ESTN Launches World’s First Player-Owned Esports Metaverse Arena Featuring Universal Player Ranking Engine

SAINT PETERSBURG, FL , Jun 5, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – ESTN announced the official launch of the Electronic Sports Tournament Network – a global blockchain-powered metaverse esports arena owned via NFT 'Seat Licenses'.

The ESTN platform allows gamers and organizers to host their own online tournaments and the ability to earn a share of fiat winnings, prize pools and arena earnings and NFT distributions via the ESTN Vault. Esports tournament competitor pairings will be based upon the ESTN-derived Universal Player Ranking engine (UPR score) to assure like-skilled athlete match play.

18,100 NFT-based ESTN arena seat licenses are available and unlike traditional NFT's, ESTN seat holders will earn a percentage of future game pass revenue generated through tournament fees. ESTN plans to allow game developers to self-publish new games to the ESTN Metaverse Arena for direct-to-developer revenue pass-through.

"We've been developing ESTN for over 4 years and have embraced and integrated decentralization to provide scale, stability and accountability for seat owners and gamers as ESTN grows. Popular video games have developed massive economies based on in-game transactions, but that value has been locked within those game platforms. ESTN makes game assets fungible and transferable, providing security, authenticity, and asset mobility," said ESTN Founder and CEO Robert Raff. "While the NFT art marketplace has peaked, we are using NFT's to transform the esports landscape."

ESTN encourages Esport gamers, agents, tournament organizers, game developers, investors, and interested NFT enthusiasts to claim their own ESTN NFT "vault box" and get first access to the ESTN tournament platform, now in live beta: www.JoinESTN.com

"We're very excited about the positive benefit for gamers with Universal Player Ranking as it will provide a clear training and career path to advance from amateur to pro. Expect to hear more news soon as we proceed through final tournament testing and announce the gaming and NFT industry heavyweights joining our leadership and advisory teams," Mr. Raff concluded.

The Universal Player Ranking (UPR) is designed to become the global standard in competitive gamer skills ranking. The ESTN platform tracks player performance across any platform-supported game, enabling ESTN to rate player performance across multiple games, thus standardizing ranking methodologies across the entire esports landscape. UPR is grounded in blockchain technology to guarantee fair and immutable record keeping of real-time player performance assessments. Each player's UPR will update on the blockchain, ensuring transparency and accountability.

ESTN's UPR scoring model is based, in part, upon neuro tracking and the measuring of reaction time, which creates a standardized initial skills assessment with a simple but powerful 5 minute on-screen exercise to establish a base score. This score is then incorporated into 30++ other datapoints that make up the UPR score. Gamers can use the on-screen exercise to train for better reaction time as well.

For more information go to https://estn.io.

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Asia Pioneer Entertainment Launches its first virtual Macau Tourism Project in The Sandbox Metaverse

HONG KONG, May 31, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Macau leading gaming equipment supplier Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 8400) subsidiary, APE Digital Creations Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "APE") is pleased to announce the launch of Mini Macau, a metaverse experience for digital travelers to virtually explore amazing Macau tourist attractions.

Entrance of Mini Macau on The Sandbox Game via The Senado Square

Built on The Sandbox Game platform, Mini Macau is a new APE business project targeting digital tourists who are unable to travel to major resort destinations due to COVID restrictions. Mini Macau's virtual land consists of some of the most famous Macau tourist attractions such as the Macau Tower, The Senado Square, Ruins of St Paul's and the Ah Ma temple; initially launched on The Sandbox's Game Maker gallery.

Players can download The Sandbox Game Maker and find Mini Macau in Draft Gallery: https://www.sandbox.game/en/create/game-maker/.

APE Holding's CFO and Executive Director Mr Tony Chan Chi Lun said, "The launch of Mini Macau is APE's first foray into the metaverse via Sandbox. We are delighted to have three local real-life Macau brands in our Mini Macau: Choi Heong Yuen Bakery, Seng Fung Jewellery and O Junco de 9 Jades restaurant. The virtual mini-shops have been built to showcase our cooperation with real retail brands from Macau on the metaverse. To engage with players/digital travellers, we have designed two skill-based games: The "Fortune Cookie" treasure hunt and "Avoid the Tourists" games. Players that complete these challenges can win real life prizes redeemable in Macau. We hope to expand Mini Macau to other Macanese brands for advertising and for online to offline booking/ecommerce opportunities."

