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Upcoming BUIDL Hour events in Tokyo and Seoul
Recorded: April 9, 2025 Duration: 0:59:12Space Recording
Short Summary
In an engaging discussion, industry leaders from Akindo and CoinEasy outlined upcoming events aimed at fostering collaboration in the Web3 space, emphasizing the importance of community engagement and innovative ideas. With a focus on trends like DeFi and gaming, they highlighted the growing interest in local ecosystems and the potential for significant growth in the crypto sector.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Good morning, good morning.
Well, good evening and good night, depending on where you are.
I see you, Mos. You're active there. How are you doing today, man?
Yeah, GMGN, everyone. It's good to see you here. I think that J-D-I will join soon.
soon awesome sounds great I'm trying to check out here with our list of guests and of course we have
some representatives from coin easy uh so guys if you want to jump into the stage please request
to speak or go host whatever I will accept you uh let me know Liz uh and in the meantime how is everyone doing
uh today we are gonna have like a very interesting space uh to kind of uh start creating uh the right
context for uh two very important in-person events that we're going to be having during this month of April,
based on the events that we do for builders, call it the Build Hour, right? So the Build Hour is the name of a series of events that we host around the world for years now with the different
communities of builders, entrepreneurs, creators creators investors that are interested on the
medics ecosystem so today we have two very important guests with us one as you guys saw
already we have moss from akindo one of my favorite webtree brands in the world and i think that on the side of coin easy we should have
uh jayden jayden lee with us let's see if he can he can join us as a speaker pretty soon and in
the meantime most why don't you tell us how is everything over there in j. I can imagine that you are in Tokyo right now or are you traveling
around the world? Yeah, actually I came back from Taipei. There was East Global Taipei and we were
working with the East Global Taipei team, there's a meet up and all stuff and at the moment I'm in
Japan and preparing for the next event. event of course metis a bit of hour
and yeah i'm very excited to be here and talking about uh that or like dig into the
the knowledge of the ecosystem metis and also like talking about a lot of stuff for worldwide
like talking about a lot of stuff for worldwide amazing and how was taipei i i can imagine that
there is a strong uh you know community of builders and developers there i heard very good things but
i i've never been there so maybe you can tell us a little bit about that sure uh it was actually
like i wasn't sure how many people attend there and how it would be.
And I've been there last year at the end of the year for TVW, Taipei Blockchain Week.
And also in Thailand, there was Taipei Builder House.
I've seen many people there and joining a lot of events, size events.
And this time it's more focusing for builders.
But yeah, surprisingly, actually it was a really good surprise for me.
And there was a lot of people coming to the venue and also like the hacking.
I think the number was 550 hackers joined
East Global Taipei.
And also there was East Global Pragma Taipei
and also East Taipei, all three events in a row,
they organized.
But yeah, that was like a really good surprise for me.
And it was, for me, it was a really great event to join.
Amazing.
It's always nice to hear the different perspective
about the different builders and communities
that we have around the world.
I learned so much about this,
and I fully encourage people that are interested
in exploring further the web tree
space to try and attend maybe some local events or something that is close to you that you can
actually join and participate because I think it's a tremendous experience to kind of grow
professionally and make new connections and see you know see what the builders are doing right at
the end of the day if you want to stay up to date with where is the future of Web3 going,
the best way to do that is just sit down with the developers that are hacking at
each one of these events and you will see some pretty creative solutions.
But anyway, those are my two cents in general about events.
I think that now we have with us on the stage our friends from CoinEasy.
So let's touch base with them. How are you doing today, guys?
Super good. Thank you for the invite. And yeah, I'd love to explore how we can do much more in
Korea together. And I just want to introduce ourselves.
My name is Jayden from CoinEasy.
CoinEasy is Web3 education social platform in South Korea.
I've been onboarding retail users and builders
from Web2 to Web3, and also South Korea go-to-market.
So happy to be here.
And yeah, thank you for the invite
amazing thank you for the for the introduction i haven't been in korea as well one of the
countries that i really want to visit and you know check out house everything over there with
the builder so thank you so much for for the nice intro and okay i think that we're kind of ready to
to get started right you? You introduced yourself.
And now maybe we can ask the people in our audience, if you guys can help spread of the
word before we get started so that we can share all of this valuable information with
as many people as possible.
Please give a like, retweet, you know how it works, right?
We need to get the algo in our favor.
And today we're going to be having a very exciting conversation
about these events that are coming
and how can you make the most out of it,
even if you're, you know, home
and you will not be able to attend in person, right?
