2 days, 70 speakers, 50 hours of useful content – a large-scale Balance crypto forum took place in St. Petersburg.
The Balance Crypto Forum brought together thousands of participants and over 70 speakers, Web3 industry experts, media and art stars, entrepreneurs, professionals from creative fields, startups, business and IT on three stages of the Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg.
“Our main task was to harmoniously unite several categories of people on the forum: NFT artists, crypto professionals and beginners who are just starting to get interested in blockchain. According to the Balance team, everything worked out! We put a lot of emphasis on panel discussions – they were divided into three scenes for different levels of knowledge. As a result, on the second day, all guests with different levels of immersion were able to speak the same language. I think that next year we will definitely repeat this, taking into account all the wishes to improve the forum,” says Stepan Pestryakovorganizer of the Balance forum, producer of TvoyProducer.ru.
The conference was opened by the ideological inspirer of the forum, head of the Ethereum Competence Center and co-founder of Yota Devices Vladislav Martynov. Especially for the forum participants, Vladislav presented his new project “People 3.0” – a unique, expert selection of speeches, lectures and materials from leading representatives of the crypto industry on the most relevant topics in the industry.
“For me, the most important thing was the result – the participants were inspired by the idea of the People 3.0 project, which connects the material and spiritual, mental and emotional intelligence. We have received a lot of positive feedback. The forum speakers were great,” says Vladislav.
The organizers have prepared over 50 hours of useful content about the blockchain world.
Konstantin Klimenko, Director of Products at Sber Blockchain Laboratory, said that Sberbank will allow private investors to make transactions with DFA on its blockchain platform in the spring of 2023 – this will create a new market, the existence of which we could not even imagine until now. And the most interesting thing is that by the end of 2022, Sber will launch its own NFT marketplace.
Apparently, he will compete with the VKontakte NFT marketplace, which he spoke about Alexander Tobol, technical director of VK. The service will allow creators and celebrities to earn money from the sale of their digital items. Already in January 2023, VK will release the first NFT collection with Spotty, which will contain 8000 NFTs. 3 Russian digital artists took part in the creation of the collection. According to Alexander, more than 3,000 users have already connected their wallets to the service. Alexander has not yet disclosed details about the cost of NFTs and the currency for which they will be sold, but shared that VK plans to sell short names as NFTs, NFT stickers and NFT gifts.
He touched on an important topic and Alexander Fedorov, PR director of PROMMINER, a company supplying mining equipment in Russia and the world and the general sponsor of Balance. Alexander discussed with the forum participants the dynamics of changes in prices for mining equipment, and also spoke about the strategy for investing in mining in the current realities.
Yuliana Mucha, an independent curator, art consultant and ambassador of the telegram channel “NFT on accessible”, shared her opinion during her speech that the NFT market is moving from dopamine to serotonin, and this is for the best for its participants. And Ivan Gusev from GetGems, said that music NFT marketplaces are gaining momentum, which destroy the monopoly of labels on music content.
The guests were pleasantly pleased with the panel discussion “What are effective business communities?”. It brought together the presidents and founders of the 5 largest business clubs in Russia: Atlanta, Club500, Bizpeople, Etalon and Equium. Under moderation Igor Nosov speakers shared their experiences and stories on how to build effective interaction between people.
One of the hottest discussions was the topic of the future of cryptocurrency in our country. Experts shared their opinions on market regulation, and also discussed possible scenarios for the work of miners in Russia. Vlad Topalov, a musician, entrepreneur, investor and member of the Expert Council of the working group of the Russian State Duma “On the issue of legislative regulation of cryptocurrencies”, spoke especially much on this topic, and Stanislav AkulinkinVice President of the Russian Association of the Cryptoindustry and Blockchain.
For those who are just diving into crypto, workshops were organized on the forum, where participants learned how to open a Metamask crypto wallet, create an account on OpenSea, and even learned how minting and selling NFTs on marketplaces work.
For connoisseurs of digital art, a large diode NFT gallery was organized with the work of more than 30 international digital artists. Among them was Misha Libertee, author of the 23-meter #Slonik at the Burning Man-2019 festival and the creator of the virtual exhibition of collectible bricks in Minecraft. Forum participants were among the first to see the virtual gallery Libertee Church created personally by Liberty and the complete collection of the artist’s works.
presented his work and Vasily Popov – NFT-artist and poet, winner of many prestigious prizes and awards in the field of culture and art. Vasily launched the world’s first NFT picture into real space on the ISS in 2022. The painting stayed in orbit for more than six months and recently returned home. This event was a confirmation that the potential of creators is limitless and able to go beyond any limits, inspiring other talented artists to create NFT collections.
Also came to the forum Ruslan Vyaltsev, digital artist and art director at ZAVTRA studio. His portfolio includes work for Reebok, Farfetch, Lady Gaga and Mel C, and he himself is in the top 10 international platform for foundation 1/1 artists. Ruslan spoke with the inspiring topic “How any person can find their place in Web3”, where he spoke about the most promising niches in the new era and how to quickly occupy them, even if they are not yet fully immersed in blockchain technology.
From the forum stage, Alina Desyatchikova, founder of Aldes.Agency, one of the first NFT SMM agencies in Russia, spoke about the NFT collection of 1966 unique items from the Robert Mondavi winery. Each NFT is a bottle of elite wine in real life, and the number 1966 is the year the winery was founded by the famous US winemaker Robert Mondavi.
The Chico&Roko project was also presented on Balance for the first time for a Russian-speaking audience. Head of Partner Relations Chico&Roko Maria Grudinina shared that the main idea of the project is to collect a collection of designer toys in the digital space. Now the platform brings together artists, designers, collectors. The founder of the project is Ilya Popov, who is also the producer of the famous Russian cartoon Smeshariki. That’s why the Chico&Roko character forms appear in the form of favorite childhood heroes – now only in the form of NFTs. The platform has already released more than 700 free 3D figurines, which users have collected 15 million times.
Especially for forum participants, Chico&Roko and Balance prepared a joint unique NFT drop, which everyone could add to their digital items treasury for free.
NFT projects were also shown by the stars of Russian show business. Singer Katya IOWA Exclusively for guests, Balance presented the NFT collection of 9 bags. The most pleasant thing for the owners of the singer’s unique digital handbags is the opportunity to order their physical copy and admire the novelty not only from the wallet, but also in real life. On December 25, IOWA will launch an auction, which will start selling the NFT collection for all fashion fans.
She presented her digital project and Irina Khakamada, life coach, writer, publicist, “21st century politician” according to Time magazine. In addition, Khakamada held a master class “Emotional Capital. How to turn emotions into income.
Any forum member could get a unique NFT from Balance for free.
After two busy days of the forum, the happy owners of VIP and Business category tickets went to the Cryptochella Web-3 party at the legendary Buddha-Bar in St. Petersburg. Afterparty was creatively produced by Alexey Romeo, one of the most sought-after, highly paid and popular world-class Russian house DJs.
The guests got to know each other better, exchanged experience and discussed the results of the forum. Closed VIP-rooms were organized for all participants on the territory of the site, where possible, they discussed the ideas of new projects, which we hope to see with our own eyes very soon.
Video archives of Balance Forum speakers are about to be available for sale. It will be useful for both experienced crypto investors and those who are just immersing themselves in the world of blockchain technologies. Details will appear in the telegram channel of the forum in the near future – do not miss https://t.me/ForumBalance.
The well-deserved TOPs of the crypto industry for the supply of mining equipment in Russia and the world, the PROMMINER company, were the general sponsor of Balance.
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