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AWS Announces AWS Clean Rooms

New service helps customers create data clean rooms to collaborate with their business partners and generate new insights while protecting underlying raw data

Amazon Ads, Comscore, DISH Media, Experian, Fox Corporation, LiveRamp, Omnicom Media Group’s Annalect, and TransUnion’s Neustar among customers and partners looking forward to using AWS Clean Rooms

HONG KONG SAR- Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS Clean Rooms, a new analytics service that helps companies across industries easily and securely analyze and collaborate on their combined datasets—without sharing or revealing underlying data. With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can create a secure data clean room in minutes and collaborate with any other company in the AWS Cloud to generate unique insights about advertising campaigns, investment decisions, clinical research, and more. AWS Clean Rooms provides a broad set of built-in data access controls that protect sensitive data, including query controls, query output restrictions, query logging, and cryptographic computing tools.

Companies across multiple industries increasingly look to complement their data with external business partners’ data to build a complete view of their business. In the advertising industry, for example, brands, media publishers, and their partners need to collaborate using datasets that are stored across many different channels and applications to improve the relevance of their campaigns and better engage with consumers. At the same time, these companies also want to protect sensitive consumer information and reduce or eliminate the sharing of raw data. To achieve this, one company often has to provide a copy of their user-level data to their partners and rely on contractual agreements to prevent misuse. Data clean rooms can help solve this challenge by allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze their data in a protected environment, where participants are unable to see each other’s raw data. But clean rooms are hard to build, requiring complex privacy controls, specialized tools to protect each participant’s data, and months of development time customizing analytics tools. When a new collaborator is added, or a different type of analysis is needed, companies have to spend even more development time. Then, these companies repeatedly have to copy and upload their data into storage environments outside of their control, which increases costs and risks exposing sensitive information. Companies prefer to limit data movement as much as possible, usually leading to less collaboration and missed opportunities to generate new business insights.

AWS Clean Rooms is a new service that makes it easier for customers and their partners to analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets to gain new insights, without revealing underlying data. Customers can use AWS Clean Rooms to create their own clean rooms in minutes and to start analyzing their collective datasets with just a few clicks. From the AWS Management Console, customers can simply choose the partners with whom they want to collaborate, select their datasets, and configure restrictions for participants. With AWS Clean Rooms, customers can easily collaborate with companies that are already using AWS, without moving data out of their AWS environment or loading it into another platform. When customers run queries, AWS Clean Rooms reads data where it lives and applies built-in analysis rules to help them maintain control over their data. Additionally, AWS Clean Rooms provides a broad set of configurable data access controls—including query controls, query output restrictions, and query logging—that allow companies to customize restrictions on the queries run by each clean room participant. AWS Clean Rooms also includes advanced cryptographic computing tools that keep data encrypted, even as queries are processed, to comply with stringent data-handling policies.

“Customers tell us they want to collaborate more safely and securely with their partners in areas like advertising, media, financial services, and life sciences. However, the data they need to do this is fragmented across data stores and applications belonging to different partners,” said Dilip Kumar, vice president of AWS Applications. “AWS Clean Rooms helps customers and their partners to better analyze and collaborate on their data on AWS. With the launch of AWS Clean Rooms, we are making it easier, simpler, and more secure for multiple companies to share and analyze combined datasets to generate new insights that they could not do on their own. Using AWS Clean Rooms, customers can collaborate on a range of tasks, such as more effectively generating advertising campaign insights and analyzing investment data while improving data security.”

In the coming months, AWS will also introduce new identity resolution capabilities to help businesses match and link customer records stored across disparate channels without the need to build and maintain complex workflows. Customers will have access to flexible, preconfigured identity resolution workflows that use rule-based techniques and machine learning models to help accurately link consumer interactions across applications into a unique user ID. With identity resolution capabilities, customers can create a unified view of their interactions with consumers. For example, a customer working on an advertising campaign could incorporate recent events (e.g., ad clicks, cart abandonment, and purchases) into advertising and marketing applications (e.g., ad buying platforms, loyalty programs, and ecommerce systems) to create better, more relevant consumer experiences. Customers who want to collaborate with other partners in a clean room can use automated identity resolution workflows that identify common user IDs across datasets and help them more easily join data together.

AWS Clean Rooms is available as a standalone offering and as part of AWS for Advertising and Marketing, a comprehensive set of solutions for advertising agencies, advertising technology companies, brands, and media publishers to accelerate and improve advertising and marketing campaign effectiveness. AWS for Advertising and Marketing includes solutions for privacy-enhanced data collaboration, advertising intelligence and measurement, audience and customer data management, real-time advertising, and customer experience. For more information on AWS for Advertising and Marketing, visit aws.com/advertising-marketing.

Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) is a secure, privacy-safe clean room application from Amazon Ads that supports thousands of marketers with custom analytics and cross-channel analysis. Builders can utilize AMC APIs to create their own offerings, while analysts can interact with a user interface available through the Amazon Ad Console. “Providing marketers with greater control over their own signals, while being able to analyze them in conjunction with signals from Amazon Ads, is crucial in today’s marketing landscape,” said Paula Despins, vice president of Ads Measurement at Amazon Ads. “By migrating AMC’s compute infrastructure to AWS Clean Rooms under the hood, marketers can use their own signals in AMC without moving data out of their AWS environment. This simplifies how marketers can manage their signals and enables AMC teams to focus on building new capabilities for brands.”

Comscore is a measurement and analytics company that brings trust and transparency to media. “As advertisers and marketers adapt to deliver relevant campaigns leveraging their combined datasets while protecting consumer data, Comscore’s Media Metrix suite, powered by Unified Digital Measurement 2.0, and Campaign Ratings services, will continue to support critical measurement and planning needs with services like AWS Clean Rooms,” said Brian Pugh, chief information officer at Comscore. “AWS Clean Rooms will enable new methods of collaboration among media owners, brands, or agency customers through customized data access controls, managed and set by each data owner, without needing to share underlying data.”

DISH Media provides advertisers with intelligent solutions to efficiently maximize exposure to desired audiences across DISH TV and SLING TV. “At DISH Media, we empower brands and agencies to run their own analysis of prior campaigns to allow for flexibility, visibility, and ease in optimizing future campaigns to reach DISH Media’s 31 million consumers,” said Kemal Bokhari, head of Data, Measurement, and Analytics at DISH Media. “We believe advertisers will benefit from the ease-of-use and comprehensive data access controls of AWS Clean Rooms for the measurement and optimization of campaigns.”

Fox Corporation is a leading producer and distributor of ad-supported content through its sports, news, and entertainment brands. “It can be challenging for our advertising clients to determine how to best leverage our deep, differentiated set of data sources to optimize their media spend across our combined portfolio of entertainment, sports, and news brands, which reach hundreds of millions of monthly viewers,” said Lindsay Silver, senior vice president of Data and Commercial Technology at Fox Corporation. “AWS Clean Rooms will enable data collaborations easily and securely in the AWS Cloud, which will help our advertising clients unlock new insights across every Fox brand and screen while protecting consumer data.”

AWS Clean Rooms will be available in early 2023 in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), and Europe (Stockholm).

To learn more, visit aws.amazon.com/clean-rooms.Hashtag: #AWS

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About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit .

Tia Lee Yu Fen’s (李毓芬) music video takes centre stage after gripping animation series “GOODBYE PRINCESS” achieves record-breaking 100 million views

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – All eyes will now turn to Tia Lee Yu Fen’s (李毓芬) hotly-anticipated music video after the global C-Pop star’s record-breaking animation series “GOODBYE PRINCESS” gained international acclaim and accumulated over 100 million views.

The series finale – The Beginning, left off with the princess about to receive the kiss of life from the dashing prince. However, at the last moment, she wakes up and pushes the prince away, causing him to reveal his true form – that of a monstrous beast – and attack the princess. The television set seen in the first and fifth episodes shatters as the beast continues to attack the princess. Sensing mortal danger, the princess recalls memories of the castle, battling black pawns on the chessboard, wearing her beautiful yet superficial dresses, and the blood red water. All these memories combine to become a magical red rose that the princess uses to ward off the beast and transform it into a puppy.

With the danger quelled, the princess holds the puppy in her hand and confidently strides toward the dazzling lights and the future that awaits her.

Accompanying the release of the “GOODBYE PRINCESS” finale was the final set of motion and still images released in collaboration with Vogue Hong Kong. The images show Tia Lee in an all-black Saint Laurent outfit and Christian Louboutin heels, which marks a stark contrast from the glamorous outfits of the previous five episodes. In line with the themes of overcoming challenges and starting a new life, Tia is seen looking determinedly toward the future.

