Recap | POW'ER 2023 Hangzhou Chapter and Token Dance Hangzhou Roadshow Day Review
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Recap | POW'ER 2023 Hangzhou Chapter and Token Dance Hangzhou Roadshow Day Review
The POWER WEB3 Innovators Summit was simultaneously held in Hong Kong and Hangzhou from January 9 to 10, 2023. The event has now successfully concluded.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsEstimated reading time: 10-12mins
Written by: TokenDance builder Bai Lu
I. Co-Creating the Future
The POWER WEB3 Innovators Summit was simultaneously held in Hong Kong and Hangzhou on January 9–10, 2023, and has now concluded successfully. As the mainland China satellite venue of this summit, Hangzhou was hosted by TokenDance, featuring live viewing of the main stage, discussions on the future of Web3, and a project roadshow day.
It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times; it is the age of belief, and it is the age of skepticism. Looking back at 2022, we witnessed tremendous market shifts and too many “historical” events. Yet, the market remains vibrant—seeds of the future are often planted in the past.
Over the past year, we’ve built order amid chaos, adjusting and rewriting plans disrupted by uncertainty and sudden interruptions. 2022 may well have marked a dividing line. We saw the collapses of Luna and FTX, marking a “Lehman Moment” for the crypto industry. Cyberattacks and security breaches occurred frequently, severely damaging industry confidence. Regulatory crackdowns intensified globally, arbitrage opportunities dwindled, and headwinds from regulation grew stronger. On the other hand, we also observed traditional brands accelerating their entry into Web3—Starbucks, Tiffany & Co., and others launched NFTs; Google began displaying Ethereum addresses in search results. Decentralized applications gained increasing popularity, and more top-tier talent joined the space...
The future of Web3 is bright. Despite the ongoing winter, builders will keep building, and innovators will continue to innovate.
II. Organizers Introduction
This roadshow was hosted by TokenDance, co-hosted by LinkZ DAO, QA Metaverse, Artisan Technology, and 7upDAO, with a total of 20 projects selected—15 participating offline and 5 online. The event kicked off with opening remarks from representatives of TokenDance, LinkZ DAO, ThunderChain, and Vision Capital.
TokenDance is a Web3 innovation hub for Chinese-speaking communities, primarily composed of Web3 enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from ByteDance and Alibaba ecosystems, with nearly 2,000 members. Guided by the mission of "Rooted in the Chinese Community,面向 the Global Market," TokenDance focuses on organizing industry events and incubating early-stage projects. In its incubation efforts, TokenDance leverages the abundant talent pool from major domestic tech firms to build product-tech and international operations platforms, helping promising ideas become reality.
LinkZ DAO is a global organization initiated by Gen Z members and industry OGs, aiming to create a shared resource network and consensus-driven public space for young builders worldwide.
Cheng Hao, founder of ThunderChain and Vision Capital, shared ten key differences between Web2 and Web3: (1) Value philosophy: Centralization vs decentralization, efficiency vs freedom/trustlessness; (2) Value carriers: Thin protocols, fat apps vs fat protocols, thin apps, tokenless vs tokenomics, traffic supremacy vs consensus supremacy; (3) Competitive landscape: App monopolies vs decentralized app fragmentation; (4) User acquisition: Paying for traffic vs airdrops, App Store vs Twitter/Discord; (5) Security: Subjective malice vs code security, challenging human nature vs “Code Is Law”; (6) Primary beneficiaries: Founding teams/Venture Capital vs community; (7) Team scale: Large formal teams vs small elite squads (e.g., Coinbase vs Uniswap), proprietary development (limited open source) vs modular innovation + permissionless interoperability; (8) Investment models: Concentrated vs fragmented, outperforming fixed-income products vs outperforming Bitcoin, investing in alpha vs beta; (9) Entrepreneurial mindset: Identifying user needs vs identifying trustless intermediaries, CEX vs DEX, CeFi vs DeFi, “What if Tencent does it?” vs “Can I outperform Bitcoin?”; (10) User experience: Low barriers vs high barriers, smooth UX vs poor UX, free services vs paid access, trusting service providers vs trusting data sovereignty/code, short-term vs long-term orientation. He concluded with best wishes for the success of the roadshow.
