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✨Astar Community Call 003✨ Ambassador Edition!
Recorded: Dec. 5, 2022 Duration: 1:10:34Space Recording
Full Transcription
Greetings, everybody.
Hey, Vasa King.
Hey, Dustin.
Thanks for being here.
We're going to put on Vasa King.
Great, great recommendation.
Captain Tsubasa, here we go.
You will do it.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
That was the...
Oops.
We can listen to it like five more times for sure.
That was the opening version, opening song for Captain Tsubasa, the soccer-based manga turned anime, and it's fitting for right now because Japan versus Croatia is happening as we speak.
So we'll give updates on the score because I know we're all huge fans.
Well, I know I am.
Thanks again for being here, everybody.
This space is recorded.
Today we're joined by our ambassadors as well.
They'll be jumping in and talking about some updates and giving some insight into crypto, different aspects of crypto.
So thanks again.
So we'll introduce our first ambassador here, and as the other ones come up, we'll introduce them as well.
Vasa King, feel free to introduce yourself.
Yeah.
Hello.
Hello.
It's nice to meet you all.
Actually, I'm an Italian ambassador.
I joined Astro Network not long ago, if I'm not wrong, just like one month, maybe less.
And I think it's just like a huge pleasure to be part of this amazing team, to share this technology, to basically meet the team members, because I was lucky enough because I'm visiting Lisbon.
And last week, we had here Sub-Zero, which is like a huge event about the Polkadot ecosystem.
And yeah, I mean, the Twitter spaces are good, but, you know, the direct meetings, real one, it's an amazing thing.
What else?
I mean, yeah, go Astro and go Japan, I guess.
Thank you so much, Vasa King.
And so, Astro is pretty unique.
We're a very global team in general, and we have five Croatians on the team as well.
And so, obviously, we have a lot of Japanese native team members.
And so, this is a shout-out for Bobo, Mario, Dino, Sasha, and, ooh, I'm missing somebody else.
Ooh, they'll come to me.
But, shout-out to all of them.
And I'm a little splitted because they're all great guys, so I don't know who to root for.
I think I'm going to go with Japan, just because they have the sick anime based on the young captain wanting to win everything.
So, we'll get started here.
I'm just going to give some updates about the ecosystem in general, and Vasa King and whoever else wants to get any comment on those as I go through them, feel free.
So, one moment.
So, I'm Rams, for those that don't know me.
I'm the community growth lead here at Astro Network.
And, basically, I'm just going to give some updates about what's happening in our ecosystem and what to look forward to in the next upcoming weeks.
So, one of the things that you might see on our main account right here at Astro is a campaign with Grabber.
So, Grabber, which was previously called PokePad, is a tool, a DApp, that's going to be used to reward our dream users, we call them.
Basically, users who have a history of transactions online, whether it's in Ethereum or on Astro, and we can reward them, and other teams can reward these users with tokens or other tokens as well.
So, basically, airdropping them some rewards for their actions.
So, these actions can be molded by different teams.
So, Astro is molding one of these and creating a campaign around it.
If you're staked on one, two, three, four, or five DApps, you'll be rewarded with some Astro tokens.
So, this is a new campaign in general because it incentivizes and rewards these users that have been around for a while.
Obviously, different campaigns can be made to attract new users, but this one goes for the ones that are staking on DApps.
It's basically one of our main features here at Astro, where the builders can attain an income, a steady flow of income, because they've built something useful for the network and for our user base.
So, look forward to that.
Start splitting your staking.
The minimum to stake on ADApp is 500 Astro.
So, that will be the score.
We score each wallet that's staking.
And if you're staked on five, then you'll receive rewards based on how many you're staked on.
So, you receive a score.
So, more info on that this week.
Look forward to it.
I, myself, look forward to it, too.
It helps sort of spread the love and share amongst the many DApps and builders that are around.
Good time for the holidays as well.
Any comment about DApps staking, guys, and this upcoming feature?
What do you all think of it?
Well, I guess, like, the final prize could be a dinner with soda, you know, just like a super rare prize.
But actually, I really like this thing because actually it brings more, like, users, not only for the purpose of having, like, a new token to dump it,
but actually it also represents the health of the ecosystem because if you reward, like, the lawyer users, it's, like, another incentive to be, like, a part of many different DApps to understand how Astro works.
And, I mean, it's healthy for everybody, I guess.
So, of course, there's a sign for the sign.
So, I can't say anything else because I have only one vision about this one.
Oh, no, no, no, perfect.
And I've been talking to the Grabber team as well.
And some possibilities down the road are because they score each wallet, depending on the transactions they have or even the content of the wallet,
certain types of campaigns can be ran by these DApps or our sales where we check how many or what type of NFTs they have or what type of tokens they have.
So, this is all great in general.
A dinner with soda would be an amazing prize.
The top staker who's supporting everyone.
That would be funny.
So, the next thing on our update list, some quick hits, is the Candy Girl NFTs and basically our Japanese IP wish list.
This intro song that Vasuki basically recommended, which I think is great, Captain Tsubasa, is a manga.
It's a famous and well-known manga, this Captain Tsubasa, about soccer, about the team, about the relationships and friends that turned into an anime.
I now wish that that IP came to Astor and created NFTs based on the art because it's awesome.
So, that's one of my quick wishes.
But going back to Candy Girl, the Yoshitaka Amano-san project has sold out.
It's a great effort by the team, the agency of that IP, which is Twin Planet.
So, Twin Planet is the agency that's running the show for Yoshitaka Amano, the artist, and his Candy Girl art.
