Hey, Mark, are you there?
Hey, lunch. Yeah, I'm here. You can hear me. Awesome. Awesome. Yeah, I can hear you. Absolutely.
Great. Is it okay if we give like two or three minutes for a couple of more folks to join in?
Okay, I think we can start Mark and hear me.
Yes, yes, I can share. Awesome. Great then. So hi everyone. Let's welcome Mark here. He's from Raka, the CMO of the Raka team. This AMA today is all about the team of Raka team.
of what they're up to, more so around the new product, which is the USM Metaverse. So let's welcome Mark, we're pretty fortunate to have him here with us for an exclusive AMA session. Over to you, Mark, just want to sort of have a quick round of paint from the outside.
Yeah, thank you, Vunch. So yeah, this is the same as just for me, I'm more about the Rockas and I know we do have a partnership with Stater Labs, which I'll talk about more towards the end. We have thank you so much for welcoming me and we'll just
I think this got some some of the history behind Raka and some of the things that we were working on and yeah And now yeah, my name is Mark and I'm the CEO of the chief marketing officer of Raka. So my main task is
is taking on two spaces, answering questions, doing some marketing and all sorts of stuff. Awesome. Great. I think we can start then with the Twitter on this intro for the project itself. What all is it after about and more so the US and Meta was?
So what is Rocco bought? Okay, so yeah, Rocco, okay, USM, that world we're a web 3 based ecosystem now. We were initially bootstrapped by main musk NFT doc community. So our one of the first projects that really took off and really put our us on the radar was
the main mask, mystery box NFT, which did it really well and gave us some good motivations to continue with the project. So over the past nine months, we've traded over 3.7 million units of B&B coins, which is equivalent to about two billion USD, which is quite
quite a large amount of trading volume. That was in nine months from the May Musk NFT and derivatives of the MTs including game characters and various virtual lands. So Raaka itself, we're back with quite a few companies. So the first one is OKX Ventures.
So the venture capital arm of the really popular popular exchange OK X and we're also backed by Consensus mesh mesh take you on which is the parent company of Metamask They also have a venture capital this arm. So it has one of the biggest Web3 communities over 20
We have over 600k followers on Twitter, over half a million on Telegram. I think roughly 70k at this court. So the USM, the United States of Mars is also the Web 3 Central Hub for virtual headquarters and social spaces for partners.
a bit of partnerships with various projects including D&B Chain, Grobe, QCoin, VSC, Muse, Element Market, and Muin partnered with Miami NFT Week. So we're really big in partnering with various projects and expanding our ecosystem and working together in this crypto space.
Awesome. I think yeah, you backed by some of the market investors and also the sort of following is mind-boggling. Could you also tell us a bit more about the US and Metaverse? What all is it about and what can people do when they add to the Metaverse? Sure. So the US Summerverse, the US
The USM stands for the United States of Mars. And I'll give you guys some like the lore about it. So USM is one of the oldest planets in the universe. That's iconic to Mars ecology and landscape. So it was believed to be forced by the galaxy for the loopy which is a celestial creature in existence.
It's a little bit more fun to play with.
My features like really cool characters, how they're coming you guys check it out and then rock a residence of the US and worlds Always valued ideas of innovations sustainability honor and we're proud of a culture cultural heritage So a big thing about our US meta-versus was we tried to really encompass
I think we're all about community oriented projects and bringing people together all across the world. And the last thing is the centralized community of the
may mask dog NFT and the matrix plus box, that's the, on this teabox was talking about earlier. It's a planet whose magical power and influence is on the rise where we value art craftsmanship, good cause and innovation walk hand in hand from the engines forward thinking.
Great, so this sounds like a really huge plan and I think there should be some sort of entertainment that the matter was so that everyone can have some fun after class. So could you could you could you put some light on that as well?
Yeah, we're very big on entertainment in the metaverse. So it's definitely on necessity in a metaverse project. So we do have a USM bowl where we can hold concerts. So I'm sure you guys have heard of like other projects holding concerts in the metaverse.
Actually held one in July 2022. They held a live concert with three A-list Japanese voice actresses. It was Aya Uchida, Anis Azuki and Imi Anita. It was one of the hottest medivarest concerts in the summer of 2022.
