ECOMI Monthly Update- Nov 2021
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November will really be a month to recollect! Prior to now 4 weeks, we’ve raced from the first-ever Disney NFTs to our first ‘actual life’ occasion at DesignerCon, welcomed the primary US authorities company to VeVe, bought greater than 660,000 digital collectible NFTs, formally topped 1 million lively month-to-month customers, shared v.01 of the OMI utility program, and an entire lot extra!
Social and Neighborhood Progress
As at all times we wish to kick issues off by wanting on the progress of the ECOMI and VeVe Fam, and we completely have some numbers to rejoice this month.
The VeVe discord server has formally eclipsed 60,000 Collectors and followers throughout 4 language teams! Earlier than we get too far, we need to prolong our sincerest because of all of our neighborhood and senior moderators, in each Discord and Telegram, for the numerous hours they spend welcoming new members to the neighborhood, and all of their work behind the scenes to make sure that the Fam continues to develop in a pleasant and sustainable method 🙏
All through November we now have welcomed 14,500 new followers to ECOMI Twitter as we edge ceaselessly nearer to the 150k mark, and in accordance with the GoChain explorer, there at the moment are greater than 160,000 wallets hodling onto these valuable OMI tokens! ⭕
On VeVe Twitter we now have welcomed 34,000 new followers in November- a 37% improve over October- and 25,000 new followers to VeVe Instagram, equalling a 53% improve over October.
However probably the most monumental figures had been launched in our most up-to-date AMA, as we now have formally handed 1 million lively month-to-month customers on the platform, with greater than 2.6 million NFT’s bought 🤯
To everybody who has supported us on this journey, shared the thrill with family and friends, and continued to consider in our mission to create one of the best (and most enjoyable!) digital collectibles experience- we need to prolong our sincerest because of you all, we really wouldn’t be right here with out every considered one of you!
VeVe Licenses + Releases
It was a spooky starting of the month as Marvel Studio’s What If collection continued with Zombie Captain America and Zombie Hunter Spider-Man, changing into the primary official Halloween/holiday-inspired releases on the platform.
Including to the vacation cheer was a really exceptional license partnership with the USA Postal Service (USPS), providing collectors the first-ever USPS digital collectible stamp artwork, and celebrating the traditions and colourful exuberance of Día de los Muertos!
The USPS has facilitated essential communications and supply providers to People since 1792, because the ratification of The Publish Workplace Act (1792) made the Postal Service a everlasting fixture of the Federal Authorities. At present, the USPS has an annual working income of greater than $71 billion, and serves as one of many largest employers within the US, with greater than 630,000 workers and 34,000 retail areas. In case you missed it, you possibly can compensate for all of it beneath.
Celebrating Disney+ Day
Simply earlier than the tip of October, we launched considered one of our greatest partnerships to date- Disney! These restricted version releases shaped a part of the Disney+ Day celebrations, as we delivered to life the first-ever digital collectible NFTs from The Simpsons, Pixar, Star Wars, and Disney (alongside Marvel, in fact!).
The Golden Moments assortment has been probably the most thrilling releases on the platform, incomes VeVe mainstream media consideration, and introducing greater than 300,000 new Collectors and followers to the platform. Along with these fantastically rendered fashions, every collectible got here with real-world utility, as these fortunate sufficient to safe a drop had been additionally gifted a subscription to Disney+.
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Digital Comedian NFTs
Digital Comedian NFTs have really turn into a fan favourite since their first launch in August, with 2–3 new comics dropping per week, and a wholly new collectible fanbase becoming a member of the journey. All through November 10 digital comics had been launched, with VeVe unique cowl artwork that includes for most of the ultra-rare and secret uncommon releases.
Most notably, Hit Monkey was launched in keeping with the discharge of Marvel’s collection with the identical namesake, which premiered November 17 On Hulu, starring Jason Sudeikis, George Takei, and Olivia Munn!
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VeVe X DesignerCon
Our first ‘actual life’ occasion additionally came about in November at DesignerCon in Anaheim, California. The Fam was out in pressure, assembly one another (and the staff) for the primary time, and the vitality was palpable, to say the least!
There have been 15 Con Unique (CE) drops over the three day weekend as we celebrated the artwork and creativity of DesignerCon and its exhibitors- a lot of whom had by no means launched an NFT earlier than)!
