Decrypt Asia aims to decode and demystify the Asian Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem by producing educational notes and interviewing investors, entrepreneurs, technologists and industry insiders on a weekly basis. We are a community of learners, seekers and doers in a post-Bitcoin world, eager to be a part of the greatest technological revolution of our lifetimes since the Internet.
We managed to catch the very busy Ella Zhang, Head of Binance Labs, on the sidelines of a conference in Singapore to get all the scoop about Binance Labs, what her team has been up to and what they plan to achieve going forward.
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Following our discussion with Matic Network, we speak to the CEO of Skale Labs which is also trying to build a layer 2 solution to solve the problem of Ethereum Scalability.
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Following our discussion with the Zilliqa team, we decided to speak to another Blockchain Protocol that is trying to solve the problem of Scalability through Sharding. Hear Nick White, one of the co-founders of Harmony, tell us about what is unique about their Project as well as the IEO that took place recently on the Binance Launchpad.
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We speak to Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar, CEO and co-founder of Rootstock or RSK (https://www.rsk.co/) and RIF Labs (https://www.rifos.org/). Rootstock, most famously, is known for putting smart contract functionality on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
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We speak to Dan Shin, Co-founder of Terra (https://terra.money/). Prior to Terra, Dan is most notably known for being the Founder and Chairman of TMON (http://www.tmon.co.kr). TMON or Ticket Monster is a Unicorn out of South Korea which was started in 2010 and had a mobile first approach to e-commerce.
Now Dan is launching a stable coin that aims to drive adoption through his experience and networks in the e-commerce industry.
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Given the recent conversations about the Government of India banning Crypto again (https://www.coindesk.com/indian-government-again-discussing-ban-on-cryptocurrencies-report), we decided to speak to the co-founders of Blockchained India (https://blockchainedindia.com/), an organisation trying to spread the word of crypto and drive conversations around crypto-regulations
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FYI Blockchained India is also organising India Dapp Fest (https://www.indiadappfest.com/) which seems like a promising event
In this episode, we speak top Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder and COO of Matic Network. Matic js one of the leading projects coming out of India and most notably, will be having its token sale on the Binance Launchpad (https://launchpad.binance.com/) in April 24, 2019
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Following our interview with #Hashed from Korea, we speak to another Asian Fund Manager – Jason Fang from Sora Ventures who shuttles between Hong Kong and Shanghai. Fascinating insights about how he went about setting up his fund and what’s happening in China
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We record this episode in an empty locker room that we found on the sidelines of Deconomy 2019 (a Crypto and Blockchain conference in Seoul, South Korea). We speak to Baek Kim who is an Investor at one of the most widely known crypto funds globally, #Hashed.
In this episode, we are also joined by John Riggins who heads up BTC Media’s (https://b.tc/) Asia efforts and who will be a regular host on the Decrypt Asia podcasts.
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In this week’s episode, we speak to Xinshu Dong, the CEO of much talked about Blockchain protocol Zilliqa. Tune in to hear about:
• Xinshu’s background, how Zilliqa came about and the backstory behind how the name came about
• What sharding is and why this method was chosen to solve the problem of scalability
• How Zilliqa stands relative to its competitors such as Ethereal, Dfinity and Algorand
• Zilliqa’s network design and sample transaction
• Discussions around the recent main net launch including performance, who is building on Zilliqa and how to port over to Zilliqa
• General outlook on the Blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.