In recent years, under the wave of digital economy, metaversity, NFT, and Web3.0 have frequently dominated the list. Although it has been fried and hot, most people still look at the flowers in the fog, and they have no choice but to enter their doors. Zero Knowledge Blockchain, together with iNFTnews and A Round Academy, launched the "Frontiers of Digital Tibet" column, talking to senior players in the Metaverse, appreciating a case every week, taking you step by step to explore the digital world.
On July 21, the seventh issue of "Digital Tibet Frontier: Yamakoshi Rural DAO, a New Way out of "Rural Revitalization"? "The perfect ending, iNFTnews partner Zoe talked with Cao Shenghu, CEO of Shanghai Haihu Technology, and special guest 99X Capital's founding partner KOL DAO core builder minibus, DAO SEVEN Capital Wu Hongbing, focusing on Yamakoshi's road to rural autonomy and in-depth study of the "digital rise" of Yamakoshi village in Japan.
As the famous birthplace of Koi in Japan, Yamakoshi Yamakoshi Village was once inhabited by more than 2,000 villagers and is a small village with a history of more than 1,000 years. After a major earthquake in 2004, some villagers in the village moved out of the area, and the population ageing was serious, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of Sanyue Village. In this context, villagers, in order to be autonomous, launched a global recruitment of 10,000 "digital villagers" by issuing a local characteristic koi NFT. At present, Yamakoshi Village has formed its own NFT+DAO model, attracting the attention of young people.
Image source: Screenshot of Nishikigoi NFT official website
For such a new model as "digital villagers", is it a gimmick hype or a real landable project? Cao Shenghu believes that whether an NFT project is worth investing depends on whether the project has a specific application scenario, thereby driving the real industry. Combined with the national conditions of Japan and the current development of Rural Japan, the Yamakoshi Village project can be implemented and landed, and Yamakoshi, as the hometown of Japanese koi, integrates koi into NFTs. The "digital villagers" in Sanyue Village can not only enjoy the basic services provided by the local government, but also autonomy through community participation, and the NFT+DAO model it brings will surely become a classic case, but whether it can successfully achieve self-help in the end depends on his team governance.
Similar to Yamakoshi, the U.S. state of Wyoming is also a project that proposes a DAO vision to establish city DAO rural autonomy. The minibus said the City DAO is similar to building a new city in an uninhabited place in the United States, which is likely to be a castle in the air in the short and medium term. The difference between City DAO and Yamakoshi Village is that the overall roadmap for the construction of the City Dao community is not clear enough, and it is also a "post-disaster rebirth" gameplay, but City Dao's experience is insufficient, and it is still in the stage of painting cakes; Wu Hongbing also said that Shanyue Village is spontaneous among the villagers, who have deep feelings for their hometown, and have a vision and motivation to do a good job, and everyone can make suggestions and suggestions to govern the village.
Finally, when we talk about rural autonomy, we think of the domestic rural revitalization policy. So, what is the significance of Yamakoshi for the development of domestic rural industries? Cao Shenghu believes that the traditional rural revitalization projects in China are basically led by the government, mainly to meet the performance of leaders, and there is a certain component of showmanship, and it is difficult for rural revitalization at this level to arouse the interest of young people. We need to consider how to divert the attention of young people to rural construction. Minibus proposed that Yamakoshi has two aspects worth learning from and learning, one is to let our domestic villages take the international route, and the other is to combine local culture with NFT to spread local characteristics.