III. Roadshow Projects
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DAOLINK
DAOLink is a gamified DAO collaboration platform that enables one-click export of Discord servers into a 2D world map, supporting real-time audio/video communication within the virtual environment. It visualizes and gamifies DAO interactions, creating an immersive metaverse workspace with practical utility.
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CosmoChamber
CosmoChamber is an aesthetically ambitious NFT project rooted in the composability of smart contracts, issuing unique “cosmic living rooms” as non-repeating digital assets and fantasy creatures on Ethereum, layered through collaborative works by multiple artists to form porous, nested universes.
Classical Chinese paintings such as "The Double Screen Chess Game" and "Night Revels of Han Xizai" reflect Eastern concepts of folded and recursive spacetime. Similarly, CosmoChamber’s ongoing Ethereum-based art projects aim to turn content creation into artistic “timestamps.” Today, CosmoChamber is an art pass; tomorrow, it will evolve into an art content platform; ultimately, it aims to become a porous, recursive universe of creative expression—all you need to do is mint one NFT.
CosmoChamber (Chinese: 重屏) aspires to represent Eastern aesthetics globally.
Website: cosmochamber.art/
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Memoworld.xyz
Memoworld is the Web3 equivalent of a footprint-tracking app—the world’s first NFT application embedded with geographic coordinates, allowing users to check in via NFTs and record life experiences and real-world journeys on a map.
Memoworld aims to build a “decentralized lifestyle network,” using personal life records as medium and maps/NFTs as carriers to deeply connect travelers, artists, poets, and storytellers across five continents, co-creating a warm and diverse Web3 content ecosystem.
Additionally, Memoworld serves as a bridge between Web3 and the physical world. Beyond serving individual users (C-end), it offers Web3 business solutions for brands and event organizers (B-end), enabling innovative digital brand marketing and empowering real-world industries.
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chains
Chains.com is a multi-product platform supporting both Web2 real economies and Web3 crypto economies, centered around a perfect market model. It currently has over 500,000 registered users, 200,000+ communities, 38,000+ NFT holders, and 20,000+ KYC-verified users. The team includes executives from NASDAQ-listed U.S. groups, Riot Games’ former European Head of User Growth, co-founders and CEOs of Synereo (ranked sixth globally on CMC in early 2017, where founders of AE and RChain也曾 served), founders of Unicoin, CryptoMarketAds, and TrustBlock.
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DuDAO
DuDao is a Web3 community-powered AI media platform. During its two-month closed beta, it achieved organic traffic with 6K+ users across all clients and over 100K page views.
The CEO of DuDAO was a core member of x2y2, the second-largest NFT marketplace globally, and an early investor in DeBox, the largest Web3 social platform. CTO Haozhe Yu is CEO of Italian tech firm PxielFoundry and founder & technical director of PixelVerse, a metaverse virtual office project, with 13 years of internet industry experience. The project collaborates with NFTAerfa’s community.
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toktok
Toktok, dubbed “Web3 TikTok,” is a new short-video social platform built on Metis designed to solve content creation challenges in Web3. It aggregates top creators and combines token economics with short-form video content, supporting paid features and livestream tokens.
Through the platform’s native token $TT, every user can purchase tokens of favorite short-video creators and share in the value appreciation as those creators succeed.
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DB3.network
DB3 Network is an open-source, community-driven decentralized database acting as a storage Layer 2 for Ethereum, aiming to natively resolve issues of data ownership and control in blockchain systems.
