In this episode, we are joined by Ethan Kravitz. Ethan is the co-founder and General Partner at AGE Crypto Asset Investment fund. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and has over 20 years of software engineering experience. He was previously was the Co-Founder and CTO of Overnight and has been using and investing in crypto assets since 2012.

 

In our conversation, we spoke to Ethan about the role that a crypto hedge fund plays in the ecosystem, the state of institutional participation, crypto market cycles and more.

 

Disclosure: Co-host of the podcast, John Chen, is an LP of AGE.

 

Learn more about here: https://age.fund/ Ethan on Twitter- https://twitter.com/ethosventures  

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In this episode, we are joined by Evan Shapiro, CEO of O1 labs. O1 labs is the creator of the Coda Protocol that uses recursive zk-SNARK technology to enable a succinct blockchain. Prior to Coda, Evan was a software engineer at Mozilla. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

In our conversation, we discuss the recent developments on the Coda blockchain, the testnet development and the teams’ takeaways from Devcon. 

Learn more about Coda here: https://codaprotocol.com Zero-knowledge proofs and how it works with Coda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ST9VVA_Udg Follow them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/o1_labs  

 

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Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. 

 

Joyce joined Analyse Asia in a conversation about the Asian cryptocurrency market in Asia with the new Analyse Asia host, Carol Yin. Joyce and Carol discussed the recent publication by Global Coin Research (GCR) “The Small Handbook to Asia Cryptocurrency: On local ecosystems, trends & regulations” and identified the key important trends and currents in the Asian market, specifically China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and Singapore.

Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):

• Joyce Yang (@JoyceInNYC , LinkedIn), Founder of Global Coin Research [0:40]
  • Since our last conversation, what have you been up to? [1:03]
• The Small Handbook to Asia Cryptocurrency: On local ecosystems, trends & regulations published by Global Coin Research (GCR) [4:56]
  • Joyce discuss the GCR’s new advisory & venture fund. 
  • How did you and your team in GCR put the handbook together? [5:08]
  • Who are the intended audience? [8:14]
  • What are the main themes of the handbook? [10:26]
  • Are there any common threads on cryptocurrency within Asia? For example, it seems that a lot of Asian countries have banned ICOs. Prolonged bear market, IEO. [11:22]
• China [13:25]
  • China is probably the most important market for cryptocurrency whether it’s bitcoin and blockchain and have banned ICOs since 2017 and at the same time, reducing bitcoin mining towards zero, what are the key trends in 2019 which you believe that are most important? [13:46]
  • One interesting part on China is that you have broken down the major financial institutions in the Chinese government that everyone dabbling in bitcoin and blockchain must know, which are they and why they are important to the whole ecosystem? [16:01]
  • Are there any major differences between Hong Kong and China when it comes to cryptocurrency? [17:41]
  • Is Hong Kong following China with respect to regulation in blockchain and bitcoin given that it has also banned ICOs now? [19:41]
•  Japan and Korea [20:34]
  • How has the Japanese cryptocurrency market changed after the major theft of bitcoins from Mount Gox in 2014? [20:49]
  • Can you briefly talk about the Japanese blockchain startup ecosystem and also the Japanese enterprises in blockchain? [22:55]
  • Who are the key players from the startup spaces and major enterprises involved in cryptocurrency within Korea? [24:44]
  • Korea is known for the kimchi premium: can you explain what that means in the context of cryptocurrency? [26:32]
• Singapore and Indonesia [28:27]
  • Indonesia is the largest market in Southeast Asia, can you talk about how the government is viewing cryptocurrency (bitcoin + blockchain)? [28:29]
  • Who are the key players from the startup spaces and major enterprises involved in cryptocurrency within Indonesia? [29:58]
  • How is Singapore looking at regulation in the cryptocurrency market? [31:05]
  • We notice a lot of major cryptocurrency players (Binance) are based in Singapore, what are its competitive strengths and weaknesses? [32:54]
• Other interesting Asian markets: Thailand and Vietnam. [35:02]
• Closing [36:14]
  • How do my audience find you? [36:28]
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In this episode, Joyce and John are joined by Michael Dunworth. Michael is Cofounder and CEO of Wyre, one of the leading crypto to fiat onramps globally. Founded in 2013, Wyre provides tools for blockchain developers, financial services and protocols to onboard users to crypto in under 10 lines of code. Their mission is to help developers focus on building great products, and less on the headaches around regulation and compliance.

