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Crypto's Got Talent S2 Ep1: $500k Pitch Competition
Recorded: Sept. 17, 2025 Duration: 1:14:15Space Recording
Short Summary
Crypto's Got Talent Season 2 kicked off with exciting announcements, including upcoming token launches from Layer Drone and ZIV, alongside significant fundraising efforts by Flashback. The event showcased innovative projects aiming to reshape the blockchain landscape.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey guys, how's it going?
We're going to get started here pretty soon. Thank you. What's up, everybody?
Excited to be here.
Thanks for having me, Aaron.
Awesome.
Hey, Alec, how's it going?
Just need a couple minutes to let everyone join. Thank you. . all right while we're waiting let's play the the Crypto's Got Talent theme song. If you guys haven't heard this, we started this Crypto's Got Talent about four and a half months ago.
In the first season, we were sponsored by Polygon, the season Zero G.
And I just want to bring some energy to the space and do something different. deal
first part of second now got the data marketplace second was a centralized with
the power in his case 13 looking at you matching with the code for squad
got potential but the token on explode
getting kind of heated every given side inside our looks Some teams getting better, others closing up the books
Taking mental luck without him speaking on the stage
Some got that special something other stuck on the same page
Time is taking presses getting bit, show time
Eric tried they trying not to grip
They be back and watching as they lay it on the line
Some ain't gonna make you put up, you gon' shine
Welcome to the talent show, where change your bill Half a million dollars gonna make some train fulfilled I You go Show
Make some dream
Now make that crypto deal
Final round of
Privates looking ready others meeting with
They build me and Aaron
Trader Checking all the metrics where did we even begin The private's looking ready, others meeting with their gold. Me and Aaron Hurdle traded, thoughts on who should win.
Checking all the metrics, where did we even begin?
Found a special project, got that fire, we received it.
Infrastructure, silence, tokenomics, interest looking.
Time to make a notion, crowd is getting, they can't make it.
Crowd is getting real attached, half a milli going out to make the ecosystem gas.
With a set of crowd up on the stage tonight.
Proving that that tech is right
That's how we do it, what we run in Tyler's shows
That's how it goes
Welcome to the Tyler's show
Yeah, we're the best to tell
That's right, the game's used to learn the out Let's go!
OMG, the new version of the theme song is insane yeah we never made it that far before so let's uh let's keep uh that three minute full thing
launching every single time now i love it i love it i totally second this idea i hope you guys all agree give me hearts everybody's voting hearts yes love it
how's it going guys welcome aaron how are you doing amazing doing amazing happy to be here
excited for season two i cannot believe we are at season two it's insane amazing and uh some
things have changed obviously some faces uh are you know uh the same but some have changed, obviously. Some faces are, you know, the same, but some have changed.
We have Zero-G Labs with us today for Season 2,
and actually for the whole remainder of the season.
There's going to be a lot of, like, cool AI, RWAI, real-world projects.
So I'm super pumped.
Yeah, 100%.
George, you want to say some words?
Yeah, thank you, guys.
Pleasure to be here.
Super excited about Crypto's Got Talent Season 2.
I was fortunate enough to see your demo day for Season 1.
And I think we're going to do better than that for Season 2, guys.
So super excited.
Let's go.
Awesome.
Let's go.
Sweet.
Aaron, I see all the speakers here.
Let's maybe go do a round from all the speakers.
And then we start looking at the four projects that we have pitching today with us.
Absolutely. Alec, you want to give yourself an introduction first?
Sure. Thanks, Aaron. And what's up, everybody?
This is my first foray to Crypto's Got Talent.
So if that theme song is any nod, it's going to be fun.
My name is Alec. I'm the Chief Operating Officer at Spexy and
the co-founder of Layer Drone. Layer Drone is a drone imagery network that has fully standardized
inputs to produce the highest resolution imagery that's ever been over Earth cities. And we're
starting in North America, focusing on some of the biggest use cases like spatial AI and some exciting plans from Layer Drone for a token launch coming soon.
So lots of good stuff and really happy to be here and I'm excited to meet all these projects.
Amazing. Thanks, Alec. Thanks for being here.
Let's see. I'm just kind of basically following what we have on my screen.
An old friend, Daniel. How are you?
Hey, guys.
Let me know if my out is a bit weak.
Sometimes my headphones are getting a bit robotic.
So far you sound beautiful.
I'm the co-founder of Hotspotty and Deepin Hub.
I am a big Deepin nerd.
I've been in space for a little bit.
I love to see you guys even remotely or in person.
Looking forward to seeing you in Asia in a week.
I don't know who's going to go to Korea.
I think Aaron's going to be there in two weeks from now.
Singapore.
I just love to see how the deep space is growing.
And I love to see how IoTeX is really backing up the space.
And everybody else is really working day and night to make the space
real and build bring real utility to web 3 so yeah let's do this amazing thank you and uh let's see
following here on my screen uh we have the guys from axel guys and it's super cool because axel
won season one and now they are basically gonna to help us out, basically judging season two.
I mean, who better than you guys can help us go through this process since you were just on the other side of the, I don't know, what do you call it?
Of the phone, of the counter, of the stage just a few months ago.
Maybe of the river or the ocean.
Let's do ocean. I love oceans.
Sweet. I can do a really brief introduction.