Functionally, DB3 provides high-performance structured data storage and direct on-chain querying, along with verifiable query proofs. Web3 dApp developers can replace traditional databases like MongoDB, Firebase, or MySQL cloud services with DB3 to fully upgrade their architecture from hybrid Web2.5 to true Web3, freeing themselves from centralized cloud providers. Anyone can currently review or contribute code via DB3’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/dbpunk-labs/db3
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Dsign
Dsign, short for Decentralized Signature, is a decentralized e-signature application and private document delivery platform. Built on Ethereum and Arweave, it allows users to sign electronic contracts stored permanently on Arweave and securely transmit encrypted documents.
With Dsign, users retain full ownership of their data without worrying about third-party access or server-side previews—everything operates via on-chain protocols enhanced by biometric identification and identity verification to strengthen the legal validity of signed contracts.
Dsign’s vision is to accelerate the arrival of the third-generation digital identity era through protocol innovation.
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DAW
DAW is a conversational on-chain search engine that helps users quickly retrieve on-chain metrics and charts through natural language queries. DAW delivers at least 10x faster performance than traditional on-chain explorers and excels at instant queries for long-tail metrics.
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metasecurelabs
MetasecureLabs is a Web3 trusted assessment cloud. With frequent smart contract security incidents—where attackers exploit vulnerabilities to steal assets and immutable contracts cannot be patched—trust in the Web3 ecosystem remains fragile.
MetasecureLabs aims to build an AI-powered, big-data-driven automated trust evaluation system for Web3 projects, continuously assessing contract code security, quality, and reliability. The project has already secured tens of millions in funding.
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Triple Lab
TripleLab is the industry’s first decentralized, all-in-one Web3 infrastructure platform, offering comprehensive services for dApp developers and enhancing overall Web3 user experience. Through TripleLab, developers gain easy access to APIs, nodes, IPFS, and data services, enabling faster and smoother development, deployment, and operation of decentralized applications. TripleLab boasts excellent elastic scalability and a visual dashboard for real-time monitoring and management of node usage, API calls, and storage.
Backed by rich experience in both Web2 and Web3, the TripleLab team aims to build a technological bridge to the Web3 world—helping blockchain networks become safer and more robust, enabling seamless transition for Web2 developers into Web3, and empowering Web3 builders to reduce development costs and boost productivity.
Website: triplelab.xyz
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impakt
vSports by Impakt is the world’s first fitness app centered on a social metaverse, available on PC and mobile. Since launching in Q3 last year, it has attracted over 20,000 registered users and 7,000 active users.
Using computer vision combined with AI and deep neural networks, Impakt accurately recognizes 50 poses, 40 movements, and 5 workout modes, enabling any user or coach to easily create custom training programs and unlimited course combinations. Its SDK is now ready for external licensing, allowing third-party developers to integrate and build upon it.
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Rivermen
Inspired by the Chinese masterpiece painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," Rivermen is a GameFi metaverse project initiated by the “National Building Voxel Edition Along the River During the Qingming Festival,” enabling play-to-earn and build-to-earn mechanics. Starting with NFT puzzle synthesis (initial NFT gameplay), progressing to simulation management within the Rivermen metaverse, and culminating in the launch of the Bian River Metaverse.
Guided by the philosophy “Live for today,” Rivermen envisions using game-based metaverses to establish a distinctly Chinese-style metaverse.
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VIP3
VIP3 (vip3.io) is a Web3 membership and benefits protocol launching the first on-chain membership system to deliver enhanced Web3 privileges to high-quality users. Users can anonymously verify their company and educational background on VIP3 and receive a free SBT membership card upon validation, becoming a Web3 VIP entitled to discounts or free perks across NFT platforms, major exchanges, and DeFi protocols.
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SOULDA
Soulda is an interactive ART NFT project aimed at helping people discover their superpowers. “Drink your soda, discover your superpower, be yourself.” Currently features two series: Soulda PFP and Soulda Backrooms.
Soulda PFP integrates personality testing so that each NFT visually reflects the owner's unique traits. After completing the test at the official Soda Fountain website, users receive an NFT image aligned with their personality—for example, an introverted trait yields an introverted-style NFT, making PFPs truly representative of self. Come to the Soda Fountain and drink your soda!
