First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 15,2019Hello，IOSG Community:Today we are excited to announce IOSGVC and Real Satoshi join IoTeX as @**Real Satoshi & IOSG* delegate together! we are a community and VC driven staking IOTX validator, expecting to new friends voting for us and joining our community to redesign IoT together!!* To celebrate @**Real Satoshi & IOSG* become new delegate, we would like to wrap it up with a special Gleam campaign to thank all voters for your continuous support, t...

First Published on @IOSG Medium on Aug 15,2019Hello，IOSG Community:Today we are excited to announce IOSGVC and Real Satoshi join IoTeX as @**Real Satoshi & IOSG* delegate together! we are a community and VC driven staking IOTX validator, expecting to new friends voting for us and joining our community to redesign IoT together!!* To celebrate @**Real Satoshi & IOSG* become new delegate, we would like to wrap it up with a special Gleam campaign to thank all voters for your continuous support, t...

Hosted by IOSG Ventures, in partnership with imToken, DeBank and Aave, we proudly present you the 7th “Old Friends Reunion” — IOSG 2020 DeFi Summit, which will be held in 1933 Shanghai Sky Theatre.Why DeFi was chosen as the theme of this year’s summit?After more than a year of development and precipitation, blockchain has become the most cutting-edge platform and opportunity for open finance. DeFi as a typical application on blockchain is developing rapidly. In just the past few months, the t...

Hosted by IOSG Ventures, in partnership with imToken, DeBank and Aave, we proudly present you the 7th “Old Friends Reunion” — IOSG 2020 DeFi Summit, which will be held in 1933 Shanghai Sky Theatre.Why DeFi was chosen as the theme of this year’s summit?After more than a year of development and precipitation, blockchain has become the most cutting-edge platform and opportunity for open finance. DeFi as a typical application on blockchain is developing rapidly. In just the past few months, the t...

We are so thrilled to invite Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder & COO of Polygon to give us a lecture on Polygon — Suite of Ethereum Scaling Solution. If you are new to Polygon, here is a brief. Polygon is an Ethereum Scaling platform, especially the Layer2 scaling platform which is an approach-agnostic aggregator for all the solutions. Intrigued? More to see as below on our video clip and written full-text! Hello, everyone, this is Sandeep from Polygon. I am one of the co-founders at Polygon and I ...

We are so thrilled to invite Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder & COO of Polygon to give us a lecture on Polygon — Suite of Ethereum Scaling Solution. If you are new to Polygon, here is a brief. Polygon is an Ethereum Scaling platform, especially the Layer2 scaling platform which is an approach-agnostic aggregator for all the solutions. Intrigued? More to see as below on our video clip and written full-text! Hello, everyone, this is Sandeep from Polygon. I am one of the co-founders at Polygon and I ...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Xinshu Dong, partner of IOSG Ventures, Santiago Roel Santos, partner of ParaFi Capital, Michael Anderson, co-founder of Framework Ventures, and Ben Perszyk of Polychain Capital. Four top institutional investors discussed and shared the theme “Like never before: A new era of DeFi investment and beyond”, and talked about new gameplay, new challenges and new investment concepts in the DeFi field. Xinshu...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Xinshu Dong, partner of IOSG Ventures, Santiago Roel Santos, partner of ParaFi Capital, Michael Anderson, co-founder of Framework Ventures, and Ben Perszyk of Polychain Capital. Four top institutional investors discussed and shared the theme “Like never before: A new era of DeFi investment and beyond”, and talked about new gameplay, new challenges and new investment concepts in the DeFi field. Xinshu...

Alternative to centralized exchange, 0x protocol divides exchange concept into segments and allows smart contracts, wallets and order books to independently run applications. In other words, it makes every wallet on the network into a decentralized liquidity source. As such, multiple order books and token owners can have p2p interaction through a common underlaying protocol, avoiding the centralized entity. Its off-chain order book and RFQ systems serve as entry point to professional market m...

Alternative to centralized exchange, 0x protocol divides exchange concept into segments and allows smart contracts, wallets and order books to independently run applications. In other words, it makes every wallet on the network into a decentralized liquidity source. As such, multiple order books and token owners can have p2p interaction through a common underlaying protocol, avoiding the centralized entity. Its off-chain order book and RFQ systems serve as entry point to professional market m...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder& CEO of Chainlink, Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX, and Sergej Kunz, Co-Founder& CEO of 1inch, discussed and shared the theme “Collaborative capabilities of synthetic assets, decentralized trading and oracles”, and talked about how to explore and develop more interesting products in the DeFi era. Moderator -Sergey Nazarov（Chainlink） Hi e...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder& CEO of Chainlink, Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix, Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX, and Sergej Kunz, Co-Founder& CEO of 1inch, discussed and shared the theme “Collaborative capabilities of synthetic assets, decentralized trading and oracles”, and talked about how to explore and develop more interesting products in the DeFi era. Moderator -Sergey Nazarov（Chainlink） Hi e...

First Published on Medium on Mar 1,2019Hello IoTeX community ! Let’s introduce ourselves.Our team are from Hongkong、Seattle and Shenzhen,we have ten years history of technology investment. Our fund will invest in very-early-stage ventures , covering blockchain, cryptography, machine learning ,fintech ,IoT and more. In particular we keep our ears very close to the ground and are in touch with top scientific talents even before they start ventures. Among our upcoming focus areas are Zero Knowle...

