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Went from been rejected from the Epoch 9 to been accepted into the @OctantApp Creators Program. This program is all about us understanding what it takes to be heard, seen and accepted into an ecosystem or projects. We stand to gain a practical hands on experience from experts and who has understood this approach. This program, personally will help me reshape my approach of making and writing contents for educational and onboarding purposes. It will unlock hidden knowledge inside me and help me monitor and dictate what exactly I’ve been doing wrong for the past 2years in the Crypto space 🥹🥹 Enjoy the video and stay with me on this journey!!! Video credit: myself.

All my life, I was only told about the disadvantages of being Nigerian. Nobody ever sat me down to tell me about the advantages. For instance, I grew up hearing that Nigeria is the world’s poverty capital. But I later discovered something no one told me: Nigeria also has the largest economy in Africa. Here’s how I make sense of it: A country’s financial health is usually measured by GDP and population size. Luxembourg is the richest country in the world. Why? Its financial sector makes up 25% of its GDP, spread across just 660,000 people. In contrast, Nigeria’s financial sector makes up only 4.36% of GDP but across over 213 million people. So how is Nigeria still Africa’s #1 economy? Because here, money moves faster than anywhere else on the continent. People are always buying. People are always selling. The UK recently entered recession because of a decline in consumer spending. Japan is struggling economically because of population decline, fewer people buying, fewer people selling. But Nigeria is different. We’re young, we’re growing, and that means money is always in circulation. How I See My Advantage 👉 I live in Africa’s biggest market, where people are constantly in buying mode. 👉 Foreigners already know this and they’re cashing out from us. Take OPay for example, one of Nigeria’s largest fintech companies. It’s owned by a Chinese founder. That’s when it hit me: If I can communicate my skills and services effectively to just 0.05% of Nigerians, I could be on my way to millions. But Here’s My Wake-up Call I had to ask myself: Why am I still broke after learning skills? The answer was simple: I hadn’t learnt how to collect money from Nigerians. I hadn’t figured out how to position myself to attract the most money in my niche. Then I came across this: According to Nairametrics, Nigeria’s largest companies spent ₦85.7 billion in one year alone on ABMP, Advertising, Branding, Marketing, and Promotion. That’s when I realized: The problem isn’t the economy. The problem is the quality of information I was using to play the game. This isn’t me teaching you how to position or how to play big (that’s another discussion). This is me sharing my own realization: 👉 Nigeria’s economy isn’t my biggest enemy. 👉 My real challenge is how I choose to position myself within it. And once I figured that out, I began to see possibilities everywhere around me. Bullish on @TheSandboxGame and @LiskAfrica

