Crypto Village Newsletter #3 - 11/15

Nov 14, 2023

Welcome back to our News Letter!

Huge thanks to all the new subscribers! This is produced by Crypto Village and we’re writing this newsletter with the latest news of the Nishikigoi NFT project and Japanese local NFT projects and more.

This newsletter is sent on the 15th and 30th every month. We hope that you will enjoy the newsletters that we will be sending out through the end of the year, as we will talk about more deep dive topics on Nishikigoi NFT! - This week it is about "Neo Yamakoshi Village".

The News of the Week:

Voting For the Neo Yamakoshi Village
Meetup in Yamakoshi (IRL Events)
Podcast "Tokyo Regenerative Food Lab"
Social Innovation Week 2023

■ Voting For the Neo Yamakoshi Village

It has been two years since the very first mint of Nishikigoi NFT back in 2021. And now, Nishikigoi NFT, a community of over 3,000 people, has gone through all kinds of challenges and is finally reaching a new phase. - This is the "establishment of Neo Yamakoshi Village.

From this week, we are holding a Community Vote for all the digital villagers for the establishment of the Neo-Yamakoshi Village. All Nishikigoi NFT holders have a vote. Here is some of the details on the vote.

▶ Proposal

Establishment of “Neo Yamakoshi Village” and enactment of its rules and regulations
Establishment of “Neo Yamakoshi Village Supporter DAO" to support Neo Yamakoshi Village and enactment of its rules and regulations

▶ Eligibility

Nishikigoi NFT Holder, and residents of the Yamakoshi Village

▶ Voting Date

November 11th 0am - November 19th 11:59pm (JST)

▶ Voting Link

Approval of the establishment of "Neo Yamakoshi Village" and "Neo Yamakoshi Village Supporter DAO"

▶ Why Are We Doing This Vote?

Our Yamakoshi DAO intends to change its name to "Neo Yamakoshi Village"as this is a new start for Yamakoshi DAO to return to its roots in Yamakoshi. By changing the name to "Neo Yamakoshi Village", the term "DAO" will be removed with the hope to show “a new form of community" that everyone can understand and join even if they do not understand the web3 technology. The idea of Neo Yamakoshi Village goes back to the Chuetsu Earthquake, which led to reflect on what kind of community we wanted Yamakoshi to be. This will be one step further for Yamakoshi DAO.

■ Meetup in Yamakoshi (IRL Events)

We are excited to announce that we will be having a Year-End meetup and Digital Villagers meetup in Yamakoshi next month.

Details are as follows:

▶ Yamakoshi Year-End meetup
Date: Saturday, December 9, 6pm-8:30pm (JST)
Place: Amayachi-no-Yu (Website here)
Address: 4526 Tanezomihara, Yamakoshi, Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture (GoogleMaps)
Participants: 20 real residents + 20 digital villagers

▶Digital Villagers meetup
Date: 12/10 (Sun.) 10:00-12:00
Place: Orataru (Website here)
Address: 2835 Takezawa-ko, Yamakoshi, Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture (Google Maps)
Participants: 30 real residents + 20 digital villagers (*Online participation is available)
The details on Discord!

＼Let's go beyond the real & digital barrier!／ 
This is the first ever year-end meeting & social gathering we will host in Yamakoshi! Let's talk and hang out a lot with the cool people of Yamakoshi! I'm so excited and I can't wait to meet you all! (Haruka Takeuchi)

If you are a new digital villager who bought the third mint and would like to experience more of what Nishikigoi NFT has to offer. This is a great opportunity to experience the real villager life, and we look forward to seeing you there.

If you’re living outside of Japan, it may not be possible to join this event this time, but we’re gonna share the photos and all kinds of other things about this meetups on Discord and X, so please check them out!

If you have any questions, please contact us through here.

■ Podcast "Tokyo Regenerative Food Lab"

食×都市のリジェネラティブな未来のはじまり：Tokyo Regenerative Food Lab（#0） - 『WIRED』日本版 | Podcast on Spotify

On November 11, our co-founder Atsushi Hayashi was joining the "Tokyo Regenerative Food Lab", a podcast from by WIRED Japan talking about how we should create alternative local government systems in the vanishing city and shared some of the things that happened throughout the journey of this Nishikigoi NFT project. The second part will be released soon.

■ SOCIAL INNOVATION WEEK 2023

On November 12, Toshi, a co-founder of Crypto Village, was invited and spoke at "SOCIAL INNOVATION WEEK 2023" on the stage in Shibuya. This event, now in its sixth year, is one of the largest social design events in Japan and takes place under the theme of "7 days in Shibuya to meet the ideas".

The theme of the panel was "New Possibilities for the locals and the city" and we also talked about how we should approach to connect diverse cultures and communities together while there are numerous ways of technology that we have today.