So, okay, we had Jaden introduce themselves and coin easy.
I think that now it's time for you to introduce yourself again,
Moss, and introduce Akindo.
Yeah, thank you so much for introduction.
Yeah, I'm Moz, a CSO at Akindo.
And Akindo is a hackathon grants distribution platform with one of the largest builder communities in APAC. It's primarily focused on Webhack, which can build developer communities and expand our ecosystem 10 times more efficiently than traditional grant programs. Basically, we distribute prizes every two weeks or months. So for the developer side, they can keep coming and keep building with with a great feedback from each project.
And for the L1 or L2 or infrastructure, which is a ground partner side,
they can expand their ecosystem more fast and efficiently.
So Akinsu's mission to support ecosystem expansion,
develop killer dApps and accelerate market growth and
empower builders worldwide through a variety of events such as demo days meetups and hack house
yeah that's all what we do amazing thanks for the nice intro guys both of you so uh maybe okay i
have some questions that are specific to each one of you of course
uh to learn more about your story uh and how we can you know better collaborate and provide value
to our builders but I just wanted to take a step back before we we get started and kind of warm up
the space with a question that other people have asked me in the past, which is, okay, you guys have their own kind of local
builder hub, right? And right now you host events, you have a portal for hackathons,
you have a bunch of services. But when it comes to getting started, because in order to get there
to that point, you need to captivate developers, right? You need to gather their attention do something for them it's not like
you know you can just get started without having any source of value for them right
how did you get there that's my first question uh how did you guys get started and how did you guys
build these communities of developers and entrepreneurs
yeah i think i can go from myself i mean that for the akindo um so first uh we start from the um the like a bunch of hackathon actually like uh um the beforehand the the kinder actually here
as well uh he started to do like you, they're giving his knowledge for the people
through the like his blog or like, you know,
his social media.
And after that, like, you know,
he start to gather attention
and he start to do actually like the hackathon.
That was a, that was called Tokyo Web 3 Hackathon.
Tokyo Web 3 Hackathon it was uh 2022 and uh and that was uh like you know with a lot
of help for that a lot of the japanese company and with that like they were able to i mean akina
were able to have like you know the the positioning the japanese market as a hackathon organizer and after that like we are doing that can keep
doing hackathon and that was a 2023 but the actually like we recognize a problem for the
hackathon that's I think the meta steam you guys also know and also now nowadays the market
of the hackathon or like the builder community people start to know it is
basically it's not really sustainable so because like you know there's so many of the grand hunters
or like you know um uh it's a it's in a sense it's good but uh as as well it's not really um
sustainable so this is why like uh uh we started wave hackack. So with WaveHack, we expanded more to the world.
So basically, we started from Japan, but not only that.
In 2024, we expanded for the whole ecosystem as many as we can onboard.
So basically, L1, L2, so we did a bunch of wave hacks.
So this is why we start to grow more because once we do the wave hacks, so actually like
all L1, L2 as well, like they're going to promote for the hackathon and we start to
pile our builders through the wave hack.
And also we've done a lot of the site events uh worldwide so and then nowadays we have
the i would say like 35 000 builder reach so yeah that was a like uh pretty sum up how we build our
ecosystem and our video community amazing super clear explanation and it looks like you guys are working hard and you had to work hard
in order to get there so congrats to you guys and what about you Aiden what can you tell us about
CoinEasy how did you guys build this brand yeah we started as a web3 education platform because
education platform because we saw Web3 is really complicated and a lot of new users are really
scared of using Web3 products. So we were the first company that actually introduced how to
use on-chain, how to do on-chain activity. So he was really a pioneer in the space in Korea
as a Web3 education
because we taught them theory
and also practical activities.
So it was really good for the users
actually know how to use like a bridge, like DeFi,
buying NFT, setting up the centralized exchange and using the decentralized exchange, etc.
And yeah, so it was great time. And that's how we built the community. And now we also have like a mobile application.
It's like a Duolingo Web3 mobile application in Web3.
The users can easily learn about Web3 and like logging with their social ID,
making their Web3 wallet without any complexity and they can explore the web3 products with our education materials and
things like that so we are really happy to helping projects and users entering exploring explain web3
explain Web3 and also we do EasyCon all over the world and providing workshops and business
networking opportunities and hackathon with Madis in a few days.
So we are really excited for this space and happy to be here, educate users and builders and Web2, Web3 companies in general in Korea.
