BIF Evening Gala Sponsorship

HanDAO was placed an official sponsor of the Blockchain Infrastructure Forum evening Gala event hosted at the Belvedere Palace Museum on July 6, 2023.

The Blockchain Infrastructure Forum (BIF) was a conference that I hosted in Vienna, Austria July 6-7, 2023 at the Austrian National Library. It was an invite-only event for stakeholders involved at the blockchain infrastructure layer. This included: blockchain foundation teams, validators, datacenters, and cloud service providers. Some of the attendees included: co-founder of cosmos, co-founder of osmosis, all of the MEV teams among Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos, the Web3 foundation of Polkadot, the CEO of Aleo, the top validators from each ecosystem (Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Polkadot, Aleo), Ethereum client teams, GBBC CEO, cloud providers like Tencent Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, datacenters, and Cosmos ICF directors.

All of these attendees came to the BIF evening gala event at the Belvedere Palace Museum on July 6th evening. Over 180 people attended which included all of the BIF attendees and special guests of the Belvedere Palace Museum.

The BIF evening gala consisted of special events: Wine Tasting. Austrian food critic, Alexander Rabl will be guiding us through a journey of Austrian wines with three renowned winemakers. ​Fritz Wieninger, one of the most relevant biodynamic winemakers in Vienna. Fred Loimer from Langenlois, who will deliver us one of his Winzersekt (sparkling wine made by the winemaker himself, like Champagne and very good). Georg Nigl, a natural wine maker, upcoming, from the village of Alexander. ​Alexander Rabl himself will invite each of the winemakers to the stage and speak with each about the character of their wines and their processes. The wines will be Gemischter Satz, Pinot Noir, Winzersekt (Sparkling Wine) and one or to natural wines to be defined.

Private tours of the Belvedere Palace Museum culminating in a view of Gustav Klimt’s Kiss piece Baroque duet concert by Irma Kinsanen and Phillip Compoi. ​Irma Niskanen Irma Niskanen was born in Saint Petersburg and moved to Finland at the age of 12. She first studied modern violin in Turku under the guidance of Alexandre Vinnitsky, continuing with baroque violin studies at the Sibelius-Academy with Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch. Currently, Irma lives in Vienna where she teaches baroque violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts. ​Irma has performed as a concertmaster of Orkester Nord, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Les Ambassadeurs, Orquestra Barocca Casa da Musica, and Concerto Stella Matutina. With these ensembles she has worked under the baton of Reinhard Goebel, Enrico Onofri, Ton Koopman, Amandine Beyer, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Sigiswald Kuijken, Maxim Emelyanychev and has taken part in award-winning recordings for Erato, Naxos, Alpha, and BIS ​Being a passionate chamber musician, Irma has performed baroque, classical, early romantic, and contemporary music in various festivals and concerts around Europe. She has first performed and recorded several contemporary works for historical instruments. In 2013 Irma was in the finals of the International Young Artist Presentation chamber music competition in Belgium. ​During her studies and her artistic career, Irma has been generously supported with grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Arts Promotion Centre of Finland, as well as private cultural foundations. ​Philipp Comploi ​Along with his concertizing with his piano trio „Trio Alba“, he is a sought-after leader and soloist in orchestras and ensembles specializing in performing on historical instruments such as the La Folia Barockorchester, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Ensemble Delirio and Quadriga Consort. ​Performances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken him to festivals and concert venues throughout all continents like Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, to Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires and the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing. ​Philipp has made numerous recordings for Harmonia Mundi (SONY Classical), MDG (Musikproduktion Dabringhaus&Grimm), Carpe Diem and Capriccio as well as for various radio productions. Presentations. Belvedere Palace Museum presentation on the Kiss NFT Daniel Hwang welcome presentation and presentation on event with introduction to HanDAO.

The costs of the event included: Cost of venue (because not all sufficient members purchased a Kiss NFT) Wines Serving staff Equipment Production Company Musicians Winery representatives and Alexander

The total costs amounted to: $30,160 USD

I am asking for $5,000 USD in HanDAO retroactive payment for HanDAO’s representation as an official sponsor, its introduction to audience, and artwork at the entrance to the event.