4 min readDec 31, 2021

Introduction

It has been quite the month and also a spectacular end of 2021 for us at Kalao.

As the holidays have come upon us and the end of the year is here, it’s important to understand what we have accomplished to bring Kalao to fruition. We hope that our community has enjoyed the progress and features we have made, giving NFTs an integrated experience for everyone to enjoy. The month of December is obviously our last month in 2021, but certainly not the least in terms of performance. The last few weeks have been ripe with partnerships, progress, and prosperity.

We have no intention to slow down and we think 2022 will be an amazing year. Let’s take a look at December and see how we closed out the year in full swing.

Growing Together

On the interactions with the Kalao community, we expanded by having many more partnerships and integrations, each giving users to see an expanding NFT experience that has grown stronger each month. Some of the most prominent announcements were Big Joe’s collection, a series of 100 NFTs, sold out in less than 1 minute, which reached over 1000 AVAX trading since the release on Kalao Marketplace.

Firat, known as one the most famous comics hero of Turkey, has also been a fantastic and successful NFTs collection with 5’000 NFTs sold out and reaching now more than 3000 AVAX of trading so far.

Big crush on Feelings collection with 250 pieces of pure Art.

Other important news was our auctioned event for Arnaud Journou and his unique artwork NFTs linked to a physical painting.

Other ways we have shared our growth is our double reward farming with the Trader Joe team providing more than 200% APR, our continued relationship with AvaxHomes, our partnership with IZEV, as well as a great upcoming collaboration with AvaxPenguinFamily who will bring a great platform to the Avalanche ecosystem.

The Kalao Marketplace and Community

The highlight feature has been the ongoing success of the Kalao Marketplace, the popularity of its use, and the multitudes of collections it has brought in such a short time. We are very excited to see the growth continue and show NFTs communities that both Kalao and AVAX are a hotspot for high quality NFTs.

Including the rapid user growth, we have shared our newest release for the updates for the Kalao Marketplace, including advanced filters and sorting capabilities, rarity insights, and support for both Ledger and Trezor wallets. Important efforts have been put on stabilizing and improving the performance to cope with accelerated user growth.

We also took the opportunity to improve our launchpad KalaoGo that we leveraged to successfully launch several collections.

We’ll obviously continue to improve the UI/UX with additional features and enhanced user journeys to make the Kalao experience even smoother.

Get ready for a very exciting 2022

December has also been very important for the team to get the platform ready for the upcoming Citadel and token utilities. On the horizon for 2022, we have already began sharing what’s in store for Kalao, featuring support for Unreal Engine graphics, multiplayer modes, customizable shops and galleries, access to AVAX dApps directly from Citadel, play-to-earn games with leaderboards, and much more.

Adding utility to the token has always been a priority and in our plans and we will start this journey by enabling staking on our platform as of Jan 5 as disclosed in this dedicated medium.

A series of articles will be shared with the community to provide more details on how all these new features will work and how to use them.

Thank You

As we look forward to 2022, we want to highlight the most important part of Kalao — the community and its users. Kalao is only as strong as the community members who support it. We want to thank you for all the support this year and for the journey ahead.

We wish you all a fantastic 2022 sparkled with joy and prosperity!

About Kalao

Kalao is an NFT ecosystem, leveraging a cost-effective and easy-to-use marketplace, powered by Avalanche blockchain technology combined with outstanding Kalao VR capabilities. Its framework will accelerate the adoption of VR technology to develop virtual worlds and sustain the digital transformation of business use cases.