The metaverse project Rivermen officially established a Hong Kong operation node to accelerate its entry into the global market

Original title: "Rivermen enters Hong Kong, facing the wind and marching towards the global market"

Original source: Rivermen

Recently, the metaverse project Rivermen (Heliren) announced the formal establishment of a Hong Kong operation node to accelerate its entry into the global market. Rivermen announced that it will join hands with HashKey Group, Alibaba Cloud, Conflux, Draper Dragon, Y2Z, Singapore United Overseas Bank and other partners from well-known investment institutions, cloud service providers, public chains, large multinational banks, etc. to create a decentralized AI metaverse Bianriverse Provides great resource support. At the same time, the team will work with Hong Kong partners to create a global Web3 ecosystem.

Hong Kong concept winds up

< p>In February of this year, the "Hong Kong concept" suddenly became a hot topic on Web3, and even overseas project parties and KOLs showed their favor to the community in Chinese on social media. In terms of the secondary market, affected by the positive policy of Hong Kong’s introduction of a virtual asset service provider licensing system in June, market sentiment continued to rise, and the “Hong Kong concept” Token collectively skyrocketed. There is a growing belief that Hong Kong is becoming a staging ground for Web3's mysterious oriental forces.

In fact, Hong Kong has made an in-depth layout for the development and implementation of Web3 in terms of policies, resources, and funds.  

On October 31, 2022, Hong Kong issued the "Policy Declaration on the Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong", explaining that Hong Kong The government’s positive stance and regulatory attitude towards virtual assets. After the "Declaration" was released, Hong Kong quickly became the focus of attention of the global encryption industry. In particular, compared with the tightening supervision of the encryption field in the United States, the crypto industry is undergoing a pattern of "rising in the east and declining in the west".

On February 22, 2023, Chan Mao-po, Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government, announced the 2023/2024 fiscal year budget of the HKSAR Government , announced the establishment of a virtual asset development task force, and wrote Web3 into the budget for the first time. Chen Maobo said that Cyberport has established a Web3 base earlier this year, and the budget will allocate 50 million Hong Kong dollars to accelerate the development of the Web3 ecosystem. This includes holding international large-scale seminars to allow the industry and enterprises to better understand cutting-edge developments, promote cross-sector business cooperation, and organize more youth workshops.

Facing the wind

The series of powerful measures put forward by the Hong Kong government let people see Hong Kong’s determination to develop into a global virtual asset center and Web3.0 center, and practitioners are also actively participating in this wave of the times with practical actions.

Recently, encrypted data company Kaiko, stable currency issuer CNHC Group, encrypted investment institution LD Capital, etc. Moving to Hong Kong, encrypted trading platforms such as OKX and Huobi Global also announced to apply for virtual asset trading licenses in Hong Kong. Since the end of last year, there have been too many Web3-related conferences held in Hong Kong. Among them, the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival", which will be co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKeyGroup on April 12, is even more attractive. Web3 builders from almost the entire Chinese-speaking circle, as well as representatives from Hong Kong business leaders and senior government officials from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council attended. At that time, Rivermen will also be invited to attend.

Rivermen was well received by the market when it was launched. The data shows that Rivermen will burn more Ethereum gas than Opensea within one hour before the sale in August 2021, ranking first in the entire network. Due to the large number of people rushing to buy, the Ethereum network was once congested. In September of the same year, Sandbox, a well-known local Metaverse project in Hong Kong, purchased Rivermen. In April 2022, Ponlaii, the parent company of Heliren, received US$4.5 million in angel round financing, and well-known investment institutions such as HashKey and Draper Dragon participated in the investment.

Taking advantage of Hong Kong’s Web3 policy, Rivermen’s establishment of an operating node in Hong Kong is not only for strategic considerations but also full of Chinese Web3 entrepreneurs The incomprehensible affection for "home". For a long time before, due to policy reasons, Chinese Web3 entrepreneurs were forced to live overseas, homeless, and were ridiculed as "Web3 Jews."

Nova, founder of Rivermen, said, "I am very much looking forward to Hong Kong becoming the 'home' of Chinese web3 entrepreneurs. We have long lacked A target of cohesive sense of belonging—we are pushed to go out and go our separate ways. Whether it is ideological stamps or traditional complexes, Chinese people have an instinctive resistance to "leaving their homes". Hong Kong is the link between Greater China and the world An outpost is also a shelter. Rationally speaking, Hong Kong’s physical space is limited, but Hong Kong of Web3 represents a kind of spirit. We hope that more Chinese entrepreneurs will reunite in Hong Kong, or Hong Kong in spirit , Let her become a banner, let us unite under such a banner for the first time, and attack together.”

The Mysterious Oriental Metaverse

Rivermen is based on the voxel version of the Qingming Riverside Scene, which is a mixture of strong oriental cultural elements and modern trendy design. The style is NFT, and it has an extremely rich historical and cultural heritage.

At the same time, the new image to be updated will be the same as CryptoPunks, BAYC, Azuki, Doodles and other "blue chip" NFTs, starting from the PFP attribute to create the trend culture of Rivermen .

Rivermen takes "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" as the creative theme, and is committed to creating an AI metaverse with oriental characteristics - Bianhe Yuan Universe, using blockchain and artificial intelligence technology to perfectly display oriental culture in the web3 world. As the "Along the River at Qingming Festival" performed by NFT in the web 3 era, Rivermen can be said to be a phenomenon-level work of Chinese culture in the web 3 era, full of artistic revolution significance. In addition, landmark cities around the world and exclusive cities of the Web3 brand will be launched one after another.

Currently, Rivermen has launched a 3D pixel-style NFT Avatar asset "Heliren" and a housing NFT asset "Heli "House" and cultural assets "Heli Li", land assets "Heli Land" and the tip of the iceberg of the Bianhe Yuan Universe - "Heli Jiangshan". At that time, Rivermen will realize the linkage of the three elements of people, house and land, leading players to dream back to the ancient capital of Bianliang City for thousands of years, rebuild and revive the grand scene of the capital on the chain, introduce AI to train the Pawn gameplay of Rivermen, and make it execute in line with the unique Game-style missions and activities to shape the world of New Jianghe and start a second life in the Web3 parallel universe!

It is not easy to build such a magnificent metaverse, and it is necessary to patiently complete every element. Nova believes that content is the driving core of the Metaverse, the target of NFT, the lifeline of Gamefi, and the corpus of Socialfi. Rivermen will continue to evolve content production capacity, which is the core capability of all metaverse project parties. Backed by a strong national construction team, it has more excellent UGC tools and introduces AIGC to provide huge content production capacity and a new user experience. Through this production capacity, the depth and breadth of the Metaverse will be continuously enriched, and an interesting and humane Metaverse world will be created in the end.

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