Why the Metaverse?

Hoodie Season: The Mark Zuckerberg story

“Move Fast & Break Things!” - Mark Zuckerburg

When I was 19 years old, I turned on the News and College dropout, 24-year-old Mark Zuckerberg is wearing a hoodie to his start-up, worth billions of dollars. He changed the paradigm. It wasn’t, going to college and working a job you hate for the rest of your life anymore. The best paradigm for success was now to come up with an idea that changes the world and the market will reward you for it. No one understood why he wore a hoodie all the time, but I think I get it now. Mark Zuckerberg was putting the establishment on notice. The old guard was over, he was the face of the new guard, and he plays by his own rules. Just by wearing that hoodie, he changed the trajectory of my life and so many others. I would argue that the entire “Tech Boom” of the 2010s happened because of Mark Zuckerberg. His mantra, “Move Fast and Break Things”, defined a generation of technology. When Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram and WhatsApp the media was outraged then he bought Oculus. The way he sipped that water like a champ while getting grilled in Congress for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. An absolute Chad! Mark Zuckerberg recently shifted his focus to the metaverse. Taking the metaverse on his back and pioneering the future of online interactions. At the moment, Meta owns 90% of the VR/AR market.

In episode 3 of the Medallion XLN podcast, I spoke with “The C”, about Emergent Art. In that conversation, we spoke about the skeuomorphic phase that the metaverse is currently in. This phase of the metaverse has something missing that we couldn’t quite put our finger on. Leads to the question, “Why the metaverse?” This is a difficult question to answer in its current state. This article is the best that I could come up with to answer that question. I figured I would learn how Artificial Intelligence is being applied to the metaverse. Artificial Intelligence creates ease of use in the metaverse in significant ways. In a podcast with Lex Friedman, Mark Zuckerberg described accessibility features that Meta is working on to create ease of use in the metaverse. He mentioned leveraging voice commands to build out virtual worlds and using AI to change the metaverse to reflect various art styles. I pride myself on always trying to stay one step ahead of technological advancements. I look at where the current state of technology is heading and try to figure out what build tools would reap the rewards of that period. In the famous book, The Art Of War, Sun Tzu says, “Do what is difficult while it’s still easy, and what is great while it’s still small.” What can we do now that will be difficult to do once the metaverse reaches critical mass adoption? As brilliant as Facebook is, if we break it down to its core, it is just a shared blog that leverages the advertising model for monetization. Besides the hype, what are the real-world benefits of the metaverse? 

Medallion XLN Podcast Ep. 3 - The C

My current hypothesis is that the metaverse is the best visualization layer for artificial intelligence models. The information generated from artificial intelligence is robust and varies significantly, to take full advantage of that data, a view must be robust as well to react to that data. NVIDIA is a technology company known for its GPU graphics cards. People who build high-end desktop computers, play video games at 120 frames per second on a 4K screen or mine cryptocurrency are familiar with NVIDIA’s products. What they might not be as familiar with is the fact that NVIDIA is one of the leaders in developing Artificial Intelligence models. The AI models that NVIDIA develops are science fiction-level impressive. From procedurally rendering photorealistic virtual worlds, mapping out how cells move in your body, and rendering a realistic representation of every highway in the world. They have even figured out how to have a robot mimic someone’s body movement. NVIDIA may be on the cutting edge of what’s possible in this generation’s metaverse. NVIDIA recently released a research paper titled, “ASE: Large-Scale Reusable Adversarial Skill Embeddings for Physically Simulated Characters”, which is an artificial intelligence model that can train motor skills of 3D models for 10 virtual years in 1 week. Every 10 years that go by in the AI simulation is the equivalent level of 1 week in the real world. The results are that the 3D model realistically maneuvers like an athlete that had years of training. At the beginning of the training, the 3D object can barely stand, falling to the ground after being initialized but over time the objects begin to move like Olympic athletes. Imagine the breakthroughs that metaverse can offer when paired with artificial intelligence and blockchain. The blockchain can secure the assets as NFTs used in the metaverse view layer. Inherently providing a monetization model to fund even more breakthroughs in emergent art and technology.

Medallion XLN is currently in fundraising mode. Our community is the backbone of the Medallion XLN project. After reading our whitepaper, the endless possibilities must be running through your mind. Therefore, I’m announcing the release of our NFT collection to raise the remaining funds that we need to successfully launch our ICO & product. The utility of the NFTs allow the owner of the NFT to receive fees from all future transactions on the blockchain. The tokenomics breaks down to 97% going to the asset owner, and 3% development fee. The development fee breaks down to 1% shareholder distribution, 1.5% infrastructure, and 0.5% supernode distribution. Owning one of the following Medallion XLN Corporate Art NFTs will submit that account to receive XLN tokens on every transaction that takes place on the network. Medallion XLN is seeking to raise operations costs for 5 years which breaks down to approximately $15m annually. 

Medallion XLN Smart City NFT 

This NFT represents Medallion XLN’s plans to integrate the Smart Chain protocol into cities. The smart chain will automate subway systems, sewage, garbage collection, fire departments, the police, and all responsibilities of a well-managed city. 

Medallion XLN Monetization NFT

This NFT represents the relationship between Medallion XLN and our vast community. The community informs the kind of tools that are built and the areas that Medallion XLN will design interfaces for.

Medallion XLN Secure Wallet NFT

This NFT represents Medallion XLN’s vision for a new kind of web3 wallet. The wallet will give the user access to their assets across multiple interfaces.

Medallion XLN Vulnerability NFT

This NFT represents the use case that Medallion XLN seeks to solve. Data vulnerability is a serious issue that is taken for granted. We trust big tech companies to manage our data but have no recourse when that data is hacked and leaked to parties that abuse that information.

Medallion XLN Asset Security NFT

This NFT represents Medallion XLN Smart Chain’s ability to secure assets with user permissions and a monetization model that redefines ownership of intellectual property. 

Medallion XLN Metaverse NFT

This NFT represents Medallion XLN’s unique approach to building the metaverse in a decentralized way. Our strategy to focus on interoperability to allow users to transfer the stats of their avatar between virtual worlds will allow for collaboration between users. 

Medallion XLN Gear NFT

This NFT represents the many interfaces that Medallion XLN must create to have an interoperable application that seamlessly secures and transfers assets between parties.

Medallion XLN Metaverse Surfing NFT

This NFT represents an easier to traverse the metaverse that doesn’t affect the immersive experience. Traversing the metaverse should be seamless, like teleportation.

Medallion XLN Metaverse Chess NFT

This NFT represents Medallion XLN’s vision to interface with the real world as a virtual avatar. Imagine being at home watching your virtual avatar cheer in the front row of a basketball game.

Medallion XLN Live NFT

This NFT represents assets that are monetized at the moment of the event and then accessed at a later time. Live events can be relived at a later time in the metaverse.

Medallion XLN Interoperability NFT

This NFT represents Medallion XLN’s vision to create a metaverse that represents the operating system for the real world. A metaverse where models can be trained in worlds that replicate our own, but new ideas and be tried and discarded depending on success. This will allow human civilization to rapidly prototype and prove new ideas at the cheapest rate possible.

Please help our fundraising efforts by owning one of these NFTs with the utility of receiving a portion of each XLN transaction’s supernode fee. Also, how is everyone enjoying the podcasts? Web3 is very exciting, and it’s cool to have conversations with other creators to talk about what they’re working on. Don’t miss Wednesday’s podcast where we talk to Ram ( CEO ), Router Protocol and learn more about their mission to create a multichain token standard.

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