In this conversation, Michael talks about the founding story of Wyre, whom he admires in the industry, his thoughts on why credit cards are not the key feature to open up mass adoption, and the team’s early experience setting up businesses in China.

Additional Links:

https://www.sendwyre.com

 

Prior to Wyre, Michael Dunworth and his cofounder Yanni Giannaros came up with the idea for a superhero laundry delivery service when they read about a recent YC grad called Prim. https://pando.com/2013/10/11/superhero-laundry-founders-launch-startup-to-prove-a-point-then-shut-it-down-once-they-succeed/

 

 

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Mike Kayamori is the co-founder and CEO of Liquid.  In April, Liquid announced that it raised capital from investors at a valuation of more than $1 billion, making it one of the few unicorns in the crypto and blockchain space.

As of May, Liquid has more than USD50 billion in transactions over the past 12 months.

Mike brings over 22 years of experience in investments, business management, IT and venture capital across Japan, the United States, India, and Southeast Asia.

Prior to Liquid, Mike was a Senior Vice President at SoftBank Group and Senior Director at Globalspan Capital Partners, a Palo Alto-based venture capital fund with over USD1.2 billion under management.

In our conversation, we spoke to Mike about the founding story of Liquid, the regulatory environment in Japan, and the advice he has for new projects looking to enter the Japanese market.

 

More info on Liquid can be found here: http://www.liquid.com

Follow them on their social platforms below:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/liquid_global

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiquidGlobal

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quoine/

 

 

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Jeremy is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Circle, a global crypto financial services company that provides individuals, institutions and entrepreneurs with a platform to invest in, store, trade and use digital assets, and raise capital through online securities offerings.

 

In the last few months, Circle has been actively pursuing new growth opportunities such as the recent expansion into Bermuda to service international customers, and also offering fiat-to-crypto trading, and introduced new asset pairs for Tether and USDC on its exchange Poloniex.

 

In our conversation, we spoke to Jeremy about the rise of USDC, China’s digital currency, regulatory headwinds in the US and the future of the exchange space. 

 

This is also the first episode where we are introducing John Chen, head of US of Hashed,  to join Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research, as a cohost on the podcast.    About Circle
Find more about Circle here: https://www.circle.com/   You can also connect with them on Twitter or LinkedIn.   https://twitter.com/circlepay   https://www.linkedin.com/company/circle-internet-financial/  

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Global Coin Research partnered up with the number 1 Taiwanese Crypto Media Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit in early July. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed David Lee, Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2015) at Stanford University and Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Prof David LEE Kuo Chuen is the founder of several entities including LeftCoast in Silicon Valley, Libai.io for Chinese wealth management education, and BlockAsset for Fintech and Blockchain. He was the Director of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University. He graduated with BSc, MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in Econometrics. He was the Group Managing Director of OUE and Auric Pacific. He founded and managed Ferrell hedge funds from 1998-2012 and was the property developer for Ferrell Residences. He is also an independent director on several boards including one of the world’s largest FinTech companies. He assisted regulators and investment associations in several capacities including the design of the framework for risk and complexity of investment products, allocation of research funding, launching of new investment products and editorial. His operation and management experience include F&B, manufacturing, hospitality, hedge funds, stockbroker, property management, property development, REITs, medical plastic components, listing and de-listing of companies, start-ups and multinationals. He is the author/editor of the American Library Association Outstanding Award Reference Book titled “Digital Currency” by Elsevier. His latest two books entitled “Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion” are published by Elsevier with a new book on Inclusive Fintech on Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO by World Scientific to be launched in 2018. His current interest is in decentralized technology for financial inclusion.

Joyce Yang is the founder of Global Coin Research, a paid subscription newsletter that provides the most important insights and analysis on Asia crypto and blockchain. She is an angel investor and advisor to some of the top projects in the space. She has been featured as a guest in Laura Shin and Anthony Pompliano’s podcasts as well as cited in TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, and Cointelegraph. Joyce Yang graduated from Harvard University and formerly spent over 5 years at Merrill and China’s largest investment bank CICC.

 

 

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Today, we are excited to reshare Binance's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. 

