Decom Talks | Ep.1 – YouTube
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(00:00) [Music] all right GM GM good morning everybody our first decom talks so give us a few minutes as we get some of our panelists on board and get this party started be prepared for some fun stuff some giveaways some Q&A any questions are also welcom and Jose how are you guys great Jose how are you excellent perfect so we have another seller asking how to join so I think we have to maybe spend a couple minutes just getting them familiar with the spaces we’re onboarding know sellers not just to Hamza and decom but also to to X
(00:50) or Twitter so so air developa I think was we got to help him get in here see I just see him in the group also we should bring up only princess here thanks for making it I don’t know I see it as a listener I think maybe we should invite the sellers we’re going to be talking to today onto the stage if they’re able to is there a limit an or as far as I know no oh eight eight sorry it’s eight there is some limit I felt like I’ve noticed it before hello hello hello everyone Thomas is okay or only Prince what do you only
(01:36) Prince or stanzo cenzo forward slash couple different names I was actually wondering if you have the handshake names of some of these stores or I do own only prints I I had to make sure I grabbed that one off of handshake so yeah great that is a nice one great okay so we are just getting air developer here let me I’m trying to to help Roberto join but I can’t seem to do that Mike okay I mean he has to click that link and it he should click the join button like same as all of us have done so we maybe just resend them I’ll just
(02:22) send them the link again let me do that okay all right well while you get that going I I’ll keep get I’ll keep off so I’m Mike melini one of the co-founders of Hamza Market the we call it the world’s first decom Marketplace dcom is a keyword we’re building out to be decentralized e-commerce and we be building this for depends on what you say start right say I mean you’ve been talking a year and a half or maybe longer but fulltime development for a year all of 2024 was developing and now
(02:59) we’re into 25 2025 here still rather early in the second second month February and we’ve been slowly opening up the doors slowly onboarding some sellers which you’ll meet today um testing with Buyers getting feedback from investors working on new investment round working on white paper tokenomics we’re not going to focus too much on tokenomics web 3 governance incentives today today’s topic is dcom talks the purpose of this session is to get to know the people behind the screens behind the the shops
(03:40) talk to some of the first vendors of this amazing new Marketplace and learn about what a little bit their story their product get some ideas of what you can support if you’d like to be our first buyer buy their products maybe also potentially join us as a seller too and then we could ask answer questions talk about it and then if you’re more interested in white paper to economics incentives we have a town hall that happens in our Discord a Hamza Discord which you can join we had our basically both of these
(04:15) are new new initiatives so we had our first Town Hall open house for Hamza Discord just a few days ago and this is our first decom talk so this will be on Spaces that will be on Discord they are recorded this is recorded this will be redistributed after at least I hope it’s recorded is it recorded yeah it says recording okay so I’m super excited to get this going we have an is behind the scenes at the Hamza market account how you doing an hi everybody good to be here yes I’m good hope everyone too yeah
(04:56) we appreciate your support making sure this Spas is got going and you’ll also be sharing a little bit about snapch I believe right can I just confir publicly yes I am yes I am okay great great and only Prince we have with us today really engaged also from the handshake community and from years and been one of our first sellers thanks for making it here only Prince anytime great and we got Roberto here from Air developer of one of the co-founders and CEOs of air developer which is a first vendor here too selling
(05:36) Quality Air machines so how you doing Roberto hi all thanks for having me here I’m doing great looking forward to get this going yeah yeah it’s been fun working with you earlier on and and we’ll we’ll get into this and we’ll hear more about your your business your products in a minute perfect thanks for getting it to work and Jose also in the team to full disclosure but also very engaged seller that’s just launched his book Jose will be sharing about that how you doing Jose how you doing Mike uh
(06:10) thanks for having me here and good to be here looking forward to this yeah it’s gonna be fun it’s going to be a great one all right so know this is the first one we’re we’re testing the model but the idea here is we can get to know a little bit of these first vendors so there’s no particular order I maybe I’ll just start with air air developer Roberto so do you mind just introducing a little bit about your your business just generally nothing hums are related and more just about you and your
(06:44) business for us to learn about you in your company yeah sure yeah I don’t mind being the first this way everybody’s I know it’s listening at least yes so I live in Thailand I’ve been here for the last seven years and for those who don’t know which actually I didn’t know until I arried here is that there is a big air pollution issue over here uh particularly acute between December and April which means that the air quality is really bad there is a lot of smoke from burning all across the region well
(07:19) you don’t need to be a genius to know that’s really about for your health both short term and long term well I was living here in Thailand around 5 years ago there was no no machines which are called air purifiers that you can put at home these machines basically clean the air and allow you to breathe healthier so back then it was really hard to get one of those and also very expensive so I decided to make my own for context I’m a electronics engineer so I made my own it turned out to work really well and
(07:53) after that I decided to commercialize this product that’s how I start making air purifiers which I make them in in Thailand I sourc the part from China but then I assembled them here in in Thailand and I’ve been selling it nationwide since then long time ago I I added the option for people to to pay with crypto I was using coinbase Commerce but now I’ve shifted to Hamza yeah I’m really excited to start using this new platform and see how things go great great thank you so much R appreciate background and it’s been
(08:31) great to work with you I think yeah Jose and I have been working closely with you on on boarding and we really appreciate all your your input and support okay so we’ll we’ll come back to you in in a minute we’re just G kind of go around intros so only Prince only Prince is is one of the very first he he’s been willing to work with us in a very early stages still early but very early with some products do you want to do a quick intro and background for us here only Prince yeah heyy guys only Prince here
(09:03) or also known as Thomas I’ve been part of the handshake Community for a long time and Mike reached out to me he knew that I was selling the 3D prints I got into 3D printing almost a year ago I was just just something fun I thought it’d be to do on the side I Tred to I try to do something fun for the kids and lo and behold the the order I got lost it was these little 3D printed articulated dragons and for Easter they never came in on time so and like I joked around with my wife and I was like if I had a
(09:36) 3D printer I could have just printed these myself know instead of not having what I wanted for the kids to surprise the surprise the kids and so I just I just leaped in I ended up buying a 3D printer and just been expanding from there I started with just home stuff and then I started trying to sell online and it’s been rocking ever since I I do pretty much anything I mean it’s been a fun Journey if it’s plastic or rubber like I can I can print pretty much anything from phone cases to literally anything it’s it’s it’s been fun selling
(10:13) on Hamza has been great so far like I said Mike brought me on to H to Hamza I believe I was the first seller and it’s it’s been awesome so far like being able to LEAP into the dcom Merce area instead of the uh and all these companies that have power over over your money over your your types of sales they just have too much power and just moving over to dcom Merce at least I kind of feel like I’m a little bit more in control with how things are going regarding sales of any type of sale and peace of mind with
(10:51) my money as well so it’s it’s been great so far thank you Mike for bringing me on board and my pleasure I look forward to this journey with Hamza thank you thank you yeah we’ll come back to some of the some of the Hamza experience and things but this is a great intro so it’s really cool that you’re making things happen finding a problem like your kids products that you ordered and and kind of making them yourself and it’s 3D printing is is also a big revolution right I mean there’s
(11:19) the AI Revolution there’s this web 3 crypto Revolution there’s uh you know 3D printing it’s it’s a it’s a wild world the world’s changing fast but it’s exciting for you to be on the Forefront of that and and AI is starting to play hand in hand too like being able to create 3D models just from trying to just just from being able to describe what you have in your mind into let’s say chat GPT and then to be able to create a 3D model is it’s only going to revolutionize everything cool ideas come
(11:53) to life all right thank you so much so Jose up and then an this will be the four vendor so Jose your books hello my name is Jose and I’m working for Hamza as Customer Support I’m helping on board Sellers and this is our first coort and I’m privileged enough to be also a part of this first coort I am long before I was working on hamsa I used to be a university Professor here in Venezuela and I wrote a book about stochastic processes which is one of the subjects I taught there and finally I I’ve been able to to put my book online
(12:34) and sell it which is may seem some something trivial but uh actually it’s it’s pretty interesting because as some of you may know Venezuela is a country that’s been hit by us sanctions and it’s it’s basically people here don’t have access to USD banking services so being able to sell something uh for crypto and being able to on board easily and and in such a open platform as hamsa is or as we’re striving to to be is it’s it’s a GameChanger it’s you know it’s one of
(13:08) those Moment Like Neil Armstrong said when he hit the moon he said a small step for man and a giant for mankind it it may sound hyperb but this will really open up Commerce to many people that otherwise would not have access to so I’m very excited to be here and privileged feel privileged to be among the first cohort of sellers of ham great yeah we always like your passion josea it’s amazing and I I really I mean I really want to help you more build it out in in Venezuela I mean it’s put pretty glob even just these first three
(13:46) and then next is also another country but irand us Venezuela and then next is Philippines with an but it’s a it’s it’s our my passion I mean I think the too is to enable people to do to Commerce like allowing people to be able to make a business for themselves right like anywhere in the world that that’s been something for me personally for like since I came to Asia in 2007 so it’s great to see it happening and yeah it’s just a beginning one small step we’re still at the very small step but
(14:20) exactly exactly exactly thanks thanks was okay now the last intro is an represent snapch do you want to say a little bit about yourself and and hey everybody you hear me okay yeah loud and clear all right perfect Al righty so my name is an and I’m representing snap Chom I live in the Philippines and why we started apum originally so the just a little bit of a background CH is is a startup wherein you know maybe you guys have heard that the internet and electricity in the Philippines is terrible so I’m keeping my fingers
(15:06) crossed here the nothing glitches but yeah so Snapchat was actually the the the the the reason behind for creating actually creating the business for providing remote workers and Freelancers stable internet and electricity and of course increase our productivity and have more creativity and then just a few months ago it was it was a hamsa team that reached out to snapch and yeah why not start selling on Hamel which was exciting and also made me a little bit nervous at the same time because I live in the Philippines and if
(15:54) we are going to service like globally then that’s like a big leap for us but it’s very exciting so far we have some Electronics um orders that already have been delivered in the past couple of months globally which is amazing so at the same time we we are also excited that it’s not only that we can buy products with fat or Fiat but also we can buy items with crypto so looking forward to working more with Hamza with other products yeah we started with electronics because it made sense something that Freelancers and remote
(16:34) workers can use online remote workers I mean so yeah thanks for having snapch everybody and Hamza thank you thank you an all right so the intros it got me all fired up too I mean like I just said it’s pretty International and we have different backgrounds and different stories so I think the next the next question that each person could answer is somewhat you all been saying but maybe just more specifically is like why why why crypto or why blockchain or or I think some are more obvious than others but if you
(17:12) could give a sentence or two or or long a little bit longer about why do you why do you think this is needed you know versus the current system I don’t know if maybe in the same order or developer sure yes so for me there is a personal Inc incentive and then let’s call it a systemic one so the the systemic one it’s because I feel I guess it’s fair these platforms have control over all the Commerce operations because they created the the platform but at the same time it leaves particularly us
(17:50) sellers very vulnerables to very vulnerable to like a lot of bad acting from customers or sometimes when these platforms they get so so big the quality of service that they can offer the sellers becomes really low and sometimes you have to pay for the shortcomings so I believe you SE a decentralized web Free Solution where where sellers are more directly connected to customers it’s a win-win for for everyone long term at least and then personally well I’m I’m very invested in crypto and I believe in all the values that come this
(18:29) ization and being the owner of your own money or assets so it is also in my personal interest to that if I have a business I can offer my my product and my value through a web free interface or or exchanging or by using different tokens like it could be stable coins or it could be bigger market cap coins like ethereum Bitcoin and so on so yeah for me as an investor as a Believer it’s I like to put my what’s it say my mouth where my or my mouth yeah yeah yeah so yeah that’s it for me thanks thanks Roberto I I agree a lot
(19:20) with those points thanks for sharing yeah that’s my quick take from that is I almost feel like crypto’s gotten a little bit off track in my opinion with especially meme coins and even all this Defi and reaking and it it turned me off over the years a little bit honestly especially the Ico stuff and this one of our value our values here is to try to have real utility of of blockchain and cryptocurrencies rather than all this kind of like Vapor stuff right I mean that’s what we’re trying to do here and
(19:55) and and also showcase today so thanks thanks for your points next is only Prince what do you why crypto why you know I think you’re also on Etsy and other platforms now right yeah I’ve been selling on Facebook Marketplace and Etsy and and locally as well but like whenever it comes to online that like a lot of people we’ve all had bad experiences when it comes to other people in control of your funds I I would choose crypto over regular Fiat any day let’s see they have too much control over your sellers panel if you
(20:32) for instance hasn’t happened to me but if you get too many bad reviews then they can kick your your shop offline Faceook Marketplace and thank God they’re so controlling if know a print has a hint of blood in it or something from like a Deadpool hu Forge that I’ve printed and then they they take it off of marketplace and then give me a strike and basically leads into Facebook jail that’s what they call it it’s just it’s so much of a hassle trying to please your potential customers and the company
(21:06) and the company just has too much power so when it comes to stuff like that I I would just rather crypto and decom Merce it’s it’s it gives me that peace of mind I I don’t have to stress about if I post this print will it even stay online or anything like that like I have no stress about that whatsoever and then even for the fun I don’t have to worry about if somebody were to do a chargeback or anything like that like it’s it’s it’s done it’s it’s all in all it’s peace of
(21:37) mind and that’s what I love about crypto and it just that’s pretty much the gist of it I mean I don’t I don’t like it when a company has too much power and that’s why I’m on Hamza thanks thanks for that welcome and yours literally we are fundraising I spoke to an investor less than 12 hours ago and he’s saying like US market why do you need this there’s already all these platforms and already people can get everything they need already this is something I don’t know I mean I guess
(22:12) maybe the sellers have no choice but have to go where to buyers are is maybe what he’s trying to tell me but it was but I think of course the developing Market already unbaked so mov into Jose I guess it’s almost pretty obvious for Jose but I’d love to hear from himself like why crypto I feel feel like maybe there’s not it’s pretty obvious but I love to hear yours it just wh why yes it is indeed Mike I’ve hinted at this before but when you look at the Venezuelan case and how how we got into
(22:43) hyperinflation which I think is the future of the rest of the World by the way when it comes down to it we we it’s it was all about controls it was all about the government trying to centrally plan the economy and basically issue very stricty control things which which generated some corruption mechanism for some to take advantage of and that’s what led me to crypto in the first place so as you said you’ve been disenchanted with with crypto lately as seeing there’s so many meme coins and all that all that
(23:17) speculation and all that stuff we know about but for me I was I was led into crypto by pure necessity Mike yeah so as as a way not only to preserve my my my value the the value that I have but also to exchange with other people somewhere else in the world which I could not I could not otherwise do and that’s the value proposition of of Hamsa your investor says well why why build something that there’s already some of yes but all the all the alternatives are centralized and centralization leads to control as as my other colleagues have
(23:55) said and control leads to inequality and unequal access to to everybody in the market I mean I believe the market doesn’t have to be a zero sum game like if I lose if if I win you lose or vice versa I mean I believe we can all win and this is the path to do it just open up markets to anyone in the world and try to capture parts of the economy which otherwise would not be captured that I believe is is the main the main value proposition of crypto for me yeah yeah I well I always I think others on our team like how you you say these
(24:35) things yeah I think well you’ve also experienced it right I mean you’re just saying like it’s coming soon to a country near you I guess so yeah I don’t know a little bit scary but it does feel that way globally and so we all have to embrace this system maybe we don’t even have a choice or maybe you don’t even really have a choice and most many of us might not have as many choices in the future so interesting sorry perspective hello I hear you Jose hello I I can hear you I don’t know
(25:08) if people and can you hear me yeah I hear you okay I can hear everybody I guess Jose stops hearing us I don’t know Ann if you could tell him maybe privately but yep okay so let’s move to an and why why why crypto for you like or what what got you interested in it I know a little bit your story here well personally I’m a big fan of hello do you guys hear me yeah Jose we hear you an is speaking hello yeah let’s see how can I give us the Twitter spaces maybe I’ll call him on telegram give me a second all right okay
(25:56) I messaged him to disconnect all right so I’ll just bring Jose back to on stage yeah a little bit later all right and continuing with my story personally and I have been a fan of decentralization D web four years ago so it’s kind of tough It’s kind of tough toate decentralized for me especially if you’re not technically knowledgeable so crypto blockchain it’s all technological advancements and Innovation but I’m still here and taking the challenge and when I heard about decom it got me excited a couple of
