Welcome to another Week in Review update with Forj!

In this issue, we cover Forj For Change Charity Initiative, our CEO’s live stream event on Binance Live, and the brand new mint for PolkaPets along with an exclusive competition to win $500 in $PETS tokens!

Charitable Contributions

Join our talented Graphic Designer, Dylan in South Africa alongside his non-profit organisation ‘Painting on Purpose’ as Forj For Change transforms a local community centre into a lighthouse for youth and adults alike.

The Ukubongo community centre in Shakaskraal, South Africa is a hub for everyone in the growing community to take part in activities, games and sports that can lead to a variety of opportunities in the future. From art, creativity, sports and teaching valuable skills and also providing 100 deprived children with a space to play, learn, and grow.

From all of us at Forj, we are overjoyed to see incredible initiatives taking place and we are excited to help more communities in the future.

This initiative is the second of its kind for Forj and if you would like to support or contact Painting On Purpose, please reach out to their friendly team at paintingonpurposeco@gmail.com.

Watch how the project unfolded below…

#ForjForChange

Binance Live with our CEO

Check out another informative Binance Live video with our CEO, Harry Liu and Ultiverse, as they discuss the Digital Renaissance: The Cycle and Systems of the Industry to help prepare ourselves for 2023.

Harry discusses investment landscapes, embracing the bear market, and how we have progressed through the eras of advertising and social media.

Watch Here!

Polygon Pets: Royal Sapphire Mint

For everyone who has registered for the mint, your Royal Sapphire Polygon Pet is now ready for its new home in your wallet! If you want to find out how to mint your Royal Sapphire, click here or to jump to Forj’s DApp, click here.

Every Polygon Pet will come with special utilities including a playable Polygon Pet avatar in The Sandbox starting with our upcoming Pets Rift Metaverse Gaming Experience.

COMPETITION TIME!
To celebrate the launch of our Royal Sapphire Polygon Pets series we’re giving one lucky winner a chance to win $500 of $PETS tokens, and 5 runner up prizes of $50 of $PETS tokens, by completing our challenges.

Enter Competition Here!

Royal Sapphire is the third of four different rarities: Noble Onyx, Majestic Pearl, Royal Sapphire, and Opulent Diamond.

For more info about Royal Sapphire, check out our article here.

About PolkaPet World

PolkaPet World is an NFT project created by Forj in partnership with some of the biggest names in the Polkadot ecosystem. Each PolkaPet is embodied as an artistic creature that represents a specific Polkadot project.

All PolkaPets hold unique project-specific utility to reward community members for holding their PolkaPet NFTs in their wallets. The utility can be a discount on fees, an airdrop of tokens to PolkaPet cardholders, or various other utilities.

The $PETS token is the utility token used to engage with PolkaPet World products and services, as well as allowing governance rights and access to exclusive sales.

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About Forj

A subsidiary of Animoca Brands, Forj delivers leading Web3 products and technologies that create unique fan experiences for creators. A truly end-to-end solution, Forj is the next frontier of fan engagement through its use of NFTs, metaverse protocols, and blockchain tech to bring fans closer to their favorite creator brands in Music, Entertainment, Gaming and beyond. With major partnerships including influencer Logan Paul, Grammy-nominated musician Lewis Capaldi, and leading creator platform Spring, Forj has an enviable track-record of success in the sector.

Forj-owned brands include metaverse infrastructure project Metaprints and leading GameFi project PolkaPets.

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Last month we helped to redevelop the Ukubongo community centre in Shakaskraal, South Africa – through our charitable initiative #ForjForChange.
The centre provides 100 deprived children with a space to play, learn, and grow.

Led by Dylan Smith, a graphic designer and part of the Forj marketing team, it was a fun packed couple of days full of laughter, painting, working together, and games. 

The initiative is the second in as many years led by Dylan, and backed by the #ForjForChange team. 

Don’t take our word for it though, watch how the project unfolded here…

If you registered in time, then congratulations because it’s MINT day and the moment has arrived for our whitelisted community members to get their hands on one of Paarja, Baiyun or Kaali in the latest Polygon Pet series.

If you completed the whitelist registration process, then you’ll already know that each and every Polygon Pet will come with a very special utility… a playable Polygon Pet avatar in The Sandbox!

The avatar will be playable in our upcoming Pets Rift metaverse gaming experience, due for launch later in 2023 in leading metaverse game The Sandbox, and we can’t wait!

Just to recap, Royal Sapphire is the third of four different rarities: Noble Onyx, Majestic Pearl, Royal Sapphire, and Opulent Diamond.

Those rarities will come with a higher value of utility and, in an industry-first for the Polygon brand, some characters will even enable players to participate in a metaverse experience in The Sandbox where they will be able to earn rewards for participating in virtual games and challenges.

So, now it’s time for everyone who registered for a FREE Royal Sapphire Polygon Pet to claim theirs! Here’s how…

About PolkaPet World

PolkaPet World is an NFT project created by Forj in partnership with some of the biggest names in the Polkadot ecosystem. Each PolkaPet is embodied as an artistic creature that represents a specific Polkadot project.