Joyce Yang, founder of Global Coin Research gives a firsthand account from the Asian Blockchain Summit, including the Rumble in Taipei between Arthur Hayes and Nouriel Roubini, the crazy Bitmex.com 10k party and more. 

Joyce also poses Twitter questions to Wei about recent developments with Binance US; Binance's potential stablecoin, and Wei’s insights on identifying favorable, portable jurisdictions for expansion. He also touches on Binance's hustle - “whoever works harder shapes this industry".

 

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Global Coin Research partnered up with Blocktempo at the Asia Blockchain Summit last week. Our founder Joyce Yang interviewed Arthur Hayes in Taipei on his debate with Nouriel Roubini, privacy, Bitmex and DEXes, @facebook coin, and crypto media.

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#ArthurHayes obtained his BA in Economics at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Subsequently, he moved to Hong Kong where worked as an equity derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup for 5 years. Arthur was the head ETF market maker at both firms. In January 2014, BitMEX was formed. BitMEX is a Seychelles based P2P cryptocurrency trading platform that gives retail investors access to the global financial markets using cryptocurrency products.
BitMEX operates the most liquid Bitcoin / USD trading product, XBTUSD, which features 100x leverage, and volumes on average are over $3 billion per day.

#JoyceYang is the founder of Global Coin Research, a paid subscription newsletter that provides the most important insights and analysis on Asia crypto and blockchain. She is an advisor to Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator and a consultant to Tezos. She has been featured as a guest in Laura Shin and Anthony Pompliano’s podcasts as well as cited in TechCrunch, South China Morning Post and Cointelegraph. Joyce Yang graduated from Harvard University and formerly spent over 5 years at Merrill and China’s largest investment bank CICC.

#BlockTempo is the most influential blockchain media platform in Taiwan, with the experience of holding two largest blockchain and fintech summits in Taiwan and run tech, investing, and industrial leadership communities in Taiwan.

 

 

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Today, we are excited to reshare Analyse Asia's latest episode featuring our own Joyce Yang. 

Joyce joined Analyse Asia to discuss Biance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, to review its rapid rise and current lead in the industry. They began with the chronological history of the company and how the founders Zhao Changpeng and He Yi built up the cryptocurrency exchange from 2017 to now the leading player with 40% of the market share globally. They discuss their current business footprint, their current projects from the stable coin project to the recent announcement of the Binance chain.

Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):

• Joyce Yang (@JoyceInNYC , LinkedIn), Founder of Global Coin Research [0:34]
  • How did you start your career? [0:47]
  • From your career journey, what are the interesting lessons learnt? [2:31]
  • You are currently the founder of Global Coin Research, can you discuss what it does and what are you currently covering in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space? [5:09]
  • Do you need bifurcate the segmentation of the market to split between the cryptocurrency and blockchain when you cover the Asia market? [8:19]
  • Do you have to split China and the rest of Asia in the coverage of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space as well? [10:01]
• Binance [11:49]
  • • Can you introduce Binance, a global cryptocurrency exchange to my audience? [12:24]
    • What’s the chronology behind the formation of Binance, as the current CEO, Zhao Changpeng was the third member of the Blockchain.info team and also former CTO for OkCoin, one of the top 3 cryptocurrency exchanges in China? [14:56]
    • Who are the other key executives in Binance other than the founders (Zhao Changpeng and He Yi)? [18:00]
    • What is Binance’s mission and vision according to their founders? [21:17]
    • What’s the current business footprint of Binance given that it is originally founded in China and has to move out due to regulation in China? [25:37]
    • How did it become the largest crypto-exchange with a market capitalization of US$1.3B?  [28:52]
    • Can you explain the concept of stable coin and how Binance and three other major cryptocurrency exchanges raised US$32M for a stable coin project known as Terra? [32:55]
    • Why did Binance not build their own stable coin alone with Terra but instead partner with the other exchanges? [35:48]
    • Recently, they have announced the launch of the Binance chain, which is a blockchain made by Binance, what does it mean for the business and why is it important? [39:22]
• Closing [42:29]
  • Can you recommend a book or movie or podcast or anything which recently made an impact to your work and personal life? [42:46]
    • Joyce’s recommendations: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
    • BL’s recommendation: The Sarawak Report: The Inside Story of the 1MDB Expose by Clare Rewcastle Brown.
  • How do my audience find you? [44:43]

 

 

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