VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloud Nine Education Group Ltd. (CSE:CNI) (OTC: CLGUF) (“Cloud Nine” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it is focusing capital resources on the development and advancement of its education platform, which focus includes the retention of Bluzelle Networks Pte Ltd. (“Bluzelle”) for specialized Web3 development services to oversee the expanded Cloud Nine development team. The aim of this initiative is to establish Cloud Nine as a thought leader in the growing Ed-Tech space.

Cloud Nine’s Web3 development initiatives include the following:

1. Creation of a global assessment platform to provide services for storing and managing degree information. Applying specific security technology to store degrees. The Web3 ledger is intended to match all kinds of educational information with the user’s unique ID. It is intended to include learning behavior in class, micro academic project experience, and macro educational background, etc.
   
   
2. Capacity-currency transformation bank. Web3 learning ledger to record detailed information about the users’ learning experience and follows the development of their knowledge and skills. This information can be stored on a Web3 network according to a series of comprehensive standards. Students will gain rewards through their efforts on studies, which is called “learning is earning”.
   
   
3. Airbnb™ for file storage. As learners and education institutions store more data, DLT cloud storage could offer safer and potentially cheaper alternatives. This includes E-books and textbook consolidation in one place across the planet.
   

Additional Corporate Updates

The Company also announces that, further to its news release dated February 16, 2021, announcing the execution of a letter of intent (the “LOI”) with Victory Square Technologies Inc. (“VST”), the Company and VST have executed an amendment to the LOI to extend the deadline by which the parties have to finalize a definitive agreement to acquire intellectual property assets, from February 26, 2021 to March 31, 2021. All other terms of the LOI remain in full force and effect.

On March 1, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with ARI LLC, an independent programming firm, pursuant to which it has agreed to develop and update Cloud Nine’s Ed-Tech platform. This includes content design, data centre hosting, software development, and security auditing.

Lastly, the Company has engaged Fortyfive Media Inc. in the amount of US$300,000 to provide marketing and publication services to assist in creating and increasing public awareness of Cloud Nine’s activities, strategic plans and investment opportunities.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

CLOUD NINE EDUCATION GROUP LTD.

“Allan Larmour”

Allan Larmour

President and Chief Executive Officer

Tel. 778-240-7724

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