Amazing. I think it's pretty remarkable how everyone can get started in helping others when
it comes to Web3 and how we easily forget about all the complexity that is for new users when it comes
to setting up a wallet just transferring some funds or using a bridge for the first time like
i feel like if you have been in web3 for about a year or so you probably know how to do all of
this stuff pretty good and so many people in the world have no idea about it right like i'm right
now i'm in manchester i'm visiting some
friends and they were asking me about crypto for the first time they work on other stuff like
barely they know about like bitcoin and i show them how to do the wallet setup and how to transfer
phone it's like completely new word for them it takes time right so it's remarkable how you can
build a brand just by starting helping people
with the very basic stuff that is actually free content and you know your personal experience as
well so it's a very nice lesson i think to learn now let's move on into the events themselves so
what i'm gonna uh asking you now is about okay what is like, what is the date of the event, of course, and what is what people can expect from that event?
What are the activities? What is like the main purpose and what are the expected outcomes?
So I would like to learn more about each one of you and your personal perspective, because each community has its own, you know, its own niche, its own perspective and its own interests.
Right. So I'm curious to learn more about, you know, what is it that we can expect that they during the build hour both in Tokyo and Seoul as well.
So maybe let's start again with Mos to keep to keep up with the order.
Sure. Actually, our event in Tokyo is going to start from April 15th. It's going to be next week.
And the time will be like 6.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Japanese standard time.
And what we want to see from here is actually any idea.
So, you know, for the Idea-Thome, there's no limit for actually any idea. So, you know, for the idea zone, there's no limit for
giving your idea. And also, you don't have to have skills for developer or like calling.
So this is why anyone can join it and anyone can share your idea to what you're gonna build or what you're gonna what you want to see on the metis or uh
using or las ai um so this is why like uh it's really open for uh any idea and everyone so this
so this is why like i would like to see any idea i don't want to i don't want to like specify some
idea over here uh because uh there's because sometimes you might be
going to have that like you know or limited the idea that once they hear some ideas so I just
want to see any types of idea here and the concept how we're going to do is basically you can submit
your idea in advance coming to Akindo's platform or Akindo's website.
But also you can submit your idea through the event as well.
So basically any types of way you can share.
And also here is very specific.
It's like anyone can judge as well.
So not only Metis team.
So this is going gonna be very interactive.
So you can share your idea and also you can judge.
So at the end, what we want to see is a contribution
for Metis ecosystem.
So later on, let's say when the Metis hackathon starts
in the future, so you can build your product
or your project through that idea that you have.
So this is why this, I would say this is a starting point to contribute meta-circuit system
for everyone in Japan. And yeah, that's my idea for the Hackathon. Idea-san.
that's uh then my idea for the hackathon uh ideas on
yeah i think that a lot of people are not pretty much aware of what an idea thon is uh but you know
basically this is a group of people uh that we have the task to provide ideas about what can be
built uh for medis and since we will have the launch of Hyperion,
you know, we are focusing now on AI, on the AI vertical. And of course, there is a bunch
of applications that can be built and that will be needed for the launch of this chain.
And also in, you know, partnership and collaboration with Blast AI ai which is a company that is being sort of incubated by by medis and
which has the have the you know challenge of solving the data alignment problem right and
when it comes to ai actually if you if you look at the different pillars in terms of you know model
data inference and whatnot you will see that the entire economy around AI is
kind of broken, right? So I think that is very interesting for this ideathon that people spend
some time kind of reading a little bit about the documentation, about the projects, like philosophy
behind, and try to come up with something that, you know, is out of the box, right? Because, okay, we can
talk about high frequency trading, maybe AI agents, launchpad, whatever, things that have
already been built. And I think that that's going to happen. We will have those kinds of applications
and that's great. But also, this is an opportunity to have a sort of canva and really create something
that hasn't been created before, right?
At the end of the day,
you want to provide this innovative infrastructure
in order for developers and people to come
and build innovative new solutions.
And like I said before, when it comes to AI,
things are really broken, right?
Because we essentially have these LLM models
that are training using data that we don't know
and that we probably provided
one way or another and we never got paid right and and then we cannot verify the outputs like
we don't know anything really we just see the interface as users and that's kind of fine for
an end user but really there is an economy behind that can be better aligned uh powered by the community using uh tokens as incentives as well so yeah i would
100 encourage people in our audience to kind of put some thoughts into the ideathon and most can
you clarify is there any reward on this and can anyone from anywhere in the world participate or
this is just going to be restricted to the people that are already there uh in the event
yeah um the thank you for reminding me that but uh so yeah uh the the prices for this uh it's
gonna be like one thousand dollar uh for japanese uh uh events and the bidder uh bidder hour and
also like uh it's gonna be one thousand dollar for the uh the koreans one it's gonna be $1,000 for the Korean one
it's gonna be held in Seoul.
