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Ubox: An NFT Trading Platform Based on Eastern Cultural Perspective

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As a non-homogenized token, NFT has experienced a period of rapid growth and prosperity over the past few years, and it has attracted widespread attention and investment. However, in recent times, the NFT market has seen a number of adjustments and challenges, resulting in a general price decline and slowdown in market activity. Despite this, however, the NFT market still holds great potential.

First, NFT, as a new paradigm for digital assets, offers new opportunities for creators, artists and intellectual property holders by mapping uniqueness and non-fungibility onto the blockchain. They can digitize their works, collections or intellectual property through NFT and communicate and trade directly with fans, collectors or purchasers.

Second, the NFT marketplace is also expanding its application areas to cover a wide range of industries, including art, music, gaming, sports, and virtual reality. For example, in gaming, NFT can be used to sell virtual props, digital characters or in-game items, bringing a more realistic, interactive and personalized gaming experience to players. In the art sector, NFT provides artists with more creative freedom and copyright protection, while breaking down the barriers and restrictions of the traditional art market.

In addition, NFT offers new marketing and business opportunities for brands, companies and celebrities. By launching limited edition NFT collections or collaborating with well-known artists, they can attract the attention of fans and collectors and build closer ties with them. At the same time, the scarcity and uniqueness of NFTs brings higher exposure and reputation to these brands and celebrities.

Thus, while the NFT market may currently face some challenges, it still has long-term growth potential. As technology advances, the market matures, and users become more accepting of digital assets, the NFT market is expected to rejuvenate and become more successful. This emerging market will also attract more players, drive innovation and change, and inject new momentum into the digital economy.

Ubox: Creating a Digital Oasis

Ubox is a new NFT trading platform based on an Eastern cultural perspective that is dedicated to providing a secure, diverse and high-quality trading experience for digital asset enthusiasts in the Asia-Pacific region. It draws on the success and customer base of leading NFT trading platforms to bring together a broader ecosystem of high-quality IP creators, brands, artists and collectors, promising to breathe new life into the digital asset ecosystem.

Ubox's core concept is to "build your digital oasis", providing users with a wide range of digital assets and a new interactive experience for collecting. It breaks the monotony of traditional trading platforms by building a broader trading scene around the NFT ecosystem, including easy trading, exciting collectibles, more interactive experiences, immersive communities and scene empowerment.

Ubox's vision is to become the world's leading NFT trading platform, providing users with a secure, diverse, immersive and high value-added experience, and creating a high-quality trading marketplace for digital asset enthusiasts and collectors. It hopes to increase the value of digital assets through innovation and optimization, and to make more people understand the appeal and value of digital assets through the Digital Oasis, thus promoting the development and popularity of the field and making digital assets an important part of the lifestyle.

Platform Advantages

As a newcomer to the NFT trading platform, Ubox has learned a lot from the experience of its predecessors, and it has the following advantages:

1. More in line with the trading pattern of the Asian market

Ubox focuses on the Asian cryptocurrency sector, and is committed to creating a platform that is more in line with the Asian user experience and content pattern.

2. Richer crypto content

As a new asset experience platform, Ubox is committed to providing users with more exciting collections and interactive scenarios with various asset types.

3、Provide advanced asset services with enhanced experience

Based on the interconnection of Ethernet and multiple blockchain networks, Ubox is committed to providing users with a more stable asset security and access experience.

4、Excellent liquidity

Ubox integrates various services such as prophecy machine, pledge and other successful experiences from leading exchanges and platforms, hoping to further improve the liquidity of NFT secondary market.

5、MPC wallet

Ubox supports MPC wallet, which supports traditional login mode and can greatly reduce the barrier of entry for Web2 users.

6、Fee rate

Fees and royalties, Ubox are quoted at the Tier1 level, more user-friendly.

7、Deposit and Withdrawal

Ubox is the first NFT trading platform to partner with UnionPay International and Digital HKD/RMB, which allows it to make deposits and withdrawals in legal tender, laying the foundation for mass adoption of the platform.

8. Content and Operations

Ubox is the first NFT trading platform to use AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) and bring in traffic. It has refined its operation plan to ensure a two-way guarantee of wealth effect and word-of-mouth spread.

Financing and advancement

The Ubox platform was officially launched on April 8, and as of May 7, it already has 100,000 registered users. In addition, since the launch of the secondary trading function on April 20, the average daily transaction size of Ubox has reached $60,000.

1. Financing

In April 2023, Ubox closed a seed round of funding at a valuation of $50 million for a $60 million round. The round was led by C² Ventures, with participation from early investors from Huobi Group.

2. Collaboration

A large number of NFT creators and their works are already on the Ubox platform. Including but not limited to

1) "Eight Masters" series - by Tony Wong Chun Loong

2) "Happi Bunny" series - by Zhang Ziyi

3) "Floating Lotus" "Emerald Rhythm" - by Nan Gong, an artist with 100,000+ fans who has collaborated with several brands.

4) "Pop Floob World" - by Matt Wills

5) "Pai" series by He Ping

It is worth mentioning that the "Pai" series created by He Ping has won several awards, such as the international top CG annual "Global Best Digital Art" award, and the Award of Excellence in the winter ASIA GRAPH art exhibition in Japan.

NFT - the future is promising

As technology continues to evolve and users' understanding of digital assets deepens, NFT will play an increasingly important role in various industries.

For an NFT trading platform like Ubox, continuous innovation and providing a quality user experience will be key. As technology advances and the platform continues to be optimized, Ubox is expected to become an excellent NFT trading platform and play an important role in the Asia-Pacific region.

By bringing together an ecosystem of high-quality IP creators, brands and collectors, Ubox will provide a more secure, diverse and immersive trading experience for users, driving the growth and popularity of digital assets.

Overall, the NFT market remains full of great potential and opportunity. In the coming years, we can expect to see more innovation, collaboration and change, and NFT will become an integral part of the digital economy, injecting new momentum and vitality into the entire industry.

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