And this art has been introduced to NFTs and shared with the community.
So, the reveal will happen this weekend.
It was a great overall showing, selling out under 24 hours.
Especially, all things considered, during this market, type of market we're in, this is great news.
So, we congratulate that team over there and hope to see, you know, many great things happening in general.
If you're interested, please feel free to check out their Twitter, CandyGirl-NFT.
And see the art.
Already sneak peeks.
It looks beautiful.
I'm a personal fan.
And again, this is not any financial advice, but always feel free to look at art, which is free.
Did you guys buy into Candy Girl?
Anybody here holding?
Yes.
Of course.
I mean, basically, when I discovered this amazing artist, he also designed a lot of characters for Final Fantasy.
And I mean, if you have ever played a PlayStation game and Final Fantasy game, you will appreciate the art itself.
So, yeah, of course, it was like one of the first things I basically started to see how to obtain, like, a whitelist, how to join the mining process and all the rest of the things.
So, yeah, indeed, another great feature I really like, actually, we also left some NFTs, if I'm not wrong, to the community giveaways.
So, of course, if you will follow the channels, you also have a chance to basically win one of these amazing NFTs, simply participating and completing the social tasks.
Absolutely, yes.
Thanks for the reminder.
Yeah, if you want a free NFT from the team, yeah, there's some social tasks as well.
Follow the channels.
And I'm sure there's going to be more giveaways in the future.
Yeah, the artist Yoshitaka Amano has been involved with so much.
I learned throughout this month and a half that there's Speed Racer, there's the Eagle Brothers.
There's a lot of things he's worked on that I've never noticed.
And a lot of these are mangas turned into animes as well.
So, he helped create these characters, some of them, the initial renditions of these characters.
So, it's pretty fun.
And if you're a Final Fantasy fan, like Vasaking was telling us, he created, I think, almost every logo.
So, most of these logos behind the text art is one of his paintings and one of his drawings.
So, and I know there's more to that as well.
So, and the last update we have, some of the key ones, is the Revamped Ambassadors Program.
And so, some of this I'll talk, I've been mentioning it in the community calls.
Basically, for anybody that's out there that's interested in being an ambassador for ASTAR,
we sort of have this new way that we'll be getting more into this month and especially starting in January, this Revamped Program.
And what it consists of is going through tiers of ambassadorships, titles for sure.
The first tier would be a Candidate Ambassador, then Protostar Ambassador, and then an All-Star Ambassador.
So, Vasaking would fall into, especially since he's been with us and is so active, into the Protostar Ambassador tier.
And there's certain benefits to these tiers as well, a lot of social benefits.
And if you're a writer, content maker, then it can help you quite considerably.
And during this time, this type of market, it's the best time to sort of start building a resume,
if you're especially a content producer, and creating these connections.
And then the ambassador program can help you form those connections as well, especially in this space where that's if you want to grow,
if you want to build, if you want to, you know, immerse yourself in Web3, it is a nice way to do it.
So, some insights on this, and Vasaking and the other ambassadors that will join us can touch upon their experience so far,
because they are immersed in the program.
And there's other things that I won't touch upon too much.
But, in a nutshell, the candidate ambassador is your initial interest.
You're already considered a candidate, and you basically do tasks on your own leisure, on your own accord,
that will benefit ASTAR or educate people about ASTAR.
As an ambassador, myself included, I think everyone on the team can consider themselves an ambassador for ASTAR.
We aim to give information that's digestible, that's understandable about ASTAR, what it is,
what dual virtual machine means, EVM, WASM, what our plan is for the future, DApp staking.
And let me answer one question that was asked about the grabber.
Yes, you could take any DApp.
It doesn't require to stake on a specific DApp.
So, that question was asked by Leonie Sarabanda.
Thank you for the question.
Stakers can stake on one to five DApps, so not specific ones.
They'll be rewarded.
So, back to candidate ambassadors.
Yeah, just education in general.
And educating can take different forms, whether it's creating a graphic, a thread, a video, etc.
So, the candidate ambassador sort of joins this, you know, group of people who are interested in doing work for the ambassador on their behalf and their community.
So, Vasa King, which is Italian, might be, community, might be participating and helping answer questions in different social groups around ASTAR and Sheedan as well.
So, if you're interested in that, feel free to, you know, reach out to us here at ASTAR as well or leave a comment and we can contact you.
So, it's fun.
I personally enjoy it too.
There's lots of opportunities to get to know the team.
You can join, as you go through these tiers, you can join different, let's say, programs or different initiatives created.
Some of these initiatives as well can lead to other opportunities.
We can recommend you and your work and your effort to other teams looking for people from different fields to help with their teams.
So, let's say, a different parachain team as well is looking for a content writer or content, you know, a graphic maker.
We recommend.
And that's the beauty of this space.
We're here to help each other as well, especially on Polkadot.
So, interoperability doesn't just mean, you know, for parachains.
It could be for people as well.
So, the revamped ambassador program will be releasing some graphics around that.
And so, you get more understanding of how the process is.
Again, it's based all on your, you know, drive and your desire to grow.
And there's lots of opportunities.
If you're a go-setter, as they say here in the United States, if you go, go, go, create your own work, produce your own content, and demonstrate that you're willing to be an ambassador, then you will be seen and you will be heard and you will be showcased, you know.
So, that's a little bit of insight.
So, Vasa King, since you're pretty fresh in the ambassador program, I feel like I've known you for way more than a month because you're everywhere.
