Hey everyone, welcome to Flickstalk 99.
The earlier space had a glitch and we were unable to actually start the space and continue.
So this is the new space that has been created.
And thank you all for joining in here today.
We'll quickly get started by bringing up our speakers and creators.
It's all going great from our end.
Had a good Christmas season.
Thank you for coming down, making it this early.
That too, during the holidays.
But definitely, you know, it's a good time to engage with the community.
Excited to hear Chris talk a little bit more too.
I picked up the OmniFlix Archway crossover NFTs.
I've been trying to catch up on what he's got going on with the fighting stuff.
Always love talking with Jackal.
Always love you guys doing OmniFlix.
We're excited to hear more about FlixBets.
Excited to have another weekly edition of FlixTalk.
And good to see Eric Archway and Jackal coming on.
It's going to be a good show.
Both of you, Chris and Scott here, utilize both networks or actually I should say all
three networks for whatever they offer and know more about the networks than some of their
community members as well.
So, you know, definitely wanted to take your insight in being able to navigate the space
as a creator, as a community builder, as someone utilizing NFTs, utilizing the blockchain for
So, very excited for this conversation.
Let me quickly invite our host here, Liam as well.
And Scott, Jay, Jayden, whenever you guys are ready, feel free to request.
And we should bring you up here.
Also, a quick invitation to the Fanatics, Super and team, you know, to come up here and
share some of the sub-DAO activities as well.
So, Super, before the other speakers join in, it'll be amazing if you can go ahead and
And welcome to FlixTalk 99, the last space of 2023.
And, you know, I'm wishing you everyone a Flixie new year ahead.
So, let's see what we have been doing for community sub-DAO.
And, yeah, just share the link too on our chats on Discord and Telegram.
So, hopefully we will have more people joining very soon.
But until they come, let's quickly go through some of the updates we had.
I don't know where to start now.
Since Christmas, we have been doing a lot of campaigns.
And we have been doing it at random hours to make sure that everyone, irrespective of
the time zone, is able to participate in one of those.
And it's been getting claimed so quickly.
I mean, the first campaign was for 1,000 slots on the day of the Christmas, gone in an hour.
Next day, we gave away 5,000 Flix tokens to 500 wallets.
And that was gone in less than an hour again.
And there have been some creators who have started a campaign wishing the community for the Christmas, for the New Year.
And even those have been getting claimed very quickly.
I suppose one of those are just about to end right now on Omelette Flix Marketplace.
And this was just not one of these.
But in case you think you have missed out because you were celebrating Christmas, there is a lot more coming in.
In the next few days, we will be rewarding our FlixFam batch holders, which we do every month on the 1st.
And we will be having our Zili winners.
And this time, we will again be rewarding top 50 winners with 100 Flix tokens each.
And I have to say thank you to all the participants of Zili because they have played a considerable role in helping us spread the word about what we are doing.
So thank you to each one of you who have participated in one of our Zili quiz.
And if you haven't yet, do join us.
There are a lot of interesting questing campaigns and activities there every week.
And there are rewards, NFTs, Flix tokens to be won.
And no, when I'm saying that, I will be coming to the secret phase because I know a lot of people also wait for that.
But these are just a few of them.
Even in terms of what the chain and what the community has been able to achieve this week has been amazing.
I'm sure that Sysla might be speaking soon about some engineering updates.
And team members will be there to talk about those.
But reaching 10 million blocks.
And finally, the Flix takers getting selected for one of the airdrops which is coming in in January.
So a lot happened in the last one week.
And this was a great way of ending 2023.
Make sure that you do claim your Flix.
When I say that, I mean if you have staked your Flix tokens, you will be getting your staking rewards.
If you have LP Danosmo, there would be some rewards there.
If you have probably participated in one of the campaigns or your airdrop, Flix airdrop, and those will be streaming probably on streampay.me.
Claim those Flix and make sure that you do check those Flix or maybe trade for some NFTs on the marketplace.
Or even tip your favorite creators on Omniflix TV.
And when I'm saying that, that is also the secret phase for the last phase of 2023.
And that is claim your Flix.
Just a gentle reminder that Flix token is a lot more just a token because you are able to create a portfolio of NFTs.
You are able to probably get more airdrops.
You are able to get more staking rewards on Atom, Juno, Osmo.
So make sure that you make more sort of your Flix tokens.
And if those are streaming on streampay.me or if there are some staking rewards you haven't probably checked, go back today after the space.
Not now, right now, just let's have a word about what we have been doing.
But after the space, go and probably claim your Flix tokens.
And also come on Omniflix.tv, participate in our interactive video.
Because this time, there is a special video about what all things have been upgraded on Omniflix TV since the time we launched it on September 11th.
And you would see there are a lot more things you can do now, whether it's viewing the videos without connecting your wallet, or maybe tipping your favorite creators, or maybe even connecting your wallet via Metamask, not just Kepler.
There is a lot which has happened since the time the Omniflix TV was launched.
And I thought this was a good time to probably just go back and learn about all the things, all the upgrades that happened on Omniflix TV.
And when the end of the video will ask you for the secret phase, click on Claim Your Flix.
And also, let others in your, in your probably network or your community know about the Flix tokens about Omniflix network.
And do share with us about your feedback, suggestions, questions, thoughts.
We are available 24 hours a day and seven days a week, either on Telegram or Discord or even Twitter account.
You can even reach out to us on DM, but I would recommend you to, you know, interact with the official chats, because that's a great way of not just, you know, asking your questions, but even interacting and sharing your thoughts with other Flix fan members.
So, this and a lot more, but right now, I'll just probably give the stage back to the host and come back with more updates.
But do remember that today's secret phase is Claim Your Flix, and the claim will only be live for three hours after the space ends.
Thanks a lot for the updates.
Fam, you have just listened to Supar from the Flix Fanatics community, Sabdao.
And the Fanatics are doing a great job.
Almost negotiated or bought the Doki drop to Flix takers, you know, independently.
They've been engaging the community with a lot of activities.
Always there's a Fanatics video that is trending on Omniflix TV.
So, definitely do check out, follow Flix Fanatics if you already haven't, and do not hesitate to reach out to any community member at any point in time on Telegram or on Discord or even on Twitter.
