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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/840/0*ZTIqbkTA_ZDkZuW6"></figure>While DeFi might be the big trend of the moment for technically knowledgeable and engaged investors, the key to the mass market is connecting blockchain technology with something of tangible value and attractiveness while also solving a real-world problem.
And here’s a problem to consider: Traditional arts and the digital world have always had an uneasy relationship, due to the ease of duplication without attribution. Securing acknowledgement, never mind compensation, for any image, video, or musical creation has always been more or less impossible, once it’s released into the digital wild. Since the earliest days when people started torrenting MP3s of 1990s chart hits online, real digital ownership has been an unattainable myth.
<h3>The NFT solution:</h3>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token">Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)</a> have changed all that, and are uniting creatives in every discipline — by creating verifiable and trackable tokens of ownership associated with physical and digital works of art, they protect buyers and sellers alike from counterfeit and exploitation. Anyone can view an NFT, but the legitimate digital ownership is encoded in tamper-evident form on the blockchain for eternity, creating genuine and unique digital ownership in a way never previously possible — including the ability to track and encode future changes of ownership, as a piece changes digital hands.
The market for NFT songs, paintings, collectibles, clips, and movies is exploding as a result, bringing together collectors and creatives in a new space, of non-geographically constrained authentic attribution and mutual collaboration. Sales on <a href="https://opensea.io/">OpenSea</a>, a major NFT marketplace, were $93.6 million in April, having hit almost $150 million in March 2021.
A year ago volumes were steady at around $1 million a month, but consumer sophistication and awareness is growing all the time, and many high-net-worth traditional arts collectors have recently been denied their usual outlets of theaters and galleries. The more people learn and understand about NFTs, the more investment will flow into the space.
This explains why the NFT world is generating such excitement, and attention from collectors and enthusiasts worldwide — especially after an <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies-nft-sale-cost-everydays-69-million">NFT artwork fetched $69.3 million at London’s Christie’s in March</a>, in the first-ever sale by a major auction house of a piece of art that does not exist in physical form.
<a href="https://cryptomeda.tech/">Cryptomeda</a> are designing fantasy artworks in rich creative detail, available as digital collectible cards, in vivid colors and unique artistic visions. They’re appealing to every art appreciator, fantasy geek, and collector of unusual and esoteric works.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*w3ReZz60lIyfgIAr"></figure>But in addition to providing the NFTs themselves, <a href="https://cryptomeda.tech/">Cryptomeda</a> are creating a complete ecosystem, to make it easy for new adopters and experienced NFT appreciators alike to engage fully with this innovative marketplace, earning and trading a growing range of unique crypto-collectibles.
<h3>The Cryptomeda token and marketplace</h3>
Driven by a native ERC20 token — the TECH token — the platform lets collectors engage with the marketplace without taking on the technical complexities of traditional crypto trading on exchanges. At the same time, there’s the option for engaged and invested TECH holders to stake their tokens in investment pools, earning additional NFTs in forthcoming airdrops. The tokens will power a growing range of uses, including purchasing special items in mobile games, governance and decision-making, and voting on the project’s direction — thus increasing in their intrinsic value, as the platform itself evolves.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*aOAMx3HP60KD_Bvg"></figure>There’s a comprehensive marketplace in development too, recognizing that the value of NFTs is frequently in secondary transactions, and that these also have a role in generating community among collectors and enthusiasts.
Many people are wary about anything to do with trading or exchanging crypto-assets, so the <a href="https://cryptomeda.tech/">Cryptomeda</a> platform creates a safe and accessible space in which to develop knowledge and appreciation, of the rich and engaging NFT world. Leveling the playing field in this way enables the artistically sensitive crypto-newbie to get their NFT feet wet safely, while sharing their own experience and perspective with more technical users who are newer to the art appreciation world — creating a positive feedback loop of boosted network effects and strengthened community.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*1CpVzPRz_8jz4yQG"></figure><a href="https://signal.vc/">Signal Ventures</a> recognizes the growing importance of NFTs as a portal to mass adoption of crypto-collectibles and other digital assets, and the growth of the whole sector.
Since our entry to the blockchain VC scene in 2017, we’ve succeeded through our strike rate in spotting not only the trends of future significance, but picking out and backing those who are best placed to deliver real results. Our decentralized Singapore-based team have demonstrated acquired excellence in distinguishing projects and founders who will truly disrupt and re-imagine the crypto space.
By being part of <a href="https://cryptomedatech.medium.com/cryptomeda-closes-strategic-funding-round-952ec8d6bfbf">Cryptomeda’s $2.7m strategic funding round</a>, we’re extending our portfolio to increase our exposure to the growing NFT trend in the crypto space, and power the future of blockchain adoption. Shaping the future of the crypto ecosystem as a whole depends on capturing public imagination with the right solutions at the perfect moment, and <a href="https://signal.vc/">Signal Ventures</a> is backing <a href="https://cryptomeda.tech/">Cryptomeda</a> to accomplish just this result.
Cryptomeda
Website: <a href="https://cryptomeda.tech/">https://cryptomeda.tech/ </a>Telegram: <a href="https://t.me/Cryptomeda">https://t.me/Cryptomeda </a>Discord: <a href="https://discord.com/invite/bFHWRzJp9S">https://discord.com/invite/bFHWRzJp9S </a>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/cryptomedatech">https://twitter.com/cryptomedatech </a>Medium: <a href="https://cryptomedatech.medium.com/">https://cryptomedatech.medium.com/</a>
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Cryptomeda NFTs: The gateway to mass blockchain engagement you’ve been waiting for.