Tell us about your experience so far, if you don't mind.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
It's not a problem because it's like a pleasure, you know, because actually also a really, really useful thing.
It's basically having a lot of the other ambassadors, which are super friendly.
Every time you have like any kind of problem, they answer really, really quickly.
They, of course, never send you like a private message, but it's really, really useful because you have like a quick answer to your problem.
So, also, the first impact with the ASTAR community was insane for me.
So, also, with Toga, also with all the rest.
So, yeah, also, another really, really good thing is basically you can find a lot of documentations on the main site.
So, you can also make some tests.
You can also ask about the file sheet or something like this.
So, the whole like ecosystem, all the community, it's really inclusive, I may say.
And, I mean, I also read a lot about all these news coming from Japan, especially.
So, I mean, at least I can speak for myself.
I'm a huge Japan lover.
So, it's basically watching and noticing all of these amazing news related to ASTAR right now.
It gives you like a lot of, I may say, a great opinion about the project itself.
So, but the beginning, how it was, I mean, I really like this thing because ASTAR can also be used on both ecosystems.
So, if you want to basically come in from the AVM world, it's not so difficult to read all the documentation and through an amazing and really, really well organized ASTAR hub.
You can move all your ASTAR tokens to the parachain.
And from the parachain, you can basically also, you can start to understand how the Polkadot ecosystem works.
Because, at least for me, it was pretty the same.
I used mostly Ethereum, Polygon, I mean, all the AVM chains.
So, when you start to read and discover more about ASTAR, this brings me more knowledge about Polkadot ecosystem, how a different wallet works.
It's a completely new way to interact also with blockchains.
It's, I mean, it's a really step in front if you compare it to any other type of chain.
So, what I want to say with this, basically, it's super cool because with ASTAR, you can learn how to use both AVM and Polkadot.
So, it's an insane experience for you, also for your future purposes.
And, yeah, I mean, for me, it was like a shocking amount of information and documents to read.
But, actually, right now, I'm really happy because when I test some dubs or, basically, I use something like, I repeat, for testing purposes with small amount of ASTAR, it works in a perfect way.
So, I'm really happy about this experience.
The whole experience, like, from zero to join the community, to learn about, to receive a lot of help from the ambassadors, to feeling, like, so inclusive in the community.
And, finally, I also have, like, these huge rewards, like, seeing these famous Japanese artists joining the system and all the rest.
But, I guess, it's only the beginning.
So, we will see.
We will see.
Totally.
Thank you, Vasa.
It would be, for somebody joining in right now, let's say, just, I'm stepping out of the box.
I've been around, I think, a little bit, almost, basically, two years plus from the lock drop stage.
And, if you were to jump into ASTAR right now, you would be seeing famous Japanese artists, their IPs, coming to ASTAR.
You would see the number four company in ASTAR.
I'm sorry, in Japan, NTT, Docomo, joining ASTAR, using it as a Web3, you know, platform for their future endeavors.
And, the city signing with ASTAR as, like, Silicon Valleys and tech hubs for ASTAR.
And, so, I think it's an exciting time, especially, to get to know ASTAR.
And, being an ambassador can lead to, you know, more insight on these things as well.
Because, you'll be joining a monthly, you know, ambassador call with the leadership teams and the different team members from ASTAR and asking questions.
And, so, there's definitely opportunity there if you were to be, you know, if you're interested in how parachains might be working.
You know, this is just the way ASTAR works.
We're not too sure of how other parachains do it.
But, when it comes to the community and ASTAR, we do want to form that bridge, that relationship, that connection.
And, we're trying to scale it now, you know, to a bigger, to be bigger and stronger.
Especially with different communities, different language communities.
So, a little bit also that Vasa probably didn't mention is that there's a group called the LinguiStars.
Vasa, can you tell us about the LinguiStars?
Yeah, yeah.
It's an amazing group on Telegram.
And, I think we also will organize something on Discord later.
But, actually, the main purpose of this group is to basically translate and share all the knowledge about the ASTAR ecosystem globally.
Indeed, like you said before, we have, like, a really, really multicultural team.
So, we can translate it in many, many different languages.
I mean, also, the team, it's pretty, it's really, really funny.
Because, of course, right now, we can joke about the World Cup.
So, everybody have a preference or something like this.
So, it's not like a classic, you know, five, seven days work or something like this.
It's way, way, way, way fun to basically interact with the others, learn more stuff.
It's super cool.
So, the LinguiStars, it's definitely worth to join now and also on Telegram.
Yes, it's great.
They are translating the documents as we speak and being rewarded for it.
And, it's nice because there's different, you know, sizes of teams that help correct each other and review the changes, the translations that are happening to the doc.
So, having these native speakers, myself, and I confess I haven't done my translating for the Spanish side of the docs.
Hopefully, we'll make some time for that.
But, having native speakers who are tech savvy, who have been in the space, in the crypto space, translate is way different than hiring translators from outside who might not know the lingo or what's important or how something is expressed here in Cryptolandia.
So, this is an excellent initiative, especially, and if you're curious, again, just make a post, join our Discord, ask the question, like, hey, I heard about LinguiStars.
Can I get some more insight on that?
It's community, you know, pushed.
It's community driven by these ambassadors who are the community and help lead the communities.
And, they are, we'll be showcasing their, all their efforts and work here through our main account here at Astar, as well as some of our other social accounts.
So, that's something we all look forward to.
And, again, the...
Yeah, CryptoServa group is open to everybody.
So, just, like, if you want to join us to see how its group itself, we felt, like, I mean, it's not necessary to be, like, an Astar ambassador.