New Models in Gaming Panel Session at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025 At this year’s panel on New Models in Blockchain Gaming, leaders from @metaplex, @animocabrands, @AxieInfinity, @TheSandboxGame, and @Immutable gathered to discuss how gaming is evolving in the Web3 era. The conversation revealed a clear narrative: blockchain gaming has matured far beyond its speculative beginnings and is now entering a phase defined by real use, institutional adoption, and new economic models for creators. - The Evolution: From Token Hype to Utility @ysiu, Chairman and Co-founder of @animocabrands, opened with a reality check. Despite bearish sentiment and stagnant token prices, on-chain activity in gaming is stronger than ever. “Gaming actually leads the entire blockchain sector in activity,” Yat explained. “The challenge isn’t usage, it’s perception.” That perception problem, he said, comes from a disconnect between two audiences: those who play the games and those who invest in the tokens. The overlap between the two is still small. Many investors misunderstood how Web3 gaming economies work, leading to cycles of hype and disappointment. But beneath that surface, Yat pointed out a promising truth: on-chain gaming assets are performing strongly. “We’re still deploying capital because the fundamentals are solid,” he said. “We just need sentiment to catch up.” - Institutional Cycles and the Road to Maturity Jeff “Jiho” Zirlin, Co-founder of @AxieInfinity and the @RoninNetwork, echoed Yat’s optimism. He revealed that Ronin’s on-chain activity today surpasses even the peak of the Axie boom, a sign that gaming blockchains have evolved beyond hype. “This is the institutional cycle,” Jeff noted. “It will take an institutional push by builders like us to get Web3 gaming re-rated where it deserves to be.” He highlighted a key data point: player retention on Ronin is 17.5x higher than @solana, proving that gaming still stands as one of crypto’s best vehicles for onboarding and retaining users. However, @ysiu also admitted the industry’s weakness, poor investor relations. “Most game studios don’t know how to manage token investors,” he said. “In DeFi, you’re dealing with finance people. In gaming, you’re dealing with creators. That gap has caused a lot of miscommunication.” The recent acquisition of one of Animoca’s gaming portfolios by Alphaton, a NASDAQ-listed company, is a small but significant milestone. It signals that institutions are finally beginning to see gaming tokens as legitimate financial assets not speculative noise. - A Fragmented Landscape and a New Layer of Creativity @borgetsebastien, Co-founder of @TheSandboxGame and Ambassador for @0xSANDchain, noted that blockchain gaming is now more fragmented than ever. “Eight years ago, everyone built on @ethereum,” he said. “Today, you have dozens of ecosystems, each offering different incentives and tools. It’s harder to know where to start.” This fragmentation makes it difficult to measure total user growth or liquidity across ecosystems. Yet, it also opens room for creative experimentation from memecoin integrations to crypto-based payment systems outside traditional app stores. “Developers are getting smarter,” Borget added. “They’re learning that token models must drive real engagement, not speculation.” - Web2 Meets Web3. The Era of Invisible Crypto @0xferg, Co-founder of @Immutable, believes that the distinction between Web2 and Web3 gaming is slowly dissolving. “In a year, I hope we stop saying ‘Web3 gaming’ altogether,” he said. “Stripe doesn’t call itself a Web3 company, it just uses crypto to make payments better.” Immutable’s focus now is to make blockchain invisible to users. “Most of our players don’t even know they’re using crypto,” he said. “They just know their in-game assets have value.” This marks a turning point. @Immutable has onboarded over 700 games and recently partnered with giants like @Ubisoft and @NetmarbleO, a signal that blockchain is becoming a background technology for mainstream gaming, not a marketing buzzword. - Rethinking Tokens: From Speculation to Sustainable Economies The panel agreed: the next generation of gaming tokens won’t revolve around speculation. Instead, they’ll emphasize utility, sustainability, and long-term engagement. @borgetsebastien highlighted the “return on reward spend” metric, a model used by @TheSandboxGame and Pixels. It measures how much of a game’s distributed tokens actually re-circulate within its economy. “@TheSandboxGame hit 80% in our last season,” he said. “That means players are not just earning, they’re reinvesting in the ecosystem.” @ysiu added another perspective: If your token launches on a centralized exchange, expect speculation, that’s what it’s built for. But if you go fully on-chain, you can build a stable, utility-driven market. You’ll lose liquidity, but gain sustainability. @metaplex, he noted, is already pioneering fully on-chain token launches on Solana, allowing developers to choose their audience intentionally. - Infrastructure and the Scaling Race @Jihoz_Axie shared that @Ronin_Network is evolving into an L2 built on Ethereum’s OP Stack, outsourcing its security to Ethereum while using its native incentives to reward builders and loyal users. “We’re entering the proof-of-distribution era,” he said, a model that rewards genuine contribution over speculation. @0xferg countered with Immutable’s ZK EVM approach combining Ethereum’s security with full EVM compatibility. “The back end must be secure,” he explained, “but the front end must be dead simple. That’s how we reach billions.” - @0xSANDchain: Building the Creator Economy On-Chain. @borgetsebastien closed with Sandbox’s newest project, @0xSANDchain, calling it “the birth of the Creator Nation.” “Creators today wait 30 to 60 days to get paid on YouTube or TikTok,” he said. “We can fix that with on-chain systems that pay instantly and reward loyalty transparently.” @0xSANDchain will power this through a dual-point system and creator tokens, all built on the existing $SAND token, no new coin, just new infrastructure. The goal: to make $SAND a universal payment layer across thousands of creator platforms. - Looking Ahead: Blockchain Gaming and Financial Literacy As the discussion wrapped, @ysiu left the room with a powerful insight. “When you onboard someone into blockchain gaming, you’re not just teaching them to play, you’re teaching them about money,” he said. “They start to understand value, assets, and ownership. That’s real financial literacy and that’s how we make the world more financially free.” Conclusion: The Next Era of Gaming Is Financial Empowerment The era of speculation is giving way to sustainability. Institutions are entering, creators are being empowered, and technology is fading quietly into the background doing what great infrastructure does best: making life better without demanding attention. The next frontier of gaming isn’t just fun, it’s freedom.

