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From YouTube: MoNA Gallery, A Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II Team

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MoNA helps great 3D NFT artists display and sell their work in a beautiful virtual gallery.
https://www.mona.gallery/
https://twitter.com/themonagallery

About Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator
20 teams from 11 countries around the world are emerging from the immersive 12-week Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator program, powered by Tachyon. These companies will shape DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, Social, Metaverse, and key Infra tooling in web3 over the next 18 months.

This program bridges the IPFS, Filecoin and Ethereum communities, unlocking growth & user adoption across the world.

Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator: http://filecoinlaunchpad.co/
Filecoin: https://filecoin.io/
Protocol Labs: https://protocol.ai/
Tachyon:https://tachyon.xyz

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Hey there, mona is a metaverse for high-end 3d art uh what and why we're building is dependent on who we are and where we come from. We have the perfect team for what we're building our three best friends for over a decade with relevant domain experience.

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Justin is an amazing 3d ar artist previously at dreamworks magic leap. Right now, his work is featured on billboards, in los angeles, for snap, we have alex the harvard blockchain innovation fellow multiple time founder, invite inventor of the private key recovery system and what engineers call the best engineer. They've ever worked with and myself, I'm a multiple time founder inventor on a dozen ar patents and landed a database in the moon.

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Now our collective domain experience informs our view of the future, and our view of the future is that humanity is going to spend a lot more time in virtual worlds than in physical worlds and you're already seeing that now, with phones, uh teens are spending up to nine hours a day on their phones. That's a pre-pandemic statistic. Going back uh to february 2020.!

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It's not just phones, kids, like my nephews, are socializing playing and learning in virtual worlds, like minecraft, fortnite and roblox, and what comes next will be even more immersive metaverse societies like the one imagined in ready player, one the ernest cline novel. Now this infrastructure for these virtual societies.

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Is about to launch a headset? Facebook has 30 of their workforce in the metaverse. They call themselves a metaverse company and snapchat launched a headset this summer. Now these virtual worlds are modeled by amazing 3d artists. The metaverse is dependent upon their art. The artists make the virtual objects, skins and environments and they're not getting a fair cut of the use of their creations, except for on the high end.

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Now high-end 3dr looks something like this. This is a high-end piece of architecture called the mars house, which is minted as an nft. It sold for half a million dollars by an amazing artist named christa kim and you're you're. Looking at the nft, which is a pre-rendered 2d video of the mars house, it couldn't be experienced natively in existing web 3 solutions. It could only be experienced in low poly environments like this and artists think it makes their art looks like it's like telling davinci. You can only display the mona lisa in minecraft.

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It doesn't make sense, and now the top nft artists and creators are already using 3d tools, but they need to flatten their work into a 2d mediums, resulting in a devaluation of their work and lost economic value. These are artists that are making experiential art that can't be experienced until now.

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We're changing that mona mona is an easy to access social museum quality, metaverse space, think of it as a world of art for the art world. Now there is urgent demand for spaces like this. For the over uh 1 000 3d nft artists minting nfcs, tease. Today they crave this right um and it's just.

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It's growing, really fast we're starting hyper niche with a thousand of those 3d creators and expanding naturally into the 3000 3d or ar creators like justin, who aren't getting paid fairly and then we're going to grow into the millions of 3d game, devs and architects who are designing aaa game titles like fortnite, called duty now how mono works. It's really simple: we're building these high fidelity, 3d nft environments that are completely customizable by the artists using their existing 3d creation workflows.

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These rooms are designed to be social artists, can host new drops or meetups or even private studio tours. These rooms can be wired up into composable galleries and eventually worlds, and these rooms will have a novel royalty system for artists, think spotify streaming rights for virtual objects. Now mona is to crypto voxels. What's super rare is to open, see that's where we're aiming for this, and we know uh we're not building this silo.

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We've designed mona to be interoperable across the web, 3 ecosystem to work with dows and marketplaces, and even other metaverses, and we're about to launch our genesis gallery with amazing artists that have a large social reach and at mona we believe the future is the metaverse and the metaverse is 3d and that the world that's the world, we're building, and so we hope you'll join us um and let's dive right into the mona metaverse.

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So here we are welcome to mona mona is a beautiful world of art for the art world, uh we're here in a genesis gallery, which is an environment minted as an nft, and we have our own avatar. This is a base skin that can be customizable.

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um Now, let's focus the viewer on a piece of art. Now this is a piece of photoreal art. That's animated! Note, the lighting, it's just fantastic and that's the whole point of mona is to showcase these top quality uh art pieces right and now, in the back here, we're going through some additional rooms that are connected to the main gallery space. These are also minted separately as nfts.

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Now this room was built around a piece of art by an artist named joseph lee. Look at the textures on this painting right. It really comes off the wall um and this room is an nft. It can be accessed by itself with your friends, socially groups of avatars can come in and join around a piece of art or it could be attached to a gallery space um like this, and this is like a genesis gallery, and so we have another artist room connected. This is a an artist named davinci.

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She is a generative 3d, crypto artist, who grew these pieces of digital fashion, using natural growth, algorithms um and each dress is its own nft. That's linked to the room the nft is attached to the gallery and in the future, these galleries can expand far beyond the art, but for now um we're here to honor great art by great artists and we're really excited about it. We hope you are too. You hope you join us and really appreciate your time. Thank you. So much.