(26:41) years ago or during covid time I I saw a local transaction that happened here in the Philippines wherein someone sold a house and he accepted crypto which was amazing so that really fascinated me so I think also sold the card two weeks ago which is groundbreaking congratulations on that transaction Hamza and yeah so basically that’s that for me and as for snapch values and maybe goals it basically snapch wants to provide a lot of opportunities for our fellow Freelancers and remote workers so not only in the Philippines but also other
(27:29) remote workers in Asia or other countries in the world so I’m really excited about that I keep saying that because I am so it’s kind of hard to maybe start a business only with but with crypto the sky is the limit yes you still have to be careful but for me it’s the sky is the limit so it’s giv the freelancer community here where I’m in better opport unities and yeah why not become Sellers as well yes so that’s that awesome yeah thanks thanks Ed yeah we’ve been working together for many
(28:10) years and it’s a pleasure to see because I think this is what it’s for I know like I’ve been a little bit venting you know Meme coins notter which is speculation and is fun I guess but I think this is what it’s really meant to be for so I use the word Empower we have a program we haven’t really released it yet and Empower a seller which is to help sellers be empowered and entrepreneurs be empowered to be able to sell and and and grow their business and you know hopefully we can have you know
(28:41) grants and others well at least training but maybe even grants in a in the longer term to help people do this so it’s great thanks for sharing with us and okay so we are going through some questions going around some rooms I think we also have a raffle from only Prince maybe now we’re getting kind of like deeper into this maybe at at the end we can do a raffle for those that are sticking with us for a free free only prce you want to share a little bit about that only Prince about your your yeah more so a giveaway we can do I have
(29:19) the special edition ham a prince I’ve only created 20 of them and that’s that’s all that’s going to be there no more no less but I’d be happy to to give away one of these to one random person that’s sticking around with us and unfortunately this is us only so if you’re not in the US then we can figure something out or or maybe if we can handle shipping costs but if you are in the US then I’ll cover the shipping costs but but yeah just the the international shipping gets kind of
(29:51) expensive but I’d be more than happy to to give one of these away to one lucky person that’s in the us tonight awesome awesome yeah we’ll arrange that for those people towards the end that can stick with us but let’s move to the next topic feel like I feel like we’ve already gotten the insights about the products but maybe we talk about where where it’s shipping because each one here is different so like where do you ship to and and and maybe why or know like air air developer your sh I love
(30:28) your we all love your story actually I did an unboxing I’ll send it to you later I I bought one and through Hamza and it was received and we did a getting I’m tweaking a little bit on the editing today so I’ll send it to you later but I’m enjoying it and I love your story because it’s made here in Thailand and and your story why but you’re currently maybe I know we’re talking about it but currently at least on Hamza you’re only delivering within Thailand and hopefully we can do more International too but do
(30:58) you want to maybe share about your like how your Logistics works so you make it in Thailand and they ship it out maybe each person can kind of talk a little bit about where it’s made and how it’s shipped I’m not doing too revealing but whatever you’re willing to share on the manufacturing and distribution for each person so let’s start with air developer yeah sure thanks Mike so yeah one of the things I take pride is that my product is made in in Thailand is is not just another Drop Shipping business where I
(31:32) just ship something from China nothing bad with that if anyone is doing that but yeah for me this is my original product that I designed then well I was lucky enough to find factories all across shangai and they provided me with a fair price not much higher than China so I took the decision to make it in changai because also this is one of my main branding strategies is that this is a homemade product so some people don’t care but a lot of other people they do resonate with this they like they they are supporting something local so
(32:10) actually yeah it’s not only like a functional decision is also a marketing decision to produce locally right now we only well we offer our product in Thailand but also in India so we we started the our journey in India it’s been very very tough but if you are in India and you have an Amazon account you can find our product in Amazon India but for the most part we we only sell in Thailand and it is very very expensive to ship internationally and that’s why we haven’t been able to do it yet but yeah
(32:51) those are my my Logistics awesome thanks for sharing and it arrived to me I ordered it and I think it was also over the weekend I think it arrived to me on a Sunday in Thailand I feel like they ship and deliver every single day but I think I got within three days from my order and it’s great I just plug it in it’s very simple and I’ll have a video we’ll also put it on the Hamza Market embed video and you can also use it on your site or anywhere else but it’s it’s very very easy to use and effective so thanks okay
(33:27) next up only print what your they’ve kind of shared it a bit but maybe just focused on how it’s made and how it’s shipped yeah so obviously I build everything in house and I ship from here I don’t I also don’t do the Drop Shipping as as well I mostly just Shi to the US just because shipping costs a lot of times I I know how much it cost to to ship from here on the East Coast all the way out to the West Coast or even Hawaii I I have a good General number in mine and I I price price my my prints around
(34:02) that number also obviously time and materials but shipping out of the US right now it’s on special occasions I I can do it but I try not to uh just because of cost factors a lot of stuff that I sell is fairly cheap and know it’s it’s kind of hard to to sell something that that is at a low cost but I mean the shipping shipping cost is like double or triple the cost of what my print actually what the the print’s cost actually is so as of right now mostly us shipping and just on special occasions bulk orders and
(34:40) whatnot is when I ship overseas got it yeah Logistics is that is the biggest challenge I mean I’m also a seller and the shipping is always the stressful part which goes to Jose which is a little bit of a different story but you can say it share your it is a different story indeed I’d like to apologize for the for disconnecting but there was a blackout here I guess it’s Ann’s fault for mentioning that well my in my case it’s it’s I have more of a proof of concept one of the neat things about
(35:13) about sites that it’s entirely experimental so I’m experimenting with sending a a digital product my book is is sent as a PDF so I don’t have any of the shipping Hassle and Logistics that you guys have fortunately but it opens up the the the space for people that that would otherwise not have access to to sell their stuff anywhere in the world so I guess that’s that’s pretty interesting and I’m pretty stoked about that it is amazing great and then actually we haven’t even talked about
(35:48) this Jose I’ll just say it live but you know you’re one of our first digital products and there has been others we have gift cards too so it wasn’t original idea to do digital we thought physical but we’re testing it and you have a choice in your distribution I’m not sure if you’re aware but I spoke to the dev team right now you’re manually delivering so I bought your book I’m H I’m so happy to be your customer and buy your book and then you emailed it to me but our de seems says it could be
(36:22) automated and you could automatically deliver from if you want but of course it’s got to get up excellent I’m just finding out about that Mike I feel like I’m you right now but I John and he says that could be either way it depends what you want so so that’s just a also for everybody here listening digital products is something new we thought it would be more physical product platform but we’re testing and accommodating so it’s great to have Jose all right and then last but not least and at Snapchat I think
(36:58) a couple people here says they don’t do it but do you want to share what what you do or we do or snap yes abolutely all right so for Snapchat yes Logistics was very very tricky because we had or have Global or International customers but we are very lucky to have a good Network in China good connection so a lot of our products are shipping from China and also there are a couple of the more expensive ones I don’t I cannot really share the details intirely but there are a couple of products that we are
(37:38) sourcing from other countries and then the logistics is being handled by one of our good friends as well shipping worldwide which is easy China Warehouse ECW if they are they have availability but uh on the Philippine side we already have a lot of what’s this what’s that how how can I say Web Two counterparts maybe web to counterparts that are ship shipping from different Asian countries so that is another solution that we’re doing at the moment yeah basically it all it all boils down on the cost yeah shipping is expensive
(38:23) but I’m very thankful that we have a good network from typically Global from Asia so Mike especially is also helping us connect with them and so far it’s going smoothly the big I guess the big challenge is that we cannot really like say how long it will take but it’s also the same when when it arrives to the recipient yeah we cannot really say specifically but good thing that the snapch China team are is also there to assist yeah we have a couple of people people helping us from there all right anything else to add maybe
(39:03) Mike yeah I think it’s clear so just to kind of sumarize it’s shipping mostly from China over International mostly everywhere around the world and it’s Electronics like you said especially the batteries is very tricky and so there’s various routes it has to go through but they are smaller items they’re not bulky so shipping from China is still rather affordable at a certain weight or size so these are light lighter weight smaller items consumer electronics which are able to be Shi within somewhat
(39:38) reason but they might arrive like yeah like 10 to 15 days from the order so as long as the buyer is aware of that which we try to show on those listings but yeah that that kind of covers it so I think let’s start to wrap up and this is our first Ecom talk maybe we can have if there’s somebody has question either even from the speakers or the audience but I just want to say we’re trying our best as you can say it’s it’s even making me realize we have people all around look it’s like multiple countries shipping to multiple
(40:10) different kind of setups our Dev team and our team has been trying to make it easier for people to filter and find the right ones right so we’re working on that and it’s it’s super exciting but is there any maybe something some here wants to say I mean so go to of course you all sell on other platforms but we would of course hope people listening could go to ham.
(40:37) market and find find these stores we can link them also in the in the show notes and they’re pretty easy to find right now there we’ll we have a links for each of them so you of course could support maybe we’ll go through a little bit if there’s no questions I can go through the order process because I know some people ask that and but is there questions or points that some people here on the stage would like to to say just open Talk may I please yeah Roberto I don’t want to put you on the spot but when do you when do you think you can ship to
(41:12) worldwide I mean your product is very interesting I’d like to have one of those myself those air purifiers yeah I’m I’m already trying to figure where it’s out but for now yeah it’s just too expensive because I have a similar problem has only prints my my product which sells at $50 sometimes if I want to ship internationally it could cost half of that and so on so it’s there’s also this kind of like psychological problem where like you obviously don’t want to pay so much for shipping when the product is is
(41:47) almost the same price as the shipping so yeah I’m trying to find ways I know the the Chinese somehow they can ship things very cheaply so I’m trying to get into into that Circle to see how they do it but yeah still working it out yeah you remind me I have I have an idea there’s there’s some ideas I have I the one way people do it is is it’s much slower but they consolidate into a consolidate into a container and then ship it and then break it in the end country but it be pretty slow but it’s more affordable and
(42:27) I think I’ll talk to you privately about that but but even from Thailand there are some that do that that I just popped my mind I should introduce you to that that’s on my list to do this morning but I mean the other issue I think is the size generally but yeah I’m going to give you a couple more options maybe it could work for you too but but Jose a lot of times what larger items do I me not saying it’s so large but it’s like mediumsized but they will have stock in those end countries or distributors in
(43:02) those end countries because I don’t look we haven’t really brought Trump but I don’t really want get political but he’s starting to add these various tariffs and and and the whole world is right now with even small Parcels into the US with he’s trying to I think tax everything inbound even small items so I’ve already seen sellers adjusting to actually use a Us warehouse and then ship from the US warehous house rather than it’s called crossb at least in my world shipping from one country to another so so some
(43:35) sellers are already adjusting with this new Trump World at least in the US is having stock and warehousing in us to sell there Roberto talked about India I think he has stock maybe in India he’s not shipping from Thailand so but of course the seller yeah warehouseing India yet so the but of course the sellers myself included we don’t want that means we have to tie up more capital on inventory and fill up a warehouse with certain amount of stock and pay warehousing fees and pay ship pay shipping and customs and and we’ll
(44:09) have that stock there until it sells so it’s not as nice for cash flow to do that all right but is that helpful Jose and yeah I’m going to keep working with the sellers here especially our first ones but long term we want to help help them succeed yeah yes indeed well terrorists will only complicate things more but yeah I’ve thought about that I’ve thought about since everything is is oriented right now towards everything being shipped to the US I don’t know how that will work out in the future but you
(44:41) know as they say problems generate opportuni so I I hope something might might something new might come up in that regard yeah there’s some I mean I’m even thinking about some ideas but I don’t want to get into it now but imagine using like I quickly say imagine people become shipping people and you can kind of use a human Network to bring things like when they’re traveling I’ve even seen that start up many years ago but I think it’s getting more possible now but it’s just an early idea any
(45:13) other po or final words we could use and then we maybe figure out how to do the raffle or drawing only Prince and an I don’t know if we could kind of do it after too maybe just see who’s here and and contact them on Twitter definitely yes okay just to go through the escrow process just so everybody understands so one of I think the the big differences of of Hamza Market from even people like Roberto says he had coinbase pay on his store is this escrow we been spent a lot of time on the buttons so we’ve been
(45:49) designing buttons for for for stores to use on our own websites or or social medias and we believe the esro is one of our differentiating services so the money is held in a not even held by Hamza it’s held in a smart contract which is a multi for now which means multiple people on a on a wallet that over time would be governed by the community but for now it’s we call it Progressive decentralization so it’s a team multi-sig for now I’m one of the signers but when you buy something on HS it doesn’t go directly to these vendors it
(46:31) goes first to this SM contract and is held there until released escrow and I’ll be very transparent we are still defining how that is exactly released but especi of course when the buyer releases it it is released to the seller of course the question is what if the buyer doesn’t release it what if the buyer doesn’t agree to release it of course ‘s shipping tracking numbers and others Jose’s got a lot of experience in this space over in the past and we will work to make this as as clear as
(47:07) possible but if the buyer doesn’t release the escrow over a certain amount of time it would be escalated to the Arbiters which for now is is the team but in the long term would be the community of of approved Arbiters which would see the case and make a judgment and there is even escalations we’ve had at long tokenomics calls about the escalation process so even if you’re not satisfied on either side of the outcome you could go to a second opinion and it could raise higher and this is the this is one of
(47:45) our building in our our platform and so we don’t use a stripe or a PayPal you know Amazon pay but we also I know I heard Thomas say no chargebacks it’s a very tricky one right because what if what if I bought you know the air developer and then I received it and I released escrow but what if a week later it it malfunctions in web 2 I could still charge back right I mean I don’t I hate to do that I don’t usually do that but I could dispute it but in this case if the funds are released I there’s not
(48:21) really a way to get the funds back I believe the vendors would be honorable we are working on a syst to solve that in our tokenomics where there’s some deposits and such separate from the escro I don’t want to get into that today’s call but my last part is we as a team decided to launch earlier we could have kept building we could have there’s still so much more to build and we could have kept building in private and not public but we as a team decided to open it up and these vendors today and a few
(48:51) others are our first and really appreciate their willingness to work with us so that’s that know we’re we’re at the one hour mark this was this worked out perfect I I enjoyed this I hope everybody else enjoyed this but what we’re going to do is on a regular basis this is our first one please support buy buy from these vendors give us your feedback on the experience on the products test the system there’s so much more to go thanks for being with us um just to add on I do have that giveaway
(49:23) ready to go for any that has stuck around I’m go ahead and run that right now sweet so stand by do I do a drum roll we got a new thing ‘s laughing here all right Terina you are the winner great so if you can’t message me on on X or Twitter but I think I’ll tell her that Thomas but she’s in Venezuela so I don’t think she will be able to to apply the nft I think there’s also the bronze nft from the hamah hand yeah we can do the nft then it’s it’s up to her if she wants to contribute toward shipping then
(50:05) I can still ship this out and she can get the nft or just the nft okay yeah I’ll talk to her about that don’t worry all right thank you and thank you to everybody that’s been uh hanging around was the only giveaway or yeah yeah for now that’s the first giveaway always the first the others are just still getting started so we we’ll work on more promotions and giveaways in the future so thanks Thomas always and only Prince for your support yeah thank thank you everybody that has came and listened for
(50:40) a while thank you all all right so yeah follow Hamza decom one we have the number one after because we got banned on the original for no reason I don’t know I think we’re sharing the login with our team which I guess maybe is the reason but yeah we have put the one at the end of homson dcom one on Twitter and you’ll get notifications about these future spaces and other other opportunities in this budding ecosystem so thanks all for being here with us I’m gonna head off now thank thanks everybody we’re only starting as as Mike
(51:13) said we’re progressively striving to become more decentralized and there will be more exciting things to come in the future thanks all right thanks everybody I’m going to head out thank you bye everybody [Music]