All PolkaPets hold unique project-specific utility to reward community members for holding their PolkaPet NFTs in their wallets. The utility can be a discount on fees, an airdrop of tokens to PolkaPet cardholders, or various other utilities.

The $PETS token is the utility token used to engage with PolkaPet World products and services, as well as allowing governance rights and access to exclusive sales.

Follow PolkaPet World:

Polkapet.world | Twitter | Telegram | Discord

About Polygon

Polygon is the leading blockchain development platform, offering scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchains for Web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to major scaling solutions including L2 (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid, stand-alone and enterprise chains, and data availability.

Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 37,000+ decentralized applications hosted, 1.6B+ total transactions processed, 142M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured. Polygon is carbon neutral with the goal of leading the Web3 ecosystem in becoming carbon negative.

If you’re an Ethereum Developer, you’re already a Polygon developer! Leverage Polygon’s fast and secure txns for your dApp, get started here.

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About PolkaPet World

PolkaPet World is an NFT project created by Forj in partnership with some of the biggest names in the Polkadot ecosystem. Each PolkaPet is embodied as an artistic creature that represents a specific Polkadot project.

All PolkaPets hold unique project-specific utility to reward community members for holding their PolkaPet NFTs in their wallets. The utility can be a discount on fees, an airdrop of tokens to PolkaPet cardholders, or various other utilities.

The $PETS token is the utility token used to engage with PolkaPet World products and services, as well as allowing governance rights and access to exclusive sales.

Follow PolkaPet World:

Polkapet.world | Twitter | Telegram | Discord

About Polygon

Polygon is the leading blockchain development platform, offering scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchains for Web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to major scaling solutions including L2 (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid, stand-alone and enterprise chains, and data availability.

Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 37,000+ decentralized applications hosted, 1.6B+ total transactions processed, 142M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured. Polygon is carbon neutral with the goal of leading the Web3 ecosystem in becoming carbon negative.

If you’re an Ethereum Developer, you’re already a Polygon developer! Leverage Polygon’s fast and secure txns for your dApp, get started here.

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Welcome to the Forj Week in Review update!

Animoca Brands’ hit the headlines for their commitment to the Metaverse and have been raising funds for the growth in the industry. The buzz around their very own ‘Mocaverse’ is growing every day.

But the best part, is that you may be eligible!

Mocaverse

Mocaverse comprises 8,888 NFTs of characters called Mocas, each belonging to one of five tribes: Dreamers, Builders, Angels, Connectors, and Neo-Capitalists. Each of the tribes represents the diverse yet complementary personas of change makers in Web3.

Mocaverse will feature four main categories of utility, known as realms, representing the collection’s core pillars: learn, play, build, and do good. The realms will function as channels for users to exchange ideas, seek new knowledge, and grow as a community.

Owners of Mocas will enjoy various membership benefits including opportunities for learning together (such as expert AMAs and masterclasses), playing together (via game passes and exclusive in-game assets), building together (accelerator program), and doing good together (organizing and contributing to social causes).’ — Animoca Brands

If you are, make sure you get your Mocaverse Realm Ticket for the mint so you don’t miss out! All holders that had either 190K in $BONDLY or were a holder of a PolkaPet NFT on January 12th at 8am EST was be eligible and have a chance at making it to the Mocalist.

Want to know more? Click here.

A quick reminder:

Those who hold more $BONDLY get extra tickets!

• 380k $BONDLY = 2 Tickets
• 570k $BONDLY = 3 Tickets
• 760k $BONDLY = 4 Tickets
• 950k $BONDLY = 5 Tickets

This also includes those who are staking their $BONDLY and hold $xBONDLY and in addition, PolkaPet holders will get 1 Realm Ticket for each NFT they hold!

Full Mocaverse NFT details here.

Were you Monkeying Around enough to win $$$?

The Sandbox has spoken! We have received the winners from our Bored Ape Yacht Club Metaverse Game, Monkeying Around. The Top 10 winners will be sharing a whopping $30,000 in prizes from excelling in our Metaprints game!

Congratulations to the winners and be sure to check your emails so we can send you your prizes!

“The ‘Monkeying Around’ Experience is a showcase project from the team at Metaprints and Forj, illustrating both the fun and creative experiences that brands can create for their communities in the metaverse ” said Harry Liu, CEO of Forj and Team Lead at Metaprints.”One of our core beliefs is that experiences like these are at the forefront of how brands and communities will use their IP and new mediums to storytell and engage in the future.” — Sandbox Medium

Stay tuned for more competitions and prizes to win throughout the year by following us on Social Media!

All We Do Is Win

For everyone who participated in our Gleam Competitions with Metaprints, a huge thank you! We have airdropped all of the Metaprints Helmets to the winners!

VISIT THE METAPRINTS WEBSITE

Last Chance to Register for the Next Polygon Pet!

It’s the last chance to register for a Royal Sapphire Polygon Pet. Registration ends 4pm UTC on Monday 16th Jan.

Register Here

All you have to do is connect your wallet and complete the question when you head to our pre-mint page!

For more info about Royal Sapphire, check out our article here.

