On June 30, the BNB Chain Foundation announced the purchase of $25,000 worth of MEET48's official token IDOL. Prior to this, MEET48, the world's first AI-Agent and AIUGC creator and fan economy ecological community focused on the entertainment field in Web3.0, announced the completion of token financing, receiving investments from many professional institutions and individuals, including YZi Labs, Fosun Group co-founder Liang Xinjun, Hash Global, HashKey Capital, Animoca, and more, and received a retweet from CZ on Twitter with the caption 'Fan Economy + BNB Chain'.
As a leading entertainment application in the BSC ecosystem, MEET48 successfully created a series of innovative entertainment ecosystems that integrate idols and blockchain technology in 2024. Through various online and offline activities, it continuously ignites fan enthusiasm, becoming an important engine to promote the upgrade of the fan economy. Its fan interaction and content creation model has attracted widespread attention in the industry. Data shows that in the MEET48 GIPR2 voting event, the peak on-chain voting of global fans reached 537,000 daily active users, equivalent to 11 times the full capacity of a concert at Tokyo Dome in Japan. In just 30 days, over 31.54 million transactions were made on the MEET48 Dapp, repeatedly ranking first in DappBay Social, setting unprecedented records in the Web3 entertainment field. With these remarkable data, MEET48 was successfully selected for the BNB Chain MVB Season 8 Accelerator Program, and this investment from YZi Labs and the holdings of the BNB Chain Foundation continue to support MEET48's concept of breaking into Web3 with entertainment, providing more imaginative space for MEET48's future on the BNB Chain.
On July 1, MEET48 announced the preliminary results of the first WEB3.0 Global Idol Annual Popularity Contest (The 1st Web3.0 All-Community Annual Idol Popularity Audition & Ceremony, abbreviated as WIPA). As of the preliminary report, a total of 16,929,803 IDOL were consumed, accounting for 0.35% of the total IDOL supply, setting a historical record in the Web3 entertainment field. According to MEET48's official news, the IDOL consumed by the time of the final WIPA results is expected to reach 2.33% of the total IDOL supply. DappRadar data shows that MEET48's active Dapp reached 66.54k on-chain transactions in the past 7 days, and the number of active user addresses (UAW) reached 65.39k.
The TOP7 idol rankings in the preliminary report are as follows:
1.SNH48 Team SII - Liu Zengyan, 3453.8 points
2.CGT48 Team CII - He Linyan, 2248.7 points
3.MEET48 AI-Agent - FiveSS, 2165.7 points
4.CGT48 Team GII - Li Qiuyue, 2141 points
5.GNZ48 Team Z - Zhu Yixin, 1988.1 points
6.SNH48 Team NII - Han Jiale, 1844.3 points
7.SNH48 Team NII - Zhang Xiaoying, 1742.6 points
It is reported that WIPA, as a pioneering attempt to introduce blockchain mechanisms into the idol selection system on a global scale, allows international fans to use IDOL to support idols in the MEET48 APP and official website, thereby selecting the first TOP16 idols. The final voting will officially close on August 2, 2025, at 4:00 UTC, and the final results will be announced live at the WIPA Annual Finals Gala and Award Ceremony (held concurrently with the annual Youth Gala of the global strategic partner SNH48 GROUP) on the same day at the AsiaWorld-Expo Arena in Hong Kong, China.
MEET48 has officially announced the joining of multiple stars to WIPA, including Wu Zongxian, Super Junior-D&E, Sandara Park, 雅-MIYAVI-, Siba family artist Xu Jiaq, SNH48's 11th General Election first place Yuan Yiqi, Gao Shanfeng, Lu Tingyu, Wu Shanru, and others.
For MEET48, TGE is just the first step in breaking into Web3 with entertainment. In the future, complementary AI, GameFi, and SocialFi product launches and long-term value construction will follow, forming a long-term development model of 'first TGE, then advance core content service construction', helping the IDOL token become one of the few crypto assets suitable for long-term holding and value investment in the Web3 market.
About MEET48
MEET48 is the world's first AI-Agent and AIUGC fan economy ecological community focused on the entertainment field, regarded as one of the largest Web3 application project teams globally, with a technical and R&D team of 500 people, covering a regional operational network in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, and Dubai. MEET48 aims to use an AIUGC content ecosystem focused on AIGC (Animation, IDOL, GAME, and Comics) Gen Z trend entertainment content and a graphical, intelligent metaverse social base to achieve mass adoption of Web3 technology.
