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Kernel in HK | Infra & Applications Onboarding The Next Billion Users

Kernel in HK | Infra & Applications Onboarding The Next Billion Users

The first panel discussion “The Battle Between L1 & L2” was moderated by Rose, Managing Director of Kernel Ventures. Guests included Seabook Chen, Dev Advocate & Relations and Head of APAC at StarkWare; Young, Researcher at Scroll, Antonio Liu, VP of Products at Polyhedra Network; Mary Liu, Head of BD at Celestia Labs; and Amos, Early Contributor of NEAR. Our panel guests each discussed their perspectives on how L1/L2 would be defined in the future, and shared some of the most recent updates in their respective ecosystem. Young mentioned that Scroll deeply values the open source culture, and is currently building the world's largest open source zkEVM circuit, giving developers a good environment to buidl.

Liquidity is crucial to a project’s revenue, the second panel discussion surrounds "Capturing On-chain Liquidity" and is hosted by Kernel Ventures Managing Partner Mandy. Panelists included Jimmy Yin, Co-Founder of iZUMi Finance; Mr. Block, Core Contributor of Curve Finance; Kevin Feng, Head of WOOFi; Ryan Chow, Co-Founder of Solv Protocol; Uwe Cerron, Co-Founder of Convergence RFQ; and Dori, Head of Greater China for Apex Protocol. The panel guests discussed recent events such as the expiration of UniSwap V3 Business Source License and the Ethereum Shapella upgrade, as well as the impact of these major events on DEXs. In addition, we clarified the essential characteristics and differences of Orderbook, AMM and RFQ models from the aspects of capital efficiency, latency, MEV, fees, or impermanent loss, and discussed the future forms of DEX.

As the financial center of Asia, HongKong's recent release of crypto-friendly policies has attracted the attention of industry players to search for the next alpha and compliance opportunities in Hong Kong. The third panel "Crypto Regulation in HongKong & Asia” was hosted by Vincent, Managing Partner of Kernel Ventures, and the guests invited were Lennix Lai, Managing Director of OKX Global Institutional; Dr. Yu Jianing, President of Hong Kong Blockchain Association and Founder of Uweb; Dr. Chen Jingfang, General Counsel of Mask Network; and Gilbert Ng, former OKX Legal Counsel and Founder of Mura. The panel guests explained the changes brought forward by the implementation of Web3 regulation in HongKong from their respective perspectives, and compared them to the relevant practices in Singapore and Taiwan. Lennix recalled that after September 2022, regulatory bodies have been particularly active in communicating with OKX and have expressed their willingness to listen to the Web3 industry. It is generally believed that although HongKong's regulatory system is still in the process of improvement, it has shown long-term, systematic and open characteristics, providing strong support for the Web3 industry and setting a benchmark for Asia and the rest of the world. In addition, the guests look forward to new opportunities that may arise in the future. For example, Dr. Yu Jianing believes that the future integration of AI and blockchain will drive innovation in the application layer of Web3.

In addition, guest speakers such as Jimmy Yin, co-founder of iZUMi Finance, Geoff Lamperd, Project Lead Privacy & Scaling Explorations at the Ethereum Foundation; Seabook Chen, Dev Advocate & Relations and Head of APAC at StarkWare; Antonio Liu, VP of Products at Polyhedra Network; and Sherlock Shi, co-founder of Meson Network attended the event and gave keynote speeches. Founders and buidlers gathered together and shared their ideas on infrastructure establishment and how to capture critical liquidity. The robustness of the industry requires continuous technological innovation, as well as adherence to the decentralisation of the underlying infrastructure and digital assets (such as Ethereum censorship resistance, decentralisation of stablecoins, etc.) it also requires relatively friendly, open and inclusive regulatory policies. We look forward to HongKong becoming Asia's leading Crypto Hub backed by a regulatory framework that protects our ecosystem.

Kernel Ventures is a research & dev community driven crypto VC fund with more than 70 early stage investments, focusing on infrastructure, middleware, dApps, especially ZK, Rollup, Modular Blockchain, and verticals that will onboard the next billion of users in crypto such as Account Abstraction, Data Availability, Scalability and etc. For the past seven years, we have committed ourselves to supporting the growth of core dev communities and University Blockchain Associations across the world.

