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In this episode, we are joined by Ethan Kravitz. Ethan is the co-founder and General Partner at AGE Crypto Asset Investment fund. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and has over 20 years of software engineering experience. He was previously was the Co-Founder and CTO of Overnight and has been using and investing in crypto assets since 2012. In our conversation, we spoke to Ethan about the role that a crypto hedge fund plays in the ecosystem, the state of institutional participation, crypto market cycles and more.
Disclosure: Co-host of the podcast, John Chen, is an LP of AGE.
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In this episode, we are joined by Evan Shapiro, CEO of O1 labs. O1 labs is the creator of the Coda Protocol that uses recursive zk-SNARK technology to enable a succinct blockchain. Prior to Coda, Evan was a software engineer at Mozilla. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. In our conversation, we discuss the recent developments on the Coda blockchain, the testnet development and the teams’ takeaways from Devcon.
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Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang.
Joyce joined Analyse Asia in a conversation about the Asian cryptocurrency market in Asia with the new Analyse Asia host, Carol Yin. Joyce and Carol discussed the recent publication by Global Coin Research (GCR) “The Small Handbook to Asia Cryptocurrency: On local ecosystems, trends & regulations” and identified the key important trends and currents in the Asian market, specifically China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore.
Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):
- Joyce Yang (@JoyceInNYC , LinkedIn), Founder of Global Coin Research [0:40]
- Since our last conversation, what have you been up to? [1:03]
- The Small Handbook to Asia Cryptocurrency: On local ecosystems, trends & regulations published by Global Coin Research (GCR) [4:56]
- Joyce discuss the GCR’s new advisory & venture fund.
- How did you and your team in GCR put the handbook together? [5:08]
- Who are the intended audience? [8:14]
- What are the main themes of the handbook? [10:26]
- Are there any common threads on cryptocurrency within Asia? For example, it seems that a lot of Asian countries have banned ICOs. Prolonged bear market, IEO. [11:22]
- China [13:25]
- China is probably the most important market for cryptocurrency whether it’s bitcoin and blockchain and have banned ICOs since 2017 and at the same time, reducing bitcoin mining towards zero, what are the key trends in 2019 which you believe that are most important? [13:46]
- One interesting part on China is that you have broken down the major financial institutions in the Chinese government that everyone dabbling in bitcoin and blockchain must know, which are they and why they are important to the whole ecosystem? [16:01]
- Are there any major differences between Hong Kong and China when it comes to cryptocurrency? [17:41]
- Is Hong Kong following China with respect to regulation in blockchain and bitcoin given that it has also banned ICOs now? [19:41]
- Japan and Korea [20:34]
- How has the Japanese cryptocurrency market changed after the major theft of bitcoins from Mount Gox in 2014? [20:49]
- Can you briefly talk about the Japanese blockchain startup ecosystem and also the Japanese enterprises in blockchain? [22:55]
- Who are the key players from the startup spaces and major enterprises involved in cryptocurrency within Korea? [24:44]
- Korea is known for the kimchi premium: can you explain what that means in the context of cryptocurrency? [26:32]
- Singapore and Indonesia [28:27]
- Indonesia is the largest market in Southeast Asia, can you talk about how the government is viewing cryptocurrency (bitcoin + blockchain)? [28:29]
- Who are the key players from the startup spaces and major enterprises involved in cryptocurrency within Indonesia? [29:58]
- How is Singapore looking at regulation in the cryptocurrency market? [31:05]
- We notice a lot of major cryptocurrency players (Binance) are based in Singapore, what are its competitive strengths and weaknesses? [32:54]
- Other interesting Asian markets: Thailand and Vietnam. [35:02]
- Closing [36:14]
- How do my audience find you? [36:28]
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- How do my audience find you? [36:28]
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In this episode, Joyce and John are joined by Michael Dunworth. Michael is Cofounder and CEO of Wyre, one of the leading crypto to fiat onramps globally. Founded in 2013, Wyre provides tools for blockchain developers, financial services and protocols to onboard users to crypto in under 10 lines of code. Their mission is to help developers focus on building great products, and less on the headaches around regulation and compliance.
In this conversation, Michael talks about the founding story of Wyre, whom he admires in the industry, his thoughts on why credit cards are not the key feature to open up mass adoption, and the team’s early experience setting up businesses in China.
Additional Links:
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Prior to Wyre, Michael Dunworth and his cofounder Yanni Giannaros came up with the idea for a superhero laundry delivery service when they read about a recent YC grad called Prim. https://pando.com/2013/10/11/superhero-laundry-founders-launch-startup-to-prove-a-point-then-shut-it-down-once-they-succeed/
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Mike Kayamori is the co-founder and CEO of Liquid. In April, Liquid announced that it raised capital from investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion, making it one of the few unicorns in the crypto and blockchain space.
