Fast forward 3 years since Gavin Wood initiated his vision of “A network that connects blockchains,” whether developers from Substrate or Parity team from Polkadot have been sticking to the most challenging yet valuable task — Build up the “Internet of Blockchain.” Even before the parachain auction starts, there have been 500+ eco projects in this eco. Now we are thrilled to announce that IOSG DOT Eco Fund, with the size of 1 Million $DOT, has officially started to support the parachain aucti...

Fast forward 3 years since Gavin Wood initiated his vision of “A network that connects blockchains,” whether developers from Substrate or Parity team from Polkadot have been sticking to the most challenging yet valuable task — Build up the “Internet of Blockchain.” Even before the parachain auction starts, there have been 500+ eco projects in this eco. Now we are thrilled to announce that IOSG DOT Eco Fund, with the size of 1 Million $DOT, has officially started to support the parachain aucti...

IOSG Founding Partner: Jocy LinToday is the annual gathering of old friends. In the past year, the entire crypto-economic circle has been ups and downs, but IOSG Ventures is instructed to invest in value, stuck to value investment, pursued long-termism, and has always been friends with time. Here, as an institutional investor, I will share with you how to find a universal investment value in the changing decentralized economic market from the perspective of an institutional investor. First, I...

IOSG Founding Partner: Jocy LinToday is the annual gathering of old friends. In the past year, the entire crypto-economic circle has been ups and downs, but IOSG Ventures is instructed to invest in value, stuck to value investment, pursued long-termism, and has always been friends with time. Here, as an institutional investor, I will share with you how to find a universal investment value in the changing decentralized economic market from the perspective of an institutional investor. First, I...

Recap of IOSG Ventures & Interlay & Realsatoshi Chinese community AMAAbout the AMACoordinated with the Realsatoshi community, IOSG Ventures had initiated an online live AMA with Interlay on Sept 09, 2021. As some of you might have not participated, we made sure no one missed out on the good stuff! We made an AMA recap of the asked questions and answers provided by Alexei Zamyatin, Co-founder, and CEO of Interlay on the topic of “Supporting a Multi-chain World: How DeFi Interoperability Platfo...

Recap of IOSG Ventures & Interlay & Realsatoshi Chinese community AMAAbout the AMACoordinated with the Realsatoshi community, IOSG Ventures had initiated an online live AMA with Interlay on Sept 09, 2021. As some of you might have not participated, we made sure no one missed out on the good stuff! We made an AMA recap of the asked questions and answers provided by Alexei Zamyatin, Co-founder, and CEO of Interlay on the topic of “Supporting a Multi-chain World: How DeFi Interoperability Platfo...

As applications on IOSG Kickstarter Program continue to grow, we've been amazed to see the unfolding of hundreds of exciting projects. To spotlight some of these initiatives, offer them direct developer support, and build close connections with our mentors from the top-tier industry, we organized a unique showcase: IOSG Kickstarter Demo Day — 1st Connection Party on Oct.15. Don’t hesitate to watch the wrap-up video here! The online demo day allowed 8 promising teams to present their idea...

As applications on IOSG Kickstarter Program continue to grow, we've been amazed to see the unfolding of hundreds of exciting projects. To spotlight some of these initiatives, offer them direct developer support, and build close connections with our mentors from the top-tier industry, we organized a unique showcase: IOSG Kickstarter Demo Day — 1st Connection Party on Oct.15. Don’t hesitate to watch the wrap-up video here! The online demo day allowed 8 promising teams to present their idea...

In March 2021, Jocy the founding partner at IOSG judged the Shanghai Polkadot Hackathon where he saw 40 Chinese developer teams who developed ideas & products from 0 to 1. These teams had huge potential and executional prowess but required support — financial & in form of mentorship. Today, in the rapid development of the blockchain, we have seen that there are many outstanding developers in this industry with stories of mismatched resources or funding. These founders require trusted partners...

In March 2021, Jocy the founding partner at IOSG judged the Shanghai Polkadot Hackathon where he saw 40 Chinese developer teams who developed ideas & products from 0 to 1. These teams had huge potential and executional prowess but required support — financial & in form of mentorship. Today, in the rapid development of the blockchain, we have seen that there are many outstanding developers in this industry with stories of mismatched resources or funding. These founders require trusted partners...

We are proud to present the insightful panel discussed by Peter Kris (CEO of Mangata); Stephane Gosselin(Founder of Flashbots); Deli Gong (Co-founder of Automata); Amir Bandeali (Co-CEO of 0x Labs / Matcha); and Felix Leupoldn (Tech Lead of CowSwap)!OverviewAs for MEV, they went in-depth into some questions like, what is the problem with arbitrage these lately? Is it necessarily exploitative? What are the arguments on the fundamental difference between MEV on L1 and MEV on L2? Is there any di...

We are proud to present the insightful panel discussed by Peter Kris (CEO of Mangata); Stephane Gosselin(Founder of Flashbots); Deli Gong (Co-founder of Automata); Amir Bandeali (Co-CEO of 0x Labs / Matcha); and Felix Leupoldn (Tech Lead of CowSwap)!OverviewAs for MEV, they went in-depth into some questions like, what is the problem with arbitrage these lately? Is it necessarily exploitative? What are the arguments on the fundamental difference between MEV on L1 and MEV on L2? Is there any di...