All About Royal Sapphire

About PolkaPet World

PolkaPet World is an NFT project created by Forj in partnership with some of the biggest names in the Polkadot ecosystem. Each PolkaPet is embodied as an artistic creature that represents a specific Polkadot project.

All PolkaPets hold unique project-specific utility to reward community members for holding their PolkaPet NFTs in their wallets. The utility can be a discount on fees, an airdrop of tokens to PolkaPet cardholders, or various other utilities.

The $PETS token is the utility token used to engage with PolkaPet World products and services, as well as allowing governance rights and access to exclusive sales.

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About Metaprints

“Metaprints is the gateway for brands to accelerate their presence in numerous metaverse ecosystems in one simple step. Backed by Animoca Brands, Metaprints has a unique network of the biggest metaverse projects in the space that allows them to facilitate the creation and curation of branded assets across multiple platforms through one partnership.

Metaprint NFTs are branded asset ‘blueprints’ sold to buyers to facilitate the creation of the 3D assets required in the metaverse platforms by some of the best animation specialists. Creators and brands also receive a share of future revenue for assets created, ensuring everyone through the chain benefits from the model.

The Metaprints INO, featuring ‘Genesis’ metaprints for 10 well-known brands, will be taking place in December 2021. Follow the project community channels for more information.”

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About Forj

A subsidiary of Animoca Brands, Forj delivers leading Web3 products and technologies that create unique fan experiences for creators. A truly end-to-end solution, Forj is the next frontier of fan engagement through its use of NFTs, metaverse protocols, and blockchain tech to bring fans closer to their favorite creator brands in Music, Entertainment, Gaming and beyond. With major partnerships including influencer Logan Paul, Grammy-nominated musician Lewis Capaldi, and leading creator platform Spring, Forj has an enviable track-record of success in the sector.

Forj-owned brands include metaverse infrastructure project Metaprints and leading GameFi project PolkaPets.

Website | Twitter | Telegram | Medium| Discord

Happy New Year to you all!

If you missed it in December, here’s your chance to join a number of our Forj executive team as they run you through an incredible 2022 and some of the amazing plans for 2023 – you wont want to miss it!

In 2022, Forj accomplished several significant achievements, including the launch of Metaprints, a platform for creating brand experiences across multiple metaverses, and the rebranding of Bondly to FORJ in partnership with Animoca Brands. Forj also served as the official publisher and agency for The Sandbox, conducting a launchpad for Altava Group and launching the $TAVA token to NFT holders, which was one of the company’s most successful projects of the year.

Forj also developed experiences for 16 brands inside The Sandbox, including Polygon, and served as the first launchpad for a AAA game with Animoca Brands’ Phantom Galaxies project. Additionally, Forj launched Cryptosaurs in partnership with film producer Donald Kushner and his Gumbotron production team, and they plan to continue developing Cryptosaurs in the coming year.

Forj also created the first ever experiences for BAYC in The Sandbox Season 3, which was a huge success with over 165k visits and 45k unique players. Forj also launched the official mascots for Polygon called Polygon Pets, and ended the year with the submission of an AIP to Apecoin DAO, which received recognition from many community members and leaders in the space.However, Web3 projects also faced challenges in the market in the past 8 months, with land prices and volume dropping over 90% and a decrease in job postings and token performance.

One example in the Play 2 Earn space, Axie Infinity, saw a sales drop of over 90%, and Opensea Volume has also declined over the years. Despite these challenges, Forj saw opportunities for increased brand adoption and innovation, with Animoca and Sandbox bringing more brands and celebrities into the metaverse, such as DBS, the largest bank in Singapore, and the Dubai government aiming to establish an HQ in The Sandbox.

Celebrities like Gordon Ramsey, Warner Music Group, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Steve Aoki, and Tony Hawk have also joined the metaverse. Animoca Brands also became the Title Sponsor of MotoGP and Gucci adopted ApeCoin, indicating potential for further brand adoption in the coming year.

Infrastructure development has also improved, with companies like Improbable introducing capabilities for over 20,000 users to play on their expansive metaverse. Forj’s Metaprints initiative also allows for the creation of experiences at scale.Moving forward, one of the big things coming is the Ape Accelerator, a white-labeled launchpad to support Web3 IPs growth within the Yuga Labs ecosystem. This means that there will be a flow of new projects coming into the Ape Accelerator, where not only we will host the Apes Launchpad but also increase wider distribution for all other projects.

The Ape Accelerator will also be able to use $BONDLY tokens, and holders of these tokens will have priority access. This means that if you hold $BONDLY tokens, you will be given preferential treatment in terms of your ability to participate in the Ape Accelerator and access the resources it provides.

For 2023, Forj plans to focus on using their brand to reach mass audiences and onboard new users to the Web3 space by educating and automating processes to make it easier for people to enter the metaverse. Forj will also prioritize scaling and expanding their existing projects and partnerships and exploring new opportunities in the NFT and blockchain spaces.

Forj will also prioritize community building and engagement through events and social media. Finally, Forj plans to continue the development of Cryptosaurs and potentially launch new projects in the metaverse space.