You can join and, basically, it became a LinguiStar first, or something else.
Yes.
No, there's, again, we have certain, I guess, they're not rules.
They're sort of, there's processes, but that doesn't mean that we have to necessarily, if there's something special you want to offer,
or there's a service that you're really looking to do for Astar to either help them grow or communicate what the mission is and the vision to a certain community,
no matter the language, just let us know.
We're open to any idea, and if you need support in that idea, let us know as well.
This space is experimental.
I think we're all here because we're risk-takers.
We believe in a technology that can help change the future.
And so, we can't limit ourselves to just what we think is correct now or what ideas we have.
So, we're open to any.
Another question asked by Leone.
Thanks again.
Concerning the ambassador program, how can an absolute noob without dev or media, et cetera, contribute?
This is a great question.
And I asked this from my own point of view.
When I first jumped into crypto many moons ago, I haven't seen many moons in general,
but the way I contributed was joining just the social channels.
So, going into Discord, into the general channel, I would read answers from team members.
It was Sota answering community questions.
It was Hoon answering these questions as well, our CTO and CEO.
And they would just be answering the questions that outside people would ask in the general channel.
And it used to be on Telegram.
Now, we've moved to Discord, where most of the activity is.
And it's easier in Discord because there's different groups and different channels.
And you could choose your interest.
Whether you're a builder and maybe you want to see what the channel is, those people are talking about, that kind of focus.
Or if it's general questions.
So, what I did when I first started in Telegram and Discord is see these type of questions.
I would learn because I would, oh, that's how you transfer from an exchange to your wallet.
Oh, you have to be careful.
I would see these answers that were being, these questions that were being asked and these answers that would be given.
And I would learn from that.
And then I would see a similar question down the road within that week or day.
Somebody, another person asked that.
And I would jump in and answer on behalf of the team.
And so, those are the type of initiatives that a noob can do.
And also, that's how I learned a lot about the project.
And this tactic really isn't just for ASTAR.
It's for any project that you're interested in.
Joining their social channels, seeing the questions that are being asked, learning about the answer.
And then having the drive to answer other questions when you see them, whether on Twitter or these social platforms.
And that's how a total noob can get into the space.
And you don't need to have any dev experience or media experience.
Obviously, you might look on Google, like, how to create a graphic.
And there's lots of free websites.
That I used to use just to help explain a concept easier to the community that I would be participating in.
And some of these ambassadors have communities or are part of communities.
The Italian community.
The Korean community that speak in their languages and communicate answers in their language.
And that's what we mean by, you know, sharing info and leading communities.
Or being part of these other communities.
So, we have ASTAR Japan, you know, Korean, Indonesian, and so on.
So, if you want to start your own community within your own country or in that specific language, feel free to.
We will support you in that as well.
If you wanted to create an event, a meetup in real life, we will support you there as well.
So, there's lots of opportunities.
It's really how far can you take it?
What's your imagination?
Capacity?
Like, how creative can you be?
And if it's a simple meetup where you just talk about ASTAR, we would be happy to do that too.
One of our ambassadors, I think it's the first ambassador really, who turned into, who eventually came to ASTAR, Toga, Mamora.
He was holding talks at a bar and presenting ASTAR at his bar.
And so, I have memories of that from years ago.
And it's quite nice just to recall all those moments.
But anyway, hope that answered your question.
And I am trying to invite the other ambassadors, but I am having a technical difficulty.
I don't know why I can't.
Sorry, DeFi guy and Chris.
I don't have the option to have you join up here.
And I'm not a noob at this, so this is why it's strange.
But yeah, Vasa, how did you first start?
Or how did you even get to know about ASTAR in general?
Oh, well, it was like a pretty weird thing.
Because basically, most of the time, I focused myself on discovering like crypto gamings or something like this.
So, it was like, I mean, the first step for everybody, I guess, it's being like really, really, I mean, you put your trust on.
I mean, right now, I think you will close the call after this on the centralized exchanges, you know.
So, it happens with me when basically I read about ASTAR on the Binance announcements channel.
And one week later, it was pretty the same, crypto.com, an AMA with SOTA.
I joined it.
I saw like the whole AMA.
I found it really, really interesting how SOTA explained the project, how was basically the behavior and all the rest.
And after that, I basically go on magic Google and start to search about ASTAR.
I found like everything.
I start to basically go deeper and deeper about the project.
I understand the technology and the idea behind it is amazing.
Because I repeat, it's also pretty the same for me.
The developers, in my opinion, are the base layer.
They are really, really way more important for the ecosystem.
So, with this data upstaking and this ecosystem, when you can basically fund your project while you're staking, for me, was like a perfect solution.
So, and just like after these three news, like one was, of course, Binance, crypto.com.
And directly the idea, which was like super, super great for me.
So, in this way, I basically discovered all the ASTAR ecosystem.
That's awesome.
And I did not know that AMAs are that powerful.
I'm going to tell SOTA to jump more, exchange AMAs.
Yeah, yeah, indeed.
I guess in the near future, we can also organize something like directly on Twitch or YouTube or something like this.
So, it's, I mean, with the internet, which is like global technology, it's really, really cool also to share.
And create like something funny for the community itself, like a social game.
I can also share the game of Hoon.
So, basically, we can use it for a social event, maybe.
But, yeah, with ASTAR, you will have like a ton of different chances to have like a huge different opportunity to also have great ideas for you.
So, you know, for me, just like, okay, I want to share the technology and we can create something online, like a YouTube channel or something like this.
I mean, YouTube stream.
