Recording started. Good morning everyone. Welcome to BC 110 course on identity in Christ. So last week we covered on being free in Christ or having liberty in Christ. So this week we will still continue on the same topic and we will look on to the other aspects like how we are free from the meaningless rituals or free from manmade ideas and how to stand firm in our freedom. And as we stand firm in our freedom, how we should not misuse our freedom that we have in Christ. And as we have this freedom in Christ through this freedom, how we can honor people, how we can honor the government authorities that God has placed us in. And as we are using this liberty or as we are experiencing this freedom or living out this freedom, how to live this freedom wisely, you know, in Christ likeness. So that we are going to see in today's class. So as we, before we could get into this class, can I request one of your, one of us to please start this class with a word of prayer. Lord, I thank you for this day and thank you Lord that we are going to start this class of identity in Christ. And Lord, I pray that you would help us Lord to realize that what you have said about this is who we are and to believe and to accept that in our hearts and to live out with Lord. Thank you Jesus for helping Pastor Diana to teach this subject to us and that it would get across our minds and that it would come to our hearts and that we would thank you Jesus for everything. Amen. Amen. Thank you Rin. Thank you. Thank you each one for joining in. And let's look into today's class. So we can begin the class by reading Galatians chapter four verse six to 11 Galatians chapter four verse six to 11. We are on our notes. We are on page 75. Yeah. Can we turn to page 75. Okay. So Galatians chapter four verse six to 11. Can I request one of you all to please read Galatians chapter four six to 11.   But then indeed, when you did not know God, you serve those which by nature are not God's. But now after you have known God or rather are known by God. How is it that you turn again to the weak and deadly elements to which you desire again to be in bondage. You observe days and months and seasons and years. I'm afraid for you list I have labored for you in vain. Amen. Thank you. So what we see in Galatians chapter four is because we are sons of God. Now we have the liberty. We have the freedom to call our father our father. So it says that we are no more slaves. We are no more in the bondage that we used to be before in Christ. The minute we receive Jesus as a Lord and Savior. So in Christ we have got this new relation that is the sonship relationship with God where we have become the son of God through Christ. And now we have become the hair of God through Christ. So when we have become the child of God or when we get into this new relationship of being son of God, everything changes. Everything changes. So we don't have to get back into a weaker mentality or into get back into those beggarly elements is what Paul is saying. We don't have to get back. Don't have this kind of desire even to get back into any kind of bondage. The freedom that we have in Christ is to come to God the Father with a sense of liberty with this new relationship. So let's not get ourselves entangled with any kind of religion. Because we don't belong to a kind of religion or set of group where we get into some man-made ideas or a man-made rituals. But then we belong to God. We belong to God. We have this freedom to come into the presence of God and worship Him and free them. We have the freedom to call God our Father. So we need to know the freedom that we have and we need to realize that so that we can live in that freedom in Christ Jesus. So very important it is for us to renew our mind so that we can be free from every man-made ideas. Time and again there would be new rituals, new ideas being brought in by the religious leaders. But then being in Christ, being in the Lord should recognize, should be able to know that what is from God and what is man-made rituals so that we can stay out of it. So that we don't give into any kind of cultural superstitious that is around us. So what is more important is as stated in Galatians chapter 5 verse 1 it's asking us to stand firm in the freedom that God has given us. It says Galatians chapter 5 verse 1. It says stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. So we can take it as a warning and we can also take it as a firm, a saying for us to stand firm in the freedom by which Christ has given us. So that we don't get back or get ourselves entangled in any kind of yoke or bondage. So as been said that we also should know the freedom that we have. In Galatians 15 verse 13 to 14. Okay or I think as we covered verse 1 Galatians 5 verse 1 I think we can do a stand here. Galatians chapter 5 verse 13 to 14 I'll read it. For you brethren have been called to liberty only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Very very important. Probably saying to the church in Galatians that brethren you have been called to liberty only do not use the liberty, freedom as an opportunity for the flesh to give in to the flesh. So what is Paul saying here? Paul is saying he's having this great fear of the legalist. Is that the freedom will be used as an opportunity for the flesh to give in to a fleshy desires. So the idea is that people will just go out and sing as they please then say to God that I'm sorry please forgive me.  So Paul is recognizing the danger of this very attitude. So he is warning the people of Galatians against it. So is it only for the people of Galatians or is it apt even for our day? Sometimes we take the grace God's grace for granted. So grace is not a license for us to sin. But then grace is given to us for us to prune us for us to walk away from the old nature. But walk in the newness of life and Christ or walk in the freedom of God's grace. So that's the idea that Paul is saying you know he writes saying brethren. These are those who are all sons of God. So he's addressing them you're all the children of God who through faith you're in Christ. Also says in Galatians 3 26 that these are those who were baptized in Christ and have put on the Christ nature on them. So the one who is going astray or one who is trying to do the things according to their flesh are the ones who are already in Christ. So your Paul is warning them. He's saying listen the grace that God has given you the freedom that God has given each of us is to do the things. Pleases God to walk in the freedom that is pleasing God. It is not for us to fulfill the desire of our flesh and get back to God saying sorry please forgive me Lord and repeat what it is. So he's saying it is danger. This attitude is danger. So Paul is warning the people not to get into this kind of attitude or this kind of manner of life. But they is encouraging us to live the freedom, freedom and Christ that pleases Christ. Later he says these one have been called to liberty. So we see that Paul puts it early in the chapter that they have been made free by Christ Jesus. So now these people is encouraging you and me or encouraging us to stand fast. Stand in the liberty. Stand in the freedom of which Christ has made us free. This is what we read in Galatians chapter 1, right? That therefore the liberty by which Christ has made us free. So we have not become free by ourselves but Christ has set us free. So this freedom there is a condition that we will not get back to our old nature, old life, but we will do the things that pleases God. So that we have been set free and we do the things that pleases God. So we can also check, put a check over our self and ask how am I using this freedom that I have in Christ. So when we ask such question to our self, it will make us to think or look back into our life and have a check over our life. Am I doing the things that pleases God? Am I doing the things that is truly the freedom that we have in Christ? So that we do not use the liberty as an opportunity for the flesh. Clearly it says for the scripture, the Paul is asking us, choose the liberty, choose the freedom that is in Christ. And let us not choose the freedom to take opportunity to fulfill our desire of the flesh because that is a very dangerous attitude and that is not the right attitude in Christ. And here also Paul is asking us to think the right thing in Christ. Our thinking needs to be changed. It needs to be pleasing God. Every action should be pleasing Christ. So that is how we can renew our mind to think the right things in Christ. So with that we will move on to the next verse which talks about, for all the law is fulfilled. So what is it Paul is mentioning there? Paul is asking us, we need to treat each other with love. And this will be the first again. Verse 14, chapter 5 verse 14 in the book of Galatians, it says for all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. So Paul is again bringing us to what Jesus had commanded. He is asking us to fulfill this law. So what is it? So there is an attitude of service towards one another which in turn can fulfill the great commandment. What is the great commandment that Jesus had given us?  