Yeah, I work at, you know, we're at Axel. My name's Kozy. I'm actually in a train station now
because I'm on commute to Korea for Korea Blockchain Week. We won Cryptos Got Talent
last year. It was a lot of fun really grateful to you have participated um storage from
io tex is actually my cousin i you know uh didn't know that until the final rounds like no nepotism
there yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's no nepotism there at all we found out we found out
after the fact so when you found out that you were cousins or that you found out that george was there
When you found out that you were cousins or that you found out that George was there?
A little bit of both.
Yeah, I just wish everyone a good luck or good journey.
It's a lot of fun.
We're going to be doing some events with the IoTeX guys in Singapore, I believe.
So Singapore or Korea, I don't remember.
There's just a million different things because our product went live last month.
Encourage everyone to check it out. It is the best place to earn on stable coins in our opinion um
in a way that you know mitigates risk to you know essentially we're taking on all the risk and you
know allow for you to get six percent to ten percent apy in your stables um yeah no thanks
guys for having me and big fans of the iTeX team. Good luck to everyone for participating.
Amazing. And I have Alexander here. Hey, how are you? Welcome.
GM, GM, everyone. It's a real pleasure to be here. My first time with Crypto's God Talent. So super excited to see what everyone has to share today. Just a little bit about myself. I'm Alexander. I
am from Animoca Brands, part of their tokenomics
team. And the key thing about Animoca Brands is we're not just a VC or just an investor,
but very much an advisor too. So really helping with full kind of end-to-end tokenomics,
marketing, go-to-market, everything. So I'm super excited to be here to to talk to all of you to hear about all
the projects and uh you know if there's if there's any potential to work together in the future you
know please feel free to reach out i'm super excited to to get to know all of you so a pleasure
to be here thanks for having me thank you thank you and i think aaron we i think we concluded the round of the intros for the judges
at least for now yep good to go all right let's do it so uh i think brio is up first from flashback
so let's just give maybe some uh super quick house rules uh let's say take about you know 10 to 12
minutes overall right so uh brio if you want to maybe do like a little pitch of what flashback is,
take, let's say, about four minutes, five minutes,
so that we can leave maybe five to seven minutes for questions from the judges.
If you maybe think like you'd rather have more questions from the judges
and you want to keep the first initial pitch first initial pitch shorter feel free to do so but
consider about like 12 minutes total uh because we gotta have like four projects now we kind of
like want to be uh on time uh also anybody that maybe wants to like ask questions uh directly
like you don't have to be one of the judges to ask questions drop them in the comments and uh
yeah maybe we get to them uh we'll see how much time we have but i think
without further ado i think we can get rolling bruy welcome yeah hello guys thank you for for
inviting me to this first episode uh and thank you here text and og uh happy to present you flashback
so my name is bruyo i'm the CEO of Flashback. Talking about Flashback, it's in fact more related to a personal journey in my previous tech startup.
Globally, my background, I have a PhD in computer science and I was doing a lot of AI stuff for this startup.
And, you know, when you're doing AI stuff for a startup, sometimes you take care of the IT infrastructure,
thinking that we have to run a lot of models
and manage a lot of data sets.
So thinking that I started to work a lot with AWS,
great solution of course, but you know, it's quite expensive.
And if you're working too much with one cloud providers,
you are going quickly to meet the vendor looking issue.
So we started to have high bills.
So my CEO asked me, is it possible to use other providers to use the
creates of other people I say why not so we tried to indeed choose AWS with Google Cloud and
some local service thinking that you have some solutions to deploy with different providers
but once you deploy your resources the most difficult part is to integrate all these resources within your services and your application, specifically for AI.
And so I didn't find a solution.
So I spent hundreds of hours, if it's not thousands of hours, to build a kind of reasonable infrastructure with all the providers.
I come to a situation and say, but why do you not have a solution right now in the space
that can solve this kind of multi-cloud resource management into a single and unified integration?
And so comes the idea of Flashback.
So Flashback is a cloud platform which allows any kind of companies to integrate in a unified system.
They recently have decentralized and decentralized cloud providers. companies to integrate in a unified system.
They recently have centralized and decentralized cloud providers.
So today the platform is mainly focusing on storage, which is normally, you know,
the first layer of a cloud.
What we offer is very simple with flashback as you are going to unify and do not
lose a lot of time.
The third thing as a startup or tech company is going to reduce a lot of orders and time um to deploy your own infrastructure so you're going to save a lot of
money and a lot of hours and doing things they are going to do in hundreds of hours we're going to do
this in our few hours even minutes uh with the platform uh i don't think this you can reduce the cost because
uh coming from the blockchain vibe and uh i was in this ecosystem since since 2016 uh i love
blockchain and or what we can do with this on trust physical infrastructure network the safety
in storage so by going away the platform allow you in fact, plug them directly to the platform and to not learn, in fact, with the whole stack to integrate them.
So you can do the same integration you did with AWS, but you can play directly with,
for instance, Python or A-Wave.
And so this is going to reduce a lot of true costs because you can manage better your data
storage with large providers, but at the same time with this deep-in solution, which are way
more cheaper.
And finally, of course, you can start with this deep-in solution, having a better security
security system.
You can improve your privacy and what we are offering with Flashback. Yeah, so it's in general, I don't know what minutes I have left, but I think maybe I have
one minute more.