And it's actually like,
that we will evaluate the people who came to the venue,
but also like, you know, you still have chance
like you can submit your idea at the globally.
So this is why like the Indian,
like it has more chance that if you come to the venue that you can
win but actually like you know i would say it's gonna be open for the the world so this is why
if you have any idea just please submit your uh idea uh to the uh alpha phone and and share your
knowledge therefore the for contribute contributing the metis ecosystem
for contributing the Metis ecosystem.
Amazing, super clear.
So everybody can participate.
There are rewards.
And, you know, it's just time for people here in the room to take action.
So let's go now with CoinEasy.
What can we expect about the event in Seoul?
Yeah, it's going to be in Gangnam, April 17th, Thursday, from Korea time 6pm to 9pm in Gangnam.
And yeah, basically kind of similar to Akindo.
It's going to be really fun, hands-on experience. You will hear from the Metis team and other Web3 experts joining the workshops
where you can actually build on Metis and even pitch your own ideas to get instant feedback
from the committee and the team. So it's going to be really, really valuable for the builders. And also like Mo said, everyone can participate in all over the world.
So it doesn't, it's not like only allocate to Korean and there will be an expert
advice to help improve your projects and a lot of chance to meet other builders, investors,
and Web3 folks and Web2, Web3 companies in Korea is all about learning by doing and
connecting with the right people.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
If you want to connect with people, obviously, you know, an in-person event such like that
is something that you you really
need to attend and uh thanks for sharing because uh this is an important thing that i didn't mention
of course in these events uh we will have the ideathon so everybody can participate but of
course our focus is on the builders right on the developers and we will have people from medis team
uh sharing uh details about you know what's coming up with
hyperion what's coming up with last ai i will be personally in in tokyo in japan giving a workshop
to teach like an introduction to using our ai agent framework called halid we have been having
workshops each week and it's going to be, really important for people that want to integrate with Last.ai to learn how to use the basics of audit.
And it's relatively simple. You can even get started if you're not super technical to do like the basic stuff.
And it's going to be fun, right? That's the idea. We want to have fun.
We want to build cool things and we want to get new ideas. Now, speaking about ideas and building cool things, one thing that I'm wondering is what makes
each one of your communities special, right? Because, you know, each country has their own
set of rules, their own trends, and their own mindset when it comes to building something
in WebTree, right? So I was wondering uh in the case of you know japan
and in the case of korea what makes this developer community unique from your perspective
so again let's start with moss yeah uh that is a great point to uh dive into and actually like a japanese developer seems marked by i believe a strong
technical uh capability and the distinctive creative culture so however many developers
here lack uh regular access to global web3 ecosystems or direct support from the protocols
due to the language barrier and we will have that have onboard to the Metis ecosystem through the next meetup next week
and Ideathon through the Akino platform.
And I think, you know, there's like a lot of the speciality in Japan, for example.
There's so many famous companies and also there is a lot of IPs.
You know, those things can integrate to the ecosystem for like any types of blockchain.
But at the same time, we need some push from the people who are engaged, who is engaging
in their industry. So, and I think this kind of part,
we still are in the processing for the Integrate.
But also like, I would say,
you know, like two years ago, in Japan,
the government actually started to get involved
to the Web3 ecosystem.
The reason is that they put the Web3,
they put Web3 as,
I would say like, you know, national strategic industry.
So this is what it's kind of same as car or mobility or like same as
semiconductor in Japan.
So this is why, like, you know, we start to see the backup from government.
So this kind of like information that actually
like makes people hype, you know?
So, and oh, let's go on the web street, you know?
So this is why we start to see a much more builders.
And I think this year and next year,
we will see like much more builder comes
uh in the webster ecosystem you know like uh some uh like famous companies start to like you know
their own chain and those stuff so yeah this is why i would say like there's a lot of potential
in japan for the developer side you know there is a lot of high-skilled builders in Japan, so it's important to get
on board for them.
And yeah, we will have for now.
And plus, I would like to highlight the long-term vision for the developers.
So that's something that since we've done way back for a long time, the Japanese
builder knows about like, you know, long term building is important.
