*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 8, 2022*TL; DROn December 19th, the Value factory at Shekou Shenzhen has witnessed the grand success of the 8th Old Friends Reunion event. The two-day event covered the themes of Scaling Summit and Metaverse Carnival, two of the most heated topics within the current crypto world. The event saw over ​​2000 onsite visits signed from Huodongxing.com & Eventbrite.com, among which actually there were 2000+ people who joined the two-day events there onsite, ...

*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 8, 2022*TL; DROn December 19th, the Value factory at Shekou Shenzhen has witnessed the grand success of the 8th Old Friends Reunion event. The two-day event covered the themes of Scaling Summit and Metaverse Carnival, two of the most heated topics within the current crypto world. The event saw over ​​2000 onsite visits signed from Huodongxing.com & Eventbrite.com, among which actually there were 2000+ people who joined the two-day events there onsite, ...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Oct 14, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 23th September to 14th October.Announcement:IOSG 7th Old Friends Reunion — DeFi Summit 2020Leading the future trends in DeFi. We are only 2 weeks away from the most anticipated blockchain event in 2020, featuring IOSG Ventures, Vitalik Buterin and many more! Click the link below to register ASAP. https://eventbrite.hk/e/iosg-7th-old-friends-reunion-defi-summit-2020-tickets-122011376311Crypto Art Gall...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Oct 14, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 23th September to 14th October.Announcement:IOSG 7th Old Friends Reunion — DeFi Summit 2020Leading the future trends in DeFi. We are only 2 weeks away from the most anticipated blockchain event in 2020, featuring IOSG Ventures, Vitalik Buterin and many more! Click the link below to register ASAP. https://eventbrite.hk/e/iosg-7th-old-friends-reunion-defi-summit-2020-tickets-122011376311Crypto Art Gall...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jul 30, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 16th July to 29th July.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/5) Announcement:Source: SynthetixWe are thrilled to announce our investment in Synthetix. Synthetix is a derivatives liquidity protocol, open for anyone to join the network and provide collateral. We believe they lay the foundation for a more sophisticated DeFi ecosystem. In the future IOSG will be supporting their push into Asian market. Let’s make some big...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jul 30, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 16th July to 29th July.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/5) Announcement:Source: SynthetixWe are thrilled to announce our investment in Synthetix. Synthetix is a derivatives liquidity protocol, open for anyone to join the network and provide collateral. We believe they lay the foundation for a more sophisticated DeFi ecosystem. In the future IOSG will be supporting their push into Asian market. Let’s make some big...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 10, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 26th August to 10th September.🐱‍👤IOSG InsightOur investments in DeFiSource: IOSG VenturesIOSG Ventures investment priorities in DeFi include: 1.Application products that enhanced user experience of UI/UX , middleware third-party tools across different protocols or highly decentralized protocols (MakerDAO, tBTC) that really reduce friction. 2.Derivative projects that create better asset value via cr...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 10, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 26th August to 10th September.🐱‍👤IOSG InsightOur investments in DeFiSource: IOSG VenturesIOSG Ventures investment priorities in DeFi include: 1.Application products that enhanced user experience of UI/UX , middleware third-party tools across different protocols or highly decentralized protocols (MakerDAO, tBTC) that really reduce friction. 2.Derivative projects that create better asset value via cr...

What is the Turing TestLet's assume a simple experiment: you are in a closed room with a small hole in it, and a mysterious visitor in another room connected by the small hole. By your side, there is a pile of paper and a pen. You can write down any question on the note, stuff it through a small hole and the other person will hand back the note with the answer written on it. Then the question arises, how can you tell whether the person is a real person or a computer by means of paper and...

What is the Turing TestLet's assume a simple experiment: you are in a closed room with a small hole in it, and a mysterious visitor in another room connected by the small hole. By your side, there is a pile of paper and a pen. You can write down any question on the note, stuff it through a small hole and the other person will hand back the note with the answer written on it. Then the question arises, how can you tell whether the person is a real person or a computer by means of paper and...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 22, 2020We are excited to announce our recent investment into UMA and we believe IOSG Ventures and UMA’s cooperation will add much value in the open finance community and bring fresh opportunities for new applications and use cases! UMA is a protocol for building synthetic assets. It provides smart contract templates, allowing anyone to create synthetic assets that track the price of any value subject. UMA also has its decentralized oracle system as a su...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 22, 2020We are excited to announce our recent investment into UMA and we believe IOSG Ventures and UMA’s cooperation will add much value in the open finance community and bring fresh opportunities for new applications and use cases! UMA is a protocol for building synthetic assets. It provides smart contract templates, allowing anyone to create synthetic assets that track the price of any value subject. UMA also has its decentralized oracle system as a su...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 28, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 14th August to 25th August.🐱‍👤IOSG InsightEthereum Foundation and Reddit held a contest for the best Ethereum scaling solution: Reddit cooperated with the Ethereum Foundation to invite the Ethereum expansion project to show the community how to use the expansion solution to bring community points (Community Points, Reddit forum reward points) to the mainnet. The goal is to find a solution that will...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 28, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 14th August to 25th August.🐱‍👤IOSG InsightEthereum Foundation and Reddit held a contest for the best Ethereum scaling solution: Reddit cooperated with the Ethereum Foundation to invite the Ethereum expansion project to show the community how to use the expansion solution to bring community points (Community Points, Reddit forum reward points) to the mainnet. The goal is to find a solution that will...

