Hinata — 2022 Recap, 2023 Goals.
Hello Hinata/WAIFU community members, tekkaadan here. It’s the end of the year and I thought I’d swing by and give the community a recap of the year and what the future holds for Hinata and WAIFU. This is more of an “off the cuff” type update so it won’t be as eloquent or sequenced as our main writer Jerry makes them.
2022 was a rough year for crypto, stocks and global economies. In crypto we had funds blowing up, the rampant growth of scams/rug pulls, and exchanges becoming insolvent. To say that this year was just “a rough one” is an understatement and we hope that those who are still here have weathered the storm. We don’t think the pain is over or the bottom is in, but we are surely close to it and our hope is that everyone survives and can live to see another day.
For Hinata, this year has been one of many ups and downs, but more importantly we’ve been on track for everything we’ve set out to do. We fundraised for building a vision, which is the Hinata Anime NFT marketplace, that is slowly (but surely) coming together with the new version coming out shortly. We’ve also greatly increased our Metaverse presence and development work, as we continue to cement ourselves as the most quality-focused builders in the space. We are also working on re-ramping up our WAIFU version 2.0 as the Genesis WAIFU Card Collection is now coming close to an end, with 99 or 100 cards now minted to the community.
We’ve had our fair share of struggles just like everyone else, such as development not going quite right, delays, sluggishness on products and a lot of bugs that needed to be fixed, but a sincere thank you to the members who trusted us enough to fix these problems and follow through with us along with the great patience that they’ve shown us. You don’t know how much that means to us and it will be a lie to not tell you that we are building this for our community in mind.
Me and Jerry (the co-founders as they say), as well as all the remaining Hinata members are super passionate about creating an anime based crypto hub and we feel we have shown that despite being a little bit slow, we are delivering. Of course, our hands are a bit tied with the amount of capital we’ve raised, but we feel like we’ll be fine as long as we have your support. 2022 was also a rough year in that regard given that we wanted to deliver things quickly (the token for e.g.), however we had to make some tough decisions despite knowing there would be some backlash. But if you’ve known us for anything, it’s that we are trying to do our best to be honest and good players in the space, and we take pride in having members in our team and community who also respect and see that same vision and share the same values.
Moving forward, our goals for 2023 haven’t changed. Our beta.hinata.io internally has been working smoothly and we are on track to releasing a new marketplace experience for our community and future users. The token is planned to be released soon after our beta comes out once we have finalized our token staking contracts and some new interesting innovation in that area. We also want to expand in acquiring anime licensing (DM us if you have contacts) as well as reaching out to independent artists and creators for 2D, 3D and physical merch who would work with us to help them expand their reach as well.
Our goal has always been to serve our users and partners first. Our vision and business model is that if you succeed, we succeed. Crypto is the land of the unknown, but me, Jerry and the rest of the team have been here long enough to know that the unknown is also extremely fruitful. What we are trying to accomplish in both the crypto and anime space is gigantic, and the support of the community as well as their involvement (once our MVP launches) will be the most important aspect for it all to work and succeed.
We will always be around so long as crypto and the community exists (at least we’ll try our damn best to be) so we hope you also stick around with us to see how high Hinata can fly.
We appreciate everyone’s patience, support and enthusiasm about anime, crypto and NFTs and we hope to see you around for the next year(s) to come being happy and successful as well!