On 12.3.2019 the first official OceanEx Meetup took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This event was organized on a relative short notice and there were some rumors about some big OceanEx news. Reason enough for some anticipation? Who was the very secret special guest? How many whales could fit into one conference room? And when OCE???

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The event took place in the Volks Hotel in Amsterdam and started with the registration and some social mingling of the roughly ~100 attendants. The location for the first official meeting was chosen on two reasons:

1) To bring OceanEx and VeChain enthusiasts together and for their CEOs to present new updates.

2) To appreciate the active Dutch community, which is showing strong support in OceanEx.

At Exactly 7:30pm it was time for the first talk: The stage was opened by Daniel Kelman (Chief Strategy Officer of OceanEx), who gave a brief general history of exchanges in the past, which problems they faced, what is the state of exchanges nowadays and what will be important for exchanges in the future.

Kelman also envisioned how OceanEx will position itself in the future and pointed out the important keystones on which OceanEx is built:

· Transparency

· Security

· User Interface

· Market Integrity: AI and Trading technologies

· Compliance: KYC/AML

Taken together, it is of great importance for OceanEx to launch their exchange in consonance with compliance to be ready for any future regulations and to guarantee highest security for the users.

Daniel Kelman was followed by Xiaoning Nan (Founder & CEO of OceanEx), who gave a more detailed insight in the past of OceanEx and summarized the keystones of the evolution from Beta 1.0 to version 2.0 — OceanEx Atlantic. He briefly mentioned how he got in contact with VeChain and Sunny Lu and presented a timeline of how OceanEx evolved over the last half year, since the first alpha version was released. Nan then envisioned his view of how OceanEx should operate and gave already a sneak peak of what will be the focus in the future: He confirmed that OceanEx will not forget their deep connection to VeChain, but are also planning on listening non VeFam projects in around Q2 2019. He made clear that OceanEx will look out for quality not for quantity and that every added project will be checked based on factors such as solid use case, strong and active community, trading volume and a deployment plan.