We really made history. It was quite a few people that joined our metaverse concert. Thousands of avatars were dancing, enjoying running, chatting and playing all the same time, listening to music. And so fans from all over the world flock to the USM Bowl.
The coordinates are 4650, 4350, but I'm sure you guys can find them and you can actually just visit it yourself if you want to just check it out. Like you don't have to visit it when there was a concert, you can just just start it out. So the success was very very good with this concert and we're planning to
something maybe in the future, but with that concert, the community intend to nominate us for next year's MTV VMA Awards as the best metaverse performance category. I'm really excited about that. And yeah, our concert wasn't just success on the
The technology resistant can support up to 1 million users online at the same time and hopefully reach 1 billion users in the future. Our metaverse can definitely support quite a few people logged in at a time which is a huge benefit when it comes to throwing big concerts.
awesome. This sounds really fun. By the way, just to follow up to this question, are you guys also planning to, you know, through some more concerts in the coming months?
I think we might have something planned, but nothing is officially announced yet. We're definitely always thinking about something. Obviously the hardest part is getting the right musicians and actors to join the concert. But once that's figured out, we'll definitely have some more concerts in the future.
Awesome. Yeah, we'd love to be a part of one whenever it's all coming. Yeah, but we're not gonna answer. Yeah. Great. So this concept thinks sounds great and so many people gather in the USM, both as we said and enjoy the concept. But I'm curious, can they communicate with each other as well as the way to interact with the meta versus
Yes, of course, the communication is one of the most important aspects of the metaverse, especially when it comes to making more immersive and entertaining for people. So yeah, Rockup, we're also exploring the social fly aspects, the social fly is just people communicating with each other and interacting with each other.
So, what a cool thing about it is for the text chat, we have a translation function that supports over 20 languages so you can just type in whatever language you want and it will automatically
It's translated to a different language. And these communication features are very important in our goal of building a borderless ecosystem. Because we do have people from all over the world and it's important that they're able to communicate with each other. And so when it comes to the voice chat function, our community can't meet and chat anywhere.
We also have kind of like a record contact book in your phone. We have something similar in the metaverse where you can add contact and you can call it up at any time, especially if they're logged in. So language barriers are no longer limited from the metaverse and
You know, some also almost a friend system. That's what I mentioned earlier. It's similar to like WhatsApp or ReChat. Like you just add people and if they're online you can directly call them and talk to them. So we're very big on helping people interact with each other and kind of adding which adds to this whole immersiveness of the metaverse.
So yeah, this 3D scene is user friendly and that sense, I think the idea is sort of all in-time passing when you cover these many languages. Right. And you also mentioned social file which sort of has a pretty big market in the crypto world. So the RAPT team developed more social
Yeah, so it's actually our latest game that we're developing is a 3D party game called Luffy Luffy Jazz. Very similar to Among Us. We're actually some of our team members are playing in yesterday for quite a few hours. So it's kind of like a Among Us. Very similar.
except there's slightly different roles, slightly different mechanics and it is like a DF so you log in with your Metamass account. You can use like a brand new wallet that you don't have to use one that has money on it or anything and you just get your friends to join and it's exactly like among us but just slightly
I can equip diversion of it. So your characters are actually like lute characters. The lute characters from the NFT that I was talking about earlier. So yeah, you just join a room and each person has assigned a role you have assassins and different people that like medics. So there's a bunch of different roles and
And the good guys complete tasks and the assassins try to kill everybody. So the game is still trying to balance the game, but the white list is open. And if you guys want to join, you can probably message us on Twitter or our telegram and just give us your address. And I think we should be able to add you to the white list.
So you can check out the game and it's fully functional right now. You can log in and play. I think the minimum is just you need five people and the maximum is 10 people. So yeah, it's a really cool game and we're really happy to kind of maybe work out more games in the future just to expand our Web 3 ecosystem and provide more entertainment for people.
