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Topia, the leading platform for creating social experiences with decentralized spatial chat inside fully customizable virtual worlds, announced feature launches and key new investment. Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's Thirty Five Ventures join Topia investors Alexis Ohanians' Seven Seven Six and Bonfire Ventures. 

As an industry first, Topia has expanded its creator ecosystem with the launch of their verified NFT system. With this system, ERC-721 NFT owners can verify and place their on-chain assets inside Topia worlds and collaboratively create NFT galleries. Topia's peer-to-peer webrtc streams are decentralized, allowing secure end-to-end encrypted browser-based chat. In addition to the new verified NFT system, Topia also introduced member profiles, enabling unique usernames and greater relationship building within Topia worlds.

With the new gallery feature, NFTs can be displayed publicly in a Topia world where friends, family, colleagues, and the general public can be invited to view and discuss them. Topia is maintaining a publicly available verified NFT gallery in topia.io/nft and holding a public launch event with a series of talks on December 14 in topia.io/pixel.

“The emergence of NFTs represents a major milestone for Web3, decentralized technology, and the interoperable creator economy. Until now, it has been challenging to showcase NFTs in real-time social experiences online. We wanted to replicate the ability to socialize around art, as you would in our home, at a gallery, or museum,” said Topia CEO and co-founder Daniel Liebeskind. “Decentralized databases are great for creators, who get to add assets to a shared public backend and leave it up to platforms like Topia to build interoperable frontends that increase the value of their creations. Since founding Topia two years ago, we've been on a mission to empower the creation of social experiences for real-time connection and play. Verified NFTs and owner profiles represent our commitment to the growing interoperable metaverse and enable Topia world builders to create hybrid on-chain, off-chain social experiences that showcase NFTs and are accessible to everyone.”

How Verified NFTs work in Topia -- A new menu option allows Topia users to connect Ethereum accounts to their Topia account. All of the user's ERC-721 NFTs will be populated into their asset library and can be placed within Topia's worlds. Similar to original art in the physical world, an NFT can only exist in one place at a time across the entire Topia universe. Hovering over a placed NFT will reveal a “verified NFT” badge that confirms its on-chain identity and its owner's Topia profile. Placed NFTs can also be added to a user's profile to highlight worlds.

About Topia

Since launching in April of 2020, Topia has grown to see hundreds of user-hosted events every week.  Topia's scalable architecture can handle events ranging from a few friends to thousands of concurrent guests coming together. The free-to-use platform has co-hosted virtual Burning Man twice and attracted a diverse range of users from families, students, and schools, to companies, music and arts festivals, and Fortune 500 companies. Large companies and confluencers have been hiring agencies to build out branded Topia worlds for their employees and fans to foster creativity and collaboration. 

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CoinAgenda (www.coinagenda.com), the premier global conference series connecting blockchain and cryptocurrency investors with startups since 2014, and BitAngels (www.bitangels.network), the leading network of bitcoin and blockchain investors, today announced that special guest Nio Garcia will be performing for all CoinAgenda attendees at SDG Exchange's Exclusive Concert Series. The concert will take place on December 9 at 10 pm at the popular 7eight7 Nightclub, as part of the fifth annual CoinAgenda Caribbean event in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tickets and the full agenda are available on the event page. CoinAgenda or SDG Exchange tickets are required to attend the concert as the event is closed to the public. 

Nio Garcia is a native-Puerto Rican dancer and world-class choreographer, recently turned rapper and film actor with over 18 million listeners on Spotify. One of the trailblazers of the reggaeton movement, he's released hits such as ‘Te Boté', ‘AM', and ‘Mírame'. 

Presented by SDG Exchange, a global sustainability marketplace dedicated to reversing climate change one transaction at a time, the SDG Exchange's Exclusive Concert, will serve as a CoinAgenda Afterparty Concert closing out three days of events covering everything crypto and blockchain including: the Future of Digital assets, Crypto Banking, the Growing Utility of NFTs, Play-to-Earn Gaming, the DeFi and TradFi relationship, Latin America and Crypto, Stablecoins, Scaling Solutions, Blockchain Companies in Public Markets, Creating a Clean Crypto Future, Smart Cities, Crypto Investing Strategies, and Structuring to Protect Assets.

