On April 3, XCMG "For Real" NFT held the first Chinese AMA. The co-founder of the host, Bin Meng, and the keynote speakers, Sun Si, head of XCMG's overseas innovation and creativity department, Zhang Yuanjie, co-founder of Conflux, Collin, CEO of Zen spark, and Sarah, head of AI+AR of Ranmai Technology, talked about XCMG's NFT and Conflux ecology And the development of Web3 in China in the future.
The following is a highlight recap of this AMA:
Sun Si, Head of XCMG's Overseas Innovation and Creativity Department: Starting from the movie "The Wandering Earth 2", XCMG will create more 2C cultural products to bring "hardcore" science fiction into reality.
During this year's movie Spring Festival, the "hardcore sci-fi" movie "The Wandering Earth 2" is the biggest highlight. The aesthetics of heavy industries such as planetary engines, space elevators, door-shaped robots, and construction machinery are fully reflected in the movie. "The Wandering Earth 2" not only showed the audience the thrilling earth rescue, but also brought these "hard technologies" that help human beings save themselves to us. XCMG, as a special "supporter" and "participant" of this phenomenon-level domestic "hardcore science fiction", has also been hotly discussed and praised by everyone. The super-large heavy machinery such as the steel mantis walking excavator, UEG army armored vehicle, and giant operating platform that appeared in the movie were not produced by special effects. Most of them came from Xugong Group. Through the screen, the technological power of China's cutting-edge equipment was demonstrated to the audience.
In fact, with a series of topics such as "It turns out that Chinese science fiction is made in China", "The science fiction of Wandering Earth 2 is behind Daguo Heavy Industry", "The mechs of Wandering Earth 2 are not special effects" and other topics rushed into the hot search, and were also popular among many netizens. It is called a two-way rush between "hardcore science fiction" and "hardcore machinery". In fact, this cooperation not only broke the circle of XCMG's products, but also allowed XCMG to carry the color of "mechanical punk" and become an important symbol of Chinese science fiction.
Science fiction films are the crown jewel of the film industry and even the cultural industry. According to Wikipedia data, 8 of the top 10 films at the global box office are science fiction films. It can be said that science fiction films are the most important commercial type in the film market. The source of confidence for sci-fi movies is the actual industry. The so-called "technology is the foundation of sci-fi, and sci-fi is the future of technology." The hard power that exists in reality brings out the sense of reality in movies, and only then does soft power have room to play. .
For an enterprise like Xugong Group, the promotion of "hard power" and "soft power" need to be equal. XCMG is now the "No. 1 in China and No. 3 in the world" construction machinery manufacturing enterprise. Based on the "hard" foundation of many high-end equipment fields, it is also strengthening the "soft" power of cultural creativity, so that young friends around the world can be more Understand and love "hard core" machinery and 2C cultural products with sci-fi style, and further present the dreams and creativity of "mechanical punk", "mech", and "future machine".
Zen Spark CEO Collin: Different from PFP and traditional brands entering the WEB3 model, XCMG will take the "hard core machinery" heavy machine culture as the core, encourage and support creator communities and young artists, and build a creative IP cultural space.
Based on what Mr. SUN said above, let me introduce the specific content of the "For Real" NFT project. At present, from the perspective of the market, well-known brands often enter NFT in two directions. Essentially, they either sell digital versions of corporate souvenirs, or sell corporate consumer membership cards or vouchers. The core of these two models is still from the perspective of enterprises or centralized thinking. Souvenirs and holders are a passive relationship, and the exchange of physical rights and interests is also a consumption relationship. These two methods can easily become a one-shot deal, which is less sustainable.
We believe that the core of WEB3 is to stimulate the power of the community and continuous output through Token/NFT. As long as there is real output, the transfer of value will not become idle.
Therefore, XCMG "For Real" NFT wants to do some real innovation and exploration. We are not imitating anyone or following the craze, but hope to use NFT as a carrier to build a community-like connection and build a hard An art and design creative DAO organization with nuclear and mechanical styles as the main body, incubates IP and content, continuously motivates creators, and benefits all employees.
SUN also mentioned above that XCMG has been deeply involved in the construction machinery industry for 80 years, and the [heavy machinery] industry is born with a unique temperament. It is hard-core, durable, solid, and tenacious. We believe that every boy has a dream of heavy machines and mechs in his heart. The creative connotation derived from Juki culture is very rich, and the science fiction is very familiar. For example, there is a close connection with cultural products such as robots, mechs, models, and trendy tooling. Together, these elements shape a world of power, futurism and innovation. In this world, the web3 platform created can jointly explore the infinite possibilities of future technology and create unique engineering aesthetics and cultural value.
In fact, open exploration is also what XCMG has always done. For a long time, XCMG has attached great importance to the cultivation of global creators. In the "X Creator" challenge held in 2021, we attracted 2.1 million people from all over the world to participate in the "cloud", including 2978 contestants from China, Brazil, the Philippines, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and other countries and regions Compete. The competition also set up a total bonus of 2.05 million and a fund pool of 10 million for industrial transformation. We believe that using the Web3 method will further stimulate the vitality and creativity of the community.