Quickly about Flashback right now, we're going to release our commercial vision this month,
which allow you to go forward.
We have a waitlist of 100 companies waiting for this company, 10 pilot customers who help
us to indeed bring this solution
together and today we are looking for scaling going faster we recently joined once done the
program of hotly ventures uh to to help us to to design technology itself but in this technology
we have as well a dp module which allow in fact any kind of data
centers or any company having their own infrastructure plug directly the solution
into our decentralized marketplace and to participate to a more decentralized privacy
compliance solution and so with a lot of system of proof and rewards and it's a module we're
developing right now with the Stata Foundation.
And we hope to deploy this with other chains
and also protocol because, you know,
blockchain has some limitations.
So it's very important to be at the right spot
and to work with the right solutions.
That's all about flashback.
I hope that you enjoy it.
I appreciate this introduction.
Thank you, Bril.
We have about seven minutes now, so I guess, judges, feel free to ask questions, drop comments, and take it away.
Sure, I'll go first.
What motivated you to pick this as your idea to start with?
And what's Traction looking like so far?
Did you fundraise? Did you start hiring?
What does that look like?
Yeah, very good question.
So as I said, the motivation was first personal.
As an AI engineer and developer, I faced this struggle to be able be able in fact first to use all the credits
you can have with different cloud providers.
You know, like 50% of the credits from Stakeda are totally lost, because they don't have
the time and the resources to use different cloud providers at the same time.
So I face this issue personally, and it's one of the motivation I got.
But also the problem I face is the integration of a deep installation within my own AI infrastructure,
where I was triggered to, I mean, I took a lot of time, in fact, I would say more like
this, to understand how deep technology is working, or I can integrate this to the solution,
or it's compliance, data compliance and stuff like this.
It's a lot of orders.
And so it's one of the motivation we decided to bring flashback and to have this unified integration platform to ease all of this process and to allow developers like me to say, okay, let's just do one integration.
And I don't have to repeat
three different integrations for three or four or five different cloud providers.
And in terms of traction, as I said, we have 10 pilot customers, 100 companies in the wireless.
Of course, we're going to use the commercialization.
We are to be transparent with you in the middle and between the MVP and PMF.
So we're looking at what to adjust the price,
adjust the features.
We are very eager of getting more and more feedbacks
from companies that are out of the Web3 ecosystem as well.
Very demanding one, but at the same time,
this very demanding level from the Web3 ecosystem
is very necessary for us in terms of security
and to show that
what we are building is taking with the ecosystem.
So just to clarify, so you guys, it's storage,
are you doing any compute on the data
or it's just storage and retrieval of data?
So yeah, good question.
We're starting with storage. This is currently what the product is doing because it's quite complex to unify all the
protocols together.
So we decided to focus on this first part.
But of course, in the long term, we have the expectation to go further because we know
that the storage is only 10% of the cloud stack.
So if we want to go further and if we want to achieve what we want to achieve, computing will come.
Right. Well, that's good to hear because that's something that we faced at Spexy and Layer Drone. We produce heavy data from drones at large scales and storing it in different cloud providers is tricky.
So I can understand the challenge you're trying to solve.
And Protocol Labs and Filecoin are investors of ours.
And so we've done lots of POCs with them.
And we're big fans of everything they're doing
in the tech and ecosystem they're building.
But it's been challenging for us to work with it
due to the slow retrieval and then our ability
to compute on that data in a scalable way.
And so I'd be curious to know a little bit more how you work with the Web 2 and Web 3 storage providers in tandem.
How does that work?
Yeah. So for the Web 2 for us, it's quite easy because today the Web 2 has a lot of API systems.
So we are working directly with the services, our service level. And so to understand more about the user
journey, and going to give you some clarification, the user
journey is like when you start to work with the platform, you
are going to define your specification with the platform,
and we have an AI that can assist you and tell you what is the
best way,
according to what you need to use the platform.
And once you know more or less,
and with the AI decided what you want to do,
for, from aid, you are going to need
to deploy your own resources.
So the third thing is adding resources with AWS and Google
which is already covered by some solution like Terraform, for instance.
You can use Terraform to deploy the resources with the web too.
Once it's done, you plug and plug them directly to the platform.
This is where you have a kind of unified interface.
You see all the resources at the same place, and you can use a technology we developed called the bridge notes
to have a single endpoint to communicate in fact
with all these different buckets.
So you can develop everything with an AWS compliance way,
but at the same time you can start directly with GCS
or Azure.
And for the web3 is more tricky, I would like.
And today we're working with partners
on the top of the protocols.
For instance, we're in discussion with the Akave,
we're working with the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Of course, we're in discussion with other ecosystem like Soge,
and we're using some tricks
related to what they can propose as a service layer on the top of these protocols.
Okay, thanks.
And I don't know if you answered this,
but have you guys raised any money yet?
Oh yeah, yeah, good question.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't answer the question.
Yeah, we raised, so we started in Europe in fact,
in Europe raised 250K,
and end of the last year, we decided to move to the US because of some difficulties you
can have in Europe.
It's not easy sometimes to raise and to do the setup in Europe.
But we decided to move in the US.
We got a total amount goes to 400K investment this year, which allows us to have some runaway.
