This first year of Everdome has been an exceptional year full of learning, challenges overcome and landmarks achieved.
February saw Everdome formally begin, with our $DOME token launched immediately on OKX, a Tier-1 platform, something unusual for first token launches in a very positive sense.
We quickly hit the ground running with 100m+ in transactions on the first day, and the end of February saw our staking go live, with 1,270,000,000+ DOME staked in 24 hours. This listing on OKX was quickly followed by listings on Bybit and Gate.io.
Everdome then looked to secure partnerships from across the Web3, Web2 and analogue sectors. There was a great deal of interest in our proposition, attracting partners from the analogue world of F1 racing with Alfa Romeo F1 Team ORLEN, key Web3 partners in the form of OKX, media partnerships with BSC News as well as individual partnerships with F1 racing drivers, crypto influencers and more.
We were also delighted to collaborate directly with the UAE government, being chosen as a key strategic partner in their Jahiz upskilling initiative to future proof their government employee skills relating to the metaverse.
Further concrete validation of our concept also came in the form of a $10 million investment commitment from Gem Digital Limited.
2022 was a year of community building too. A key Everdome's goal is to create a vibrant and pioneering metaverse community, and we made huge progress across the year in attracting engaged and dedicated people who have supported us across the year.
This is highlighted not only by Everdome's social media following and degrees of engagement, but also from our successful Everdome city land auctions, where 11,700 plots were sold with a 97% sell out rate.
Our gratitude and appreciation for our community of supporters cannot be overstated. We are delighted to discover so many people sharing our vision, and backing this up with a commitment which we do not take lightly.
But all this said, Everdome is building an immersive and uniquely hyper-realistic metaverse experience, which means that we must focus on our development. Since February we have made gigantic strides towards executing this vision, with some key releases during 2022.
We launched the Genesis NFT collection, which served as access for the top tier holders to the earliest stages of our project. The faith placed in us by these early adopting NFT holders was paid back with a series of releases, starting with the Spaceport experience release, followed by the Astro NFT collection drop as the first wearables in our metaverse adventure, before ending the year on a high note with our Everdome Phoenix rocket launches.
Everdome also made sure we stayed in the news, attending events including Davos and Gitex, as well as the world debut of our VR metaverse experience at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Finally, let's not forget Everdome's builders. 2022 started with five core team members. We end the year with a multi-disciplinary, tight knit and dedicated team of thirty plus.
Please see the 2022 wrap-up video from our YouTube below: