My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible Chapter 528 The Expanding Horizon

Just six hours after JP Morgan's announcement verifying ongoing partnership talks, the bank's external relations department faced outreach attempts from forty-three firms spanning seventeen nations.

By the close of business hours, that figure had surged past two hundred, with the influx continuing to rise.

The reasoning was simple, and all involved knew others were acting on the same logic at once. Nova Technologies lacked any public business development avenue. No contact details existed for the CEO. Time and again, the firm had shown it ignored unsolicited contacts.

Yet JP Morgan had now verified a collaboration—which implied they held a connection, a connection meant an entry point, and an entry point beat what anyone else possessed.

Would JP Morgan serve as a go-between? That remained a distinct issue. Most contacting companies figured the likely reply was negative. Still, they pursued it, as the risk of skipping it and erring outweighed a mere rejection.

JP Morgan's external relations staff crafted a uniform holding reply on day one and sent it to all: JP Morgan avoids mediating introductions to client ties and won't pass along business queries for any client. Every inquiry received this exact message, unaltered, no matter the sender's scale or stature.

Yet the flood didn't halt. Acknowledging the effort sufficed for most firms to count it as a step forward and push it up their chains.

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Streaming services reacted with the greatest speed and blatant desperation.

They grasped the stakes clearest, facing the biggest losses. Lucid Studio's debut timeline stood public in the Transparency Report's projections: sixty days out.

Sixty days until a content platform launched within a realm boasting 5.3 billion user accounts and thirty thousand devices logging average twelve-hour daily sessions.

The current streaming world rested on a basic setup. Content got made, bought, or ordered. It hid behind paywalls. Users shelled out monthly fees for entry.

This approach thrived for years since scale-level individual creator payouts never hit figures warranting a shift from subscription cash.

Lucid's creator system shattered that math in mere four months.

Starfall Dominion's leading streamer raked in $152 million in one month purely from audience gifts. The lower half of creators cleared at least $576,000 yearly.

These figures sat public, confirmed, and expanding. They outlined a setup where makers kept seventy percent of fan spending—direct from viewers to creators, not pooled subs spread thin, platform skimming thirty percent for ops.

No Earth streaming outfit came near that model.

Thus Lucid Studio wasn't vying traditionally. It skipped battles over subs, library size, or exclusives. Instead, it promised makers a whole new bond with fans and paychecks, drawing savvy creators no matter what incumbents tried.

One silent question haunted every streaming boss: how to rival a platform outpaying what you can sustain for creators, in a VR space dwarfing your UI like a poster next to a portal?

Most converged on the same verdict solo: don't fight. Infiltrate.

Any tie-up with Nova Technologies—under whatever conditions—granted streaming giants what no content budget could buy: a foothold in Lucid's world and its built-in crowd.

A link to a firm that upended industry finances in one quarter, effortlessly.

The JP Morgan contacts mirrored this mindset. So did bolder tactics emerging soon after.

Multiple streaming outfits issued public remarks—precisely phrased, timed for impact—voicing praise for Nova Technologies' creator setup and eagerness for joint ventures.

Those declarations weren't targeted at anyone in particular. Nova Technologies lacked any spokesperson to field them. These were proclamations hurled into the public ether, crafted for the eyes of the appropriate parties, under the premise that those key figures monitored it all.

The firms proceeding with the utmost caution were precisely those who had deeply pondered the real prerequisites of aligning with Nova Technologies.

Aligning with Nova Technologies demanded swallowing their conditions wholesale, as the company never bargained from a stance demanding concessions.

The alliance with JP Morgan had demonstrated this point vividly. JP Morgan received a precise role—a clearly outlined, particular role—and embraced it. The conditions weren't forged via haggling. They were simply proffered and either taken or declined.

Every streaming service forging a partnership with Nova Technologies would do so under identical terms. The partnership's shape would be dictated entirely by Nova Technologies' vision, and that's how it would stand. Streaming platforms wielded zero influence in those discussions, so the ones grasping this reality mulled over whether Nova Technologies' potential terms were viable for their operations.

An arrangement forcing a streaming platform to operate within Nova Technologies' ecosystem, atop their infrastructure, abiding by their content guidelines, with Nova Technologies dictating creator payouts—that scarcely qualified as a conventional partnership. It amounted to a takeover under a different label, sans the buyout sum or board approval.

Certain platforms would embrace those terms, deeming the alternatives far grimmer. The reluctant ones issued those guarded public remarks on potential collaborations instead of channeling approaches through JP Morgan.

The 60-day countdown to Lucid Studio's debut ticked onward, heedless of their choices.

Nova Technologies hadn't replied to even one query.