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.UBU Spaces
Recorded: Aug. 1, 2024 Duration: 0:58:48Space Recording
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GM, GM, GM.
So excited for this space.
How is everybody doing?
Doing good.
Doing good.
How's it guys?
How's it Sandy?
Hey, hey, Nick.
Oh, I'm doing great.
Oh, and you need to meet.
Oh, and you need to meet.
I see Ethernet Explorer is on here.
AI.crypto.
He's one of our whales and he lives in Africa, too.
Oh, no way.
Yeah.
He's going to try to come over to Johannesburg for your conference, potentially.
Oh, fantastic.
Yeah.
So we've got several of our whales in Africa.
So they're really super excited about this.
And just as a quickie, .ubu came out of the gates flying.
We have over 1,000 domains.
We have over 1,000 domains so far.
So you guys are really rocking it.
Lots of interest here.
Oh, wow.
That's fantastic.
What great news.
Great way to start.
Yeah.
Great fast start for sure.
So that's awesome.
Wow.
That's really great news.
Yeah, looking forward to jumping into space here.
So welcome back to Unstoppable Spaces.
We're excited to have a space today with our partners over at AfricaRare.
Today, we'll be discussing all things .ubu, our partnership, and how on-chain domains can
play into a variety of these ecosystems.
Thanks for tuning in.
My name's Adrian.
I'm on the Unstoppable marketing team.
And joining me today is Sandy Carter, our COO at Unstoppable, as well as Nick from
AfricaRare.
Woo-hoo.
So do you want to go ahead and get started, Adrian?
Yeah, I would love to.
Let's just pass the mic around real quick and introduce ourselves.
Okay, Mick, I'll start with you.
Sure.
How's it?
I'm Mick.
I'm the CEO and co-founder of AfricaRare and Singularity, New South Africa.
Very cool.
And my name, of course, is Sandy Carter.
I'm the COO of Unstoppable and the founder of Unstoppable Women of Web3 and AI.
And it's great to be here.
Invite all your friends, if you don't mind.
You guys can go up and share this space with everybody.
You can share it right up the top.
You can invite people via DM.
You can share it via post.
You can copy the link.
So if you guys, you guys don't want to miss this.
Mick is quite a fabulous, I mean, he's got so many great stories and so many great things
he's doing.
You don't want your friends to miss the space.
So make sure you share it out too.
Definitely.
And Nick, I would love to know about the origin story of AfricaRare as well as more about
AfricaRare in general, if you'd like to tell our listeners.
Yeah, sure.
So AfricaRare is Africa's first metaverse and really came about through our discovery and
our love for technology.
We've always, you know, we've been early adopters and really tried new things.
And we got involved with this group called Singularity University in 2015, which is really
all about how do you use these different exponential technologies like robotics, 3D printing,
blockchain, AR, and how do we use these technologies to create an abundant future that we all want
to live in.
And we started, you know, buying robots and 3D printers and we started, we made our own
virtual reality studio.
And we really dived head first into these different technologies.
And then when COVID hit in 2020, we've also got a live events business where we had over
60 live events canceled due to COVID.
And we started thinking, how do we bring people together when you can't be, now because of
COVID, how do you actually bring people together in a more immersive, engaging way that's not
on this 2D flat surface like Teams or Zoom.
So we started creating these virtual reality campaigns for brands in the browser, you know,
through events or induction programs and or product launches.
And then when NFTs and this whole idea of digital ownership came around in 2021, it was the perfect
opportunity for us to combine our skills and to launch AfricaRare.
And we launched in October 2021 at one, at our singularity summit.
It was online that year.
Um, uh, with the band, we did a, with an art gallery, uh, which was hugely successful.
You know, in those days that was at the peak of the bull run, everything, uh, sold out like
hotcakes.
And, um, we then continued to build out the platform of Ubuntu land, which is the land in
Africa rare.
And, um, you know, we, today we have about 38 B2B and B2C brands that are building various
experiences with some of the largest brands in Africa from the likes of MTN, the biggest
mobile network, uh, across Africa with over 300 million customers, uh, to Ned Bank, one of the
largest banks in Africa, um, and, uh, to, to many, many others from prime media.
We've got quite a number of international partners and we are very much looking forward to
Unstoppable, uh, coming into Ubuntu land soon.
Woo.
Hey, Adrian too.
Don't we have a couple of surprises for our listeners too?
Do you want to talk about that?
Oh, yeah.
You want to talk a little bit about that so you can, uh, get people jazzed up?
Yeah, for sure.
So for two of our users slash listeners, by the end of the spaces, we'll be giving away
two unique .ubu domains.
So just stay tuned for that.
Stay here throughout the spaces.
And at the end, we'll make the announcements or we'll DM you at the end.
Woo hoo.
So get your questions ready, have those emojis going so you can potentially win one of the
rarest .ubus.
Okay.
Good.
Cool.
So jumping into it a bit further here.
Uh, for those of you maybe unfamiliar, uh, Sandy, do you mind highlighting our recent .ubu
announcement for our partnership with Africa rare?
And we do have it pinned up here as well for anybody that wants to read it.
Awesome.
And they can also buy a .ubu up there too.
So if you go to that pin spot, you can buy a .ubu.
So I was really excited about this.
So Mick and I, Mick and I have known each other for a while.
We have some common friends as well.
And I've always admired what he was doing in Africa.
