I am extremely excited to launch this meaningful phygital (physical + digitall) arts platform as the founder of YASTART and YASTECH – a start that is poised to nurture an ecosystem that provides decent jobs, economic inclusion, and sustainable development leveraging the emerging technologies and rich resources we have through our global network under YAST Group.

Our vision is to be a global arts marketplace where talented artists among our community can utilize our platform to showcase their creativity and artworks to increase their potential of making a decent income for themselves at the same time benefitting the community as a whole.

Through R.E.A.L. Values which YAST Group advocates for we believe we can Enrich the World. This is clearly aligned with one of our missions and that is to provide decent job opportunities for the less fortunate in our local and global community.

We are confident our platform is capable of assisting corporates and sponsors in matching their CSR needs with related talents or artworks and in supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Being a native Sarawakian myself, I have always desired to do my best in “Bringing the World to Sarawak and Bringing Sarawak to the World”. Indeed, we launched the MTI NFT platform just yesterday, fulfilling the former of “Bringing the World to Sarawak”. And today, the soft launch of YASTArt platform is about “Bringing Sarawak to the World” through the seamless world of digital realm.

Sarawak has been blessed with a rich heritage and cultural legacy. As Anak Sarawak, I have chosen to launch this international platform in Sarawak, where originality begins. Through this digital platform, our local artists will be able to showcase on their talents, artworks and portfolio to the world, with potential revenue streams to be generated, leveraging on the blockchain technology, which we will share further in our upcoming forum session.

The platform will also serve to provide more job opportunities. In support of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – Goal 4 Quality Education, Goal 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 10 Reduced Inequalities, and Goal 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities. We aim to assist corporations and sponsors in matching their CSR needs with related talents or artworks.

Last but not least, this platform provides us a strong grounding upon which we will be able to nurture & grow generational talents in our society through L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P values of which the acronym spells,

Love
Enthusiasm
Appreciation
Development
Execution
Reach out
System
Holism
Innovation, and
Professionalism

As such, educational activities are one of the many ways we can take advantage of to reduce poverty rates and overcome social inequality that still obviously still exists in our society today.

It is with great pleasure that I would like to extend my warmest welcome to all to be part of our community driven platform by artists, for artists.

Welcome to an ecosystem for people to do what they love, and to love what they do.
Welcome to YASTART, where originality begins.

Thank you.

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Because whatever the mind can perceive, it can be achieved.

I believe I can fly, and we have airplane.

Now everybody can fly, and everyone was flying here and there before the pandemic.

Thank God we see people start flying here and there again recently.

Formulate the future, and we can augment our world accordingly.

The future might be a bit far. What now?

To the moon, for those who has exposure to the crypto world, you can relate.

We have sky rocketing crypto currency price, wave after wave of boom and bust, pump and dump, even exit scams.

And recently, the hype of NFT, which for those who understand, it could be nothing more than a blockchain certification.

What is NFT? What’s the hype?

How can we add more value to what seems to be a good thing yet frequently misunderstood, misinterpreted, or even mis-used?

People. Process. Technology.

We shall explore further in our upcoming dialogue session.

I hope through the discussions we have today, we are able to add more insights to our knowledge base, specifically on how the formulation of art, technology, and finance can bring us to a more sustainable future, where financial inclusion in the creators’ economy is made possible through innovative solutions.

YASTART is not just another art platform selling NFTs.

YASTART is world’s first phygital (physical + digital) artwork platform assured by gold. The concept of digital twin, co-existence of real world items in both physical and digital realm.

YASTART is where originality begins, a proof-of-concept of how YASTECH is formulating the future, the future of sustainable creators’ economy.

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