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A
Pioneer
Day,
as
I
Was
preparing
for
this
session,
I
actually
threw
away
in
bulk
of
my
slides
that
had
a
lot
of
numbers
and
beautiful
stuff
on
them
and
just
kept
few
pictures
and
the
reason
for
it
was
because
of
the
last
couple
of
days.
I
was
attending
attending
very
interesting
near
meeting
and
the
person
who
was
running
it.
His
name
is
Eric.
He
asked
me
to
mention
his
name.
A
So
our
story
actually
started
very
long
time
ago
and
a
lot
of
people
don't
know
that.
But
we
started
thinking
about
sweatcoin
and
what
became
soad
economy
in
2014,
and
what
we
wanted
to
do
was
to
make
the
world
more
physically
active.
We
were
not
thinking
about
doing
blockchain.
We
actually
were
genuinely
focusing
on
a
very
common
human
problem.
Everyone
wants
to
be
more
active.
Nobody
typically
finds
motivation,
money
time
resolve
energy.
A
To
do
that,
so
we
figured
out
how
to
tackle
this
problem,
but
we
actually
needed
to
create
a
currency
out
of
physical
activity
and
we
started
thinking
about
that
and
generally
you
know
to
create
currency.
You
go
one
of
the
two
ways
you
either
start
a
country
or
you
go
on.
Blockchain
starting
a
country
is
not
really
something.
That's
been
done
very
well,
especially
recently,
so
we
started
looking
towards
blockchain
remember
this
is
early
2015..
A
A
That
was
really
really
really
amazingly
successful
decision,
because,
as
soon
as
we
launched
and
those
guys,
anyone
here
follows
that
Bible
well,
I
hope
no.
But
you
know,
okay,
be
honest,
you
know
what
light
Bible.
Is
these
guys
put
that
headline
out
there?
New
phone
app
wants
to
pay
you
to
get
off
your
ass
and
all
of
a
sudden
things
started
flying
for
us.
A
A
In
2021,
in
Autumn,
nircon,
yeah,
I
think
October
November
in
Lisbon
I,
basically,
gate
crashed,
I,
you
know,
kind
of
managed
to
get
in,
I
saw
Elia
and
I
started
chatting
to
him,
and
things
started
sort
of
falling
into
place.
We
were
doing
a
lot
of
audit
on
a
lot
of
different
chains,
but
ultimately
we
decided
to
go
with
near
and
the
reason
is
because
near
has
got
very
shared
Mission
with
us.
We
are
about
making
extra
billion
people
in
the
world
more
physically,
active
and
near
wants
to
bring
one
billion
people
into
web
3..
A
There
is
a
fantastic
alignment
there
about
the
scale
and
thinking
about
the
huge
number
of
people
that
we
want
to
bring
into
a
new
world,
give
them
new,
Behavior
amazing
team.
As
I
mentioned,
you
know,
I
met
Ilia,
I
met,
Alex
I
met,
murica
I
met,
yes,
and
the
team
is
absolutely
fantastic
and
I
really
really
enjoy
the
fact
that
this
is
not
a
crypto
bro
culture.
A
It's
absolutely
incredible
how
business
focused
and
how
trustworthy
this
team
is,
and
last
but
not
least,
is
technology
the
technology
of
veneers.
You
know,
probably
that's
the
reason
why
you're
here
is
absolutely
phenomenal:
it's
scalable
the
transactions
are
cheap
and
what
also
matters
to
us
a
lot
we
as
a
business
about
burning
your
calories,
not
electricity.
A
So
it
was
very
important
for
us
that
we're
working
with
a
chain
that
is
using
proof
of
stake
and
nears
God
at
all,
we
launched
in
September
2022
in
Lisbon
on
the
12th
and
I,
was
extremely
nervous
on
that
day,
because
tge
that
we
had
has
never
been
done
in
fact
Factor
10,
so
we
had
13
million
token
holders
that
we
needed
to
give
tokens
to.
On
that
day,
Ilya
was
nervous.
His
team
and
my
team
were
sitting
on
Zoom
36
hours,
making
it
happen,
but
everything
worked
without
a
glitch.
