The 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake has left a trail of destruction and devastation in its wake. The earthquake, which struck early February 2023, is one of the deadliest earthquakes ever recorded. The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.8 striking Turkey and Syria, killed more than 41,000 people as of 13th February 2023 and caused extensive damage. The survivors are in urgent need of assistance and support, and the local communities need help now. In response to this dire situation, Charity DAO, the world’s first licensed philanthropy DAO and an expert in emergency fundraising, has designed and launched the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake Aid NFT collection.

Father holding the hand of his 15-year-old daughter, who died in the Earthquake.

The collection is a Turkey-Syria earthquake relief effort supporting NFTs collection empowered by Charity DAO, Maxity charity NFT marketplace, and OKX Web3, featuring unique digital art pieces and representing symbols of hope for community reconstruction after the earthquake. The price of each NFT is 10 Matic and there is a total supply of 1000. The collection is a great opportunity for NFT collectors and supporters of charitable causes to come together to make a difference. By purchasing one of these NFTs, you are not only getting a unique piece of digital art, but you are also supporting a great cause. To encourage participation, Maxity has generously decided to donate 100,000 MAX Coins to the cause. As a thank-you to each charity NFT holder for their support, they will receive 100 MAX Coins as a reward.

The funds raised through the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake Aid NFT collection will be directly utilised to support the communities affected by the earthquake, and Charity DAO will fully disclose the disbursement of funds raised to ensure transparency. In partnership with its global Turkey Ambassador, Charity DAO is dedicated to providing critical aid to the survivors. The aid will address the immediate needs of the affected population, including access to healthcare services, nutritious food, and safe shelter. As the risk of further devastation, including the spread of disease, continues to escalate, it is imperative that the humanitarian relief efforts are strengthened. The earthquake has placed an enormous strain on existing resources, and the support provided through this NFT collection will play a crucial role in alleviating the suffering of the affected communities.

We encourage all charitable parties to consider purchasing one of these NFTs from the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquake Aid collection and make a contribution towards supporting the communities in need. Your support can help provide essential aid to those who have been affected by this devastating event. Let us come together to make a difference and provide hope to those who need it the most.

London, England, 1, February 2023-

 

Tencent Cloud announced its strategic partnership with Maxity.io today, the world's largest charity NFT marketplace and world’s first Web3 social impact protocol. Through this partnership, Tencent Cloud and Maxity.io will collaborate to explore the potential of Web3+Social Impact innovation solutions. This partnership is a testament to the shared commitment of Tencent Cloud and Maxity.io to drive positive social change through the power of blockchain and Web3 technology, and the two companies will continue to contribute towards achieving the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Global Goals.

 

NFTs have experienced explosive growth in a remarkably short period of time. They went from being worship collectors’ goods to being auctioned at Christie's to being used to assist civil society organisations that share Sustainable Development Goals. NFTs have also become popular in recent years to raise funds for charities and other causes. For example, in 2022, an NFT of the Ukrainian flag was sold for $6.75 million by UkraineDAO in an effort to raise funds for those affected by the war in Ukraine.

 

Tencent Cloud's Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) services offer secure and flexible computing capabilities, ensuring smooth development and operation of Maxity’s NFT marketplace, and its DApp, Maxity App. It meets the need for efficient, large-scale computing power at a low cost, which is necessary for Maxity to handle the growing number of users and calculations involving NFT trading, energy conversion, and MAX Coin rewarding mechanism. This partnership allows Maxity to explore more possibilities regarding Web3+Social Impact.

 

Associate Vice-President at the University of Surrey, director of Maxity, Prof. Xiong said “Maxity is pleased to be forging alliances with world leading tech company Tencent. We are certain that the strategic co-operation on Web3.0+Metaverse+Social impact between both parties will contribute towards achieving the United Nations’ 17 Global Goals."

 

Maxity is the world’s first Web3 social impact protocol innovating non-profit organisations fundraising and strengthening transparency in charities using blockchain technology. With a blockchain and smart contract powered decentralised NFT marketplace, a Volunteer and Reward and a SocialFi model, Maxity is building a Symbiotic Metaverse to contribute towards achieving the UN’s Global Goals. Maxity helps organisations to use NFTs to connect individuals with charitable causes. It allows fundraisers and NGOs to create NFTs without prior technical knowledge or experience. With a ‘one-stop-shop’ solution to creating, collecting, promoting, and selling the NFTs, Maxity helps charities and NGOs to efficiently raise funds through NFTs.

 

Maxity has chosen Polygon as its eco-friendly blockchain partner as it is carbon neutral and aims to be carbon negative. Additionally, Maxity has also connected to the Ethereum network, which has upgraded its consensus mechanism to Proof-of-Stake (POS) in 2022, making it more energy-efficient. Maxity invests heavily in projects using tech to combat climate change. It has also forged alliances with Impact NFTs and Carbon Neutral Club using blockchain technology to offset carbon footprint, which is in line with Tencent Cloud’s vision of enriching societies with eco-friendly and efficient technologies.