So this is what Paul is emphasizing each of us so that it can keep us from destroying ourselves. How can, if you don't keep this, how it can destroy ourselves? We may think that there is a question. Yes Shri Radha, I see your hand been raised. Shri Radha, your hand is raised. You would like to share something? What freedom do we have that is different from the world? Okay, Rinne is asking, okay, what freedom do we have that is different from the world? Anyone in the class would like to answer Rinne on this question? Anyone? Surya, Sean, Nina, yes Surya, please you can unmute and answer this question. Ma'am, in Jesus Christ we are having the true freedom. The word is normal. In Christ we have the true freedom. So Rinne's question is how is that freedom different from the world? So she wants to understand the freedom of the world for her to understand the freedom in Christ. So is there anyone who can explain that? What is the freedom that you have in the world that is different from the freedom that we have in Christ? Krisha, anyone? Yes, Pastor? Yes. I believe like by knowing the truth in spirit and knowing the truth of Christ that he actually did like you know died for us on the cross and resurrected. So that freedom itself is a freedom which is beyond this world because we know the truth and we know where we are heading and where we are going towards the salvation and looking forward to live with God. So that freedom is, we can't measure it. It's incomparable. We can't compare it with the freedom of the world. That's what I believe. Thank you. Thanks Krisha. Anyone, Nina, would you like to add to it? Add to what Krisha and Surya said? Yeah, it's freedom from the, yeah, sorry. Yeah, somebody else raised their hand. No, we can read. No, please go ahead Nina, I just want to read. Yeah, I said it's freedom from the bondage of sin, which is where we were when we were in the world. But in Christ we have been set free from that kind of a bondage. So then we are free to live in the way that he wants us to live and how the spirit leads us to live. So in that way it's totally different. The kind of freedom which the world offers is to live after the flesh to do exactly what the flesh wants you to do. But here we are free from the bondage of sin, which is so enslaving and people cannot get out of that bondage of sin by themselves. It is never possible. But Christ has set us free in that way. And so we have the freedom to live in his, to walk in his ways to live in that way. So that is really true freedom, which he has given us. Thank you. Thank you, Nina. So what is your intake on saying freedom from the world? So what is that area that you look in, that you say that this can be considered the freedom in Christ? Or how is it? What is the freedom that you're longing that is from the world that may be a challenge for you to give up or give away? Is there any freedom like that? So that, you know, others can share their views. I see Sean has raised his hand and Prince also has shared some comments saying that the freedom of not being influenced and controlled by the world, right? Freedom from sin, bondage and fear. Prabhu has shared. Yes, you're right. So if you can share with us, is there any freedom of the world that you are struggling with and you feel like it is right to have? For me, it's like to pursue my ambition or to fulfill it.  So it's kind of like I have to give up that right to be submissive to him.  And yeah. Thanks, Rin. Sean, would you like to share something that would help Rin in this phase? When you're with God, when you have freedom to Christ, I just like to refer to the Class of Chapter 3 verse 14, where they talk about, I already said, I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make a stand in awe of him. So as you can see here, you know, when God gives us freedom, it is true freedom. It's nothing like the world gives. When even the burden that God gives is as light as you compared to what the burden which he gets from the world. So I think that's the difference when you have freedom to Christ and you have freedom in the world. Thank you. Thank you, Sean. Thank you so much for adding that. Yes. So all of us know that there is a call. There's a purpose in your life. So to pursue that call, pursue that purpose, there is something called discipline. We need to discipline ourselves in our life so that we are more focused on what God is calling us to do. So when there is a call, there will definitely be certain disturbance from the world that may distract us from pursuing what God wanted us to do. So that is when the struggle comes. The minute we know we are getting distracted, this does not please God. So we need to discipline ourselves to let go of certain things. So that is what Sean was sharing. The yoke that God has placed, the burden that God has placed in the heart is not heavy or it's not too much. He will always allow certain things in our life that which we can handle. And also God says that I will give you the grace and I will be with you. So we are not alone. He is with us and He is leading us. So in this call of fulfilling what God has called each one of us in this journey, each of us are not alone because God himself is with us and leading us. So in the process, we do get enticed towards many distractions because of the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. But then at the same time, God has given His word, His promise to help us not get deviated with these distractions but then keep ourselves disciplined and set our focus on what God has called us. So that is where the challenge lies like what Rin was sharing, like the freedom. What is the freedom that is different? Yes, the freedom of the world is much different than the freedom that we have in Christ. Freedom of the world takes us away from God. It destroys the joy, peace, the love of God that is in us but the freedom in Christ restores all these things. The joy, peace, love and it also helps us to be more focused on what God wants us to do in this life.  But then when we have the freedom in Christ is nothing but the restoration, renewing of our mind. Restoration and Christ sets us up to do what God has called each one of us to do. So Rin, did that answer your question? Did that help you in any way? Yes, Pastor, thank you. Okay, okay. Okay, so here we are in continuation of relations chapter 5 verse 13 and 14. So in verse 14 we see that for the law is fulfilled. For the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. So what is that Paul is asking us? He is asking us to have this attitude of service towards one another. Why? To in turn fulfill the great commandment which Jesus had given, the great commandment was you shall love your neighbor as yourself. So what happens? We will be mindful to remember the commandment that Jesus had given us. If we get into this freedom of the world, what happens? We will tend to lose this commandment. We will tend not to follow this commandment because the world does not teach us to love your neighbor as yourself. But then it teaches us pay evil for evil, isn't it? So what happens if we follow the freedom that we have in the world? It keeps us, it destroys us, the strife, enmity, many other things, jealousy, envy enters into us. So what happens if these things enter into us? These things enter into us, these things have come in only to kill, steal and destroy. Whereas the freedom of Christ will enable us to fulfill the commandment that Jesus has given. Why? The Christ in us, the spirit of the Lord who is in us will enable us to love the neighbor as yourself. Now the neighbor may not be a very pleasant person that you can love him for all that he's been doing. What if he's a very unpleasant neighbor every time picking on you? But here, because you are in Christ and you have this freedom in Christ, doesn't matter what your neighbor is doing, but you will still pray for him and act and love with him. Not because of his action, but because of Christ's love that you will continue to love him. And you will keep away from every kind of strife, envy, jealousy, or every kind of, you know, the enmity or the words that he spoke or to disturb, to allow unto yourself that may disturb your peace. But then you will choose, Lord, I'm forgiving this person for your sake. I'm not going to allow any kind of his action or his words bother me. Instead, I will pray for him. I'll pray that he will come into the realization of Christ. I pray that he will be filled with the love of Christ so that he may be at peace. So this is what Paul is talking about. This is the kind of attitude that Paul is talking for us to build within us to carry that attitude in a way that pleases God so that we can keep the law that Christ has given us, that love your neighbor as yourself and so that we can fulfill the law and what work. So we don't need any kind of book of instructions to teach us how to love our neighbor, isn't it? Because God has put his conscious within us. He has given us the wisdom how to handle ourselves. So all we have to do is to look into our own heart and it will tell us how we ought to love our neighbor as our self. So how? We need to learn the scriptures. We need to make sure that the word of God is in our heart and in our mind. So the word of God is more powerful than the word is in your book or Bible. The word is more powerful when the word is stored in your heart and in your mind. That's why we encourage our students during this course to memorize the scriptures. When we memorize and understand the revelation of the word, the word becomes one with us. So in time, the Spirit of the Lord who's living inside us will remind us. He will speak to us through the word. Why? So that the word can set us free. The word can help us to walk in that liberty. The word can help us to walk in the wisdom of God. So Jesus, who is the wisdom of God, is indwelling within us. So when we have the word within us in the right season, in the right time, the Spirit of the Lord will remind us with the word because the word has the power to set us free. Set us free from every bondage that may trouble us in that season. So the word is very important to be stored in our heart and in our mind. That's what in Joshua chapter 1 verse 8, he says, meditate on the word day and night so that in the right time it may be a blessing. It can give you a success in the right time. So when we have this word in us, we can experience and walk in the freedom so that we don't get ourselves into any trouble. So in the New Testament, it teaches us to walk in the Spirit and to walk in love. Last class, we discussed more of that, like how to walk in Spirit and walk in love. So we see in the scripture that walking in love toward others, it can override over walking in freedom. So what is important? We are talking more about the freedom, isn't it? More about our freedom. So when we say freedom, we have the sense like, it's my right. It's my right. I have this freedom. I can do this. But then that is not the freedom that we talk about the freedom in Christ or freedom is to walk in Spirit and to walk in love. So what is that? Walk in love