Friday, October 20th:

The Qtum team was honored to attend several meetups in Seoul this week. The Foundation sent Stella, Xiaolong, Patrick, and Brett. We met with many Decentralized Applications building on the Qtum platform, such as: Bodhi, Medibloc, Spacechain, Energo, and Ink.

Before we even got started with the planned events, we managed to attend in an online stream with Michael from Boxmining:

Thanks Michael!

Our next stop is a media company, where we meet to do another live stream with Coincast!

What a nice building we arrived at:

Patrick and Xiaolong Arrive for the Coincast Stream

Very Interesting

Stella and Xiaolong make their way to the recording area

Here is the actual video:

This will be edited to go on television at a later time. The team took a few pictures with the crew before leaving:

Thank you Coincast!

Now it was time for the team to experience the local cuisine. Absolutely incredible, Korean food is something everyone needs to experience:

Stella and Xiaolong

Now off to the Coinnest meetup!

COINNEST ‘CAMUP’ MEETUP

We arrived at the meeting place later that night, everything was already prepared:

This is what greeted us as we approached the elevator

This was a well organized event by Coinnest, they had a live translator, along with fine catering. The event was packed, with people having to stand in the back as all the seats were full. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss Blockchain technology, specifically Qtum, and the Decentralized Applications that plan to build on the platform.

The venue got full quickly:

People had to stand at the back and up on the balcony

Even the registration area was packed

Here’s a picture of the agenda:

Grace from Medibloc helped MC the event:

Grace getting ready to introduce the keynote speaker

Kim Ik-hwan from Coinnest gave the Keynote Speech in Korean:

Coinnest CEO

Patrick takes over and begins his presentation

Patrick begins to discuss the new updates that are coming

Patrick explains that Qtum is a Currency as well as a Platform

Patrick announces Qtum’s first advisor

Now it was time to see a presentation from Kyber Networks about their decentralized exchange service (This project did not build on Qtum, but they are listed on the Coinnest exchange):

Kyber Networks presenting their Decentralized Exchange

After the intermission, the Qtum Decentralized Applications presented their solutions to the audience:

Energo discusses their decentralized energy solution

Allen from Medibloc discusses the Healthcare industry

Zee from Spacechain discusses his planned Satellite Network

After almost 5 hours, closing remarks from Coinnest:

After almost 5 hours, the event came to a close. After we made sure everyone who wanted a picture with the team got one, the team went to another Blockchain event for a couple drinks and then retired for the night.

Saturday, October 21st:

We attended the Coinone Blocks Meetup at their office on Saturday

We went to visit our friends at Coinone, who had a very nice meetup space already set up for us. This was a smaller and more intimate event.

Qtum Decentralized Applications Energo, Medibloc, Spacechain, and Ink get ready to present at Coinone

This was a nice venue that Coinone let us use

Coinone kicks off the discussion

Zee from Spacechain

Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, and Qtum information packets on display at Coinone

After everyone presented, it was time for dinner again, this time with Coinnest:

Sunday we rested and recovered from all the traveling, bringing us to Monday

Monday, October 23rd:

Today we had a meetup scheduled with Blockchain Korea. We were welcomed by Ash Han, the coordinator:

Ash Introduces Patrick Dai

Attendees at the Meetup

Patrick starts presenting

Xiaolong explains how to download and use the Qtum Ignition wallet

Stella explains how we will market the Qtum project moving forward

Deric from Bodhi explains their Decentralized Application

The event lasted about an hour and we thanked all of the attendees for coming.

Summary

The Qtum team managed to attend 3 meetups, and 2 live streams in a very short amount of time. We found Korea to be a welcoming place, and we met with many community members during our short time in Seoul. There were numerous business development meetings we had in the space between meetups, mostly with new DAPPs looking to build on Qtum, along with other exchanges.

Looking forward, the Qtum team plans to duplicate our success in Korea abroad. Next month we will visit Japan, and meet with some friends in Singapore. There will be more activity in the Americas, and we will really increase our PR activity.

With the Main Network launched and stable, and the swap almost finished, we are now able to focus harder on attracting DAPPs and developers. This makes our lives a lot easier when it comes to marketing, as there are very few platforms that can leverage the number of projects they have building on them.