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Last week, we hosted 2 community online events – the Open House kickoff for the Hamza discord community hall.  And then the X Twitter space later in the week for the Decom talk. 

We are calling them “gears” that flow as the water of the Hamza river flow. Doing these sessions helps keep the flow going of users, community, developers, and BD. We are looking to do them biweekly (every 2 weeks) and the week in between posting the recordings, transcripts, and insights of what we learned and shared. 

On the development side it has been a hardening sprint, testing the load and the pushing of boundaries and security. 

This coming week, Mike is heading to Consensus in Hong Kong to hyper network and connect with existing and new investors and partners for Hamza. Also meeting various partners and team members. 

John is back from a travel and will be catching back up, as we decide the development team structure and growth and direction. 

We are adjusting our pitch deck and offer based on feedback from legal counsel, investors, and users alike. We are keeping an open mind on the right product market fit that helps create the next stage of commerce using blockchain technology. 

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The first Hamza Community Town Hall on Discord provided updates on the project’s progress, including platform developments, tokenomics, and community engagement. The team shared milestones such as the deployment on multiple chains, growing traction with users, and ongoing fundraising efforts. Discussions included plans to distribute the Hamza token internally and explore a utility-driven token for transaction fees. Operational updates highlighted the onboarding of sellers, manual seller processes, and efforts to standardize procedures while building in public. The session emphasized the importance of community feedback, governance proposals, and scaling the platform with user-driven improvements.

