First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 16, 2020Source：United NationsDear Founders and Network, I hope all is well, and I hope you stay safe and healthy during this time. We would like to share a few tips as follows and hope we all make it through a difficult time.Cut expending. It is important to cut costs to a minimum.Rethink business models. It might be a good time to reevaluate and rethink your business model. Treat the crisis as stress testing. Can it be sustainable in such a situation? I...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 16, 2020Source：United NationsDear Founders and Network, I hope all is well, and I hope you stay safe and healthy during this time. We would like to share a few tips as follows and hope we all make it through a difficult time.Cut expending. It is important to cut costs to a minimum.Rethink business models. It might be a good time to reevaluate and rethink your business model. Treat the crisis as stress testing. Can it be sustainable in such a situation? I...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Feb 23, 2020Source: The VergeGuide reading:High replacement costs, strong network effects, and smooth user experience enable the Web2.0 giants to have competitive advantages. Although the current market that monopolized by Internet giants is not to be taken by the crypto start-ups soon, we believe users will eventually desire more control over their data. Especially once they realize its (monetary) importance, the massive adoption will speed up.The killer ap...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Feb 23, 2020Source: The VergeGuide reading:High replacement costs, strong network effects, and smooth user experience enable the Web2.0 giants to have competitive advantages. Although the current market that monopolized by Internet giants is not to be taken by the crypto start-ups soon, we believe users will eventually desire more control over their data. Especially once they realize its (monetary) importance, the massive adoption will speed up.The killer ap...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Mar 16, 2020ECC welcome speech on 3rd MarchAbout ECCThe third Ethereum Community Conference (ECC) is held from 3rd March to 5th March in Paris in 2020. There are over 250 speakers and over 2000 audience expected to attend the conference. Most speakers are from the Ethereum community and the conference is followed by Eth Paris, which is held on 7th March with open topics. One highlight for venture capital especially is that an organized pitch event took place...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Mar 16, 2020ECC welcome speech on 3rd MarchAbout ECCThe third Ethereum Community Conference (ECC) is held from 3rd March to 5th March in Paris in 2020. There are over 250 speakers and over 2000 audience expected to attend the conference. Most speakers are from the Ethereum community and the conference is followed by Eth Paris, which is held on 7th March with open topics. One highlight for venture capital especially is that an organized pitch event took place...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 22, 202Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 8th to 22nd April.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/3) In the era of Ethererum 2.0, staking economics will be a main engine for the open finance ecosystem. Due to staking mechanism, more users will be incentivized to provide liquidity. Overall, higher liquidity, reducing operating costs, faster network, protocol innovation(such as insurance for slashing risk, etc.) will lead DeFi booming. In addition to Defi, it can...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 22, 202Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 8th to 22nd April.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/3) In the era of Ethererum 2.0, staking economics will be a main engine for the open finance ecosystem. Due to staking mechanism, more users will be incentivized to provide liquidity. Overall, higher liquidity, reducing operating costs, faster network, protocol innovation(such as insurance for slashing risk, etc.) will lead DeFi booming. In addition to Defi, it can...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on May 22, 2020Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 7th to 21nd May.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/3) The rapid development of blockchain gives birth to Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). In 2019, various new concepts emerge. Especially this year, we saw the birth of new compliance financing and financial asset management DAOs. We divided the existing DAOs into two categories ( Governance and Financing) and divided Moloch and its branches into four stag...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on May 22, 2020Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 7th to 21nd May.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/3) The rapid development of blockchain gives birth to Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). In 2019, various new concepts emerge. Especially this year, we saw the birth of new compliance financing and financial asset management DAOs. We divided the existing DAOs into two categories ( Governance and Financing) and divided Moloch and its branches into four stag...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 20, 2020source:ENTERPRISE RADIOIn an article published in 1945, Friedrich Hayek pointed out a centrally planned economy would never beat the efficiency of a decentralized economy. Knowledge is unevenly dispersed among different members of society and a single agent only holds a small fraction of the total knowledge. As a result, decisions are best made by those with local knowledge rather than by a central authority. What if individuals have their own op...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Jan 20, 2020source:ENTERPRISE RADIOIn an article published in 1945, Friedrich Hayek pointed out a centrally planned economy would never beat the efficiency of a decentralized economy. Knowledge is unevenly dispersed among different members of society and a single agent only holds a small fraction of the total knowledge. As a result, decisions are best made by those with local knowledge rather than by a central authority. What if individuals have their own op...