That being said, we now have all the speakers from the panel.
We have Jaden from Jackal Protocols, Eric from Asphalt, Scott from D Podcasts, and Chris from Fight from Bex.
So, it'll be great if, you know, each of you can quickly introduce yourselves and we'll then get started with the panel.
So, Chris, would you like to go first?
Yeah, good morning, everybody.
I'm here on Omniflix Network.
I run the channel FlixBets, and we are an NFT trading card game that focuses on sports, betting, fantasy sports, and our first part of that is Fight Farm.
Chris, Scott, if you can go ahead, please.
Yeah, hi, Scott from the podcast, the dark side of the podcast.
I do YouTube videos and recently started putting them over on Omniflix.
Ideally, I'd like to only use Omniflix, but it's ethos.
You know, we have the infrastructure to basically recreate anything that exists in the legacy world right now.
And if we don't utilize it, and particularly Web3 people, if we don't actually utilize the structure that's out here, then what are we doing?
So, that's kind of where it comes down to for me.
And, yeah, you're one of the few creators of, you know, this is a unique breed of people that preach and practice what they preach.
Thank you for doing this to the community.
Eric, it would be amazing if you can go ahead next.
Eric Weissman here, co-founder of Astrovault, Dex on Archway, as well as Rogue Tokenomics Guide at Archway's Tokenomics.
Helped a lot with several other groups.
So, yeah, happy to be here.
Happy to talk about collabing with Omniflix.
And we finally have Jaden from Jack and Protocol.
Jaden, the greatest thing you're next.
Nice to see so many friendly faces here.
I run growth for the Jacko Protocol.
We're a decentralized storage network.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday and grateful to be back with everybody.
Thank you all, you know, for giving us a quick, as the Flix fam, a quick intro about yourself and the project.
You know, hope you all had a great Christmas and, you know, end of the year.
So, that being said, you know, just want to understand, you know, one significant moment or something that was pivotal in the year 2023 with respect to the cosmos ecosystem and your project especially.
So, you know, all of you have utilized multiple chains.
You know, you've played around with the tech, build tech, build community.
So, according to you, what is something that transformed the cosmos ecosystem in 2023 and most specifically about your project?
Anyone of you can take this, please.
Oh, man, from my niche, at least, people are finally acknowledging that the tokenomics that everyone had originally designed and just, like, assumed made sense don't capture value.
So, people are finally willing to look into it, finally willing to have the tough conversations and getting ready to migrate to things that, you know, have a chance of surviving, have a chance of growing a centralized business.
And not just taking for granted, you know, napkin math.
Likewise, I'm going to agree with Eric.
I was happy to see Archway come along.
But in general, I think 2023, there was a good, wide realization that what was in the cosmos currently is not sustainable.
I mean, I was very frustrated with the amount of bad tokenomics in most of the airdrops and chain launches we saw towards the end of the last bull market.
And I think that's a good sign of growth and maturity for new projects coming on board and probably revamping existing projects' tokenomics.
I think that's a step in the right direction to grow Cosmos as a whole.
You know, quite a lot of projects, you know, assessed how their fundamentals worked in some sense with the token, with the tech.
And, you know, some stayed, some moved, you know, some came to Cosmos, you know, like DYDX and some got built natively within the cosmos like Celestia, but are Ethereum aligned in some sense.
So all of these are, you know, personally things that I do think that made Cosmos ecosystem what it is today.
So, yeah, Scott, Jay, I would love to know your thoughts.
I don't think I have anything necessarily to add, but I think that you can see what Eric is talking about in practice.
The Jackal V2 econ paper just went live and passed, so we'll be looking to implement that in the next couple of months.
But it's an accurate reflection, and we are thankful for Eric for working on it with us.
But it's an accurate reflection of what Eric's talking about, economics in a little bit more of a sustainable way.
Nice, glad to know that Eric worked on it with you also, you know, definitely you can see the collaboration right there.
Scott, do you have any thoughts specifically about Cosmos and about your podcast as well?
Well, I don't, I'm not a builder.
I don't, I've bootstrapped a couple of projects, a couple of apps, but I'm not, I'm not a builder.
All I try to do is look for projects that I see future value in and go ahead and invest in them and write up, write up their coattails.
Because we, my job, what I do here is look for undervalued assets and purchase them and sell them when they go to an overvalued state.
But I see 2024, 2023 was pretty good to me, and it was AI and D-PIN.
And I don't see any of that changing in 2024.
None of my investment strategy is changing AI and D-PIN are what, going to put me into a different tax bracket.
And I'm confident enough in that because you can see market, just the way market sentiment is going, the way legacy markets and legacy media is starting to really, really embrace AI.
They haven't quite caught on to the decentralized physical infrastructure, but I don't think that that's going to be more utilized by the Web3 builders out here, simply because it's cheaper.
And privacy and security is always going to be a big thing.
But a lot of the projects now, they're starting to change their marketing strategy to it, meaning their privacy and security is a feature of the product, but it's not the product itself.
And I'm starting to see shade is drifting away from that a little bit.
Jackal is just embracing the fact that we're better, we're faster, we're cheaper.
And as long as they continue on that path, 2024 is just going to be excellent for all those projects.
The one thing that's missing in this, and this is actually why I'm supporting Flix so much, is entertainment.
For some reason, we think because we're Web3, that entertainment doesn't really apply over here.
And, you know, dollar for dollar, you get more bang for your buck out of anything entertainment related as opposed to anything else.
Honestly, I think that's kind of why meme coins are so popular is because they're not only could potentially be, you know, profitable.
I don't dabble in them, but I don't blame anybody who does.
But because they're also entertaining.
So you start to see these elements come together, and then I see Flix, and you guys are starting to really, you know, push it the right direction.
I just see a lot of value there.
I see a lot of opportunity for collaborations.
And, you know, it just, it all works for me.
And especially for the bet on entertainment as well.
Yes, we do believe that entertainment itself, the infra for entertainment, like how, you know, Jackal is also an infra within media where, you know, storage of files can be supported.
In some sense, Astroworld is also defined infrastructure or the financial infrastructure for each of these tokens, community tokens, or, you know, maybe in future NFTs also to be supported.