So yeah, this is why I like to get them on board for the Metisic system.
And yeah, we will keep pushing for that.
Amazing response. amazing response I'm wondering later later on I will come back to the question in relation to uh AI right because we have on one side developers that are more focused on webtree and on the other
side we have people that are more focused on AI and now we have the convergence the mix of both
of these so I will go back to that point in a little bit.
But first of all, I want to listen from CoinEasy.
What's your perspective about what makes the developer community in Korea unique?
Yeah, Korea is a really fast moving market
and it's really a fighter in general in Korea because a lot of like
enterprises are onboarding, working on Web3, for example, like even Central Exchange,
even Central Exchange, now they are onboarding all the big companies to be able to trade
on their Central Exchange.
And there will be a lot of liquidity for Web3 companies and projects.
So I think these kind of things are really a trick for the builders actually jumping on building Web3 products.
Because I ask many builders, what makes you entering Web3 and other industries?
Since they are already established in Web2 or other companies, why they need to risk their jobs and stuff.
They told us that there will be much more bigger opportunities.
So I think these kind of like fast moving and all the big movers entering Web3 in Korea
movers entering Web3 in Korea really attract builders actually working on Web3 in Korea.
So I think this is kind of a different perspective from our side because we thought that they
want to build something really cool, but it turns out they want to know what they
can get from working on these tools and other blockchain, etc. So it was really interesting for us.
Absolutely. I think that things in general, I think work Work3 moves really, really fast and people need to adapt, right? And it can be a lot of stress.
But let's get back to the AI side, because like I mentioned before, this year, Medis is fully embracing artificial intelligence and everything that that entails.
We will have the upcoming launch of Hyperia, right? A chain that is going to be dedicated for ai specialized
applications and i'm wondering from your perspective right you guys work with builders
you guys work with developers and entrepreneurs and you must have like a different set or subgroups
within these communities right and we have people that are like i mentioned before more on the side
of smart contracts the vision side uh smart contracts, the vision side.
And then on the other side, if you go to AI, to the AI space, you will find people that are maybe more from the academy side or maybe from the web tool world in which, you know, they are
focused on training models, improving models, and that kind of thing. So I'm wondering, what are
your kind of strategies in order to attract both of this group of developers which are kind of different
in principle and how do how do you identify okay this is working to attract them to retain them or
this is something that people in the ai space are interested when it comes to web3 and vice versa
i'm curious to hear a lot of your insights about this
insights about this?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Actually, speaking of AI,
we did the AI hackathon like two years ago,
maybe like beginning of 2023.
It was, we did the AI hackathon
that was with the Microsoft, air web3 hackathon and
that was uh like you know going back to back then like there was a good submission of them and later
on yes uh like as you know like you know but beforehand there was online activity and like
you know the market uh kind of exploded and uh and like we've seen a lot of the tools for example um you know like
they like i i actually mentioned at the beginning of the uh like um we we went i went to the um
taipei for the east global taipei and actually so like in a quality of product, the submission was, it's a bit, I can say like, you know,
it's a more sophisticated in a sense.
You know, the number of submission was smaller,
but the quality of the product was more.
The reason is that many people using AI for building product.
So, and I know that was, for example, V0 to create a front end,
and of course, cursor, and that was for coding.
So I started to see people generally use AI for this.
And of course, last year, at the end of the year, there was an explosion of the AI agent. So, and that was like something that blows my mind and that gives me a lot of opportunity
that gives me the way of thinking of the opportunity in the market.
So this is why we started like, you know, the AI Grants Fund.
So basically like more doing like the project to get on board for the giving,
incentivize people who is focusing for AI and I think that
what's important here is kind of integrate or like you know cooperate together for the web
two people who is specialized in AI and web three people as well who is also like you know have that
who is a specializing smart contract on web three blockchain technology and you know like you know have that who is a specializing smart contract on web3 blockchain technology
and you know like you guys have last year this is actually great because uh it can like be the
uh bridge for the both of them uh who is a specializing in it and then this framework is
actually um the the made by uh the Metis.
So it's also easier to integrate.
It's not something like some framework
is built on independently.
It's a beautiful Metis.
So this is why to integrate is going to be easier.
So I would say it's you know, is it doing this kind of like, you know, the hackathon or like, you know, doing the AI related hackathon is actually going to help more for building the AI community.
And yeah, we would love to do that. And yeah, I would say this, the build hours is going to be the start for everyone to get in the deep into the AI.
hours is going to be the start for everyone to get in the deep into the AI.