For someone else, it could be like another great idea.
We can also embrace the other idea.
So, I repeat, the chances you can have to be faster are like limitless.
Awesome.
Thank you, Vasa.
And I want to take a moment here to introduce DeFiGuy and Chris and some of our other, the other two ambassadors here in our ecosystem.
And I want them to, if you don't mind, hey, guys, first of all, GM, for me, GM, for probably all of you, feel free to introduce yourselves.
We'll start with Chris.
Hi, everyone.
Thanks for giving the opportunity to speak.
My name is Chris.
I'm the African head ambassador for Pocadra and Kusamaneetwork and also Anastai ambassador.
I became pretty much involved in Anastai in September 2021.
And ever since then, I've been intrigued and fascinated by the technology and the development that's going on in the ecosystem, generally.
And that's why I began to, not just to educate myself, but also to educate the community here in Africa about the ecosystem and the use case of Anastai.
Anyway, yeah, thanks so much.
Thanks, Chris.
And apologies.
I can't see who's the speakers on my screen, but DeFiGuy has been helping me out through a different channel.
And DeFiGuy.
Hello, guys.
I'm DeFiGuy.
I'm an Aster ambassador since May.
It's a pleasure to be part of the community, you know, so I'm an ambassador from the Portuguese and Brazilian community with Bitcoin.
So we help a lot of people, you know, some CRM, you know, customer relation, talking with them, updates for all news that's happening on Aster and creating tutorials.
So it's pretty, pretty cool, you know.
And right now I'm doing, I'm doing to like analysis, visualization on Aster.
So I always talk with Dustin and all the Aster community, how I can improve and create more engagement for the community.
So it's pretty cool for be part of the team.
Thank you both for being here.
Chris, I wanted to basically get more insight because you are also a Polkadot ambassador.
Can you give us some more insight about how you view the Aster ambassador program and just in general, how you work within your, you know, space and time, what you do as an ambassador?
And I know you have some prior experience in different fields as well.
So please share your, your wisdom with us.
Okay.
Luis, thank you so much for, for the hype anyway.
Not, nothing much anyway to share about, but basically like always tell people to, you know, community.
Like for people who are trying to learn about Web3, you know, my approach has been to join a growing community and get your hands dirty, of course.
Right.
Right.
So, and that was what I did in, back in 2019 when I joined as a candidate for Polkadot and Kusama Network.
So, I began to help to educate the community and to learn as much as I could, helping out to organize events online and offline.
And so, because of my involvement and contributions and I was promoted basically to the Nankov Head Ambassador in 2020.
But ever since then, I continued to make content and to basically, what I do is community growth and management, helping out, you know, to spread the word about the ecosystem generally.
So, and in 2021, around August, one of my community members reached out to me and told me about ASTAR, Brian, Brian by name, told me about ASTAR, about the ASTAR program that I could look into if I'm interested.
So, I reached out to Martin and boom, that was how I became an ambassador for ASTAR, right?
So, and one thing I've been so much interested in about Web3 is the community, right?
Because community equals to people and people are the ones that mix up the community, right?
So, no matter the kind of product you're building, no matter how fantastic your product could be, if you don't have a strong community around your project, around your brand, it's going to be very difficult for your project to succeed in a long time generally.
So, community has been my thing and I can't stop helping to educate the community and to, you know, onboard new users and new brand into the ecosystem.
Recently, I started a podcast to further educate people who are interested in learning about Web3, generally NFT, Metaverse.
And thank you so much, Lance, for jumping on one of those episodes some time ago.
So, I'm looking forward to doing one of that in the future.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Yeah.
That's what I kind of referenced to.
The creativity, anyone's imagination can really take over.
So, Chris, you starting your own podcast, you know, inviting myself and many others, I'm sure, to contribute to your podcast.
And you taking that initiative, scheduling a call with me, explaining what to do.
That's all, you know, your personal growth, your personal brand, too.
But it also helps the community a lot.
And like you said, community is everything.
You need it, you know, for the success of your project, for the brand, for many things.
So, thank you again for your wisdom.
I know you've been around for ages.
What are you, like 121 years old, right?
Something like that.
But, yes, thank you, Chris.
So, I'm looking forward to hearing that podcast and that episode.
I probably sound funny, like I always do.
And then, DeFiGuy, just a little bit about what I've seen and what you shared with me, the visualizations that you're creating.
And using information, you know, this database, how are you going about it?
Like how, you can even talk about, you know, how you initially started making visualizations as these graphics, if you don't mind.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, there's a lot of data that you can use from, like, the Bloxplotter or even the Aster portal.
And sometimes you use, like, a little bit more complicated, like, APIs from indexing data it has on Aster.
So, you just do some query and then you have this data.
It's nice.
I think it's pretty cool.
One of the biggest names, I think, in the Polkadot ecosystem is Polkadot Insider.
You know, they're pretty cool in how they do visualization.
And I think Aster, the community is growing so much that slowly we're going to need only for us.
You know, we're going to need only visualization for Aster, all the apps that are growing.
You know, what is the, for example, the ecosystem, because one of the visualization I really like is they do all the ecosystems.
So, these are the DeFi apps.
These ones are NFTs, Dolin.
So, it's very nice to have this general idea what's happening with the ecosystem.
So, you create engagement.
People start to talk to you.
You know, it's pretty funny.
And it's pretty cool, you know.
So, in your experience being an ambassador, have you seen an uptick on how many people talk to you?
Am I your friend now?
Are we friends?
Yeah, for sure.