So, you know, that being said, all of these come together, you know, are coming together in some sense, you know, just in the last, say, one or two years, maybe, you know, two years too early, one year, yes.
And 2024 is like a great time for each of the, I'll say, even the gaming projects, you know, some of the non-financial use cases within the space to see light and see how best the community can react to them.
So, yeah, thank you, Scott.
And with that, I should also ask Liam, Liam, you've been in the ecosystem for a long time now.
So what do you think has been, like, very pivotal in 2023 and maybe even quick, you know, force it into 2024, if you have any.
Hey, Cisner, and can you hear me first of all?
I just didn't have, like, any microphone symbol come up on the space for some reason.
Yeah, so I was trying to, like, think this through.
I hope everyone's doing fantastic.
Everyone, have you had a good Christmas?
Um, so, yeah, it's a hard one to answer, really, because I feel like the market's shifted so much, like, recently, because we've seen a lot of bullish price action.
We've seen, like, engagement on Twitter go up.
We've seen so many things happen recently that it's really hard to kind of even think back to maybe some of the stuff happening earlier in the year, at least for me.
Um, I think there's been, like, this year, I think it's been about not one specific event that's kind of brought the ecosystem where it is today, or it's been super, super important.
I think we've actually seen a consistent, like, flow of new happenings, like, happen in the Cosmos ecosystem, and I think that in and of itself is, like, this big thing that's happened this year.
Like, I was thinking of Celestia launching, and, like, the way that kind of airdrop got users into Kepler, got people, like, focused on Cosmos again.
You know, we had BYDX launch, um, that got a lot of people focused on Cosmos.
We've had Injective, like, explode, um, like, in terms of price, and, like, you know, I've been following some of the discords there for, like, NFTs and stuff.
There's just a lot of people interested in, in those kind of, in Injective, and also in Celestia and BYDX.
And I think that, along with Noble launching, along with, you know, Cosmoverse and the connections that CryptoSeeker has actually been building out with other ecosystems, um, and all of the IBC to other chains, like, all of these things, right, none of them are, like, one thing that you go, yeah, that's the biggest moment of the Cosmos ecosystem.
Um, and then every, like, kind of small, like, ecosystem within Cosmos, like, different chains, groups of chains, have all had their own things as well.
So I think it's just been, like, that year where we've just kind of done a lot of things right.
Uh, we've got a lot of attention, and I think, really, uh, next year is kind of what I think would be, uh, the year where we have that big moment where, uh, it's, like, such a big, significant, like, happening in Cosmos that it just, you know, you look back at it, and you think, yeah, it's on the market.
Mac now, and it's here to stay, and it's not just seen, um, as, like, an interesting ecosystem, but that's not built out, or that's quite nascent.
So, yeah, it's hard to answer, so I'd be interested to hear if you, you know, from your side of things, whether you think there's anything specific on, like, a ecosystem-wide perspective that, that really stood out.
But for me, I just think it's been, uh, a year of, kind of, gaining momentum, lots of happenings, like, native USDC, everything else.
Um, and next year, I think, maybe, will be the year where, like, one of these things, like, blows up in such a big way compared to everything else that we can go, yeah, that's, that's the biggest thing of the year.
Or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe everything just kind of does so well now, and, uh, yeah, I'm really not sure what to expect, but whatever it says, I'm sure excited for, you know, what's to come.
And not just price action, I mean, like, actually seeing, um, users come in, like, seeing how things evolve with governance, how, like, NFTs are adopted, like, what OmniFlix can do with videos.
Like, yeah, really exciting time, in my opinion.
Yeah, quite a lot there. Uh, honestly, yes, like, everything coming together, uh, is really exciting.
This is like a, you know, how do I put it, uh, this is like a symphony, you know, playing right, you know, with the orchestrator.
There's no orchestrator, but at the same time, it's like a symphony playing right, uh, in some sense.
And, uh, you know, all of these parts, moving parts, coming together is what, you know, probably takes the ecosystem to the next level as well.
Uh, not just one project, but, you know, all of them together.
Uh, so, like, there are two sets of questions, two sets of panelists here, you know, for the people in the audience.
Uh, Chris from FlixBets, you know, the icon that you see, and, uh, Scott from, uh, Darkside Podcast.
Uh, they're both community builders, right?
Uh, of course, I'm sure Jaden and Eric are community builders as well, but, uh, Eric and Jaden are part of, uh, protocol teams, you know, or, uh, you know, products that are built on, you know, their own blockchains, right?
But, uh, so, considering that, I have a quick question for Scott, who has utilized or interacted with and bet on probably all three, uh, protocols here, be it Archway, Astral, and, uh, Jackle Protocol and Omniflix as well.
So, Chris, uh, sorry, Scott, I would first like to understand, you know, from your end as to what actually made you bet, was it the people, was it the tech, was it the potential, or anything that you think, uh, is, uh, missing from what we discussed?
Well, I, you know, I, I, I bet pretty heavily on Jackle, but I, I've been in the, the data storage industry for about 25 years.
I know what it is, what it takes, what it costs.
I understand the industry deeply.
I like what they're doing.
Uh, I see them having just massive potential.
So, of course, I'm going to jump all over that.
Uh, I, I, I'm kind of, I'm, I'm getting into Flix because, again, I like, I like collaborations.
And, uh, if, uh, Flix data is actually being stored with Jackle, if you guys have gotten to that level of partnership.
But, I'm, I'm kind of betting on that, too, because eventually, uh, the most expensive element you guys are going to have for Flix is going to be data storage.
Ingress and egress will absolutely just slaughter you in, in this industry.
Uh, and Jackle is just such a wonderful fit for you because there are no ingress or egress charges.
You can literally scale out your terabytes as you need them.
Uh, it makes it, uh, just, it works.
Uh, again, I see entertainment as, uh, just a, a, a, it, it's almost to a level of desperation that we need that out here in the Web3 space.
If you want to attract legacy people, uh, legacy world people, you're going to have to get them in with, uh, uh, ease of use, ease of onboarding.
And, of course, entertainment.
People like, they like cat videos.
They like stuff like that.
As soon as, uh, Flix starts getting some momentum, uh, I, I see a lot of potential there.