“We are proud to be a co-sponsor of CoinAgenda and part of Puerto Rico Blockchain Week,” said Jason Cooner, SDG Exchange founder and CEO. “We see Puerto Rico as a growing blockchain hub full of opportunities for entrepreneurship.”

CoinAgenda Caribbean will gather top speakers including Brad Garlinghouse, Founder of Ripple; Dan Morehead, CEO of Pantera Capital; Brittany Kaiser, Executive Chair of Gryphon Digital Mining; Jason Cooner, CEO of SDG Exchange, Michael Wagner, Co-Founder & CEO of Star Atlas; and Robert Viglione, CEO at Horizen Labs.

As an international conference series, CoinAgenda Caribbean is supported by some of the world's leading blockchain and cryptocurrency companies including:

Platinum Level:

• SDG Exchange - SDG Exchange is a global sustainability marketplace dedicated to reversing climate change one transaction at a time.

Gold Level:

• Horizen Labs - Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that provides the best tools to build blockchains and applications for real-world use cases with privacy options, low transaction fees, and configurable revenue models.

• FV Bank - FV Bank is a global digital bank providing business and individual accounts globally. It supports multiple currencies, international payments, investment accounts along with debit and prepaid cards. 

• Dfinity - (Gold Dinner Sponsor) The DFINITY Foundation is a nonprofit organization that develops the Internet Computer, a decentralized, open-source, general-purpose blockchain designed to host smart contracts. 

Silver Level

• FIO - FIO is to crypto, what HTTP is to the internet. FIO Protocol is the open-source and decentralized crypto usability layer that makes sending, receiving and even requesting crypto easier than ever and dramatically less risky to use. 

• Starter Capital - Starter Capital is the venture arm of Starter International, where we incubate and invest in the best projects in DEFI. Starter Capital empowers blockchain and digital currency innovators with resources and access to capital to help create a new future.

• Rair Tech - RAIR is a blockchain-based digital rights management platform that uses NFTs to get access to streaming content.

Bronze Level

• HeartRithm - HeartRithm is a regenerative engine for social impact. Their mission is to apply artificial intelligence algorithms to the global trade of digital currency, redistributing capital to philanthropic causes and social impact projects, accelerating the growth of a heart-centered culture. 

Section Sponsors

• DLTx - DLTx is a public company listed on the Norwegian Oslo Børs Stock Exchange and is the enterprise vendor for DAOs and blockchain protocols that offers unique access to the public blockchain markets & well-priced access to funding. 

• OriginTrail - OriginTrail is the world's first Decentralized Knowledge Graph is organizing humanity's most important assets, and making them discoverable, verifiable and valuable.

• unFederalReserve - unFederalReserve is a fintech SaaS company combining software built on blockchain technology and 200 years of consumer lending experience. Their banking products are designed for smaller U.S. Treasury chartered banks and non-bank lenders in need of a DeFi strategy and greater liquidity without sacrificing security or compliance.

• Blockchain Wire - Blockchain Wire is the industry's first blockchain press release distribution service focused exclusively on news about blockchain, distributed ledger technology companies, ICOs, STOs and other blockchain and cryptocurrency-related announcements. 

• Transform Group - Transform Group is the world's leading blockchain public relations, advisory, events and social media company, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto and global headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

• Bit Digital - Bit Digital is one of the world's largest publicly-listed bitcoin mining companies. Bit Digital is a sustainability-focused generator of digital assets with large-scale, global mining operations representing a currently-owned maximum hash rate of 1,603 EH/S. 

For more information regarding CoinAgenda, please visit  www.coinagenda.com. 

To purchase tickets or view the agenda for CoinAgenda Caribbean, visit the event page: www.coinagenda.com/coinagenda-caribbean-2021. 

To learn more about Puerto Rico Blockchain Week, visit www.prblockchainweek.io.

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Now in its eighth year, CoinAgenda is the leading global conference series connecting professional investors, traders, family offices and digital currency funds with top entrepreneurs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. CoinAgenda Caribbean focuses on international blockchain investing trends, with world-class speakers from around the globe, plus a special focus on blockchain economic development, friendly jurisdictions, the rise of security tokens, enterprise applications, and changes in digital currency funding vehicles and digital currency exchanges. CoinAgenda is an experience that allows all attendees to meet, mingle, and get to know the leading thought leaders, entrepreneurs and investors in the sector, including memorable parties at unique locations. 