or walk in the freedom of love is with this quote, love yourself, love your neighbor as yourself. What does the scripture teach us about this freedom? Keeping the other person on priority. Being considerate about another person, putting the other person first or putting ourselves into other person's shoe and thinking or being more understanding the other person than expecting the other person to understand us. So it is very important. So what happens when we love our neighbor as our self, our freedom ends? Why? Where the love towards another person begins. I'll repeat our freedom ends where love towards another person begins. We see in the scripture that walking in honor towards others overrides our walking in freedom. This is what the scripture is teaching us. Walking in love towards others overrides over walking in freedom. So if we are walking in honor towards others it overrides our walk, our walking in freedom. So our freedom ends when love, honor towards others begins. So we are completely free in our spirit. So we are letting go of the freedom that we could otherwise enjoy for the benefit of another person. That's not a problem at all. For Christ's sake I do this. Is there any illustration that I could get from the class that where your act of love ended with your freedom? Where you put others first and you know you sacrifice certain things for the love, for the act of love? Anyone from the class? Is there something that you have done certain things? Anyone from the class? Anyone? Sean? Suriya? Krisha? Yes Sean, go ahead. Ma'am I think it's mainly between the festival times. You know most of my friends aren't Christians so they come and wish me a happy Ugari and a happy Christian day. So at that time I say that I'm sorry. So at that time I feel like you know I'm sacrificing in that way. You know before maybe I used to like take it like okay and all that but now I learn that I should say like no. I'm sorry I don't, please don't wish me. But they feel bad at that time. Okay, okay thanks Sean. Is there anyone? The question is, since I see that you're asking me to repeat the question. The question is, is there any way that you are sacrificing your freedom for the love of your neighbor? See we are talking about freedom right? Walk in freedom, walk in the spirit, walk in love, walk in freedom. So how do we walk in love? So when we walk in love our freedom ends. So is there any illustration that happened in your life that for the sake of your neighbor that you have sacrificed your freedom? One example it can be like we are traveling with all our friends to a different place and we are traveling in a train where we have others also in the same department. So just because we are a group of friends we are so excited that we don't want to sleep at 10. We want to sing, we want to play games, definitely there would be a noise around. And that may disturb the others, elderly or the other business people who also travel in the same compartment. So we make a choice, we make a choice saying that hey we should be considerate of the other person. I think for the sake of others we need to rest. We are giving up on our joy in our freedom. There's nothing wrong you're talking, you're discussing or you're having a time together. That's nice but then you're sacrificing that time because you're considering the other person's important. One is that or you're having a hard time with your neighbor. Your neighbor is not considerate, he's playing loud music day and night and here you need to pray, you need to work, you need to have peace in your home. But then if you go out and tell something the person may not be in the right position to hear you. So you'll be little considerate, you'll be little understanding and okay this is their festival, this is their time for a day or two. They're going to play loud music so I will understand and I'll try to adjust myself so your freedom ends there to have peace with your neighbor. It can be anything. So is there anyone who would like to share any example? I have one. I mean we have me and one of my friends, we had a misunderstanding with each other and so we kept some distance from each other and later I realized like God wants me to make wrong things right or go and talk it out to that person. So I went and approached myself even though I thought I was right. But I approached that person and we talked it out and then after we talked like there was so much peace in my heart and the person was understood and so we came back again together. Wow, that's wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. Yes, by waiting for the other person to come and say sorry or try to get things. I think our freedom ends there. See you put yourself stop and you step out to do something for the sake of Christ. I have the love of Christ so I need to do it. Let me not wait the minute you do it in obedience or in submission to Christ you see God honors that step. He honors the very attitude that you took him and he will definitely bless. He will give you peace that is needed in that relationship or in that friendship. Okay, thank you with that we will move on. So we are completely free in our spirit. Okay, so when our freedom hands where the honor towards another begin so by this very act we are completely free in our spirit. Why because we are letting go of the freedom what we would otherwise enjoy for the benefit of another person. So it is absolutely not a problem at all for us to let go things that may please God. So willingly sacrificing a personal freedom for the benefit of another person does not in any way put us in bondage. Why? Because in our spirit we are indeed free in Christ. Isn't that beautiful friends? In our spirit we are free in Christ. Amen. So with that we will move on to the next I see we have few minutes left. I'll try to cover on the point on obeying the civil authority that is the government authorities. In Romans chapter 13 verse 1 to 7 we read let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. This is very strange isn't it? Or we can only say Lord it was only happening in your time not in our time. Well let's read further verse 2 says therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. So what does Paul is trying to say in this verse 2 verses we see that Paul is simply saying that we should be subject or we should be obedient. We should be submissive to the governing authorities. Why do you think? Maybe Paul is saying that because in the time that he lived down the governing authorities were very good that he could be submissive to them he could submit to them. So he wrote this. For the time of Jesus the governing authorities were very good very pleasant they were very supportive to Jesus in his ministry. That's the reason Paul is writing this. Nina says no they were pagans. What we see here is it is a contrast. So in his time in Paul's time we see there was a group of cellist Jews. So in that day he recognized Paul recognized that these Jews did not submit to the king or to any of the authorities. They believed only God. Okay so I will not pay any taxes to these Jews. I will only pay tax to God and not to any kind of you know governing authorities. So Paul is writing this to bring a correction among the Jews. So we subject ourselves to governing authorities because they are appointed by God and serve a purpose in his plan. So in the verse it says no authority except from God. So what do we understand here? We understand that. God appoints a nation's leader but not always to bless the people. When we look back the history, when we look into the history you see different kings came into reign for a purpose. Some came to bless people, some kings reign, judge the people, some to ripen the nation for judgment of God. So when you look at it you see even our Saviour Jesus suffered under the leadership or under the authority of Pontius Pilate. So one of the worst Roman governors like in Judea, Judea had ever had. So Paul was under the leadership of Nero. You know what happened during the Roman Empire time. They literally burned people on stake in the marketplace in that Colossian. They fed Christians to the wild beasts like the lions and others. So we see that neither a lot nor his apostles denied or went against these authorities. He just prayed for them and we submit him, isn't it? This is what we see in the scripture and in the history of the apostles. So the scripture it says therefore whoever restes the authority restes the ordinance of God. Rin's question here is but it does not look like God appointed all these kings and leaders. Well the scripture says let every soul be subject to the government authorities. Roman 13 verse 1 and 2. But there is no authority except from God and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. What does it say? The authorities that exist are appointed by God. Now God appoints the leaders. He raises the leaders. That's what the scripture says. Promotion comes from God. The kings are reigned by God. God appoints the king and he puts him down. King Saul was appointed by God but how he led depended on him. Did he please God in his reign? Depended on his heart's attitude. How he submitted himself in that reign in that leadership. The minute Nebuchadnezzar was as a king in the minute he took all the glory. He didn't give it to God. He took all the glory. What happened? The very minute God took away his understanding and made him without sense. He made him to go on the street, eat the grass, mud, dust. So God has power to rise a king and to remove him from that position.  