Mr Chan also stated: "Mini Macau will serve as a prototype for the future development of our own metaverse travel and hospitality platform, called the "Resortverse." In our Resortverse, we plan to bring real life resorts and travel destinations into the metaverse and provide a platform with gamification and rewards. Our travel and hospitality metaverse platform will enable resorts and merchants to engage with digital travellers with online gamification and offer real offline rewards and coupons that can benefit their businesses. An increase in virtual travel through our immersive metaverse would attract new foot traffic to real life resorts and travel destinations. Our plan is to launch our Resortverse travel and hospitality platform by year end 2022."

For High Resolution Photos, please refer to:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KDARgV-uujbzGCHu1Jp9ksCCdEQEhV41

Download The Sandbox Game Maker:
https://www.sandbox.game/en/create/game-maker/

Mini Macau Demonstration Video:
https://youtu.be/Esed-Pjouvk

Mini Macau Official Website:
https://www.mini-macau.com

Social Media Pages:
https://linktr.ee/asia_tigers_club

About APE Holdings
Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Ltd. is a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's GEM Market with ticker symbol 8400.hk. In 2022, APE formed APE Digital Creations Ltd. to engage in digital businesses and participate in opportunities related to the metaverse. Please visit http://www.apemacau.com for more information on Asia Pioneer Entertainment Holdings Ltd and APE Digital Creations Ltd.

About Mini Macau
Mini Macau is APE's prototype project into the metaverse built on The Sandbox Game. The metaverse experience comprises of digital representations of top tourist attractions of Macau such as Ruins of St.Paul's, Macau Tower, The Senado Square and Ah Ma temple. Digital visitors can play the interactive games in Mini Macau to win real life rewards from Macau merchants redeemable in Macau. Please visit https://www.mini-macau.com and https://linktr.ee/asia_tigers_club for more information.

About The Sandbox
The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is one of the decentralized virtual worlds that has been fueling the recent growth of virtual real-estate demand, with partnerships with major IPs and brands such as Adidas, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Deadmau5, Atari, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Care Bears, The Smurfs, and more. Built on its existing Sandbox IP with more than 40 million global installs on mobile, The Sandbox metaverse offers players and creators a decentralized and intuitive platform to create immersive 3D worlds and game experiences and to safely store, trade, and monetize their creations. For more information, please visit http://www.sandbox.game and follow their regular updates on Twitter, Medium and Discord.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Asia Pioneer Entertainment:
Candy Chan
Public Relations and Marketing Manager
candy@apemacau.com
(853) 2830 6196

Bright Communications International Limited:
Ashley Kung
Senior Manager
ashley.kung@brightcommns.com
(852) 36117839

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Metaverse GigaSpace Forms Strategic Partnership with UCOLLEX

HONG KONG, May 23, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Virtual space metaverse GigaSpace ( https://www.gigaspace.io/ ), today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with UCOLLEX ( https://ucollex.io/ ), an innovative NFT platform focused on art and pop culture collectibles.

UCOLLEX will join "Project Spaceport", an initiative GigaSpace launched with MADworld ( https://madworld.io/ )previously, with the aim to bring in more intellectual properties and brands into the Web3 space.

Project Spaceport

Project Spaceport will be a cultural space district. Brands will be able to create their own virtual space when the Metaverse launches. For now, they can develop their presence in the Web3 space by having their logos and images cemented permanently on the "Map of the Galaxy".

Following MADworld, UCOLLEX is the second NFT platform joining this initiative.

Other features will help enrich the overall experience in this Space Metaverse. There will be a Museum of Brands in the GigaSpace Metaverse. It will be an innovative way for brands to showcase their products, vision and mission. Another exciting feature is branded avatars. These avatars will have numerous utilities.