We had the chance to be, I think that was our first in-person meeting was at NFT NYC.
I know we've met on virtual before, but, but in-person was at NFT NYC.
Um, and Mick came over and we were chatting and he was, you know, I was asking about all
the cool stuff he was doing first metaverse in Africa.
I mean, can you guys believe that first metaverse in Africa?
Um, and he's just doing so many cool things to grow the African community and innovation.
And so I said, Ooh, maybe we should look at doing something for Africa.
And he said, yes, let's do it.
And so as soon as we got back from NFT NYC, which was pretty fabulous, by the way, um,
we got in contact and we decided to launch a .ubu.
Um, before I go, before I go further, Mick, why don't you tell us why Ubu?
Like, why did you decide instead of .Africa rare or something else?
Why did you decide on .ubu?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, um, the, we, we, we took it from the, you know, when we were designing, um, and, and
creating the platform, uh, you know, there's a great African proverb called this Ubuntu,
which means I am because we are.
And it really encapsulates the, the spirit of community and coming together to do more.
Um, you know, in, in Africa, they say, if you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
So, you know, for us, it was, it was the perfect opportunity to encapsulate everything that
Africa is about.
And, and, and this idea of, uh, being, you know, more doing more together, forging this
future of Africa together.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
I, in fact, that's one of my very favorite quotes.
So we decided, you know, the choice of a naming system or the community, you know, the, really
the rallying cry is really important.
Um, you know, many people pick their brand.
Um, some people pick their city, but I thought this was really very thoughtfully done and
has a lot of meaning, you know, even just outside of the brand here.
So I thought that was really awesome.
So we announced a dot Ubu.
Um, and we opened that up for people to get their own domain with dot Ubu.
So Sandy dot Ubu or Mick dot Ubu.
And the significance of that is first, you can do transactions with crypto with Sandy
dot Ubu.
Uh, you can also though use it for community.
You've got several really cool badges that Mick has arranged and you can use that for group
chatting.
You can use it as your gamer tag.
There's so many use cases here.
Um, and again, the, the partnership also included the fact that, um, in 2026, when I
can, or DNS, um, domains are opened up for potentially use, you know, new DNS domains, like a dot
com or dot AI, we would also take dot Ubu forward.
It would then have all the superpowers of both web two and web three.
If I can, you know, accepted our application as well.
So that's kind of in the nutshell with the partnership contained, it's got lots of different
elements and I know we'll go through some of those things as well.
Um, as we continue through the, you know, the show today too.
Definitely.
And we'll definitely touch on that a bit too later.
Um, bring it back to, to Mick.
How do you envision dot Ubu domain strengthening the bonds of your community?
Oh man.
I just think that it's, it's, it's, it's such an incredible, um, build on our, you know, into our community.
And I mean, for us, if you just, the, this, this whole idea of identity and, and, and what
unstoppable is doing is just incredible because when, you know, if you go back to the history
of Tom, our name, you know, the only way we had our identity was based on your name or your
father's name or your family name.
Uh, and it was, you know, this identifier that gave you the sense of belonging and being
part of a community.
So, you know, now with the, the, in, in the realm of web three and, and digital ownership,
you can actually own your own identity.
Um, now we're in, in Africa with your dot Ubu, which is, you know, for us, it, it makes
it so important to, uh, involve this idea of, of, of digital ownership and being part of
that community.
So we, you know, we're going to start, uh, you know, in, in our games, we've just recently
launched a game called the last Hodler in Africa rare, which is a blockchain e-sports game
in the metaverse.
And, uh, you're going to be able to use your dot Ubu to, uh, you know, to play the game
and to connect and to receive funds, uh, for winning in the game.
Um, and then, you know, there's a number of other ways from, uh, digital certification or
having all of your assets in Ubuntu land, your land, your avatars, your, your different
merchandise or skins, uh, or any, any, um, uh, digital services that you have, all are
going to be connected to your dot Ubu domain.
That is really cool.
Tell me, tell me about, yeah, yeah.
Tell me about that domain, uh, about that game.
You know, I'm a gamer, so I love games.
So tell me about the game.
Like what, what can you do inside the game?
Oh, so this, this is something I'm really excited about.
We've just launched version three of our platform, uh, which has taken us about almost a year
to, to develop.
And, uh, version three allows us to have full body avatars, HD video, HD graphics, um, uh,
rock solid spatial audio and, and physical interaction physics in the metaverse.
And now we can create, uh, various types of games, um, you know, using the features
within the platform.
And we've just launched this game called the last hodler, which is a game where you have
to stay alive for the longest.
Uh, there's nine plates in a, in a vertical stack that you start off at the top with the
other players.
And as the game begins, the, the, the plates start falling away or the tiles.
And as you run over a plate, it activates it.
Uh, so you have to compete against your other guys to stay up.
And if you hit the bottom, if you hit the water, you get liquidated.
Uh, and if you, if you lost till the end, you've got the diamond hands and you actually
win the game.
Uh, and this game is either free to play.
You can play now.
We've launched free to play, uh, two days ago.
So people can compete and practice, get their skills up.
And then next week we're launching tournament mode where you can, uh, purchase game tickets
with your Ubu.
You, you buy these game tickets and then you use the game tickets to enter the tournament
and the top three players in the tournament will win the, the, the prize pool, uh, for each
tournament.
