NEW YORK, NY, December 16, 2021 - Publicis Sapient, a digital business transformation company, today announced its partnership with Portion, the premier online art marketplace connecting artists and collectors through blockchain technology, enabling members to easily sell, invest and own art and collectibles with complete transparency. Publicis Sapient and Portion will collaborate on two initiatives that will allow Publicis Sapient's clients to extend their brands into Web 3.0, including the metaverse, and evolve the customer experience. 

The metaverse is an interconnected structure of digital and physical products and IP – a platform where individuals can interact within a virtually rendered world. Publicis Sapient and Portion will architect a first-of-its-kind metaverse-based experience that will act as a conduit for legacy channels to expand their brands into this new digital frontier. The collaboration will empower companies to evolve and appeal to a new generation of consumers who have a higher expectation for the user experience, including how transactions are processed, products are tested and digital interactions are recorded. 

The first initiative will focus on tackling one of the biggest and most expensive challenges Publicis Sapient's clients are facing today: identity resolution – or building a cohesive, omnichannel view of a single consumer. This will be achieved by the development of a turnkey platform that allows Publicis Sapient to facilitate the creation and fulfillment of transactions with NFTs of physical products. 

The second initiative creates an experience that's an extension of any brand's ability to deliver dynamic product experiences in the metaverse, connecting both Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. The metaverse economy is an untapped market where innovators will be able to create ongoing value.  Among other endeavors, Portion will be constructing an initiative within the metaverse that will act as a direct channel for brands to expand their sales and service channels.

The NFT market is rapidly expanding.  There is a $2 trillion of crypto net worth and investors are looking for new experiences, new technology and new markets.   Last quarter alone, $10 billion was transacted in NFTs. 

“Portion offers a seamless customer experience that users can trust. As the world becomes increasingly entwined with the digital metaverse, and data takes center stage, this level of trust is paramount between users and organizations,” said AJ Dalal, Publicis Sapient's GVP, Data Strategy & Consulting, North America Lead.  “As a leader in digital transformation, we are continuously evolving and exploring avenues of innovation. We look forward to a long and exciting partnership with Portion and the novel capabilities our collaboration will produce.” 

When Portion launched in 2016, concepts like DAOs, token-based metaverses, community owned financial protocols and NFT art were small scale experiments. Today, the platform's proven technology provides thousands of users with a decentralized marketplace, ensuring complete transparency, verification of authenticity, proof of ownership and frictionless settlements. 

“The power of the immutable blockchain technology, which allows the creation of products that are digitally permanent and completely singular, is what makes our platform unique,” said Jason Rosenstein, founder of Portion. “Our engagement with Publicis Sapient gives us a seat at an innovative table to develop these unique experiences that also provide incredible utility to customers.  As a team, we are creating two dynamic designs that are readily adoptable for companies, at any stage of their digital transformation, that are looking to become part of the Web 3.0 revolution.”

About Publicis Sapient:

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation company. We partner global organizations to help them create and sustain competitive advantage in a world that is increasingly digital. We operate through our expert SPEED capabilities: Strategy and Consulting, Product, Experience, Engineering and Data, which combined with our culture of curiosity and deep industry knowledge, enables us to deliver meaningful impact to our clients' businesses through reimagining the products and experiences their customers truly value. Our agile, data-driven approach equips our clients' businesses for change, making digital the core of how they think and what they do. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe 

with 20,000 people and over 50 offices worldwide. For more information, visit publicissapient.com.

About Portion:

Portion is the 21st Century Auction House for Rare, High-End NFT Art, Music, and Collectibles. Portion connects artists and collectors through blockchain technology to easily sell, invest and own art and collectibles with verified authenticity and tracked provenance. From taking 0% of artists' work to offering 11% royalties on secondary sales, supporting creators is Portion's mission.

