July 12, 2024
By Allen T Cheng
We at NFTMetta.com have rebranded. Our new new name is Blockwind.news.
While we focused a lot of our attention on non fungible token markets in the past year, our primary passion always has been on global blockchain markets, which has been the driving force behind all financial innovations in the past decade. Given our broader interests in blockchain developments, we made the decision to rebrand. We chose “Blockwind” because it reflects the winds of change that are taking place in every facet of our global markets and geopolitical environment. We added “news” because that is our primary way of communicating the fascinating and fast changing trends gripping our world today.
Our mission is to be a leading global media platform dedicated to explaining, analyzing and promoting financial technologies and innovation in the blockchain world, including crypto currencies and all things related to Web 3.0. Furthermore, our correspondents will also pay close attention to the latest global regulatory efforts to crack down on scams and to regulate digital currencies.
We will continue to be strategic partners with Hong Kong-based Impact NFT Alliance, an industry group that promotes impact investing in global NFT markets, and which has appointed Blockwind.news as its formal media partner.
As we noted last year when we launched, our world is currently facing tremendous volatility, not seen since the global financial crisis of 2008. At that time, leaders of global markets and sovereign states all over the world — irrespective of development phase they were in, or their political system — whether “democracies” or “authoritarian states” — came together to work in alignment of one purpose: arrest the panic, particularly panic caused by the near catastrophic collapse of US markets and those across Europe, and to create a safety net in terms of coordinating currency and central banking policies that united the world, both so-called industrialized nations and developing nations.
The global geopolitical environment of 2024 is altogether different. This year comes on the heels of year after year of natural disasters caused by global climate change, a three-year pandemic caused by the emergence of the Covid 19 virus. We are seeing rising trade, political and even military tensions between the collective industrialized West led by USA, the world’s largest economy, and the emerging markets, led by China, the world’s second largest economy, and energy and commodity rich Russia, both of which are seemingly committed to challenging the economic, financial and political dominance of the collective West.
It is clear that the industrialized nations can’t seem to agree with developing nations led by China and Russia, and this tug of war will certainly be a major force driving trends in the blockchain world.
Despite the impending gloom in geopolitics, we at Blockwind.news remain optimistic about the future of mankind and believe there is hope that the madness currently driving the world’s politicians will ease as a new generation of younger leaders rise, a younger generation less brainwashed by old Cold War mentalities, and more enlightened by the Sustainable Development Goals as set forth by the United Nations in 2015.
We aim to profile future thought leaders, chief among them those who are launching new financial technologies, especially those that have the potential to improve the lives of those around them, helping the world grow a larger middle class — irrespective of where they may live, whether in “democracies” or in “authoritarian states”. Only by coming and working together can we achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is with that purpose in mind that Blockwind.news will continue to publish a Chinese language version to target readers in China, which has the world’s largest growing middle class.
Again, thank you so much for joining our community. Please join us in celebrating the rebranding of NFTMetta.com as Blockwind.news.
Allen T Cheng
Founder and chief adviser, Advise Insight Ltd,Cofounder, Blockwind.news
