eXponential Finance

bloXroute created the first high-performance blockchain distribution network (BDN) with the fastest relay solution for Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Solana. The bloXroute BDN and DeFi trading tools allow its users to win at crypto trading.

The BDN utilizes a global network of servers optimized for network performance. Nodes access this network through open-source gateways and users can access it through the bloXroute public-API.

The BDN network propagates blockchain transactions and blocks closer to the speed of light. It provides traders with the speed and reliability required for crypto transactions. bloXroute is the leader in mempool services, block streaming and anything Defi performance.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via 

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Zurich Insurance has made a significant stride in the insurance industry by introducing its cutting-edge suite of solutions for digitally embedded insurance across all Asian markets, Zurich Edge.

Zurich Edge represents an exciting development in Zurich Insurance’s growth strategy across the Asia Pacific region. The company already boasts a robust portfolio of over 200 partnerships in six markets, collaborating with leading brands in diverse sectors such as retail, travel, banking, fintech, e-commerce, automotive, and telecommunications. Among the prominent partners are Japan Airlines, TikTok, Citibank, and MYAirline.

We had the opportunity to discuss the platform, its rollout in Japan, and if/how the Japanese market is different from other markets in the region with Vy Pham, Regional Product Owner Digital Platforms, and Tetsuya Hattori, Head of Digital Partnerships (Japan).

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Shwetank Verma is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Leo Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on South and South-East Asia. Shwetank leads InsurTech investments at the fund.

We talk about some of Leo Capital’s investments, where the exciting incumbent insurer vs InsurTech markets are, and the outlook for fund raising going into 2024, among other things

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Matthew Van Niekerk is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at SettleMint, offering tooling for enterprises, public sector, and technology partners who want to innovate with blockchain and empower their technology organization.

In 2006, Matthew made Belgium his home and eventually worked as the Head of Platform Innovation at KBC Securities Bolero. Under his guidance,

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Yilan Huang leads Global Development across different regional markets at CyberConnect. CyberConnect is web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network that enables developers to create social applications empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and monetization channels. Prior to CyberConnect, Yilan had experiences in startups, VCs, and NGOs and studied economics, political theory, and continental philosophy at The University of Hong Kong and University of Warwick.

CyberConnect is web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network, that enables developers to create social applications empowering users to own their digital identity, content, connections, and monetization channels. Its latest V3 upgrade introduces a set of powerful improvements to the CyberConnect social network to usher web3 social into a new, multi-chain future. V3 is designed to power the next stage of hyper scalability for web3 social dApps and give users a social networking experience that feels familiar to web2. It has three core components: CyberAccount, an ERC-4337-compatible identity infrastructure; CyberGraph, a censorship-resistant database to record users’ content + social connections; and CyberNetwork, a gas-efficient and scalable network to bring CyberConnect to the world.

Founded by Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneurial team in 2021, there are already over 50 projects that are using CyberConnect to build social features for real-world use cases, such as  community-owned social networks, marketplaces, content curation, discovery tools, and more. As of July 2023, CyberConnect protocol has 1.2M user profiles and 400k monthly active wallets who have conducted more than 15.2M transactions in total. Over 2,400 verified organizations created their CyberProfiles to build web3 native audiences. CyberConnect’s flagship social app, Link3 has 940k monthly active users.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Hugo Phillion is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Flare Network. Earlier in his career, Hugo was a commodity derivatives portfolio manager. When he got bored with traditional finance, he went on to study machine learning at University College London, where he met his two co-founders.

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Aaron McDonald is the Chief Executive Officer of Futureverse, a technological and cultural foundation for the open metaverse where creators, companies and communities conjure their future. The Futureverse infrastructure enables companies and creators to deliver the open metaverse experience that they want for their audience. A seamless portal in and out of all apps in the metaverse, Futureverse allows users to travel with a passport, friends, communications, finances and content.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Masako Shiba is a New York base art professional with near two decades of experience, including at Sotheby’s NY, Japan Society Gallery, Asia Society Museum, and Asian Cultural Council where she was inaugural director for ACC Japan Foundation.

Since the pandemic, she has co-founded ONBD, a web3 art & culture platform, also co-founded BEAF an experimental art foundation, and is Chief Artistic Director for SPACETAINMENT PTE. LTD., showcasing art in space and of space. She is also external advisor for Japanese art startup AndArt, mentor for New Museum of Contemporary Art's NEW INC and on the advisory board for HH Dalai Lama official biography art project.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Phillip Lord is the President of Oobit. Oobit allows consumers to pay with crypto on existing Visa and Mastercard point of sale (POS) terminals with merchants receiving fiat money settlements the same way as other credit card payments.

Phillip has more than 25 years experience in global capital markets, where he has invested and structured deals in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. He also has gained extensive knowledge of crypto markets, including coin/token issuance and decentralised exchanges and platforms.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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Yoann Turpin is a Co-Founder of Wintermute, focused on Business Development and Ventures. Wintermute is a leading algorithmic liquidity provider in the digital asset space. Before starting Wintermute with his two co-founders, Yoann spent more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building a few businesses.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

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