Now it’s time to take stock of our main activities and recap on some of our brightest memories of 2018. Here are 5 occasions where we educated, entertained and united many crypto and blockchain lovers on different continents throughout the year.

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The party that gave a strong start to CryptoFriends in 2018. With the support of vmeste1000.ru and Qiwi.comwe gathered the heads of the largest Russian banks and top-level companies specializing in exploring blockchain technology for a series of panel discussions. During the discussions, we focused on the main topics related to the how crypto can be used in the real world, including, regulation, ICO’s, volatility and security. Qiwi founder Sergey Solonin, renowned Crypto trader and Waves platform advocate Kir Kelevra, Vnesheconombank expert Vladimir Demin, founder of KUNA agency Mikhail Chobanyan, CEO of Bits.media Ivan Tikhonov and Sberbank representative Kirill Ivkushkinall joined us as guest speakers.

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Last spring we crossed the ocean to and teamed up with the world famous SXSW summit in Austin, Texas to organize a two-day crypto event. On the first day, we held a conference entitled “New Girls on the Block”, where we invited someone of the most successful and inspirational ladies of the blockchain and fintech spaces to enlighten us with their knowledge and experiences.

On the second day, selected crypto startups took part in ICO pitching session and presented their projects to a panel of judges and investors.

We partnered up with the Delta Summit, one of Malta’s official blockchain events to organise our very own “Delta Night”. During this high-level event, we held a panel discussion titled, «Malta, A Small Island-Nation, with Global Ambition», which discussed Malta’s strong support for blockchain as a technology. The panel was chaired by Rachel Wolfson, a journalist for the Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, the Bad Crypto Podcast and The Merkle and included: Dr. Abdalla Kablan, entrepreneur, fintech expert and advisor to the Maltese government and the Hon. Silvio Schembri, the Maltese Junior Minister for financial services, digital economy and innovation.

After the panel discussion, we organised a unique ICO pitching session chaired by our very own CryptoFriends Ambassador Eric Benz. ICO’s that pitched during the session included Qlear Protocol and Gozo.

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In November the Founder of Sigma iGaming Malta, Eman Pulis, together with his team of professionals organized the Malta Blockchain Summit back on the blockchain island of Malta. The summit was another one of Malta’s official blockchain events which brought together 7,000 representatives of the blockchain community from around the world. We worked with Eman and his team and organised the two-day blockchain hackathon and ICO pitching session during the summit. The hackathon winner on the final day was the team “Blockchain Charity Lottery” and teams Rise Token and Tatau were victorious as ICO pitch winners.

We later caught up with the winners, mentors and participants of the hackathon and interviewed them about their hackathon experience in Malta.

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During Miami Art Week, a conference on the relationship between art and blockchain was held. The event was attended by investors, artists, collectors and entrepreneurs. Together they analyzed how blockchain, with the help of cryptocurrency, disrupted this 64 billion dollar market.

Contemporary art is a sphere that especially attracts the CryptoFriends team. In the future, we plan not only to support events promoting the mutual influence of the blockchain and the arts but also to organize art focused on exclusive events.

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