Asias top games + global leading infrastructure, Hong Kong Web3 Carnivals hottest game summit SEVENX NEW TRENDS SUMMIT agenda announced
The 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival is about to open. During this grand event, the New Trends Summit hosted by SevenX Ventures and co-organized by YGG, Immutable and Beam will be held at JW Marriott Hong Kong on April 7. The theme of this summit is Web3 Game: The Next Big Thing. Asias top games and global leading infrastructure will jointly discuss cutting-edge issues on the gaming track.
Event time: April 7, 9:30-18:00
Venue: Level 3, JW Marriott Hong Kong
Event registration link:https://lu.ma/NewTrendsSummit_HongKong
Games have always been SevenX’s key investment track. We have laid out the entire industry chain and relied on our strong cross-regional and cross-track resource integration capabilities to organically connect different market participants. Therefore, in this game theme summit, we also invited leading projects from all aspects of the industry chain, including the game content side, distribution side, traffic side, server side, platform side, and infrastructure side, to share their observations and insights. At the same time, VCs and Chinese KOLs with brands, reputations and resources in the gaming field will also attend, bringing first-line investors and the community’s understanding and perspective of the Web3 gaming industry.
In addition to the gorgeous guest lineup, 8 games including MATR1X, MetaCene, Blocklords, CASTILE, Space Nation, L3 E 7, Curio, and Cellula will set up trial areas at the summit for attendees to experience the latest versions of the games. SevenX hopes to showcase the latest production standards of Web3 games through this conference, and provide a platform for entrepreneurs in related fields to exchange knowledge and explore cooperation to jointly build ecological development.
event agenda
09:30 Open for sign-in and trial play
10: 20-10: 30 Opening speech, Eraser, founding partner of SevenX Ventures
10: 30-11: 10
The Past, Present and Future of Web3 Games • Chapter 1
Moderator: Yinghao, investor at SevenX Ventures
Roundtable guests:
Ray Zhao,MATR1X Co-Founder
MATR1X is an innovative cultural and entertainment platform of Web3 + artificial intelligence (AI) + e-sports. Its purpose is to use blockchain technology and AI to bring revolutionary changes and innovations to the gaming and digital content industries.
Alan Tan,Founder of MetaCene
MetaCene is an MMO platform for player entertainment, governance, and creation; it will be the home of the next generation of blockchain MMORPGs, attracting a large number of mainstream and Web3 players.
Nicky Li,Co-Founder of BLOCKLORDS
BLOCKLORDS is a player-driven medieval grand strategy game where your decisions and skills shape the world and narrative. Players can choose from a variety of gameplay options, including farming, combat, resource management, and domination, allowing your hero to forge his or her own destiny.
Jeff Li, CASTILE CEO
CASTILE is a next-generation AAA-level ARPG card game developed by NytroLab, set in the fantasy Cthulhu universe. At present, the project has received financial and resource support from many world-renowned venture capital companies such as SevenX Ventures, Aptos, OKX Venture Capital, HashKey, and Leland Venture Capital to invest in the subsequent development and operation of the project. CASTILE currently supports running on Android mobile devices and will support running on iOS mobile devices and PCs in the future.
11: 10-11: 50
The Past, Present and Future of Web3 Games • Chapter 2
Moderator: Roger, Investment Director of Xterio
Xterio is a leading Web3 game ecosystem and infrastructure platform that differentiates itself from other game distribution platforms with its excellent technology research and development and successful professional experience in publishing operations. The platform was co-founded by industry veterans, including Michael Tong, formerly chief operating officer (COO) of NetEase and chief strategy officer (CSO) of FunPlus, and Jeremy Horn, formerly vice president of Jam City. Xterio is committed to accelerating the integration of Web3 technology and games, aiming to simplify the experience of developers and players and promote the widespread adoption of decentralized games and digital ownership. Xterio is developing five private-label titles, each led by experts in different gameplay genres and supported by talented teams from big names like FunPlus, Riot, Tencent and Epic. Notably, all of the company’s private-label games will exclusively leverage the power of the XTER ecosystem token.
Roundtable guests:
Jerome Wu, Space Nation CEO
We are building the next generation of space opera IP and franchise Space Nation. Space Nation Online is its first and core product. This is a Web3 space opera MMORPG that has been in the works for nearly 4 years. Using Web3 technology and tools, we strive to integrate P4F and P2E in the game world to build a complex and sustainable in-game economy to meet the needs of a large number of Web2 players and some Web3 users. Our goal is to increase the liquidity of the gaming ecosystem to unprecedented levels and build a virtual economy beyond imagination.
