Cryptocurrencies have become a monetary revolution. The total cryptocurrency market capitalization exceeds $500B in December 2017 and the market is still in its infancy. We believe cryptocurrencies & companies built on blockchains are here to stay and will become a common investment asset class and value transfer vehicle.

In this panel discussion, you will learn:

About the blockchain ecosystem in Asia & more about the Nebulas project who just completed their $60M pre-sale raise.

How the China ICO ban (in September) affected the ecosystem.

The role of ICO's in blockchain companies and how to structure an ICO correctly.

The current trends in the blockchain ecosystem today (scaling, privacy, decentralized exchanges, etc)

Panel Speaker



Hitters Xu

Founder & CEO of Nebulas, Founder of AntShares (NEO), a blockchain pioneer in China, the former Director of Ant Financial's Blockchain Platform (Alibaba’s financial arm) and part of Google's Search & Anti-Fraud team. Since 2013, Hitters has founded BitsClub(the very first Blockchain/Bitcoin community in China), ICO365 (one of the largest ICO platforms) and FBG Capital (one of the earliest Crypto funds).



Edith Yeung

Selected by Inc’s Magazine as one of the Silicon Valley investors you must know, Edith Yeung is a partner at 500 Startups. She has invested in over 40 mobile, VR, AR, AI and machine learning startups including Hooked, DayDayCook, Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), AISense, Penrose, Cryworks, SIlk Labs, Piper, Apptopia, Mobile Action, Andy OS, Quickly, Powercore, Pack, Ingrain, Switch, Bento, DayDayCook, Palantir, etc. Advisor to Dolphin Browser (Acquired by CYOU), and founding partner at RightVentures.

Modeartor

Chris McCann

Chris leads the community program at Greylock Partners (investors in Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Linkedin, Coinbase, etc), and was the co-founder of StartupDigest (acquired by TechStars & partnered with the Kauffman Foundation). He was also one of the early mentors & advisors for the Thiel Fellowship, StartX at Stanford University, and helped start the entrepreneurship programs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.





Agenda

18:00 - 18:30 Registration

18:30 - 19:30 Panel Discussion

19:30 - 20:00 Q&A



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