So it's quite a, it's quite a spin on the play to earn model because this way we, what
we've done is made it very accessible for users.
You only have to, you know, spend 50 Ubu, uh, to take part in a game and to compete.
Uh, and then you can win some great rewards, uh, for, you know, and, and it's, and it's not
expensive.
Ooh, that's really cool.
I like that.
Very cool.
Yeah.
I like that.
I like that a lot.
We are so excited about this.
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's quite a, it's a, it's a new thing for us.
And I haven't seen it out there, uh, in the web three world yet.
Yeah.
That's really fascinating.
Do you see, are there differences, Mick?
I'm just curious.
And you know, when you're, cause you're crafting really for Africa and Africans primarily, do
you see any differences like in gameplay?
I know Africa, you know, leapfrogged everybody with mobile, for example.
So are you thinking about that when you're designing these games and you're designing
your meta verses?
Well, I think you are.
So I think this game specifically, we've made it so it's like, it's, it's, you know,
it's very easy to play, but it's got a huge amount of skill involved in it.
So it's easy to pick up.
It's easy to start interacting.
But if you want to win and you want to get, um, you want to win prizes, you have to really
practice and get your skills up.
So it's more of an e-sport actually than a, than a game.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And then some of our other, we've got another game, um, that we developed in our version
two called Zanzibar Zipline, which is, you know, it's, it's themed in Africa and it's
themed in Zanzibar, uh, on the beaches of Zanzibar.
So we do have a strong connection to Africa and we are totally inspired by Africa, especially
with Africa being, um, one of the fastest growing populations, uh, globally, one of the
fastest continents globally growing, um, you know, and is expected to have a third of
the world's youth by 2050.
We see this as a great opportunity to, um, to really empower Africans to rise up and not
chase this tale of disruption, but rather lead in the future.
Yeah.
I mean, one of the factoids, Mick, that I think is super cool is that by 2035, which is essentially
what, 10, maybe 10 and a half years away.
There will be more tech skilled people than there will be in any other part of the world.
That just blew me away.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think we all, um, you know, at Singularity, Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029, we're going
to reverse engineer the human brain and the computer will become as smart as a human.
And, you know, we, we're reaching that point pretty soon.
Elon Musk predicts it's going to be sooner.
And then he also predicts that by 2045, the computational power will be so great.
We'll be able to reverse engineer the entire human race.
And there's going to be this technological singularity, this merging between man and machine.
So, you know, we were in for some exciting times in the next couple of years.
For sure.
For sure.
Thanks for sharing that.
I mean, this is what I was talking about.
This is why you need to invite your friends.
There's so much alpha going on here.
So much, um, from OG Mech for sure.
Definitely.
And for some of our more one-on-one users here, uh, Sandy, do you mind explaining further
how the power of transacting crypto works and how on-chain domains can benefit this?
Yeah.
So, um, if you don't know back in 2018, when unstoppable actually started and was founded,
the use case that, um, we went after was the use case of simply taking a crypto address,
a 21, you know, letters and numbers and translating that into a real name, much like was done back
in the olden days for an IP address where you, you know, you used to type in 247.97 that
now you're doing the same thing for the crypto address.
So it was a very simple use case, but yet very, very powerful.
The way most great startups start, right.
Is with a, with a really interesting use case, but usually one.
Um, and that use case is still there today.
I can take sandy.ubu or sandycarter.ubu.
And I can, um, you know, I can use that to transact in crypto.
So using sandy.ubu to translate into my crypto address or taking a crypto address and converting
it back into my name.
It's still our number one use case today.
There were over 30 million resolutions that happen every week, every week, believe that
every week, so 3 million transactions every week, just taken, you know, mc.ubu, taking
that to his crypto address or taking that crypto address back to, you know, uh, our ether explorer
or, uh, you know, any of the, any of the folks that are out there.
So take a, you know, I think this is a really powerful use case.
It's also a great lesson for startup founders that usually you start simple.
You start with a use case and usually that's what you're known for, for a long time.
Especially if you continue to make that great.
Definitely.
And, and you guys use lots of crypto in Africa, right?
Um, Mick?
Yeah.
You know, Africa actually has, uh, one of the highest crypto adoption rates globally.
Um, because of our mobile penetration, there's a, there's a huge amount of curiosity.
Uh, and there's a lot of usage of stable coins throughout Africa.
Um, although the transaction sizes are still small, there's a massive opportunity for growth.
Yeah.
I find it interesting.
You know, I love the way Africa just leapfrogs over on these things, right?
You guys leapfrogged over the desktop, went straight to mobile and you leapfrog over to
crypto.
I know you're leapfrogging right now on AI.
I'm just seeing all the magnificent stuff that's coming out of that as well.
Very cool.
And we're leapfrogging into the metaverse.
Yeah.
That's really interesting.
Do you guys have, you have any stats on like, do you have more users of the metaverse in
Africa than other regions?
Do you have any stats on that?
Uh, yeah, I would say predominantly our users are from Africa.
I would say, um, probably like 70, 75%, uh, from across Africa, from Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria,
South Africa, um, Kenya, we've got a couple of users.
Interesting.
I have to tell you a funny story.
So I, um, I'm a professor, or I guess an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon, Silicon Valley,
Carnegie Mellon.
If you don't know, if you're outside the U S it's the, one of the top technology schools,
computer science schools.