Transcript:
(00:00) [Music] so yeah I’ll go ahead and get started welcome to the the well I mean I guess it’s not the first hza town hall but it’s the first one christening our this move to the new Discord with you know and we’ll you know it’s just a place yes thank you thank you thank you wait waiting music I think waiting music is is on the client side David so there should be like a a button in the bottom left to mute music or unmute music did that solve it for you I see I see yeah this is fancier boat it’s like speaker
(00:34) audience yeah I have it muted for mute for me I don’t know how to turn it off like at the system level or if it’s even possible to turn it off at the system level I’m sure it must be but if it’s not too much of a problem then and you can mute it yourself then yeah then maybe we can just go ahead and get started okay cool cool cool so it’s been a long time since we’ve done a more General town hall and we wanted to just sort of start up the tradition again and give some updates on what’s been going
(01:05) on generally with the platform the sort of trajectory of where we’re going and then open up the floor for just as an AMA for any questions that anybody has for me and Mike I think going forward and in the future we may do some interviews with with I know Mike is going to be doing some interviews with sellers on Twitter spaces over the course of the next few weeks we may do some internal interviews here with some developers and some people in the operations staff but yeah for now we’ll just do a little bit of an update and
(01:38) and then open the floor up for questions so I mean as as most of I’m familiar with almost everyone in the audience at this point but not everyone we’ve we’ve been live for a few months now we’ve been aggressively adding features and to the point where we’re now deployed on multiple chains we’re processing transactions we’re processing transactions from people that we don’t know which is nice people who we haven’t directly like reached out to or anything like that so we’re starting to get some
(02:06) um natural traction we are starting to see the the page views tick up getting a little bit more Revenue into the system and then we also produced our white paper and launched or kicked off our raising round and to give a little bit of insight into that so we produced a white paper which was very much a draft I don’t know if anybody if everybody’s here here has had a chance to take a look at it but it presented an idea for the tokenomics and then we started Distributing that around to get some like legal
(02:39) opinions oh can am I still can people hear me I hear you the whole time okay yeah I’m I’m not just sure what to say David it might be I don’t know it could be you could be me but but yeah as long as nobody else has a as a problem I’ll just keep on going yeah I think just going yeah so we distributed the white paper we gave it around to get some legal opinions and to get some just opinions from other advisers and experts in the field and got a lot of like really good feedback I do think that we
(03:10) may end up changing some things in the near future that nothing nothing is like fully decided yet but in terms of the token the one that has been described as the Hamza token is likely only going to be distributed internally and as part of a limited public or like a private Equity sale um because it looks an awful lot like a security and so we don’t want to do like a public sale of it we just want to use it as a rewards for the team and as an internal governance token and then we may move forward with launching
(03:45) a a more like a speculative utility driven token which we’ve been calling dcom sort of at the at the same time but with a much more limited functionality than what we had first theorized for it but the base fun fun ality being that it would be required to to pay like the the transaction fees or the protocol fees for any initiation of an escro contract which which has its own like sort of cool implications for what it means we have to do uh in terms of spinning up like liquidity pools for each of the currency pairs that it’ll be operating
(04:18) on but yeah so so we’ve got a lot you know we we’ve started that fundraising round we’ve got features pushed we’ve got a lot of work has been done on the token and the Dow I should be releasing the n ft for our the sale that we did in November later today and yeah that’s that’s what’s been going on sort of on the the like Tech and web 3 side um Mike do you want to give us an update on what’s been going on in terms of like the actual operation and sales and everything like that sure so we’re we’re
(04:52) proud to say we’re we’re we’re working product like Bose says we have real customers real orders happening on the platform and we are scaling that up even during this call our lead Dev John has giving me some some data that there’s some order I’m I’m losing track I used to know most of the people buying I’m losing track of I don’t think I know all of the buyers I know most of the sellers still but it’s just really exciting and like you said we’re going to have a Twitter space or X spaces I feel Weir I
(05:21) say xace going to call it Twitter space Thursday where we’re going to take a few of our first sellers so we just opened up five a cohort of five sellers that were on boarded to the production or the live Hamza market last week mid to late last week and we’re building a public we could have waited for another few months or half a year to have everything perfect but we wanted to have a working build in public environment so there it is a little bit rough on the edges I’m literally explaining to Jose about the
(05:56) escro release button for his book but it’s a exciting times and so we’re working on a regular process of onboarding Sellers and products where with with regular Twitter spaces starting this Thursday just like this first town hall we’re going to have regular Twitter spaces for decom talks is what we call it for now and we’ll Spotlight some of the vendors and some of the product we talk about some of the transactions so more about like you said the operations of the business answering people’s questions about what we’re
(06:30) doing and trying to engage the community but it’s definitely getting exciting we’re also working to standardize the procedures Sops this keyword standard operating procedures for onboarding sellers servicing buyers support documents Jose here who’ll probably come up later Jose is doing great as being flexible a lots of things are changing and we’re building as we go so we’re figuring out how to leave reviews now I think the review button just got added the seller console is very manual the
(07:03) seller process is very manual you cannot be a seller automatically we have to kind of manually add you and manually add the products but I don’t know about you Bo but I I actually prefer it this way we get to actually build with users alongside them rather than kind of guessing what want so we’re we’re even changing some of our priorities based on some of the requests from sellers so it’s been exciting I will prefer it when it’s fully automated but I agree that I like the process that we’re going we’re
(07:33) building through the automated process with with the view of like what sellers actually need and seeing yeah I mean like we talked about it this morning but like even seeing some of the places where there’s some like pretty obvious features that should have been added that we’re like oh well that that makes a lot of sense is not incredibly hard to implement and so getting those things added to the dev Sprints and making sure that we’re just making this experience as easy as possible great man yeah so so we’re also
(08:01) yeah so we’re trying to just kind of you know improve the process and the team and the procedures and and scale I talked to a potential investor just this weekend and he’s like oh scale it I’m like we are we’re adding on all these the the bus is moving we’re adding on and so he’s interested he’s happy to hear that and to follow up with some more information yeah I mean like it makes me think about like it’s been I don’t remember the last time we had a town hall it must have been in like summer of
(08:30) last year but yeah it’s like kind of wild to think about just how how far we’ve come since we since we did these or even like the one that we did in like January of of 2024 when we had just started building everything and getting like we were I I remember you know the doing a Dev update when we had just selected the Medusa framework as the one that we were going to be the JavaScript implementation and just like talked a little bit about that and give the just the distance that we’ve covered since
(09:01) then to now we’re like yeah things I think are still a little janky if if please excuse my language but they’re you know they’re they’re working we’re processing orders it’s pretty cool we can watch them on on ether scan we’re seeing payments get released and and things like that and so it’s it’s taking in view of the like sort of small victories that we have had and yeah I mean I think we have a much clearer vision of the future one of the other things that I wanted to do in this town
(09:30) hall is like sort of in the spirit of like actually having a town hall is thinking a little bit about Community governance and we have a lot of people here who are like involved would be involved in governing our community and so I think I hope that all of you should have access to it or at least most of you should have access to it there’s a channel in here called the internal team proposal and the internal team proposals are basically like governance proposals for implementing certain things that affect the community and there’s one
(10:03) open one right in in there right now called the token compensation revamp um anybody who was at AR Kumbaya on Friday I talked about it there but please go and go and take a look if you haven’t had a chance to look at it what up Chris oh Goodbye Chris and but yeah so this that’s one of the other purposes of like having the town hall is to start opening up discussion on these team proposals and the first one is just a revamp of how How We Do Fiat compensation versus token compensation and so that’s sort of
(10:34) the unless Mike do you have anything more you’d like to talk about before jumping into that I like it but maybe I justce it for myself but probably others who can or should be able to access what your because this is is this a or maybe even clarify who should be listening to this I believe you’re okay with this being record this will be recorded in public you know in the following days but who are we engaging with for that I’m not even sure your answer I’m curious to hear your answer who could I
(11:02) I’d love to involve The Wider Community but can they at this point or or who would be able to access this or how could people access this well so it’s a it’s an inter like I said it’s an internal team proposal internal okay I mean I think part of the exercise here is about like talking about these sorts of issues in public and talking about the different things that we’re planning on doing in governance in public because like I don’t think there’s anything like privileged about this proposal it’s how
(11:30) the Dow chooses to engage with its contractors and and and the mechanism by which compensation is awarded to contractors and so this is a proposal of of like how how a framework for negotiating that and yeah if you would like act I mean I don’t know do you think we should move that into a more public forum because right now everybody here has access to it besides kuaa unfortunately sorry I don’t I I don’t know I don’t know that we’ve ever met before but I imagine not not a part of like the the team I guess the reason I
(12:04) bring it up is is for the for the archives and for us but maybe over time it could evolve to be a public Community disposal but for now it’s a team only proposal but we’ll discuss it in the public is what he said so I think that’s that’s good so then these these would be discussed in discussed in the in this format of a call and this this is planned to be every two week is that am I correct in saying this is like a bi-weekly first of are we going to do this every two weeks approximately I mean or I guess if needed or I’m just
(12:39) trying to give more like this the kind of structure for myself as well as those listening wellcome well I mean I think it’s yeah welcome B yeah I mean I think it’s it like like I said this is the first one that we’ve done in a while and so it’s about establishing these sort of like governance rituals and like how do how do we go about discussing the things that we need to do and this is like so so an open house town hall is like yeah it would be a time for people to make open proposals to have a discussion
(13:09) about what they think ought to change about the Dow I I do think it should be you know the discussion should be open to anyone so it should be transparent anybody can like watch and listen but if you’ve read our white paper then one of the the core like philosophies that I think I have is is about like you you don’t want to give everyone permission to make a proposal if they have no stake and that is not only from like a a a civil resistance and like perspective like you don’t you don’t want the Dow
(13:41) itself from a at a contract level to be overloaded with proposals that need to be cleared before anything else can be done and so so part of this is about like who who has the power to make a proposal and to and then demand a vote on something because also it’s like you don’t want to overload people with governance pressure I mean for instance right like the internal team proposal on compensation the reason why I kind of want to bring it up is we haven’t I haven’t got a single comment on it and
(14:10) it does affect sort of everybody in the Dow if we were to adopt something like that and we need a system to to understand like what should we move to in terms of token compensation and I think there’s like a lot of moving pieces that go into that discussion but that’s why I would like to have that discussion but generally yeah I have no problem with these things being posted I don’t think should discuss I don’t think we’re discussing anything sensitive and I think like it’s the ethos of the Dow
(14:38) to be a little bit more open and honest about the things that we’re considering great so so with that said yeah I do think that this should happen once every two weeks I think we need to develop some sort of cadence for governance and just get into the practice of doing it and then ideally as the community grows as we have more and more stakeholders we as we have more and more voters that have a state think and know where where decisions will impact them then we have a forum for for actually like having
(15:05) these these discussions okay thanks sorry just just thought before we jumped into proposals so this would be like the first proposal of today’s town hall right so we kind of opened up almost trying a template for these calls so we warmed it up gave some updates and then we jumped into this first proposal right is kind of the format just to again Circle back make yeah and this is the first one token conversation proposal just to help everybody understand I’m sorry you broke up uh I was you know I’m
