Roger Lim is the Founding Partner at NEO Global Capital (NGC), one of the world’s largest and most successful cryptocurrency funds. He is advisor to some of the top crypto projects globally such as MultiVAC, Tomochain etc.

He was previously a VC and Angel Investor in the ‘traditional’ startup space before making the transition to crypto.

Tune in to hear about:

Roger’s background and how he got into crypto

How NGC came about

Details about the funds: fund structure, who are the LPs, time horizon, investment thesis

Portfolio construction for a crypto fund

Investment approach (including tackling a bear market)

Mental models and philosophies transferred from ‘traditional’ VC investing

Outlook for the crypto and blockchain ecosystem longer term

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In this episode, we speak to the co-founders of QCP Capital - Darius Sit and Joshua Ho. QCP Capital has quickly established itself as a leading prop trading shop and a go-to OTC agent for many in the Southeast Asian region and beyond.

Tune in to hear about:

Their varied backgrounds, how they got into crypto and how QCP capital came about (hint: it involves a lot of flying around the world to do arbitrage)

What is QCP Capital’s business and offering

Get a peek into some of the strategies that the smarter money is deploying (great for retail investors)

The huge uptick in OTC trades in 2018 despite the market going down 80-90%

How a crypto-banking layer has been formed on top of the traditional banking layer

Regulatory compliance

Impending Bakkt launch

Outlook on the crypto ecosystem and derivative instruments as a way to incentivise institutional players to build balance sheets in crypto

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Kai is the Founder and CEO of Digix Global, the company that is tokenising gold and putting it on the Blockchain. Kai was previously an FX trader on Wall Street before getting into crypto in 2014. Digix Global holds the distinction of being the first token sale on the Ethereum Protocol Tune in to hear about:Kai’s background and what made him get into crypto so early onWhat Digix Global is trying to doColoured coins and early days of DigixExperience of doing first token sale on EthereumDGX and DGD token including how the governance of the DAO would work Outlook on the crypto ecosystem including STOs and the #DeFi movementRAPID FIRE (thoughts on the 400k ETH locked up, Monetary Authority of Singapore, 1.25m Seed Funding)FOLLOW US!BLOG: http://decrypt.asiaINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/decryptasiaTWITTER: https://twitter.com/DecryptAsiaFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/decryptasia/ 

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We caught Ted Lin, the Chief Growth Officer at Binance, on the sidelines of the Binance Blockchain Week in Singapore recently. Prior to joining Binance, Ted has held several roles in sales and marketing across financial institutions and technology companies.

Tune in to hear about:

Background, how he got into crypto and Binance

His role as the Chief Growth Officer at Binance on the commercial, education and growth aspects

Thoughts on some key announcements from Binance - EUR, GBP fiat exchange, Binance DEX and Chain

Binance Academy

Growth of use cases for BNB

Anthony is the Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital. He also writes a popular daily newsletter analysing crypto news for institutional investors called Off The Chain (http://offthechain.substack.com)

Prior to founding his fund, Pomp spearheaded Growth and Product at Snapchat and Facebook respectively along with a 6 year stint as a Sergeant in the US army.

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Background, how he got into crypto and what that journey’s been like

About Morgan Creek Digital, who are LPs, fund structuring etc

Investment thesis - Bitcoin, tokenised securities, infrastructure

Lessons from 'traditional' for crypto-investing

Thoughts on Stablecoins

How he grew his Twitter following

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We speak to the former founder of TechCrunch and CrunchFund, Michael Arrington on the sidelines of the #BinanceBlockchainWeek in Singapore.Tune in to hear about:Background, how he got into crypto and what that journey’s been likeThoughts on Singapore!Investment thesisThoughts on different kinds of founders and what he looks out forThoughts on the dot-com bubble and lessons to be learnt for crypto-investments