And I teach there in the masters of computer science department.
Um, and so one day they asked me to teach a class that was going to be taught in the metaverse.
And so, you know, of course all the students were really jazzed.
Um, you know, I went in there and just played with it.
Cause you know, you just want to get familiar with it.
And there was going to be another professor that was going to join me.
I was like, Oh, let me teach you, you know, how to do this.
Let me teach you.
He's like, no, no, no.
I got it.
I got it.
Um, so it was so funny, Mick, because I started teaching the class and, um, I was getting pinged
a lot, but you know, you're teaching, so you can't answer the pings.
And I looked up and there was somebody stuck on the ceiling of the lecture hall and couldn't
figure out how to get down.
And anyway, all the students were sitting there and everything.
And at the end I figured out all the DMS were from this professor who couldn't figure
out how to get his avatar down from the ceiling.
So I thought that was quite, I thought that was quite funny.
Cause sometimes when you think, you know, too much, these kids are in this technology
all the time.
So there is some second nature to them, you know?
Absolutely.
I mean, yeah, we, we had a similar, um, learning experience recently.
We just ran, uh, this, this, this event called abundance 360 as a, as a metaverse space
adventure.
And, um, you, you take the space adventure, you start off on the space station, you learn a bit
on the space station.
Then there's some group workshops, you get in the space shuttle, you go to the moon and
on the moon, we changed the gravity of the avatars.
So you could jump.
So we had a lot of folks like messing around and jumping on the, on the ceilings and doing
all of that fun stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We created a, um, a metaverse world for our unstoppable women of web three and AI.
And when we were, uh, you know, starting it out, we invited people to come in for sessions.
And one of the things we did on our, our headquarters building, where we hosted everything was we
put a door with a door handle and we didn't anticipate how hard it was for an avatar to
actually open the door.
So, you know, to turn the doorknob and open the door.
In fact, so much so that we eventually removed the door because it was just too hard, especially
because we were trying to get people to come and learn about the metaverse.
And it was too hard for them to get open the door.
So we've learned a lot about our experiences in the metaverse too.
Yeah.
I think that's, that's a great point that, you know, some of the, the biggest challenges
we face at the moment is it's, it's, um, there's a lack of education.
So there's a lack of understanding.
Um, you know, just when, if you think about when COVID first hit, just to use, you know,
so many people had to start learning how to use teams and zoom.
And it was, you know, there's so many funny moments like, or many frustrating moments when
just, you know, people leaving their cameras on going to the toilet or, you know, can you hear me?
Are you on mute?
So there's this, there's this learning curve that needs to take place.
Um, you know, especially in the metaverse, just to learn how to move around, be comfortable,
um, you know, chat to other people.
So, you know, I think it's totally, um, it's, it's, it's this nascent space that, you know,
people need to, as it becomes less, uh, frictionless, it's going to become easier for people to, uh, learn
the moves.
Completely agree with that.
Yeah.
I think over time it should be so easy that my dad or my mom could do it for sure.
Right.
That's where we want to get to.
Exactly.
And that's how we've tried to make this game.
So, um, I actually had my mom try the game and she could play it, which is, which was incredible.
Ooh, that's awesome.
Now, now is your mom like the, uh, a PhD in computer science or something?
The exact opposite.
No, she's a PhD in English.
That's, that's about it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Awesome.
That's really cool.
I love it.
Hey, Adrian, you know what?
Maybe let's ask if we have a question and maybe we'll give away one of those domains.
If we have someone who raises their hand and comes up and ask us a really good question.
Yeah, for sure.
Any listeners, any listeners want to raise your hand and maybe take a, you know, win a free domain today?
It can be ongoing too.
So throughout the whole conversation here, if anybody wants to raise your hand, we'll pull you up.
Yeah.
Anybody wants to win?
Yeah.
Why don't we go on to the next question?
Let's talk about the, what'd you say?
Tespy raised the hand.
Oh, oh, Tespy.
Okay.
Okay.
Can you, can you bring him up or her up?
Yep.
Will do.
Okay.
They should be up now.
Ooh.
Great.
What is your question, Tespy?
And then Olesey.
Good morning, everyone.
Hi, Sandy.
We met in LA, by the way.
Nice seeing you again.
Unfortunately, my other account was suspended.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
So what's your question for the day and for, and for the ability to win one of these .ubus?
Well, my question is to Africa Rare, like how they improve the growing for the people to keep using and use actually these Web3 domains.
What is their plan within a year?
So, thanks.
Thanks.
That's a great question.
You know, I think the big thing for us is trying to create great products and trying to create value for our community.
So, you know, we've got a whole slew of experiences that brands are busy building to enrich their community's lives through the platform.
And we should be going live with a few of those in Q4 of this year now.
So, it's really about launching these experiences, making sure they are, you know, really valuable to the people that are interacting in them or using them.
Just like, you know, if you go to the gym, that's valuable for you because you get something really good out of it.
So, we are making sure that the products we build have that same intrinsic value for the community.
And then, you know, so we've got a bunch of branded experiences coming out.
We've got a whole pipeline of games we're going to be launching.
And AfricaRare is a little bit different in terms of the other metaverses out there because we've built in audio chat native in the platform.
So, it's very easy to have a conversation with someone.
We've got meeting rooms.
So, you know, folks subscribe to the meeting rooms and can have your own private meeting with your colleagues.
