Weekly Roundup — August 9th, 2021

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5 min readAug 9, 2021

Dear Lympo Community,

Another great week in the Lympo universe, which included the announcement of Lympo Star Tokens that we were dying to tell you about! Find all about it in this new Weekly Roundup.

Last week’s recap

$LMT — $REVV Pair on PancakeSwap

We’ve launched another liquidity pool on PancakeSwap, this time with a $LMT — $REVV pair!

We’ll continue to create more and more liquidity among Animoca Brands’ family members. Check out the $LMT — $REVV pair here.

New Lympo Athlete NFTs

Since we’ve announced quite a few new athletes joining our Lympo Athlete family, it was finally time to release some of their NFTs! So last week, we’ve released the NFT sets of these two awesome guys on the Lympo platform!

The World’s Strongest Man, Eddie “The Beast” Hall, whose announcement article can be found here.
UFC and WEC champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis, who we’ve announced via here.

The demand for these NFTs was clearly there, as Eddie’s rare NFTs were sold out in less than 15 minutes, and his Epic and Legendary NFTs were all gone before the price dropped to its standard amount of credits! Anthony’s rare NFTs went out the door even faster — in less than 5 minutes — and his Epic and Legendary NFTs were gone even sooner than Eddie’s! Go check their NFTs out on our Lympo platform!

And while you’re at it, give some love to Eddie’s tweet and Anthony’s tweet about their NFTs. Stay tuned for many more NFTs to come!

Lympo at The First Mint Fest

It was great to see our CEO @adajonuse talking about Lympo’s future at @TheFirstMint Fest, where she revealed some awesome (visual) clues about upcoming functionalities within the Lympo ecosystem. First Mint Fest hosted a ton of great speakers and awesome giveaways, with an overall amazing event atmosphere.

If you missed the event, you can rewatch Ada’s talk here (starting around 01:04:40). Does it make you as excited as we are?

Introducing Lympo Star Tokens

One of our most important announcements of the last few weeks: we’re pleased to announce Lympo Star Tokens, which are fungible multi-utility tokens based on Lympo sports athletes and celebrities.

These Star Tokens will allow their holders to interact with Lympo sports stars by voting on various decisions that they will take while being rewarded with additional Lympo Star Tokens, participate in lotteries, and win exclusive prizes. And everything will be tied together in our upcoming gaming environment! Read all about it in our official announcement article.

Onboarding the next billion to blockchain

Yat Siu, Chairman and Co-Founder of tech unicorn Animoca Brands, recently had a conversation with Joseph Tsai, the billionaire Executive Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Alibaba Group and the owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA basketball team!

Initially, Joseph Tsai was a big skeptic of the intrinsic value of crypto, but he now believes that crypto will undoubtedly be an important part of our future, which is why his family office, Blue Pool Capital, recently invested in Animoca Brands latest funding round that made them worth over US$1B!

A highly impressive discussion between two titans of industry, on what the future of digital ownership holds. Watch and/or listen to it here.

Animoca Brands at BEYOND Virtual

BEYOND is Asia’s largest and most influential tech event, aiming to surpass conventional tech expo and challenge the future of businesses. By focusing on technology innovation and its impact on various industries in current and future society, BEYOND is the global leading annual tech expo.

This year, NFTs are a central topic at BEYOND Virtual, titled THE NFT BOOM. Join Animoca Brands’ Chairman Yat Siu from August 26th and learn about the NFT frenzy with Kelly Choo from True Global Ventures, Zach Burks from Mintable, and Hikaru Kasai from Elevate Ventures! More info about the program can be found here.

Behind the scenes

Remember Ada’s talk during The First Mint Fest last week? Well, here’s an actual behind-the-scenes photo from when Ada was getting ready to speak about the future of Lympo in her “home studio” 😅

As for the next week, we will introduce one more Lympo team member!

Looking ahead

There are a few things to look forward to, so let’s start off with this: We heard you! Many community members expressed their feelings about using ETH as the currency for the new NFT minting pricing mechanism. We understand that you would prefer to use LMT instead of ETH, so when we release our next batch of NFTs, we’ll implement your feedback and change ETH to LMT instead.

As we just announced the Lympo Star Tokens, it’s the perfect opportunity to show you an image of the entire value creation chain of the Lympo ecosystem. This is how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together:

As you can see, we have a very exciting roadmap ahead of us, as Lympo will become a truly multi-faceted ecosystem of real-world sports IP, NFTs, play-to-earn gaming, and fan engagement features. 🚀

Another thing to look forward to is the Auctions, more details just around the corner! Our CEO already gave a really interesting sneak peek during the Q&A at First Mint Fest, so head over there if you’re too curious to wait for the announcement! And here’s a screenshot of something else Ada talked about during the event.