And if Flix is actually partnered up with Jackle and your data is going over there, nothing makes data storage, uh, providers happier than videos because it's a lot of data.
So I just, I see a lot of potential in, uh, in all of those things.
Now, I, I'm, uh, heavy in, uh, me, I'm supporting AstroVault because I see AstroVault as the, uh, the, the perfect, uh, mechanism for transferring and utilizing all of these use case tokens.
I think, uh, they're, uh, they're going to be working really well.
And I know they're already partnered up with, with Jackle.
I don't know if they're partnered up with Flix.
If they're not, they, they, they should be, uh, because as far as community building goes, what better way to build a community than to have all of the elements that a, a community might need and push it into, uh, a nice little ecosystem.
So, again, I see a lot of potential there.
I, I don't know about the, uh, partnerships.
But with, if all of that comes together, uh, I, I'm sorry, man, that's a home run any way that you write it up.
So, uh, yeah, I've, I'm invested.
I invested early and I hope it works out.
I mean, you're, uh, spot on with some of the Flix collaborations as well.
Uh, we are working with Eric and team.
We're working with, uh, Patrick, Jaden and team as well, you know, for the exact use case that you mentioned, you know, Flix and Jackle will first offer the integration will first offer people to backup their content.
So the native workflow here will be, you know, backup content from your YouTube channel.
Uh, if you don't want, you know, YouTube to take away or rob you of all of your years of hard work, at least with respect to the video part, the media file, you know,
you can save it on Jackle first and, uh, you know, of course, you know, from an Astrowall standpoint, you know, the Flix token, uh, will go live next year on, uh, Astrowall and, uh, there'll be more plans.
There'll be more communication officially around the, uh, yeah, the POL and everything else that's been, uh, worked on with the team as well.
So yeah, both networks, you know, Omniflix is collaborating with both networks.
And, uh, you know, before I get to Chris now, I think it's a very interesting time to ask.
I've seen, and I've, in some sense, you know, it is unfair because I've talked with Eric and Jaden that I know, uh, that, uh, Archway or I should say Astrowall and, uh, Jackle are collaborating, you know, like all of you heard as well earlier.
Uh, so if I may ask like both of you, you know, how does this collaboration look like?
What is in it, uh, for the communities, if I may ask, but especially more so, you know, what is in it, uh, for each of you specifically, uh, when it comes to this collaboration and, uh, you know, how are you making the most out of this?
So, um, yeah, I mean, fundamentally it's really easy.
One, if there was a way, like a better way to use Jackle, like anything we can do, we will do because we do try to support all of our partners.
But fundamentally, like, even if we didn't love the team, which we do, uh, this would just make too much sense.
I mean, I've known the Jackle guys.
I've known Patrick and Marston, um, for over two years at this point.
Um, but when we approached them, we're like, Hey, look, we, we are a business for decentralizing like finance.
Uh, whereas everything else has been a science fair project.
And since they don't have solid business models, they can't offer what we can offer.
We're like, well, this is how much you're spending right now on your liquidity pools.
This is how much of your token is being sold every single month.
Um, and it's setting you guys up for failure.
And it's, and by hurting your price, it's neutering your ability to grow and become this decentralized
Now I want to live in a world where not only does Jackle protocol directly succeed, but
other things like Jackle protocol have the opportunity to succeed.
I want to live in a world where there's decentralized business, where people can have jobs doing whatever
they want to do, like a gig economy for global infrastructure businesses, where anybody can earn
Anybody can sell stuff, um, by growing things that actually can make a difference in the world.
And we need to be able to help the projects that can make that happen.
So we told them like, Hey, just stop spending all this money.
Stop getting rid, like get rid of all this selling pressure and let's take what you guys
And we can offer you guys a lot more on Astrovault, um, for what you're spending without spending
What will, will basically change how the way you guys do your security budget.
Um, and we'll have your security budget pay for your liquidity, which is how our model
Um, and nobody else is doing that.
And they're like, yeah, well, I mean, if these numbers check out, then yeah, that makes
So, um, we, we brought them in and at this point, like, well, of course our AXV token
is going to go live next month finally.
And, um, like, because they took that risk, they took that leap and they're like, this does
We'll like trust this, um, team with a less established product.
They're now going to own a bunch of the AXV, which they have kindly said will be airdropped
It's not like a gift to the Jackal community.
We believe in reciprocity and solid business stuff, but now the entire Jackal stakers
will earn the AXV airdrop and they're the only staked community to do so.
Um, Jaden, if you want to talk from your end.
And to kind of further what Eric's point is and something that Sisla and Scott have been
talking about earlier, in my mind, as someone who jumped into Cosmos just over a year ago,
um, the coolest thing is, is the collaboration.
So to further what Eric's saying, uh, in my mind, having the ability to partner with various
teams and offer each other synergies that we might not have had alone is potentially the
most exciting part of my day to day.
And, and the single thing that I think is going to, uh, propel Cosmos, uh, to the moon
in 2024 and to come, um, you know, thinking about what we're doing with OmniFlix.
Um, not only are we talking about, uh, backing up video files and getting that integrated, but
we've just set up our OmniFlix TV channel.
We've got content that we're uploading there now.
Um, so in my mind, any ability and any opportunity that we have to partner with Cosmos chains and,
and with the same end goal in mind and help each other get there a little bit quicker,
uh, is an opportunity worth taking.
Eric is a phenomenal example because outside of everything that he's saying and disclosing
on the partnership, Eric's also the guy that, um, texts me or messages me every other week
saying, Hey, I had a really interesting conversation.
I'd really like you to meet X, Y, and Z.
Uh, and, uh, and that in my mind as a business development guy, um, is phenomenal.
And we wouldn't have had those opportunities without guys like Cisla, without guys like
Eric, without guys like Scott.
Uh, one more, and one more thing I'd, I'd like to add, like, um, thank you, Jaden.
Um, and yeah, we would like, seriously, we would work together, like, even if things didn't
really line up really well, but by the way, the direction we're going, at least the direction
after we'll see you're in it for sure is like direct, like tangible alignment on these kinds
I was a core contributor to help towards the new economic model.
I put a bunch of time effort into it.