Therefore, we hope to gather, incubate, and create a Web3 cultural space through NFT. XCMG is only the initiator of the exploration and one of the many participants. The community under the Web3 model is more open and creative. Let creators, designers, and lovers who love hardcore sci-fi, heavy industry sci-fi in the style of Mr. Liu Cixin, and mechas, be able to find content and IPs that belong to the community's favorite and community choices under the Web3 model. We hope to gather creative power in a more equal way, expand the spiritual attributes brought by heavy machinery, burst out in various creative ways, generate new value, and gain recognition in the market.
Finally, combined with the recent hot development of AI, we think more is a good thing. Many people worry that some content creators will face unemployment, but we also see that the development of AI has greatly benefited more people. It lowers the technical threshold of creation and design. I believe that with the development of the future, what creators compete for may no longer be skill and skill proficiency, but purer creativity and innovation. Undoubtedly, this is of great benefit to a community-based, more top-down creator ecology.
Zhang Yuanjie, co-founder of Conflux: Conflux will be based on Hong Kong and its geographical advantages. On the decentralized financial side, it will build an offshore RMB and Hong Kong dollar stable currency ecology in the future. On the NFT culture side, it will vigorously support sustainable NFT art with oriental cultural characteristics cultural projects.
In the blockchain industry, Conflux is considered a "classic" project. After 5 years, Conflux has been sticking to its position, based on its technological advantages, and striving to develop the application ecology. In 2023, thanks to the Dongfeng policy of Hong Kong, we will re-inject the development momentum of the "Hua Liu" blockchain in the East. The capital market has already given expectations. In the future, we will work together to turn expectations into reality.
In the future, based on the international market where Hong Kong is the springboard, the Conflux ecosystem will first make up for the shortcomings in the application of DEFI and NFT.
In terms of decentralized finance. We know that stablecoins are the cornerstone of DEFI applications. Only with a unique stablecoin system can we have a unique and sticky DEFI ecosystem. Otherwise, capital will come in like a tide, but it will also go away like a tide, leaving nothing behind . At present, on the Conflux chain, the offshore RMB stable currency has already supported many real trade scenarios, providing more choices for Chinese companies to go global. In the future, Conflux will rely on offshore RMB stablecoins and Hong Kong dollar stablecoins as its core features, attract mainstream protocols and applications to land on Conflux, and vigorously develop decentralized finance.
If you follow the news, you can see that the world situation has changed rapidly recently. In Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Brazil and other places, more and more renminbi has been recognized by other countries, and the settlement of commodities and raw materials in renminbi is increasing day by day, which provides the most solid foundation for the development of settlement on the Conflux chain.
In terms of NFTs. The essence of NFT is a revolution of blockchain technology for the content and cultural industries. The Conflux ecosystem will vigorously develop NFTs, but unlike some other layer 1 practices, they are only coerced by capital, all of which are anonymous and have no real spiritual connotation. It is completely undesirable to just pull the market. The current facts have also proved that this is a road to ruin oneself. The Conflux NFT/Metaverse ecology will be based on oriental culture. Overseas, especially relying on the cultural elements recognized by Hong Kong and overseas Chinese, combining Hong Kong and overseas stars and cultural capital, focusing on supporting partners such as XCMG and Burnmai Technology , and support and support a group of talented and idealistic young creators and artists who are truly creative and spiritual.
The world of blockchain is not an ideal country isolated from the real world. Polygon is a blockchain infrastructure with clear geographical attributes. I think that in the future, China will have a country that matches its economic size and corresponding world influence. International blockchain infrastructure.
Sarah, Head of AI+AR of Ranmai Technology: Combining with the conflux ecology, Ranmai Technology will bring a new metaverse experience to the public in terms of digital human + AR virtual reality interaction.
Boss Yuan Jie said just now that the essence of NFT is a transformation of the content and cultural industry by blockchain technology. Then, our Ranmai Technology is a technology company that uses AI+AR and other metaverse technologies to empower culture and content production.
Burning Technology is known to everyone mainly from the super-realistic digital figure AYAYI. First of all, let me tell you that this year, AYAYI, an out-of-the-circle IP, will be deeply integrated with Conflux.
From the original intention of Ranmai, we have been committed to capitalizing digital content and digital assets, and by exploring a series of technical methods combining AI, AR and virtual reality to reduce creative costs and stimulate innovation power to produce content, so that Everyone's imagination is seen by the world, redefining the offline metaverse space.
In the past, through AYAYI,Maya Noah, Ruoyi Ro 1 yi, Ayao Ayo and many other hyper-realistic digital figures, you have let everyone see the metaverse. Now we let you experience the metaverse. We hope to combine some offline scenes, whether it is a commodity scene or a human scene, to build an augmented reality metaverse with super content. With this mission, we will make a comprehensive upgrade of the original AYAYI IP this year, hold a series of virtual and real activities all over the country and even around the world , and launch a series of virtual and real brands that are digitally trendy.
Moreover, based on AIGC and AR technology, we will implement an APP application. The entire link, from offline virtual-real activities to online platforms, can be empowered with AI as productivity. To be truly effective Meaningful and valuable digital assets on the chain, and actually landed on the application, not just an asset with idle transactions.
Ranmai hopes that through AI, AR and the combination of virtual and real technology, the metaverse will truly move towards the experience that the public can perceive, and lower the threshold for creators, so that creativity can burst out better, and the value of cultural digital assets on the chain Find the source of support, so that digital culture and digital assets can develop sustainably.