Building the Decentralized Metaverse: Lessons from Sebastien Borget and the Sandbox Journey The term metaverse was first coined over 30 years ago by Neil Stephenson in his novel Snow Crash. He described it as a dystopian 3D virtual alternative to the real world. Today, three decades later, we are seeing a different vision take shape one that is being rebuilt on blockchain infrastructure with the promise of decentralization, ownership, and new economic models. To understand this shift, I was listen to @borgetsebastien, co-founder and global ambassador for @TheSandboxGame, one of the pioneers in blockchain-based gaming and metaverse development. His story is not simply about building games, it’s about identifying systemic problems in digital platforms and solving them through decentralization. What is a Blockchain-Based Metaverse? According to @borgetsebastien, the metaverse can be defined as a myriad of virtual worlds and games that you, as a user, can enter with an avatar, a digital identity that moves seamlessly across experiences, carrying your content, assets, and creations with you. The blockchain-based metaverse differs fundamentally from traditional platforms like @Roblox or @Fortnite because of decentralization. Identities, content, and currencies are not locked inside a company’s servers. Users truly own their assets whether virtual land, avatars, or in-game items and can trade or transfer them freely across platforms. Digital ownership enables commerce, portability, and new business models that were not possible under centralized structures. This shift places users, rather than corporations, at the center of value creation. The Sandbox Story: From Losing Creators to Building an Economy @TheSandboxGame originally launched in 2011 as a 2D mobile game, enabling anyone to use touchscreens to create art, music, and games. It was often compared to a mobile version of Minecraft and attracted over 40 million downloads with 70 million user-generated creations. Yet despite this success, the platform began losing its best creators. @borgetsebastien discovered the root problem: a lack of monetization. Even though creators generated significant value for the community, they could not earn fairly from their contributions. Payments through contracts and PayPal were slow, manual, and unsustainable at scale. The system was broken. This problem found its solution in 2017 with the rise of blockchain and NFTs. By turning creations into NFTs: Players could own their assets outright. They could trade them peer-to-peer, even outside the game, via platforms like OpenSea. Creators could be paid directly in cryptocurrency without intermediaries. This discovery led to the rebuilding of @TheSandboxGame into a 3D blockchain-based virtual world, complete with a no-code Game Maker, an asset editor, a marketplace, and a map. Economic Models in the Metaverse With decentralization, @TheSandboxGame unlocked entirely new business opportunities that extend beyond gameplay. Some of these include: ➥ Virtual real estate reselling: buying, developing, and trading parcels of land. ➥ Event organization: concerts, exhibitions, and meetups. ➥ Guilds and education: communities teaching new users how to build and earn. ➥ Virtual tourism and commerce: fashion shows, branded experiences, and even tourism in fully digital environments. Importantly, these models can emerge without needing permission from Sandbox as a company. Because assets exist on-chain, anyone can build, monetize, and innovate freely. Adoption, Challenges, and the Road Ahead Sebastien emphasizes that adoption takes time. Like many transformative technologies, blockchain-based metaverses will take 10–15 years to reach mainstream adoption. With projects like @TheSandboxGame and @decentraland starting in 2018–2019, we are only around year five of this journey. The focus now is on building better tools for creators, improving user experience, and most importantly, delivering compelling content. Users will not come to the metaverse just because blockchain is involved. They will come because the experiences are engaging, and blockchain provides lasting ownership and value. Why This Matters Beyond Gaming The lessons here are not limited to gaming. They highlight a broader principle: decentralization solves the problem of unfair value capture. In Web2 gaming, users spent billions on in-game items they never truly owned. In Sandbox’s model, those same assets become user-owned, portable, and tradable. This opens doors for new professions, new economies, and new forms of collaboration. It is a fundamental reordering of how digital value is created and distributed. My Takeaway Listening to @borgetsebastien journey with @TheSandboxGame shows that the decentralized metaverse is not just a vision, it is a response to real-world problems. It began with creators leaving a platform because they could not be rewarded fairly. It evolved into a blockchain-based economy where ownership, portability, and new opportunities thrive. As I continue to study the @TheSandboxGame ecosystem and learn from its builders and community, one principle is clear: the open metaverse is being constructed piece by piece, and decentralization is the foundation that makes it sustainable. We are still early, but the trajectory is set. Watch the podcast: youtu.be/762rxzHybJQ?si…