Um, and I really, really believe in it and I'm excited about it.
Um, but why would I spend time doing that?
Like Astrovault's earned a ton of Jackal.
If Jackal does really well, if Jackal does succeed, then the, ask the AXV DAO, the Astrovault
treasury does so much better.
Uh, we're going to be hosting OmniFlix.
We're going to be earning the Flix token through everything we do.
So yes, we are going to have our own Flix channel.
Uh, and we are going to push our content through that.
And we are going to drive more marketing and more biz dev to OmniFlix because if OmniFlix
fails, like if the Flix token goes to zero, then so does that area of our treasury.
Like we have, we become VCs.
We're literally invested in the products that we, that we host and list.
So I, I'm, I'm glad you guys have brought up a couple anecdotes here, but I hope you
guys continue to see from us and from our community that like, we're not AMM maxis, we're
decentralized business maxis.
And we want to help all of the decentralized businesses grow and succeed as much as possible
because that's, that's how our API grows.
You know, it's a very interesting point, uh, Eric, this is what is called being able
to, you know, have a skin in the game and like construct it in a way or like put it
together, structure it in a way that makes sense, uh, for any collaboration to actually
So yeah, uh, that's a very interesting point.
Did you have any other thoughts to share?
Uh, John, I saw you unmuted, you mind?
Oh, no, I'm, I'm getting, sure, sure.
So I'd quickly like to move on to Chris who literally bet on, uh, you know, yeah, built,
built his game, you know, the community, uh, has utilized OmniFlix tech and, uh, you know,
has also, uh, been, uh, collaborating with multiple projects in the Archway ecosystem.
So Chris, uh, it'd be amazing if you can share your thoughts on, you know, your take on both
networks and of course, you know, how you see this, uh, go ahead.
Got a few, a few things to kind of summon up here.
So I'm going to piggyback onto what dark side, uh, said a few minutes ago about entertainment.
Um, I think that everyone, whether you're talking about a chain or a DAP, the number one thing
that we are looking for is what retention, uh, what's the number one killer in crypto for
retention, the, the natural boom bust bull bear cycles, because as soon as that liquidity
exits in a bear market, most of these chains, most of these projects, they all lose 90%.
Some of them never recover.
The only way you can really, uh, think about retention is to make things easier to use,
which requires education.
You got to build community.
You got to build culture, but I also believe you need to start to peg a lot of what we do,
especially here with NFTs, OmniFlix and games, uh, that type of thing.
I think you have to peg it to entertainment because you want to retain the average user in a bear
You don't want them to exit the system and take all that liquidity out and, and, and play
into this boom bust cycle.
So one way to do that is to make sure that you build projects that kind of crossover into
And that's why we did what we did with FlixBets because, uh, whether you're a UFC or MMA fan
or not, there is a mainstream drive.
There's a mainstream hype cycle every single week and every single month for the NFTs that
And if I can grow my market share in a bull market, I should be able to see retention
in the next bear markets.
Not only is that good for me as a project, that'll be good for OmniFlix as a chain.
That'll be good for OmniFlix as a token.
That'll be good for people like Eric over at Astro Vault who host the tokens that my customers
It's just a very synergistic effect.
So it plays into all of what they're saying and the same way that they're trying to support
each other on the backend with infrastructure and biz dev.
I'm trying to support that from a community standpoint and build connections for education
and rewarding community and building culture and synergy between these chains, which is why
you saw my recent collections were focused on Archway, Secret, Aquarium, and other chains
that we're building to kind of get the attention and bring those chains to OmniFlix so we have
And we can see that all in action as well.
The community, the Flix fam, regularly keeps looking at, you know, even for those that do
not follow UFC, I myself explored what this was all about.
I knew that it existed but never followed until we had the Flix bags, you know, campaigns going
on, the interactive videos, you know, that were put up.
And as you rightly said, education and engagement, you know, these definitely go a long way and
their network effects spread, you know, far and wide.
So with that, I should ask Liam.
Liam, as someone that is involved in the community, maybe you might have explored, you know, all
the products on each of these protocols.
But from the outside, how does it look?
Is the collaboration visible enough?
Did you get to personally follow?
Or is there more that we can do to spread the word?
Yeah, I think actually as someone, maybe as a supporter of Cosmos these days, it's actually
super hard to keep up with the whole ecosystem, as you probably know, Sysler.
So there's actually like a ton of different things I haven't had the chance to try out.
Actually, for the most part, things like storage, decentralized VPNs, anything along those lines,
I don't really get a chance to try out.
I'm not super familiar with it.
I like kind of like the partnership you and Jekyll are exploring where you can kind of have
the storage on Jekyll's end and the media on OmniFlip's end.
Because like as a consumer, that's abstracted away from me.
So I'm using it without realizing and I think that's the future for stuff like that.
But yeah, I didn't miss part of the original conversation.
Were you referring to Jekyll and OmniFlip's or were you referring to something else that's
No, in general, you know, Jekyll and OmniFlip's, yes, great fit.
And you're someone that were affected due to lack of infra like that, if I can say that.
Maybe the seamless integrations were missing for you to try out.
Definitely, this is the persona of user that, you know, all of us want to target in some sense
Someone that has explored crypto Web3.
Someone that has not explored deep in some sense.
Then for that matter, even for people that did not explore crypto, they can still explore
You know, I think Jaden can share something about their new API that they launched just a
And yeah, Jaden, would you like to share more insight with the Flix fam about that?
Yeah, we launched our Stratus API a couple of weeks ago now.
Essentially, what it is, is it's just a significantly easier onboarding experience.
So I think to speak to Liam's point, you're able to pay with a credit card.
You don't know Jekyll's running in the background.
It's relatively as seamless as we can get it right now.
What Liam is saying of, you know, with the various collaborations, if it's OmniFlip's
of Jekyll, Jekyll and whoever, the goal eventually is that it works so seamlessly that you don't
know really what's going on in the background because it's not a detail that you need to
Yeah, so the Stratus API makes it easier for builders to use Jekyll.
It's not as much of a, like it eliminates 90% of the steps.
All you need to do is add a line of code, pay with your credit card, and everything else
Liam, yeah, did you have a thought to share?