As of May, Liquid has more than USD50 billion in transactions over the past 12 months.
Mike brings over 22 years of experience in investments, business management, IT and venture capital across Japan, the United States, India, and Southeast Asia.
Prior to Liquid, Mike was a Senior Vice President at SoftBank Group and Senior Director at Globalspan Capital Partners, a Palo Alto-based venture capital fund with over USD1.2 billion under management.
In our conversation, we spoke to Mike about the founding story of Liquid, the regulatory environment in Japan, and the advice he has for new projects looking to enter the Japanese market.
More info on Liquid can be found here: http://www.liquid.com
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quoine/
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Jeremy is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global crypto financial services company that provides individuals, institutions and entrepreneurs with a platform to invest in, store, trade and use digital assets, and raise capital through online securities offerings.
In the last few months, Circle has been actively pursuing new growth opportunities such as the recent expansion into Bermuda to service international customers, and also offering fiat-to-crypto trading, and introduced new asset pairs for Tether and USDC on its exchange Poloniex.
In our conversation, we spoke to Jeremy about the rise of USDC, China’s digital currency, regulatory headwinds in the US and the future of the exchange space.
This is also the first episode where we are introducing John Chen, head of US of Hashed, to join Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research, as a cohost on the podcast. About Circle
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Global Coin Research partnered up with the number 1 Taiwanese Crypto Media Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit in early July. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed David Lee, Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2015) at Stanford University and Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Prof David LEE Kuo Chuen is the founder of several entities including LeftCoast in Silicon Valley, Libai.io for Chinese wealth management education, and BlockAsset for Fintech and Blockchain. He was the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. He graduated with BSc, MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Econometrics. He was the Group Managing Director of OUE and Auric Pacific. He founded and managed Ferrell hedge funds from 1998-2012 and was the property developer for Ferrell Residences. He is also an independent director on several boards including one of the world’s largest FinTech companies. He assisted regulators and investment associations in several capacities including the design of the framework for risk and complexity of investment products, allocation of research funding, launching of new investment products and editorial. His operation and management experience include F&B, manufacturing, hospitality, hedge funds, stockbroker, property management, property development, REITs, medical plastic components, listing and de-listing of companies, start-ups and multinationals. He is the author/editor of the American Library Association Outstanding Award Reference Book titled “Digital Currency” by Elsevier. His latest two books entitled “Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion” are published by Elsevier with a new book on Inclusive Fintech on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO by World Scientific to be launched in 2018. His current interest is in decentralized technology for financial inclusion.
Joyce Yang is the founder of Global Coin Research, a paid subscription newsletter that provides the most important insights and analysis on Asia crypto and blockchain. She is an angel investor and advisor to some of the top projects in the space. She has been featured as a guest in Laura Shin and Anthony Pompliano’s podcasts as well as cited in TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, and Cointelegraph. Joyce Yang graduated from Harvard University and formerly spent over 5 years at Merrill and China’s largest investment bank CICC.
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Today, we are excited to reshare Binance's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang.
Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research gives a firsthand account from the Asian Blockchain Summit, including the Rumble in Taipei between Arthur Hayes and Nouriel Roubini, the crazy Bitmex.com 10k party and more.
Joyce also poses Twitter questions to Wei about recent developments with Binance US; Binance's potential stablecoin, and Wei’s insights on identifying favorable, portable jurisdictions for expansion. He also touches on Binance's hustle - “whoever works harder shapes this industry".
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Global Coin Research partnered up with Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit last week. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed Arthur Hayes in Taipei on his debate with Nouriel Roubini, privacy, Bitmex and DEXes, @facebook coin, and crypto media.
- #ArthurHayes obtained his BA in Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Subsequently, he moved to Hong Kong where worked as an equity derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup for 5 years. Arthur was the head ETF market maker at both firms. In January 2014, BitMEX was formed. BitMEX is a Seychelles based P2P cryptocurrency trading platform that gives retail investors access to the global financial markets using cryptocurrency products.
BitMEX operates the most liquid Bitcoin / USD trading product, XBTUSD, which features 100x leverage, and volumes on average are over $3 billion per day.
