Anshe Chung Studios to Link Virtual World Economies

Creating the first financial market and financial services infrastructure that spans multiple virtual worlds.

Plush City @ Second Life, New Oxford @ Entropia Universe and Wuhan, China @ Real Life 21-May-2007

Anshe Chung Studios is preparing to launch a virtual financial market, financial products and a set of services that are going to, for the first time, allow direct capital flow and investment across virtual world boundaries. This step will be the first of many in the creation of an open, cross platform Metaverse economy that transcends individual virtual worlds.

"Some virtual worlds like Second Life (R), Entropia Universe (R) and IMVU (R) have demonstrated the enormous economic potential that exists when key sectors of a virtual world economy such as content creation, trade, banking and services are privatized. This has lead to a boom in each of these worlds that has yet to be matched by any other economy, real or virtual", says founder Ailin Graef a.k.a. Anshe Chung. "Now the time is right to go further and link these exciting spaces together, to begin with the creation of the global Metaverse."

"In the real world, the flow of capital and investment across national borders has always been a driving force for political progress, economic reforms and the emergence of a global conscience and economy", adds Guni Graef, CEO. "We believe that allowing residents in a virtual world, no matter which one they have chosen to live in, to easily diversify their portfolio of virtual investments into other virtual worlds is going to lead to a paradign shift. At ACS we are convinced that once capital is flowing freely, people, goods and services will follow and eventually we will see incentive and pressure for the emergence of open tools and standards. It is our vision that one day even traveling across virtual worlds and taking your belongings with you should become as easy as a mouseclick."

The new financial market will allow Second Life residents to invest their Linden DOLLARS (L$) directly in ventures such as banks, malls or biospheres in Entropia Universe while those who earned their fortunes in Entropia dollars will be able to easily diversify their investments into assets such as Second Life virtual land funds, virtual game development businesses or the IMVU fashion design industry.

Currently the trading platform and ATM links are operational and undergoing testing with a select group of investors. The public launch is slated for early June with several high profile virtual company IPOs to lead the way to a new culture of cross platform virtual investment.

No real money trades will be involved.

While not widely publicized, ACS and Anshe Chung have been a driving force behind the establishment of a financial sector in Second Life from the very beginning, funding services such as SLExchange, the World Stock Exchange as well as providing over a hundred million L$ of investment to more than 50 virtual enterprises in Second Life. With AnsheX, the Anshe Chung Studios operate the largest virtual currency exchange for IMVU and the second largest exchange for Second Life currency. The recent acquisition of one of only five existing banking licenses in Entropia Universe makes ACS a major player in the financial markets of Entropia, rivaling real life banks and established resident tycoons in that space.

Entropia Universe, created by the Swedish company Mindark SA, is the first major virtual game world that introduced an open economy: legalizing real money trades (RMT) and privatizing major economic sectors such as trading, banking and virtual real estate.

Second Life, developed by San Francisco based Linden Lab (R), has broken new ground as a widely open ended collaborative virtual space that is almost entirely driven by user created content and third party developers. Imagined and created by its residents, the Second Life world has experienced an explosion of creativity and entrepreneurship that makes it even reminiscent of open platforms such as the World Wide Web or Microsoft Windows.

Since 2004, the Anshe Chung Studios (ACS) has been the global leader in virtual real estate development on open virtual world platforms. Originally founded by Anshe Chung as an entirely virtual business in Second Life, it has evolved into a real company with more than 60 full-time employees turning over millions of dollars per year with virtual real estate, content development and virtual financial services. In 2007, ACS received high profile venture capital investment and has begun to branch out into additional virtual worlds. Besides thousands of virtual world residents and pioneers, ACS helped key clients such as Fortune 100 companies, churches and governments to benefit from virtual worlds.

Anshe Bank Entropia Universe - investment opportunity
Please keep this low profile for now and don't post about it on blogs or outside this forum. The official launch of our trading platform will only be in June and right now it is not yet what we want to present to the public.

However, I think members of the community here should be first to have chance to join this enterprise, before we open it up further.

My vision for the Anshe Bank in Entropia is that of a bank not only for the community, but, as far as this is possible, also by the community. While we plan to ensure reliable and professional 24/7 support operations from Wuhan and Indiana, whenever possible I want to create opportunities for people from the community to participate in this venture and to profit from it.

For this purpose we setup a virtual enterprise, the Anshe Bank Entropia Universe (ABE). ABE will begin operations in June with an Entropia banking license and building, 1 mio PED in cash and a 24/7 support infrastructure and team. A business studies graduate from Wuhan and a team of experienced Calypso citizens will bring the necessary pricing know-how to ensure that the bank will always operate with optimal rates.

