AMA with CryptoNesia Global: How Stars to Heal is set to become an Iconic Platform for Social Impact
Stars to Heal CEO Max Burgio joined the AMA episode hosted by CryptoNesia last Nov. 30, 2021. Stars to Heal is a social impact community of charity and lottery promoted by celebrities, star athletes, and sports teams. While celebrity fundraisers may not be new, Max shared about the uniqueness of the project and how it is set to become an iconic platform for charities and lotteries. He replied candidly to Twitter and the CryptoNesia Global Chat channel in the live Q&A segment. Brandon Sivret, StrongNode’s VP of Operations was also present to support Stars to Heal, an incubated project under Tkyo Labs and powered by Strongnode.
Learn more about Stars to Heal in these highlights from the Stars to Heal x CryptoNesia Global Chat AMA episode below. Amanda hosted the AMA session which consisted of 4 segments, namely:
- Introduction
- Questions from AMA host
- Questions from Twitter
- Questions from Telegram
INTRODUCTION:
Max Burgio: Hello, CryptoNesia community. My name is Max Burgio and I am the CEO of Stars to Heal, a social impact community of charity and lottery promoted by celebrities, star athletes, and sports teams. I am from Italy where I hailed from a family famous for the Antique Art Galleries. During my younger years, I was able to connect and interact with celebrities, fashion icons, and royalties thanks to my involvement in upscale restaurants and clubs around the world, especially the one opened up for the Millenium jet-set called “Float” in Times Square, NYC. This experience expanded my global hospitality connections that eventually led to the creation of Stars to Heal.
It is my pleasure to be here today.
Brandon Sivret: Greetings, my name is Brandon Sivret. I am the CEO of Original Gamer Life, a Thriving-as-a-Service social impact gaming ecosystem, and also the VP of Operations of StrongNode.io, an infrastructure-as-a-Service tech company and innovation lab. I am representing StrongNode and I’m here to support our partner, Max Burgio, CEO of Stars to Heal, a social impact community of charity and lottery powered by StrongNode, and another incubated project under the Tkyo Labs similar to OGLife.
I am a 13-year veteran of the US Air Force, having medically retired at the rank of Major where I deployed twice experiencing a variety of career fields from Security Forces (military police) to Space Operations along with Nuclear ICBMs and ending my time as an Intelligence Officer. I served as a deployed Director of Operations for an Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron and a liaison to the US Army, NATO, GCC, and the Office of then US Vice President Joe Biden.
SECOND SEGMENT: Questions from the AMA host
Amanda | CryptoNesia: We want to know more about Stars to Heal. Can you briefly describe to us what is Stars to Heal?
Max Burgio: Stars to Heal is a global venture partnering with celebrities and professional sports teams to support worthy causes and charities worldwide through a unique blockchain-powered reward system enhanced by lottery draws. It is another component of the StrongNode ecosystem, which drives user acquisition and adoption, allowing users to earn in multiple ways. It exists within the same multiverse and ecosystem as OGLife enabling gamers to extend the functionality of that community and engage in charitable causes furthering the social impact mission. Each project has its dedicated developers and engineers creating a blockchain agnostic economy furthering the utility of crypto.
Our overall ecosystem is designed to draw in non-crypto users through concepts and business models that are familiar and comfortable to the crypto space. That means more wallets and users for everyone on the blockchain.
Q2. As we all noticed, there are so many new projects recently launched. Do you have any competitors? If yes, can you explain to us, what makes Stars to Heal different from other competitors?
Max: Celebrity fundraisers are not new but Stars to Heal has so many unique features. For instance, our donors get the chance to participate in an innovative compound wealth creation program where they can grow their money, allowing them not only to earn but do more good. In other words, donors are incentivized and motivated to support more worthy causes. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We have a lot of interesting offerings not only for the celebrities who are in search of an efficient, secure, and reliable fundraising platform but also for their fans and donors willing to support their efforts and charitable causes.
Here at Stars to Heal, we are on a mission to empower and support worthy causes and charities worldwide through a unique blockchain-powered reward system enhanced by lottery draws with the help of our celebrity partners, sports teams, and more.
We also leverage our relationships, experience, and partnerships both within crypto and in conventional industries to deliver greater utility and functionality to our users.
THIRD SEGMENT: Questions from Twitter
Q1: Most users only care about immediate benefits rather than the real value of the project in the long term. How can your project convince users to invest in your platform in the long term?
Max: The Stars to Heal ecosystem revolves around the $STARS token. To assure growth and stability for the value of the token, we are implementing several features to turn buyers into long-term investors. The LuckyPot lottery, for instance, will generate passive yields through staking. This incentivizes holders not only to participate in the lottery to drive engagement but also to commit to long-term holding to reduce selling pressure on the token.
Another valuable feature of $STARS is the monthly/weekly lottery itself. Not only do you get passive staking gains, but you also get a chance to win a big jackpot lottery every ten days. This further incentivizes investors to HODL and accumulate more tokens because of the increased chances of them winning the lottery.
Q2: What is the main vision of the Stars to Heal Project? How will you explain the Stars to Heal project to non-tech people in simple words?
Max: We are uniting the powerful dynamics between celebrities and their fanbase to transform how both charities can get funded and fans/donors can generate wealth while doing good. By integrating innovative blockchain technologies, Stars to Heal also expands the total footprint of where and how participants can engage in what could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Q3. What solution does Stars to Heal bring to the blockchain world? What are the advantages of the project compared to other projects?
Max: Stars to Heal ecosystem revolves around the $STARS token. To assure growth and stability for the value of the token, we are implementing several features to turn buyers into long-term investors:
Our LuckyPot lottery, for instance, will generate passive yields through staking. This incentivizes holders not only to participate in the lottery to drive engagement but also to commit to long-term holding to reduce selling pressure on the token.
Another valuable feature of $STARS is the monthly/weekly lottery itself. Not only do you get passive staking gains, but you also get a chance to win a big jackpot lottery every month/week. This further incentivizes investors to hold and accumulate more tokens because of the increased chances of them winning the lottery.
Q4. Data protection is the foundation of Stars to Heal. How can Stars to Heal ensure the security of user identities? How does the Stars to Heal Ecosystem work?
Max: Stars to Heal is leveraging the new distributed ledger model to track transactions and to ensure donations are properly used. We are committed to making the charity sector more transparent. Through blockchain, an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value such as currency and data. Blockchain offers transparency, immutability, and security that are crucial to the integrity of fundraising.
Not to mention, our data information will be protected by IBM Blockchain technology, the most secure data structure in the world as it is designed to protect banks and financial institutions globally.
FOURTH SEGMENT: Questions from Telegram
Melina Renata: What is the business model of your project? How does it work? And who are your potential customers and which markets are you targeting? Is your project a local or a global project?
Max: Dear Melina, Stars to Heal will generate different business models from the crypto structure, and when we will launch stage two of the project running fundraising campaigns for celebrities and their charities generating NFTs contracts which will benefit the token holders, and gaining management fees, also if they’ll be in the lower single digits, to run a global social media platform to reach the world awareness.
Oleta Wiles: Non-crypto user is very important for mainstream adoption. How you are planning to attract non-crypto users to your project? Is there any upcoming partnership that will bring non-crypto users and real-use cases?
Brandon: We have a whole ecosystem between StrongNode and OGLife that allows us to engage in user adoption and acquisition. OGLife focuses on gamers and onboarding them into crypto. Stars to Heal extends the charitable activities and social impact of our other projects. This social impact element will appeal to users to do more and give utility and incentives to participate to do good through blockchain.