#JoyceYang is the founder of Global Coin Research, a paid subscription newsletter that provides the most important insights and analysis on Asia crypto and blockchain. She is an advisor to Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator and a consultant to Tezos. She has been featured as a guest in Laura Shin and Anthony Pompliano’s podcasts as well as cited in TechCrunch, South China Morning Post and Cointelegraph. Joyce Yang graduated from Harvard University and formerly spent over 5 years at Merrill and China’s largest investment bank CICC.
#BlockTempo is the most influential blockchain media platform in Taiwan, with the experience of holding two largest blockchain and fintech summits in Taiwan and run tech, investing, and industrial leadership communities in Taiwan.
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Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang.
Joyce joined Analyse Asia to discuss Biance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, to review its rapid rise and current lead in the industry. They began with the chronological history of the company and how the founders Zhao Changpeng and He Yi built up the cryptocurrency exchange from 2017 to now the leading player with 40% of the market share globally. They discuss their current business footprint, their current projects from the stable coin project to the recent announcement of the Binance chain.
Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):
- Joyce Yang (@JoyceInNYC , LinkedIn), Founder of Global Coin Research [0:34]
- How did you start your career? [0:47]
- From your career journey, what are the interesting lessons learnt? [2:31]
- You are currently the founder of Global Coin Research, can you discuss what it does and what are you currently covering in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space? [5:09]
- Do you need bifurcate the segmentation of the market to split between the cryptocurrency and blockchain when you cover the Asia market? [8:19]
- Do you have to split China and the rest of Asia in the coverage of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space as well? [10:01]
- Binance [11:49]
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- Can you introduce Binance, a global cryptocurrency exchange to my audience? [12:24]
- What’s the chronology behind the formation of Binance, as the current CEO, Zhao Changpeng was the third member of the Blockchain.info team and also former CTO for OkCoin, one of the top 3 cryptocurrency exchanges in China? [14:56]
- Who are the other key executives in Binance other than the founders (Zhao Changpeng and He Yi)? [18:00]
- What is Binance’s mission and vision according to their founders? [21:17]
- What’s the current business footprint of Binance given that it is originally founded in China and has to move out due to regulation in China? [25:37]
- How did it become the largest crypto-exchange with a market capitalization of US$1.3B? [28:52]
- Can you explain the concept of stable coin and how Binance and three other major cryptocurrency exchanges raised US$32M for a stable coin project known as Terra? [32:55]
- Why did Binance not build their own stable coin alone with Terra but instead partner with the other exchanges? [35:48]
- Recently, they have announced the launch of the Binance chain, which is a blockchain made by Binance, what does it mean for the business and why is it important? [39:22]
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- Closing [42:29]
- Can you recommend a book or movie or podcast or anything which recently made an impact to your work and personal life? [42:46]
- Joyce’s recommendations: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
- BL’s recommendation: The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose by Clare Rewcastle Brown.
- How do my audience find you? [44:43]
- Can you recommend a book or movie or podcast or anything which recently made an impact to your work and personal life? [42:46]
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For this session of our workshop series, we are delighted to have Toya, head of Ecosystem Development for Nervos Network, arguably the largest, native blockchain projects from China in to give us a workshop on Ecosystem Development in China and International. Toya will discuss: * The nuances of the crypto community in China vs other countries * The essentials to understand blockchain communities in China * How can companies from the West build their own communities in China? * and more…
See here for the presentation shared by Toya during the workshop.
About Our Guest:
Toya is a former member of Ethereum Foundation and a founding partner of EthFans, a Chinese community active since late 2015. EthFans as a publication curated over 2000 translated and original articles and initiated meetups for many well-known projects. Toya later joined her former EF colleague Jan Xie at Nervos Network.
About Nervos:
Nervos Network is building a global trustware suite that aims to unlock the true potential of the decentralized economy. Project founding team include prominent Chinese crypto community members such as a former Ethereum core dev, a former Blockstream research, the Ex-CTO of the largest Ethereum mobile wallet, ImToken. Checkout Nervos’ token-economic paper. https://www.nervos.org/
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For this workshop session, we are delighted to have Benny Giang, co-founder of CryptoKitties, to give us a workshop on Blockchain Gaming in Asia. Benny will answer your questions to things such as:
- Which countries in Asia have vibrant blockchain gaming communities?
- What kind of games are being played and favored locally?
- How can companies from the West get involved with these gaming communities?
and more…
About Our Guest:
Benny Giang founding team member of Dapper Labs/CryptoKitties led the Asia expansion initiatives for the company. Working with the team to form a strategic partnership with Animoca Brands in Hong Kong and collaborating with blockchain communities from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Japan. He established the core gaming community for CryptoKitties on WeChat and QQ as well as building an ambassador program. He will discuss his learnings in China around blockchain gaming and a quick overview of the tech/crypto industry within China.