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Cheryl Douglass – Portion

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vEmpire (http://www.v-empire.digital/), a project dedicated to restoring fairness to the Metaverse, has partnered with The Antara Universe to develop the official Antara strategy game based on the upcoming $50M “Antara” feature film, the first Hollywood Movie in history supported by NFTs. The Antara film is part of a broader transmedia rollout by the Arabian Camels community, and also includes the “Antara Strategy Game,” developed by vEmpire. Both Antara IP and vEmpire understand the importance of building utility for NFT projects, so holders of the Arabian Camels and The Founding Soldiers, vEmpire's NFT series, will automatically qualify to be gifted tokens for the official Antara game via an airdrop. 

The Antara film will be supported by the sale of new upcoming Movie NFTs, which will be a sequel to the original Arabian Camels NFT collection of 12,012 uniquely generated digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain.  

The first iteration of Arabian Camels (Gen 1) available on OpenSea, provides added boosts and benefits for gameplay such as the ability to use Camels to conduct raids in the game. Players who don't own Camels can also effectively rent them from the NFT holders to enable more advanced & potentially higher-yielding gameplay. The upcoming Gen 2 Arabian Camels Movie NFTs will include exclusive rights to the Antara movie, allowing for shared ownership of the IP. Demand for the NFTs is expected to increase exponentially given the launch of the game and movie in the coming months. 

“vEmpire DDAO was an easy choice to partner with for our game production. vEmpire has the unique ability and experience in not just one, but across all of the major Metaverses. Alongside this, their own gaming experience and multidimensional thinking gives us a broader scope when choosing where Antara can put its roots down,” said Alexander Amartei, producer of Antara.

“It's a great honor to partner and be involved in a project that will go down in history as the first of its kind. At vEmpire, we understand that NFTs are a disruptive technology that will significantly improve a multitude of industries. Developing the official game for a historic feature film, that will change the landscape of how movies are produced, is something that we're very excited and proud to be involved with,” commented vEmpire founder Dom Ryder.

This is a monumental achievement for vEmpire as it signifies another major partnership, this time partnering with a historic project, to develop the first blockchain-based game based on the first feature film supported by NFTs. This will help vEmpire expand its reach in the metaverse and benefit from any tokens launched for the game and in-game revenue generation.

The Arabian Camels NFTs are available on OpenSea and the new upcoming Movie NFTs, soon to be released, will enable NFT holders to own partial movie rights to the film. 

More information surrounding the upcoming Antara film can be found on the official website or by joining the Arabian Camels Discord community.

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About vEmpire
vEmpire is focused on achieving true decentralization in the cryptocurrency industry. The official vEmpire platform incorporates different staking strategies to incentivize metaversal token staking to fund the battle against centralization. The protocol financially rewards stakers with the native VEMP token alongside rewards in the token originally staked. This enables vEmpire to financially reward those bold enough to stand up against centralized powers. vEmpire has also developed a blockchain-based trading card game, where users can battle each other, in engaging and exciting ways, to earn better rewards.

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About Antara
Antara is a feature film directed by one of the most sought-after Hollywood Directors, that covers the life and adventures of Antara Ibn Shaddad, a desert warrior from ancient pre-Islamic Arabia. The film is the first big-budget film to be supported by NFTs, before its theater and streaming debut, as well as the first NFT to facilitate the part ownership of IP. As part of the ‘Antara IP' a transmedia rollout, the film is a part of a franchise that includes sequels, a crypto-infused ‘Assassins Creed Styled' multi-player game, a comic, and a strong brand with a long term merchandising and licensing strategy.

To get access to the Antara Movie NFT, please go to: 

• https://discord.gg/VXDMpCyZ2f 

• https://twitter.com/ArabianCamels

• https://twitter.com/Antara1212 

• https://instagram.com/arabiancamelsnft?utm_medium=copy_link

• https://www.facebook.com/ArabianCamels/?ref=page_internal

-  Sekuritance (https://www.sekuritance.com/), the first multi-dimensional RegTech ecosystem delivering compliance-as-a-service, today announced the completion of a successful Initial Dex Offering (IDO) for Aimedis (https://aimedis.io/). Aimedis partnered with Sekuritance to launch their $AIMx token on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) on November 25th, 2021 via the Sekuritance portal, leading to an 3x oversubscription from its initial $200,000 USD raise amount.