Instead of being on a Zoom or a Teams call, you can actually meet in these 11 Africa-inspired meeting rooms.
We're also building a lot of artificial intelligence into the platform.
If you go into AfricaRare today and in the chat, you can go at Matwetwe, who's our AR being in AfricaRare.
And you can ask Matwetwe anything about the platform or any questions about any landowners.
And Matwetwe will have the answers for you.
So, we see this is a great way for bringing these AR agents into specific experiences for brands and for different landowners to engage with the community using their AR agents to help them either sell their products or assist with information of any type.
And then we also are looking at doctors' rooms as a big part of AfricaRare.
We're working with some medical organizations on how do we create a new type of doctor's room experience for people in Africa.
Because, as you know, people in Africa sometimes can't travel long distances to get to the doctor, but they could very easily connect in the metaverse and have an immersive experience and a checkup with an avatar doctor that's assisted with AR.
Definitely.
And thank you Chesapeake for the question.
We'll be in touch after the spaces via DM for your .ubu domain.
Super cool.
Congratulations and thanks for being the first.
I know it's always hard to be the first one, so thank you.
I just tweeted it away too.
So, if you guys could retweet that.
It's pinned up at the top.
Just so we get lots of great listeners in here for Mick.
So, thank you.
Awesome.
And also, what we have pinned to the top here as the second thing is Sandy's profile for .ubu.
So, if you want to take a look at that and maybe Sandy, if you want to inform our users how our ud.me profiles work as well as how our badge system works, that could be helpful.
Yeah, that would be great.
So, I have my profile up at the top and the cool thing about it is because I'm using it with .ubu, I have the continent of Africa up there.
I've got our initiative about empowering women in Africa.
And so, I was able to customize all of that through the Unstoppable Domains Management Board.
The profile itself is probably one of the things I'm most excited about.
If you want to go out there and see it, go to ud.me backslash sandycarter.ubu.
So, this one is sandycarter.ubu.
And what you will see there is you'll see that sandycarter.ubu is linked to my crypto wallet, actually two of them to be exact.
I also have a rating on there from Webacy about the safety of interacting with my wallet, you know, which is one of the main things people comment on in crypto is, is it safe?
Here you have a safety rating.
And that is what enables me to have sandycarter.ubu translate to my wallet address and my wallet address translate back to sandycarter.ubu.
The other really cool things on the profile page are, at the top, I've got a linkage to something called OK Link.
It's like a Ethernet scan or a polygon scan.
You can see all of my activities.
So, you can see there when I receive sandy.ubu and sandycarter.ubu and some other domains like Best Kept Secret, for example.
But one of the things I love the most about the profile is all of the badges that are there.
And those badges are very significant because they represent the communities, the tribes that you belong to.
And it's really interesting because now with those badges, you know, Mick, as the co-founder of Africa Rare, can go and message everybody who holds a .ubu.
He can message everybody who is an influencer for Africa Rare.
He could give them, you know, the alpha that's getting ready to come out.
So, this just happened with Luca.
Luca is the CEO of Pudgy Penguin and I.
We were on stage at ECC and before we went on stage, we had these announcements.
So, we went into the group chat and told the influencers for .pudgy, hey, these announcements are coming.
Get ready.
Same kind of thing here.
And so, I love that so much.
And I can see some of our top folks that are here in our audience, like Ethernet Explorer is on the leaderboard for badges.
So, I know he sees a lot of power in the badges.
I also see a couple of other whales in here, too.
There are two, I don't think I see you, 135.x in the badge list, in the leader list yet.
But hopefully someday that we'll see you out there.
Yeah.
Look at Chespai's laughing at you.
So, there's some really cool things you can do here.
But most importantly, the profile page for me is the way that I also entice Web2 users to come over.
Because it looks almost like a LinkedIn page, except everything is verified, because what you see on this page is either on-chain, like my wallet, like my NFTs, like my certificates of education, or it's driven from something that is on-chain.
So, the badges are not on-chain, but you have to own on-chain assets to earn a badge.
So, for me, it's probably one of the most exciting things.
I'm also a visual learner.
So, like Adrian said, up at the top, if you look at one of the pin tweets, you can see it, too.
So, you can see what that profile page looks like, as well.
Very, very powerful.
Have you set yours up, Nick?
Are you out there yet?
I need to do it today.
We've just launched this game two days ago.
So, that's what we've been doing.
Yeah, I know.
We've been head down.
But I can't wait to do it.
Yeah.
And then we'll have to compete to see whose profile looks better.
What do you think about that?
That sounds good.
I'm a very competitive person.
I know you are.
But the problem is you now see mine, so I have to beef mine up as well.
So, my unstoppable whales, please give me some suggestions of how to beef my profile up,
so I can win this race with Mick on my profile page, too.
How many others of you out there, you like that profile page?
Any other hearts out there?
There we go.
We got Ethernet Explorer.
Check, check.
I haven't seen.
There you go.
Okay.
I haven't heard from you.
You guys, I'm going to give you a spoiler alert.
ChickChuck is going to do a session for us on a couple of 201 topics.
I got to meet him live in person at ECC in Brussels.
Super rainy day.
We both made it out in the rain where I was drenched.
And he and I got to chat and he was showing me some of the really cool things, really 201 things he's doing with his domain.
So, he's going to be leaving a space here coming up and sharing some of that alpha with you guys.