But of course, we're doing cloud and we're doing this kind of unification year, which allows us to have some runaway. But of course, we're doing cloud,
and we're doing this kind of unification platform,
which demands a lot of resources, because it's
normally one or two million that every company is injecting
to do this kind of development.
JOHN MUELLER All right, guys.
I don't know.
We have like 30 seconds.
If, Brío, you want to uh something uh and then we'll move on
to the next one uh yeah no thank you very much once again uh do not hesitate to uh join all social uh
flashback with social uh flashback.tech we have a discord telegram x uh we're quite active there
uh do not hesitate to ask me any kind of question if you are a startup and
you want to start your cloud journey very fast and in the best way. Do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you again guys for inviting me to this season. I'm replacing someone you know more,
Zach, but I was very happy to do this. Yeah we know Zach but great to know you as well so awesome and thanks again for coming and
doing this with us sweet next up uh let's see uh aaron i lost the the oh here i have it do you
want to announce the next one uh go ahead yes it's uh warriors a arena um And I think your name is Kaushtum,
if I pronounce it correctly.
Are you there?
Hello, hello.
He might have
dropped off the
speaker stage just in an invite.
Yes, I see him here on my screen, but I cannot hear him.
So I guess let's move on to the next one.
And CouchTube, once you figure it out,
then we can add you back to the stage.
I think the next one is somebody that Aaron knows pretty well.
Maybe you should intro
yeah absolutely uh so we spent quite a bit of time together kwalu uh keith would love to have
you up on the stage hello hi guys can you hear me okay yeah perfect yes sir yeah yeah great to be
here guys and uh yeah i mean well well done to putting on such an epic program
and excited to take part this year.
You know, I've seen what you guys were doing last year
and I thought it looked really interesting.
So we've been busy building, especially over the last few months.
So I thought it was a good time to come and, you know,
update everybody what we're doing.
So ready to kick straight off?
I guess so, Keith. Basically, let's take the next, like Briou did, maybe like 12 minutes,
and you can maybe intro Qualu for the next three to four, and then we go into questions.
Okay, great. So I'm Keith, the founder of Qualoo. Qualoo is on a mission basically to make the
internet better for everybody. We use Web3 and Deepin to tackle this critical problem of making
sure everybody everywhere has got access to good quality internet. And this is also at a time where
it's never been as important, you know, not just for users, everything we do with AI,
Deepin, Edge Compute, we always
talk about all of this exciting innovation, but people take for granted that you actually
have to connect this into something. And unfortunately, the state of the internet around the world
is not as good as we would like to think. You know, I know this because I've been a telecom
consultant, an engineer, you know, the last 15 years, I actually worked on the methodology
that we now build into Deepin,
and that was basically how we collect data from the customer edge
on devices that we can put inside customer networks
to very quickly audit, map, understand performance issues
and where they come from.
And, you know, we do this with Deepin.
We use software that can run on pretty much any device.
We've just come out of a big kind of major rebuild,
porting everything onto native C so we can port it on embedded systems,
routers, iOS, Android, you know, Raspberry Pi, all these
kind of devices. And we map the entire internet. You know, this is not just fixed internet. It's
mobile internet. It's Starlink, you name it, any network, even deep in networks. And essentially,
we're looking for any problems in real time. And we've already got good traction.
We've worked with governments, we've done audits,
we've stabilized entire country's network infrastructure
with less than 20 devices.
And we solved issues in minutes
that had been going on for years
that had impacted critical infrastructure
like banking and travel, gaming,
and all this kind of stuff.
And it's that same value that we're rolling out to the entire planet and all these networks.
So it's very much combining all of our intelligence and knowledge over the last 15 years with Deepin to make it super scalable because it wasn't scalable before.
Now we've got all of these advances in AI and Deepin.
We completely removed the headache we had before with logistics and permissions.
And, you know, we built this edge network to really solve the problem.
And we're just coming out of beta now.
We just got approved into the main kind of Android store a couple of weeks ago.
And iOS is due any minute. We've got the software ready for our kind of Android store a couple of weeks ago, and iOS is due any minute.
We've got the software ready for our kind of fixed nodes,
and we've been working on the kind of insights,
portals, and all of the detections and stuff
that would be able to offer, you know,
really carrier-grade insights in a hyper-localized way
to internet providers, governments, regulators,
but also to regular internet users as well, who
just want to get better connected wherever they are. So that's a big part of the Qualum mission,
helping to improve the internet for everybody, but also helping everybody to connect better.
And, you know, just to finish up a bit, you know, you'll be surprised we need relatively few nodes in a country or on a network because generally the quality of experience that people receive across a network is pretty common, you know, because you and all impacts huge numbers on the network you know 10 20
50 or 100 of users so even with quite a modest number of nodes you can really detect and map
the issues that impacts everybody and um you know so coming into this time where everyone needs to
be connected 24 7 whether you're a person or a machine. You know, Quali is going to be the network that sits across all networks,
making sure it works well for everybody.
I think that was quite a pitch, Keith.
Judges, take it away.
I don't know.
We haven't heard from George, Alexander.
Maybe you guys go first if you have any questions.
Otherwise, anybody really open.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah. Thanks, thanks. Very, anybody really open. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks.
Thanks. Very, very interesting product that you're building in the deep in space. You mentioned
two things that caught my attention because, you know, at ZeroG, we are, you know, we're focused
on scalability as well. And, you know, we do have our decentralized storage network, we have compute, we have data availability,
and we have projects that are utilizing our L1 chain for scalability purposes.
