This is a continuation of the article, which was about the progress in product development and community building in the last month

Advisory Board & Investments

In October, PopulStay was blessed with six (!) new advisors who joined the project. All of them are from different walks of life but united by common passion towards innovation. Aurora Wong, the founding partner of Crypto Capital, Jing Zhu, the founder and chairperson of China Hotel Technology Alliance (CHTA), Masakazu Eshiro, a strategic planner and marketer, Tiffany Wang, an outstanding entrepreneur, Henry Xu, the founder of Handsome Foundation, and DongChu, the founder of Sharp Eye Capital.

Besides that, in October PopulStay got investment from Crypto Capital. Read more here.

Events & Summits

October was full of offline meetups, table discussions, and dinners. Let us mention just a few of them.

On the 8th of October, the founder of PopulStay Walter Wang and the co-founder Brain Lin participated in a meeting for outstanding entrepreneurs in Shenzhen, held by the Japanese Consulate General in Guangzhou.

On the 10th and 11th of October, Dr. Walter Wang attended the BLOCKCON conference in California, USA. There he won an impromptu live art auction conducted by Brock Pierce, the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and Co-Founder of Blockchain Capital. Dr. Walter Wang paid 0.75 BTC for a painting called “Dream”. Proceeds will go to a charity in Puerto Rico.

On the 14th of October, the majority of the PopulStay team gathered together in Shanghai to participate in a training session and learn how to build a strong community. PopulStay got a chance to learn from such successful blockchain projects as GongXinBao, NEO, EOS Gravity and QuarkChain.

On the 18th of October, Dr. Walter Wang traveled to the United States to attend the 2018 Mars Blockchain Summit in New York. The event was hosted by Mars Finance and Consensus Lab, co-hosted by Liaoyuan, Crypto Capital, Redbank Capital and Sharp Eye Capital.

On the 21st of October, the PopulStay team in Singapore participated in Bplus Talk, and together with PAI, LIV3LY and BThub, accepted the challenge of answering questions from funds, exchanges, media and prospective users.

On the 29th of October, the CMO of Populstay, Periklis, attended Plug and Play Japan, introducing Populstay to financial institutions and entrepreneurs. One day later, on the 30th of October, a delegation from Japan visited the office of Populstay in Shenzhen. The co-founder Brain Lin introduced the business model of Populstay to the delegation and reached preliminary cooperation intentions with a number of companies.

Partnerships

In October Populstay partnered with Oath Protocol, a decentralized governance and dispute resolution protocol. Oath Protocol can provide governance and dispute resolution support to the guests and hosts on the PopulStay platform.

Populstay also announced a strategic partnership with JURA. Populstay can rely on the JURA Ecosystem in real estate, international communication and other fields.

Finally, in October, the co-founder of Populstay Brain Lin visited one of our new partners, KEYS, in Shanghai. Thanks to this partnership our users will be able to book super popular hostels in China via Populstay!

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