So, you want to make sure that you're coming to his space, too.
And then another space I just want to preview.
We're going to have our first space in 100% Spanish.
We're going to have a host that speaks Spanish and we've got a speaker who does everything in Spanish.
He's got TikTok videos and some really cool things.
And Instagram as well, doing the entire presentation in Spanish.
So, stay tuned to that, too.
So, we've got some more exciting spaces coming up.
Not as exciting as Mick, but some more coming up as well.
I'm definitely going to join those.
Okay, great.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Looking forward to it.
And I'll bring it back to you, Mick.
Just a quick question.
Where do you envision Africa rare in three to five years?
Well, you know, our goal is to really serve a billion people across the African continent and the world.
So, you know, we've got a big moonshot to try to reach a billion people and empower them by leveraging the power of AI and mixed reality.
So, you know, we're really hoping that we can, you know, educate, empower and inspire Africans to embrace the idea of Web3 and decentralize identity and the metaverse.
And, yeah, we're hoping to be a global player taking part in leading into the future, into an abundant future.
I'm curious, Mick, why did you pick a billion?
I'm just interested.
So, you know, Peter Diamandis from Singularity says, if you want to, you know, if you can help a billion people, if you can, you know, you're on your way to making a billion dollars as well.
So, you know.
Oh, wow.
That's kind of cool.
So, if you can try to empower a lot of, you know, over a billion people, it can also be financially sort of fulfilling.
So, you know, it's having the mindset of, you know, good business is good for business.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Nice.
Interesting.
And, you know, at Singularity, also, you want to, you want to have a, you know, we want to really have a moonshot to try and make a difference.
I was at Peter Diamandis' event last year in LA and Tony Robbins was one of the speakers there.
And Tony, I don't know if you know that he's actually fed over a billion people with meals.
I didn't know that.
I mean, I think Tony is pretty, he's very inspirational, obviously, right?
Yeah.
And he was saying, you know, when he started his goal, it was to just feed, you know, a million people.
And then it went to 10 million.
And then, you know, he worked out if he could try, you know, scale up and raise enough capital, he could, you know, feed many more people.
And then eventually, after, you know, 10 years or so, he reached a billion people.
And now his goal is even to reach more people.
So, you know, I think it's this idea of really wanting to make a positive impact in the world and having a moonshot to try achieve a massive problem.
I think that's really cool.
Well, one of our whales on here, I don't know if he's still in the session or not, Ethernet Explorer.
He actually uses some of the profits or sales from his company to feed folks in Africa, too.
And, you know, I always love anything that's tech for good or anything that people do for others, Mick, because that's really why we're here in life, right?
It's to reach back and pull others forward with us.
That's why we're here.
Exactly.
So, I do want to applaud.
If you guys could, let's give hearts out.
I see Ethernet Explorer in there.
He's AI.crypto right now.
Let's give him a bunch of hearts for that work that he does, because I think that that's why we are here.
And that's really our biggest purpose, to be honest.
Yeah, that's really fantastic.
I mean, you know, we also partnered with this organization called Innovation Africa.
And what they do is they provide clean drinking water to people in Africa for as little as $25 a person.
So, they've worked out how to, they go, they're using solar technology.
They go and they find these aqueducts deep in the water.
You know, there's over 450 million people without clean drinking water in Africa.
So, it's a massive problem.
So, they go and find these aqueducts.
They drill deep into the ground.
They create this well.
And they use solar technology to power the well.
And they make these very long pipes, like 20-kilometer pipes, and put a tap in the village.
And then you turn on the tap and people have clean drinking water.
And they've done this for over 5 million people in Africa already.
So, what we did is we created this campaign called Drops of Life, where you could, they've also got a village in Ubuntu land where you can see their process and learn about some of the people's lives they've changed and helped.
But you can buy one of these drop of life NFTs for either a $25 drop or a $250 drop.
And each NFT that you buy either saves one person's life or 10 people's lives or up to 3,000 people, a $65,000 drop, which will give a whole village clean drinking water for the rest of their life.
Oh, wow.
They're soul-bound NFTs that when people buy them, you know, it stays in your wallet.
You can't transfer it.
And there's all other utilities, like you get land in Ubuntu land.
And if you buy the $65,000 drop, she'll fly you down to the village.
You turn on the tap for the first time.
So, it's been a really incredible experience working with them.
And so far, we've raised them about $44,000 to date.
Wow.
That's very impressive.
That's awesome.
Very cool.
So, yeah, I guess bringing it back to some of our audience members here.
I see that 135.x has his hand raised.
I'll let him up real quick if you want to ask us a question.
Okay, looks like you're live, 135.x.
Hi, thank you so much.
I appreciate you.
I was just curious.
I didn't really have a fully worked out question, but hopefully you can help me get there.
Basically, Ubu is a new term to me and maybe others.
And I was just wondering if maybe there was like a feeling or like a utility that would really help associate it and like tie it together with that brand.
If that makes sense.
So, I think the idea around Ubuntu is this concept of coming together and being more than just one plus one equals three rather than just being alone or taking a long time to get there.
And it's, you know, it's an age old term to encapsulate the spirit of community.
And we wrote this beautiful backstory for Ubuntu land, which talks about the dawn of creativity and humanity came from Africa.
And the people were thriving and the tribes that were thriving, learning from each other, exploring the world, bringing back the knowledge.