About Dapper Labs/ CryptoKitties:
Dapper Labs is the company behind CryptoKitties. Formed in February 2018, Dapper Labs was spun out of Axiom Zen to bring the benefits of decentralization to the first billion consumers through the power of play, fairness and true ownership. Notable investors in Dapper Labs include Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Alphabet’s GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), and the founders of Dreamworks, Reddit, Coinbase, Zynga, and AngelList, among others.
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This is a replay of a conference call held jointly by Global Coin Research and Messari on May 9, 2019.
In the last year, the Electric Coin Company, formerly Zcash, has been moving beyond the technical and scientific cypherpunk community towards those with a need or desire for an alternative store of value (SoV). And for that reason, Electric Coin Company has begun focusing on countries in Asia as primary targets for their research, marketing, and business development efforts.
As Josh Swihart, Electric Coin Company's head of business development and marketing, highlighted in a company post in January, Electric Coin Company will begin focusing on Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The team also intends to lightly engage in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
For this call, we invite Josh to share with us his thought process for onboarding users in Asia, with his outline of the customer decision journey, focusing first on SoV use cases for near-term full adoption and then exploring medium of exchange (MoE) use cases in an effort to find product-market fit.
Josh and Zooko also recently went to a number of countries in Asia and held a number of local meetups. We will ask for their takeaways there.
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Global Coin Research offers subscribers resources and analyses, including invite-only meetups, resources, and insights on the most important happenings in Asia.
About Josh Swihart:
Josh is responsible for Electric Coin Company’s marketing and business development. Prior to Electric Coin Company, he served as the Senior Vice President of Global Marketing for K2, leading global growth from start-up to acquisition by Francisco Partners. He has also served as a global practice principal for EMC, the CEO of Aspenware, and was the co-founder of a couple of other companies with exits to Accenture and EMC. He began his career as a software developer, data recovery specialist and BBS sysop. Josh has received numerous global and national awards for leadership, marketing, and solution delivery.
About Zcash:
Electric Coin Company’s mission is to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. We believe that everyone has a right to privacy, that the pursuit of economic freedom is virtuous, and that the future of money is an attack- and censorship-resistant digital currency. Since its launch in 2016, Electric Coin Company has quickly grown to be one of the most valued and admired cryptocurrencies in the world.
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We are delighted to bring you our latest podcast with Just Chow, Global Head of Business Development and Relationship Management, and also head of Singapore for Cumberland - a DRW Company, one of the world's largest liquidity providers in cryptoassets.
The firm trades dozens of cryptocurrencies via its over-the-counter trading operation, which has been up and running since 2014. Now, recently, the firm has introduced Marea, an electronic platform designed to enhance the overall cryptoasset trading experience for our counterparties.
After joining DRW in 2015 as a global macro proprietary trader, Justin is now focused on helping the Cumberland team expand and grow its business in Asia. Prior to DRW, Justin was a global macro trader at hedge fund Citadel, where he specialized in managing portfolios of foreign exchange and liquid futures. Justin started his career as a distressed debt and security analyst. Justin earned a BS in economics and psychology from Columbia University.
To learn more about Cumberland, check out this in-depth Bloomberg Article from 2018.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research speaks with Caleb Kow, president of Tezos Southeast Asia about STOs in Thailand, the various blockchain opportunities in Southeast Asia, and TZ Ventures, a new global accelerator launched by Tezos Southeast Asia. New York-based financial firm Elevated Returns recently selected the Tezos platform to tokenize $100mn worth of Thailand's real-estate offering. In our conversation, Caleb and I discuss the implications of this opportunity. We also learn more about Tezos Southeast Asia, and the various blockchain happenings across Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. About TZ.Ventures: TZ.Ventures Elevated Return's Announcement: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elevated-returns-and-securitize-to-tokenize-usd-1b-of-real-estate-on-tezos-will-build-new-compliant-security-token-issuance-standards-300793038.html
To learn more about the Tezos Southeast Asia team: https://www.tezos.org.sg/
Tezos Southeast Asia Twitter:
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This is a replay of a conference call held by Global Coin Research for our premium subscribers. Listen to the head of China for Maker discuss Chinese regulators exploring its digital currency, Maker’s partnerships with the largest crypto wallet in the world ImToken and using Dai for e-commerce purposes, and Makerdao's plan to create a Dai derivative out of the Chinese RMB.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research speaks with the team members from Tezos Korea and Tezos Korea Foundation about the Korea crypto community. First, we speak with Doo-Won Suh, Director of the Tezos Korea Foundation and Jinwoo Lee, Chief Strategy Officer of Tezos Korea, about the Korea team's background and its approach to community building in Korea. In a separate conversation following, I speak to Jinhwa Kim, a board member of Tezos Korea Foundation and also the former founder of Korbit, a leading Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange, about the Korea crypto and regulatory landscape overall. I first started the conversation with Doo-Won and Jinwoo introducing themselves.