So I'm curious to learn more about how exactly you will handle scalability, right? It seems like you also have already a set of paying customers
who will help generate revenue for you.
But as you scale your network,
I guess my more direct questions is one,
do you plan on utilizing the blockchain for scaling?
And two, what is your overall mindset on solving the scalability issue?
Yeah, so to take the evolution of the product into what we used to do sort of manually,
a lot of manual data analysis, a lot of process and stuff,
we've built all of that into automated steps that we can use,
you know, using AI, using data analysis.
And, you know, we collect massive amounts of data, you know,
so we're not just like a sensor network that you might think someone like Silencio
that might collect four or five parameters and things like that.
You know, we collect tens of thousands of parameters in some
and definitely thousands in most cases.
All of that needs to be processed, stored,
and we've been doing a lot of work on the optimization.
So we take the raw telemetry data and all of the sensor data
and our analytical stuff, we put it into like S3 buckets,
and then we can process on that and move it into like more database,
front- end kind of
processing. So we've, we've geared up everything to scale. And the view of the scalability is we
don't want to do, you know, if we want to serve these intelligence to 10,000 service providers
and millions of users around the world. So it needs to be almost like a one-click
solution to access, you know? So a lot of the way we handle the data, we group the data
into different things is if you're a service provider and you want to create an account,
it's all of the same kind of insights, dashboards, reports, intellig intelligences just group differently you know so we've done a
lot of work on that as well um and then using the the ai to do a lot of the analysis as well
you know removing the human part of it to to be able to really really scale so to we do use the
blockchain as well because the blockchain is a great way to factor everyone's
kind of contributions and rewards and things like this is a big part of the decentralized
network that comes in also the storing of results to prove that you know there might be a certain
issue or fall performance issue that stored on the blockchain and proved you know that device is coming from
we're implementing like the the io text id from device id and data validation and all of that as
well but we will have lots of need for compute storage and ai which is obviously an interesting
thing of you know using platforms like like yourself to to um to help us scale and serve essentially customers in every country of the world
and users all over the world as well.
Are you incentivizing like anybody around the world to set these nodes up
or are you focusing the expansion and rollout in certain geographies to start?
Yeah, well, so anybody anywhere can download
the Kuala app on iOS, Android, and very soon
buy a router from Amazon or something
that can probably have open WRT versions.
We wanna cover the entire planet.
We have target areas because we have customers
from our consultancy days and friends and clients and
stuff like that that we can serve very quickly but the real value is having the data across all
countries and all networks and in our kind of beta phase we had data on over 180 countries over 5 000
internet providers 700 mobile operators we've got almost 50 000 customer experience
servers that were filled and completed in the app you know there's a big part of the kind of
gamification and feedback and that in the app and you know we will have this global data set that
not nobody else has across all of these technologies and that gives us an unfair advantage because we
can actually see where the problems are
and the issues that, you know,
all issues that we've worked with solving
over the last 15 years.
And it really gives us a very powerful data set
to combine with the user service as well
because we can actually see the data evidence
of what caused that sentiment,
that pain and things like that.
Okay, thanks. One more question. One of the criticisms of D-PIN is that it incentivizes
activity and work and data capture in a lot of places all over, but it's not always in places
that the network has demand or that data is able to be monetized fast enough to support
the expansion of the network how do you guys think about that criticism
yeah i mean it depends on the data and the the kind of the value in our data analysis and processing
you know even even one signal from our network could save a telecom provider tens of millions of dollars. So it's very high impact.
It's not like because we actually analyze and interpret the data
and just get to the signal rather than the noise,
we think it's going to be much easier to sell right across the board.
It's something that every country, I mean, in our beta testing,
there wasn't a single provider without major issues that we documented.
So that's another big thing why we did the project, because we've seen just how many issues there was and so many red flags.
And everything's been built online and it's really fragile.
I mean, it's like saying we're going to put our whole financial world on a blockchain that keeps falling over.
That's basically where
we're at and quality is going to make sure that the network's um secured and protected on that aspect
what is the what kind of issues are there sorry uh no worries no worries go for it
um what kind of issue is this normally seeing in this network infrastructure that QualysTrenchFix?
So we basically map everything.
So the way you connect in is obviously the first step we check.
Is it the Wi-Fi? Is it the mobile network?
And we're looking for basically any issues in that.
Common issues in the home Wi-Fi uh there's a lot of weak signals you know in some countries 70 percent of the the sort of
the handshake speed between the customer devices and the wi-fi router is less than 50 meg you know
so they're selling gigabit but there's less less than 50. So there's a huge disconnect there.
And the other thing is because a lot of the broadband kind of lead tables has been incentivized by just raw speed tests,
which only kind of measures the kind of the pipe from your house to the internet provider.
None of the investment has actually gone in the interconnect, the connection between countries, between internet providers. And that's much more important now because, you know, we've come from just
a local voice to now global connectivity where we're all communicating, we're doing business
with each other, we're playing online, we're playing games in a global setting. And there's
no real standard for that. So that that quality is the standard that kind of bridges
that it looks at everything right from the the global connectivity right down to your house and
anything we detect you know even intermittent issues that are usually overlooked we can detect
and in many cases um like we've done on the consultancy audits We usually go in a couple of years after an internet provider, our country
is really failing. So the operators are leaking tens of millions of dollars. There's lots of
complaints. There's lots of dissatisfaction. The reputation is ruined. And then we go in and we
have to deploy our devices and look for these problems. And in many cases, within an hour, we know of major issues that have been impacting things for years.