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GOODBYE PRINCESS” Animation Episode 6: https://youtu.be/g4GJgTIzo7U
GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 6 Poster: https://www.instagram.com/p/Clk3EB0PimY/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=686169319542959&set=a.231904644969431 (for downloading)

GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 6 Still Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/ClndVULrIM0/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=693311432162081&set=a.231904644969431 (for downloading)

GOODBYE PRINCESS” Episode 6 Motion Image: https://youtu.be/ZizEX3ev-sg
ROLLACOASTER UK Cover: https://www.instagram.com/p/ClUA1Swtnyk/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=688854202607804&set=a.231904644969431(for downloading)

Vogue Hong Kong「The Voice」Cover: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck7_neKsh_w/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=681908259969065&set=pcb.681909583302266 (for downloading)

Hashtag: #TiaLee

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Overseas Visitors to Laos Could Exceed One Million in 2022

VIENTIANE, LAOS – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – Since Laos reopened in May, there has been a constant rise in foreign visitors who want to travel through its beautiful landscapes and experience the sights and sounds of the Land of a Million Elephants.

According to information by the Tourism Marketing Department of the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism, 644,756 foreign tourists visited Laos through September and the government is expecting 300,000 more international travelers to visit the country this year.

A majority of these travelers were from neighboring Thailand (364,515), who were excited to travel on the high-speed Laos-China Railway and visit popular tourist sites like Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng.

Although China’s borders are still closed, it ranked second with 18,902 Chinese tourists visiting Laos. Thanks to direct flights between Seoul and Vientiane, 9,885 people visited from South Korea, followed by the US with 6,695 people, and 6,379 travelers came in from neighboring Cambodia.

Foreign tourists have generated a revenue of over USD 100 million through September and with the high season setting in, this number is expected to go up considerably.

Meanwhile, the hospitality industry is geared up to welcome tourists during this time and has upgraded its standards and trained its staff to serve patrons even better. Additionally, the government has also collaborated with local businesses to organize exhibitions and fairs and work on the development of new tourism-related products, ensuring the best travel experience for visitors.

Learn more about Lao culture and places to visit at the Lao Simply Beautiful Facebook Page.

Hashtag: #LaosSimplyBeautiful

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Media OutReach Newswire announced as PRCA APAC official newswire partners

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – The Public Relations and Communications Association Asia Pacific (PRCA APAC) has announced Media OutReach Newswire the first global newswire founded in this region as its official newswire partner.

Media OutReach Newswire is the only global newswire that specialises in Asia Pacific with its own distribution network spanning 26 countries in the region. It has a database of 140,000 journalists and editors, covering 400 news trade categories and partnership with more than 500 online media to provide guaranteed online news posting.

As the pioneering global newswire agency founded in Asia, Media OutReach Newswire is revolutionising the newswire industry by authentically delivering news release to targeted journalists and editors, as well as guaranteed posting of news release on genuine online media news sites.

Head of PRCA APAC Tara Munis MPRCA said:

“We’re thrilled to partner with the leading newswire solution in APAC. Media OutReach Newswire’s distribution service and reporting has been built on the needs of PR professionals in our markets. We are excited to work with the team for the years ahead.”

Jennifer Kok, Founder, Media Outreach Newswire said:

“I founded Media OutReach Newswire in 2009 with the ambition to create a newswire service that would authentically support Asian based companies to build their brand across Asia Pacific and globally. Today, our newswire has addressed the 3 key challenges often faced by PR professionals when using a newswire – reaching actual journalists, guaranteed news posting on genuine online media sites and access to a post release report with a ready to use format,” says Jennifer Kok, Founder and CEO of Media OutReach Newswire. Today, we have helped hundreds of clients to secure news articles not only in the Asia Pacific region but also internationally in USA, UK, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America.

The partnership between PRCA APAC and Media OutReach Newswire are significant as it will give additional insights to enable us to continue to innovate and provide a service that would support the needs of the industry.

Hashtag: #MediaOutReachNewswire

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About PRCA

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) is the world’s largest professional PR body.

Representing 35,000 PR professionals in 82 countries worldwide, we are a global advocate for excellence in public relations. Our teams across Europe, the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific work with professionals around the world to co-ordinate our operations across six continents.

Our mission is to create a more professional, ethical, and prosperous PR industry. We champion – and enforce – professional standards around the world through our Professional Charter and Code of Conduct. The Code compels members to adhere to the highest standards of ethical practice.

We deliver exceptional training, authoritative industry data, and global networking, and development opportunities.

We also manage the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) – the umbrella body for 41 PR associations and 3,000 agencies across the world. Additionally, we support the delivery of the Motor Industry Communicators Association (MICA).

About Media OutReach Newswire

Founded in 2009, Media OutReach is the first global newswire founded in the Asia Pacific region with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand, and with its headquarters in Hong Kong. Media OutReach constantly invests in its distribution network and post-release report to deliver an authentic service that connects clients to a journalist, builds online visibility, and empowers their SEO and social media.