But there were these bad people called the Vamalakes who were trying to enslave the tribes.
And so, the Mambo Council got together and formed Ubuntu land to protect all the people and the resources inside.
And that's why it's based off this traditional African architecture, the circular shape.
If you look at our map, it's based off traditional African architecture to protect all the people and the assets inside the land.
I hope that answers you.
Awesome.
And thanks for that.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Hey, I also want to call out our 135.x because we've been looking for some really cool swag and he is a fabulous artist.
He mocked up some tennis shoes and some Crocs for us.
And I know that Droplink, which is our vendor that helps us with all our swag, he mocked that up for us and really helped us out.
So, we really appreciate that.
So, I'm so excited that you got one of the .ubus today.
And I see that we just brought up Ethernet Explorer.
Mick, you have to meet him because he is pretty amazing.
But Ethernet Explorer, I also want to give you a TLD.
We're going to give you superman.ubu for all the work that you're doing to feed the hungry, what you do for Unstoppable Fam.
You do so much.
And I just wanted you to have a chance also to meet Mick virtually and then hopefully in person as well.
So, virtual introduction, you guys.
Thank you so much, Sandy.
You do know that I'm after that .x in the Superman.
So, I do appreciate it.
Oh, I know.
I'm working that one.
But in the meantime, you have superman.ubu.
Oh, yes.
We'll take it.
We'll take it.
Yeah.
So, I mean, thank you so much for having me on the space and someone who's been involved with UD for a few years now.
What I would like to know is, you know, as someone involved with Unstoppable primarily, because I'm not afraid to say that that's our primary when we come into X even.
Something else is secondary.
But of course, we welcome someone else in Africa who's also working in the space.
It's really amazing.
But in terms of the .ubu, you know, what's the plans for onboarding people in Africa?
Like, for instance, I own SouthAfrica.x and I have plans with that.
But with the TLD, obviously, it's much more powerful.
By the way, I also have Ubuntuland.ubu because I thought that would be something really, really valuable at some point.
And you think how they took it, eh?
Oh, yeah.
But fastest fingers first.
We need to talk afterwards.
No stress.
But my first question is, what's the plan for .ubu in terms of onboarding people onto Web3, particularly with domains?
That's the first one.
And then the follow-up to that would be in terms of, you know, using the chat function specifically linked to onboarding people.
You know, how are we going to do that?
Because in Africa, we do know communication is one problem in many parts of the world.
Digital identity theft is a huge problem as well.
You know, how do we plan on using the .ubu?
Because I did hear you say you have MTN, you have NetBank.
You know, perhaps we could also get involved and assist as well where we are in South Africa.
Because at the end of the day, what we want to do is see Web3 winning.
And of course, you know, with an unstoppable TLD, that's absolutely amazing.
So thanks for having me in the space.
Thank you, Sandy.
But yeah, we just hope to hear your thoughts on that.
Yeah, so I think that's a great question.
And where are you based in South Africa?
I'm in Sunnyside, Durban.
Oh, nice, nice.
Very cool.
Yeah.
So yeah, so I'm actually in Cape Town at the moment.
But we can try and work out how to meet in the future.
Perfect.
But yeah, I think for us, it's really about, you know, integrating the .ubu in all areas of the platform so that it's very easily accessible.
And it's something that becomes native when you're using Africa Rare and you're going into the metaverse or using the different services on the platform.
And really, you know, with our partner communities, you know, there's a massive education layer that needs to happen, as you know.
And for mass adoption to happen, it requires quite a lot of small steps to get there.
So we don't see it happening, you know, all at once.
It really happens.
Technology evolves and adoption evolves slow.
And then you see the sudden spark as if suddenly, where did this come from?
And you see this exponential growth.
So for us, it's really there's a couple of phases we need to get through.
We need to make it as easily accessible as integrated into the platform.
So it's totally native.
And then it's about allowing our brands and our landowners to be able to utilize .ubu so that it actually benefits them in their own experiences.
And I think the other really cool thing here Ethernet Explorer is the fact that
you know, Mick is going to embed this so you can log into the game with it, which gives it a lot more utility as well.
So, you know, as the as as his audience grows there, then you've got more people that are using the domain because it has even more utility, too.
I think that that's pretty powerful as well.
And if you have more ideas for us, we would love to take them or for Mick.
Ethernet Explorer, you're super creative.
So we would love to talk about that.
And Mick, Ethernet Explorer also has a register.
I think you're the first registrar and maybe the only in Africa for unstoppable.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Incredible.
So he will be selling .ubu as well.
So we should also just chat to see if we can do like a clean sweep to get you to your billion in Africa.
That would be super cool.
I'm sure, you know, us plus Ethernet Explorer plus you.
That would be like such a main theme, you know?
That's unstoppable, man.
It is unstoppable.
But I think, yeah, we will also roll out a bunch of campaigns around the .ubu, you know, just to really create that awareness and let people know what's possible with it.
Yeah, that sounds great.
Yeah.
So we could use your help.
So anyway, make sure that you that you display that Superman did Ubu to Ethernet Explorer.
I think that's good while we work on the rest.
But that one's really cool.
Congrats.
Definitely.
And thank you for asking the questions.
Okay.
As we start to wrap up here, I'd love to get some some final thoughts or just generally what excite both of you the most about the future of on-chain demand adoption.