The Soulda Backrooms series invites artists and community members to co-create 1/1 ART NFTs. Artists set narrative frameworks and character personalities, while community users collaboratively shape the next chapter’s storyline, which is then illustrated by artists into the next 1/1 ART NFT. Enter the Backrooms and uncover everyone’s superpowers!
The Soulda artist won the Procreate Professional Category award in 2020, previously worked at Ubisoft, contributed to numerous international animated films, and published art books. This year, they were selected by @NFT_NYC as a diversity artist. At NFTNYC2022 in New York, Soulda PFP was featured on the Times Square Roadblock billboard.
Website: https://soulda16.club/
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TheBards Protocol
TheBards Protocol is a decentralized content curation protocol dedicated to “Making Your Story Valuable,” enabling value capture throughout a piece of content’s lifecycle.
TheBards DAO is a mission-driven DAO focused on “uncovering everyone’s value,” serving as the companion DAO to TheBards Protocol. Its Tech SubDAO is advancing an NFT+Time EIP proposal, while the Creator SubDAO is co-authoring a book.
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Ticken
Ticken is an NFT ticketing tool that helps event organizers, brands, and projects precisely reach target audiences and improve user engagement. Based on smart contracts and open protocols, Ticken efficiently and securely supports public sales, ticket airdrops, invitations, and commission rebates. It simplifies ticket generation, distribution, and redemption. For users, Ticken integrates NFTs with future SBT social features, enhancing offline event matching and fun while preserving participation history on-chain—making the act of “attending events” itself valuable.
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Eigen Network
Eigen Network aims to build a privacy-centric zkVM highly compatible with Solidity, delivering superior privacy and developer experience for the EVM ecosystem.
Eigen Network has developed a hierarchical proof system with constant proof size and no trusted setup, extending zkVM with a privacy standard template library to support privacy-preserving computation and constructing zkzkRollup as a privacy layer for Web3.0.
Core features include:
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Scalability: Eigen zkVM is compatible with Solidity bytecode, allowing verifiers to deploy on Ethereum/Polygon/BSC. It uses FRI and KZG to build a hierarchical proof system for faster proof generation, constant proof size, and lower on-chain verification costs.
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General-purpose privacy computing: Provides a universal ZK standard library including AES, ECDSA, SHA256, and ZK random functions.
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Security: Leverages Layer 1 consensus for final transaction confirmation.
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Developer Experience: High EVM equivalence with automatic translation from Solidity smart contracts to arithmetic assembly code.
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MetaPavo (Incubated by LXDAO)
MetaPavo is a Web3 personal information assistant equipped with core capabilities such as categorized information management, search, and recognition. It helps Web3 users quickly access useful information, enabling fast bookmarking and subscription to key Web3 topics with seamless navigation across platforms. Core modules include a real-time workspace aggregating followed content for quick access to trades, prices, markets, and other critical data.
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Galaxyblitz
GalaxyBlitz is a sci-fi-themed MMOSLG mobile game built on Aptos and BSC. In October 2021, it raised $10 million from multiple investors in Europe, the U.S., and Australia, and completed two blind box NFT sales on Binance NFT. The technical team consists of core members formerly from SuperCell Shanghai Studio. SuperCell is currently the world’s leading developer of mobile MMOSLG and RTS games, with cumulative revenue exceeding $10 billion. Tencent acquired a majority stake in SuperCell in 2016 for $8.6 billion. MMOSLG is a highly profitable genre in Web2—global mobile MMOSLG in-game spending exceeded $10 billion in both 2021 and 2022, with the U.S. market accounting for over 40%, where spending surpasses AAA game sales by threefold.
IV. A Rewarding Journey
With this, the roadshow event has successfully concluded. Many project teams engaged in fruitful exchanges onsite, and numerous participants expressed deep satisfaction and enrichment from the intense discussions.
Special thanks once again to organizer TokenDance and the 20 participating projects. Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, or explorer in the Web3 space, we look forward to deeper engagement and collaboration with TokenDance and builders across the Web3 ecosystem in the future.
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