(15:37) get I’m just trying to help and maybe it’s not helpful but I’m trying to back up make sure everybody understands so we kind of opened up this town hall gave a couple of updates like you’re you share some things I share some things and then you open this is like the first proposal that we’re starting with in the today’s Town Hall I hope we’ll see I mean I think that we should let it evolve as it happens right and I’d like to do some other things with the town you know again like I said
(16:03) have some interviews and and talk to people about their philosophies and their feedbacks and on on the things that and the directions that we’re going and the things that we’re doing but but yeah I mean one thing to to note is that this is specific to that this is like about Hamza right and Hamza is the the company that is running you know it’s a dowo but like a company that’s running the front end for this e-commerce Marketplace and and so yeah any time we we need to make a decision about something that requires a vote this
(16:33) should be the place where we discuss it but yeah I mean we can also open up with a whole bunch of different things we can have interviews we can have Dev updates it’s I don’t think it’s I I don’t think we it’s it’s set in stone what what this should be other than it’s a forum for us to discuss and give updates on what’s going on inside Hamza okay clear thank you uh and so with that said I’ll go ahead and talk a little bit about this proposal just raise your hand if you’ve had a chance
(17:00) to to look at it and how would people raise do people know well I mean I think you can react right like you can even I’m having it’s like a different interface there’s a I’m not even fting the react person thumbs up I see your thumbs up but even I’m not yeah thumbs up in the chat if you’ve read it I no worries again we’re talking more more of to the team at this point but okay so it seems like not everybody has really had a chance to look over it yet I think we talked a little bit about
(17:33) it on Friday but the general structure of it I’m I’m no no no no so Jose I’m not talking about our our white paper I’m talking about the compensation revamp document so if you go to the left in the Hamza Discord there a place for the core team and then there’s a internal team proposals here for making proposals and the the only one in there right now is the to compensation revamp which is we had been yeah no no no worries we had been very early on in Hamza Distributing tokens using a system
(18:08) called coordinate and coordinate yeah thanks Mike coordinate yeah please refer to the picture that Mike put in the the chat coordinate was a system where we just signed each other and the the the team was like small enough at the time to just assign each other how how valuable we thought everybody’s contributions were over the course of a month no worries John very happy you’re on a mountain and I hope it’s lovely and exhilarating John’s currently on vacation in Japan and seems he’s having
(18:42) a lovely time thank you for showing up by the way I don’t think he can hear he might hear us he us coordinate what he might not be hearing us I think but no worries so we had been using coordinate and it just became cumbersome there was a lot of like issues especially it became weird to like see how everybody was valuing you is a a very strange way to do like General compensation I’ve seen other teams that have used it for like bonus compensation which is a place where it maybe makes a bit more sense but when
(19:16) we’re talking about Distributing like the the the core team like rewards token rewards for uh working on an early stage web 3 project we decided it just didn’t make a lot of sense and so we had distributed a bunch of tokens to teams but then we had yet to come up with a system for how do we get those tokens that have been distributed to the teams down to actual individuals and so the proposal outlines a way to to how we decide how much tokens people get for the work that they do and the simple way of looking at it is that it allows
(19:51) people to choose how much of their work they want to be like as a contractor say you’re making you the industry standard rate for your position is like $110,000 a month you can choose to take less than the industry standard rate and take a certain percentage of what you would be making in in tokens and that that like that has a linear multiplier based on how how much you take so I think we’re limiting on either side 20% and 20% meaning the most you can take in tokens is 80% and the most you can take in Fiat
(20:29) is 80% um so you have to take at least 20% of of either and the closer you are to the maximum so if you take all in in cash and none in tokens or all in 80% in cash and 20% in tokens then you your token allocation will have no multiplier whereas if you take you know 80% in tokens and 20% in cash then the 80% in tokens you will get will be multiplied by I think it was two or three or something like that and but yeah so what we need to vote and decide on is whether or not we think that’s like a fair system of allocating tokens versus cash
(21:07) to people so please yeah if anybody has any comments or any questions please raise your hand you know ask to come on stage and we can we can have a discussion about it so while we wait for that I could just bounce some ideas I mean we we have talked about this I mean I’ve there’s been a I don’t know this what we call it the foundation Shadow Council what’s the term for the foundation I mean there’s been a the Shadow the shadow Council has discuss this has I believe all agreed to this and so the next step would is having so
(21:45) is this like a vote does everybody have to like vote how this how do we pass this or is there just a what what is the process for this being approved I think we should have a public comment period and then everybody who would be affected by it should should vote on it similar to how um we did the the token allocation uh discussion and vote if you remember back in I want to say that would have been July or August it was a similar process but like a little bit less formalized where I wrote a long proposal for how we should do the
(22:18) different token allocations between the team and investors and community and everything like that and how much should be assigned to each person what weight we should give to the coordinate rounds that we had already done and then how much we should allocate to teams I produced that we had some discussions about it whether or not we thought it was fair we made some revisions and then we had sort of a general vote but we just did the vote in Kumbaya and so I think this should follow a similar similar track but we should start
(22:46) formalizing our voting process as if we would be voting on chain uh because eventually we will be voting on these sorts of proposals on chain and so we just need to get into the practice of doing it and so uh yeah I think a proposal should be written it should be discussed in brought up and discussed in the town hall and it should be open for comment for quite some time and then a vote should be called and I think the first hurdle is like clearing the shadow Council and then making sure and then once the shadow council is fine with
(23:14) something then we can put it to the the larger Community anybody who is a voter or has tokens to to get their approval um maybe that’s something that we can do in uh in this in fact is probably something that we should do in this this Discord think of this as like the Hamza governance Discord and the Hamza platform Discord obviously there’ll be some places for Sellers and everything like that but we should probably migrate the governance of this this platform to to there yeah Jose what’s up what’s up
(23:43) bro how are you nothing much I just have a question on the on the on the part of the percentage of of the hamsa token that US contractors would would receive so what are the options after we have this token I mean can we exchange it for something is it can do we stake it what what follows from that so so not so much about like the The Proposal itself but like what happens when you get given the token I guess yeah like almost like a liquidity question is it liquid is it locked I think it’s so yeah so I think right now we’re
(24:21) talking about pre-launch token and so I think that this probably is a different answer what I think the the short and easy answer is I don’t know right but but that is not to say that I don’t have an idea it’s just that like there’s a lot before we’re able to say for sure what that means so so I’ll take the question in like two phases the first is okay the immediate future where we’re we’re working before the token is launched and I think there’s still some things up in the air about what that
(24:53) token launch looks like like there’s some some things that we need to to iron out in terms of of which token people will get how much of which token they’ll be entitled to upon launch um but like let’s say for simplicity’s sake that we’re only talking about the Hamza token and that it’s the pre-launch version of the Hamza token so so when the the token’s launched the allocation that’ll be given to the team so like right now we’re all acre tokens that will be distributed upon like the Hamza token
(25:22) launch the team distribution will follow like the the cliff and vesting curve that we determine for the team and and for the investors and it should be the same so there’ll likely be a percentage of the token that is liquid immediately and then there will be a percentage that is vested over a certain a certain period of time whether that’s like one year or two years and it’ll come in the form of the like State governance token and but yeah I mean after like the the cliff investing period is cleared then
(25:54) it becomes liquid and I think again that that is going to look like the Redemption token that we’ve talked about uh in Hamza and so so this is where we get into the area of like there’s a lot of things like sort of still up in the air and things that have not quite been decided yet and development stuff that needs to happen but if we’re also launching the the dcom token at the same time then then some of that like you the fact that you have been getting the Hamza token means that you’ll be entitled to some of that airdrop as well
(26:27) it’ll probably be like a smaller percent percentage but maybe more like relative to the the like the total circulating Supply at the time of launch but that will also have to follow some cliff and and vesting curve so some of it will be liquid some of it will not and again all please I’m I’m pretty sure that’s what I would be advocating for but we don’t have any of this set stone so so none of this is like for sure but that’s likely what it’ll look like and then and then we took and then there’s like this
(26:57) question of okay so that’s now pre-t token but we will have a system for determining token versus cash compensation for contractors post token launch as well and I think that the answer to that might be different right I think it’ll follow the same framework where if we accept this this idea that contractors can sort of choose what percentage they want based on an industry standard pay and the amount of like whatam weall it discount they’re they’re willing to take on an industry standard pay I think I think that that
(27:29) if we accept that framework then we’ll probably still have it post token launch but the question of whether or not that token when you’re awarded it is liquid is like that’s that’s a little bit farther off than I have a good answer for does does that help does that clarify yeah that was my other question actually if you had a system for for converting stablecoin or or other tokens into that new token and pretty much clarified that because having a certain percentage of your of your compensation
(28:00) in that token presupposes that there is some such mechanism in place right yeah I mean so I mean I think we’re talking about it it’s it’s it’s different because the the the mechanism by which like those let’s say those notes are convertible is different in the case of the two separate tokens right and and this is we know that this this has always been the plan the question is like sort of timeline here but and again I I think that this will be the case but the conversion of the Hamza token
(28:31) right it’s going to be more of an internal token and private equity share right so the convertibility of the Hamza token is within the platform and within it’s it’s like Redemption From the Vault the the gas token however the decom token which is required to pay the fee theol fees vote on product catalog is required to to initiate a dispute you know like those those sorts of things for the like public goods infrastructure that we’re building the convertibility based of that is going to be based on liquidity right and
(29:03) so they’ll have to be it’ll be something that you can trade on a DEX if you wanted to or you could stake it but yeah the the percentage of which like that when we’re giving it to contractors the percentage of it that will be immediately vested versus or like immediately staked or locked versus how much is liquid when when we give it to contractors I I it could be 100% could be 0% could could have a cliff vesting scale schedule I I don’t think I’ve thought that far yet but but yeah I mean
(29:33) I’d be interested to hear what you think it ought to look like it’s a tough balance right because when you when we give out the Hamza token it’s convertible for treasury assets and so it would be like just like sort of paying out of the treasury and so then what’s the point of someone not taking just cash right cuz like if you think about it like if so so think about this scenario we give out the Hamza token according to this and we give someone 50% in cash for their contractual work and then 50% in the Redemption token but
(30:11) the 50% in the Redemption token is following like a multiplier because it’s not all being taken out in token if we gave it out and it was like not locked then they could just immediately convert and end up taking home in cash more than if they had just taken 100% in cash I don’t know if if if everybody’s following that logic but but that would be the the functional how it would work would work in function so it seems to me that like when we’re giving out the Hamza token it it should be true that
(30:42) it’s in like some sort of locked form because the idea of taking token as opposed to cash is that you’re like deferring some of your reward for a higher percentage of something of of this like this Stak token or a higher ratio of the stake token token uh according to to like the industry standard pay and so so it wouldn’t make sense to just give it out and allow it to be immediately redeemable I think that question is different when we’re talking about the dcom token but because the dcom token then it’s like okay well
(31:14) you could sell into the liquidity that exists you could convert it maybe it wouldn’t be as much you know I think logically it probably could have some sort of Cliff or vesting period but yeah I I I’m not sure guess Jose I don’t know if he said you didn’t have time to read The Proposal the point is that you you H at least what it says and I think the core part of it is you have to everybody working in this company or this what do you call it in this organization will have to receive at least 80 at least 20% of
