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In June 2022, newly appointed Calaxy CEO Solo Ceesay popped over to Amsterdam to speak to attendees of TNW about the future of financial influencers.

He also authored a piece of thought leadership on "finfluencers" in advance of his appearance.

Social platforms have presented a crowd-sourced opportunity to share and spread financial advice with billions of global users consuming content under the hashtags #fintok, #stocktok, and the slightly less creative #personalfinance. However, this upward trajectory of financially-based user-generated content (UGC) is not a harbinger of healthy market activity.

While in Amsterdam, Solo also had the pleasure of catching up with Max Walker-Williams, a prominent voice in the Hedera ecosystem and — with the passing of Creator's Galaxy Improvement Proposals (CGIPs) 1 & 2 — now a steward of The Creator's Galaxy Protocol.