#NFTsummer A few weeks ago, we interviewed Xixi Huang (AW#17) in Mandarin and as the AppWorks Fellow who helps us out on the blockchain side, Xixi has a lot of ideas that are worth sharing to a bigger audience. Here's his interview in English:
西西 (Xixi) 黃士晉 is an AppWorks #17 alumni and co-founder of Rydeit. His mission is to bring the applications of blockchain to everyday life because he believes that blockchain can make the world a more fair and better place. As an AppWorks Fellow, he is responsible for guiding founders to think about blockchain and providing insights on blockchain-related investment deals. Before AppWorks, he led his previous team to build more than 10 dapps, including famous games in Taiwan such as 柚子打魚 and Shrimp.Finance. Within a month of launching these games, they had amassed over NT$ 100M (~US$ 3.5M) in transactions. His favorite pastime is traveling with his grandma, and his ultimate goal is to persuade her to buy Bitcoin!
Check out what Xixi has to say about blockchain and NFTs.
#NFTevolution
I started to learn how to write smart contracts in 2016, and learned the entire logic of ERC-20 for tokens and ERC-721 for NFTs. While I was learning about NFTs, I realized that the combination of NFTs with video games was very fitting. In video games, the treasure and equipment you collect becomes virtual assets as NFTs. And the process of using smart contracts to exchange items was very efficient on the blockchain.
At the end of 2018, I designed and created a zombie video game, integrating the concept of playing and drawing cards and packs. Within a pack were 3 NFTs with zombies on them. As a player, the more cards with zombies you collect, the higher your score, and the more tokens you can ultimately earn. From this game, I got connected to other game manufacturers and publishers who were also interested in creating virtual game assets through NFTs. We all had the same idea -- NFTs can bring more meaning and value to the players.
However at the time, many people in the market still believed that tokens and games were riddled with fraud. Since the lifecycle of video games can be short, many traditional gaming companies in the end didn’t find it worthwhile to learn how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their games.
While the nature of NFTs hasn’t changed, the market has evolved. People’s curiosities are growing, more applications are being developed, and more creators are cropping up. I think now is the right time to start talking to companies about how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their businesses or games.
#NFTplayground
I think there are many opportunities to start a business these days, and people who want to start one should think about coming to blockchain. Not only is there a huge opportunity but the possibilities are endless. And within blockchain, NFTs currently offer the biggest opportunity. However, it can also pose a new challenge to the team’s endurance, because while easy to obtain traction and users with NFTs, the challenge lies in retaining them.
Similar to other blockchain applications in the past few years, when a new concept is invented, it’ll be flushed with many early users. However, because the surrounding infrastructure wasn’t in place, it was difficult for founders to make valuable extensions or applications. And many of these users don’t actually care about these blockchain products and they are only trying to leverage the ecosystem to make a quick buck. Once they earn all that they can, they will move on to another project.
Right now working on NFTs, you can collect a lot of data in a short amount of time and also make some income to keep you afloat. Founders should seize this opportunity to understand these users, then modify and optimize both their products and mentality to retain them.
Since there’s no geographical restriction on blockchain, I would encourage founders to look beyond your country and region in expanding your NFT products. Also, since blockchain is closely related to finance, if you don’t have a good pricing strategy (or token economics) for your NFT products, the prices might fluctuate greatly. You need to be prepared and remind your users of the risks, otherwise you’ll ultimately get scolded!!
#NFTera
This year, I finally consider myself an official NFT collector. I pay special attention to NFTs with contemporary significance, such as Hashmasks. It signals to the public that NFTs are not just for collecting but that game mechanics can also be applied to interact with users. If we look back ten years from now I’m confident to say that the project that really brought the NFT wave in 2021 would be Hashmasks.
In addition to veteran projects like Hashmasks, other collections I care a lot about are related to Metaverse, such as The Sandbox. I believe that the world will become more and more decentralized and virtual. It is very likely that the next generation will be immersed in a virtual world like Ready Player One, so I am also very optimistic about NFTs in digital worlds like The Sandbox.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to NFTs. Right now, few NFTs are connected with our daily lives. For example, I bought a Hashmask. If I want to show it in my apartment, I might still need to print it out. In the future, how will we connect NFTs to the physical world? I believe they can be applied in many ways, including frames, wallets, cars, house deeds, leases, etc. These products in daily life can be combined with NFTs. We just haven’t opened our imagination yet. It’s hard to imagine that only 20 years ago we were having a hard time believing in the power of the internet.
The development of science and technology not only relies on infrastructure, but also the user's learning curve. The world needs to talk about blockchain more, so that everyone will gradually become familiar with it and it’ll continue to evolve.
If you're a founder working in blockchain or NFTs, welcome to apply to AppWorks >> https://bit.ly/3w0WyIl
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過2萬的網紅Esther Lee,也在其Youtube影片中提到,女性力量 由放下開始 ~ [相聚一刻] ep186 播出:2017年12月18日, 8pm 嘉賓:Joy Fok, 世界旅行者, 紀錄片製片人 主持:Esther Lee 監製:Weller Choi, Tony Chau 場地:匯智社 要令一個女人開心,談何容易?一個女人如何能令自己快樂、幸福,...
responsible meaning 在 Facebook 的精選貼文
閱讀筆記: PANDEMIC!
Perhaps an epidemic which threatens to decimate humanity should be treated as Well’s story turned around: the “Martian invaders” ruthlessly exploiting and destroying life on earth are we, humanity, ourselves; and after all devices of highly developed primates to defend themselves from us have failed, we are now threatened “by the humblest thing that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth,” stupid virus which just blindly reproduce themselves – and mutate (13).
