Today’s guest is Nick Rose Founder and CEO at Ethernity Chain, Chief Digital Officer at Global Wildlife Conservation, and Investor. Ethernal Labs is a premier Web3 creative and technology studio. Projects spun out of Ethernal Labs includes Ethernity Chain, Exorians, Fanable, Eyecandy, and more to come. Ethernity Chain is a community-oriented platform that produces limited edition authenticated NFTs (aNFTs) and trading cards created by your favorite artists and endorsed by notable figures. Users can get these exclusive aNFTs by auction or direct sales. Ethernity aims to build the most exclusive aNFT library and reward its creators and the community. The Exorians Universe, a new media franchise which aims to revolutionize how media is created, owned, and distributed. The Exorians community will influence the storyline of an upcoming comic series and the development of the subsequent AAA play-to-earn game. Nick invested a small amount of money in 500 Bitcoins in 2011, after discovering them during a conversation at a poker game in Las Vegas. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage and the meteoric rise on the price in 2014. Prior to that he founded multiple Hospitality projects in Greece such as Crystal Club,The Ritz Suites and The Loft. He started his first friends and family trading fund focused in Cryptocurrencies in 2016 called 10X Capital. He is now a seed/early stage investor in tech and Blockchain related projects. We discuss a various topics including Ethernity, Exorians, NFTs, Web3, innovation and much more. We begin our conversation by discussing how Nick got into crypto and how the industry has evolved in such a short amount of time. Our next conversation topic focused on the backstory of Ethernity. Nick explains how the idea for the company was seeded and how they developed the initial products. We discuss how Ethernity was one of the first projects to partner with mainstream celebrities, for example they partnered with Lionel Messi to do his first NFT drop. We discuss Ethernal Labs and what is included in the product suit. We discuss why GameFi will be a very big part of crypto going forward. Nick shares some inisght into their upcoming project, The Exorians. We discuss the balancing act that exists when trying to optimize for substance and Tokenomics. Nick explains how we can improve GameFi. We discuss how the Exorians universe will enable users to become creators, and what this means for the future of the creator economy. Nick discusses how he envisions the GameFi space evolving in the future and how he wants to help guide and build products that can empower people across the world. We discuss the legal challenges facing web 3 native companies trying to integrate crypto products and features without violating any laws or legal statutes. Nick shares why we are still so early and why regulatory clarity will help push the industry forward. We finish our conversation by discussing the future of the Metaverse. Please enjoy my conversation with Nick Rose.Exploring the Metaverse with Nick Rose, Founder of Ethernity Chain. -- AngelBlock is a DeFi protocol aimed at solving the issues of fundraising for digital assets and making the process crypto native. More info at https://untoldstories.link/AngelBlock -- BingX is a crypto social trading exchange with over 3M users. BingX offers CFDs, futures, spot, derivatives, and copy trading services to more than 100 countries worldwide and connects users with expert traders on the platform in a safe, simple, and transparent way through social trading networks. For Charlie’s listeners only, register using this link for a 155 USDT Welcome Gift: https://untoldstories.link/bingx -- This podcast is powered by Blockworks. For exclusive content and events that provide insights into the crypto and blockchain space, visit them at https://blockworks.co