Innovative VR Experience

In addition to bringing in brands to the metaverse, UCOLLEX will offer their VR technology for brands to craft unforgettable experiences and experiment with new ways to engage consumers in the Museum of Brands.

"This partnership will further our mission of closing the loop between creators and collectors, providing a world where collectors can feel at home and live their passion," said Robert Tran, founder of UCOLLEX.

About UCOLLEX
UCOLLEX is the next-generation creators' platform that wants to make NFTs available to everyone, backed by Animoca Brands: a leader in digital entertainment specializing in blockchain and AI technologies. It has successfully completed a US$10 million Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands and MCP IPX One Fund.

About GigaSpace
GigaSpace is a blockchain based virtual space metaverse where users can purchase land NFTs to create content and explore worlds. It offers a platform to drive the adoption of Web3 by helping brands and partners build their presence in the metaverse.

https://www.gigaspace.io/
https://twitter.com/Gigaspace2140
https://discord.gg/gigaspace

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NexBloc Adds .NEX and .ARTIST Decentralized Top-Level Domains to its Arsenal of Web 3.0 dDNS Offerings

NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – NexBloc today announced the creation of several new decentralized top-level domains (dTLD) including .NEX and .ARTIST. This adds to the expanding list of domains that are being developed on multiple blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as Polygon, XDC and Hedera. As well, buyers will now be able to use a credit or debit card in addition to the Coinbase Commerce platform currently used for taking payments.

NexBloc is developing infrastructure for the decentralized web with their decentralized domain naming system (dDNS) to make Web 3.0 a usable ecosystem of connected websites and applications. They use an omnichain approach by creating root domains on core blockchains and then interconnecting any DLT or blockchain for use of a consistent naming path.

The .NEX dTLD represents a cross-chain "nexus" of the decentralized internet and also represents the foundation of the Nex in NexBloc. Nexus means the connecting of spaces and the most important point. It is representative of the bridge between the ICANN centralized Web 2.0 world and the new Internet with decentralization as the future of personal data usage and control.

With .ARTIST, NexBloc is giving creators a way to claim a domain that fits their passion. Owners of .artist domains will be able to use them to create decentralized websites, authentication access to theme-based decentralized applications (dApps), and more.

"The future is about personalization and control," Dana Farbo, Founder and CEO of NexBloc stated. "We are building systems that interoperate between the old internet and the new to ensure that individuals are at the center of their digital lives, with full control and lifetime access to their data."

Account-holders on the NexBloc domain registration platform can reserve their domains of choice and begin to take advantage of an expanding array of services. Once purchased, there are no renewal fees, ever and NexBloc pays the gas fees for minting on most chains and distributed ledgers.

About NexBloc

NexBloc is building the next generation of the internet with decentralized DNS at the core. Digital entities tied to the decentralized web are the future of personal data protection and use.

With both a New York City based commercial operation and a British Virgin Islands token Foundation, NexBloc uses technology stacks to create custom deployments of dDNS systems.

They currently have over ten private blockchain top-level domains (dTLD) in various forms of deployment.

Domain Website: https://domain.nexbloc.com/
Website: https://www.nexbloc.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/80164369
Medium: https://medium.com/nexbloc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nexbloc
Telegram: https://t.me/nexbloc

Press or Partner inquiries please send to pr@nexbloc.com.

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Insights from Davos: Web3 Consolidation Underway, Meta Alliance Launch, Web3 Reserve System

LONDON, May 17, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – A consensus is emerging from multiple Davos insiders that the next wave of consolidation is about to hit the Crypto Markets as awareness of Web3 Applications continue to drive volume, growth and outlook. Despite the recent crypto market crash this month, M&A is again on the rise as the Volume of Deals increased 50X over the past year to $55 billion.

"Since Web3 is the precursor to Metaverse market, our team has come up with a way for communities to combat some of the inherent volatility via the creation of a Reserve System for hedging NFT and digital assets," stated Edward Musinski, Founder of the Web3 Reserve System which is backed by Metabook.

