🟠LIVE: Non Fungible Conference, NFTs come to Lisbon

Despite rainy weather and a bit cool temperature, we arrived safely in Lisbon at the NFC, Non Fungible Conference. Follow this event dedicated to NFTs live in the heart of the Portuguese capital.

Interesting stands dedicated to NFTs

We immediately get to the heart of the matter with the Ledger stand which presents its latest products and its entire range of cold wallets. In fact, the company is currently offering a quest to earn an exclusive Proof-of-Knowledge NFT.

From the entrance we also find “The Sandbox street” which offers different experiences with various companies including the Blockchain Game Alliance, Synergie Land and many others… But also games like MetaStar or Voxel Architects.

The NFC Lounge

The lounge of the Non-Fungible Conference is divided into several parts with a main space where we find NFT collections and Merchandising. We see stands such as NextDecade.

The Sandbox announcements

During the conference, we were invited to discover the new features of The Sandbox exclusively alongside Sébastien Borget. He presents key figures for his market. Today, more than 75% of people want to become content creators with an expenditure of around 40 million dollars on the NFT sector in 2022.

Sandbox’s desire is to offer all these people the opportunity to become these creators by making it even easier to create content. Moreover, many creators are present today during the Non Fungible Conference in Sandbox Street.

For Sandbox there is not really a bear market since every week new brands and new creators join their metaverse. The project has already sold around 70% of the entire map with over 166,000 lands. To go further Sandbox does not stop there:

• Sandbox integrates 60 nft collections usable in the game
• The platform will evolve by the end of the year to end up being really built by the users. Pages dedicated to communities will see the light of day by the third quarter of this year.
• No more need for a wallet to start in TSB
• The mobile app version should arrive next year

The Bear Market is one thing, but Sébastien Borget assures us that certainly there are fewer users, but those who are there are much more committed. What beautiful things and what evolution for The Sandbox project.

How to ensure the transition from Web2 to Web3?

The conference ” Will the next billion users come from web2 brands sported interesting questions about the future of adoption of Web3 technologies.

• Will it ultimately come from governments with CBDCs or brands like Starbucks?
• Gaming with actors like Cross the Ages?

All the speakers on the panel agreed that in general, friction for new entrants needs to be reduced. Today the current model remains very closed even if the loyalty programs help engage their users.

On the other hand, the massive adoption by brands has been a bit of a debate. In the end, future users will not have the choice at one time or another to use these technologies..

The conference ” Why NFT won’t scale? with SuperDuper and NFT France also confirms that NFTs in their current form are not very user friendly. NFTs must provide an experience “ Apple-like“, simple and intuitive. Today, it is still necessary to educate, democratize and simplify things to make their use simple. The technology must become invisible to the end user.

Distinguished guests gathered for the NFC

The blind talks, the great novelty of this year brought together the fans. With guests like @pascalboyart @punk6529 or @basileus_eth, fans and the curious could interact with them via Discord.

It was a unique opportunity to discover these mysterious characters, collectors or artists.