And, you know, we're changing that from this kind of audit approach
to an always-on data feed and using the deep-in model.
It means the data is in a way where we can serve much more different use cases,
you know, give those kind of carrier-grade insights to users
who, you know, in this kind of hype, localized setting, you know, which those kind of carrier grade insights to users who, you know, in
this kind of hype localized setting, you know, which hotels got the best internet, which
Wi-Fi is to connect to, you know, so you're, while we're detecting issues, we're always
also given better intelligence to people to choose the best way to connect.
So, you know, we're meeting both sides.
Great.
Keith, thanks.
Guys, I'm trying to be mindful of time here uh
keith if you want to give us like 15 seconds on little plug on qualo how can people find you
where to find you and let's move on yeah i mean you can go to our website qualo.io
slash download and download the app and get on board and uh our x account quality one just
our network you know we're most active there for keeping up on updates and uh yes stay tuned it's
uh it's all starting to get really busy for us and and great to be here thanks awesome yeah
awesome thanks for joining uh thanks for answering the questions, guys. Keep in touch with Koalow.
Let's move on.
Let's see.
Khao, Stub, are you hearable now? Yeah.
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I'm doing great, man.
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Thanks for joining us. We're doing well.
I guess let's keep man. How about you? All right. Thanks for joining us. We're doing well.
I guess let's keep going.
So let's see.
I found your project very interesting when I was going through all the applications,
which, by the way, guys,
if anybody in the audience is a builder,
I also want to be on stage.
I want to pitch my project.
I want to be part of Crypto's Got Talent Season 2.
I want to get my hands on the Zero G Big Prize.
Please join us through the Akindo platform.
iTech's host, maybe we could share a link.
Maybe we have already.
But in case we haven't, maybe we can share it up there.
And people can maybe join through the Akindo platform.
And shout out to the akindo team also for
for helping us out with this going back to programming warriors ai reena what's up with that
so hi everyone this is question and let me just brief a bit about me so starting with me uh i am
So starting with me, I am Flair Networks Developer Ambassador and currently pitching my project
that is Warriors AI Arena to the team of ZeroG and IoTX and a bunch of Flair Developers and
these Twitter Space. So let's start with the demo. It's like an on-chain betting game based on the prior pokemon games in which you have different
parameters like in my childhood i used to play with this so what warrior ci arena has it's a two
different uh it has basically two parameters that is first an NFT
minted and second is an arena platform where the AI agents that are going to be
minted on zero G will be having a arena battle in which they will be battling
against the trades that are being shared. So initially in the NFT maker platform, we have raised 0G agents to create from their Lama model.
We input the personality of the person.
Let's suppose we input Elon Musk.
So based on Elon Musk, there will be different personalities that will be displayed and that will go into the zero G agent and there will be providing five
different traits that is strength with charisma defense look as in the Pokemon
game once the NFT has five different parameters then it will go back to the zero G agent and it
will retrieve the data and sign it so that the NFTs are valid NFTs and once
you activate that NFT it becomes active so this was the part for the NFT Minter.
Once NFT of Elon Musk and secondly Donald Trump is minted, they move to Arena page.
Arena has 5 different kinds of NFT levels that is Unranked, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
So here is the major game
that we are going to make so initially any users can create the arena they can
on board different NFTs you don't have to be the owner of the NFT so once both
the once a battle is being settled then a user can have a one
minute time window in which they can bet on both the NFTs and let's suppose
people have meant bet more on the Elon Musk so during the battle they will be
having a 30 minutes time window in which the users can influence or defluence
the powers so what are these powers these powers are being defined from the
initial traits that was strength with charisma they will be having different uh powers and uh
like strike move turn dodge special move recovery So there are 5 different moves in which they can influence or difference another character
and a funny comment is being displayed.
Let's suppose Elon Musk killed Donald Trump.
So yeah, that is a fake in incident but yeah that is how our battles
are being initiated and there is also a catch in this that we have implemented
the random number generator which provides a random number and judges
whether the move is being hit or miss so yeah there are multiple
parameters which makes the game engaging and once the final winner is being there
the damage based on the damage points the main character will get a cut from
the winning and the people who have bet on the NFTs, they will get their returns.
So yeah, this was a short demo of how Warriors AI Arena work.
Yeah.
Thank you, everyone.
Awesome job.
All right, judges.
Any thoughts?
Yeah, I can start.
I'm curious.
You know, like crypto and gaming has a pretty colored reputation.
I think historically we had a couple of projects like Axie Infinity and, you know, actually just going truly consumer, you had Logan Paul's CryptoZue project.
And both of those were met with like a lot of different scandals for different reasons.
One was, you know, a little bit more related related to it being a little bit fraudulent in setting.
But then on the other hand, with Axe, you had a bit of a negative gamification of the system.
Where it led to apparently quick working farms in the Philippines where kids were forced to play all day and earn tokens.