A
It
is
absolutely
incredible
and
a
testament
to
absolutely
Superior
attack
that
this
team
has
and
their
ability
to
deliver
at
scale
and
being
able
to
support
businesses
like
us
with
this
launch,
which
happened
as
I
mentioned
on
12th
of
September.
We
now
have
a
full
portfolio
of
products.
We
have
sweatcoin,
which
is
a
health
and
fitness
app
that
you
see
on
the
left,
and
it
is
more
about
your
emotional
engagement.
So
we
give
you
stats.
We
give
you
numbers
it's
a
pedometer
that
actually
makes
people
move
in
the
US.
A
We
still
haven't,
launched,
sweat
wallet,
which
you
see
on
the
right,
which
is
basically
our
fintech
product.
You
track
steps
on
sweatcoin,
but
you
receive
your
sweat,
which
is
our
crypto
token,
that
we
launched
in
September
in
sweat
wallet.
So
we
have
a
portfolio
of
two
applications
serving
different
needs
of
our
users.
A
As
soon
as
we
launched
within
first
week,
we
became
the
largest
on-ramp
in
web
3
history
and
we
got
into
the
first
place
on
top
radar.
These
were
emotions
yeah.
There
were
a
lot
of
facts.
Those
were
emotions.
It
was
a
very
very
cool
day
when
we
saw
ourselves
at
the
very
top
of
that
radar
rankings,
and
literally
within
few
months,
we
now
have
15.
So
it's
been
five
and
a
half
months
to
be
exact
from
launch.
We
now
have
15
million
token
holders.
A
We
have
more
than
5
million
people
who
have
installed
sweat
wallet
and
two
and
a
half
million
of
them
are
actives.
It
is
pretty
incredible
set
of
facts
for
web
3,
no
matter
what
business
you
are
looking
at,
especially
on
the
nascent
and
growing
ecosystem
like
near
now,
I'm
starting
to
talk
value
so
those
that
were
asleep.
You
know
please
pay
attention
knowing
full
well
that
we're
bringing
a
lot
of
users
to
this
ecosystem.
A
We
actually
have
developed
two
functionalities
that
are
very
beneficial
and
needed
to
our
users,
but
everyone
in
the
ecosystem
and
other
projects
can
benefit
from.
They
call
rewards
and
learn
and
earn
rewards
work
in
the
following
fashion,
use
a
stake,
sweat
and
they
can
opt
in
to
win
a
reward.
These
rewards
come
from
us,
but
they
also
come
from
Partners.
We
already
worked
with
Chris
from
few
and
far
who
sits
over
there
and
we
were
able
to
generate
traffic
for
them.
A
So,
if
you're
a
project
that
is
interested
in
getting
exposure
to
our
user
base,
we
can
talk
about
getting
some
rewards
from
you,
especially
if
it
is
on
near.
It
is
going
to
be
extremely
easy
for
people
to
claim,
receive
and
engage
with
your
project.
Learn
and
earn
is
the
most
recent
addition
which
is
basically
think
of
it.
As
advertising
on
steroids,
we
can
educate
our
users
about
your
project.
We
can
then
test
this
knowledge
in
a
quiz.
A
We
can
reward
them
with
your
token
and
then
we
can
send
them
on
the
quest,
which
is
basically
an
on-chain
action
that
they
need
to
perform
in
order
to
receive
an
additional
reward.
So,
rather
than
running
ads
and
serendipitously
picking
up
people
that
happen
to
see
them,
we
can
really
Target
specific
audiences
with
very,
very
focused
messages.
A
So
this
is
what
we
would
like
to
do
with
this
ecosystem,
to
share
our
users
with
you,
because
we
feel
that
there's
extremely
valuable
for
our
users
as
well,
because,
instead
of
just
being
in
our
app,
they
get
a
lot
more
information.
They
get
a
lot
more
value
and
because
95
percent
of
them
are
new
to
blockchain.
This
is
an
education
and
gives
them
a
chance
to
really
engage
and
understand
other
products
that
exist
there.