I've been using Onboard for days now, and honestly, it's changed how I handle money across borders especially as someone who makes online payment the most and dabbles in crypto. I'm absolutely hooked on this app. First off, the setup was a breeze. I downloaded it from onboard.xyz, signed up in under 3 minutes, and funded my non-custodial wallet in stablecoins. No complicated seed phrases or endless verifications, just seamless onboarding that feels like it was built for real people, not tech wizards. The real magic is in daily use. I receive payments in USD or EUR from clients abroad, convert them instantly to NGN (Nigerian Naira) at unbeatable rates, and send straight to my local bank or even to friends without touching a traditional exchange. Last week, I off-ramped some USDC to pay bills @Eth_Enugu in minutes, no middlemen, no crazy fees, and it hit my account in under 120 seconds. Compare that to the headaches I had with other apps where transfers drag on for days! Their virtual USD card? Game-changer. I use it for online shopping, subscriptions like Netflix, X premium, Apple music, Capcut premium or even booking flights, supports 3D Secure where needed, but most payments fly through without a hitch. And if I'm feeling generous, sending money to that one perpetually broke friend is as easy as tapping "Send," picking the source (wallet, card, or account), and entering details. They've got support for currencies like IDR, UGX, PHP too, which is perfect for my trips to Indonesia. The referral program is icing on the cake, I shared my code with a few buddies, tracked sign-ups right in the app, and earned rewards that I swapped back into crypto. Plus, their community events, like the Sip & Ship in Lagos, make it feel like more than just an app; it's a vibe. If you're tired of clunky fintech that locks you into high fees or slow processes, do yourself a favor and get @OnboardGlobal. It's reliable, innovative, and actually makes managing stablecoins and fiat fun. Shoutout to the team @OnboardGlobal keep building! Proudly #BuiltOnLisk

Flirting with my @Web3Nigeria Dashboarding. Love the sleekness and price updates. Have you yet joined the community?

🚨 I've been asked by many what is @0xSANDchain? Here is the big news from @TheSandboxGame team introducing @0xSANDchain! At @token2049 in Singapore, @borgetsebastien the CEO and Global Ambassador for both @TheSandboxGame & @0xSANDchain shared how they’re flipping the script for creators worldwide. Here’s everything you need to know about @0xSANDchain, the new Layer 2 chain built for the creator economy. 🧵

Today’s session on the @OctantApp Creator Program was a blast, a real conversational moment of rethinking. @arlery did absolute justice with clear, detailed explanations and thoughtful responses to every question. The community here is something special; strong, supportive, and genuinely collaborative. This isn’t your average space where ideas pause; it’s a space where ideas evolve into understanding and development. I took time to deeply grasp every question asked and walked away with practical lessons on how to build a personal brand that speaks to brands. One phrase that hit differently and has now become personal to me: “Build a brand that keeps your reputation intact.” And most importantly, always deliver when trusted and funded to execute a program.