And there is a purpose in that. There is a purpose in that. And also Nina has put a poster to come and we see that we submit to authorities because they are instituted by God. Yes. So therefore, verse 2 says, therefore whoever resists the authority, resists the ordinance of God. It's not that you're resisting the authority, but you're resisting the ordinance of God because those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. So we need to be very careful on that. Since government have authority from God, we ought to obey them. And listen and of course the order us to do something that is contradiction to God's law. Then we are commanded to obey God before man as per Acts 419. Can we turn to Acts 419 please? But Peter and John answered and said to them, whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God to judge. So it is very important that we pay attention what each one are instructing us to do. You got it? So when Peter and John were confronted in front of the authorities, they are asking the question to the people there, to the leaders there, whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God to judge. You let me. God has asked us to do this and we ought to do this. So the gospel also asks us to walk in wisdom we need to walk in wisdom from God. So those who resist will bring judgment of themselves. So God uses government authorities as a check upon and sinful desires and tendencies and government can be an effective tool in resisting the effect of man's blindness. So with that in idea like the scripture, whatever we read it says that Paul's idea, we see that Apostle Paul's idea is that Christian should be the best citizen of all even though they are loyal to God before they are loyal to the state. So we believers or we Christians, the follower of Christ I would like to say are a good citizen because we are honest, we give no trouble to the state, to the country, we pay our taxes and most importantly we also pray for our state, our city, our state, our country and especially for the rulers. Why? Because the scripture says they are God's ministers. So we also see that Paul, Apostle Paul describes the government officials as God's minister. They have a ministry in the plan and the administration of God just as much as the church leaders do. So what we must do? We must be subject to the government authorities not only because we fear the consequence of our very own act but because we know it is the right thing to do before God. So we honor God, because we honor God, we pay tax, you know, we respect, we submit, we do the right things in front of God. Okay?  So we end with this, like honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king. Honor your leaders that God has placed you in. It is not my chance that we have put in each place. We need to honor our leaders, our pastors, our ministry leaders whichever place we are in. It is very, very important to honor. Why? Through honor is where we will receive our blessing. Not from the people, but from God. Because the word of God is asking us to honor, give and respect, be submissive. This is what God is expecting us as a child of God that we need to do this by honoring our people, our government, our authorities, our leaders, our pastors. Okay? So with that, I end this session. Okay, Sean, I see your hand raised. Is there anything that you would like to share? Ma'am, my question is regarding the exam, ma'am. Which one you will be having first, ma'am? Is it Holy Spirit or lifestyle evangelism? What is there in your timetable? One second, Sean. I'll end this class with the word of prayer and we can discuss on this. Okay. Dear God, we come into your presence with the heart of thanks and praise. Thank you, Lord, that you have taught us the true freedom is to walk in love and walk in spirit. The true freedom is when we consider the other person better than ourselves. The true freedom is to submit and obey the higher authorities, the government authorities. Lord, the true freedom is by honoring people around us. It may be our parents, our elders, our leaders, our pastors. Lord, we pray that Lord you will help us, help us to submit ourselves to each other. You know, obedience of your word of other. Lord, I pray that you will pour out your grace to each of us in our class who may be present now or who may watch the session later. We pray that you'll pour out your grace, the grace of understanding, the grace of submission. Lord, we pray that you will enable this grace within each of us so that we can love our neighbors as ourself and we can walk in that grace of love or father that we honor people and respect our leaders around us. Lord, we thank you that you are the most high God, Lord. You desire that we may do things pleasing to you or father. Lord, we thank you that you will enable, you will strengthen us when we are weak. You will help us to understand the things, those things that we do not understand or father. Thank you for your enablement. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your strength, Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you that you are mindful of each of us, Lord. Thank you that you continue to work every day, every moment, Lord. Thank you that you are teaching us through each and every class, Lord. Thank you, Father, that you are ministering to each of us by your word, by your spirit, by your power. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining in today's session. God bless. Thank you. Hope it was a blessing. Yes. Thank you. God bless.


And now it is my great pleasure to introduce Hans Herron, who has spoken up a couple of times in the questions, but deserves a more formal presentation here, partly because he won the World Food Prize in 1995 for averting the Mealybug Crisis in Africa's cassava plant, and he is, of course, the president of the Millennium Institute down the street here. But most important, and I wanna emphasize this, because it's not sufficiently recognized in this country, and especially in this city. He was part of probably the single most important report we have seen in the field of agriculture in recent years. It's gotten very little attention in the United States. Unfortunately, it does have a bit of a mouthful for the name. It is the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology. That's the formal title, and I think that the title on the cover of the book is Agriculture at a Crossroads. Came out a couple years ago. It was really a revolutionary document, and it is a true shame that it has not gotten the attention here in the United States that it deserves. As a shorthand, you might think of it as the equivalent to the IPCC reports that are done on climate science. It's that kind of document in agriculture. Hans Herron was one of the co-chairs of that procedure, and he is going to be sharing with us now some of the results there on the general topic of how to avert a food crisis. Hans Herron. Thank you, Mark, for the introduction. I also want to express my thanks for having been invited here today to talk about a little bit the I-STAT, but also, as we call it, the I-STAT, because it's such a complicated name. Also, some ways forward, because we actually know what to do. The question is, why are we not doing it? How does this thing go forward? Is there a gadget? Oh, yeah. I'll assume it's this one. Oh, maybe I pushed it the wrong way. Oh, voilà, sorry. So first, I was asked by Mark, too, just a few words about the process itself. I mean, we call it sort of the IPCC for agriculture, yes. What was different was it was a fully multi-stakeholder process. We had governments involved civil society, and among the civil society were the private sector, so we had actually... Big Ag was there, too, at least in the beginning, until they had enough of it. We had many groups, farmers groups, from around the world, and so 400 people actually wrote that report, 2,000 pages. 800 people actually helped prepare the questions which were asked in the report. So it was a huge process, which all together took almost eight years to be done, and it was commissioned by the UN organizations at the Joe Buck Summit in 2002. So that's also important to know, so that it has a broad support from six UN agencies and also from the World Bank. So what came out after all these years and this hard work? Well, a number of issues which we actually rediscovered because a lot of these things actually not knew, but I think they were put down on paper in this multi-stakeholder process, which is, again, we have said, totally unique. So since we published the book, Agriculture at Crossroad, so it is one global report and five sub-global reports, 2,000 pages with summary for decision makers, which of each sub-global has a summary for decision maker and also the global one of something less than 20 pages because we know that these people actually don't know how to read or don't like to read, so we made it very, very short. Actually, the essence of the recommendations are maybe out four pages or in one single table. So, but that didn't really help much. I also want to mention about what's going on here in the US, Canada and Australia, who did not sign along with 59 other countries actually who signed on. But here, people have decided, although they participated, I think it was something like 20 members of USDA were authors on the report. That didn't mean that you have signed on in it because they didn't like our biotech findings nor the trade issues we put forward in this report. All right, so what's the reality? So again, we have a lot of hungry people in this world. Probably the number is a bit overblown. Actually, there's been a report lately saying that we're repeating all numbers. Is it really a billion? I mean, not that it matters too much if it's 800 million or a billion, way too many. We should not have anyone hungry actually in this world if we want to do the right thing. Never mind the obvious, we heard about this and the diabetes issues which is growing exponentially, which will probably kill many of the economies around the world. Energy system, we heard about it. So we have a sort of a social issue. We have energy problems. We have the climate change issue also. We already way back 2008 mentioned that we need to change the system. We cannot continue on like this. That the natural resources are being overused. The soils are getting lost. The water is being overused. And that basically we are losing a lot of jobs. Replacing people with machine and oil and just adds to the cost. So basically we heard this this morning, most of it. And what we came down with in the end is business as usual is not an option. We need a change in paradigm in agriculture in order to move forward. And although we