In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Yusuke Obinata, aka Obi, founder of CryptoAge. Obi is deeply involved with the Blockchain community in Japan, and he has been helping multiple US blockchain projects go to market in Japan including Cryptokitties, Quantstamp, and Kadena. Through CryptoAge, Obi organizes frequent, large size developer meetups in Tokyo. He is also the lead organizer of NodeTokyo 2018, the first kind of blockchain developer conference in Tokyo. In this podcast, Obi and I discuss the latest regulatory sentiment towards crypto in Japan, the growing blockchain developers ecosystem and how he advises projects in the US to go to market there.

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In this episode, host Joyce Yang is joined by Lily Liu, cofounder and former CFO of Earn.com. Earn.com was sold to Coinbase in early 2018 in a deal worth more than $120mn, Coinbase's largest acquisition to date. The company allowed users to send and receive digital currency for replying to emails and completing tasks. Prior to working at Earn.com, Lily was the CFO of the first foreign-funded, private, mass market hospital in China. Prior to that, she spent time working at Mckinsey and then later KKR Capstone. Lily graduated from Stanford and Harvard. In this conversation, Joyce and Lily talk about Lily's past experience working in China and her outlook on the blockchain industry on a global level. Lily shares her views on how the crypto industry is evolving between the East and West, what China may be doing with Crypto and Blockchain, and also how she thinks about investing in blockchain globally.

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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Taiwan Congressman Jason Hsu. Jason has been given the nickname “Crypto Congressman” by Vitalik Buterin. Jason has worked as a tech entrepreneur before getting involved with politics. In 2016, he became an official legislator and member of parliament in Taiwan, focusing much of his attention on bridging the gap between public policy and technology. He has since introduced several initiatives around autonomous vehicles, cyber security legislation, digital economy laws, and is now focusing his attention on crypto and blockchain legislations. In our conversation, we discuss several of Jason’s ambitious plans to make Taiwan blockchain- enabled. He also expresses his thoughts on the state of Crypto regulations in Taiwan, and shares his unique views on the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in the US and the rest of Asia. You can check out more of his thoughts on the Forbes article here. Time and Topics discussed in Our Interview 1:40- Introduction to Crypto Congressman Jason Hsu 2:35- History of technology innovation in Taiwan and state of crypto and blockchain there now 4:50- How is Taiwan different from the rest of Asia in terms of crypto regulations? And who do they look to for 7:19- How do the Taiwan locals treat crypto? 9:20- Would Wechat and Alipay take over blockchain payment in Asia? 10:25- Taiwan wants to push help blockchain to the rest of the world 10:55- How do you engage with blockchain companies in Taiwan and how should companies outside of Taiwan talk to you? 14:44- Taiwan seems more focused on the blockchain technology, what about the exchanges? 16:31- What has Vitalik been up to and what are his thoughts on Taiwan? 18:28- Recent legislation added by Jason and the team 21:33- What other projects do you talk to and is close to? 24:47- Who else in the regulatory body is assisting you in this blockchain endeavor? 25:30- Learn about Jason’s One Crypto World” (OCW) tokens and who the tokens have been given to.

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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by two very special guests, Eric Ly, former co-founder of LinkedIn and now CEO of Hub Token, and Ryan Selkis, CEO and co-founder of Messari.io. Eric and Ryan have both spent a significant amount of time in tech and crypto, but they both recognize the importance of doing business and forming relationships in Asia as they try to build out their companies in the blockchain space. In our conversation, we talk about their recent Asia trips and their learnings from the Asia market. We also discuss the value of forming relationships and investor base in the East.

Check out Hub's recent Asia trip takeaways! http://bit.ly/2NFuipA

More about the companies:

Hub’s Human Trust Protocol (http://bit.ly/2NFnnMP) is a platform leveraging blockchain technology to create an ecosystem of users who can build trust with each other. Good deeds performed on the network are incentivized by the mining of Hub tokens, while results of transactions and interactions are recorded on the blockchain to grow each user’s reputation history.

Messari's (http://bit.ly/2Pp7ACs) mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making within the cryptoasset community. The team is building an open data library and curation tools that help researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.

In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is in Singapore meeting Roger Lim, one of the founding partners of NEO Global Capital. Roger has been an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is an advisor for Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Selfkey, TheKey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, nOS, Open Platform. Prior to getting into crypto, Roger was a successful entrepreneur who founded and sold Webvisions, a cloud hosting company. In this episode, Roger and Joyce discuss how NGC deploys its $400mn fund from Singapore and China into projects around the world, the NEO ecosystem fund, and how the Asia-based team thinks about the crypto ecosystem in Asia and the US. About NEO Global Capital: Neo Global Capital is the strategic investment vehicle of the NEO foundation. The firm invests through two funds- one of which is the NEO ecosystem fund that aims to support NEO and it's ecosystem of dApps and projects. Another fund invests into inspiring projects related to blockchain. The team is split between Singapore and Shanghai. Neo Global Capital's most recent investments include SKALE Labs, Muzika, Contentos.

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Checkout our Latest Podcast with DDEX Co-founder Bowen Wang We are delighted to bring you our latest podcast with Bowen Wang, founder and COO of DDEX, a decentralized exchange based out of Beijing. DDEX now accounts for about 75% of the total volume of trades over the 0x Protocol each month and ranks 13% of trades amongst decentralized exchanges, 2nd after IDEX. In this episode, Bowen and I discuss how DDEX operates out of Beijing, how DDEX discovered 0x, Bowen‘s advice on approaching Chinese regulators for blockchain projects, and insights on hiring developers and community members out of China. New DDEX Wallet: Bringing Decentralized Trading To Mobile Basic DDEX trading: DDEX Trading — Getting Started Time Stamps and Topics discussed in Our Interview 1:18- Introduction to Bowen and background on DDEX 2:50- Bowen’s overview of the regulator’s attitude and the environment in China right now 5:20- How do the regulations in China affect the DEXes in China? 6:20- Bowen says that the blockchain market is surprisingly growing 9:10- How does Bowen recommend conversing with the regulators in China? 10:55- How did Bowen decide to build on 0x when 0x was just starting out in the US? 11:50- Bowen’s advice to companies going to market in China 17:10- On hiring the right type of people for your remote teams in Asia, and the services that Bowen recommends 24:43- There are more than 50 teams working on creating their own Blockchain and trying to take on Ethereum 26:00- Bowen’s outlook on the east and west.

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EximChain CEO Hope Liu and Ankr Network COO Ryan Fang on China's Local Government Blockchain Sandboxes, B2B Go-to- Market Strategies and Finding Talent in Asia In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Hope Liu, CEO, and co-founder, of EximChain and Ryan Fang, co-founder and COO of Ankr.Network. Both Ryan and Hope grew up in China, but their teams operate in the US. Both of them have unique perspectives on the distinction between the Western and Eastern Blockchain space. In our conversation, we cover topics such as cryptocurrency regulations, Chinese local government blockchain sandboxes, B2B go-to- market strategies in China, and finding Crypto-related talent in Asia.

EximChain website:

https://eximchain.com/

Ankr Network website:

http://ankr.network/

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In this episode, Joyce Yang from Global Coin Research is joined by Benny Giang, co-founder and Fortune Cat at CryptoKitties. As CryptoKitties is one of the leading companies venturing into Asia, Benny is able to give unique insights about the team’s experience. He guides us through the team’s recent fundraising from Andreessen and Union Square Ventures, dispels media reports of company DAUs (daily active users) going down, and projects what the team plans to accomplish in Asia. He also offers unique insights for foreign companies who want to find success in the Asian market and gives thoughts on the regulatory and Blockchain environment there. 

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