Chris Gale
Initially build mobile ad platform in 2010
- worked with Warner Bros & Fox
- Microsoft - phone ads
- 2016 begin in crypto
- 2017 started Veracity - YouTube on Blockchain
- Now Running Venture Studio
- Few & Far sprung up from here
- Bullish on the fact that large industries are now getting involved
Project Summary
- How would you describe Few and Far?
- Project started at the beginning of the year with a NEAR grant
- Starting with pain points of Web3?
- How did you get started developing on NEAR?
- NEAR allows sign up with email
- NFT minting with no-code
- Whitelabeled versions
- Enforcing Royalties
-
Game Store with Game discovery
Team
- Notable team members?
- Taj - ex-Hvas creator (UI/UX)
- Chris Hayes - Dev
- came in from Fantom
- worked with massive media companies
- understands scale and quality
- well connected
- Carissa Winnet
Business Model
- How do you make money?
- Decentralized ($FAR token)
- Staking token allows 75% of tx fees
- transactions are in NEAR or USDC
- Yield paid in $
- FAR
- Ad model to drive users to games / entertainment
- helping increase userbase through ads
- Ad tech is similar to Web2, but it’s engagement based on wallet not cookies
- Opt-out models may incentivise
- Information is open and transparent
- How will you scale?