Also, one more thing I wanted to mention is we're one apartment with some V-tubers, so virtual YouTubers think it's a really big trend and like we want to enable people to get some character avatars so it's a little bit more customized and
I just wanted to ask you a couple more questions.
and probably we can open it up to the audience later as well. Like some of the questions I had asked for example, what are some of the emerging trends, new updates and new launches in the overall space, like the meta-verse space as well as for Raka that you're excited about. Something that we haven't discussed already, if there is any
I mean, some emerging trends, I believe, is just, I think the thing that really pushes a nice forward is definitely user ability, so something that users can actually use. One example, with Stader, you guys have a very useful, staging protocol that people can actually use.
Same thing with the metaverse. The biggest trend right now is just projects that are big on certain games. Even if it's a mini game that gets people excited and people can play it immersive themselves in a metaverse a little bit and maybe even move on. A good example would be something like
The board 8 you know the creative those two games I forget the name of them, but it's like where you can like you have to like dodge certain things and you get a reward something that's like a big trend even just Do some mini games where it can help people interact with with the metaverse kind of like Continue following it, you know, so I think that's the biggest stuff
with the metaverse terms. We're really excited about main potential developing more games, but right now, we just recently launched this look at Jazzy game and we just want to bounce it all and maybe get a little more users and maybe start adding more features to it and integrating like NFTs and stuff like that. So we're definitely really excited about that.
Yeah. And in terms of partnerships and collaborations, are you looking to collaborate with different sorts of other ecosystems as well like cross ecosystems? So you yourself being a meta-wise come gain-wise or to the player, are you looking to collaborate with other ecosystems such as C5?
I was looking to collaborate with others, other projects. I think we usually run out of the spring break, taking slow, but usually every week we have one or two collaborations, we're always expanding our headquarters.
I mean, collaboration is like Venus protocol, I mean, being a beach in, open leverage, obviously, stator, I'm a coal finance, right stream. Yeah, there's quite a lot of things in the pipeline and we're always working on new partnerships.
Awesome, awesome, that's great, great, and finally coming on to, you know, before we open it up to the audience, the collaboration between Spader and Raka, over to you, if you want to just run us by the campaign details, the bit and maybe I can also sign in later.
So just to be sure to take us to what the country is all about.
Yeah, I believe I don't know if I remember I believe we did a AMA with Stator a while back. I think we really enjoyed it. Yeah, it was a really great time. So yeah, I'm glad we finally were able to like reach a partnership. So so Rock and Saturday and we have partnered as a state is not building. It's not present in the US.
with all the relevant educational material around staking with stator. So you guys do have a headquarters in the USM which users can visit and interact with the content. So very recently we've also launched a campaign with Raka USM where users can earn 25% boost in staking yields on their B&B by staking
Anything with Stator via a specific link placed in the building. So if you guys visit the Stator headquarters, it's gonna be a specific link. They'll give you guys a 25% staking yield boost on B&B, either by scanning or copypacing the link in the Stator building of the Raka, U.S. em out of us. Absolutely.
Yeah, and I think this is the great intersection of the two spaces, my diverse in B5 and just sort of adding on to your explanation of the campaign. Just for everyone to know the link to stake to sort of be able to on boosted, taking use is there in the state of building as Mark mentioned in the Raka, a USM.
and the link is pretty visible. It's there on multiple floors. I believe the ground floor as well as the first floor plus it's on multiple sides of the building. So there shouldn't be any issue for users when the enter the meta was to sort of locate the URL or the QR code to stay.
So, that is pretty intuitive and it is pretty simple to sort of speak with us. We will just take a couple of seconds. Once you scan the QR and you will be redirected to the app and once you start, once you sort of speak with us, you will automatically in the backend start accruing the 25% of the studios. So, yeah, that is
pretty much about the campaign and excited to see how it goes. Awesome. So, Math, I think now we can probably open it up to the audience. So, opening it up to everyone, if you have any questions feel free to raise your hand that I think sort of let you in as a speaker.
Also, you maybe had a quick question for you. What do you think about the future of DeFi or do you think maybe there's some other trends that might emerge after DeFi? Because it seems that we've had like NFTs.
then metaverse and then defy. Do you think there's something else going to come after it or maybe do you see where defy can be going? I know it's hard to predict the future but maybe you have any ideas?