Not solely did each drop promote out inside seconds, however the real ardour and enthusiasm of the Fam all through the occasion left all of our artists and companions excited for the way forward for this business, and we sit up for working with all of them to convey you extra extremely collectibles within the future.
We need to prolong our sincerest because of everybody within the Fam who got here out to help, assist us to run the sales space, marveled on the sheer dimension of Trevor, shared the occasion by means of dwell streams, and of course- let their hair down with us when all was stated and carried out! We really can’t await the following dwell occasion, and you’ll catch the total wrap-up right here in case you missed any of the enjoyable 🥳
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First Appearances!
In case you’re new to the Fam, there are a couple of collectible labels which are necessary to remember of- and the FA or First Look tag is definitely considered one of them! There are virtually too many to listing, however a couple of worthy of notice embody The Eternals– Each in comics and Marvel Mightys Series 4, and Storm– which can be the primary premium NFT launch from Marvel’s X-Males!
Followers of Ron English had been additionally in a position to acquire Cereal Killers Series 3 (all FA’s), and in doing so spherical out their very own model of his portray The Final Fats Breakfast. These fortunate sufficient to have all 3 units accomplished additionally simply acquired the primary air-dropped collectible on VeVe-
AMA’s and Neighborhood Conversations
There’s by no means a scarcity of ECOMI and VeVe conversations happening, and November was no completely different. Our illustrious CEO David was invited to talk at Coingecko’s GeckoCon- NFTs Gone Wild, in addition to an unimaginable dialog with Actual Speak, diving into his background, the event of VeVe, and the way forward for the business. Shout out to VeVe Focus for sharing the GeckoCon stream!
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We additionally dropped some unimaginable updates in our most up-to-date neighborhood AMA, together with plans for the OMI token for use throughout different platforms and protocols, updates on the MTL/Pay-out function (which can quickly be out there through the web wallet), our newest drops and extra!
Massive because of everybody for his or her participation and suggestions throughout these occasions, and Taps for offering the stream, they supply extremely useful perception and permit us to higher form the platform to fulfill the wants of our Collectors.
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Scaling the Staff
Because the ECOMI and VeVe ecosystem continues to expand- so too does the necessity to scale the staff. In November we now have welcomed 3 new builders and two new help employees, with a glance to proceed increasing the help staff between now and the tip of the 12 months.
From all of us at ECOMI and VeVe we need to prolong our sincerest welcome to the brand new members of the staff, and thank all of them for the contributions already made. After an thrilling and arduous 12 months, it’s an extremely thrilling time to see this progress, and your information and experience will likely be essential in scaling the corporate and product choices!
OMI Utility Program v.01
The primary model of the OMI utility program (OUP) was additionally launched in November, and after gathering your suggestions v.02 is already underway!
The OUP is designed to return core utility to the OMI token (particularly giving token holders the flexibility to transact within the Market), alongside a spread of latest options such because the OMI drop raffle and staking program to spice up your gathering expertise, whereas decreasing the circulating provide of tokens over time.
Should you haven’t seen v.01 but you possibly can test it out here, or be part of Rhys and Foster on this OUP explainer to dive deeper into the logic and reasoning behind the program.
Massive because of everybody who has submitted their suggestions and concepts, we now have taken them under consideration and sit up for sharing the newest updates with you in v.02!
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Grasp Collector Program v.02
In an analogous vein to the OUP, the MCP underwent revisions because of the suggestions and options that had been submitted and contributed all through the month. Essentially the most notable adjustments from v.01 (available here) embody updates to the:
- Drop Lottery
- Set Factors
- Collectible SR Factors
- Comics Factors
- Comedian Collection Factors
- Level Limitations
The abstract of adjustments may be seen here, with the up to date MCP beneath!
VeVe Master Collector Program v0.2
We sit up for your continued suggestions on this system to make sure that it’s in keeping with neighborhood expectations, and makes VeVe a enjoyable collectible expertise for all!
VeVe App Updates
We have now returned to our common programming after the chaos of Disney and DesignerCon, and with it has come one of many largest app updates to this point. With a whole re-design of the Retailer, Comics have now been totally built-in into the touchdown pages, as we are saying goodbye to that pesky switcher bar!