(31:51) either either side Max 80% of either side so you’re going to have to receive at least 20% in cash or eight quote unquote cash and and or 20% in tokens so you’re if you’re very risk you really believe in this and you you don’t need maybe cash shortterm you could go as high as 80% in token if you’re the other side and you’re very conservative and you you just want the shortterm stability the most you could get is 80% and and stable cash and 20% with of your total compensation would be in toal
(32:29) I think that’s a core part of this proposal and there’s also this formulas for how to figure out the compensation and I think it was very well written Bo I think he took got some inspiration from other other sources but he came up with this and that’s basically I hope people here understand so no coordin tape anymore for those that were here for the coordin tape like Bose says this would be how people are getting token and they can decide how much of their total compensation would be in token versus quote unquote cash to
(32:58) to the 8020 maximums range is that is that clear I mean please still read The Proposal but I I’m trying to simplify it for for those that haven’t seen it yet yes of course I’ll read The Proposal but yeah I get it now it’s it’s a way of of supporting Community growth that that’s how I see supporting the organization growth I’m sorry no I mean yeah it is but it’s also a way of like I would what I would say is like the idea is to award people in equity right or award people in in voting power
(33:35) right and and this is distinct from like when we’re talking about like token sales right because because that’s like sort of the problem problem you run into legally when you’re talking about crypto and token sales is like when you’re trying to do like a a public token sale of equity of a platform right but that’s different when you’re doing like when you’re rewarding like a a a contractor with or rewarding an employee with Equity within the company and so it’s yeah the idea being that like you can
(34:08) work for just more power within the system and the the system should be able to reward you with that and so yeah we don’t want to make it I think immediately convertible to cash because that’s the whole point of like allowing people to choose how much they need in cash versus how much they want in power or want in in token and and everything like that okay that’s clear now so Bo do we give some kind of deadline or time frame I mean I’ll just try to push this along how much time do you think people
(34:37) should have for reviewing and oh I will send another message today and then let’s say it should be accepted like we should have a vote by next Monday okay so the 17th of February 2025 okay cool this is please Elders can I think you have the requests but we can just let you come up on stage and you can ask we want you to be comfortable with this where do we vote where do we vote Bo where do we vote for this I’ll set up I think so Fred and Heidi I think this is a job for us this week is we need to think about how to do
(35:17) some some voting on in this like how to do it through Discord we can set up a meeting about this because we could also do we could do it via snapshot and we could distribute some tokens to people some like sort of placeholder tokens to enable the like snapshot voting but let’s look into what the best way to do a vote on on a proposal is would be because I mean like there’s a simple way which is we could look at the if you look at the The Proposal you can react to the proposal and we could just do like reactions up vote down vote right
(35:53) but we could also do it yeah so like if you look at the proposal I just did left a thumbs up up on it and we could do it that way where we’re looking for just simple up vote down vote we could do a Channel all all on its own where it moves fromal to to actual voting but yeah I mean longterm we’ll we’ll do something else but yeah Fred Heidi please please message me after the the town hall and we’ll we’ll have a quick chat about it sick okay well are there any other comments on the proposal
(36:27) comments questions or just if not then I’ll open it go ahead sorry I don’t I was just saying or any other feedback but yeah go ahead okay if not then if there’s any then I can open it up in general if there’s any questions about Hamza the progress that we’ve made uh things you’d like to bring to our attention questions from your mic then yeah please please raise your hand and come on stage if not I have some seated questions that people might either not know to ask or I I could prep for to
(37:05) seed all right I could break the ice to ourselves but I think people should prepare I don’t know if we should do a vote we’ll probably start to move to stablecoin from from Bitcoin soon so I don’t know if we want to give people a choice sooner we’ve talked about that but we were wor to make it too complicated but we will be working moving toward towards a usdc or usdt stable in the near future I believe yeah that is true we will start to be doing ethereum based payments on optimism in the next few months which is
(37:44) sort of natural right like um given that all of like our our revenue is on ethereum chains and it’s all coming into a vault and a dow managed byza like all our smart contracts to deploy on ethereum and so this transition was always was inevitable but yeah I mean maybe this is a is something else that we need to make a proposal about uh just in terms of like what do people actually want to be paid in right because we could we could standardize it and we could just say that everybody gets paid in USD or usdc I know I would prefer not
(38:19) to be paid in USD or usdc but but yeah I mean I wonder I wonder what people’s preferences are I mean obviously it’s like the rates that we we pay out at are in US dollar terms and so it makes it pretty simple in terms of conversion so we don’t have to think about like what the the 5day moving average of Bitcoin is but but I wonder do people actually would they prefer it in in usdc or WRA Bitcoin or ethereum or maybe a topic for another day but if anybody has any questions or or comments on the subject
(38:55) please feel free yeah food for thought but I guess I just vote for Simplicity I mean I I’m not as involved as you are in the process but it takes a decent amount of brain power and resources so I just worry to have too many choices as too much complexity and even cost of time right and resources so that’s just my thought but yeah we true no I mean and it’s it’s simple enough right like sorry I think the simplest way to do it honestly is to pay people in ethereum because it is standard but it also means
(39:33) that like if if a person wants something else right like they can do the swap themselves it’s on optimism so it cost you know basically nothing but giving paying out in eth means that people can swap it for stable coins immediately if they want to but it also avoids the case where they don’t have any like eth in their wallet to like pay gas fees true so so like that’s that’s the only counter argument I have there but like I also think that shouldn’t be like a huge issue everybody should know that they
(40:05) need like a couple of sents of eth on optimism in order to to make swaps and transactions I’ve been sharing a couple of crazy I don’t know for some reason the metamask feed account feeds in my Twitter now but they have account abstraction I think it’s only an L on Main net though but they do gasless swops and bridging natively metamask now hm yes hka just said the same thing but I think it’s only mainnet as of what I just saw I saw that same thing hka but I think it was main that only for now but
(40:39) I’m sure they’re probably who sponsor is it metamask I mean it’s from the official metamask account on on Twitter and they put like a little short video and an announcement literally like at least I saw like last week and then I saw another one about the bridging I think that was even over the weekend or late last week so you can bra the l2s from Main that inside metam mask which I know has been painful for us so that should be that’s what I’m actually bullish I know people picking on ethereum I don’t want to get too off
(41:10) topic but this whole bridging and account abstraction I think is getting solved pretty quickly interesting yeah yeah was is putting some links in chat no no no I yeah I just saw yeah that’s I mean that’s crazy though right like I mean I guess it’s maybe not that much in the grand scheme of things but like if metamask is just like sponsoring swaps on mainnet like swaps on mainnet are like can get pretty pricey well I don’t think that they pay the fee I think they pass the fee in the other currency I think so if you’re
(41:44) swapping in usdc and the gas is $30 on Main net you’d pay $30 usdc I believe it’s not they don’t okay so they’re not their transactions they just pay it in okay okay okay okay so it’s just like I could have $1,000 in usdc and they’ll sponsor the transaction but then take the the value of the gas fee in usdc that makes sense okay well I mean yeah if there’s no other questions or or comments on anything I don’t know do you guys want to talk about like we have a little bit of time and I wouldn’t mind
(42:20) talking a little bit about some of the projects that I’m like following right now and some like dropping a little bit of like crypto Alpha I mean I don’t know if anybody has any suggestions or if they’ve been looking into any projects that they think look promising I mean I literally as we’ve been talking I sometimes get you I still I’m addicted to Twitter on my phone I I I scrolling just now and Arthur Hayes just said on Twitter if he’s showing barain and it just did their tge a few days ago and it
(42:52) went from like $15 to like $5 in like a day and he says note to projects when working with market makers and and exchanges please do not go out to maximum value at launch give room for your user yeah he says don’t do what they did he says like and I hope we do that I really hope we’re trying to be organic but basically saying is give some upside for your retail buyers right don’t don’t dump on don’t put at max value I think we complain about I don’t call it too many projects but I think some other
(43:29) projects it also hurts the the Project’s reputation cuz people remember that in a community yeah I mean look that said I’m I’m watching bar chain like I like this is the thing is like I got a little bit of the airdrop I definitely want to buy more and I’m actually kind of happy that it’s been going down in price um because I think that it I I don’t know this is one of the projects I was going to mention cuz I’ve like I’ve been watching bar chain for like a long time and they
(43:57) I’m I’m excited that they finally like launched and so I’ve been I mean has anybody like around on their dexes or anything like that no well I was thinking about running a validator because they’re like a huh don’t keep going that’s awesome I mean we’ll see I mean I I do think it’s like it’s a good team like with a good marketing budget I think they they bungled the launch a little bit but I generally have have some pretty good faith in their ability to to drive liquidity to the chain and I think
(44:31) that’s like maybe the the better metric rather than like pure token price because they did just give out like a big airdrop and a lot of people just sold immediately and and yeah I mean like I think arbitrum did the same thing right yeah so when arbitrum launched a huge airdrop like to a bunch of people and they you know the token price went down but their token price has like doubled or tripled since then and so I mean I don’t know I like their R shade yeah I haven’t followed a project I just remember they had how I remember them
(45:03) they had like bikini girls with huge bear masks running around at conferences and on ski jet skis or something that’s was that train baddies yeah the baddies yeah yeah so Bo when are we going to do that for H and decom I mean I don’t know man I don’t know that we’re going the sex cells route that bar chain did I mean I wrote I wrote him off for like a long long time until I met some of the developers and then talked to like some other friends in the space who were just like look man like their their Tech is
(45:35) actually pretty pretty legitimate and and then yeah I think it’s I think it’s a novel concept a novel L1 and and I think that they like are good at hype marketing um and so I think that that’s like sort of what you need in the space to to be really successful but I don’t know it’s tough It’s also tough when you’re talking about launching another L1 right like L1 competition is hard and you know it’s it begs this question of like you know I’ll be talking to someone tonight
(46:06) Who’s Who Mike said will try and convince me to to launch as a or like launch decom as a as a cosmos Sid or like whatever they’re called yeah it’s an L1 they say it’s you’re on L1 they call it L1 right right right right so I don’t know it’s like it’s it’s a tough it’s a tough game to break into but all right well well if unless anybody has anything else I mean please post any Alpha in the chat any any memes or degenerate gambling moves to make always welcome but yeah other than that I think we can
(46:40) we can call it a a town hall nice it’s exciting like I’m definitely happy we got these going again they were on a we had a good flow I know I know Jose really enjoyed them and I did and many others should we give an expectation for length meaning this is almost perfectly matched an hour should that be a time I mean should we or should we just let it go as long as it if some somewhere remember we’re at multip more than an hour I I don’t know I don’t know if we should fix a time or or not I don’t know
(47:12) if you have an opinion I I think that like it’s I think that they should be like sort of fluid I mean I think we should fix the time just because like scheduling especially across like multiple continents and time zones is just difficult right so so having fixed times and expectations for for how long people for for people and how how long they should be there and everything like that I think is a good thing but I think that yeah sometimes we’ll just have more to discuss and I think as long as we should maybe have some like caps right
(47:44) like it can only go maybe 2 or 3 hours long if if something is if people are really really engaged and we have a a a post or like a proposal that’s like particularly controversial um or if we need to really really need to figure some things out but but I think for now like we’re we’re easing into some more transparency easing into a little bit more Community engagement and and governance processes so I think an hour is feels pretty pretty cozy and yeah hopefully we’ll have more hopefully over
(48:17) time yeah these become uh something that we have to dedicate more time to because they’re either really interesting or just because there’s a lot that needs to be decided and discussed okay Fair Point yeah Jose is enjoy he likes he wants more of these I’m just reading some comments great all right well have a good rest of your day Bo and I’m probably going to get the kids to bed here and thanks everybody for your time it was fun fun one so next one would most so should we just say it now the 24th same time Monday yep yeah two
(48:51) weeks I think sounds sounds reasonable who ask yeah thanks for making it man thanks for everyone else showing up I will talk to you guys later all right ciao [Music]

