Gregory Crous on H3RO3S, a play to earn platform for real life tasks

0:00i'm ashton addison from block west capital for investmentpitch media and the cryptocoin show and today on blockchain interviews with gregory krauss the ceo of heroes gregory welcome to the show and thank you for taking the time thank you very much ashland for the nice introduction very happy to be here look forward to discuss heroes with you likewise uh the blockchain gaming and

0:21metaverses and gaming is just being revolutionized all together right now and there's a lot of different ways that companies are going about it i know that you've been working on something really innovative with heroes and i would love for you to just kick it off by just explaining you know what is heroes what was your vision behind creating it and what are the main solutions you're

0:39looking to drive into the industry sure yeah so here is the first real-life play to earn we've seen recently with the whole metaverse creation of the boom how everyone's very excited about going to live their life in a new reality uh i think it's a great movement i think we're fully supporting it at the same time we also understand that we are all people and our lives are

1:02dependent in the real world we have to eat we have to sleep go somewhere and at the same time we also want to meet people so out of nature as uh humans we're quite social individuals and therefore we now look for the opportunity to encourage and allow people to become the best version of themselves by being able to foster their talent and being able to

1:24receive rewards for helping other people in this social surrounding very cool great introduction gregory thank you for that and i would love to dive into a little bit more into that in the in the play to earn and the real life part you know and i think people are still trying to familiarize themselves with what is play to earn you know uh they understand that you know there's

1:46blockchain incorporated into the games potentially they're getting nfts or cryptocurrencies i would love for you to explain you know what is this real life play to earn and how is it different from these other traditional blockchain gaming platforms that are coming out sure so the the normal play to earn is normally that you have to be on a computer on your on

2:06your phone and you have to play your tv games and as you play you receive money for certain things right and with heroes we're more focused on the the social aspect it is played to learn you are using your phone you are connecting with people and you are doing tasks for another but in this process of doing that you are interacting with real life people and you're actually fostering

2:27yourself by developing what your talent actually is so in that sense uh an example like to give is if you're a student and you have to um how to say this review an assignment before you provide it to your professor then normally you would either hire a tutor or you could ask your friend to do it for you now for these small tasks if i would suggest my friend if i can please pay

2:49him something he would say no because he's a homie of mine but now with heroes you're able to reward individuals with the power of crypto for doing the things that they would do in their day-to-day life if it's taking someone as a plus one to a party if it's playing soccer or or batman or whatever it is if it's going to the gym to show up don't exercise properly if it's having a chat

3:10with someone just about what they're going through all of this on our activities or tasks that people can do and earn money with it at the same time very cool i like that uh and especially because there's so many different games where you're just and you know you're an avatar in a video game and uh you're grinding out to earn but it's not always necessarily your

3:33strength right and so to have all the different options available for monetization of things that you actually want to do obviously it's going to be advantageous and i was reading on the backstory of heroes and and how you're coming up with this and the student example and you know with social distancing everything coming up this is a great platform for

3:52people to be able to connect and get real-life things done without necessarily being right beside them so uh since that vision is now coming into reality i'd love to get a better snapshot of where exactly heroes is at today with the platform true i have a huge smile on my face because i'm so excited that this idea initially was in my brain than written a

4:14piece of paper and now it is where it is so it's super exciting uh where we are now is that we have um there's an imminent launch happening now for the crypto talk i mean the coin right the app itself we're releasing it in stages it will start by next month and the the core idea behind this is that there's 45 different talents and over 100 different tasks that can be

4:36completed so every talent has around 10 corresponding tasks and then the person themselves are able to kind of find out what they're the best at so we don't just limit the individual saying okay you've got the one talent or one superpower but you don't have to try your best into to succeed but we give the option that you can you can progress and you can add talents as

4:59you are um leveling up or if you feel like that that turn that you have chosen does not fit you at all you can start from so it's really focused on the individuals journey and how they're able to explore themselves in their social surroundings that's the main point um yeah so we're launching the talk in the next couple of days with that in mind we also focus on our

5:22launch of the app which is we are starting in the quarter one of 20-22 it's also very exciting and uh yeah that's uh pretty much summarized great yeah that is very exciting thank you gregory and i i feel like there's still like this group of people that they they don't play video games they have talents but they really can't find somewhere to you know utilize their talents

5:46especially to be paid in cryptocurrency um and this sounds like the ultimate platform for that and but i feel like a lot of these people aren't necessarily in cryptocurrency yet you know they're they want to get in it they just need to get past any technical barriers and blockages and now with the platform i would love to know a little bit more about the

6:06heroes coin that you mentioned that is coming out soon is that going to be the primary way to get paid uh and are there other functionalities of the heroes coin in the ecosystem sure so you mentioned a very important uh fact which is that crypto is actually something that a lot of people are aware of and i was speaking at an event in uh monaco uh and there it was mentioned there's 150