know this, although we even know the solutions, what's coming up? We heard it this morning by Nina Federov, which has been one of them going out there, saying, oh, we need biotechnology. So the narrow move forward, rather than the broad way forward, as we all know, is the one that's gonna work. So the right to move forward is a fundamental shift in agriculture and knowledge as a technology. That's very important. And also the policies which go with it. Again, we heard it. You know, if we don't change policy, we're not gonna go change anything. So we have to, the whole issue about subsidies, for example, which amount to more than one billion a day. So we say, well, we need some money to do things, but just take it from there. More than 380 billion every day are spent on subsidies to actually do the wrong thing, if anything. We need more capacity development. We heard the two, do two things differently is takes a lot of knowledge. It's easy to throw a bag of fertilizer out there and a few seeds on it, and then we'll just wait until it rains. To do things in a very ecological way, in a sustainable way, we'll take more education. So we need this transition. So we need to transition agriculture to sustainable, ecological, organic. I mean, there's a number of choices out there we can choose from, but it has to be in tune in harmony with the system. It has to be ecologically based. So what we, you know, people say, oh, we need sustainable intensification. I think what we need is an ecological intensification, if anything. We need an agriculture that's multifunctional because agriculture doesn't only grow food. We heard it also this morning. I think we do more than just grow food on farms. We make sure the water is there, the clean water for the cities. We make sure there's also air for people to breathe. For example, we maintain the biodiversity. We provide jobs and we could probably have a lot more jobs if we do things right. So again, I think we need to move forward. And the other one, the last point, again, the systemic and the holistic approach. Things are connected in the system and we cannot continue to ignore all the connections in the system. And I don't want you to read the details, but what we do basically also at the Milan Institute, we try to get people to think in system. So what you do something today here, it may have an impact 20 years somewhere else. We see it now with climate change. But still, people cannot imagine it. So actually, science has given us tools for that too. So system thinking is possible using modeling tools which I guess should be applied at government level, at research level, but it's not really done so. So that's one thing which is needed. And agriculture especially is very complex. It touches on so many different points. Way beyond actually what's even on this graph here. So I think thinking in system, I think is important if we want resilience because resilience is the long-term result of actually having a system or systemic thinking. So this transition. So we have to go from the high productivity or by a sort of high yield at least here, over and low sustainability to sustainable and again productive system, multifunctional systems. Now we heard, is there a depression when you go across or not? Well, it depends where you start.  In some places where you have overdone it with fertilizer, everything else, it may take a year or two to actually move across. And that would be a good use for subsidies, for example, to be reallocated to the transition. And again, everything we have to do here. More pre-harvest losses, for example, a better agromy all this is non-agitensive and it has to be put into the system to move it up. And we'll show you a few examples. Now, the discussion always goes, well, organic cannot feed the world. Actually, there's an article in the Swiss newspaper a few months ago where Professor Federov says that it is dangerous to go organic every cut, to do organic every cut because people will go hungry. The problem is we have a billion hungry people today with what systems? So maybe that's the question we should ask. And so what do we need to change? So we need to change the present industrial system as well as also the traditional system. We have to work on both ends because both are actually not sustainable and we know what to do to transform both into the new path of sustainability we need to go to. So I think, again, I think we have to be very careful here to come forward with more facts. Now, the question is how many more do we need to actually convince the policy makers that Monsanto is wrong and that maybe Rodel is right? Now, an example. So the Casa Miliburg is getting an old example, but it shows what you can do if you do things right. And why? If this problem would be there today, let me do push this down a bit. This is the Casa del Tino Africa. Casa is Tapioca, as you know it here. Comes actually originally from Latin America. So some time ago, some people, scientists actually, I found out who it was even, took cassava cuttings, the planting material for cassava across into Africa directly. And they started the biggest disaster we could think of because on those cuttings there were bugs, millibugs, which people did not see. And eventually this spread across this area which is one and a half times the United States, the whole place. And basically cassava, the staple of tournament of people was about to disappear. So the idea was to go back and find out why is cassava growing well in America and no longer here? There must be something on this millibug which eats them and gets rid of the problem. So we went, looked around, found beneficial insects, released them across, oh, sorry, we released them across the continent after mass production, eventually solving the problem. So producing several millions of beneficials, mostly wasps, a few ladybugs, they were basically spread out across the continent and eventually also from the ground sometimes with local people. We trained more than 12, doesn't work, huh? We trained more than 1200 people across the continent in biologically controlled technologies. Something like what, 40 PhDs and 120 masters. So by solving a problem, we also trained a lot of people at the time. Releases were made from the ground, from the air, we developed new technologies in Africa to shoot good bugs out of airplanes, for example. Because we didn't have time, cassava is disappearing. 10 million people were eating that three times a day. And here, this is the suspect, the wasp which we found in Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia which was released across the continent and basically solved the problem on its own. The other two ladybugs eventually didn't make it. So obviously we followed up and we saw that before release, you have these high peaks. After the release, down basically, the problem got solved almost overnight. We could hardly, ourselves as scientists, believe our eyes how fast this actually had worked. And because that was, let me go back here. This is a normal cassava plant, these are the roots which people eat and this is one which had a mealy bug attack so you can see the difference is enormous. And when you look at the impact, okay, the cost benefit for every dollar invested on this project 243 came out. This is unseen in the analysis of international development. And actually that project alone is responsible for 85% of the return on investment in agriculture research in Africa, one. But you can see, we didn't go with fertilizer, seeds, I don't know what. We actually use nature to help us solve a problem. And we could do a whole lot more of these type of things in the future. So we tried, another problem is stem borers in maize, straga weed also in maize or corn. And again, big losses which can be solved in a natural way. The Gates Foundation is supporting a project in Africa to actually promote hybrid maize and herbicide tolerant maize when it could be done in a different way. These are local varieties of maize. They have the characteristic of being able to respond to insect attacks by signaling the beneficials to come to their help. Not a benefit that these traits have been lost in the new varieties. And so what these plants do, so we have this module here, this is a legume, feeds the soil with nitrogen, removes the weeds, attracts the beneficial insects and repels the bad guys too. So by knowing what those plants actually do or can do and rearranging the system, you can solve a problem where we call it push-pull. A lot of information on internet on push-pull. And that's the field which no fertilizer, not have any cover crop, which brings the nitrogen versus the normal control. As I said, the greener for what is knowledge intensive so we need to find ways of better spreading knowledge. So can it be done? So we actually use models, system models which I presented earlier, sort of connecting everything, putting numbers there. So according to what Nick Stern requested to put one or 2% in the green economy, we saw right, one tent goes into agriculture. Then we put it into pre-arvest losses, ag management, more research, food processing, all in the sense of a green agriculture, a green by design, not by greenwash, not have any. And so what happens? You can see that the production is up, this is business as usual, spending the same amount of new money into a brown agriculture, crop in billion year again is up. Employment is significantly up. Soil quality again is up. The water use is down. The deforestation again is down. And the last one, the calories are up, that 2,500 per person. So you can see it can be done. The question is, when are we gonna do it? So Rio, that's now 10 years after the original order or commissioning of the Ag Assessment, the Ag State Report. So we need to bring it back and ask for accountability. We spent 12 million dollars. The time of almost what, 1,200 people. And are we gonna ask a question, officially, what is happening to this report? Why are the findings not implemented, which are in there, which actually you played out with the simulation model can be done and gives the results you need. Thank you.