Media OutReach Newswire is the only global press release distribution company that owns its distribution network across 26 countries in the Asia Pacific; possessing a database of more than 140,000 journalists, 400 trade categories, 65,000 media titles, and has a partnership with more than 500 real media to provide guarantee real online news posting for their client’s news releases.

With proprietary technology at its core, Media OutReach disrupts the newswire industry by delivering multimedia and multilanguage directly to journalists and provides post-release reports that offer reporting options that help PR professionals report efficiently and quickly. With its ownership of its distribution, its reports include insights into journalists accessing the news by publication and country.

In 2021, Media OutReach was named “the Most Important and Influential Asian PR Distribution Service provider for Asia Pacific Region” by TMCnet, the world’s leading trade online media website covering communications and technology. Media OutReach was also named “2021 OPPO Partner of the Year” by OPPO Global, the world’s leading smart device manufacturers and innovators. For more information, please visit

Police in Thailand Seize Cannabis Smuggled From Laos

Police and authorities in Thailand seize marijuana that could be smuggled from Laos.

Authorities in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, have seized a load of cannabis near the Mekong River that was believed to have been smuggled from Laos.

Dachser sets the course for air and sea freight

Dr. Tobias Burger to succeed Edoardo Podestà as COO Air & Sea Logistics, effective January 1, 2024. Successors are also lined up to manage the ASL EMEA and ASL APAC business units.

KEMPTEN, GERMANY/HONG KONG SAR, CHINA – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – Dachser is setting the course for future growth in its Air & Sea Logistics (ASL) business field through long-term succession planning.

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Dr. Tobias Burger will succeed Edoardo Podestà as COO Air & Sea Logistics and member of the Executive Board, effective January 1, 2024.

Dr. Tobias Burger (45) will succeed Edoardo Podestà (60) as COO Air & Sea Logistics and member of the Executive Board, effective January 1, 2024. After a Dachser career spanning 20 years, a little over four of them at the helm of ASL, Podestà will step down from active working life at the end of 2023.

“Dr. Tobias Burger is an experienced logistics strategist and we are helping him prepare to take his seat on Dachser’s Executive Board. With his holistic, forward-thinking logistics outlook, he will prove a valuable addition to our Executive Board team,” says Bernhard Simon, Chairman of the Dachser Supervisory Board. “Dr. Burger will also be in charge of all of Dachser’s marketing activities. This means we will be best placed to proactively address complex market changes, particularly in air and sea freight, and to position ourselves accordingly.”

A former management consultant, Dr. Burger joined Dachser in 2009. He worked in controlling and strategy development before being given responsibility for Corporate Governance. At that time, he was already overseeing the development of air and sea operations toward a seamless global network. As Deputy Director Air & Sea Logistics, Dr. Burger has served as Podestà’s right-hand man since 2019. During this period, he was first put in charge of ASL global sales, a position whose responsibilities currently include strategic development for the entire business field. Since 2021, he has also been leading the ASL EMEA business unit.

Marc Meier
Marc Meier to head ASL EMEA from January 1, 2023

Marc Meier to head ASL EMEA from January 1, 2023

Effective January 1, 2023, Dr. Burger will hand over the role of Managing Director ASL EMEA to Marc Meier. To prepare himself for managing the regional business unit, Meier (53) joined Dachser already on October 1, 2022. As a logistics manager whose expertise includes air and sea freight, overland transport, and warehousing, he has built up more than 30 years of international experience in the logistics industry. He served as CEO of Hamburg-based air freight forwarder Senator International until that company was acquired by Maersk in 2021. Prior to that, he spent over five years as CEO of Fr. Meyer’s Sohn, a forwarding agency specializing in sea freight. He began his career at Kühne + Nagel, where he held various management positions, lastly as President of the Canada country organization.

“In Marc Meier we have gained a seasoned air and sea freight manager with an international reputation. He is the ideal person to guide our ASL business in the EMEA region to a successful future,” says Dachser CEO Burkhard Eling. “And dovetailing this business with our European overland transportation network will lead the way to further growth.”

Roman Mueller
Roman Müller to take over in ASL APAC business unit from January 1, 2024.

Roman Müller to take over in ASL APAC from January 1, 2024

Dachser has also already planned the succession in its ASL APAC business unit. Effective January 1, 2024, Roman Müller (41) will succeed Edoardo Podestà, who has led the regional business unit with great success since 2014, and in conjunction with his other role of COO ASL since 2019. Swiss-born Müller has worked in Asia his entire career. Over the past 15 years, his management positions at Dachser include Manager of the Korea country organization and Senior Sales Manager for the entire APAC region. Since July 2021, he has served as Deputy Director Asia Pacific in the ASL APAC business unit, reporting to Podestà.