Yeah, actually, I just kind of wanted to expand on it because I think I'm one of the
perfect people, like the demographic that you're probably trying to target as like a deep
pin kind of service or product because generally I'm trying to reduce the amount of decision
making that I'm having to make.
And I'm also not wanting to have to spend time looking deeply into like these kind of
Like I want to be focused on what matters.
Think of it in the same way as how like an app wants to focus on its application and
not on the blockchain infrastructure, right?
We talk about that a lot in the space.
And yeah, I'd say I'm that kind of person.
I'm trying to minimize what I'm thinking about.
I want to focus on like what I'm doing, whether it's on social media, whether it's my investments,
whether it's, you know, doing something else, trying out some different apps and such.
So I really feel like at the moment, in terms of like the partnerships, you see a little bit
But I think the partnerships are mostly kind of visible to people in the space already, like
real kind of crypto and blockchain enthusiasts, basically the people that stuck around in
But when it comes to using it, like I don't even want to know I'm using it, right?
I kind of want to be using it with maybe like a bar that just says, yes, I want to use this
infrastructure instead of the normal kind of web to info.
And I think once we get to that point, and people don't have to actually spend like mental
resources to make those decisions to use it, and it's just a case of, yep, I'll flick it on.
And they already kind of know why it's valuable to put on, but they know it's not going to add
any complications to their lives or, you know, need more mental resources, then I think that's
when you'll see people accessing and using this technology.
And I think I'm in that market myself as well.
That's kind of how I approach it.
And I think you're representing a lot of people that think like you as well, in the sense,
yeah, everything should be abstracted in a way that people can utilize, but need to know
whatever they just need to know.
And for the power users, you can always have options that enable them to check out all the
Before we get to Danny, Super, it'll be amazing if you can repeat the secret word for the
Flix fam in the space, and then we'll head over to Danny to know more about his thoughts.
So, in case you missed out, the secret phase for the last phase of 2023 is claim your Flix.
It's a simple secret phase.
Just a reminder to all the Flix fam members from the sub-DAO, community sub-DAO, to make
sure that you are claiming your Flix tokens.
If it's via Airdrop, which is live for another two weeks, make sure that you are claiming
those by going on StreamPay.me and then staking those Flix because, well, there are projects
now who have started to snapshot Flix takers for Airdrops.
Even if you have staked Flix tokens, you can still probably claim those and use the Flix
tokens on our marketplace to build your NFT portfolio or even to tip your favorite creators
How you can claim this Flix from Batch and what you can do with the secret phase is come
on OmniFlix.tv on the Flix Fanatics channel and there will be a claim video for Flix Talk
It will be a short video about all what has been upgraded on OmniFlix TV since its launch.
Make sure that you do check those upgrades though.
At the end of the video, it will ask you to select the secret phase.
It will have some interesting options like Flixy New Year, which is our way of wishing you
a Happy New Year and we'll also have among those options, claim your Flix.
Just select those within three hours of this phase ending and we will take care of the rest.
We'll be dropping you FlixFan Batch and just to let you know, every month on the
first, the subtao opens a campaign on OmniFlix.market where you can get some Flix tokens for your
So do also make sure that you check all the campaigns which are on OmniFlix market.
Make sure that you do participate in this.
Use a secret phase, select the correct secret phase and also check other interactive videos
There are some very interesting, even learn to earn over there from Jekyll, from Inter Protocol
and a lot more projects and then check your Flix tokens if any of those are streaming on streamplay.me.
Thank you, Super, for the quick reminder and sharing all of those updates.
Yeah, Danny, do you have a question for the panelists or do you have a thought to share?
No, it's not really a question.
I just wanted to give my two cents on the sort of partnership thing.
Because like you say, although Jekyll and OmniFlix are working together, I think from a user
point of view, we just need to know the basics of what the partnerships are, what the benefits
are, because as a user, I'm going to use OmniFlix.
I'm not going to use Jekyll.
Jekyll's not something I'll natively go and use, but it's something I need to know about
and to know how it benefits the project.
The same with AKT, things like that.
So I just feel that there's going to be a lot of chains or a lot of projects within
Cosmos where the users don't, say, directly benefit from natively using that project.
But I think it's just about educating everyone in the space, how these projects enhance the
networks that they're partnering with and things like that.
So yeah, just wanted to give my two cents and sort of say that's how I sort of view things.
I don't know whether anyone else sort of views it differently.
And yeah, just to finish, I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and everything like that.
Hope you had a great Christmas too, Danny.
Thank you for sharing your view.
Definitely, you know, abstraction is key.
Multiple stakeholders, multiple personas of stakeholders, they use things differently.
Developers might use Jekyll directly.
Creators might just use Omniflix, but in the end, they'll be using Jekyll.
And yeah, the same is the case with AstroVault as well with, you know, widgets and, you know,
other support, you know, other features that can be supported.
You know, the entire experience is abstracted away.
And, you know, if you want to buy an NFT in a token that you do not have, you know,
maybe the route can be through AstroVault and, you know, then people can get their token.
So quite a lot is possible.
But at the same time, you know, the experiences are rather independent right now.
But the goal is to keep them as integrated, as seamless as possible.
Chris, Scott, Eric, and Jay.
Like, if you have any closing thoughts for the FlixFam, please feel free to go ahead.
Yeah, on the AstroVault side, guys, we're excited to get Flix listed here pretty soon.
And we will, obviously, depending on the AXV token, go in live next month.
But we'll have perpetually boosted APRs.
Whereas Osmosis Press, Prop 838, saying, hey, we're not going to give any incentives to Cosmos-based ecosystems.
Well, they don't earn from their liquidity.
Because we figured out how to.
So it makes sense for us to pay more for it.
So if you guys are interested in DeFi, interested in liquidity providing and whatnot, it would make a lot more sense to check out AstroVault and support Omniflix there.
Yeah, Danny, did you have something to add?
Yeah, I actually wanted to ask FlixBets, Chris, a question.
Because I know that you're focusing on fighting NFTs, if that's correct.
I've probably missed some spaces previously.
What sort of sports are you focusing on next?
Obviously, because being from the UK, the premiership's massive.
We have all the horse racing, things like that.