 

To better encourage global users to join environmental protection and contribute to the idea of Blockchain for Good, Maxity has launched its first mobile DApp, Maxity App in December 2022, featuring the Plant and Reward model, MAX Forest. By planting virtual trees in the metaverse and donating NFT trees through MAX Forest, users can participate in the fight against desertification and climate change and make a positive impact in the real world. Plant and Reward is the first step of Maxity’s Volunteer and Reward model and its ultimate goal of building a Symbiotic Metaverse for all.

 

Maxity aims at driving innovation and exploring the potential of Web3+Social Impact to create a better future. As the company continues to research and develop new possibilities, we can look forward to the creation of an exciting and ground-breaking Symbiotic Metaverse.

 

 

 

Maxity, the world’s largest charity NFT marketplace, is going to launch its mobile Dapp called Maxity App by the end of this year. The Dapp, besides integrating its existing NFT trading platform and fiat donation widget, will also release a built-in wallet function and a pioneering ‘Plant and Reward’ model, MAX Forest.

The idea of MAX Forest originates from Alibaba’s Ant Forest, the most popular and most active app that encourages charitable practice (planting and low carbon behaviours) in the world and has the greatest positive social impact. Based on Ant Forest, Maxity has designed MAX Forest to be an iterative upgrade with Web3 technology and an expansion with an international vision. It is hoped that with the help of blockchain technology and Web3 industry opportunities, MAX Forest can contribute to the idea of ‘blockchain for good’ to promote the alleviation or resolution of human development problems such as global desertification governance with a decentralised model.

Current impact of climate change and solution

Climate change is one of the most critical global issues today, and the impacts of global warming caused by CO2 emissions are increasingly significant including the rising of sea level, increasing in ocean acidification, etc. Research done by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shown that even if greenhouse gas emission was to stop completely, the surface air temperature would continue to increase and remain elevated for several decades, which could induce crop reduction and food crisis, and the rising of sea level is forcing people to abandon some of the most populated areas.

With the ground-level warming expected to be more serious over lands than ocean and changes in water availability due to anthropogenic climate change and unsustainable land use practices such as deforestation, over-grazing of livestock, over-cropping, UNICEF predicted that by 2040, 25% children will endure extreme water shortages, especially in developing countries. Human beings are urged to care for the planet that we have lived on for hundreds of thousands of years. On the African continent, desertification has affected 45 percent of its land, forcing millions of people to leave their homes to survive — people who had no part in global warming. Water/air pollution, flooding and drought around the globe are all vital signs of human impact on the environment, reminding those responsible of the need for social responsibility to improve the environment where all creatures live.

The United Nations have proposed the 17 UN Global Goals which are to be reached by 2030, in which governments are required to reduce the speed of climate change and protect resources on the planet.

The UN Secretary General Guterres pointed out that the world needs to put more effort in achieving “more justice and harmony between people and planet” at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit.

Solutions to climate change based on utilising natural resources have been proposed. On the one hand, by improving the natural environment, the global ecosystem can be repaired, restored, and become manageable in a sustainable way. On the other hand, a better natural environment benefits biological diversity and helps to solve social issues, including food security, health and welfare, and economic development.

A ‘Walk-to-donate’ model already exists, the goal of which is to incentivise individual behaviour to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment. The cities of Vienna and Hong Kong have already provided redeemable city-related rewards for using public transport or walking. Inspired by existing examples, Maxity, a social impact protocol and charity NFT marketplace, is introducing MAX Forest to bring charitable planting into the Web3 space.

MAX Forest, the first ‘Plant and Reward’ model

Maxity is the world’s first social impact protocol innovating NGO fundraising and strengthening transparency in charities using blockchain technology, all towards building a Symbiotic Metaverse to contribute to the UN Global Goals.

The visions carried by Ant Forest and the ‘Walk-to-donate’ model are strongly in line with Maxity’s mission. However, the target audience of Ant Forest is limited as it requires its users to understand the Chinese language and it mainly relies on using Alipay to record green activities (public transport ride, utilities payment, etc.). That being the case, Maxity establishes the first ‘Plant and Reward’ model to bring similar public welfare model to places such as Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia where desertification is more serious and encourages governments, enterprises, and NGOs worldwide to join the project on fighting global desertification.

Under the ‘Plant and Reward’ model, users from around the world can receive MAX Coin in reward of their daily low-carbon behaviours, and NGOs that support different causes can build charitable forests on MAX Forest to receive donations and help with planting real trees in the physical world.

MAX Forest is the beginning of Maxity’s Symbiotic Metaverse, and ‘Plant and Reward’ is the initial stage of its ‘Volunteer and Reward’ model. A user of MAX Forest walks, and all the step counts will be automatically transferred into energies that could be used to redeem trees (NFTs). The user can then donate their trees to different NGOs to earn rewards while the NGOS plant real trees to build charitable forests in Mid and East Asian countries as well as the Sahel area where desertification has become the most critical issue.