Geezee,Mantle Game Director
The Mantle ecosystem includes the Ethereum layer 2 network (L2) - Mantle Network, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) - Mantle Governance, one of the largest on-chain vaults - Mantle Vault, and the Ethereum Liquidity Staking Protocol - Mantle LSP. These are all built on Ethereum. Mantle Token ($MNT) is the ecosystem’s unifying product and governance token. According to L2 BEAT data, Mantle is the eighth largest L2 in terms of TVL. According to DefiLlama data, Mantle LSP’s receipt token $mETH is the fourth largest liquid staking token in terms of TVL. With $3.8 billion worth of tokens, the Mantle Vault is one of the largest on-chain vaults in the world. Due to its large holdings of ETH, ETH equivalents, and stablecoins, Mantle Vault is the number one on-chain vault excluding native tokens.
Nick,YGG Head of Asset Acquisition
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is the earliest and largest Web3 game guild. Our mission is to help all players from around the world level up. Playing games together is engraved in our genes. What amazing things can be accomplished when a community comes together to explore the game together! We want to share this achievement with everyone. YGG is committed to creating an on-chain guild ecosystem and completely subverting Web3 games.
Manfred Pack,DAR Open Network project leader
DAR Open Network, an open infrastructure designed to transform Web3 gaming, is creating a community-driven ecosystem. In the ecosystem, through the democratization of game development and UGC, developers and players are allowed to jointly shape the direction of game development, and each game in the ecosystem can flourish through shared technologies, assets, and experiences. Mines of Dalaria is the flagship game of DAR Open Network. It is an action-adventure game with progressive levels. Players can participate in the game as miners or landowners and earn resources and tokens.
11: 50-12: 30
Decoding the whole chain game
Moderator: Gink Chen, Principal Researcher at AW Research
AW Research is a"Three nos"(Independent of chain, independent of engine, independent of language) research institution, serving builders, created by builders, and also belonging to builders. We are committed to exploring the potential of innovative autonomous world projects.
Roundtable guests
Yijia Chen, Curio CEO
Curio is a blockchain gaming and infrastructure company exploring high-stakes competition and social composability. We have developed Treaty in the past, a 4 Our flagship social war game, Duper, is currently in alpha testing and is expected to launch in Q3 2024.
Eric,Cellula Core Contributor
Cellula is a full-chain AI game that empowers users to create, build and develop digital lives. Its unique virtual proof-of-work (vPOW) asset distribution method provides an innovative incentive layer for games within the Cellula ecosystem.
Sinka Gao,Founder of Delphinus Lab
Delphinus Lab aims to promote the development of the Web3 DApps ecosystem through an application-specific rollup service built on its zkWASM implementation.
Felix Xu, ARPA Network CEO
The ARPA Network is a threshold BLS network that serves as the infrastructure for verifiable random number generators (RNG), secure wallets, cross-chain bridges, decentralized escrow, and more. Randcast is an on-chain provable randomness oracle with a set of APIs for different use cases. Randcast was built to build a fair and creative metaverse.
Mike Lin,Founder of Gabby World
Gabby World is the first AI-native composable blockchain game platform, allowing users to use AI to generate and run dungeon games in an autonomous world. In a nutshell: “Sandbox/Decentraland” running on generative AI models.
Project highlights:
AIGC: All game components are generated by AI through on-chain prompt words and run on large models
FOMO: A gaming mechanism inspired by FOMO 3D, and a creator economy that can combine games
DND: Dungeons and Dragons gameplay driven by AI open narrative and on-chain random numbers
12: 30-13: 10
Exploration and Imagination of AI+Web3 Applications
Moderator: FD, founding partner of Gam 3 Girl Ventures
Roundtable guests:
Ethan Sun,MyShell Lianchuang
The first decentralized artificial intelligence Consumer Layer.
Xiankun Wu,Founder of Delysium
Delysium is committed to developing the large-scale AI agent collaboration network You Know I Love You (YKILY) and the first AI-driven Web3 operating system Lucy. By adopting innovative modular architecture and canvas-based interaction, Lucy aims to simplify the operational complexity of Web3 applications and lower the threshold for users to enter the Web3 world.
Jacob Rapoport, EvilPlan CEO
EvilPlan introduces AI Sports, a new era of consumable content experiences powered by generative AI entertainment. The AI Sports platform combines AI and blockchain to redefine gaming and create new entertainment genres. We actively embrace the way we live and play today, adopting an asynchronous, multi-modal approach, using AI and blockchain to create large-scale online interactions and social competitive experiences that users can enjoy anytime, anywhere. There is no such thing as a secret fight club.