Yeah, I'm curious to hear the perspective on this side of CoinEasy as well, because,
you know, I don't I don't really know like how people see AI in there.
Like some people are going to be more, I would say, cautious about it, right?
You would have people that are like, this AI thing is just a hype.
And on the other side, you would have people that are completely embracing AI.
I'm personally one of them.
I've been working with ChatGVD ever since it came out to the market. And I'm really happy about it.
I fully believe that the future is going to be AI driven
and it's going to continue to improve very fast
and disrupt many markets.
So I'm fully embracing this.
But I do know that it really depends on the culture.
It really depends on the, you know,
the perspective on the locals as well, right?
So curious to hear your insights.
Oh yeah.
Hello?
Can you hear me?
Yes, I can hear you, Jason.
Oh yeah, yeah.
So like you said, Korea also super, super bullish on AI,
using AI tools.
And I also personally think that using AI tools are really, really important.
I think it should be like, uh, we, as like for now we cannot
against AI using AI.
So we just really need to fully embrace AI.
And also like for the students,
like some people like,
oh, you shouldn't use AI and things like that.
I think we need to really, really use like a lifestyle,
even like doing homework or whatever.
Like they're already smarter than us.
So we need to use like a life partner at this moment to make sure that we really use these tools to upgrade our life.
And even like children, we need to really like make sure that they use, they know how to use every other way since they were born.
I think it's really, really important.
So in the future, they can actually know much better
how to use AI in their life.
I think it's really, really important for the future generation.
And yeah, I think that is, I think it's great to show even like we use like a,
I think it's great to show people that some use case of WebSleep plus AI in general, because many
people kind of confuse like how we can like use like AI and WebSleep together.
So I think it's great to show samples what they can do.
So I think the Mad East events with PLUS AI can really help Korean builders
have a lot of good ideas and practical showcase for them.
And others can use those ideas and work
for using the reference to build another cool product.
So I think it's really, really important,
and we are super excited for that.
On our end, we are super excited about this as well, right?
We really want to connect with the builders and developers over there and see what kind
of solutions they can create.
And actually, follow on this topic.
Obviously, on the Medi side, as a dev role, I'm always thinking about how can we do better
for our builders? How can we do better for our builders?
How can we support them further?
So when it comes to Asia and the initiatives that we're having there, what's kind of the
support that we can provide and things that we could do to kind of improve and connect
like on a more deeper level with the developer community, both in Korea and in Japan. That's something that I'm
very interested to learn more about, right? I'm always looking forward to see, okay, maybe this
is a way I can engage better with this local community. Of course, working with you guys,
I know that we are in great hands, but if there is anything that you guys would suggest to the medis team or maybe the
medis ecosystem that we could do in order to you know collaborate more effectively or improve in
our collaborations or provide more value to our developers or builders this is something that i
would highly appreciate so i don't know if you have any thoughts around this moss and jayden
Any thoughts around this, Moss and Jayden?
Yeah, I think from my perspective,
you know, actually I mentioned about it at the beginning.
It's like the language barrier is one of them,
you know, to try to solve.
And for example, some project or like,
they actually to have like some their own Twitter to keep
posting their information in Japanese to try to have a bridge between the
project and the Japanese community and that probably one of them to like to keep
expanding Japanese market and to try to get on board and of course like you know
doing some build activation in japan keep doing
it for example this kind of ideathon or like hackathon it could help them to like you know
bring them more builders and to the ecosystem uh because there's incentives there and also like
you know that here's a point you know like uh let's say you do the hackathon or like there's
some project do that and we've seen like you know sometimes they just's say you do the hackathon or like there's some project do that and we've seen
like you know sometimes they just did one time of the feedback and they're not uh keep supporting
for them just you know one time and like people uh not really like you know a patient for the or
builder sometimes they feel encouraged if they if there is a supporting system continuously.
So I would say they keep giving feedback and keep providing the place for the builder.
A Japanese builder can come anytime without any language barrier.
I think that probably helps a lot.
And nowadays, we have chat GPT or like something like to translate easily to communicate. So I think that can help for the METIS ecosystem to build ecosystem, build ecosystem for Japan.
them through Japan.
Yeah, that's amazing.
And actually, I'm checking here with our guests on this space.
