Crypto Village Newsletter #5 - 12/15

Dec 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!

The News of the Week:

Meetup in Yamakoshi
Nishikigoi NFT New Year's Meetup in Tokyo
DAO Rule Making Hackathon
Nishikigoi NFT POKKE Card
Moving into Public Mint Price

■ Meetup in Yamakoshi

We had a meetup in Yamakoshi from the 9th through 10th to celebrate the "Neo-Yamakoshi Village (former Yamakoshi DAO)" passed by community vote last month and to thank all the digital and real villagers for their support over the past year.

On the 10th, we’ve called for questions that we actually wanted to ask the residents of Yamakoshi, and the plastic bans of the villagers who came to participate have been displayed at Orataru (Yamakoshi Reconstruction Exchange Center).

■ Nishikigoi NFT New Year's Meetup in Tokyo

Following the meetup in Yamakoshi, we are so excited to announce that we will be holding another meetup event in Tokyo next month, January 20th 2024. We have invited a variety of people from the local community, digital villagers, and people working in various fields to participate which consists of an online talk conference and an offline meetup.

Under the concept of "Thinking about the future of the community from the technology and art perspectives", we look forward to sharing new ideas and vision while building stronger ties in the community.

◆ Overview of the Event◆

Date & Time: January 20th (Sat) 2024 - 10AM-8:30PM(JST)
Conference (online) - 10AM-6PM
Nishikigoi Meetup (offline) - 6:30PM-8:30PM
Format: Two parts on the same day
Tickets:

◆ About the Conference◆

Time: January 20th (Sat) 10AM-6PM
Location: Online (YouTube Live)
Theme: "Thinking about the future of the community from the technology and art perspectives"
Speakers: Joi Ito, Hashed Open Research, Haruka Takeuchi, Toshiaki Takase, Atsushi Hayashi...and more.
Speakers: Web3, Blockchain, Startups, Regional, Local, Art, Law

◆ About the Meetup◆

Time: January 20th (Sat) 6:30PM-8:30PM
Place: Crypto Cafe & Bar
Address: Digital Gate Bldg. 2F, 3-5-7 Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

All of the details including the ticket info is in here!
https://nishikigoinft-newyear-meetup.peatix.com/

We will continue to pursue new ventures to ensure that our small but diverse cultures are not left out in this NFT world inspired by traditional Japanese culture as well as Nishikigoi, a symbol of beauty and prosperity. We sincerely look forward to seeing you there!

■ DAO Rule Making Hackathon

On December 6th, the 4th DAO Rule Making Hackathon took place by the government to discuss how the law regarding DAOs should be implemented here in Japan, and 5 digital villagers from Neo Yamakoshi Village including Haruka Takeuchi were participating. This fourth round mainly focused on hearings for those projects that are focused on local community revitalization and development.

The overall agenda included various issues related to DAOs, such as legal structure, taxation, registrations, anonymity and so on. Mr. Masaaki Taira, a member of the House of Representatives and chairman of the web3PT (LDP Digital Society Promotion Headquarters), who we had a conversation with recently at the X space, was also there, and showed strong interest not only in the rules but also in tax system reform.

■ Nishikigoi NFT POKKE Card

From this week, "Nishikigoi NFT Card" is available at ORATAR, Yamakoshi's Reconstruction Exchange Center. This is an interactive NFC hardware wallet called POKKE (formerly known as NFTag).

Now people can mint Nishikigoi NFTs by simply touching this Nishikigoi NFT card to your mobile phone. Until now, there were some difficulties for those who are not familiar with Web3, such as "managing cryptocurrency" and " making a wallet address". The Nishikigoi NFT card here removes those problems and allows anyone to be a digital villager. They are available at Orataru in Yamakoshi village.

■ Moving into Public Mint Price

As it has been about six months since the third mint of Nishikigoi NFT, we announce that we’ve made a decision that all the mint including AL spots and holder spots will be changed to the public price (0.03ETH) after January 20th.

If you have an AL spot or a holder spot but yet to mint, we hope that you will take this opportunity to join us!

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