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on May 6, 2020Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 22nd April to 6th May.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/4) We believe the security measures of smart contract wallets will be the cornerstone of its development. The design of UX is one of the critical factors for winning users in the early stage of the product, and the future development of a smart contract wallet depends on its interaction with Dapp and Defi. At present, Dapps are built on the web framework which ...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on May 6, 2020Welcome to our bi-weekly newsletter date from 22nd April to 6th May.🐱‍👤IOSG Insight(1/4) We believe the security measures of smart contract wallets will be the cornerstone of its development. The design of UX is one of the critical factors for winning users in the early stage of the product, and the future development of a smart contract wallet depends on its interaction with Dapp and Defi. At present, Dapps are built on the web framework which ...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Dec 23, 2019Main Take-aways: Our insights on the German Blockchain Ecosystem: Most German blockchain start-ups are located in Berlin, the equivalent of Silicon-Valley in Europe; followed by Munich and Frankfurt. Berlin focuses on building underlying infrastructure, Munich focuses on industry-related blockchain projects, and Frankfurt consists of mostly blockchain service providers. Blockchain projects in Berlin can be thought of as having two streams, one of...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Dec 23, 2019Main Take-aways: Our insights on the German Blockchain Ecosystem: Most German blockchain start-ups are located in Berlin, the equivalent of Silicon-Valley in Europe; followed by Munich and Frankfurt. Berlin focuses on building underlying infrastructure, Munich focuses on industry-related blockchain projects, and Frankfurt consists of mostly blockchain service providers. Blockchain projects in Berlin can be thought of as having two streams, one of...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 28, 20201. Middleware Protocol of blockchain from the perspective of traditional Internet value distribution.Reviewing the Internet stack of Web 2.0, we can see a large number of excellent Internet business models emerge based on the application layer protocol (especially the HTTP), such as E-commerce (Amazon, Taobao), social network (Facebook), search engine and advertising (Google), as well as streaming media (Netflix, Spotify). From this perspective, ...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Apr 28, 20201. Middleware Protocol of blockchain from the perspective of traditional Internet value distribution.Reviewing the Internet stack of Web 2.0, we can see a large number of excellent Internet business models emerge based on the application layer protocol (especially the HTTP), such as E-commerce (Amazon, Taobao), social network (Facebook), search engine and advertising (Google), as well as streaming media (Netflix, Spotify). From this perspective, ...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Feb 28, 2020(Flash Loan single transaction, source: Etherscan)BackgroundbZx’s Flashloan attack event has sparked wide discussions across DeFi industry recently. This all began with a new DeFi primitive enabling uncollateralized loans: Flashloan, which allows you to get uncollateralized loans when your operations guarantee it will be repaid in 13–15 seconds (Almost free if you pay it back in the same one transaction ). In this article, we share our thoughts o...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Feb 28, 2020(Flash Loan single transaction, source: Etherscan)BackgroundbZx’s Flashloan attack event has sparked wide discussions across DeFi industry recently. This all began with a new DeFi primitive enabling uncollateralized loans: Flashloan, which allows you to get uncollateralized loans when your operations guarantee it will be repaid in 13–15 seconds (Almost free if you pay it back in the same one transaction ). In this article, we share our thoughts o...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 24, 2019On September 18th, IOSG’s sixth “Old Friends Reunion Meetup” was held in Shanghai Lavin Rose. A total of more than 600 people consists of well-known investors, project developers and founders and blockchain enthusiasts from home and abroad participated in the event. The Meetup is hosted by IOSG, the star cross-chain project Polkadot, the deep segment expansion project NEAR Protocol, and the blockchain platform CasperLabs. It’s an excellent opport...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Sep 24, 2019On September 18th, IOSG’s sixth “Old Friends Reunion Meetup” was held in Shanghai Lavin Rose. A total of more than 600 people consists of well-known investors, project developers and founders and blockchain enthusiasts from home and abroad participated in the event. The Meetup is hosted by IOSG, the star cross-chain project Polkadot, the deep segment expansion project NEAR Protocol, and the blockchain platform CasperLabs. It’s an excellent opport...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Nov 22, 2019In this article, we looked back at the Chinese regulator’s attitude towards blockchain technology from 2013 to the most recent and presented the positive & negative impact on the current blockchain scene. We also illustrated what opportunities it brought, what we are looking at and what industrial-specific projects may stand out from our point of view.20th Nov. light show showing “BTC”, “Blockchain”, “Miner” was in Hangzhou, China. The building a...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Nov 22, 2019In this article, we looked back at the Chinese regulator’s attitude towards blockchain technology from 2013 to the most recent and presented the positive & negative impact on the current blockchain scene. We also illustrated what opportunities it brought, what we are looking at and what industrial-specific projects may stand out from our point of view.20th Nov. light show showing “BTC”, “Blockchain”, “Miner” was in Hangzhou, China. The building a...