NextProtocol combines blockchain gaming and NFTs with AI bots

0:02i'm ashton addison from block west capital for investmentpitch media in the crypto coin show and today on blockchain interviews we have sheikh hamdan the ceo of next protocol sheikh welcome to the show and thank you so much for taking the time to come on hey thank you ashton for giving me an opportunity and it's my great pleasure to be here with you today

0:24likewise i'm really excited for our discussion i know your team's been working hard on the next protocol i would love before we dive into the details on nfts gaming and the like if you could just give the viewers a high level overview of some of the solutions that your team is working on at next protocol and what you've been building sure so uh if you look at me i'm in ite industry

0:49last 25 years and my company next it is in business last 10 years so as a typical uh software company we started with the software development integration multiple software and all but we quickly move into ai and blockchain technologies so that helped us to know to move forward quickly then what we did is that from ai we moved to intelligent devices

1:17to ai then we started uh implementing nlp based solutions so luckily we are fortunate enough to implement alexa based application to large companies in this region and for my customers also we have developed an alexa app so when they are facing any uh trouble they don't need to call me or they don't need to email us they can speak with the alexa device and device

1:43will support them because it's a enabled device and in case if the device cannot sort the problem it will connect with the right engineer and engineer will take care of it so for my customer they don't need to take any action they have to just speak with alexa and alexa we take care of it that's where we moved then uh what we did is that we moved forward and we have implemented

2:04humanoids so luckily again we are fortunate to get good projects with the large oil company here in abu dhabi there we implemented robot for hr department then we have implemented robots for a couple of hospitals retail outlet so all these places they are there our robots are running so we thought these all these our combined experience and knowledge together

2:29the platform called next protocol so then we thought that this platform will help us to sell through and this marketplace will be very efficient for us but uh when we launched the platform and when we did a uh interaction with the community members and our customers they all insisted us to go to our future plan of uh immersive gaming experience so our second phase begins from there

2:55then so what we are doing is that our next protocol we moved from just from a blockchain based devices to nft weight introducing gaming through next token so what we are doing is that we are connecting a physical device with a uh what is called is that characters and all and also which is a uh virtual device so virtual device is connecting with the

3:22uh physical world so this is we are uh we are the first platform in the world which is doing in this manner so we believe that this will be a big impact in the crypto world and in our platform players can build invest farm and exchange the tokens apart from that yeah this is an amazing solution you know so

3:50we again i'm telling you is that we are the first uh nft based gaming platform where there is digital characters meet physical intelligent devices that is the difference for us yeah that is a quick introduction about this very interesting shake and yeah that's quite the pivot i was reading about next it and the bots that you have and the automation which i think is

4:12going to be increasingly prevalent in all industries you know and soon we'll just be able to ask a question out loud and it'll be answered uh but it's an interesting uh move into nft gaming i'd love to learn a little bit more about you know the intricacies on what you're looking to build there uh you mentioned creating nfts for game characters like the blockchain gaming industry has been

4:35so uh increasingly hot in the last few months even i've seen multiple companies come out with 100 million dollar plus funds to fund blockchain gaming um you know there was a blockchain gaming platform that just did a 200x increase in valuation in like a one week period so obviously there's room for growth in that industry and the traditional gaming industry is like a multi-billion dollar

5:00industry as well so i think that there's some disruption available there with nfts and perhaps with next protocol as well maybe you can talk about are you actually building a game are you just building nfts for other games you mentioned their digital world you know is your team building a metaverse or are you really focusing on the nft's uh increasing utility for functionality

5:24inside of games and like the marketplace and things like that yes so yeah so what we are doing is that basically uh we are creating a game called one when the lorien so that is the name of the game so the concept of this game is based on vanda is uh that is she's a barrier and uh she wanted to hand over the kid vizu kit to the custodians so players needs to have next token to

5:52play for that so and these game gamers they will be fighting evil people monsters apart from that there are multiple planets are there and each planets will be having a powerful power hungry rulers so and all these rulers they'll be looking for this special power kit so that is the idea of this game and another game is that we are developing is called kovi bar so

6:20kobe worries that intelligent devices with smart people to fight her kovidwar and other pandemics so these are the two games we are launching immediately then apart from that many other games will be following very cool and so you made this pivot and now you're in and you're working on these games can you talk about you know building games are very can be very long and tedious and

6:49there's a lot to video games i'd love to know you know how far along your team is and when do you plan on you know tentatively releasing these games yes so we already working on it because our community were insisting so after the robot we started uh developing it so characters everything is ready now we are doing doing the testing so in the next quarter we'll be launching the

