Host Ben Yorke of Vechain101.com talks with Real Items co-founders David and Ken about their application suite built on VeChain. Real Items has had a busy start to 2020, led by the announcement of their integration with Shopify. Listen in to hear their vision for the company as the year begins to unfold.
Street Superior, Singapore’s biggest streetwear event, took place November 2-3 at *SCAPE, featuring big brands such as Vans, Under Armour, and Swatch, alongside independent artists and designers from all over the world. The festival focused on “The Art of Customization” with competitions, workshops, and demonstrations from top foreign and local artists. This year, Street Superior took customization one step further, by showcasing a line of collaboration merchandise with event partners. These products were all chipped using VeChain’s NFC technology, which was used to showcase the story behind the brands, artists, and Street Superior itself.
Guests learned more about the story behind the custom snekers
Custom sneakers were a main attraction, which is why Australian community group The Kickz Stand was in attendance, bringing along Australian designers Chase Shiel and Grail Crew Customs. Together they created unique designs for the event, with each pair having an NFC chip sewn under the tongue. Visitors who scanned the product with the VeChain Pro app could verify the products, and check out photos, video, and data about the creation process of the item.
Being able to share the story behind a custom sneaker is invaluable for independent artists and creators, it was great to be a part of the process here at Street Superior. Jay Mijares – Co-Founder @ The Kickz Stand
Sarah Nabaa (VeChain) stands with members of The Kickz Stand, Chase Shiel, and Grail Crew Customs
For those needing refreshments in the Singapore heat, Whiskey maker Copper Dog was selling cocktails and a limited edition collaboration bottle with local artist Russel Ong. 100 bottles were made in total, each featuring a VeChain NFC chip on the custom bottle label. Each bottle came with an engravable copper dipper, a homage to the brand’s past where the original Speyside producers would steal whiskey from the distillery using a copper pipe with a penny welded to the bottom in order to avoid taxes.
It was important for Street Superior to take the Limited-Edition Series further, not only through facilitating an artist collaboration. In addition to ensuring the bottles’ proof of authenticity, conveying the brand story of the artwork and its craftsmanship was imperative. This could only have been established and made possible by Street Superior using VeChain ToolChain, a simple way to develop applications running on the VeChainThor Blockchain. Jonathan Fong, Co-Founder @ Street Superior
A new addition to Street Superior this year was a custom toy collection from brands like Flab Slab and Whale Rabbit. These brands sell handmade art collectibles, designer toys, and original creations around the globe, making them a major target for counterfeiters. By using ToolChain, these artists are able to thwart counterfeiters by linking the product to a verifiable record on a public blockchain. They are also able to share photos and videos, giving life to the complex background stories many of these toys have. Flab Slab and Whale Rabbit tend to push out inventive and somewhat unorthodox creations, making this extra media a valuable inclusion in the product design.
I think a huge advantage is the added content, these days the added content helps to explain the story a lot easier. Rather than just certifying the product, you can tell the story of the product as well. Jeffrey Koh – Founder @ FLAB SLAB
We are proud to have partnered with VeChain to have this verified. It helps a lot with the tracking of where our products actually lead to. It’s important to us because we have incidents of our products being faked in foreign markets. We are excited to take this to the next level, so we can see how implementing VeChain into the products can really benefit us. Isaac Leon – Founder @ Whale Rabbit
Visitors to the event were impressed by the technology, and excited to be able to learn more about the design and authenticity of their products. For fans, there is no doubt that basic blockchain integration allows them to shop with confidence, learn more about unique items, and even empower a thriving resale market. More complex blockchain integration offers even more benefits, an area that creators and artists will wish to explore.
Now, the pressure is on the industry to adapt. Artists at the event discussed the problems the industry faced not just from counterfeiters, but from designers themselves. Without any oversight or viable means of tracking, artists are free to produce as many “limited editions” as possible, a practice that erodes trust from consumers. While this might cause some in the industry to resist change, the general reaction indicates that consumer demand will reward artists who focus on the benefits that transparency, traceability, and being able to differentiate their products will bring them.
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Hosts Ben Yorke and Fabian from VeChainstats.com discuss the latest in the VeChain ecosystem, sharing sound bytes from Sunny Lu and Renato Grottola at the Wanxiang Blockchain Summit in Shanghai (Mid-September). Then, Ben is joined by the Co-Founders of EnChain, who discuss their new project VeSign.io and life as a VeChain Channel Partner.
The 5th Wanxiang Blockchain Summit, as part of Shanghai Blockchain week, had a much different theme, as professionals sought to show off the results of blockchain implementation within their industries.
VeChain was well-represented, and their establishment within the industry was highly noticeable. DNV GL and Deloitte both spoke highly of the public chain technology, describing it as an essential part of enterprise blockchain solutions.
Summit organizer Wanxiang is one of the premier blockchain organizations in China, with close ties that span a number of different industries.
VeChain took center stage as the only public blockchain to take part in this inaugural event. Government leaders were unhand to take in traceability solutions including My Story, Norway-in-a-Box, D.I.G, and ToolChain. The event, focused on food and daily life products, was a good chance to have a focused audience made up of the public, officials, and other tech companies looking for collaborative partners.
Co-hosted by Shanghai Commerce Association, Shanghai Food Association, and Shanghai Internet of Things Industry Association, over 70 leading enterprises showcased their traceability solutions at the IPTE. Industry leaders like Shanghai Vegetable Group, Hema Fresh Market(owned by Alibaba Group), and Shanghai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.brilliantly demonstrated their new retail concept along with cutting-edge traceability technology at the expo.
Ben Yorke from VeChain101.com took the opportunity to interview members of VeChain’s staff, as well as partners such as DNV GL, Norway-in-a-box, and D.I.G.
Host Ben Yorke met with Palombo in the lobby of his Beijing hotel. This is following the announcement that Jur was migrating to VeChain, and that they had been selected to be OceanEx’s first IEO project. Alessandro Palombo is an expert in legal technology with a Ph.D. in Administrative Law and a Master’s Degree in Global Regulation of Markets. He is an Advisor of the European Observatory on Legal Technologies and a Member of the Scientific Committee of San Marino Innovation.