"We help NFT owners and large enterprises to scale their digital asset initiatives by building another layer of Hedged Trust, Meta Alliance and Telewellness," UK founder Edward Musinski proclaimed. "We have built a highly efficient hedging solution, backed by a pool of NFT and tokens and governed via the Metabook DAO."

The Reserve pool is key to the growth of value, when innovations are shared with the community, and driven by influencers, like in www.Metabook.digital case (beta version).

The Metabook Reserve pool will be comprised of partners' tokens with such utility as health, by health data exchange Aimedis, or XR promo, by Arcona.

The shared creative power of community will drive the mass adoption of blockchain, Metaverse and web3 solutions of Metabook DAO partners.

Plato Partnership. Connecting Web3 Applications with the Metaverse

We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Plato that is opening up the opportunity for some healthy community consolidation. Plato is an open intelligence repository and platform that unlocks the power of Vertical Search in a highly secure and scalable way. The platform is designed to provide an ultra-safe and secure environment to consume sector-specific real-time data intelligence while its interface allows used to seamlessly connect to web3 applications. We are pleased to make this announcement as a preview of what we are seeing in Davos this year.

About Metabook

Metabook by Meta Alliance is a B2B2C platform for mass adoption of web3 Innovation and the first decentralized MetaMarketing leadgen platform. For more information, visit https://metabook.digital.

About Platoblockchain

Platoblockchain is the cross-chain Gateway to the world of Decentralized Gaming, Streaming, Metaverse experience. For more information, visit https://platoblockchain.com.

Source: Plato Data Intelligence

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NexBloc Accepted into the Filecoin Faber Accelerator for Building Out Deep-Tech Web 3.0 Solutions

NEW YORK, May 11, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – NexBloc (https://nexbloc.com) today announced the acceptance into the Filecoin Faber Accelerator (FFA). The FFA provides workshops, peer mentoring, expert advising, access to investment, and support beyond the end of the program. NexBloc will work closely with Mentors such as Protocol Labs, MetaMask, The Graph, and others to refine their business strategy and product fit for market success.

NexBloc is developing infrastructure for the decentralized web with their domain naming system (dDNS) to make Web 3.0 a usable ecosystem of connected websites and applications. They use an omnichain approach by creating root domains on core blockchains and then interconnecting any blockchain for use of a consistent naming path.

According to the Faber team, "The Filecoin Faber Accelerator was born out of a partnership between Faber (https://faber.vc) and Protocol Labs (https://protocol.ai) to help foster the development of the next generation of the internet. The partnership combines Faber's experience as early-stage deep tech VC and Protocol Labs' Web3 expertise to help entrepreneurs create the building blocks of successful new companies in the decentralized web."

Dana Farbo, Founder and CEO of NexBloc stated, "We are proud to have been selected by Faber, and the Filecoin and IPFS teams at Protocol Labs to represent the decentralized DNS space for the Accelerator. We believe that a proper domain-naming system that is interoperable with other pioneers in the space paves the way for a decentralized internet that is user friendly, secure, and scalable."

About NexBloC

NexBloc is building the next generation of the internet with decentralized DNS at the core. Digital entities tied to the decentralized web are the future of personal data protection and use.

Founded as a USA company in 2020, NexBloc uses technology stacks to create custom deployments of dDNS systems. They currently have over ten private decentralized top-level domains (dTLD) in various forms of deployment.

– Domain Website: https://domain.nexbloc.com/
– Website: https://www.nexbloc.com/
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/80164369
– Medium: https://medium.com/nexbloc
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/nexbloc
– Telegram: https://t.me/nexbloc

About Faber

Faber is a Lisbon-based VC firm that invests in teams transforming the world with technology.
The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early-stage startups with thematic funds, dedicated investment teams, and expert advisors to actively help founders build global companies powered by frontier technologies.