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Now is your chance to get involved in the early stages of the Hamza Market ecosystem.

Community is the heart of Web3, and we’re kicking things off with two major events this week:

Event 1: Town Hall “Open House”

Monday, Feb 10, 2025
1 PM UTC (8 PM Thailand, UTC+7)
Hamza Discord

We’re hosting an open house in our new Hamza Discord to discuss governance, tokenomics, proposals, and more. Dive into the latest updates on our white paper, incentive structures, and future roadmap. Plus, you’ll have the chance to participate in an AMA with key team members.

Learn more & register: https://blog.hamza.market/open-house/

Event 2: Decom Talks on X (Twitter) Spaces

Thursday, Feb 13, 2025 (Late Wednesday for the U.S.)
Twitter (X) Spaces

Join us for a buyer/seller roundtable discussion featuring some of the first vendors in the Hamza marketplace. Get an inside look at the products, merchants, and opportunities available.

Learn more & register: https://blog.hamza.market/decom-talks/

We’re building key engagement pillars to strengthen the Hamza Market community—think of these as the gears capturing the water flow of the Hamza river. These events are just the beginning.

Development & Governance Updates

Development Team: We’re in a hardening sprint—optimizing code, fixing bugs, and improving speed. We’re also gathering merchant feedback to enhance the platform.