So I'm just wondering what aspects you're focusing on next and whether you're looking at anything like fantasy football leagues or things like that sort of aspect.
So my partner's from Mexico, and he actually launched a Premier League-based NFT trading card game right here on Omniflix for this current season.
It did not get nearly the reception or traction that we had hoped or expected.
We'll probably try to revamp it and retry it again going into the next bull market.
He lives in Acapulco, Mexico, so he's currently dealing with the crisis from the fallout of that huge hurricane that just kind of blew through and destroyed that city.
So he's kind of been out of pocket on that collection as of recent, even though the season's ongoing.
So if you want, I can hook you up with Omer.
He's a huge soccer football fan.
And we really think that, besides MMA, that football and soccer is the two largest world-known sports as far as like every single person from every single country is kind of familiar and a fan.
So we would definitely love – I'm sure he would love to have someone like you that could work with him to do promotion on that.
But that is the goal, to have a fantasy sports-based football NFT collection to go alongside with our MMA.
As far as other sports, I'll be honest.
I've got so much planned for the UFC MMA portion of it that I don't think that I would look to add on to any more.
But I do think once we see the DAO tooling and maybe a bets token in the future, we would try to find ways to incentivize others to come in and use our model to build out their own version of a sports betting fantasy sports platform and find ways to help and assist them and let them grow and build the community as a whole.
Yeah, no, that's great. Perfect. Yeah, if you want to drop me, I'll connect with you in DMs after and we can, like you say, we can sort something out and I can always give him some, yeah, some pointers and things.
Awesome. Yeah, thanks for your answer.
Yes, sir. I appreciate it, Danny.
That's perfect. Thank you, Chris. Any closing thoughts for the Flix fan?
Yeah, Chris, Jay, maybe you can take this off, Scott.
Yeah, I think Danny's first point on abstracting and making sure that, you know, the user knows the details of the partnership, but outside of that, there's not really too much that they need to know.
I think that we're in full agreement.
I think that's the future. That's what the partnerships are going to trickle down and look like, you know, using things like IBC to support app developers, disclosing what those details are, how it benefits both communities, and then making the UI and the UX at the focal point.
The focal point would be seamless. There's obviously still some work to be done, but that, in my opinion, is to partner with really exciting teams that we believe in and bringing beneficial services to both of our communities.
Yeah, Danny, I hope that gives you a better insight into the future roadmap of Jackal and also, you know, how you can see this technology play out and get more distribution.
All right. Scott, did you have anything else to add before we wrap up the puns?
Probably the last thing and why I am, again, so invested in these things here is crypto is incredibly cutthroat.
And what I mean by that is if you spent more than two minutes on crypto Twitter, you're pretty well aware that if you speak positively about anything, any single project, that there's going to be communities from all around telling you how theirs is better and how this is better and you're just not getting it right.
And yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, it's mostly just noise.
But noise has a tendency to amplify as more people pile in that the thing I like about what's going on right here.
The thing that has me most excited is the fact that you are going to be bringing multiple communities together and there's always going to be a strength in numbers element.
Sorry, it is what it is. And we have a lot of crypto investors that simply don't understand.
They have no idea what they're invested in. It doesn't matter. Token go up. It's now the greatest thing.
They join the cult and they can't see the forest or the trees.
So I love this particular collaboration.
I love that all of this is coming together because you're going to be binding communities and people.
They like to be a part of something.
So the fact that all of these projects work so well together, I mean, these this just pops out of a slot for me.
And yeah, I think if you get that and you start getting some communities together, people start chatting up and a little bit more.
Next, you know, more and more people are looking at it.
But it's not by token token go up.
It's actually building a product, Web3 product using different pieces to build an ecosystem that will actually provide all the services that you want and to do it seamlessly to be using Jackal and not knowing that you're using Jackal.
To be able to go to AstroVault to take care of your business, to be able to go to Flix and simply click.
You don't even have to connect a wallet anymore.
You just click in the video place.
All of that is tremendously exciting.
It's going to get traction.
I'm clearly I'm clearly invested in this and I don't get them all right, but I'm going to nail this one.
And yeah, so I'm just excited about the opportunity.
And for those that do not know, Scott, I think it was a live challenge where there was a wallet that he took and I think doubled or like 4x the initial investment just by building on this thesis.
And probably investing based on this thesis.
But more about that, you know, for more information about that, do follow Scott, do follow the DarkSide podcast.
Thank you again, Eric, Jaden, Scott and Chris for sharing your valuable thoughts here, your insights and things that you're excited for.
Thank you, of course, Danny for, you know, sharing your views and interacting with the panel as well.
Thank you for being here.
And we'll see you again next year, you know, with the Flix fam, with the collaborations and with everything that we're working on together.
With that, we'll move on to the next segment, which is the engineering updates.
So please feel free to hang around, you know, if you're part of the panel and yeah, super like after the engineering updates, you can go ahead, please repeat the secret word and then we'll wrap up the space.
So just quickly moving on to the engineering updates, you know, we have quite a lot being worked on, of course, not for release this week, but they'll start next week again.
And what are we working on?
We have shipped quite a lot of features when it comes to Omnithrix TV, the global search interactive videos will now have images as interactions.
So you can utilize that, you know, maybe you can, Jackal can go ahead, create an interactive video asking people to recognize the right logo of Jackal, the right font of the Jackal protocol to avoid being, you know, scammed or phished later on.
So this can be possible right now in an interactive video once the interaction-based or image-based interactions go live and this can be used for multiple purposes, be it for education, be it for engagement.
And, you know, we are always open to creators, you know, experimenting with all the new features that are being worked on and also share your thoughts on how best we can improve that.
So that is an exciting update that will go live next year, early next year, or, you know, probably in the next two weeks.
And apart from that, we also have the Omniflix BuzzBot that has been in action, is being tested right now in production.
You can say that we're testing in production.
It's up for main net and just constantly delivering notifications of all your activity happening on the Omniflix blockchain.
So if you're a creator, if your community, if you think that your community might enjoy early access, might appreciate the early access to the bot, you know, definitely let us know.
But even if not, it should be available in two weeks to the wider community.
So that is with respect to the bot.