Hey, everyone, what's up? It's Rachel here. Thanks again for joining us for another AMA. Today, I'm here with Laurent Perello. He is a blockchain advisor for Trondau. Hey, Laurent, how's it going? Hello, Rachel. Nice, excited to be with you, all guys. And I'm in Berlin for a few days for NFT Berlin and excited, exciting events. I met a lot of NFT creators and the project is on the building and creating. Great, wonderful. Well, Laurent, we're excited to speak with you today. And I just want to remind the audience, please send us your questions in the chat. Laurent is here to answer them. And of course, subscribe to our YouTube channel as well. So let's get started. Laurent, first question. Tell us more about your role at Ape NFT. So to be clear, my role is an advisor to the Trondau, the third largest blockchain by TVL as of last week. This was mostly likely due to the adoption of USDD, the US Algorithmic Stablecoin, backed by TRX and the Trondau Reserve, which is made up of quite a few impressive institutional partners. That being said, just yesterday, Ape NFT also announced a partnership with the Legendary Exchange. It was the first one I used a few years ago. I mean Polynex to launch an NFT marketplace. So to be to say it simply, Polynex customer will now be able to trade Trond Bay's NFTs quickly and easily through the Polynex website and also the mobile app. This is still the beginning for sure of NFTs. And we are totally excited to see what the Trond community will continue to add to the growing ecosystem. Great, wonderful. That's really exciting news about Polynex. So thanks for mentioning that, Laurent. Any other developments? I know that we recently did an AMA with Ape NFT a few weeks ago. Are there any other developments that you can talk about since that AMA that we did with David? Yeah, there is actually the Vanity Fair auction, a project that offer NFT cover. It is excellent just in December 2022 NFT cover. We have a set of 1,000 limited edition price at 999 TRX. And for sure, there will be the Grand Accent Season 2 in which Ape NFT is particularly involved. And a few strategic announcements soon that I can't mention right now, but stay updated following Ape NFT org and Twitter and all social media. Awesome, great. Now, I'm sure maybe some audience members that are listening today, maybe they missed the last AMA with Ape NFT. So Laurent, if you're able to just kind of give an overview about Ape NFT and explain how it's unique and different from other NFT marketplaces, that would be great. So the obvious difference between Ape NFT and over a major marketplace is that it operates on TRON. But the real goal is to attract more artists and creators. And the reason why also I'm here in Berlin to engage creators, artists, project, NFT project to build on top of TRON and to cooperate with Ape NFT. What you have to know also is that Ape NFT is promoting 0% transaction fees as opposed to 2.55 or higher as seen on many competitor marketplace. The main technical difference yet or between Ape NFT and most of the blockchain is that Ape NFT operates on top of TRON blockchain. And as everybody know, TRON works simply, as I used to say. With no interruption, downtime, it's efficient, trustable, and mostly free to transact on TRON. And also, one major difference between Ape NFT and over marketplace is that Ape NFT, all assets stored on Ape NFTs are secure, but bit torrent file system, BTFS, as opposed to IPFS interplanetary file system. Also, Ape NFT collaborates with really big brands. And the first one I have announced is the Vanity Fair in Italy, but some big names will be announced soon to release Ape NFTs. As I said, the collaboration with Vanity Fair in Italy is a great start. It consists in two things. In fact, for a unique NFT scorer is an auction from the 23rd to the 30th May. Ape NFT offers token of access to VIP events and one year Vanity Fair subscription for a total value of over US $26,000. There is also a collection. It's LXE Excellency just in San 2022 NFT scorer, really amazing work with a set of 1,000 limited edition, as I said, priced at $900, sorry, $19.09 TRX. And what I can say also is that thanks to TRON's vibrant ecosystem and all the project built on top of TRON, all TRONIC's Ape NFT can have many internal partners to co-brand and co-promote, sorry, the big drop. For example, as I said, the support from Polonyx. Users who purchase any NFT scorer will receive Vanity Fair NFT scorer will receive future trial funds of $25 bonus from Polonyx exchange. This is one of the biggest advantage for Ape NFT compared to others. And finally, users can enjoy many of our benefits in addition to the ownership of NFTs. Yeah, so Laurent, that's really interesting because I wasn't aware of the Vanity Fair Italy NFT cover with Ape NFT. So just out of curiosity, what is that was the cover of the magazine made in NFT that the users can then go and bid on and own a piece of? Or how does that work exactly? Yeah, yeah, as I said, it's a collection created by Valuart and Vanity Fair. You have four unique 1,1 piece NFT cover, Vanity Fair cover. Amazing, amazing work. And I invite everybody to have a look at the Ape NFT marketplace and also special cover created with Justin Sun on the cover. It's really amazing art and 1,000 NFT with additional bonus advantage, as I said previously. Yeah, that's awesome. And with the cover, are those only digital or was there actually a physical cover of Vanity Fair Italy that also is represented by the digital NFTs? No, it's digital, but some can get one year subscription of the physical magazine for sure. Wow, that's amazing. That's a great use case. I haven't really heard too many use cases where a major magazine like Vanity Fair has a partnership like that with an NFT marketplace. Yeah, and as I said, it's really a beginning. There is a few strategic partnership engaged. I can't tell more right now, but stay tuned. You will see how Ape NFT will really act and improve what we can see actually on the market. Yeah, that's really exciting. Audience, just want to remind you, please send Laurent your questions. I mean, he has so much knowledge when it comes to the NFT space. He's really a great person to ask all questions NFT related. Laurent, I was wondering, because you mentioned the Vanity Fair use case, can you kind of discuss the other NFTs that we are seeing on Ape NFT marketplace? Are they all artwork NFTs? Are some of them different? Or is it just artwork? In fact, it's up to the community. It's a decentralized marketplace now. So everybody can use Ape NFT for music NFT, fashion NFT. I planned personally to publish my next novel as an NFT on Ape NFT. There is no limit to creativity. That's amazing. If you could elaborate a little bit, so you mentioned Ape NFT is a DAO, correct? Can you just explain the concept of how that works, how an NFT marketplace is a DAO? So with NFT governance token, all the holders will be able to vote and also to be involved in the evolution of Ape NFT. For sure, it's not a one day process. It's something that needs time to be built and implemented. It's the full goal of Ape NFT to be really decentralized and operate as a totally decentralized autonomous organization. The community will have a real and concrete role. More you want to be involved, more you can contribute to build this amazing NFT marketplace. Yeah, that's a great concept. So the coin behind the project, what is the name of the coin? NFT. OK, NFT. Same thing. Right. So Laurent, because you're a Trondau advisor, I want to get your thoughts just on the concept of having an NFT marketplace as a DAO. Do you think that that type of model is a lot better, I guess, than what we're seeing today? Do you think that NFT marketplaces should be community run and led? And are there any challenges that may arise? You know, I'm involved in blockchain decentralization, web-free, whatever the world we use at first, because I'm an idealist and a believer. One of the most interesting points in all this innovation, this ecosystem, it's the decentralization. So for sure, there is some well-known NFT marketplace. But as a collector and NFT amateur and, let's say, also creator, I will launch soon my first NFT collection. I prefer to use a decentralized, a really decentralized version. I'm a big believer in DAO. You know, I had the chance to talk about DAO and governance last week in Paris at Paris Blockchain Week. For me, it's implementing the world concept of liquid democracy. And without going in politics, I think if we can pick a few concepts and a few experimentation, what the DAOs are trying to implement, I'm totally sure we could easily solve a lot of social or, let's say, citizen problems. For me, it's the way we have to take care and follow when we think about decentralization, blockchain, crypto, DeFi, GemFi, and whatever. DAOs are the best way now, in my opinion, to launch a project. Right. Yeah, and we're seeing that DAO model applied to lots of industries, which is really interesting. I'm wondering if you can discuss the tokenomics behind APE and FT as well. It seems like that's kind of an important point to understand. Yeah, you know, NFT, the underlying blockchain is strong for sure, but now it's a multi-chain token also available on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. What can I say? Maybe token allocation, 30% is dedicated to artists and artist partners, 90% to DeFi, AirDrop, and Mining, and I will give some additional details in the moment. 