<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Jfqe-sMr5GhM83Do_o41hQ.png"></figure><a href="https://signal.vc/">Signal Ventures</a> has always sought to identify the most innovative and creative crypto projects across the ecosystem, recognizing the best-in-breed without prejudice toward one blockchain over another. From our extensive experience identifying the best projects in which to participate, we know that future stars can emerge from any location worldwide, and on any infrastructure. It’s the potential success of the business we identify and nurture, wherever it originates — the destination is what matters.
That’s one reason the <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">MoonStarter</a> multi-chain decentralized IDO launchpad inevitably caught our attention. Their blockchain-agnostic approach aligns with our intention to back the best potential wherever it is found, by offering a launchpad to boost the best projects to the stratosphere via the <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">MoonStarter</a> platform — whatever chain the team has decided to build upon.
What matters is the quality of thinking in the project design, and that’s where the <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">MoonStarter</a> team’s experienced eye and quality parameters come to bear — assessing potential against transparent non-negotiable criteria and handling the liquidity lock and optional vesting, before supporting the launch on one or more selected blockchains.
<h3>The MNST token — rocket fuel for innovation and investment</h3>
This means that participants staking the native MNST token can support any project on the launchpad, unlocking the staking benefits across the carefully designed 4 tiers — all with an astronomical theme — without diluting the impact of their support in the process. The MNST token is created on the <a href="https://www.binance.org/en/smartChain">Binance Smart Chain</a>, selected it for its performance in price and speed, as well as interoperability potential. Holders will have potential access to all the IDOs proposed on the platform, regardless of their commitment tier at any given time.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*Rgc0icdkM-iK6tRw"></figure>The MNST token has an intrinsic governance function too, depending on the number of tokens staked and the staking duration. This ranges from a minimum seven-day commitment to participate in draws for potential IDO listings through to deep decision-making scope and guaranteed allocations for those committed to the most extensive participation. In upcoming IDOs the spread is similarly weighted, with the split of the allocation distributed across the 4 tiers — emphasizing the benefits to those who provide most heavily, and will have the greatest long-term involvement with the success of the platform.
On the lowest tier the allocation is split randomly, which gives launching projects access to the greatest diversity of participants, while simultaneously offering a serendipitous opportunity for each of them to gain exposure to a variety of projects with minimal risk. The speed and responsiveness of the <a href="https://www.binance.org/en/smartChain">Binance Smart Chain</a> will enable those who make the right decisions to rapidly grow their stake, while spreading their participation across a range of interesting opportunities.
<h3>Deeper commitment, deeper gains</h3>
Moving up through the tiers, not only is the allocation split more generous, but greater choice and discernment reflects the greater due diligence of experienced market participants, to back the projects which they deem to have the greatest potential. This fair and progressive model is transparent and distributed, offering every party the potential to grow with the platform and benefit from the success of the projects they actively choose to support.
This elegant model supports the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_finance">DeFi</a> ecosystem as a whole, simultaneously attracting those new to IDO participation in a safe and fair environment, while providing a structure for them to progress through the levels and reach the tier of greatest potential return where they will have guaranteed allocations in their projects of choice — encouraging individual due diligence and personal involvement with meaningful projects that are shaping the future of the new economy.
Choice matters to <a href="https://signal.vc/">Signal Ventures</a>, and to <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">MoonStarter</a>. This partnership is built on that optionality, and we look forward to seeing the evolving release of the launchpad — initially supporting the <a href="https://ethereum.org/en/">Ethereum</a> and <a href="https://www.binance.org/en/smartChain">Binance Smart Chain</a> blockchains for its earliest users, while the second release will enable <a href="https://www.cardano.org/en/home/">Cardano</a>, <a href="https://solana.com/">Solana</a> and <a href="https://polkadot.network/">Polkadot</a> via the <a href="https://moonbeam.network/">Moonbeam</a> parachain. The ultimate planned release includes <a href="https://cosmos.network/">Cosmos</a> and <a href="https://tron.network/">Tron</a> chains, however at this point the community itself will have growing input on this choice through the governance system and may prioritize other chains depending on the state of the ecosystem at that time — being truly reflective of the participant community and its dynamic priorities.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/517/0*iwtW-CMtLEjacVDS"></figure>This reflects the dynamic and rapidly evolving state of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_finance">DeFi</a> universe, and the importance of selecting projects which offer the greatest potential while allowing for future tectonic shifts in the environment — from technological to regulatory changes, the <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">MoonStarter</a> launchpad will transform and grow to support the latest and greatest innovations in the crypto project space. The MoonStarter team consists of experienced executives and advisors that brings together the insight and discernment needed, to ensure the success of the launchpad, while enabling participation in a diversity of outcomes in selected projects. This benefits supporters, developers, and the crypto ecosystem as a whole — which makes it a sound bet for our own support of their upcoming IDO.
Website: <a href="https://moonstarter.net/">https://moonstarter.net/</a> Telegram: <a href="https://t.me/moonstarterchat">https://t.me/moonstarterchat </a>Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/moonstarter_off">https://twitter.com/moonstarter_off </a>Medium: <a href="https://moonstarter.medium.com/">https://moonstarter.medium.com/</a>
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