6:31million people that are aware of what crypto is or crypto users now where is the rest of the what eight billion people were they so now um what we try to facilitate is the introduction of crypto to the everyday people at the same time we also ensure security and that our platform is safe in that sense so our users are able or they are required to complete

6:56the kyc with this kyc not only do they secure that we know the people who are involved on the platform and if something happens then you know we're able to take the necessary steps but with this uh kyc process we're already able to introduce the hero's wallet so we have our own wallet that people can then create and that's kind of the introduction of crypto to the everyday

7:16people what's also very interesting is that with uh our intention to launch the app in in the uk um there's 4.5 million students in the uk themselves and worldwide there's 600 million students so what made me laugh quite a lot was that in in monaco they were saying yeah it will take you know to let's say 20 25 20 30 until we have a billion users and

7:40when it was my time to speak i said guys you know what you have to realize is that maybe two years we already have this number set up so um it was uh i saw a room full of awe to see how excited they were and i think that's also the main thing the hero's token initially is the main incentive behind the individuals doing things for each other and being rewarded for it so we do

8:04have various utilities for the token the main thing is that the token is used to customize the experience of the individual so they're able to update or upgrade the little character that they create by purchasing an nft items to create value to their character and as they proceed they're also able to harass us further uh the in-app purchases on the platform is

8:30based on the token and this is what increases the token value we also have a nft market space where we foster the creative individuals on our platform where they're able to upload their art their paintings their music their videos their movies and also able to mint them and decide at what price at what nft how many of them they want to mint and how they want to proceed with their art

8:52career so our main priority is to focus on the individual and how they see themselves and how they want to proceed uh in their career path and yeah overall just supporting their journey and with our focus on launching the app for the students we have to realize that they you know they come of age they they finish their high school they go to this new world of university and they try to

9:15discover themselves and that's often quite scary especially if you have no idea what you want to do and in that sense heroes also supports the individual in trying to find themselves what what they're good at what they want to do and being able to also monetarily reward this gives a certain amount of security and to the individual themselves if they

9:37see themselves going to a career of banking but at the same time their hobbies actually is painting then it's difficult to earn money with with painting especially in a very crowded industry and that's with where we come in to give that guiding support and say guys don't worry about that you're able to try out new things and you won't have any consequences out of

9:56it definitely and thank you for sharing that gregory because that it seems like the platform is actually a lot more than what i first thought when we first spoke about it you know having an nft marketplace having all of these nfts as well it's not just do a task earn some cryptocurrency right there's a whole community and you know a metaverse of sorts which makes sense in blockchain

10:20gaming you know there's a place in virtual world where you can go and you can own whatever you'd like in tokenized version and i'm curious a little bit more about that those nfts are you just creating the marketplace or are you also creating your own nfts will it be nfts that are being airdropped or auctioned and i'd love to hear a little bit more about

10:40that sure so our brain actually it's my perspective my perspective is if we take care of the community the community will take care of us as well that's the main thing so that's that's the focus if we take care of the people the people will understand uh how how did they reach this this goal and in terms of the nfts what is cool about heroes is that

11:03you create your your character that you play in the meta verse but you are the person who's playing it in real life so that's the that's the beauty behind it um with the nfts themselves we also have uh i mean i wrote the 30-year plan it was 52 000 word book with a whole list of of apps inventions upgrades updates everything already planned out so our main thing is

11:28just to understand the the market how what is the demand in the market at that point of time and didn't include these updates into into our community basically with the mft what i can disclose right now is we have quite a few exciting opportunities for the individuals to upgrade their own experience on the platform we also have a form of merge merchandise nfts and of

11:56course that the other one of this disclosed too much but basically there'll be opportunity for people to play their character in the metaverse but that's that's a little bit down the line very cool thank you for sharing all that i would definitely follow along uh with the nft side as well because i see a lot of promise in owning nfts early on in the metaverse

12:21and it could be very lucrative and beneficial in other ways as well and i know that your platform is early on so it's still a good time for viewers to follow along with the coin with the nft drops with the platform for the viewers that are looking to follow along with this more and get involved with all of the drops and as the platform launches what's the best

12:45way for them to get involved sure so we do have um quite a few different ways uh the main thing the way people are able to stay in touch through our telegram and channels we also have instagram uh two different ones for the app and one for the coin what is exciting is that the the token launch is happening in the next couple of days so that's the main thing we

13:09could participate in uh we are partnering with uh very strong uh names i'm also waiting to announce that there's a certain amount of disclosure there too but once that's uh open to discuss it's really really amazing i'm very proud of what we've achieved so far i'm very happy with the people who are working with and just the support in general of of something that

13:31was in my brain and now it's in real life and people are so hyped about it it's the best feeling anyone could experience i'm very happy that's incredible well i will definitely leave the link to the telegrams the the website all the announcement channels in the description box below all the best with the upcoming launch of the token and i will be following as the platform

13:53grows out and hopefully be able to get some of the nfts as well uh wishing you all the best until then and let's follow up in the near future 100 ashton again thank you very much for your time i'm very happy that i've been able to explain more about heroes here today you