Article on Tezos Korea:
https://hackernoon.com/tezos-korea-plans-to-rejuvenate-koreas-blockchain-communities-2d29d75dae6e
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tezos-korea-foundation-partners-with-yonsei-university-for-blockchain-development
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Our founder Joyce Yang recently spoke with Laura Shin as a guest on her Unconfirmed podcast about the crypto community in Korea, and she mentioned that one of the interesting companies based there is Terra, a stable coin that is looking to grow its adoption in Asia through its e-commerce payment gateway.
https://unconfirmed.libsyn.com/how-koreas-crypto-scene-differs-from-that-of-the-us-ep060
In this conference call we held for our premium subscribers with core researcher Evan at Terra, we'll learn about how Terra works, its recent partnership with the Mongolia government, and its plans to integrate with checkout processes of 15 e-commerce platforms across Asia collectively processing 25 billion USD in volume and 40 million monthly active users.
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About Terra: Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency aiming to empower the next-generation payment network on the blockchain. 6 months ago, the Korea-based team announced that they've raised $32mn from global exchanges including Binance Labs, OKEx, Huobi Capital, FBG and Dunamu — the firm behind Korea’s Upbit, along with Polychain, FBG and others. The project is headed by Daniel Shin, founder and president of TicketMonster— the $1.7 billion Korean e-commerce firm that has been formerly owned by both Living Social and Groupon. According to co-founder Do, Terra's initial growth will be bootstrapped by an e-commerce payment gateway, TerraX, that is slated to be integrated into checkout processes of 15 e-commerce platforms across Asia collectively processing 25 billion USD in volume and 40 million monthly active Scaling Seigniorage Kwon in his Medium post users. About Our Guest: Evan Kereiakes worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for over 7 years. He was most recently the Head Japanese Portfolio Manager and Trading Operations Manager for the foreign reserves portfolio. Prior to that, he was an Economic Analyst at the U.S. Treasury and he also worked at the White House National Economic Council. Evan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and engineering degrees from Duke and the University of Illinois.
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In this episode, Alex and Leo share their take on China and Hong Kong's approach to Bitcoin from a political, cultural and humanitarian perspective. We also talk in-depth about China's technology and data control policies and mining. Unfortunately, this conversation went over time, but the discussion was so great that we made sure to include the entire 1 hour 15minute conversation in the transcript on GlobalCoinResearch.com, complimentary for all readers and accessible here:
https://globalcoinresearch.com/2019/02/17/interview-with-alex-gladstein-from-the-human-rights-foundation-and-leo-weese-president-of-the-bitcoin-association-of-hong-kong/
Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. You can learn more about him here:
https://hrf.org/team/alex-gladstein-2/
Leonhard (Leo) Weese, is the President of the Bitcoin Association Hong Kong. You can learn more about him here:
https://twitter.com/leoaw?lang=en
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In this episode of the podcast, we are sharing a replay of a conference call with Kyle Samani that we held for our Premium subscribers. To learn how to become a premium subscriber, check it out here Kyle Samani is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital. In mid-January, Kyle went to Singapore and attended the first-ever Binance blockchain week. In this call, Kyle shares his conversation with CZ, Binance employees and highlights the ongoing themes and companies there. Additionally, Kyle talks about his thoughts for Binance chain and his observation of general crypto sentiment in Asia. What will 2019 look like for Binance as they kick off with strategic investment and partnership with Vertex ventures to create a fiat to crypto exchange in Singapore? Will this city-state be a new home for Binance permanently? Held in January 2019, Binance Blockchain Week was Binance’s first conference in Singapore and one of the largest public event held by the exchange.
We last spoke with Kyle at World Digital Asset Summit in December and shared it in a podcast with our readers.