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One catalyst of the recent growth in gaming is the adoption of blockchain and NFT. Now, more than ever, it's easier for gamers to make an income while gaming. The concept of Play to earn is gaining popularity as new NFT games come up every other month. One such platform is Metaface. 

Metaface defines itself as a decentralized gaming network with a free-to-earn token NFT and many games. This network combines tokens with NFTs to create a play-to-earn mechanism for gamers.

Metaface Token

The Metaface token takes the most primary task of powering this entire gaming ecosystem. According to Metaface white paper, this token will have two types of holders. First is those who purchase for speculative and investment reasons. The second is those who buy the token for the METATHUG P2E game. 

This BEP20 token has many use cases and features, including;

Hyperdeflationary Token 

The Metaface ecosystem instills policies that make the MFT token hyper-deflationary. One of the policies is a manual token burning mechanism. According to their whitepaper, the Metaface team will seek its community's opinion on burning tokens and buyback mechanisms. This in turn gives the community a say over their investments. Burning enhances the token scarcity, which results in more demand; hence value increases over time.

Furthermore, the network has a rebate policy where they distribute 4% of everyMFT transaction to token holders' wallets. Metaface will distribute the rebate based on the holding per wallet. This will encourage more people to purchase and hold the token. Altogether, the rebate and burning policy will make the coin deflationary.

High Liquidity Token

Another feature defining the MFT token is high liquidity. Accessing this token and exchanging it in the markets will be easy. In every transaction, 3% will go back to liquidity pools to regulate MFT token prices. 

The 3% liquidity return policy will help bolster liquidity and make the token gain value in the long term. 

Minting and Buying NFTs

The third and final feature of the token is minting. All holders of the token will mint metaface NFTs and sell them to the marketplace. 

Aside From minting NFT, the token will help users buy NFT. It will be the main currency to use in the NFT marketplace. Hence, holders will buy NFT using this token. 

Weekly Contest 

Holders of the Metaface token will participate in contests to create game scenarios. The community will choose which design is best, and the creator will earn rewards for designing.

Decentralized Exchanges

This token will be listed on top Dexes, where holders will trade in and out. The first Dex targeted by Metaface is the Pancakeswap. Trading the token will be a good source of income for traders. The MFT token will also help in rewarding the holders in Dex.  

The Metaface NFT

The network also notes that the token will work in synergy with the NFT to provide services. The NFT will be the most necessary asset in the Meta thug game. The NFTs represent the in-game items and features.

For gamers to start playing and earning, they must first purchase the Metaface token. On holding the token, they can now purchase the NFTs from the marketplace. Aspects like rarity, uniqueness, and features will contribute to the increasing values of these NFTs. 

The METATHUG Game

Meta Thug game is the flagship service provided by the Metaface network and MFT token. This game will combine several game modes to boost the gamers' experience. The Metaface team is working hard to ensure the graphic quality of the games is high.  

The MetaThug game will first launch as a mobile gaming application. It will be available both on Android and iOS devices starting quarter 1 of 2022.

Metaface: Audit for Security

To ensure it ultimately secures the investors, Metaface decided to take an audit. The audit which Techrate completed intended to identify any errors and vulnerabilities in the smart contracts. After thorough checks, Techrate never found any serious issues.  

Metaface decided to post the audit report on their web page. This shows the level of transparency that the network has. 

Metaface: The Pros and Cons

The Metaface gaming network will come with several advantages and drawbacks. The few top benefits will include; 

• Have fun and earn income

• Exposure to the NFT space

• Mobile applications for convenience

• High token liquidity

• Deflationary token 

This network is entirely new in the market. Hence, users cannot be able to identify issues. However, the team behind it is fully KYCed, and its smart contracts are audited by Techrate, eliminating any chances of a rug pull and ascertaining the security of investors' assets. Moreover, over $600K in investments are locked in the network's liquidity pool, which guarantees it is a long-term project and puts investors' minds at rest.

Wrapping Up: To The Future

The Metaface ecosystem has a lot in store in the coming months. In the fourth quarter of 2021, the platform completed several plans, including the ongoing Presale. 

However, after the presale, Metaface will complete NFTs, and launch the game in 2022. It also plans to continue listing on more exchanges as it continues to develop the NFT marketplace. At the end of 2022, Metaface intends to ensure the NFT marketplace, the Metathug game, and its other services will be available for everyone.

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