We have MEDIS Africa, we have MEDIS India, and I see that some of them are doing really
a good job in translating these for the different information about the different initiatives
that we have at MEDIS into their local
language. And I think that, like you mentioned, we actually kind of underestimate the impact that
that has, right? Because for us that work here 24-7 on this thing for months and months, right,
we already know that you need to learn English. There is no other way. But for people that are
new, if we really want to attract people that are new, they have no idea about this. Some of them, of course,
will know English, others will not know. And it's a good idea to have these local hubs that can
provide the information in the most easy and digestible way that they can consume, which is their local language. So that's a pretty, pretty nice comments there.
Jaden, Jaden, do you have something to add to this?
Oh, yeah, I think both are really like explained really well.
well. And that also, other MEDIS, other localized materials,
it's really important. What I heard from the local community, they can understand English,
they can use Chachypt to translate, but still there's something missing if there is no local community translate and also make it to modify to their culture styles.
I think it's super, super important because that's what we provide for the project as well.
And also those local committees know what the users expect and what they like and aim for like a different strategy in their regionals and strong partnership with the local committee and developer groups and etc.
And also I think really important job for MEDIS is like funding and mentorship for the early stage builders and projects in those regionals.
I think it's super important.
So they feel like, for example, Korean feel like they are, they are in, they are skinning the game.
the game, they're doing this in real life events and supporting this localized content
and education, workshop, etc.
So I think it's really, really powerful strategy in general.
Yeah, 100% agree with that.
And I think that as time goes by, providing more value in this way is going to become
more more and more relevant because at the end of the day we have so many uh infrastructure
already built so many ecosystem that you know for developers sometimes is not that's not the main
the main thing of course there is certain infrastructure that you will need depending
on the type of application you want to build but i would say that maybe it's even more important to have the right support that goes beyond the technical
thing right the technical pieces and that means having some access to mentorship of course funding
via grants is very important as well uh and but have someone that can know, help you with ideas, with suggestions about what to improve,
what do I need to do next, you know, and having access to co-marketing activities. So I'm really
bullish on many on this side and the support that has been provided so far and how we're
constantly looking to improve on this area of, you know, supporting our builders and try to do
the best for them beyond
just providing like the technical information that they need. And of course, you know, these
kind of events play a significant role in how we're building our community of developers and
entrepreneurs. So thank you both for these really insightful words. Now, before we wrap up, I have one question about like trends, local trends.
What do I mean by this? Well, of course, each country has, you know, a different adoption level
and different things that they're interested in. So what I would like to hear from both of you is
what is something that right now is really, you guys see that is really trending locally in terms of a
sort of web tree applications or a web tree sector a vertical that everybody's paying attention to
and another one that you see might be emerging or might need some more attention right maybe i don't
know i'm just speculating maybe people in japan are really into d5 but they they are starting to
look into gaming or they are starting to look into gaming or they are starting
to look into ai i'm curious to hear what is your experience and perspective on this
yeah um uh i would say you know it's not just current trend but uh you know in japan that we
have culture of gaming for a long time, a lot of gaming companies.
So I would say the game is always in trend in Japan.
And of course, you know, the AI, since the explosion of the AI or LLM or like AI tools, it says that in Japan, like it's really trendy for like, you know,
it's something that, or the developer related to AI.
So this is what actually great for the Japanese developer
to seek into the Metis ecosystem,
since you guys have the AI.
So it's a great opportunity to express the idea
for what they're gonna do with, if you got, if they got for what they're gonna do uh with uh if you you got if they
got if they're gonna if they are able to use that like lasik ai and yeah that's a wonderful thing
that came up uh in my mind uh but on other hand uh i would say um like, since like stablecoins and low is changing.
So I, I hear like a lot of information about stablecoins related to something stablecoin.
But like, I think might be like most of those of all of them because it's anywhere it's on blockchain.
So the gaming or AI or stablecoin.
And of course, like, you know, as, as, you know, yeah, know uh yeah like as he said like it's about like uh um the d5 you know that's also um it's something that we we see every time for the trend
uh people will build something related to d5 but uh yeah um and i would say like you know the gaming something that
it's always friend in japan is something that we uh i'm interested in to see but like as they
say like you know it's a um i don't want to like uh limit that idea for the uh this idea song and
there's something that i want to see is the diverse ideas. So this is why I'm excited to see any types of idea
for this idea shown in Japan, in Tokyo.
Absolutely.
And Jayden, what are some things that you're seeing
as a trend in Korea?
Yeah, so I think I see the cycle, like every cycle since 2021. And I think it's super
similar. So first one was like, right now it's DeFi. The first one was MemeCoin and then they're
looking for another utility and DeFi. And then next one, probably GameFi,
and they ended up with NFT,
and then bear market again, and then things like that.