Yeah, I can tell you from our standpoint this sort of beds we are taking of course the being the taking platform more so a liquid taking platform we act like a window to sort of be five not being a defi player or says so to speak and
We really believe that not just the crypto-nated people but people who are sort of also new to the ecosystem will start interacting with multiple ecosystems in the entire crypto-real.
which is pretty interesting to anyone who is new to the space. The fact that there is no KYC, EML, you can just simply connect your wallet and do transactions without any sort of weight 24, 7, 365 and also sort of exploring gamefire and meta-versus.
I think all of this is pretty cross-sectional. So yeah, and I think buying by what I see, what is going to evolve is this space is only going to get much more user friendly. Currently I believe there is still some sort of, and this is my opinion.
still some sort of the UI is still not there. So the user experience will keep on getting better and better when compared to Web2. And I think that's when we get mainstream adoption across all the existing in the crypto sphere.
God, that's a nice sense. Pretty good take. Nice.
Awesome. So I see Navya has all the questions. I'll just try to sort it later in as a speaker.
Hey, now, yeah, I'll grant you please speaker access. Hey, hey, Mark. So my question is to you. Actually, I want you to understand other than what you guys have going on with stator.
So are there any other ways for a user to also earn rewards through your meta wars like any kind of campaigns or any hidden things that we don't know about?
Yeah, right now on one campaign we probably we have some partnerships with like I think Venus or Maybe coal finance, but there's some other default platforms out there that we have partnered with I mean the best way is maybe to either check the headquarters, but also check the
Twitter or Twitter or we always announce different partnerships and different campaigns. So yeah, we just definitely stay look at our official Twitter account. We're always announcing different ways like earn more rewards and different like prizes prizes. And sometimes also when we do AMAs, especially when we host them sometimes we
offer rewards for people to ask questions or just participating. We always do have certain campaigns available, which is best way to keep up with them, make sure to follow our Twitter. Thanks for a good question. - Thank you.
Yeah, thanks. I see there are two more requests. The aloe is next in line. I try to let him in.
So actually my question is like since you mentioned like you are like launching your name your game names Jazzy so like how you like plan to scale that game because like for example if I interact you game need to
be more scalable than you need to target a huge amount of gamers at once. So how's your plan to maybe scale that game? Since you mentioned Among Us during the aim, how is your plan to
the game such a hard scale. Yeah, great question for sure. I mean, it's something important to have a game be able to sustain a lot of users and not crash or anything, but so the game loopy loopy jazz has developed but the same developers that
The same development team that built the our USM metaverse. So our USM metaverse, we over-tested it with the big concerts so it's able to sustain large amount of users to be logged in. And so since we're using the same infrastructure, I mean, look at Jazzy Games also.
should be able to stay quite a few people. And right now even it's fully functional so if you join the wireless you can fully play it. And the future with the game I think we're definitely looking to integrate like some more avatars and more custom options right now is just more like just the bare bones just the mechanics of the game. They were just like testing
the balance of the different roles and the tasks and the assassin and stuff like that. So we're definitely in the future once you get more users, we'll definitely try to scale it, but for now we're just mostly focusing on just the actual mechanics of the game. But since we're using the same infrastructure,
the USM we are able to sustain quite a large number of users. I don't think that should be a problem. Okay cool so like how a common maybe some sort of like nerd can get some the access for the white list and can't pass the game at any initial stage.
Yeah, so you can already join the Weislist right now. I think if you just message us either on our telegram group or if you use Tag us on Twitter, we should be able to just add you to the Weislist within a few hours, one of our team members sees it. Yeah, it's fully functional right now.
I think if you have like a few other friends you want to join with, all you need is just to get your address. Like a Metamask, you know, ERC 20 or BP 20 address and it doesn't have to, I would even recommend just a blank address that has no money on it, just to stay safe.
But yeah, once you have the address, they send it through us via any channel, telegram or Twitter is probably the best. And yeah, we will add it to the wireless and once you go to the website, we'll give you the link. It is just log in and start playing right away.
Yeah sure I'll just connect you with maybe in Telegram and thank you much.
Yeah, yeah, it's all going to work.
Awesome. Thanks for the question.
