Disclaimer: I am a pre-sale investor of Airbloc Protocol that invested heavily.

Airbloc Protocol’s Networks and Connections

So far, after investing in over 20+ ICOs, I must say that Airbloc Protocol has far exceeded my expectations by many folds. I rarely write about ICO projects and would rather stay silent as a passive investor and keep much of the research to myself.

But I felt the need, or rather, an obligation to share my after thoughts and research with you especially when Airbloc has achieved so much overwhelming greatness in such a short span of time.

I initially doubted my decision when I invested in Airbloc back when they first did their 1st Presale because their fundamentals back then were not as strong as today. But I still took the leap of faith and sent in a huge chunk of my ETH.

That leap of faith turned out to be one of the best leaps I have taken in this ICO space.

These big funds backing them is testimony to how great they are as a blockchain company.

Airbloc Protocol’s Investors

I thought it’ll be fitting for me to share with you why I believe Airbloc is the next hidden gem, just like how Vechain, Waltonchain, ICON(all of which I invested) remained low back in mid 2017 and slowly emerged as a top cryptocurrency today with insane % returns on investments.

My point is, all these ICOs were FUDDED back then heavily. But they are now crypto-superstars.

Airbloc gives me the same vibe too. Even stronger.

Discovering hidden gems before the mainstream has been my forte it seems.

Why Business Connections Matters for Blockchain Projects

The BIGGEST problem facing blockchain projects today besides technology is that they lack real world adoption. Usually the reason is because the project itself is a freshly assembled start up without deep industry connections and networks. When evaluating an ICO, I always ask the following questions:

1. Who are their advisors? How influential are they? How can they help this project?

2. What is the background of the team? Can they really achieve what they set out to accomplish?

3. Has this team been put through tough times and can they work together? Team dynamics.

The team is without question capable of achieving their objectives with their strong technical background and industry experience.

Airbloc Protocol’s Mother Company is already proven in Korea

Airbloc Protocol’s Team Profile

A team with more than 20+ developers working on this project and with such good accolades, I am more than confident they will achieve their goals.

Their new Chief Revenue Officer Sam Lee is also another hidden gem that seems to have great connections to businesses worldwide which is crucial for Airbloc’s eventual adoption by businesses:

Sam Lee, Chief Revenue Officer of Airbloc Protocol

Sam Lee has been the global sales expert throughout his entire career. In the early days of his LG life, he was an Enterprise Sales Executive and Account Manager representing LG in Australia. Later he joined SAP and looked after Government, Finance, Manufacturers, Media, Healthcare, Retailer, Logistics, , training Vendors and partners. After leaving SAP, he joined Oniontech as an early-stage member and a Sales Director (APAC), the company later listed in Singapore (ONI : Singapore). With Wireless service/Billing/Payment/Contents Delivery/Service Operation system, he led sales team to generate $8M ~ per year. The pinnacle of his career comes with his Sales Director of Braze (formerly Appboy), a world no. 1 marketing automation service. He led successful sales and marketing of Braze in APAC region that Braze finally set up an office in Singapore to better support Asian customers. Thanks to Mr. Sam Lee, Braze is now trusted by big names in Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Team and capabilities aside, how will this project achieve real world adoption and scale?

Codes alone aren’t sufficient.

Networks and connections are key to scalability, extensibility and real world adoption.

Scaling means both in the blockchain space and in the real world.

Extensibility means whether a service or product would be able to go beyond its own shores and achieve regional/global presence.

This means BUSINESS.

Airbloc Protocol’s Business Networks

If you study and dig deeper into Airbloc’s fundamentals, that’s where you uncover the hidden gems.

When Listing?

When Partnership?

When Adoption?

This graphic I prepared answers all your questions.

Airbloc Protocol’s Networks and Connections

When Listing?

1. [UPBIT EXCHANGE] Jason Han, Advisor to Airbloc, is the CEO of Kakao Blockchain Subsidiary. (If you are not aware, Kakao is equivalent to Telegram in Korea and is an internet company itself). Kakao has an equity stake in Upbit exchange and Airbloc may have links to Upbit through Jason Han.

2. [BGOGO EXCHANGE] Bgogo invested into Airbloc. Airbloc also has 4 investors who are also supernodes of Bgogo (Amber AI, Node Capital, Blockwater Capital and IMO Ventures.) Bgogo I foresee is going to be the next big exchange because it has received huge backing from Pantera Capital and the former COO of Huobi is now the COO of Bgogo. And because of their new unique trade mining mechanism like Fcoin, but better.

Bgogo’s admin confirmed that listing is possible if one of the supernodes (either IMO Ventures, Node Capital, BlockWater Capital or Amber AI) nominate them.

3. [BINANCE EXCHANGE] Bitshine is a VC that has received anchor investments from Binance and has one of Binance’s angel investors as a partner in the fund. So tell me, isn’t there a strong connection here?

4. [OKEx EXCHANGE] OK Blockchain Capital invested into Airbloc. Listing is guaranteed.

5. [HUOBI EXCHANGE] Huobi Capital invested into Airbloc. Listing is guaranteed. Node Capital seems to have equity investments in Huobi. Fenbushi Digital and Node Capital (investors of Airbloc) are also supernodes of Huobi.

When Partnership and Adoption?

1. JH Kim, the CEO of theLoop and ICON Foundation Council Member has signed partnership agreements with LINE Blockchain Subsidiary.

2. Airbloc’s parent company has been working with big companies. Having strong industry connections would help in the long term adoption of Airbloc. Their clients include:

-Ebay korea, needs no explanation

-SOCAR, the largest car sharing service platform in Korea

-GS Shop, the largest home shopping platform in Korea, and is also part of the largest conglomerate in Korea GS Group.

-Woowa Brothers, the largest food delivery service in Korea.

Links to Traditional Companies for Adoption

Airbloc seems to have carefully selected their advisors and investors that can be their long term partners to go global.

1. Sungjae Hwang, Advisor of Airbloc, is from a traditional tech VC FuturePlay that invests solely in strong technology companies in Korea.

2. Sean Lee, Advisor of Airbloc, is the Director of GS Shop Corporate Venture Capital. GS Shop is a part of one of South Korea’s largest conglomerates.

3. IMO Ventures is a traditional VC that invests in tech companies in US and China. Their portfolio includes many of today’s billion dollar companies such as Palantir (Founded by Peter Thiel who is also behind Paypal)

4. Bitshine Group is made up of traditional private equity and venture capitalists with strong equity portfolios in China and Hong Kong.

5. BlueBlock is a subsidiary of Mindworks Ventures, a traditional VC that invests in early stage growth start ups all across Asia. They also are made up of investors from Gobi Partners, a traditional VC that focuses on early stage IT and digital media companies in Asia.

6. Coinplug is the world’s 2nd, and Korea’s 1st Blockchain Patent Holder — with a cumulative of 115 blockchain related patents in Korea and 46 international patents. Vitalik Buterin (Co-Founder of Ethereum) is also a technical advisor at Coinplug

Concluding Thoughts

Am I bullish? Yes.

Am I going to hodl long? Yes.

Do I predict a massive moon shot? Yes.

Invest in real projects, guys.

Airbloc Protocol is a long term hodl.

General Information:

Website: www.airbloc.org

Telegram: https://t.me/airbloc