In the future, Maxity will continue to support the 17 UN Global Goals and further explore innovations solving global issues with Web3 technology. By introducing more gameplays based on the ‘Volunteer and Reward’ model in its Symbiotic Metaverse, Maxity encourages global volunteers and charitable individuals to join the amazing Web3 space to take on social responsibility in a decentralised way, eventually achieving cosmic harmony.

The Charity Commission has published research showing that overall trust in the charity sector has dropped in the last decade. Comparing survey results from 2014 to 2020, 2018 showed the least public trust in UK charity with a score of 5.5 of 10. The 2020 results show an uptick in trust to a score of 6.2 of 10, but still not reaching the 2014 trust score of 6.7 of 10. The downturn in public support for charities may be a result of scandals that have broken in the last few years, during the time that the surveys were recorded.

One such story is that of the King of the United Kingdom — Charles III accepted a donation worth of £1 million cash from a Qatari politician, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani. No further investigation was taken to trace the source of income as it was alleged by the charity watchdog that thorough due diligence had been carried out by The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund in accepting this donation and that it is common for Middle East people to carry large amounts of cash.

The lack of transparency in the charity sector has long been under criticism, with regulators trying to find the most practical way of overseeing charities and penalising those who commit donor fraud. In part, this is challenged by the traditional system of giving.

At the same time, the pandemic caused stunted growth to many economies in the world, leading to even more people living in poverty being left behind. The charity sector has never been as important as it is now, as the UK struggles to deliver essential services in a post-Brexit, post-covid reality. Maxity — a Web3 Social Impact Protocol, is the answer to charities being able to fundraise in a transparent way.

A Web 3 Social Impact Protocol

The greatest feature of blockchain is its transparency and immutability. The white paper of blockchain was first released in 2008 by a nobody called Satoshi Nakamoto, meant to eliminate the need for intermediaries such as banks or insurance companies between buyers and sellers.

The idea is relatively simple — instead of having a middle person to verify credibility of users for loan, or to set up fixed term deposit for earning interest, these are all replaced by a distributed ledger that records all transaction data and maintained by all users of the system known as ‘nodes’. Once encrypted data has been uploaded to the blockchain, it is permanently indelible and unalterable. One of the famous examples of blockchain is Bitcoin, but since its transaction process capability is limited at 7 transactions per second (TPS), there are now more and more blockchains being developed to scale up the throughput of a network.

Maxity, a platform built on the Polygon chain, is the world’s first Web 3 Social Impact Protocol that aims to strengthen charity transparency and support fundraising issues, all towards contributing to and achieving the United Nation 17 Global Goals. It is the platform that provides a one-stop solution for registering fundraising, fund management, expenditure, financial ledgers and reports, proposals for implementing activities, and results of all projects on the blockchain for verification.

Charity DAO, a sub-DAO of Maxity, is the world's first licensed philanthropy DAO. It focuses on fundraising for emergency causes within 24 hours and aims to build a community that connects worldwide charities with decentralised Web3 technology. By assisting charities and NGOs to design, create, publish, and sell NFTs on Maxity’s NFT marketplace, Charity DAO brings a new way to help charities with emergency fundraising and help them to build trust and improve transparency.

Maxity’s NFT marketplace was launched on the 1st April 2022 for the purpose of registering fundraising via direct donations. The NFT trading platform is a multi-chain (Polygon and Ethereum) donation platform that encourages storytelling through NFTs to enable charities and NGOs to develop a deeper connection with the audience. To lower the barrier of engaging with the blockchain sector, Maxity has also introduced fiat payment for donors to donate or purchase NFTs through their bank cards.

In the near future, Maxity will launch a series of products which include a decentralised finance (DeFi) platform for fundraisers to deposit, manage or lock up their MAX Token (Maxity’s native token) to get rewards through yield-farming. Similar to traditional fixed rate savings, yield-farming or staking works with fundraisers locking up an amount of MAX Token to our DeFi platform for a specific period in an effort to earn additional coins or tokens which can later be exchanged to fiats (USD, GBP, etc).

Unlike traditional financial institutions which may be unavailable in some developing countries or have a lengthy and complicated background screening process, Maxity’s DeFi platform will function as long as fundraisers have access to the internet and also a DeFi wallet. A DeFi wallet is a digital wallet that allows users to store and manage different cryptocurrencies, and it can be imagined to be a bank account, with the funding passwords known as private keys, and the sort codes and account numbers known as addresses. With the user’s address comes the capabilities to access its past transaction on blockchain explorer, which is why Maxity encourages charities to make contributions to support groups, compliant goods and services providers using a decentralised wallet. This is to remove intermediaries and monitor the accountability and transparency of cash flows.

Maxity, a platform built on the carbon-neutral and climate positive blockchains, aims to support the four pillars of sustainability, i.e., human, social, economic, and environmental. Through Maxity, every transaction from fundraising to implementation of a project is recorded on the chain. Maxity also adopts a new established model –Volunteer and Reward (V&R), which incentivises more people to start giving to society. Not only charities and NGOs profit from the contributions of volunteers, but the donors also receive benefits such as tax credits and a digital token of appreciation for their donation.