To ensure you by no means miss a comic book drop, comics are additionally now proven within the Coming Quickly and Newest Drops sections, and the content material displayed on the Retailer touchdown has additionally been refined, with a deal with collectibles, comics, and drops.
Equally, the Market has undergone some key updates, together with improved comedian show and group, and a brand new format for lengthy lists of editions. Now, once you’re within the Market, all comics are grouped by the Widespread variant cowl, and you’ll ‘click-through’ to view all out there variant covers for that comedian are displayed.
The quantity within the high proper nook now exhibits the whole variety of cowl variants out there for that comedian, and we now have added color-coded dots to every comedian rarity, so you understand which cowl variants can be found for that comedian. This color-coding will finally be rolled out app-wide.
As VeVe has tens of hundreds of Market listings on a weekly foundation, displaying the picture for every collectible or comedian required waaaay an excessive amount of scrolling. So now, when deciding on a collectible or comedian, the editions on the market are displayed in a listing type.
The Purchase Now and Public sale tabs are nonetheless in place with up to date styling, and Rarity (and rarity shade) at the moment are displayed within the header. For the total breakdown try the article beneath, and naturally, you’ll want to clap when you’re there!
Simply earlier than the flip of the month we additionally launched the ‘tilt’ function, permitting you to vertically tilt your comics in augmented actuality, and browse them in mattress! This replace additionally improved plenty of back-end processes, rolled out new protections in opposition to nefarious actors, and ready the app for the discharge of Showroom Model 2, which is predicted to be launched within the coming week or so, if all goes to plan.
Across the Grounds
As at all times there are some unimaginable neighborhood initiatives and giveaways happening that we need to convey to your consideration! At the beginning, Ian at Essentially Crypto has been operating a neighborhood treasure hunt throughout the Twitterverse, and we need to prolong our because of him and the entire ECOMI/VeVe Fam which have contributed and took part on this on-line scavenger hunt!
The WomenXVeVe are making ready to re-launch with extra unimaginable neighborhood conversations, Athena sat down for a conversation with Jeremy Padawer, and Wendy has been introducing everybody to the faces behind the handles within the Voices of VeVe stream.
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Pal of the Fam @DaftPortillaz has additionally been working with Noah and Jeomite for an unimaginable 25 days of Christmas giveaway within the VeVe discord, with some particular vacation editions of the Granola Video games additionally set to unfold the vacation cheer! Should you’re not already a part of VeVe discord or want to become involved, comply with this link to benefit from the celebrations with the Fam!
Arising!
One in every of our very first content material creators- Kyle– can be prepping for the VeVe Art Show, seeking to start early within the new 12 months, and for these with laser-eyes, you will have observed the VeVe Meme Masters channel within the Discord!
Each of those community-led initiatives are designed to convey the fam collectively to have enjoyable with their collections (and extra usually than not- the staff!), let that creativity fly, win some superb prizes, and revel in a couple of laughs alongside the way in which. Keep tuned for extra bulletins on each fronts 🙂
There at the moment are 4 language teams out there within the VeVe discord (English, Spanish, French, and German), with Turkish and Dutch anticipated to come back on-line within the very close to future.
Once more- particular mentions and thanks go to all of our neighborhood members and moderators who work tirelessly to welcome new members to the Fam, each on Discord and Telegram, and create a secure and welcoming house for folks from all nations and language teams. We really respect you all!
In fact, it wouldn’t be the vacation season with out some giveaways and particular releases of our personal, so in case you’re not already following VeVe Twitter we strongly counsel you do to participate in our weekly sweepstakes/giveaways and keep tuned for extra bulletins on the method!
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About ECOMI
ECOMI is a expertise firm based mostly in Singapore and is main the way in which within the emerging digital collectibles space. ECOMI affords a one-stop-shop for digital collectibles by means of the VeVe app bringing popular culture and leisure into the twenty first century.
The VeVe app permits customers to expertise true possession of premium digital collectibles. Via the app market, customers can get hold of widespread, uncommon, or one-of-a-kind digital collectibles, share these throughout the social community service, and change them with the VeVe neighborhood, all from the palm of their hand.
ECOMI sees digital collectibles as a brand new asset class that provides mental property house owners the chance for brand new income streams within the digital panorama. Digital streaming, gaming, and in-app buying have turn into a multibillion-dollar market, and the following to affix this digital development is the popular culture and collectibles business.
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