First Published on Medium on Mar 1,2019Hello IoTeX community ! Let’s introduce ourselves.Our team are from Hongkong、Seattle and Shenzhen,we have ten years history of technology investment. Our fund will invest in very-early-stage ventures , covering blockchain, cryptography, machine learning ,fintech ,IoT and more. In particular we keep our ears very close to the ground and are in touch with top scientific talents even before they start ventures. Among our upcoming focus areas are Zero Knowle...

An opportunity worth tens of billionsBitcoin is still dominating the crypto space with nearly 60% of the total crypto market cap is currently held in BTC. While DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL) reaches to 9.45B, Bitcoin’s market cap is still 20 times larger than DeFi. There are many projects trying to create a bridge between BTC to Ethereum with WBTC capturing 70% of the market share, which requires significant trust on the custodian of the BTC being wrapped. BTC holders as well as Ethereum co-f...

An opportunity worth tens of billionsBitcoin is still dominating the crypto space with nearly 60% of the total crypto market cap is currently held in BTC. While DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL) reaches to 9.45B, Bitcoin’s market cap is still 20 times larger than DeFi. There are many projects trying to create a bridge between BTC to Ethereum with WBTC capturing 70% of the market share, which requires significant trust on the custodian of the BTC being wrapped. BTC holders as well as Ethereum co-f...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, We invited Opyn CEO and co-founder Zubin Singh Koticha, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen, UMA co-founder Hart Lambur and Thesis and KEEP CEO Matt Luongo, on the theme “Musing on DeFi: Assets, Collateral, and Users”, to discuss the reasons behind the wave of DeFi 2020, real-world demand for the role of a stable currency, synthetic assets assumed, incentive mechanism, the limitations of decentralized governance,...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, We invited Opyn CEO and co-founder Zubin Singh Koticha, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen, UMA co-founder Hart Lambur and Thesis and KEEP CEO Matt Luongo, on the theme “Musing on DeFi: Assets, Collateral, and Users”, to discuss the reasons behind the wave of DeFi 2020, real-world demand for the role of a stable currency, synthetic assets assumed, incentive mechanism, the limitations of decentralized governance,...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, We invited Deniz Omer (Kyber Network), Stani Kulechov (Aave), Anthony Sassano (Set Labs), Mariano Conti, and Amir Bandeali (0x), on the theme “Cooling down after the DeFi summer: challenges and pathway forward”, to give us a thoughtful panel discussion.Full Text: Moderator — Deniz Omer (Kyber Network): Hi everyone, welcome to this IOSG DeFi Summit panel. I am really excited to do this. Today, I have some really...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, We invited Deniz Omer (Kyber Network), Stani Kulechov (Aave), Anthony Sassano (Set Labs), Mariano Conti, and Amir Bandeali (0x), on the theme “Cooling down after the DeFi summer: challenges and pathway forward”, to give us a thoughtful panel discussion.Full Text: Moderator — Deniz Omer (Kyber Network): Hi everyone, welcome to this IOSG DeFi Summit panel. I am really excited to do this. Today, I have some really...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Upshot CEO Nick Emmons, Nexus Mutual Founder Hugh Karp, PoolTogether CEO Leighton Cusack and Hakka Finance Founder Ping Chen, discussed and shared the theme “Reimagining Insurance through Decentralization”, and talked about how to explore and develop more interesting products in the DeFi insurance era. Moderator — Nick Emmons (Upshot): Hey everyone, my name is Nick Emmons. I’m the CEO of Upshot. We’r...

IOSG VenturesOn October 26, 2020, at the 7th Old Friends Reunion IOSG DeFi Summit, we invited Upshot CEO Nick Emmons, Nexus Mutual Founder Hugh Karp, PoolTogether CEO Leighton Cusack and Hakka Finance Founder Ping Chen, discussed and shared the theme “Reimagining Insurance through Decentralization”, and talked about how to explore and develop more interesting products in the DeFi insurance era. Moderator — Nick Emmons (Upshot): Hey everyone, my name is Nick Emmons. I’m the CEO of Upshot. We’r...

Great thanks to Dominator008 for his support to this Insight！ Binance Smart Chain (BSC) launched last September, opening a new era of exchange-blockchains and attracting attention of numerous projects. In a couple of months, BSC ecosystem saw an overall growth — AMMs, lending & borrowing, stable coins, NFTs and other ecosystem projects began building on BSC. Then in December 2020, Huobi announced the launch of their own Huobi ECO Chain (Heco) followed by the announcement of OKExChain which la...

Great thanks to Dominator008 for his support to this Insight！ Binance Smart Chain (BSC) launched last September, opening a new era of exchange-blockchains and attracting attention of numerous projects. In a couple of months, BSC ecosystem saw an overall growth — AMMs, lending & borrowing, stable coins, NFTs and other ecosystem projects began building on BSC. Then in December 2020, Huobi announced the launch of their own Huobi ECO Chain (Heco) followed by the announcement of OKExChain which la...