Like, a lot of people, for example, one of my strategies is that it's not only going to the Polkadot ecosystem.
Sometimes, you need to, like, pop the bubble and go to other's place.
You know, so, sometimes I go to other Twitter spaces that are not related to Polkadot, but are related to NFTs or DeFi.
And sometimes, I start to spread the world, you know, about Aster and Polkadot.
And that's one of my strategies, too.
You know, I think we already talk sometimes about that.
And I have this Notion website, too.
So, that I created for the community.
It's like a content aggregator.
So, people can go there, see what is, like, the best content that there's on Aster for TikTok, Instagram.
And you can use it as reference.
I think it's pretty good for the community, I think.
Yeah, absolutely.
I do agree.
Thank you, DeFi Guy.
And thank you, Chris.
And Vasa, you mentioned before, too, you went to Sub-Zero.
And I personally haven't been to too many conferences in general.
I plan to attend as many as I can in the future.
But it already feels, when you attend these conferences, these meetups, these in-person events, it already feels familial.
It already feels like you're with family.
Not just with Aster, personally speaking, but with other people in crypto.
And I think it's really unique and it's really special.
And I've only sort of experienced this only a few times because I've been to very few conferences.
But some people in this current Twitter space right now have been to many.
So, if anybody wants to speak on their experience about attending in-person events, feel free to jump in as a speaker.
Or, you know, if you want to bring up another topic, feel free to, too.
But Vasa King, how was Sub-Zero?
I know you've met some of the SART team members.
Tell us a little bit about this, what looked to be a very successful event, especially with Gavin Wood surprising everyone.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
You're right, because actually the event was an amazing thing.
I didn't expect it because I found it, like, pretty late.
So, I sent in with an email, I received, like, everything.
So, I was like, okay.
You know, because all the rest of the news was about, okay, FTX, we all are going to end, we all are broken and blah, blah, blah.
So, first thing, when you join the event itself, it's just like a bubble.
You stay, like, inside this amazing, amazing, like, let me say, micro universe, something like this.
And everybody proposes only, like, solutions, proposes ideas.
Nobody speaks about pump and dumps and basically scammers and something like this.
It's an amazing experience because you forget about everything, which is like, I don't know, 90% of the people who joined the ecosystem became, like, rich in one week and left and stopped working for the rest of the life.
When you go to these experiences, it's really, really motivating.
You can see a lot of guys, girls, developers who basically have the same mindset, which it's the same for you, I mean.
Yeah, I mean, of course, when you also have, like, the presence of Gavin Wood, it's pretty amazing, especially because it was, like, a surprise.
Nobody expected it.
And he joined, like, the conference at the last minute.
And so it was, like, wow, also, you know, a really, really famous and really, really important mind joined also the event itself.
Yeah, I mean, indeed, another thing, you don't even feel, like, any type of, I mean, how can I say it?
I mean, you're not tired.
You can stay in the event, like, for, I don't know, 24 hours and you don't even feel kind of pressure or anything.
So it was also pretty funny for me because I also discovered I met Inver, another Italian YouTuber.
And it was, like, pretty weird fun, him, at the event.
So it was, like, you also see different regions, different countries, different, like, YouTubers and any type of research guys who are participating actively in this technology.
So, I mean, it's a booster of your motivation to even give more back to the technology itself.
Thank you, Vasa.
Yeah, the meshing of the minds.
We all have pretty unique mind, I guess, a vision for the future if you're in crypto, if you're in blockchain in general.
So it is that drive.
It's empowering and also motivating when you see other people who are similar-minded with the technology.
DeFi guy or Chris.
Chris, you've thrown your own events or participated in, you know, organizing these events as well.
So on the flip side of things, and for community members out there who are, you know, curious and everyone is in their own right to do whatever they want, so I encourage you, if you wanted to do a meetup, learn from the best.
And I think, Chris, can you speak to a little bit about how you've gone about organizing such events?
Obviously, Sub-Zero is a different scale, but I've seen some great pictures and briefings of what you've done.
All right, thanks so much.
Great questions.
Thank you so much.
Basically, I was not able to attend Sub-Zero, but on my own, with the help of the community and a few other persons here in my region, I've been able to organize a few community meetups in the end of events for ASDA and for Pocata as well.
And I've also represented during other blockchain and webfollow events.
So in 2021 last year, in one of my community, we hosted a meetup in Lagos, Nigeria State, where I spoke about Asta and Shiden Network.
And we had a lot of community members.
And if you look at my Twitter banner, you see the picture there.
That was during the event, right, that took place in Lagos.
And it was really fun, educative, and, you know, interact and connect with people who are also in webplay and blockchain space.
And in that last year, 2021 or so, I went to one of the universities in Nigeria and also organized an event, a near-life event for the student who will be interested to learn more about blockchain, webfrey, and what Asta network is building, generally.
And, yeah, so on the other side, I've also organized a lot of other community events, both Twitter space and, you know, trying to educate the community about the use case and what Asta is doing, generally.
So, so fascinating.
But, you know, there's no way you can do these things, and they don't.
That's why there's a need for you to connect with people who share similar interests with you and, you know, who help you out in different ways, both in making sure that you have a good space and you have all the necessary equipment and other things that need there for a successful event.
Yeah.
So collaboration is very, very important in this space when you're building community.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Thank you so much, Chris.
Yeah, right.
A hundred percent agree with you.
Collaboration, having people who are willing to, you know, partake in these events or organization of these events is so key.
And I've been fortunate, too, to meet people like Chris, who I now can, you know, rely on if I needed to organize something.