7:14uh the both gates wow we have ready amazing yeah that sounds quick uh great turnaround um and maybe you can talk a little bit more about the nfts are you doing nft drops uh you know specifically uh are there nfts that are coming out before the games launch as well or will they be available on other marketplaces and are you doing air drops for them yes so yeah

7:41as sir we all know that nfts are primarily used for artworks so so now we wanted to expand the possibilities of nft so we are bringing energy to the game so so that is our primary reason we moved into the nft so we are open for game developers who can showcase their uh innovative creations and their and they wanted to integrate ai with the gaming so they can come to our

8:07platform so our games will be having a unique physical and digital business model so both are connected so this this makes us a big difference so in if you have a physical devices it can be any devices any devices so which will be connected with your characters so that makes a big difference so for example if you are making if you are a gaming character who can be a robot which is in

8:32a retail outlet and or you have a robot which is in a museum guiding people that can be your uh character so that's why we look at it otherwise you can have a iot device which is uh monitoring the weather which can be your device so so that's why we look at it so we are creating a little twist in the entire story because earlier we were looking for a physical world is

8:55connecting with the digital world but here what we are doing is that digital world is connecting with the physical intelligent devices so that is a big difference so there we are using this nft and we are launching these uh uh tokens in a couple of weeks so we are we are ready so prior to the launch gaming launch uh we will be launching our tokens to get the community support

9:21oh that's great to know and um yeah i was curious about that maybe you can talk about the next protocol token uh it's obviously used within the nfts and in the game is there any more specifics on uh what other functionality that the next protocol token has within the ecosystem and does it help create a sustainable ecosystem for next protocol yes so um

9:46what uh we are looking at here is that uh we will be creating uh this um uh our different platform with the bse immediately then we will be integrating with salon platform also and then what we are going to do that uh with our ar and vr knowledge we have a fantastic knowledge in air we are we'll be um uh coming up with a lot of immersive gaming then uh we our plan is to conduct

10:14a lot of gaming tournaments then uh uh apart from that then we'll be enhancing our platform regularly with the with the help of the developers and for the blockchain games so that's why we look at it at this moment yes that's great and you you mentioned uh next quarter the games are going to be coming out maybe you can give any more detail into the timeline of the roadmap for all of the

10:40other functionalities of next protocol you know the game's going to be released and and what else do you have to work on up to that point and what else after you release the game there obviously is a lot to still work on yeah so the thing is that uh as we were focused more on robotic side and robots and now we are shifting so our website launching and the white paper releasing is

11:02happening this week then we are the gaming uh testing is going on so gaming will be released and the maximum in two months of time game will be launched and it can it can release hopefully also but the final launch will be on the official launch will be in two months so that's when we look at it then apart from that uh uh we as i said we are doing a lot of testing with ar and

11:26br base gaming also which will also be launching in the further quarters so these all are all the details are there in our white paper great and looking down the road you know years down the road shake what do you think will be the key factor to success to ensure that the games on next protocol are you know widely used and become some of the most popular blockchain gaming nft

11:52uh games to play yeah it's a very good question very the question pertaining to us so for us it's a very straightforward answer only with the help of the gaming community our success factor is depending on support from the gaming community that is the most important thing it can be the gamers it can be the gaming developers so with the community only we

12:15can grow our platform then apart from that what is the second factor is that what are the interesting games we are bringing on the platform these two will be based on that our success will be there and as i said again and we are the possibility only the gaming company with the nfts which are which are having a digital characters and also having a physical intelligent devices so

12:39these two things are together in our platform that makes us a difference so we call it as a game if he in fiji figital that means physical plus a digital sense digital yeah so fidget platform that's what we call it very cool and you mentioned that the token and the white paper coming out uh before the the game and that's in the coming weeks here

13:06what's the best way for the viewers to follow along with more details on the games to read the white paper and to make sure that they get the token uh before it's not available uh before the game launches so they can visit our platform our website called nextprotocol.tech and our various social media platfor channels so they'll get all the information there and apart

13:30from that we have a fantastic telegram channel and our amazing community is very helpful and constructive feedback and they always give us a constructive and amazing feedback and support so if if you are with our telegram channel the community will also assist you a lot so so that's very so we as i said we work with the community we grow with the community

13:53definitely community is very important i will leave those community links for you shake as well in the description box below so anybody that's interested in the games can join them and all the best on the upcoming token launch and platform launch overall i'm excited to see the games and the graphics and let's follow up in the near future shake thank you so much and thank you for

14:16inviting me for your show and it is an amazing experience and uh i hope that uh we will see you again with a lot of success in our platform you