Other recent, notable writings from Kyle include Questions from the Crypto Idea Maze and What P2P Markets are Better Decentralized
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Richard Lee, co-founder, and partner of GBIC (Global Blockchain Innovative Capital), and Mike Chen founding partner of GBIC and founder of Block72. Both Richard and Mike have been seasoned crypto investors, and they look at companies from both Asia as well as the US. GBIC is is a multi-strategy crypto fund with offices in New York, Shanghai, and Seoul. Block72 is a global consulting firm specializing in blockchain and distributed ledger technology. In this episode, we discuss GBIC's approach and views on investing in China and the US crypto companies. Additionally, China, Korea, and India's market opportunities.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Jason Fang, Managing Partner at Sora Ventures, an Asia-based venture capital firm focused on blockchain and crypto investments. The mission of the fund to invest in entrepreneurs who can make positive changes in our world using blockchain technology. Their investments include Thunder, Urbit, Mithril, Alphaslot and more.
Jason was one of the earliest employees at Fenbushi Capital and started Sora Ventures when Mainland China banned ICOs in 2017. In this conversation, Jason and Joyce talks about how Sora invests in crypto projects, Jason's outlook for the crypto space, and his perspectives on crypto developments in the East and the West.
You can check out more of his thoughts on his medium articles here, in where he lays out Sora's investment thesis and his outlook on Asia:
Sora Ventures’ Philosophy to Blockchain Investments
Understanding Chinese Crypto Investors
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Maomao Hu, partner at Eigen Capital, a Chinese market maker, and also CTO of Eigen Capital’s sell-side business, Calculus Network. Maomao has spent a significant amount of time in fintech and crypto in both China and Asia. He is experienced with building financial trading platforms. In our conversation, we talk about China’s labor arbitrage, the development of crypto capital markets ecosystem in both China and the US, and how after years of being in crypto, Maomao believes in Bitcoin more than ever. Eigen Capital consists of execution services and market making. The company is also building out a dark pool, and they are funding open source development for a decentralized dark pool.
Maomao Hu's Linkedin:
http://bit.ly/2MZTryT
Maomao's Recommended Dark Pool Book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006OFHLG6
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We have an exclusive, special episode with a returning guest, Benny Giang, co-founder and fortune cat of Cryptokitties. In our very first global coin research podcast, Benny and I discussed Cryptokitties' decision to expand into China since early 2018. Now that its mid August and Benny has just spent 3 weeks in Asia, he has returned to highlight for our listeners some really interesting takeaways from the crypto gaming space in Asia. To learn more, check out our first episode in our discussion with Benny in the podcast and also our website at GlobalCoinResearch.Com to see the main takeaways.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Zac Cheah, CEO of Pundi X. Zac is originally from Malaysia and operates Pundi X out of Singapore. He has seen the evolution of cryptocurrency adoption in Singapore and Southeast Asia first hand. In the podcast, Zac gives useful insight on working across different jurisdictional and regulatory boundaries, the relationship between the West and the East, and the importance of working with local tokens.
Pundi X website:
https://www.pundix.com/
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Jake Smith and Mike Malley, both of whom are advisors to bitcoin.com. Both Jake and Mike grew up in the state but have spent a combined over 30 years in Asia, specifically China and Japan. They share unique perspectives on the distinction between the Western and Eastern Cryptocurrency space and blockchain communities. In our conversation, we cover topics including cryptocurrency and bitcoin cash adoption in Asia, community building in Japan, and main differences between the West Coast in the US and Asia Cryptocurrency communities and culture. Jake Smith is an advisor to Bitcoin.com. He has spent extensive time in China and Japan, and previously worked with all the large figures in Asia Crypto, including Li Xiaolai from INBLOCK and Jihan Wu of Bitmain. Fun fact, he also spent a number of years living in the Crypto Castle in San Francisco. Mike Malley is an advisor to Bitcoin.com. He previously worked as a product manager at Bitcoin.com on the wallet and block explorer teams. He has been involved with Bitcoin since late 2012 and working in the industry since 2015. His background is in philosophy, psychology, user experience, product, and business development. Both Jake and Mike currently live in Tokyo and produces a Youtube channel with Roger Ver on promoting Bitcoin Cash.
Sites and Resources mentioned:
Bitcoin.com
Purse.io
wallet.bitcoin.com
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We interviewed the CEO of ImToken Ben He at DevCon in Prague. ImToken is currently the world's largest Ethereum wallet with over 7.51million in installed devices. Feature-rich digital asset wallet enabling multi-chain asset management, DApp browsing and secure, private exchange of value. In this interview, we talk about Ben's thoughts on the company success in Asia, on OpenSourcing their code, on their upcoming hardwallet, thoughts on potential expansion to the US and the outlook for 2019.