On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, we are pleased to have invited Dieter Shirley, CTO@Dapper Labs; Robbie Ferguson, Co-founder@Immutable X; Jiho, Co-founder @Axie Infinity; Andrew Gross, Tech Product Marketing@xDai/Gnosis and Daren Frankel, Head of Strategy & Op @Palm NFT Studio; moderating by Jesse Johnson, Co-founder @Aavegotchi to give us a thoughtful panel discussion!Overview:This panel discussed the current situation and future development of NFT and Gam...

On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, we are pleased to have invited Dieter Shirley, CTO@Dapper Labs; Robbie Ferguson, Co-founder@Immutable X; Jiho, Co-founder @Axie Infinity; Andrew Gross, Tech Product Marketing@xDai/Gnosis and Daren Frankel, Head of Strategy & Op @Palm NFT Studio; moderating by Jesse Johnson, Co-founder @Aavegotchi to give us a thoughtful panel discussion!Overview:This panel discussed the current situation and future development of NFT and Gam...

On December 19, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Metaverse Carnival, we are pleased to have invited Chase Freo, CEO@ OP Games (Moderator), Jesse Johnson, Co-founder@ Aavegotchi, Simon Vieira, Co-founder@ MixMob, Kijun Seo, CEO@ Nine Chronicles (Planetarium) to give us a thoughtful panel discussion!Overview:The concept of GameFi on chain with the emerging model of P2E is a delicate juggling act that has been placed under a more intense and focused spotlight recently. There is no one-size-fi...

On December 19, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Metaverse Carnival, we are pleased to have invited Chase Freo, CEO@ OP Games (Moderator), Jesse Johnson, Co-founder@ Aavegotchi, Simon Vieira, Co-founder@ MixMob, Kijun Seo, CEO@ Nine Chronicles (Planetarium) to give us a thoughtful panel discussion!Overview:The concept of GameFi on chain with the emerging model of P2E is a delicate juggling act that has been placed under a more intense and focused spotlight recently. There is no one-size-fi...

IOSG VenturesSpecial thanks to DODO and Longhash Ventures for providing valuable feedback! Author: Amidzic Momir | Analyst @IOSG VC Liquidity mining has proven to be effective incentivizing scheme for bootstrapping protocols and recently we witnessed one of the wildest liquidity mining events in the short history of DeFi. Notably, Uniswap launched its own governance token, following several successful forks (e.g. Sushiswap). Each address that has ever called the Uniswap v1 or v2 contract earn...

IOSG VenturesSpecial thanks to DODO and Longhash Ventures for providing valuable feedback! Author: Amidzic Momir | Analyst @IOSG VC Liquidity mining has proven to be effective incentivizing scheme for bootstrapping protocols and recently we witnessed one of the wildest liquidity mining events in the short history of DeFi. Notably, Uniswap launched its own governance token, following several successful forks (e.g. Sushiswap). Each address that has ever called the Uniswap v1 or v2 contract earn...

On October 26, Old Friends Reunion came to a successful close at 1933 Shanghai. With the theme of “DeFi Summit 2020”, IOSG, together with imToken, DeBank and Aave, had brought you the ultimate carnival of DeFi space. We have a total of 912 people registered on Eventbrite and Huodongxing (活动行), and the actual number of attendees had exceeded 1000. We have gathered over 60 guests, including Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum), Illia Polosukhin (Co-founder of NEAR), Stani Kulechov (Founder ...

On October 26, Old Friends Reunion came to a successful close at 1933 Shanghai. With the theme of “DeFi Summit 2020”, IOSG, together with imToken, DeBank and Aave, had brought you the ultimate carnival of DeFi space. We have a total of 912 people registered on Eventbrite and Huodongxing (活动行), and the actual number of attendees had exceeded 1000. We have gathered over 60 guests, including Vitalik Buterin (Co-founder of Ethereum), Illia Polosukhin (Co-founder of NEAR), Stani Kulechov (Founder ...

See What’s happening at IOSG Workshop in Gitcoin Grant Round 10 Hackathon!As GR10 comes to an end, we are pleased to present one event of the workshop series, inviting experienced entrepreneurs to share thoughts and advice on the journey of being entrepreneurs in the crypto space. We are proudly announcing that we had successfully launched our workshop on the topic of “Starting New Projects as Aspiring Crypto Founder”on July 6. (No worries 😉 We have the recording right here for you in case y...

See What’s happening at IOSG Workshop in Gitcoin Grant Round 10 Hackathon!As GR10 comes to an end, we are pleased to present one event of the workshop series, inviting experienced entrepreneurs to share thoughts and advice on the journey of being entrepreneurs in the crypto space. We are proudly announcing that we had successfully launched our workshop on the topic of “Starting New Projects as Aspiring Crypto Founder”on July 6. (No worries 😉 We have the recording right here for you in case y...

On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, we are pleased to have invited Alex Shevchenko, the CEO of Aurora to give us a thought-provoking keynote speech!Overview:Aurora is a solution that allows to execute Ethereum smart contracts on top of the more performance environment, which is the shard Near blockchain. For Ethereum, it allows for the scalability of the decentralized applications that are running there and allows to cover additional markets for these DApps. F...

On December 18, 2021, at the 8th Old Friends Reunion Scaling Summit, we are pleased to have invited Alex Shevchenko, the CEO of Aurora to give us a thought-provoking keynote speech!Overview:Aurora is a solution that allows to execute Ethereum smart contracts on top of the more performance environment, which is the shard Near blockchain. For Ethereum, it allows for the scalability of the decentralized applications that are running there and allows to cover additional markets for these DApps. F...