Crypto & Social Good

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   from B together I'm the founder of this project of this company great so hi hi everyone I'm Emiliano co-founder and CEO of rice vertical Farms so we're a vertical farming startup building on near I'm Felix uh also called after the new space for now nine months approximately and I started out hearing about near as a computer science student going through a music festival and we work at Studio Homes so my name

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   is Justin I'm co-founder of a project called C1 which is a guild and a Dao and actually a registered NGO in Nigeria in the very very beginning like more than 20 years ago I started in the bank in a bank in Switzerland I worked at the bank as a banker for 10 years then I changed into marketing communication then I was approached uh during covet I was shopless and I was approached by Jason

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   CFO of near if I want to onboard as an artist and he said please meet your nft and I was like okay what are you talking about I have no clue and so I started and due to the fact I always wanted to be a freelancer and also a digital nomad I saw my chance and actually I started with a project out of love I did my first nft store on Main base for Africa Byrne it's called Safety Clan and it was

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   quite successful we have over a thousand nfts in that store and through that I got more involved and yeah then it happened and I decided until then I had a job again but then I decided to create a job and start my own business and now I'm on it I would say it was a a journey both personally and from the company I've been in the space a blockchain space for around five years now and came to the let's say vertical farming angle after

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   working with energy companies and distributed energy resources such as solar and also combining these blockchain tools to make them more accessible and traceable so that was what got me into vertical farming I would say three years ago or so seeing that they have a higher energy consumption so I wanted to become part of the new ecosystem as I figured that this ecosystem was pretty early and

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   everybody's pretty approachable and through my um satisfaction of everything wrong what but uh I was really happy to um being I was supported really well and initially I wanted to learn how to code because he was pretty um is the approach for developments but I was simply not good enough to make a contribution so I just tried to figure out other ways to basically become part of the ecosystem

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   as a whole I'm a music producer um audio engineer and I've been doing that plus you know different businesses but um I got I got into the space through nxm which is another guild uh music Guild on your protocol and um through that I just kind of collaborated with people in the ecosystem met my co-founder day day did a track with him released it as an nft and me and him just kind of decided that we wanted to give away some of the

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   revenue to charity and that's what kind of snowballed everything so we we gave that to charity and then we were like ah well you know we could do this with everything that we release will be together involves a lot of education on the artist level and on the non-profit level by now we have around 150 artists like active ones I would say 100 on board literally from all over the world from Russia from Vietnam from Brazil from

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   South Africa from Uganda from Nigeria Europe we have a lot and it really differs we work with splits so every artist is uploading his artwork under his name and there are other organizations or platforms stay tuned donation for social projects but they collect the art and then divide it in the end through without or either by a normal bank transfer and I really like to give all the artists the individual credit of the art so every artist that

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    is on board receives a little story from from our side to activate his near wallet and then he can start minting the nfts in with his name what we do is community-based vertical farming will be effectively the first tokenized vertical Farm in the sense that we will be both selling plants uh through nfts but also tokenizing the Farms themselves to be able to become investable digital assets worldwide so our vision is to empower communities to deploy their own Farms to

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    feed cities and become more resilient but also to take vertical farming to the next level in terms of digitalization absolutely I wanted to know more so I just started in a tree collection since it seemed really easy to do that um the main goal was basically to trust uh since near was a climate Richard donate 25 to child labor causes and um yeah spit the rest among the artists

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    of me and go ahead and yeah since then the project has grown a lot um the Project's name is near Ocean by now formerly known as friendly sea creatures what C1 is it's a um it's a charity Foundation that helps to develop free art programs for the less fortunate helps to onboard people into the um you know web 3 space and give people um who wouldn't normally have the the chances to um have a source of Revenue

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    so that's kind of what we do in a nutshell um it's it's a art programs that act as a natural onboarding mechanism of web3 I chose near because first of all I started with that it's because of yes scene of course and but also the the green aspect of it and I as I mentioned in the beginning I worked in the project South called the green nfts and through that I also learned that they are supporting project

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    for South Pole and regards reforestation to compensate the carbon footprint and when I started a project with Africa Byrne safety Clan I had to choose a blockchain that is working in that area because we are a community at Africa burn that we try to be sustainable with do not leave any Trace in the desert when we go to that artistic Gathering and yeah that's the reason why I would say two key points again or three

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    one of them is uh like very very uh obvious that near is a climate neutral blockchain right um yeah given its integration with South Pole and and the advancements of the technology of the technology and shorting it allows us to to operate in a very efficient manner both costly in terms of cost and in terms of uh energy expenditure so that's that's one and truly aligns with our values right secondly

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    um so the regional notes happening uh within the mirror ecosystem there was also one in Lisbon right so it's a solid community in Lisbon so us being Lisbon based um it was a perfect match of of a strong protocol that is already with a solid base impressions in Lisbon and and thirdly I would say the the great community and the support from all the time the foundation yeah the whole experience was just very further coming and uh

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    every day I interacted with these people more I wanted to be part of the ecosystem a bit more then I mean I wouldn't probably do it as near Rosemont carbon neutral so yeah I I wasn't really sure on the environmental impact of other blockchains so I avoided the interaction with them because I didn't know how much negative impact on the environment I was actually are closing building on near is um

18. 9:21

    well for me it's the first blockchain that I was introduced to so it's kind of like I'm very near Centric in that way I don't hold anything else but uh the the transaction fees the gas fees you know are less than like a penny um so it's the speed and it's the um it's the cost you know especially when you're dealing with um communities that don't have a lot of uh funding um yeah it's easy to get involved in this

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    blockchain rather than the theory