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🇰🇷Hashed is a Korean blockchain project accelerator and also the largest pure play crypto investment fund in Korea. Alex Shin is a cofounder and partner of the fund. Founded in 2017, Hashed has shaped the Korean blockchain industry through its unique approach to finding and nurturing nascent projects. It has helped accelerated projects such as Terra and ICON. When I spoke to Alex, I found him to be extremely skillful at bridge building between east and west, and he along with his partners are committed to put Korea on the global crypto map. In this upcoming podcast episode, we discuss Hashed and its investments, Alex's view on crypto markets now, and Korea's crypto regulator and the conglomerate participants.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research has prepared a very special episode just in time for the New Years. Joyce emceed and moderated at the World Digital Assets Summit in San Francisco this past week, and also got the chance to speak with a number of fantastic funds, projects and reporters who were present. As we go into the New Years with some uncertainty as an industry, it is refreshing to hear different perspectives from a number of thoughtful, experienced individuals on their outlook for 2019. This podcast is a compilation of 8 separate conversations that Joyce had with individuals. On the funds side, she spoke with Haseeb Qureshi from Metastable Capital, Kyle Samani from Multicoin Capital, Alex Rusnak from LedgerX, Martina Long from Primitive ventures. She had the pleasure of catching up with Nathaniel Popper from the NY Times. And on the projects side, she spoke to founders and execs from NEAR Protocol, and Cryptokitties. As each of these conversations is played, the podcast will be prefacing them with a quick introduction on the person and their organization. The order of the conversation is as follows: Haseeb Qureshi and Metastable Capital Nathaniel Popper from the NY Times Ilia Polosukhin of Near Protocol Kyle Samani and Multicoin Capital Alex Rusnak of LedgerX Martina Long of Primitive Ventures.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Yusuke Obinata, aka Obi, founder of CryptoAge. Obi is deeply involved with the Blockchain community in Japan, and he has been helping multiple US blockchain projects go to market in Japan including Cryptokitties, Quantstamp, and Kadena. Through CryptoAge, Obi organizes frequent, large size developer meetups in Tokyo. He is also the lead organizer of NodeTokyo 2018, the first kind of blockchain developer conference in Tokyo. In this podcast, Obi and I discuss the latest regulatory sentiment towards crypto in Japan, the growing blockchain developers ecosystem and how he advises projects in the US to go to market there.
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In this episode, host Joyce Yang is joined by Lily Liu, cofounder and former CFO of Earn.com. Earn.com was sold to Coinbase in early 2018 in a deal worth more than $120mn, Coinbase's largest acquisition to date. The company allowed users to send and receive digital currency for replying to emails and completing tasks. Prior to working at Earn.com, Lily was the CFO of the first foreign-funded, private, mass market hospital in China. Prior to that, she spent time working at Mckinsey and then later KKR Capstone. Lily graduated from Stanford and Harvard. In this conversation, Joyce and Lily talk about Lily's past experience working in China and her outlook on the blockchain industry on a global level. Lily shares her views on how the crypto industry is evolving between the East and West, what China may be doing with Crypto and Blockchain, and also how she thinks about investing in blockchain globally.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Taiwan Congressman Jason Hsu. Jason has been given the nickname “Crypto Congressman” by Vitalik Buterin. Jason has worked as a tech entrepreneur before getting involved with politics. In 2016, he became an official legislator and member of parliament in Taiwan, focusing much of his attention on bridging the gap between public policy and technology. He has since introduced several initiatives around autonomous vehicles, cyber security legislation, digital economy laws, and is now focusing his attention on crypto and blockchain legislations. In our conversation, we discuss several of Jason’s ambitious plans to make Taiwan blockchain- enabled. He also expresses his thoughts on the state of Crypto regulations in Taiwan, and shares his unique views on the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in the US and the rest of Asia. You can check out more of his thoughts on the Forbes article here. Time and Topics discussed in Our Interview 1:40- Introduction to Crypto Congressman Jason Hsu 2:35- History of technology innovation in Taiwan and state of crypto and blockchain there now 4:50- How is Taiwan different from the rest of Asia in terms of crypto regulations? And who do they look to for 7:19- How do the Taiwan locals treat crypto? 9:20- Would Wechat and Alipay take over blockchain payment in Asia? 10:25- Taiwan wants to push help blockchain to the rest of the world 10:55- How do you engage with blockchain companies in Taiwan and how should companies outside of Taiwan talk to you? 14:44- Taiwan seems more focused on the blockchain technology, what about the exchanges? 16:31- What has Vitalik been up to and what are his thoughts on Taiwan? 18:28- Recent legislation added by Jason and the team 21:33- What other projects do you talk to and is close to? 24:47- Who else in the regulatory body is assisting you in this blockchain endeavor? 25:30- Learn about Jason’s One Crypto World” (OCW) tokens and who the tokens have been given to.