Governance & Fundraising: We’re refining our white paper and tokenomics with insights from investors, smoothing out key details before expanding our public discussions.

All in all, we’re becoming more transparent, more public, and more community-driven. We’re excited to grow together and build a fairer marketplace.

Let’s build this together. See you at our upcoming events!

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By embracing a multi-chain model, Hamza empowers both buyers and sellers with more flexibility, lower fees, and increased accessibility. Whether you’re buyer, an independent seller, a small business owner, or simply looking for better alternatives to traditional platforms, this expansion opens up exciting new opportunities.

Why Multi-Chain Matters

For years, centralized platforms have dominated online commerce, imposing high fees, restrictive policies, and limited payment options. Hamza.market was designed to change that, offering a decentralized, censorship-resistant marketplace where users maintain full control over their transactions.

Expanding beyond Optimism to Base and Arbitrum brings several key benefits:

Lower Gas Fees – With multiple Layer 2 networks, users can choose the most cost-efficient option for transactions.
Faster Transactions – Arbitrum and Base offer high-speed processing, reducing wait times for purchases and listings.
More User Access – Different users have different preferences when it comes to blockchains, and supporting multiple chains makes Hamza more inclusive.

What This Means for Sellers

If you’re a seller on Hamza, this expansion means more potential buyers and increased liquidity. You can now reach users across three different networks, optimizing for cost and efficiency. Plus, by leveraging decentralized payments, you avoid the hefty fees associated with traditional e-commerce platforms.

A Step Toward the Future of E-commerce

The transition to multi-chain isn’t just about convenience—it’s about building the future of decentralized commerce a.k.a. DECOM. Hamza’s mission is to create a fair, open, and transparent marketplace, free from the control of big tech monopolies, redefining e-commerce by enabling the purchase of physical goods with crypto. This means real-world utility, broader adoption, and a marketplace that truly bridges the gap between Web3 and everyday shopping.

What’s Next?

Hamza.market is committed to continuous innovation. With multi-chain support now live, we’re looking at further integrations, enhanced features, and community-driven improvements.

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Curious about the latest revolution in commerce? Join Decom Talks on X, where vendors, developers, buyers, and degens dive into the evolving world of decentralized commerce (Decom).

Come with questions, ideas, and an open mind as we pioneer a new way of doing commerce on the blockchain!

Thursday, February 13, 2025
8:00 AM (Thailand) | 1:00 AM (UTC) | 8:00 PM (New York) | 5:00 PM (San Francisco)

What to Expect:

• Meet Hamza Decom’s first merchants on the world’s first Decom marketplace
• Get exciting updates on the movement
• Engage, connect, and be part of the future of commerce

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https://x.com/hamzadecom1

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Curious about what’s been happening behind the scenes at the Hamza Decom Market? Want to connect with the team, engage with the community, and hear the latest updates—plus how you can get involved?

We’re opening up our Hamza Discord Server and kicking it off with a live voice channel stream!

Agenda:

• Current Proposals
• Public Comments
• AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Monday, February 10, 2025
8 PM Thailand / 1 PM UTC

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Our mission is to bridge the gap between web2 and web3, empowering sellers, entrepreneurs, and communities to break free from centralized control. Block Mountain, one of Thailand’s premier web3 conferences, was the perfect platform to connect with like-minded innovators and showcase what Hamza is all about.

Exploring Web3 Innovations at Block Mountain

Set in the vibrant One Nimman outdoor square in Chiang Mai, Block Mountain was a hub of activity. As a locally-driven event, many speaker sessions were in Thai, but the networking opportunities and exhibitions transcended language barriers.

One of the highlights was discovering a Crypto Clock, designed by a Bangkok-based electrical engineer and entrepreneur. We’re excited to collaborate with him and bring his creation to Hamza.market, helping him reach a broader audience in the decentralized commerce space.

Engaging with the Web3 & Crypto Community

Beyond the main event, Hamza had a presence at various side gatherings. We contributed to the Meme Coin session at Yellow, hosted by Denis from MemeIndex Org DAO, and engaged in discussions at Frying Fish Club, where web3 enthusiasts gathered to exchange insights and ideas.

A New Chapter Hamza Fundraising Kickoff

The highlight of the week was our official fundraising kickoff event on Friday, January 24, 2025. This marked a crucial step in our journey, as we unveiled our pitch deck and shared our vision for Hamza with a wider audience. The event brought together potential investors, partners, and community members who believe in the future of decentralized commerce.

As we move forward, we remain committed to creating a fair and open marketplace, free from the constraints of traditional platforms. Block Mountain was just the beginning, and we’re excited for the road ahead.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to shape the future of online selling with Hamza!

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What’s Happening This Week:

• Hamza White Paper: Last week, we completed the draft of the Hamza white paper. It’s not public yet, as it’s currently under review by advisors, consultants, and close contacts before wider distribution.
• Funding Round: We’ve been actively pitching at events and are officially opening our next round of financing. Expect more opportunities for community involvement in the coming months!
• Recent Transactions: A car was sold on Hamza Market last week, with almost $9k USD transacted!
• New Vendors: We are onboarding 5 new vendors this week. We’ve been building a solid process and procedure for reviewing applications and vetting vendors before the release of our white paper and governance.

What’s Coming Up:

• Community Engagement: Expect more Twitter Spaces, more Discord Town Halls, and more ways for you, as a public community member, to participate and earn chances to win exciting opportunities!
• Hamza Market Progress: After almost 1.5 years of hard work, Hamza Market is now in a flow state, with vendors onboarded, transactions with buyers in progress, escrow services available, and much more.
• IT Enhancements: On the IT side, we’re working on multichain integration, vendor admin tools, and UI/UX enhancements to further improve the platform.

Stay tuned for more updates and ways to get involved!

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• New chain support: Base and Arbitrum
• Currency selector in page header
• New gift cards
• Major improvements to gift card import: terms & conditions, extra info, bug fixes, better variant detection, and other improvements
• Created gift card update process
• Improvements to order display: order id, link to escrow page, tracking number, chain identifier, and other improvements

Bug fixes:

• Fixed bug that caused pre-checkout balance check to be ignored
• Fixed bugs causing customer chat to not display
• Minor bug fixes

Minor UI updates:

• Added USD equivalent prices in more places (e.g. order display)
• Improved cart quantity display
• Various small updates

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The first 20 customers who buy any product on OnlyPrints via Hamza Market will receive a digital and physical bonus:

1 hueforge print of the Hamza print (limited edition)

1 NFT of the Bronze level Hamza Key

Also, you will be eligible for future raffles and bonuses as the marketplace builds out.

Offer valid from Monday Jan 20 to Monday Jan 27 midnight EST (New York Time)

NFT will be delivered / airdropped to your wallet once campaign has completed.

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We have heard your requests and looked at the data – and here at Hamza we are happy to announce a new seller on the Hamza.market Decom marketplace – Ready Cash Card.

With a wide range of gift cards to choose from (and more to come), Ready Cash Card currently has listed on the market:

Target US
Google Play US
Roblox US
Amazon Fresh US
Amazon Kindle US
Amazon Prime US
Amazon Music Unlimited US
Amazon US

More cards are coming soon!

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• Products Module (Products list)
• Multi-chain support

Orders Improvements:

• Order archiving & list display improvements
• Improved filtering
• Product table default sort
• Validation & escrow handling bug fixes
• Moved actions to beginning
• CSV product update

Minor UI updates:

• Homepage placeholder
• Added product name to orders table

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At the heart of Hamza’s decentralized e-commerce (#DECOM) movement is a community of trailblazing sellers, and Stanzo’s 3D Prints is a shining example. Run by Thomas, a long-time Handshake ($HNS) enthusiast with a passion for pushing creative boundaries, he brings awesome, 3D-printed products to life.

Thomas’s journey into 3D printing began about nine months ago, sparked by an unforgettable Easter. When his order for 3D-printed dragons was abruptly canceled, he realized the potential of owning a 3D printer: no more cancellations, no more unmet expectations. Today, that single moment of frustration has blossomed into a thriving business redefining the way we shop for 3D-printed creations.

Breaking Boundaries with Hamza and Why Decentralized Matters

Thomas is no stranger to online marketplaces, having sold on platforms like Etsy. While Etsy offers a straightforward setup for sellers, it comes with challenges—high fees, tight controls, and the looming risk of arbitrary bans. This centralized approach led Thomas to explore alternatives, and Hamza.market became the perfect fit.

Hamza’s decentralized model prioritizes seller empowerment. Through community ownership and governance, it’s a platform where vendors like Thomas can thrive without the fear of restrictive policies or unexpected roadblocks. For him, Hamza isn’t just a marketplace—it’s a collaborative ecosystem that listens to its users and values their input.

Discovering Stanzo’s 3D Prints on Hamza.market

Stanzo’s 3D Prints offers a variety of imaginative and practical creations. One standout product is the HueForge, a 3D-printed picture designed to mesmerize. Its ultra-thin layers create a stunning color transition effect, shifting hues as light hits it from different angles. Perfect for your desk or wall, HueForge is an elegant example of what happens when art meets technology.

Another favorite is Stanzo’s Wall Art—sleek, glossy pieces with built-in light effects. Customers love how these prints add depth and dimension to any space. For larger designs, Thomas uses innovative techniques to print in sections and seamlessly weld the parts together, creating a flawless finish.

Building the Future of #DECOM Together

Thomas is just getting started on Hamza.market. Stanzo’s 3D Prints is poised to grow alongside the platform. What excites him most is Hamza’s mission: a marketplace built by the people, for the people. Being part of a decentralized community where his voice matters inspires him to dream bigger—for his business and for the future of e-commerce.

Check out SkyInclude’s interview with Thomas, owner of Stanzo’s 3D Prints

Explore the possibilities, discover one-of-a-kind creations, and experience what it means to truly own your marketplace. Interested to Be Part of the growing Hamza? We’re here for you at [email protected].

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