The first panel discussion “The Battle Between L1 & L2” was moderated by Rose, Managing Director of Kernel Ventures. Guests included Seabook Chen, Dev Advocate & Relations and Head of APAC at StarkWare; Young, Researcher at Scroll, Antonio Liu, VP of Products at Polyhedra Network; Mary Liu, Head of BD at Celestia Labs; and Amos, Early Contributor of NEAR. Our panel guests each discussed their perspectives on how L1/L2 would be defined in the future, and shared some of the most recent updates in their respective ecosystem. Young mentioned that Scroll deeply values the open source culture, and is currently building the world's largest open source zkEVM circuit, giving developers a good environment to buidl.

Liquidity is crucial to a project’s revenue, the second panel discussion surrounds "Capturing On-chain Liquidity" and is hosted by Kernel Ventures Managing Partner Mandy. Panelists included Jimmy Yin, Co-Founder of iZUMi Finance; Mr. Block, Core Contributor of Curve Finance; Kevin Feng, Head of WOOFi; Ryan Chow, Co-Founder of Solv Protocol; Uwe Cerron, Co-Founder of Convergence RFQ; and Dori, Head of Greater China for Apex Protocol. The panel guests discussed recent events such as the expiration of UniSwap V3 Business Source License and the Ethereum Shapella upgrade, as well as the impact of these major events on DEXs. In addition, we clarified the essential characteristics and differences of Orderbook, AMM and RFQ models from the aspects of capital efficiency, latency, MEV, fees, or impermanent loss, and discussed the future forms of DEX.

As the financial center of Asia, HongKong's recent release of crypto-friendly policies has attracted the attention of industry players to search for the next alpha and compliance opportunities in Hong Kong. The third panel "Crypto Regulation in HongKong & Asia” was hosted by Vincent, Managing Partner of Kernel Ventures, and the guests invited were Lennix Lai, Managing Director of OKX Global Institutional; Dr. Yu Jianing, President of Hong Kong Blockchain Association and Founder of Uweb; Dr. Chen Jingfang, General Counsel of Mask Network; and Gilbert Ng, former OKX Legal Counsel and Founder of Mura. The panel guests explained the changes brought forward by the implementation of Web3 regulation in HongKong from their respective perspectives, and compared them to the relevant practices in Singapore and Taiwan. Lennix recalled that after September 2022, regulatory bodies have been particularly active in communicating with OKX and have expressed their willingness to listen to the Web3 industry. It is generally believed that although HongKong's regulatory system is still in the process of improvement, it has shown long-term, systematic and open characteristics, providing strong support for the Web3 industry and setting a benchmark for Asia and the rest of the world. In addition, the guests look forward to new opportunities that may arise in the future. For example, Dr. Yu Jianing believes that the future integration of AI and blockchain will drive innovation in the application layer of Web3.

In addition, guest speakers such as Jimmy Yin, co-founder of iZUMi Finance, Geoff Lamperd, Project Lead Privacy & Scaling Explorations at the Ethereum Foundation; Seabook Chen, Dev Advocate & Relations and Head of APAC at StarkWare; Antonio Liu, VP of Products at Polyhedra Network; and Sherlock Shi, co-founder of Meson Network attended the event and gave keynote speeches. Founders and buidlers gathered together and shared their ideas on infrastructure establishment and how to capture critical liquidity. The robustness of the industry requires continuous technological innovation, as well as adherence to the decentralisation of the underlying infrastructure and digital assets (such as Ethereum censorship resistance, decentralisation of stablecoins, etc.) it also requires relatively friendly, open and inclusive regulatory policies. We look forward to HongKong becoming Asia's leading Crypto Hub backed by a regulatory framework that protects our ecosystem.

Kernel Ventures is a research & dev community driven crypto VC fund with more than 70 early stage investments, focusing on infrastructure, middleware, dApps, especially ZK, Rollup, Modular Blockchain, and verticals that will onboard the next billion of users in crypto such as Account Abstraction, Data Availability, Scalability and etc. For the past seven years, we have committed ourselves to supporting the growth of core dev communities and University Blockchain Associations across the world.