In this episode, we speak to Jonathan Kochmer, who is the Founder of RChain Asia. Beyond his fascinating life story and career trajectory, he has in his own words:helped create a new treatment for palliative care of mesothelioma (extending his father’s life several years);had two original songs reach the top 40 on US AAA broadcast radio;discovered a species; andhad the unusual honor of Jeff Bezos referring to him as “a genius… and a gentleman”.Tune in to hear about:His fascinating life story – he’s been an evolutionary biologist, helped to build out the internet, was one of the first 10 employees at Amazon.com, started a music record label and now works with a Blockchain projectWe go deeper into each of the different phases and work in his life –Parallels between Animal, Tech, Linguistic and Organizational behaviourWork with NSF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network)One of the last guides to the Internet written by Jonathan – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963528106How it was to work with Jeff Bezos in the early days of Amazon, what the recruitment process was likeParallels between the Internet and Blockchain technology in terms of user adoptionQuick note: Around the 42nd minute mark, Jonathan mentions that he thinks that mass Blockchain adoption is one month away. He meant one year away.

In this episode, we speak to the co-founder of the very popular game and one of the top DApp on the Ethereum Network - Etheremon (https://www.etheremon.com/).

Tune in to hear about:

Nedrick’s background and how he got into Blockchain/Crypto

About Etheremon

End to end user journey for someone playing the game

Role of the EMont token

Integration with Decentraland (https://decentraland.org/) and how they’re leveraging Kyber Network (https://kyber.network/)

Etheremon’s business model

New game being developed called CubeGo (https://www.cubego.io/)

Issues with Ethereum Blockchain and how they’re dealing with it

EMont Alliance and longer term vision

Other games mentioned: MyCryptoHeroes (https://www.mycryptoheroes.net/), CryptoKitties (https://www.cryptokitties.co/), Gods Unchained (https://godsunchained.com/)

Other resources projects mentioned Dapp (https://www.dapp.com/), OpenSea (https://opensea.io/)

In this epsiode, we speak to Patrick Tan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricktankoontat/), General Partner and Counsel at Compton Hughes. Patrick is a self professed ‘entrepreneur first and a lawyer second’. He has previously practiced law, founded companies and in his most recent role founded a Statistical Arbitrage Crypto Hedge Fund.

Tune in to this episode to hear about:

Patrick’s journey in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem

Regulatory environment in general – SEC, China, Malta, Gibraltar etc

Regulatory arbitrage

ETFs

How does a company approach an ICO from a legal perspective? An STO?

Patrick’s new venture: A Statistical Arbitrage Crypto Fund and his role as General Counsel

Strategies that his fund is deploying and what makes them unique

Process for client onboarding into a Crypto Fund in a compliant manner

Security tokens and Stablecoins: https://medium.com/predict/security-tokens-versus-stablecoins-2d33b91e2fd

In this episode, we speak to Czhang Lin who is the Managing Director at JRR Crypto. JRR Crypto is a Swiss Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Fund with a Chinese team which invests in both Crypto projects and the Crypto Ecosystem. They are the second biggest equity shareholder in the Crypto Exchange with one of the highest trading volumes - Binance!

Czhang is a Taiwanese Canadian who grew up in Poland and took his family business public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. He is an alumnus of INSEAD and Tsinghua University.

Tune in to hear about:

Czhang's very interesting background and how he got involved in Crypto/Blockchain

JRR Crypto - structure of the fund, investment thesis, areas of focus etc

Crypto ecosystem investments (70% of portfolio): Incubation, Consultancy, Investment banks, Media, Exchanges, Wealth Management, Fund of Funds

Crypto projects reperesent 30% of portfolio

JRR is the 2nd biggest equity shareholder in Binance

Quick overview of the Chinese Crypto/Blockchain ecosystem

Reason for the success of the Chinese Exchanges (OKEx, Huobi etc)

JRR's acceleration arm: Super advisor (light involvement) and Co-founder (heavy involvement)

JRR's roadmap

Views on a dual token system (utility + security tokens)