ABE is setup as a virtual enterprise with a total of 3.2 mio shares, 10% of which have been issued on our new virtual stock exchange that, once it is feature complete and beta testing has been successful, is going to link the economies of EU, SL and IMVU. The IPO price per share is 1 PED.

While the stock exchange is still a work in progress, some features are already functional and can be used, such as:
- create an account
- deposit PED or L$
- withdraw PED or L$
- view various reports and ABE information
- purchase ABE shares

Creating a stock market account
To create an account you follow instructions one website here:
http://dreamland.anshechung.com/dse/dse.php?fct=HOME

Once you created account you use same link and click "login" there.

Changing your password
When you click on the link with your avatar name a form will open to allow you to change your password. Please do so after logging in for the first time.

Depositing/withdrawing PED
Click on your PED trading balance. Then fill in the form. Usually, within the next 20 minutes somebody from our Chinese team with last name "Chung" should appear at the Oxford teleport to pick up or deliver your PED. To make sure this is not a scammer, you should ask him/her about the details that you submitted via the website.

Purchasing ABE shares
Once the PED appear in your stock market balance you can click on the "IPOs" link and purchase shares of ABE. You can view the prospectus of the virtual company by clicking on the "ABE" link. Make sure to read it thoroughly before committing to investment. When the IPO is complete and the stock market officially launches in June, these shares will be freely tradeable and will be able to receive dividends that we plan to issue to distribute profits.

Getting help
This is beta and this whole process is new to our support team. If you find bugs or people are too slow to react to your withdrawal/deposit requests, then don't hesitate to write to support@anshechung.com and set me CC (anshe.chung@gmail.com).

"I cHangeZ my mIndZ and f$wk!"
Please make sure to reflect carefully before making any transactions on the stock exchange. We can't rollback transactions. Don't invest more in virtual goods or virtual ventures than you can easily afford to loose. We are pioneers in a new space full of opportunity but also full of risk.

-Anshe

Nie nie nie i jeszcze raz nie...już pomijam fakt, że te wszystkie obrazy itd to marnotrawienie kasy, tak samo jak apartament itd.

A co do Ciebie misko, cieszy Cie, że ceny uber itemów rosną (I w ogóle itemów)...bo mnie jakoś niezabardzo...osobiscie czuje sie wykluczony z gry już od roku.

A co do Ciebie misko, cieszy Cie, że ceny uber itemów rosną (I w ogóle itemów)...bo mnie jakoś niezabardzo...osobiscie czuje sie wykluczony z gry już od roku.

Cieszy, nie cieszy - wsio rawno, nie zamierzałem i nie zamierzam kupować uber itemków. A to że ich ceny rosną oznacza, że są gracze którzy chcą za nie tyle dać, czyli że ładują kasę w EU, czyli że finansują moje globy/HoFy - proste , a bardziej górnolotnie: EU się rozwija dzięki takim graczom.

Level, zapomniales jeszcze wspomniec jaki to noob z niej jest ... i w ogole ze wszystkich ;p

no to juz wiem, jaki stosunek do mnie ma całe forum, przynajmniej mieliście się z kogo śmiać, dzięki...ludzie, dzięki, 4 lata straconego życia, nic....

Ale to jest inflacja bo pieniędzy na rynku coraz więcej a uber-itemów nie przybywa albo przybywa bardzo mało. Nie wiadomo jak to w końcu wpłynie na itemy z niższych półek. To tak jakby w RL ciągle drukowali nowe pieniądze.

Im więcej pieniędzy w grze tym lepiej, właśnie o tym pisałem. To nie jest inflacja taka jak nas straszą w wiadomościach, to jest inflacja cen konkretnej grupy produktów, które nie są niezbędne do funkcjonowania w grze.

Sie wczytaj, to znajdziesz uzasadnienie.

I think the press release (which of course was cleared by MindArk before Anshe's release of it) pretty much sums it up. We like enterprising participants in Entropia.

To czekamy na informacjÄ™ prasowÄ…...

Ja bym powiedział, że Marco chodziło o tę informację, którą cytujesz w pierwszym poście

Bo wiadomo, lepiej podłapać czyjś pomysł i samemu też czerpać z tego zyski.

inna sprawa, że SL ma być opodatkowany, a i mówi się, że to ogromna pralnia pieniędzy, jeśli przytargają do PE to, któregoś dnia możemy sięobudzić w świecie z wyłączonymi serverami...