Maybe grab some insight or learn from him or also invite him, just like he did today, now joining us in this Twitter space for Astar.
Now inviting him to other events that I know of.
So this is how collaboration works, you know, participating, doing the small things first, growing, then all of a sudden you're being invited to certain events, certain Twitter spaces, etc.
DeFi Guy, I know just from our talk and friendship and work together as well, you have been participating in a Brazilian YouTube channel.
Can you tell us more about that channel and, like, what you do in that case?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, I'm part of a research company in Brazil for digital assets.
So they're pretty big.
I think they have 95,000 subscribers on YouTube.
And so they create a very good content and they're fans of Pocadar ecosystem.
So I talk to them almost like every day and I'm a mod, a moderator in their YouTube channel.
So every single live they do, I'm there moderating, talking with people, doing some CRM, you know.
And that's one way you can spread, too, you know, because I talk to other content creators and YouTube in the crypto community in Brazil, like they have 20,000 subscribers, you know, because that's one way you need to go there and explain how Asta works, you know, the technology behind how Polkadot works, too.
And slowly people are going to, you know, understand what we're kind of building and what is our innovation and why we are more secure, for example, to transfer assets, not using centralized bridges.
You know, it's very complicated, but slowly you start to convince people that our technology is pretty good.
And I think that's one way you need to do it.
You go to a specific YouTube channel that are for the crypto community that explain crypto in a way that people understand.
And then you spread a Asta for, for example, in Brazil community.
Thank you, DeFiGuy.
This is the work that's being done.
And I think a lot of people might not see it, you know, depending on our communities, our social channels that we use frequently.
This is the type of amazing work from Chris, Vasa, you know, also doing your own thing and contributing in so many ways.
And DeFiGuy, this is something that Asta wants to highlight.
And this is what I personally mean by social incentives.
So how can we market our ambassadors?
Because in this world, we have all talents and passions.
And we want to sort of let everybody know about those things, especially if you're an ambassador here contributing to Astar.
Token rewards can only go so far.
And Astar ambassadors also can, you know, submit what they've done in the month and attain rewards in that aspect as well.
And there's a program for that.
But it goes beyond really that.
There's other rewards that are out there, these connections, these, this learning that's happening as well, and this collaboration that we want to highlight.
And so here at Astar, for our ambassadors, doing all this work, and some have been here for years, how can we highlight these?
And so we want to market it.
We want to let them write articles, myself included.
I still consider myself an ambassador in so many ways.
How could Astar also help us attain our individual goals?
And that is what really is truly beautiful about, you know, this ecosystem.
And a parachain team like Astar is more than just technology.
It's also community.
And so we want to be beneficial to our community members and because they're benefiting us, obviously.
And you heard how you're hearing now how they're benefiting us in so many different ways from Nigeria, from Brazil, from Italy, and so many other countries as well.
So just a little highlight, and thank you all so much, ambassadors, Chris, Vasa, DeFi, and so many more that we'll be hearing in these Twitter spaces, in these community calls.
We'll be rotating through a few.
Obviously, different time zones lead to difficulties, but we'll see if we can get them all here eventually.
But yes, all these communities exist out there right now, and hopefully we can produce some more visuals so you can see and identify which ones you perhaps are interested in.
So I'll open up the floor for questions.
If anyone has questions, just jump on and I converted it so everyone's a speaker, which has its own risk, but having some tech difficulties.
Elon, what are you doing to my Twitter, bro?
Any questions or any comments?
Comment, I guess.
Dustin!
Hey!
Japan is winning.
Oh, yes!
Oh, wow!
One second, one second.
Yes.
So we have the score, 1-0, Japan at half.
Half-time against Croatia.
Sorry, Bobo.
Sorry, Yvonne.
Go on, Dustin.
Sorry.
Oh, no worries.
Yeah, no, no.
I'm excited where we're at.
You know, we're barely, like...
I'm not going to say barely, but we're at, like, the prefaces of, like, where a star is becoming a star, you know?
And really showing its true value.
Like, this next strategy for 2023 is so vast.
And seeing, like, what we've already implemented this whole year to actually, like, contextualize it in a way that people can use it, you know?
So it's, like, really, we're at a point where all the progress we've reached to this point is now going to be usable for the end user, for anyone that's building on a star or just in general in the space.
Like, we're creating so many, like, aspects with the protocols, you know, XVM or if it's Swanky and some of the, you know, even PSP use cases, like, is going to be, like, we're at the forefront of Polkadot.
Like, being able to use these actual use cases, where before it was just kind of an idea.
And so now that we actually created these things, we're actually going to be seeing really cool DAP use cases, like, in Astar.
And we're already seeing it now.
So it's just, like, it's a great, like, homage of everything that we've already done and actually being able to see it for ourselves, you know?
So it's visually appealing now, you know?
Not to say it wasn't, but for anyone that was not seeing what we're doing and behind the scenes can actually, like, see it for themselves.
So that's the beauty of where we're at.
I 100% agree, especially some of us community members have been a while, all seen these ideas.
It was Plasm before.
It wasn't Astar, right?
What was the idea and drive behind Plasm?
And me, when I joined in the Lockdrop, I saw this vast idea that's now becoming a reality.
All, you know, kudos to the Astar team who has been growing and scaling and Sota, who's just been, he doesn't sleep.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't sleep.
No, never.
Yeah, so it's pretty, it's been incredible.
And I think we're now seeing the fruits of all this labor.
And I think the network effect, this is, again, just my opinion, and anybody could jump in, too, and agree or disagree with me.
