The promoter said the company was “one big entity”. In a subsequent Zoom meeting with HyperNation members, a senior promoter of both HyperVerse and HyperNation was asked how HyperNation was associated with the original HyperTech schemes. Lee and Xu did not feature in the HyperNation launch video and were not mentioned. Photograph: ON 1 interview with Miss.N, HyperNation, YouTube ‘Miss N’, an ‘official ambassador’ for HyperNation at the online launch. “Mr H” described himself in the video as an “evangelist in the new world order” and he and “Miss N” were presented as the “official ambassadors of HyperNation”. Reece Lewis did not feature and was not referred to in the video. A May 2022 launch event video for HyperNation broadcast on YouTube featured masked promoters called “Mr H” and “Miss N”. Some HyperVerse members said they faced problems withdrawing funds from the scheme in the first half of 2022, with members saying they were then encouraged to migrate to a new platform called HyperNation. There is no suggestion they had any knowledge of HyperVerse’s business model when filming the messages of support and they make no reference to money or investments. Guardian Australia contacted Wozniak, Norris, Norton and Bass for comment but received no reply. The video messages of support were released in January 2022 as HyperVerse was ramping up its global recruitment drive. “I strongly believe Steven will lead HyperVerse to success. Norton described HyperVerse as a “decentralised metaverse platform with infinite possibilities” and encouraged people to sign up. “This metaverse race has just started so I do strongly urge everyone to join us as an early backer and supporter of this foray into the metaverse era,” he said. In the video, Reece Lewis encouraged people to become early supporters of HyperVerse, saying the company would “create a parallel system of existence that will change how people live, how we interact with people around the world, and even how companies and corporations will conduct business”. HyperVerse was promoted at the launch event as a new digital metaverse that would rival Facebook, where members could explore “the new frontier of a galactic universe and bring to life a complete virtual world”. Guardian Australia was unable to find a LinkedIn profile for Reece Lewis or any internet presence other than HyperVerse promotional material.Ī Twitter account in Reece Lewis’s name was set up a month before he appeared in the HyperVerse video launch and was used to promote the scheme on the platform for just six months before the account became inactive. It is understood that Goldman Sachs could find no record of Reece Lewis having worked for the company. No records exist of Steven Reece Lewis on the UK companies register, Companies House, or on the US Securities and Exchange Commission.Īdobe, a publicly listed company since 1986, has no record of any acquisition of a company owned by a Steven Reece Lewis in any of its public SEC filings. Guardian Australia has confirmed that neither the University of Leeds nor the University of Cambridge has any record of someone by the name Steven Reece Lewis on their databases. Photograph: Hyperverse (formerly Hyperfund) Global Launch Event Presentation HD, Hyperians, YouTube Steven Reece Lewis’s career, as presented by Hyperverse. The company praised Reece Lewis’s “strong performance and drive”, citing his credentials as the reason for his recruitment. Lee spoke at the launch event as “chairman” of the HyperTech group, while Xu was introduced as the group’s “founder”. This was the umbrella organisation for a range of Hyper-branded crypto schemes. A brief career summary of Reece Lewis, which was presented in a video launch for potential investors, said he had worked for Goldman Sachs, sold a web development company to Adobe and launched an IT start-up firm, before being recruited to head up HyperVerse by the HyperTech group. Promotional material released for HyperVerse, which was linked to a previous scheme called HyperFund, said Reece Lewis was a graduate of the University of Leeds and held a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge. Guardian Australia has not been able to contact Xu for comment.Ī man named Steven Reece Lewis was introduced as the chief executive officer of HyperVerse at an online global launch event in December 2021, with video messages of support from a clutch of celebrities released on Twitter the following month, including from the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and actor Chuck Norris. Lee has denied HyperVerse was a scam and disputes being its founder.
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