And from protocol standpoint, we have the version 47 of the upgrade being tested thoroughly.
And the testnet is also running fine, connected with multiple blockchains to transfer NFTs between each other.
And most likely this upgrade will go live.
This is the Omniflix V2 upgrade.
This will have the Cosmos SDK version 47.
This will also have feature inter-chain NFTs, interoperable NFTs.
And will also feature, you know, the migration of the ONFT standard to the base X-NFT standard.
So if you do not know what that means, do not worry.
We'll host a space dedicatedly to explain, you know, specifically details, the technical details of the Omniflix V2 upgrade.
So this is with respect to the protocol.
From a contract standpoint, you know, smart contracts will be coming to Omniflix.
They're being logged on right now.
DevNet with Cosmos is now live.
And we have few contracts, you know, not giving out any numbers, but we have a few contracts that are being worked on, deployed, tested right on the DevNet right now.
This DevNet will be hosted or will move to the testnet phase.
That is the FlixNet 4 testnet will feature these updates around smart contracts or Cosmos at the end of Jan or early February.
So you should be able to see more progress, more updates about that in the month of Jan.
And, of course, we are preparing for our end of year, you know, year in review.
Collateral, the blog post and, of course, the roadmap for Omniflix in 2024, which will be released next week early in 2024.
And definitely do not miss out on the FlixTalk 100 space that we'll be hosting next Wednesday, that is Jan 3rd at 2 p.m. UTC.
It's going to be very interesting.
And, yeah, that summarizes most of the updates from an engineering standpoint.
Of course, there are a few more details with respect to each of these updates that have been posted as part of the community update that we post every Monday.
And you should be able to check it out on x.com, Twitter, or you should be able to also check it out on Discord and Telegram.
So with that, all of these engineering updates that you heard just now, they're either live for you to try out as a creator or if you're a community member and not a creator, you should be able to request access to any of these to test out.
So we try to be as transparent as possible when it comes to sharing each of these updates and building with the community.
And based on timeline, based on, you know, feedback, we quickly move forward, iterate on things and align it with the community.
Yeah, Liam, I see that you raised your hand. Do you have a thought to share or a question to ask?
Yeah, I guess it's mostly a community update, if anything, but I was wondering, you know, people listening in, people in the space here, if you've been following OmniFlix, we've had quite a few spam proposals recently go live and we mentioned changing the deposits potentially for proposals to kind of combat that.
I was just wondering if there's been any progress with that or if we just need to kind of get a forum discussion going, because I think it'd be a good idea at this point because it seems like it's a frequent happening.
Yeah, that's right. We've had BlockchainFlix, the validators, they initiated a discussion on the Discord forum. There has been some discussion going on there.
I think most of them are probably busy because of the holidays, but immediately after the start of the new year, we should be able to, you know, I think as a community get to consensus and take it forward.
Yeah, the discussion has started and there are a few interesting ideas as well.
Yeah, perfect. That's what all I was going to ask and I was going to say, if it hasn't, I'd be happy to get it started. But it's good that it has. And yeah, hopefully we can get that sorted then for the next year. So yeah, that was all from me. So back to you. And of course, if super wants to share anything. Yeah, go ahead.
Definitely. Thank you, Liam. Please do not hesitate to be a part of the discussion. For those that might not be aware, these discussions happen on Discord. And they also happen on Commonwealth. So you should be able to check out Omniflix on both of these platforms. Yeah, you can join any of our social channels, be it Telegram or Discord. That's where our community is. And you should be able to interact with the wider community.
All right. Chris, yeah, before we go to super, please, do you have a thought to share?
Yeah, just one last thing before I may have to head out. Guys, please be sure to follow me on Twitter. And if you're looking to learn more about these different communities and chains and projects that we're trying to build a collaboration and crossover with, definitely make sure you check out my NFT collection.
You'll see that we have Corium branded NFTs. We just had a recent thing with Archie's. We have another collab with another Archway based NFT artist dropping this week.
So there's a one of the comments in this one. You can try to guess who that Archway based artist is and you can win an NFT.
We also just did a recent drop with Mr. Minded. For those who don't know, Mr. Minded is a very well-known artist over on Stash app on Secret.
You know, Secret has been a pretty good partner with Omniflix TV, and I'm hoping to get Stash app more involved over here on Omniflix TV.
But Mr. Minded is a really cool artist, and he's also on Stargaze as well.
But if you pick up any of these special versions, you will get airdropped proof of participation NFTs.
And those proof of participation NFTs is what gets you the official invite to the Collaboration Hub voice chat channel on the Omniflix Discord.
So if you want to learn more and have chances to win NFTs, win whitelists, earn staking rewards, learn more about Archway, learn more about Secret, Coram, check out our collection.
Get you an NFT so you can not only win maybe in the game, but you can earn these popped NFTs.
These proof of participation NFTs are a good way to utilize and grow community, and that's exactly what we're trying to do.
You know, definitely follow Chris here and Fight From Pets and their collections and collaborations on Omniflix.
That being said, Subur, do you have the secret word to be shared one final time before we wrap the space?
So one final time this year, the secret phase is claim your Flix.
It's available on Omniflix.tv.
Make sure that when you are done with the claim video, you also interact with the other videos there, because there are some more campaigns and activities by Jackal, by YFlix, by Inter Protocol.
So make sure you do participate in each of those.
And also set your alarm right now for next week when we will have our Flix Talk 100.
And meanwhile, I can assure you that the community subtao will plan what we can do for our community who would be there for our 100th episode.
Take care and wish you all a Flixy New Year 2024.
Thanks a lot, Super, from the Flix fanatics.
Thank you again, Danny, Liam, Chris, and Eric for staying with us right from the start.
You know, apologies to the Flix fam for starting the space 10 minutes late, but I'm sure you understand the glitches here.
Thank you all for attending the space.
Thank you to the panelists for joining us and sharing their insights with the wider Flix fam.
Thank you, Liam and Danny for coming up.
And we'll see you all again in Flix Talk 100 next year.
Until then, have a great end of year.
And take care of yourselves.
See you all again next Wednesday, that is Jan 3rd, 2024, at 2pm UTC.
We'll be ending the space in 3, 2, and 1.