My question would be, how do you shed the negative stigma
that exists around crypto and gaming? And, you know, like, how do you pitch that to the public
in a way where you're able to grow the pie from, you know, the small group of consistent Web3
native people to getting, you know, new people on? So we have thought about this prior to the development phase and we have came with an
idea that let's suppose you are a non crypto user, you can either mint the NFTs directly
and you can like bet on it without minting it and once the result is out there will be a useful meme which you can post on your socials
so that you can just uh like influence that this is my new game which i have won through
betting so yeah that's how we are going to onboard new non-webtree users on it
I think it's a good question.
I think it's a good question.
I think it's a good question.
I think it's a good question.
Is that?
Yeah, thanks for answering my question.
Thank you. Any more?
Yeah, no questions on my end, but I just want to say,
it's super cool to see how you're leveraging the various
CRG resources, storage compute and things like that and the chain.
So, yeah, we're excited to continue supporting
and increasing the adoption of the games.
And yeah, super cool.
So keep up the great work.
Also like George, I just want to add on
after building this project on zero G,
we have also applied to the guild program.
So help us figure it out and get the best out of it.
Sure, sure.
I'll see what I can do.
Have you guys raised any money
for the idea of the project yet?
I seems we had a little glitch there.
I think Alec asked a question.
Did you guys hear it?
Can you just repeat?
I did.
I did, yeah.
Can you hear me now?
Yeah.
Yeah, I can.
I think they're fine.
Yeah.
Sorry, I just asked if you guys
oh sorry I guess you just asked about fundraising so maybe so at this stage we
are not haven't done any fundraise but we have applied to different guild
programs and different accelerator programs to get it on boarded.
Let's see.
Okay.
Hey, Alex, I think you unmuted there for a minute.
So do you have something to say as well?
Yeah, no, just saying thank you and good luck.
Other Alex?
Yeah, we're getting messed up on the Alex versus Alex.
That's always a tricky one.
Yeah, feel free to go by Alexander if that makes it any easier.
But yeah, just wanted to say thank you for the insightful,
quick presentation.
Super unique and interesting.
I haven't really heard of anything of this kind.
So really excited to check it out a little bit more.
Not sure if I missed this specifically, but I was kind of wondering how exactly are the traits defined when you input these personalities into the agent? Is there kind of like a taxonomy that you're working from um or these kind of traits that uh
generated yeah yeah so like uh through the through the uh zero g's llama model based on different
personalities except uh elon musk has a different kind of traits uh their background how the lifestyle was through the llama model it just extract all kinds
of data and it just input into it and based on it we will define different traits the traits can
further be increased or decreased based on five different psychological question let's suppose you are standing on a train let's suppose in a at a train
platform and you just pull the lever and either you can save your family or like save five random
people so like based on some psychological questions you can either increase or decrease your trades. So, yeah, that's a good answer for it.
Yeah, super unique and excited to check you guys out a bit more.
So, yeah, thanks for that and for the answer.
Also, adding to the demo of it, we have a roadmap of full DeFi implementation
of NFTs lending, different social angles to it, and making it more and more engaging and getting it on the ZeroGlabs.
Awesome. All right, guys. I think with that, we can move on to our next pitch zyver let's have you up on the
stage thank you thank you thank you
greetings everyone gmgm to everyone that is listening can you guys hear me
yes yes yes all good all good zy, it's all yours. You have about,
uh, yeah, intro yourself about 12 minutes from now. All right. My name is Zaidou Abubakar,
the founder of Ziva, and we believe in the power of infrastructure and decentralization.
We're here to talk about building a new economy where your reputation is growing.
Welcome to the Ziva.
I want to start by asking two questions.
I want to start by asking two major questions, which happen both in AI and in the crypto world.
Today we have AIs that are really good at pattern recognition. They have huge amount of knowledge base
and they are really very smart, very smart, smarter than the average but they suffer from hallucinations and do they really understand what
we are saying they are just there are much patterns based on what they already know what
they have already seen in their data training hence their reasoning is not grounded in real
world implementation and causal reason and the next major issue is inside our crypto
world where we call it the engagement paradox communities have millions of users but there's
no verifiable or unchanged way to really verify a person's reputation or their total loyalty
or their total loyalty and contribution to any project.
The vision at Ziva is to bring those two together
by creating a verifiable AI framework
and a reputation based financial protocol.
We are building the next wave
of decentralized physical infrastructure
by creating an infrastructure of trust, building an economy where users' verifiable contribution
are directly converted into financial utility. That's what this EVA is all about.
Our first core innovation, the ZAI is a very adaptive intelligence engine.
Unlike other models, it's built on a principle called the understanding is key, a new AI
framework discovered through research.
This means it doesn't just read and match patterns based on what it's already trained
No, it understands the conceptual rules of those worlds.
This allows the AI to not only access user contribution,
but also to explain why it made a certain decision
in a prompt.
Our second innovation is the social engagement
and backend DeFi protocol.