Calanthia Mei,Masa Lianchuang
Masa Network is a global personal data network designed for the AI era. Through Masa Network, users can own, share, and profit from their data, thereby promoting the development of AI applications. Masa Network has raised $18 million in funding from leading institutions such as Digital Currency Group, Anagram, Animoca, Avalanche and GoldenTree. The company recently achieved an impressive milestone in a community sale on the CoinList platform, raising $8.75 million in just 17 minutes. Masa Network was selected to the Binance Most Valuable Builder Accelerator S 6 and the CoinList Seed Incubator Program.
Jorn Wisman,Chain of Alliance Marketing Executive
Alliance Games is a permissionless, decentralized platform focusing on AI-generated games and full-chain games. With the help of a large language model, users can launch games according to their own designs without programming. Chain of Alliance is the flagship game of the platform. It is a turn-based, team-building role-playing game on the chain.
13: 10-14: 00 Hotel buffet lunch
14: 00 - 14: 40
User Growth and Traffic Operation of Web3 Games
Moderator: SevenX Ventures investor Lavenjer
Roundtable guests:
Jarindr,GuildFi Lianchuang
GuildFi is an open, connected ecosystem of games, entertainment, communities, and NFTs. Transform life into an immersive gaming experience.
Shuo Sun,Founder of UXLINK
UXLINK is the first user-driven Web3 social platform and infrastructure, which features: acquaintance social relationships (Facebook/WeChat type) and Web3-based group models. Since its launch in April 2023, UXLINK has gained more than 4.9 million registered users, 850,000 groups, and reached 6.5 million Telegram users. As infrastructure, UXLINK also serves developers and AI models with unique protocols and data, such as growth, recommendations, etc.
Jess Lo, Hooked Protocol CMO
Hooked Protocol aims to establish a mature Web3 ecosystem and let more people know about the Web3 industry. In the Hooked ecosystem, we provide users and enterprises with customized products and entry-level infrastructure support to help them enter the Web3 world more easily. Our number one product, Wild Cash, provides an innovative game-like learning experience and has over 2 million users.
14: 40 - 15: 20
Web3 Games from the Perspectives of Players, Communities and KOLs
Host: Chen Jian Jason
Goku is cool
Allen Ding Ding
W Labs Guatian Laboratory
15: 20 - 16: 00
The Growth and Evolution of Game Public Chains
Moderator: Daniel, Investment and Engagement Analyst at Beam
Beam is an open source blockchain and tools provider dedicated to gaming. It is an ecosystem that simplifies the complexities of game development and significantly enhances the gaming experience, putting the focus back on the player.
Roundtable guests
Chris,Mirror World Sonic Lianchuang
Sonic is the first modular SVM chain designed to enable a sovereign gaming economy on Solana. Sonic is powered by HyperGrid, Solana’s first horizontal scaling framework. Before the testnet went live, there were over 10 games on Sonic.
Joe Chen,Immutable BD Manager
Immutable aims to provide large-scale scalability, smart contract compatibility, and gas-free interaction for Web3 games. At the same time, with the security provided by the Ethereum network, Immutable can become the default ecosystem for Web3 games to flourish.
Yeou Jie,Chromia Head of Asia Pacific
Chromia is a data-centric, modular underlying blockchain platform designed for horizontal scalability, capable of handling parallel tasks, and optimized for high-performance AI and gaming applications. Chromia has been building its own blockchain from scratch using its own programming language, Rell, with the mainnet set to go live in a few months.
16: 00 - 16: 40
Web3 Games and Frontier Infrastructure
Moderator: SevenX Ventures investor Arthur
Roundtable guests
Victor Ji,Manta Network Lianchuang
Manta Network, the first modular Layer 2.
Dorothy,AltLayer Growth Director
AltLayer is a re-staking expansion protocol on Ethereum.
HC Xie,Head of Aptos Asia
Aptos is the next generation L1 blockchain where anyone can build the future of Web3.
Ryan De Souza,Offchain Labs Asia Pacific Partner Manager
Offchain Labs builds a suite of products for developers, enterprises, and individuals to realize the full potential of Ethereum technology such as Arbitrum One, Nova, and Orbit. We will continue to develop and build accessible solutions that empower users who seek to integrate and innovate with our transformative technology.
16: 40 - 17: 20
Web3 Games from a VC Perspective
Moderator: Eraser, founding partner of SevenX Ventures
Roundtable guests
GM,Dragonfly Partner
Jenny,Animoca Investment VP
Jason Kam,Founder, Folius Ventures
Tommy Chang,Spartan Executive Director
FD,Founding Partner of Gam 3 Girl Ventures
After the exciting content during the day, SevenX and YGG will jointly hold a cocktail party for attendees and guests to have free activities and resource docking. The event is expected to last until 22:00 that day. The location is still at JW Marriott Hong Kong, Fishbar on the 7th floor.
At present, more than 1,000 people have registered for the conference. Click the link to register now.