But the network effect that I'm hoping to see is Astar bringing these enterprises, these real world businesses, and showcasing, creating showcases, the apps, you know, what type of work do they do on Polkadot?
I mean, we need to see that as a community.
We need to see how this big business, who makes millions and millions of dollars in revenue, you know, is using the blockchain.
And that business probably having, you know, I don't know, not as much, you know, insight into Web3.
And so they're jumping in.
Obviously, we know the risk of coming into Web3.
It is new tech in general.
So these businesses that Sota is onboarding, you know, signing partnership deals with, how are they going to use the product, the Web3, the vision, the dream we're selling and building?
So the network effect that I'm hoping would be that, oh, well, Astar offers this and this and this, but these other parachains as well offer unique services.
And so how can, you know, we sort of spread the love, spread the work, the technology, so we're all benefiting from what Astar is doing and vice versa.
Other parachains bringing in unique businesses, you know, teams, whatever it could be.
And we being their smart contract platform for because we can communicate, you know, viably through EVM and Wasm.
And so things like that is what I'm excited for in the future.
Anybody else excited?
No, just me?
Cool.
That's nice.
No, I'm excited.
No, no, no.
Yeah, because just like you mentioned, like Plasm, you know, that was the idea.
And that was a great idea at first, but the pivotal point turning into Wasm, like, that is huge.
You know, it's, like, a very niche, it's very, you know, specific, and it's a space that we can build from compared to Plasm.
You know, like, you know, at least to knowledge of what, you know, what Soto was saying was, like, you know, Plasm is, like, it's very, you know, it's specific to, like, scaling solution and, like, a layer two.
So when it comes to, like, what we're building, we're not only a scaling solution per se, but we're also, you know, implementing Wasm smart contracts, which is just, like, mind-blowing compared to the EVM space.
But also transitioning and not leaving EVM behind by, you know, focusing on Wasm.
Of course, that, you know, that's not the answer, is that we're taking what previous technology does produce and combining it with what protocols we have to bring them into the future.
You know, it's such a huge pivotal point in comparison to just the narrative of a scaling solution, which kind of broadens our scope and who we can work with.
So I love where we're at in that direction, for sure.
True.
Thanks, Nostad.
I just noticed that we're three minutes over.
Sorry, everybody.
Too pumped up.
Too pumped up with all these ambassadors and ASAR talk and just the future.
But I do want to leave, though, the last word to our top-notch ambassadors, Vasa, DeFi, and Chris.
Any last words or your prediction for the Japan-Croatia?
Score.
So either one or both is fine.
What do you think, Vasa?
No, because basically, if I'm not wrong, Kabila has a question because he's raising the hand to have a chance to speak and use it.
Oh, sorry.
I can't see any of the speakers, which is strange.
So, yeah.
I don't know how to basically add the...
Okay.
Accept it.
I made you co-host, Vasa, so feel free to help me out with this tech.
Okay.
How can I add him?
Oh, well.
I have no idea.
Yeah.
We're so sorry.
Usually they use the Twitter space only for listening and collect the information.
You can also write what you want to ask in the chat, I guess, because actually it's impossible
to add you to the Vasa channel.
But anyway...
Yeah, I think Kabila can...
I think he can talk.
I think he just needs to unmute himself.
So, go for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So, predictions.
Predictions.
We can speak about football with Italian guy like forever.
So, it's a short, short, short thing.
Like, in my opinion, yeah.
I can say, yeah.
I hope Japan will pass.
And it's not ended because, of course, you know, the game is about 90 minutes, not 45.
So, yeah.
It's time to quit Twitter space and run and see the second part of the game.
So, really grateful for you guys to have me here, to have a chance to speak with all
of you.
And I hope to see, like, you also next week here.
So, have a great time and have a great game.
Thank you, Vasa.
Chris, DeFi guy, any more comments about crypto in general, Astar, or, and your prediction?
No, sir.
I have a question.
Oh, there we go.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, my question is, what is your target audience?
Can we earn token using your platform?
Our target audience?
The question was, who is our target audience?
It really is the developers, per se, but not just the developers who are coming to the blockchain
and creating their product, but also enterprises as well and these businesses who can use the
blockchain to further improve, you know, either their efficiency or their product.
And I didn't catch the second part of that question, my apologies.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you so much, man, sir.
Okay.
And then, any more last comments from our ambassadors, Chris, or DeFi guy, or predictions for the
game today?
All right.
All right.
For Japan, crucial.
They're the best side win, right?
Oh, come on.
They're the best side win.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're a politician.
Let's go.
Asta to the world.
Thank you, Chris.
And DeFi guy.
I think Japan is going to win 2-1-1.
And I think what Asta is doing is, I mean, top-notch.
It's like one of the best technologies we have, you know, like this in Manchin, dual virtual
machine.
We have even solution for layer two with ZK.
If you go to GitHub, you can see that.
So, every technology that people are talking right now about, Trestless, Bridges, ZK, everything
Asta kind of has.
You know, so that's why everybody here listening is to be with Asta and always be part and understand
all the updates of the community.
See, because what we are building here is very, very different and probably one of the best
or the best technology right now.
Yes.
Thank you so much.
Everybody, thank you so much again for joining the space.
Our ambassadors and our large group of ambassadors that I hope to bring up here and showcase some
more.
Everyone have a wonderful day or night.
And I'll leave you with some more Tsubasa.
Bye, everyone.
Bye, everyone.
Bye, everyone.
Bye, everyone.
Bye, everyone.
See you.
See you, gang.
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