90% to NFT team, 2% to dedicated to initial exchange listing, and you can have a look on CoinGecko or CoinMarket, and you will see that the top leading exchange already supports NFT, and 20%, it's also something we have to notice, 20% is dedicated to NFT work purchase, creating an amazing collection with some people on the wall and so on, well-known, really well-known artists, and finally 10% dedicated to partnership. Regarding the business model of NFT, as I said, it's a governance token, so NFT order will be entitled to vote for the handling of NFT artwork in the app NFT DAO ecosystem. They will be able to decide on the future of NFT artworks, take part of NFT activities at different levels based on the armament, and for sure, this ecosystem is still to be built, the app NFT has been launched in May 2021, so it's just one year, and everything is still on the way. Regarding, I just want to add a few details about the reward and mechanism of NFT token, there is regularly DeFi airdrop and mining rewards, for example, a monthly airdrop to all those of Tron family tokens, TRX, BTT, Win, GST, and the participant on Tron DeFi mining. It's something really interesting also, something that totally distinguish an NFT from over marketplace with this kind of airdrop to really involve the Tron ecosystem and Tron family. Yeah, yeah, and that is a unique feature for sure. Laurent, I'm also wondering if you could kind of discuss, I mean, the tokenomics behind the project is extremely interesting, but let's say there's an artist who wants to create an NFT, can you talk about the benefits specifically for an artist, aside from the tokenomics, because there are benefits there, as to why they would want to use APE NFT? Are there other incentives or the ease of use of the platform that you can kind of discuss? I'm knowing that you will receive a monthly airdrop, it's already a great advantage. They will be also a government reward, while you vote you will get NFT activity rewards, and the dedicated program will be for sure implemented in the next few months. And holding NFT also, you benefit from NFT airdrop and mining. Got it, wonderful. Audience, just a reminder, please send Laurent your questions. This is such an interesting project, Laurent. Now, you also mentioned there's an upcoming hackathon. Is this the second hackathon that's being conducted? In fact, it's the season one of season two, sorry, of the Grand Hackathon. But before talking about the season two, that started just 10 days ago, I would like to talk a bit quickly about the season one. We have seen four winners, and I would like to talk about this winner, if I can quickly. In Web Free Track, we have a D-Cloud developing the next chain of decentralized cloud storage with an iOS and Android mobile app, and using BitRent file system in GameFi, an amazing project from Ninja Arcade, an amazing old-school Arcade game, and a really committed creative team. I met them several times. In the NFT track, one of the most innovative projects I have seen since a long time, VersaBrick Squad. I was in Hungary, Budapest, to meet there and to see their project because it's related to real estate. And buying an NFT, you can own a part of a flat and generate monthly income because the flat will be rent, and each flat will be managed by a dedicated DAO. Finally, in DeFi Track, just money. It's much more than a DAX. It's a multi-chain DAX, and certainly the one who support the most chain right now. They support Tron, BitTorrent chain, BinanceMap chain, Polygon, Zenit chain, and I'm sure they will extend this soon. And since a few weeks, it's also a multi-chain bridge so you can easily swap tokens between several Tron, BitTorrent chain, BinanceMap chain, and Polygon. And for all DAB developers, they offer an easy way to integrate this innovation with a simple widget that you can integrate in your DAB. Regarding Season 2, we are really impressed about how things are going because I told you it started, the application started on May 16th, and we have already surpassed the submission we had for the whole Season 1 by a large margin. I think Laurent might be experiencing something. Oh, hi Laurent, you're back. I think it froze for a minute. So you were talking about Season 2 and how you've surpassed the... Yeah, already more than 600 submissions as of yesterday in less than 10 days. So it's really exciting to see how all these projects are really engaged to deliver the best of Web3, NFT, GameFi, DeFi on top of Tron and BitTorrent chain. What can I add? We will also see that well-known projects I can name Human Protocol, Katana, SAT, some long, long, existing projects that we know since years will join this grand hackathon. And the level will be really, really high and for sure highly innovative this season. Yeah, that's exciting. Are people still submitting submissions for the hackathon Season 2? Yeah, they can submit their project until July 25th. And you have to know that it's one million dollars total price. And we have several five winners in each track category, NFT, DeFi, GameFi and Web3. And also several bonus, community bonus, runner bonus and so on. I invite everybody to have a look on Tron.dow.org. You will find all details. And you can apply both on Tron.devpost.com and on Tron.forum because there is a two price pool on each website, Tron.devpost.com and also on Tron.dow.forum. Yeah, that's exciting. And audience, if you guys have any questions about that, definitely send them our way. Now is the time because that is really, really exciting news. I'm going to take some questions from the audience. ImmortalSan is asking, what's the future that you see for Ape NFT in the coming years? You know, I don't use a crystal ball, but I'm sure that we have to consider two main points in my vision. First is how the world Tron ecosystem is growing fast and engaging more and more projects. The combination between BitTorrent Chain and Tron offer now a simple way to port your smart contract or your debt from Ethereum to BSE to Tron, BitTorrent Chain and ECO and soon much more blockchain. That's the first thing. The more the ecosystem will grow, the more it will benefit also to Ape NFT. And as I said previously, Ape NFT support Tron, BSE, Ethereum and I'm sure will support our token soon. And it's really a long-term vision offering a way to really be engaged, involved and contribute and also suggest new futures or cooperation as a member of the DAO is a real long-term advantage. Tron is also helping a lot to engage an institutional partner to support Ape NFT. And I can tell you, I have discussed this last two days with a lot of artists and creatives and a lot of these people are thinking about and are working on joining the Tron and Ape NFT ecosystem and I'm sure the future will be really brilliant. Yeah. Well, I hope so. And it sounds like definitely there's exciting things for us to look forward to with Ape NFT. But Laurent, I wanted to ask you, has it been challenging to launch an NFT marketplace given the current crypto market conditions? I mean, a lot of people who have bought NFTs, the price of NFTs are not so high at the moment. Some people may say we're in a bear market. I mean, I'm staying positive about it, but I want to get your thoughts on that, like if it is challenging given the current market conditions. Honestly, I don't know what it means challenging. As I used to say, let's keep building bear markets for the people who built it. It doesn't matter. In fact, for people who were there since the years, we had to face the previous bear markets, but it was the best moment to be focused on building, on delivering a high quality project, including now high quality art. It's not only a collection. It can be one one art piece of art. We see music, NFT emerging videos, one governance, one fashion. There is a lot of new use case. And even if the price is low, as you said, in fact, we don't care. You don't clench. Even if it's it's a scam project, you don't clench an NFT collection. You don't create NFT art just for the initial price. The mechanism is that you will also earn some money with on the long run on the second market. So for me, it's the best moment to create a project built to community, being focused on positive attitude and being really highly creative. A lot of low level project will disappear. It's also a part of the game. Yeah. I mean, you make really good points.  And I completely agree with everything you said. A lot of the best innovation from the blockchain space happens during these times. And I think that you make another really good point is that it's not all about price. It's about innovation as well. And just as you mentioned with the second hackathon that we're seeing, the submissions have already surpassed the first season hackathon. And that just goes to show people are more focused right now on building versus the price of NFTs. And so your response was kind of exactly what I wanted to hear and what I think a lot of the audience needs to hear. Yeah. And if I can add a word, it's not any more a question of promise. You know, it's also delivering. And no, if you want to survive in such market condition, you have to prove you are trustable, you are sustainable, engage and that you deliver whatever is the project can be NFT collection, or it can be a DAP, whatever. And it's the best moment to make the difference, in fact. Yeah, I agree. Laurent, just based on that, and you know, the fact that we are now is a time to innovate. Can you kind of discuss the best use cases in your opinion for NFTs specifically with Ape NFT marketplace? What are the best use cases that you're seeing now? Honestly, I don't think there is one best use case.  