Aimedis, the eHealth platform based on blockchain technology, plans to revolutionize the medical world by introducing the world's first healthcare platform with an integrated medical and scientific NFT marketplace. The platform will be complemented by the $AIMx native token, which will be launched with Sekuritance's blockchain regulatory solution support. The platform will ultimately guide and direct patients and caregivers into a medically approved social network, helping them avoid fake news by enclosing data in closed loops with hospitals, research facilities, pharma companies and AI companies for transparency and convenience. Additionally, it will offer a new revenue stream while transforming how medical data is gathered, distributed, evaluated and monetized. 

 “This was the first, but definitely not the last of IDO Public Sales for Aimedis that we helped promote to hundreds of participants, helping them reach their hard cap within just a couple of hours for the public sale of $AIMx,” said Jonathan Camilleri Bowman, CEO of Sekuritance. “I would say this was a foot in the right direction for Sekuritance's journey into the world of IDOs.” 

The $AIMx token will enable governance on future decisions within the platform, social and medical metaverse and the NFT Marketplace. Two percent of the total existing $AIMx tokens will be burned five years following the initial IDO via the Sekuritance platform. After five years, decentralized governance will decide about the continuation of the burning program. 

Aimedis concurrently completed an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) via ProBit Global, which similarly sold out in record time.

“We are proud, happy and thankful to announce that both the IDO and IEO closed successfully, selling out all rounds in no time; and the IDO with Sekuritance was oversubscribed multiple times,” said Michael J. Kaldasch, Founder and CEO of Aimedis. “We are glad to have such a dedicated and great community behind us.”

While Sekuritance delivers compliance, regulatory transactions monitoring and identity management to individuals and business corporations, it has only recently released its platform. Since then, its compliance-as-a-service solution has already helped launch 25+ public sales, 40+ private sales and has verified over $70M utilizing it's KYC/AML Sekur.Transact engine, the proprietary compliance technology working to integrate Sekuritance technology with third-party launchpads. The Aimedis (AIMx) launch was the first launchpad that Sekuritance aided solely, without a third-party launchpad, helping the token pretty much launch itself by utilizing their compliance ecosystem.

For more information regarding Sekuritance, please visit https://www.sekuritance.com/. To learn more about Aimedis please visit https://aimedis.io/.

About Sekuritance

The Sekuritance RegTech provides a single platform for every eGRC need, including end-to-end AML, KYB, KYC, Onchain Analysis, vendor management, beneficiary onboarding, investor check, card processing MFA checks, blockchain wallet checks, cyber-risk assessments, and other RegTech and Business Process Management requirements.

About Aimedis

Aimedis - an eHealth platform based on blockchain technology, which has been developed since 2017 and released in the current version 2020 for web, iOS and Android. Aimedis combines all relevant eHealth applications such as health records, video chat with doctors, appointments, prescriptions, second opinions, wearables, medical social media communication, eLearning, a unique medical and scientific-pharmaceutical NFT marketplace, while displaying all relevant operations in a private blockchain, visible and transparent for the patient. The Aimedis platform also contains dedicated tools for professionals like the Aimedis Virtual Hospital information system and online rehab, integrating VR/AR into the process of rehabilitation.

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One of the most trusted websites for business reviews—Trustpilot—quotes that more than 89% of customers think that Bitcenter is the safest trading platform to date. The company helps investors make wise trading decisions through the expert advice offered by their team. Apart from 45 different payment methods, quick fun withdrawals, and reliable customers service, a significant number of traders are praising Bitcenter for providing communication in 16 different languages. Users can search different languages on the website and chances are, assuming you reside in a popular region, you will find your language on the network. 

To make your experience safer, Bitcenter allows you to create a free trial account of $10,000. This allows new investors to have a free experience without putting in any money, and once they are satisfied, they can end the trial period and create an actual account.

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