Who are you asking that of?
Just generally whoever wants to answer first.
Okay.
Why don't you go first, Mick?
Or unless you want me to.
You can go first.
Or ladies always first.
Okay, great.
Yeah.
I would say that my so many there's so many exciting things about on-chain adoption.
So I just wrote in Forbes about the state of California DMV.
I know a DMV is for our driver motor vehicles.
By 2025, they want to digitize our all car titles.
And by digitize, that means place them on-chain, which I think is, you know, so phenomenal that when we say everything's going on-chain, we believe that all ownership and all did everything today that's paper will eventually be digitized and placed on-chain.
That's just the most recent example.
But we know about companies like, you know, clothing companies like Burberry, who's putting on-chain their authenticity.
So people can trace if you buy on the secondary market in Japan, what's really popular are onesies that are Burberry onesies.
But how do you know it's really a Burberry and not something that's fake?
They're digitizing that authenticity or that, you know, kind of origin story of food companies in Europe now that have more requirements to showcase sustainability are putting on-chain how they can be tracked back from, you know, the place that they grew the food and how, what fertilizers they use or didn't use, going all the way to how they distribute it to a grocery store.
All of that is going on-chain.
Even NASA is now, you know, tokenizing space debris, which was the one that blew my mind.
Wow.
Yeah, so that they can tell who owns the debris so when it comes down, first of all, you have to pay for it.
But I didn't realize this, Mick, the value of that debris is so, so huge that they actually have lawsuits of people fighting when they bring the debris down for who owns it, who owns it.
And then I talked to one of the countries in Africa, Congo, who's leading the World Economic Forum and tokenizing satellite ownership because smaller countries can't afford their own satellite and that disadvantages them.
So they want to do a tokenized ownership of a satellite and they're going to do all that on-chain.
So, so many use cases, healthcare records, diplomas.
You guys have heard my story, but I love the story because my daughter went and took a community, a couple of community college classes.
And in the United States, if you take those classes when you're in high school, if you have the transcript, you can get credit for it when you go to college.
So being the good mom, I called the college and I asked them for the transcript.
And they said, Oh, fax us this information.
There's a couple of things wrong with that.
First of all, fax.
So I don't know about you guys, but I don't even know where a fax machine exists.
Like I haven't used a fax machine in 20 years, 25 years, a fax machine.
And secondly, I asked them why they wanted the fax and they said, Oh, it's much safer.
So those two things together and you're like really laughing.
So I was just imagining a world where that college, I would call them up or I could email them and they could just send me a tokenized certificate that my daughter took that class.
How much more valuable would that be?
And then, of course, you need a place to store all those tokens.
And that, of course, we hope is unstoppable domains.
That's why we created the profile.
So that's my vision of the future.
I see everything going on chain.
It's in some places it's happening faster, like California DMV, who knew that they would be a fast mover.
If you're not from the US, the the joke is that the DMV moves at the pace of a sloth, which is super slow animal.
But here they are being the first movers in the, you know, in the march to taking things on chain, which is, I think, super cool.
So anyway, so many exciting things happening and things moving on chain is just so fast, faster than I had even imagined.
No, I totally, totally agree with that.
I think I love that.
I think I think I think I think I mean, you know, as as this technology is accelerating and converging and, you know, these different technologies are converging with each other.
There's going to be an explosion of new business models and and new ideas like I love that that they are trying to own the debris in space.
It's just incredible.
And if you think about blockchain technology and being on chain, like what you were saying, as this artificial intelligence becomes so good and as it keeps progressing at this exponential pace, it's going to be very hard to know what is real and what is fake.
And from because of AI and the only way to prove it and to prove the proof of humanity or the proof of ownership is going to be is it on chain and is it from a verifiable source or smart contract.
So I totally agree with what you just said.
And I think, you know, we're living in one of the most exciting times to be alive as humans.
And, you know, the next 10 to 20 years is going to be a really exciting, delightful time for us all.
As long as we build the future we all want to live in.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree.
So, so, so true.
So true.
Definitely.
Well, yeah.
Thank you, Sandy, and thank you, Nick, for joining in today.
To all of you who spoke up here today.
I'll be DMing you shortly regarding the domains that you want.
And, yeah, if you want to get your .uvu, it's pinned to the top here as well.
And thank you for tuning in.
Yeah.
Thank you, guys.
Mick, thank you.
Thank you for partnering with me on this.
I mean, this is a really big lift.
And I, and I just want to thank you for your, you know, innovation and creativity and your desire to help and grow Africa, too, as a whole.
So thanks for that.
Thanks for all the time you've put in.
And I can't wait to see you in Johannesburg in person here very shortly.
And to all of our.
Thanks so much.
Yeah.
And then to Ethernet Explorer, thank you.
Chesspie and 135.x, thank you.
135.x, did you want to say something else?
I saw.
Did you just raise your hand?
I think you just emoted, did like a hundred emoji.
Oh, okay.
Cause he's a speaker now.
Okay, great.
Oh yeah.
I see.
Chesspie too.
Okay.
Thank you guys so much.
Really appreciate you guys coming.
Thank you to all the whales.
Really appreciate it too.
And your support means so much.
Thanks guys.
Thanks Adrian.
Thanks Sandy.
Thanks guys.
So grateful to keep talking with you guys.
See you soon.
Yeah.
See you soon.