The really difficult thing to accept is the fact that the ongoing epidemic is a result of natural contingency at its purest, that is just happened and hides no deeper meaning. In the larger order of things, we are just a species with no special importance (14).
In the last days, we hear repeatedly that each of us is personally responsible and has to follow the new rules. Media are full of stories about people who misbehaved and put themselves and others in danger, an infected man enters a store and coughs on everyone, that sort of thing. The problem with this is the same as the journalism dealing with the environmental crisis: the media over-emphasize our personal responsibility for the problem, demanding that we pay more attention to recycling and other behavioral issues. Such a focus on individual responsibility, necessary as it is to some degree, functions as ideology the moment it serves to obfuscate the bigger questions of how to change our entire economic and social system. The struggle against coronavirus can only be fought together with the struggle against ideological mystification, and as part of a general ecological struggle (88-89).
There is a key difference between the coronavirus epidemic and the ecological crisis. In the health crisis, it may be true that humans as a whole are “fighting” against – even if they have no interest in us and go their way from throat to throat killing us without meaning to it (111-112).
Materiality, usually conceived as inert substance, should be rethought as a plethora of things that from assemblages of human and nonhuman actors (actants)-humans are but one force in a potentially unbounded network of forces (113).
★ The coronavirus epidemic can be seen as an assemblage of a (potentially) pathogenic viral mechanism, industrialized, agriculture, fast global economic development, cultural habits, exploding internal communication, and so on. The epidemic is a mixture in which natural, economic, and cultural processes are inextricably bound together . . . as humans, we are one among the actants in a complex assemblage; however, it is only and precisely as subjects that we are able to adopt the “inhuman view” from which we are (partially, at least) grasp the assemblage of which we are part” 117).
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More so than #iPhone and #OLED #TV #panels, the improved profitability of traditional #LCD panels was primarily responsible for #LGD’s (LG Display) return to profit in 3Q20.
Although LGD can’t quite match its Chinese competitors in LCD panel manufacturing, the company was still able to see consistent returns on its LCD TV panel business owing to a market-wide panel price surge caused by high demand in 2H20.
On the other hand, LCD #IT panels had long been one of LGD’s standout competencies due to not only the company’s industry-leading IPS technology, but also the longstanding relationship with its clients.
As the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a high demand for IT products, LGD benefitted from the corresponding steady growth in the profitability of its IT panels.
Going forward, the upward trajectory of panel demand is expected to persist throughout 4Q20, meaning panel manufacturers such as LGD are likely to continue making improvements in profitability.
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女性力量 由放下開始 ~ [相聚一刻] ep186
播出:2017年12月18日, 8pm
嘉賓:Joy Fok, 世界旅行者, 紀錄片製片人
主持:Esther Lee
監製:Weller Choi, Tony Chau
場地:匯智社
要令一個女人開心,談何容易?一個女人如何能令自己快樂、幸福,甚至成為女性領導?你是否付出太多,以致乾枯了都不知道?你有把自己的需要、感覺放第一位嗎?你是否照顧別人,多過自己?你是否為其他人付責任?
今集,我們為你講女性的福祉,如何取得平衡?之致得到真正的幸福,遇見真正的自己。
基本上,大多數女性實際上是女強人,甚麼是女強人?我們經常會照顧身邊的每一個人,我們的家庭成員、父母、伴侶、孩子,還有,我們的團隊…。而且,我們經常把自己的需要運想要放在最後。這次,我們的嘉賓,Joy Fok, 一位世界級的旅行家和紀錄片製片人,她經歷了很多,我們都經歷了很多,才找到自己,甚麼是真正負責任?只要好好管自己的事,而不是試圖拯救世界或親人。
我們如何理清負責?甚麼是真正的愛,關心和付出?我們什麼時候該停止?我們應該在哪裡劃出”健康界線”呢?我們有很多人,只是付出、付出、付出,而不知道我們的企圖心是甚麼?是內疚?想扮演”拯救者”?做了別人媽媽的角色?到底為什麼?
我們從過去幾十年的生活中學到了很多智慧,才懂得先愛自己,把自己放在第一位。我們提出了七個成為一個幸福的女人的鑰匙,甚至成為是一個女性領袖。而且,如何活出豐盛的生活?
1)做你喜愛做的事情,不要妥協;
2)先照顧好自己的需要,將自己放第一;
3)自己沒有的,是不能給別人的;
4)你願意放棄”某些事”嗎?
5)你是否對自己太苛刻了?
6)需要時,要求幫助吧!
7)以自己的方式享受生活。
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Basically, most women are actually super women. We used to take care of every one around us, our family members, our parents, our partner, our children, our team… and very often, we put us at the end of the queue. Joy Fok, our guest this time, a world traveller and TV producer, and I had gone through a lot, to find ourselves, to be truly responsible, meaning care about our own business, and not trying to rescue the world or our loved ones.
What is your “Abundance Level”? How do we distinguish between being responsible? Being loving, caring and giving? When should we stop? Where should we draw the line of healthy boundary? Many of us just give, give, give, without knowing where we come from, such as guilt, playing rescuer, mothering others or what?
We have learned so much from our past decades of life, and come to love ourselves, and put ourselves first and foremost. We have come up with 7 Keys to Be A Happy Woman, even a woman leader. And, how to lead a lif of Abundance?
1) Do what you love only, do not compromise;
2) Take care of ourselves first and foremost;
3) You can’t give have we don’t have;
4) Are you willing to give up “something”?
5) Are you being too harsh to yourself?
6) Ask for help when you need to;
7) Enjoy life in your own terms.
Enjoy our interview!
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