HeadStarter
  • STEAM airdrops
  • 1 Earthlings.land landplot

Legends of the Past featured NFTs (100 pax)

  • Allowlist for LOP token IDO on HeadStarter
  • Lottery ticket for 5 LOP Heaven Keys
  • Lottery ticket for 1 CLEO Legend NFT

Web23 featured NFTs (100 pax)

  • Allowlist for WEB23 IDO on HeadStarter
  • Lottery ticket for exclusive .HBAR domain names
  • Discount on select Web23 products

Price & launch details

NFT price: 500 HBAR

Token id: 0.0.3103996

NFTier: 07 July at 15:00 GMT (Sold Out)

SentX: 10 July at 17:00 GMT (Random 100 NFTs)

Kabila: 11 July at 13:00 GMT (Random 200 NFTs)

Putting Project Growth First

At the core of our mission, HeadStarter is all about nurturing the Hedera ecosystem. We facilitate this through incubation, acceleration and a number of DeFi crowdfunding products and avenues that project utility FTs & NFTs can reach the public. We also work with other web3 and Hedera partners & mentors to add key resources in getting early stage projects closer, faster to the MVP & mainnet release stage and scale up quicker through our accelerator program.

One important component of our services extends to showcasing the founders and projects we are passionate about, to real life events in front of investors, enterprise and web3 participants. In a previous medium blog, we highlighted our November 2022 event involving Karate Combat and HeliSwap along with the HBAR Foundation for an investment-focused congress in Dubai.

Giving founders the opportunity to grow their exposure further afield during such crypto focused events is undisputedly powerful. We firmly believe that it is a great time and place to rub shoulders and forge connections with the sharpest minds in the industry.

Click here if you want listen to the HeadStarter Pulse AMA Twitter spaces where we officially announce the launch the #HBARtoManila campaign together with our participating partners.

Do you want to get involved in the upcoming events that HeadStarter is organizing?
Learn more about upcoming IRL & online initiatives at https://headstarter.org/events

HeadStarter is the web3 crowdfunding platform and accelerator for the Hedera network. Learn more here: https://headstarter.org

If you want to learn more about the projects coming with us to AIBC, check them out here:

https://www.astranova.world/

https://earthlings.land

https://www.legendsofthepast.gg/

https://web23.io

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