I think we have two more requests mark that we can easily accommodate the scene. You will next in line.
and what you're into is Pico.
Hello, can you hear me? Yes. All right, yes, I've been a Raka holder for a long time now. I had two questions. What's happening to the MVP? It was for a while supposed to be the most valuable NFC at Raka, but we didn't hear about the new
Robmap for a while. Second question I had, it was about the RACA token. So at some point you wanted to concentrate the liquidity on BND and keep only RACA token. And now we might have a USM coin in the future if I'm not wrong. So I wanted to
get more of it so clarity on that. Yeah, well, so with the MVP, the mystery of us, I think it's really the specific question regarding it. I think it's best to go on telegram like I know if you want to come to actually what was happening with it because I mean, I'm
I was not sure what's happening with the NFT itself, but I know that the value goes up and down, but it's still there. I'm still available to trade. It just depends more on the market. When you're talking about the rocket token itself,
So yeah, we did have I think some ideas of logic and other token, but right now we're just still focusing on rocket itself And that's how we've built like the new game just to provide more utility for for the token and yeah, we do concentrate liquidity on B and B change because I think that's our biggest partner Okay
But when it comes to launching its own token, yeah, I'm not too sure about that at all. I think right now we just look at still focusing on the actual token rocket that's trading on the market and just trying to provide more utilities and working on our metaverse and the game.
What's happening to EZ chat? Is it still in the talk in development? You mentioned I think this last year with Dev. Yeah, we have all the time EZ chat. Yes.
I think we do have a lot of things in the pie pie. I want to thank you all for the best of us. We have a few projects that we start working on. We realize that it doesn't work out.
A lot of projects that take a little bit more time to develop. So one thing for example is we have been working really hard on the JazzDID, like the D/A/B, the Central ID and NFTs. So we just like get quite a few things in a pipeline, we're trying to manage all of them and sometimes certain things, maybe
take a little longer than others, but if you have a link specific questions regarding a certain topic, I think it's definitely best to go to our telegram group, is then somebody maybe from a development team can answer in a better way regarding those. So just to rephrase your priority right now, like the gaming and the metaverse, right, to develop mini games,
Yes, exactly. Priority right now is working on the metaverse with the new game that we've just developed and also we still work on the JSDID, the decentralized ID and also integrating that into either a metaverse games or working with other partners and also our other priority is to continue like a
established in partnership with other Web 3 projects and build our headquarters in the USM. So that's one of the biggest things we ever week we always have new partnerships, always expanding our headquarters. Okay, very last question I had. I saw that Justin sent the NMEA review and I know that you had some topics as well.
about the Jids? Is there any collaboration between Rata and Justin St. Diarrachy? Or was it more like just a topic covered during the general topic to be covered during a name? Yeah, but Justin St. was actually with me, he was with Dr. Watney. Yeah.
and we live with French Montana. Yeah, that was, I think it was just a collaboration. I know Justin's son gifted us a like a really one of the B pull NFTs. I think so Justin's son does know about our project. I think he's a supporter, but I can't really speak to him. Yeah, we did have a direct relationship with him.
and I think it was just more of an AMA thing with Justin Sun. All right, thanks a lot for the replacement. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Thanks, guys. Cool. I think we can easily take one more question, Mark. Lonea, I'll just put it in the video.
Hey can you pass I have granted you speaker access.
this seems to be some issue one for end. Cool, any other questions from unity?
I think we can take up one more if there's anyone who wants to ask any questions.
Cool Mark, I think we're good to go there. This was pretty efficient.
Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming to being here. And yeah, let's look forward to the campaign and new product updates and also the Rata has to offer. Everyone do follow our social
The Raka handle is the same as the straight up hand. So, it will be in the hand. Just stay tuned for the updates. And yeah, look forward to the campaign reaching new milestones.
Thank you so much, Bonch, for having me and hosting this great AMA. And thank you everybody for asking great questions. We hope to get you guys on the white list for the Luke Ylke-Luke and Jazzz.
definitely check it out and we're really proud of like here. Awesome. All right. Bye bye. All right. Thank you. Take care. Have a good rest of your week. You too. Bye bye. Bye bye.