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by two very special guests, Eric Ly, former co-founder of LinkedIn and now CEO of Hub Token, and Ryan Selkis, CEO and co-founder of Messari.io. Eric and Ryan have both spent a significant amount of time in tech and crypto, but they both recognize the importance of doing business and forming relationships in Asia as they try to build out their companies in the blockchain space. In our conversation, we talk about their recent Asia trips and their learnings from the Asia market. We also discuss the value of forming relationships and investor base in the East.
Check out Hub's recent Asia trip takeaways! http://bit.ly/2NFuipA
More about the companies:
Hub’s Human Trust Protocol (http://bit.ly/2NFnnMP) is a platform leveraging blockchain technology to create an ecosystem of users who can build trust with each other. Good deeds performed on the network are incentivized by the mining of Hub tokens, while results of transactions and interactions are recorded on the blockchain to grow each user’s reputation history.
Messari's (http://bit.ly/2Pp7ACs) mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making within the cryptoasset community. The team is building an open data library and curation tools that help researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.
In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is in Singapore meeting Roger Lim, one of the founding partners of NEO Global Capital. Roger has been an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is an advisor for Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Selfkey, TheKey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, nOS, Open Platform. Prior to getting into crypto, Roger was a successful entrepreneur who founded and sold Webvisions, a cloud hosting company. In this episode, Roger and Joyce discuss how NGC deploys its $400mn fund from Singapore and China into projects around the world, the NEO ecosystem fund, and how the Asia-based team thinks about the crypto ecosystem in Asia and the US. About NEO Global Capital: Neo Global Capital is the strategic investment vehicle of the NEO foundation. The firm invests through two funds- one of which is the NEO ecosystem fund that aims to support NEO and it's ecosystem of dApps and projects. Another fund invests into inspiring projects related to blockchain. The team is split between Singapore and Shanghai. Neo Global Capital's most recent investments include SKALE Labs, Muzika, Contentos.
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Checkout our Latest Podcast with DDEX Co-founder Bowen Wang We are delighted to bring you our latest podcast with Bowen Wang, founder and COO of DDEX, a decentralized exchange based out of Beijing. DDEX now accounts for about 75% of the total volume of trades over the 0x Protocol each month and ranks 13% of trades amongst decentralized exchanges, 2nd after IDEX. In this episode, Bowen and I discuss how DDEX operates out of Beijing, how DDEX discovered 0x, Bowen‘s advice on approaching Chinese regulators for blockchain projects, and insights on hiring developers and community members out of China. New DDEX Wallet: Bringing Decentralized Trading To Mobile Basic DDEX trading: DDEX Trading — Getting Started Time Stamps and Topics discussed in Our Interview 1:18- Introduction to Bowen and background on DDEX 2:50- Bowen’s overview of the regulator’s attitude and the environment in China right now 5:20- How do the regulations in China affect the DEXes in China? 6:20- Bowen says that the blockchain market is surprisingly growing 9:10- How does Bowen recommend conversing with the regulators in China? 10:55- How did Bowen decide to build on 0x when 0x was just starting out in the US? 11:50- Bowen’s advice to companies going to market in China 17:10- On hiring the right type of people for your remote teams in Asia, and the services that Bowen recommends 24:43- There are more than 50 teams working on creating their own Blockchain and trying to take on Ethereum 26:00- Bowen’s outlook on the east and west.
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EximChain CEO Hope Liu and Ankr Network COO Ryan Fang on China's Local Government Blockchain Sandboxes, B2B Go-to- Market Strategies and Finding Talent in Asia In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Hope Liu, CEO, and co-founder, of EximChain and Ryan Fang, co-founder and COO of Ankr.Network. Both Ryan and Hope grew up in China, but their teams operate in the US. Both of them have unique perspectives on the distinction between the Western and Eastern Blockchain space. In our conversation, we cover topics such as cryptocurrency regulations, Chinese local government blockchain sandboxes, B2B go-to- market strategies in China, and finding Crypto-related talent in Asia.
EximChain website:
https://eximchain.com/
Ankr Network website:
http://ankr.network/
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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Benny Giang, co-founder and Fortune Cat at CryptoKitties. As CryptoKitties is one of the leading companies venturing into Asia, Benny is able to give unique insights about the team’s experience. He guides us through the team’s recent fundraising from Andreessen and Union Square Ventures, dispels media reports of company DAUs (daily active users) going down, and projects what the team plans to accomplish in Asia. He also offers unique insights for foreign companies who want to find success in the Asian market and gives thoughts on the regulatory and Blockchain environment there.
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