We are still experimenting. And when I say we, it's all people involved. It can be just buying NFT. It can be creating NFT. As I said, I'm also a kind of artist. I create what I call a degenerative art. I will launch my first collection. I'm proud about it on Ape NFT. And you know, I have published my first novel in the traditional way. The second one, I will experiment to publish it as an NFT. I have met few people who are combining not only a piece of art, but also governance, DeFi. As I told you these two days in NFT, Berlin was really amazing because a lot of new use case are actually built. People are really pushing the border so far away from what we used to see actually. And I don't know, we can't predict the future, but I'm sure it will be for sure totally amazing and surprising. Combining metaverse and art and music and governance and DeFi, GemFi, whatever, it will be a mix of everything, in fact. Right. Yeah. I mean, you were talking about the new use cases that you're seeing in Berlin. I recently wrote an article about Gene NFTs where a genomics company is taking that data and turning it into an NFT and the holders of that can actually own their data and receive incentives when third parties want to utilize their data. So I mean, it's not just the typical use cases that we're thinking about today. I mean, this is impacting every industry from art to healthcare. I don't know if you're seeing that in Berlin, but yeah. Yeah. Here it's mostly dedicated to focus on art, but as I mentioned previously, real estate data and co-ownership of a car or whatever. I think there is no limit to experiment what could be NFTs. What is really stimulating, exciting, and also inspiring in this web-free blockchain industry is that someone one day appears with an idea totally crazy, but is able to deliver it. So the only limit we can face, it's the limit of our imagination. For sure, a lot of new use cases will appear on every domain, absolutely every domain. Why? Because we have to experiment to be sure it can last, it can be sustainable on a long-term perspective. Before trying, we don't know. It's just a concept. Right. Exactly. I just want to remind the audience, send us your questions. We still have a few minutes left for the AMA, so definitely send us your questions before we end. Laurent, I was also wondering, because we've talked a lot about innovation and use cases and the tokenomics behind APNFT. I think one big point in terms of mainstream adoption with NFTs is safety and security. So I wanted to ask you about what that looks like on APNFT marketplace, how the marketplace ensures the safety and security of NFTs. You know, it's something I'm really concerned about it. And I used to say, have you seen one hack occurred on Tron? And on BitTorrent, as of now? No. We use, APNFT use, as I said, the BitTorrent 5 system. It's now a trustable, well-known, and long-run solution that's proved that it's really trustable and secure. And we are really focused on, in the whole Tron ecosystem, we are focused on the security. And just give me an example of hack. And I will say, yes, I'm wrong, but as of now, it's one of the most secure blockchain existing. And all the project built on the top of Tron are really focused on this and appreciate particularly our securities. And so are really focused also to deliver a product that's totally secure. Got it. Wonderful. Now, we have a few minutes left, Laurent. So I just wanted to ask you, if you wanted to add any additional comments that the audience or I may have not already have asked you that you think is important to mention. That APNFT will have a particular role in the ground hackathon season two, at first supporting the NFT winners with a dedicated program. And that big announcement will be made soon for strategic reason I can't reveal today. But just follow APNFT on social media, stay up to date and stay tuned. And you will see that APNFT will make a huge difference the next few weeks and next few months in comparison with some, let's say, traditional marketplace. Great. Wonderful. And if the audience wanted to get in touch with you, Laurent, how would they do that? And I know right now you're at NFT Berlin. What other conferences will you be at in case somebody wanted to ask you a question in person? Yeah, I will be in Paris, mid-June, but for a private conference. Then I will be at the end of June in Barcelona. Then I will be in early July in Vosso. Then I will be for three weeks. There is three big events during three weeks in Paris. The biggest one is the ETHCC week. For the moment, that's all. And in September I will be in Valencian, Spain too. But you can find me in LinkedIn, Twitter, easily, my name. First, last name. And I show my face, I show my name. You can find me easily. And it's my pleasure to help every creator to launch their collection on the app NFT and every project we want to build on top of Tron or Bitron chain or to join the Grand Nacaton. I will be there to help. Wonderful. Thanks so much, Laurent. And thank you to the audience. Thank you again for those who sent us your questions. Thanks for joining us. Just remember to please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Join us for our next AMA. And Laurent, a big thank you to you. Thank you for joining us and shedding your side. Nice to meet you. And I hope we will have the pleasure to meet in real life. I hope so. Thank you, Laurent. Thanks everyone. Have a great day or good evening. Bye. Thanks.


Hello everyone, my name is Bartek and together with my event chairs, Austin, Eduardo, Ritchie, we would love to welcome you very warmly into Observability Day here in Amsterdam, both in person and those who are watching us virtually, and you might hear somewhere, you know, that Observability Day is a co-located CNCF KubeCon event deeply focused on what? What we are focused on? Higher observability, yeah, oh, yeah, some, some, yeah, okay, let's do it one more, one, two, three, yes, yes, some energy, it's 9 a.m. though, so I is expected, so tools, so what's the observability? Of course, it's tools and techniques to monitor and analyze troubleshoot your software on clouds and beyond, but that's, and that's not definitely, you know, wrong decision, here, but actually it's much deeper, right? It's a tradition that we started last year in Detroit that is kind of like joining many passionate people from different CNCF projects or different parts of the CNCF and many, many passionate humans together, yeah, and Observability Days was designed to talk about user stories, right, and strategies and how to use those things and automate in the end user space, right, so we are really focused to make sure that users new or advanced are kind of, you know, you know, learning and so you don't, please don't hesitate to ask questions and really network on the break session, this, you know, this whole day is designed for you, so let's propagate some context if you know what I mean, you know, context propagation, no, if you don't know what I mean, you will know, don't worry, there will be some tracing sessions, but why we are here, right, generally we are here because of those amazing projects, right, so if not their work, we wouldn't have much to talk about really, right, we would just have gaps and, you know, the amazing people really is innovating in those communities, you know, in Observability Space, I'm doing this for free and, you know, so we can really enjoy those things today and talk about the solutions, user stories and experiences, so please great applause for the entertainers and communities and, you know, we will hear many talks from maybe experts around those projects, you know, we have, of course, you know, all the Observability Signals we call them, so, you know, metrics, logs, tracing, profiling and much more, right, like we have cost attribution, we have, you know, like much more advanced techniques like EVPF, so all of this is why we are here. And, you know, as I mentioned before, we kind of started this tradition of Observability Day, you know, half a year ago in Detroit on KubeCon North America, so we are building on this momentum and since last time we had a lot of feedback, we, I hope we improved further with diversity, more user centric talks and so on, so if you don't like something or you don't like something today, send us, should us an email, maybe question, maybe feedback, so we can learn more. Great, so what we will see today? We have amazing agenda coming in, you know, we have some project updates in the very beginning, we have some keynote, we have break, we have Prometheus topic, what else? Open telemetry, profiling, then the break, then the AI, telemetry more, lunch, and during lunch we will have a table, talking table, I will give you more information later about that. Then after lunch we have amazing panel with lots of experts from the projects I mentioned or, yeah, around users. We have two talks about observability at scale, we are at the moment where we are running so many things that we need to, you know, think about how to integrate all those things together. We have a break and finally we have more open telemetry, another scale, full stack integration and EBPF and we end and afterwards there will be time to like socialize, have some drinks and there will be networking, yeah, for the evening. So maybe some important information before we start the whole day, you know, remember about code of contact of course, we want to be nice to each other and, you know, create this safe environment for everyone, so make sure you remember about that. There is a new thing, if you need some more accessibility, there is some service that you can download, it's called Viya Worldly and you can scan this code and I will wait a little bit if you want and essentially it will transcript the sessions in maybe your language, so please do that if you want, it's super useful, okay. And if you are sharing, please share on Twitter or Macedon or anywhere, please use our hashtag so we can kind of go back easily to that and folks are recorded so, you know, make sure we are also kind of like including the virtual audience, make sure to join our tag observability Slack channel, I just will use it just for observability day today, so any questions, any kind of ad hoc conversations we can have there. Wi-Fi, hopefully you already are connected and speakers, please come to us or actually in first to AV team if you want to have a mic, otherwise you can use this mic here just fine, but please connect, you know, five minutes before your talk come to connect your laptop. And talk tables, I mentioned that already, during lunch we will have this new way of collaborating and discussion, so discussion, so essentially chat on some topics, so during breaks and we have like couple of them I think too, we will gather the topics, so please go at the back, there will be like a whiteboard or some kind of white paper and we'll just write, you can write down any topics and we will essentially spread topic per table and during lunch you can eat and learn and talk and maybe, you know, help others as well. And of course, nothing happened without any help, we have amazing program committee, so many people helped to make this happen, we have lots of talk proposals, so thank you for that, we have something to choose from, so please, well, applause for those people. And of course, we had sponsors, so thank you Calypcia for Diamond Sponsorship and Datadoc LightStep Open Search for Platinum and Grafana Labs Observe IQ for Gold and we have Live Sponsor Stream as well, so thank you our sponsors. With this, it's time for project updates, so we have like, have some experts from or maintainers from two major projects, coming on stage and discussing like rough update on what happened recently, so please welcome Ricci at the stage first.