This is where a huge amount of magic happens
we have created a verifiable on chain social capital score that is built from a user's genuine
contribution so for example a user completes tax is given a point a type of points that is used to measure the amount of
engagement is made the higher the points the more access you'll be getting for loans other
financial utils more engagement and so on so
on so yeah that's basically what this is all about apart from the other things that we're
going to be integrating the defy area where users can we mine save the file from participation in
the app which they can use to get loan we have the job marketplace now we plan to integrate a digital um digital
economy where authors and comic writers can post their contents to get
traction and some points yeah and um trading section where users can train country other tokens available
which also deserve so this is all centralized with one token ziv and we are a multi-chain
block project project we don't want us to think with one blockchain um for how far we have gone so far we have the basic app
which includes mining task completion referral and later on we'll be adding the job market place
just a basic version that allows us to post tax and complete them to earn rewards as for the ai we already have a proof of concept
that knows how to play tetris like it incorporates the ashore algorithm we created
basically we have three models that act as the eye the brain and the mouth of the whole system
of the whole system so the eye sees the state of the Tetris board and makes prediction which is
sent to the brain ARLC adaptive responsive controller so yeah the brain uses that information to generate simulations based on what is the best course
of action in which to follow all this is done with the with the explainability module the
mouth knowing and seeing all the process that happens which it then uses to convert it and give the person an understandable understandable version
of the process that went through why the model made a choice and all that so yeah the code is
available we have the repository a lot of the modules and models have already been created so
and models have already been created so yeah all right uh zyver thank you um so daniel george
alexander uh cozy take it away or myself for now
i'll go super briefly um what are your plans uh for how to scale
so we plan to use the engagement
and activity that's made in the application i think that answers the question
yeah thanks for the uh the pitch um i noticed you you talked a little bit about Ziv token.
I'm just kind of curious, what's the timeline on the token?
Is it already live? And if you could share a little bit more about plans for the token and how you can see that fitting into your growth strategy.
Great question. The token is already live, firstly deployed on the thorn blockchain source network
um we plan to integrate it for a lot of our features in the app the job marketplace the
digital economy where authors earn is going to be using the token and the trading trading fees will be used
use the ZIV will be used for the trading fees yeah zebra please say hi to the
crying kid in the background telling more here all right it's set to hear a kid crying in the background anytime
but we're here we're all supporting all uh whatever 600 of us uh yeah if you guys have
any questions yeah um other than transaction piece is how does the project plans to make revenue
plans to make revenue that to sustain the project long term well we have different features yeah
so for the job marketplace we collect a fee based on the person that's posting when he sends the
transaction we maybe collect maybe five percent or six percent of what is sent for nft we also have nft marketplace we
plan to integrate that i forgot to mention it yeah so when a user gains maybe transactions fees from
the nft we also collect a percentage for that apart from the trading section that will also integrate yeah mostly just fees
we also are also going to be using ads for the digital economy area where users post
their books and all that mostly integrating ads for people who watch
and generating revenue, which this is what we share
with authors who post the book on our platform.
All right.
We have one more minute here for Zivar,
if anybody has a question.
George, we haven't heard from you yet, I think.
Yeah, thanks.
Yeah, no questions on my end.
I think the questions asked were pretty good.
The scalability and revenue side of things is the most interesting for me to learn more about.
So, yeah, looking forward to connect and learn more about that later.
Awesome. All right. more about so so yeah looking forward to connect and learn more about that later awesome all right Zebra if you want maybe just let everybody listening here
know how to best get in touch or keep in touch with your projects and then we
wrap up all right you can follow me up in my x account we also have a telegram account and a landing page where the
many emails you can miss sending message to so yeah we also have the bots you can check it out
through the telegram follow the button we can send us some feedback which we can use to improve there
We can send us some feedback which we can use to improve the app.
Alright, Zebra, thank you very much.
Thanks for joining us.
Guys, I think this concludes the... for sure.
This concludes the episode one, at least the pitches for the episode one.
Harron, how are you? How are you feeling?
Yeah, really awesome projects projects i'm excited to
go back and discuss them with you and excited to hopefully see some of these projects
in round two 100 guys thank you daniel george alexander uh cozy and alec who had to drop off
for you know doing this with us, asking your questions,
obviously investing your time into this and helping out.
I'd love to see you guys again in some of the other episodes.
I think, Daniel, you racked up.
Maybe this is your third episode together as a judge?
Yeah, I think so.
I'm very excited.
Love it.
Exactly.
And I think Daniel is going to join us in singapore as well uh in uh in a couple of
weeks that's going to be basically our next episode so we're going to take the next week
off because there's going to be a lot of stuff happening obviously in the in the world um
and then we'll reconvene in singapore in two weeks uh pretty much. And we're going to do an IRL pitch session for a couple of hours.
We're expecting, I don't know, maybe, I hope, like eight to ten projects to come there.
George, if you're there in Singapore on the ground or Alexander,
I know the Axel guys will be there.
Dan is going to be there.
You guys are more than welcome to join us.
We'll talk to some new projects
and keep the ball rolling
for anybody in the audience
who says you know I am going to Singapore
I do want to pitch
please
reach out because we do have
a special form
just for the Singapore events that we're going to share
and yeah we'll try to
collect some submissions from there.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's great being on Xspaces,
but being IRL like that is special.
You can really feed off the crowd.
So I'm super looking forward to Singapore in a couple of weeks
and being on stage with all you guys.
Same. Yeah, I remember our first IRL episode where we smashed all
expectations we had like 30,000
live viewers insane
stuff so excited to replicate
that Aaron thank you very much
everybody else thank you thank you for the pictures
I know it's difficult it's like you're
talking to like a ton of strangers all at once
so yeah thank you all for really just putting effort and time into this. See you all in a couple of weeks
Rock and roll. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