I just see the similar cycle at the moment.
So we are in the kind of like entering DeFi cycle.
So people are actually looking for like utilities
and what they can do with their tokens
and like making DeFi strategy. But in Korea, there are a lot of traders in general. So they love to
use like Hyperliquid and like other decentralized exchange. So there are super, super degen traders and a lot of liquidity in Korea.
They really love like passive income, like the key staking, staking,
like anything that make them like a passive income is really bullish.
And also stablecoin DeFi strategy is really interesting for the Korean users
since they love this kind of farming, gig and stuff.
Yeah, so it's really interesting for us.
And I think GameFi slowly, like, people are interested in it
because since a lot of different mobile social messenger apps are doing gaming
on their platforms and people actually can gain some reward
while they're playing the games and easy to like purchase
and things like that.
So I think that there'll be,
so we are kind of seeing like DeFi and GameFi
is like really interested for the users.
And then maybe future NFT will be like popping up after this cycle.
So yeah, we kind of like making those, like explaining those narratives to our committee so our committee can uh kind of prepare
uh like those kind of um narrative and uh ready for those those next cycle so yeah
it's yeah it's just how we observe uh the market in Korea.
Very interesting.
And if you're paying attention to our listeners,
you will see that there are some differences there.
And this is something that you can contribute for the ideathon because now you know which kind of interest they have locally.
So that's something that probably might help you with the ideathon.
Like we mentioned before, this is something that anyone can participate and there will be rewards.
So I think that before we wrap it up, because we are on time now, I think that we can do a sort of call to action to the people in our community.
So, Moss and Jaden, thank you so much for joining us today.
And let's finish this space with, you know, what can people do in order to participate,
in order to stay tuned, in order to, you know, sign up for the event if they are around.
Let's give some final words to them.
Yeah, you know, everyone here, please come to the Akina website and also go to Luma.
please come to the Akino website and also go to Luma.
There is all information there
on how to give you an idea for this event.
And basically, you guys only need to submit your idea
through Akino website,
and you're going to have the opportunity
to receive the prizes through that.
So it's going to be all distributed.
It will be distributed all
on chain so it's gonna be quick automatic once the winner is decided and also as i mentioned
at the beginning um that you guys gonna be the judge as well on the event so and then but also
it's very important to come to the venue uh at the uh So first of all, feel free to give your ideas
through the platform, on the platform.
And yeah, then just please become judge as well.
I'm very excited to see all of your ideas
from all over the world
and excited to meet all of you guys in Tokyo.
And yeah, that's it.
Awesome, thank you so much.
I really love Akimdo, guys.
And Jaden, final words.
Yeah, thank you for inviting us. And thank you for the most
explain everything. Basically, we are really similar to similar
process. Using Akindo website, and really, really great website.
And really great to work with MEDIS for the Korea Builders. And I just comment our events, Luma page,
every information is there.
So we love to have you guys and love to meet you in person
and looking forward to our events in South Korea during
the ETHORM celebration.
So yeah, and ETHORM celebration. So yeah, and ETHORN so yeah, love to meet you all.
And thank you for today and thank you for your time.
Yeah, happy, happy, happy day, rest of the day.
Amazing, guys.
Please have a nice rest of the day.
You guys heard it here.
You can join and participate.
If you look at the comment section,
you will find both events in luma
so pretty easy and i can tell you right away that not that many people that are online will be
submitting their ideas so you guys have all of the alpha and all of the privileged information i would
say in order to create a very good proposal and have a very strong chance to actually win because you guys have the information
about what is being built, what are they looking for? And you guys know about Medis, of course,
right, if you're here. So anyways, I would invite you finally to, you know, check out the last AI
website, check out the Medis website as well, the latest blogs the marketing team has been putting a lot
of effort in explaining everything that is happening that is coming and why right what's
the importance of ai what angle are we taking what kind of things can be built and what to expect
so get there in those websites read that information then sign up for the luma events and
that information then sign up for the luma events and submit your ideas for the idea top so thank
you so much guys it's been a pleasure talking to you today and if you have any questions of course
feel free to the end me i'm zero x quantic on on twitter and you can also the end the medis page
we will be alert in all channels have a nice rest of the day guys take care bye bye
be alert in all channels. Have a nice rest of the day guys. Take care. Bye bye.
Bye bye. Thank you Vita, Jaden and have a good day everyone. Bye bye. Thank you. .
