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🤫 Exclusive NFT Penthouse Social @ NFT NYC

Hosted by Manta Network & ARPA
 
 
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Join Top Leaders in the Space for an Exclusive Crypto Evening

Join cohosts Manta Network, ARPA, Kucoin, IVC, Phala, and RMRK for an evening of private discussions and networking in an exclusive penthouse setting steps away from NFT NYC. Space is limited.

🤔 Why Participate

Whether you're building, exploring, investing, or just generally curious about the crypto space, this event should be on your list for networking with a strong and talented community, getting alpha from thought leaders, and enjoying the best of the best food that New York has to offer.

Thought Leadership Sessions

To kick off the event, we will be hosting two panels:

  • How Venture Capital Navigates the Changing Crypto Landscape - Learn about how VCs are adapting their strategies to funding crypto startups in the wake of the volatile markets.

  • The Future of NFTs - Top NFT projects discuss the evolving landscape of NFTs, where efforts are starting to focus, and what the NFT space will look like 3 to 5 years from now.

Networking

Meet and great our panelists, hosts, and other amazing members of the web3 ecosystem.

Taste of New York

We are bringing in the best New York reuben sandwiches from Katz' and the best New York pizza from Prince Street Pizza. Enjoy snacks, coffee, and an open bar throughout the evening. Please come hungry!

🧑🏻‍🚀 About the Hosts

Manta Network

Manta Network is building on-chain privacy for web3 using zero-knowledge proofs. With a specific focus on user experience, Manta Network is building programmable and composable privacy for crypto assets and decentralized applications. Since 2020, Manta Network has been building and has expanded to become a global team of core contributors with financing from Polychain, CoinFund, Binance, and others. Manta Network is founded by veterans in the crypto space with backgrounds from MIT, Harvard, and Algorand.

ARPA

ARPA is a permissionless threshold BLS network that serves as the infrastructure of verifiable random beacon, secure wallet, cross-chain bridges, and consensus mechanism etc. Randcast, built on top of ARPA, is a verifiable RNG that supplies random numbers to multichain dapps such as lottery, games and NFT minting to improve transparency. In addition, Randcast can also serve as the random seed for blockchain consensus node selection.

Infinity Ventures Crypto

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC) was founded to empower and invest in pioneering GameFi, DeFi and Web 3 startups. The fund’s partners have invested in crypto assets since 2015 and have guided companies through a rapidly-evolving landscape. Since August 2021, IVC has made numerous strategic investments into a diverse range of startups including Yield Guild Games and the Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin, JPYC. IVC aims to innovate, build, and catapult forward the next generation of founders.

Kucoin

Launched in September 2017, KuCoin is a global crypto exchange with its operational headquarters in Seychelles. It offers over 700 digital assets, and currently provides spot trading, margin trading, P2P fiat trading, futures trading, staking, and lending to its 18 million users in 207 countries and regions. KuCoin is one of the top 5 crypto exchanges according to CoinMarketCap.

Phala Network

Phala Network is a decentralized computation cloud protocol. Organizing a decentralized network of computation nodes worldwide, it offers high-performance services without relying on any cloud vendor, which is also powerful, secure, and scalable. Phala World (PW) is a Metaverse Gamification Extension based on Soulbound theory. The new ‘Play to Build’ concept combines user behavior, characters, communities, and sci-fi stories on the Phala blockchain, integrating strategy, development, MMORPG, and other game types.

RMRK

RMRK is a set of NFT 2.0 standards uniquely capable of powering a decentralized metaverse. RMRK's NFT 2.0 legos are composable into complex NFT projects without the need for custom coding or bespoke UIs, while being cross-collection compatible out of the gate.

Its unique key concepts such as a global item economy, true digital scarcity, soulbound 2.0 NFTs, and composable, nested NFTs are described in the docs at docs.rmrk.app