“Roman Müller knows the Asian markets and their requirements inside out. In all his previous positions—especially those in sales—he achieved outstanding success and helped advance our presence in Asia,” Eling says. “So he is ideally placed not only to continue the stellar development of the ASL APAC business unit but also to take it to a whole new level by focusing even more on offering integrated services. In 2023, he will work closely with Edoardo Podestà to chart a course for this success.”

Dachser’s Air & Sea Logistics business field employed more than 4,300 people and generated EUR 2.1 billion in revenue in 2021. It operates 139 branches in 36 countries. Dachser’s ASL EMEA business unit comprises 21 country organizations with 71 locations and employs more than 2,100 people. The company’s ASL APAC business unit is represented in 11 countries, with more than 1,500 employees working across 43 locations.

Hashtag: #Dachser

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About Dachser

Dachser, a family-owned company headquartered in Kempten, Germany, provides transport logistics, warehousing, and customized services in two business fields: Dachser Air & Sea Logistics and Dachser Road Logistics. The latter consists of two business lines: Dachser European Logistics and Dachser Food Logistics. Comprehensive contract logistics services and industry-specific solutions round out the company’s range. A seamless shipping network—both in Europe and overseas—and fully integrated IT systems ensure intelligent logistics solutions worldwide.

Thanks to some 31,800 employees at 376 locations all over the globe, Dachser generated consolidated net revenue of approximately EUR 7.1 billion in 2021. The same year, the logistics provider handled a total of 83.6 million shipments weighing 42.8 million metric tons. Dachser is represented by its own country organizations in 42 countries. For more information about Dachser, please visit

Laos, Russia Unveil Monument to Soviet Pilots Downed in Laos

Soviet Union pilot memorial in Laos.

Laos’ Ministry of Public Security and the Embassy of Russia to Laos have unveiled a memorial in remembrance of Soviet military pilots who died while serving in Southeast Asia.

Oasys Mainnet Launches, Trading of OAS Tokens Begins on Major CEXs

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 12 December 2022 – Oasys a gaming-optimised blockchain built by gamers for gamers, is pleased to announce the full completion of its Mainnet launch process and the listing of its native token, OAS, on 5 CEXs: OKX, Kucoin, Bybit, Gate, and Huobi.

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“We are thrilled to have successfully completed the Mainnet launch process and to have our native token, OAS, listed on five prominent CEXs,” said Daiki Moriyama, Director at Oasys. “Despite the challenges in the market, we have continued to make strides in blockchain game development, and we believe it won’t be long before users will be able to play high-quality games that combine good UX with compelling content. With the launch of Oasys, we hope to accelerate the growth of the industry and drive mainstream adoption of blockchain games.”

Oasys began the first phase of its Mainnet launch on October 25, with its 21 initial validators taking over operations of all nodes and ensuring that Oasys Layer 1, the Hub-Layer, could maintain stable performance. In the second phase, Oasys integrated Layer 2, the Verse-Layer, and confirmed successful rollups to Hub-Layer. Finally, in the third phase, Oasys integrated essential ecosystem components for user experience, including the launch of Oasys-Hub, a portal for comprehensive management of key activities within the Oasys ecosystem.

“With the support of our partners and community members who share our vision, we were able to complete our Strategic Round and reach our target amount within 12 hours at the Public Token Sale, even during this crypto winter,” said Moriyama. “We are grateful for the continued support and are excited to see what the future holds for Oasys.”

Staking OAS tokens is one of the major utilities of the OAS token. By staking their OAS tokens to validators through Oasys Hub, users can earn rewards in the form of OAS and unique rewards from validator-run campaigns.

Hashtag: #Oasys

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About Oasys

Oasys was established in February 2022 to increase mainstream play-and-earn adoption, and at launch, committed to partnering with 21 gaming and Web3 tech companies to act as validators, such as Bandai Namco Research, SEGA, Ubisoft and Yield Guild Games. Led by a team of blockchain experts and joining forces with the biggest gaming company names to serve as the initial validators, Oasys is revolutionizing the gaming industry with its Proof-of-Stake (PoS) based blockchain.

With a focus on creating an ecosystem for gamers and developers to distribute and develop blockchain-based games, Oasys solves the problems game developers face when building games on the blockchain. The trifecta approach of the fastest network powered by the gaming community, a scalable network powered by AAA game developers and the blockchain offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees for users, readies participants to enter the Oasys and play.

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