*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 7, 2022*On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, “Scaling DeFi”, as the recent talk of the town, has been brought to the table by these pioneers. They are Deniz Omer, Founder & CEO of Ethereum Central; Kain Warwick, Founder of Synthetix; Robert Lauko, Founder & CEO of Liquity; Rune Christensen, Founder of MakerDAO; Yenwen Feng, Co-founder of Perpetual Protocol.🎤 Moderator — Deniz Omer (Ethereum Central) Hello to all our vie...

*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 7, 2022*On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, “Scaling DeFi”, as the recent talk of the town, has been brought to the table by these pioneers. They are Deniz Omer, Founder & CEO of Ethereum Central; Kain Warwick, Founder of Synthetix; Robert Lauko, Founder & CEO of Liquity; Rune Christensen, Founder of MakerDAO; Yenwen Feng, Co-founder of Perpetual Protocol.🎤 Moderator — Deniz Omer (Ethereum Central) Hello to all our vie...

*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 7, 2022*On December 19, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Metaverse Carnival, we are pleased to have invited Sid Kalla, the Co-founder & CTO of **Roll **to give us an inspirational keynote speech !OverviewHow social tokens are a new asset class? What kinds of Web3 primitives are useful for social tokens? Let’s hear Sid touch upon how social tokens fit in with some of the larger themes like NFTs, metaverse, and DAOs and continue to dive into the diff...

*First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 7, 2022*On December 19, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Metaverse Carnival, we are pleased to have invited Sid Kalla, the Co-founder & CTO of **Roll **to give us an inspirational keynote speech !OverviewHow social tokens are a new asset class? What kinds of Web3 primitives are useful for social tokens? Let’s hear Sid touch upon how social tokens fit in with some of the larger themes like NFTs, metaverse, and DAOs and continue to dive into the diff...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 12, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 30th July to 13th August.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/4) Announcement:Source: 1inchWe are thrilled to announce our investment in 1inch. 1inch is now a leading decentralized exchange aggregator that sources liquidity from various exchanges. Using smart contract technology to split a single trade transaction across multiple DEXs, and enable users to optimize and customize trades. We believe the team has the pot...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 12, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 30th July to 13th August.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/4) Announcement:Source: 1inchWe are thrilled to announce our investment in 1inch. 1inch is now a leading decentralized exchange aggregator that sources liquidity from various exchanges. Using smart contract technology to split a single trade transaction across multiple DEXs, and enable users to optimize and customize trades. We believe the team has the pot...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 23, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 11th September to 23rd September.Announcement:IOSG Ventures’ investment in UMAWe are excited to announce our recent investment into UMA and we believe IOSG Ventures and UMA’s cooperation will add much value in the open finance community and bring fresh opportunities for new applications and use cases!🐱‍🐉IndustryThe project gave away a minimum of 400 UNI to anyone who had used Uniswap prior to Septe...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 23, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 11th September to 23rd September.Announcement:IOSG Ventures’ investment in UMAWe are excited to announce our recent investment into UMA and we believe IOSG Ventures and UMA’s cooperation will add much value in the open finance community and bring fresh opportunities for new applications and use cases!🐱‍🐉IndustryThe project gave away a minimum of 400 UNI to anyone who had used Uniswap prior to Septe...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Oct 14, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 14th October to 12th November.🐱‍🐉Industry Hotspot(1/8) Crypto Wallet ZenGo announced to join Visa Fast Track Program to get Non-Custodial Crypto Card off the ground. Read More (2/8) Ardrive，a “permanent Dropbox” launches in beta on Arweave on 5th Nov. Read More (3/8) MetaMask users can now swap tokens directly from their wallets. Swaps combine multiple decentralized exchange aggregators, profession...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Oct 14, 2020 Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 14th October to 12th November.🐱‍🐉Industry Hotspot(1/8) Crypto Wallet ZenGo announced to join Visa Fast Track Program to get Non-Custodial Crypto Card off the ground. Read More (2/8) Ardrive，a “permanent Dropbox” launches in beta on Arweave on 5th Nov. Read More (3/8) MetaMask users can now swap tokens directly from their wallets. Swaps combine multiple decentralized exchange aggregators, profession...