Investing since 2013 with a unique approach in Southern Europe, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, or YData. Alongside its AI/Data- and ClimateTech-focused funds, Faber has now launched a Web3-focused investment and acceleration program in partnership with Protocol Labs. faber.vc

About Protocol Labs and Filecoin

Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. We are a fully distributed company. Our team of more than 100 members works remotely and in the open to improve the internet – humanity's most important technology – as we explore new advances in computing and related fields. protocol.ai

Filecoin, the world's largest decentralized network, allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate. The Filecoin protocol runs on an advanced and novel proof system – a combination of Proof of Spacetime (PoSt) and Proof of Replication (PoRep), to provide unmatched efficiency and reliability. Filecoin's advanced technology provides a robust foundation to store the world's most valuable data sets. An alternative to costly cloud storage, the Filecoin network offers efficiently priced and geographically decentralized storage, minimizing financial barriers and allowing users to take advantage of its unmatched network capabilities. www.filecoin.io.

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Indonesian Technology Company, WIR Group to Introduce Indonesia’s Metaverse Prototype

JAKARTA, May 3, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – WIR Group (JK: WIRG), an Indonesia-based metaverse technology company, will reveal a prototype of Indonesian metaverse in November 2022, to coincide with the momentum of the 2022 G20 Indonesia Presidency. With a vision to create 'a liveable world of metaverse for everyone', WIR Group is committed to enriching life experiences for individuals, companies, and societies through digital reality solutions covering Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Indonesia becomes one of the fast country adopter for Metaverse

The metaverse platform being developed by WIR Group will bridge businesses and consumers. It will be the gateway that lead humans to various digital experiences, and at the same time become a platform that can provide new employment opportunities.

The company has signed a number of MoUs for cross-sector collaboration to join the metaverse, with partners that include Bank Rakyat Indonesia and Bank Negara Indonesia from the financial sector. Most recently, WIR Group signed partnership agreements with various entities including Jakarta Fashion Week (JFW), retail giant Alfamart, FMCG company Kalbe Nutritionals, Indonesian independent music label Sun Eater, property developers Vasanta and Triniti Land, and many others.

WIR Group (WIRG) has officially listed its shares on the Indonesia Stock Exchange on April 4, 2022. Through an IPO, WIR Group released 2.33 billion new shares or 20% of the issued and fully paid capital after the IPO, and an additional 233.7 million shares due to excess orders in the centralized allotment. "The high public enthusiasm for WIR Group, which is reflected in the large number of orders that we received, shows the market's confidence in the company's fundamentals and prospects. We will maintain this trust by continuing to develop innovations to provide technology solutions for businesses in various sectors to help them face the challenges of this borderless digital era," said Michael Budi Wirjatmo, President Director of WIR Group.

Since 2009, WIR Group has completed thousands projects and served clients in over 20 countries including the US, Germany, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Myanmar. WIR Group has received multiple international acknowledgements and accolades, such as the Excellent Communications Design Apps in the 2020 German Design Award, AR Best Campaign at the Augmented World Expo's 7th Annual Auggie Awards 2015 and 2016 at the Silicon Valley, Innovation 40 from The New Economy London on the London Stock Exchange, and Forbes' Metaverse Tech Companies to Watch in 2022.

WIR Overview:

WIR Group is one of the pioneers in the Southeast Asian Augmented Reality (AR) technology industry that has developed solutions for numerous foreign companies by combining immersive technology such as Virtual Reality (VR) & Artificial Intelligence (AI). In its biggest innovation called the Metaverse Indonesia, WIR Group presents the Metaverse world experience by putting forward elements of local wisdom in Indonesian culture. As the metaverse software technology company from Indonesia, WIR Group plans to introduce the Metaverse Indonesia prototype in November 2022.

WIR Group has the vision to create a liveable world of metaverse for everyone towards the Web 3.0 era.

Since 2009, WIR Group has completed thousands of projects and served clients in over 20 countries including the US, Germany, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Myanmar. WIR Group has received multiple international acknowledgements and accolades, such as the Excellent Communications Design Apps in the 2020 German Design Award, AR Best Campaign at the Augmented World Expo's 7th Annual Auggie Awards 2015 and 2016 at the Silicon Valley, Innovation 40 from The New Economy London on the London Stock Exchange, and Metaverse Tech Companies to Watch in 2022 according to Forbes.

For further information:
Kurniati – Marketing Communications Manager
kurniati@wirglobal.com

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