"Build For Miracle": The detailed agenda of TOKEN2049's most eye-catching peripheral activities announced

The leading Web3 cryptocurrency conference in Asia, TOKEN2049, will be held at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore from September 13th to 14th, 2023. During this grand event, the "Build For Miracle" series of themed activities jointly organized by BlockBeats, MetaStone Group, Cregis, and BuidlerDAO will also be held at the top five-star hotel Parkroyal Collection Hotel in Singapore on September 11th.

This event aims to help outstanding teams and projects develop, explore the development trend of Web3, and build industry ecology and cooperation through various forms such as Demo Day, industry summits, and private dinners. The guests of the event are also heavyweight, including founders and co-founders of different projects, as well as academic experts and technical leaders, aiming to present a benchmark event with rich forms and high-quality content.

On the day of the conference, there were a total of 14 keynote speeches and 4 roundtable discussions, attracting over 30 top projects and VC institutions in the encryption field to participate deeply, and also inviting heavyweight guests from the academic community to share their views. Conference highlights include: StarkWare's Business Director, Liron Hayman, delving into the explosive growth points of zk Rollup; Pendle co-founder TN Lee predicting the next trend of LSDFi; and LayerZero's Strategic Director, Irene Wu, revealing the latest breakthroughs in omnichain.

In addition, representatives from Consensys International Expansion Manager Laura Shi, Taiko Developer Relations Engineer Director Dave, and other public chain project parties will jointly explore the "opportunities in the ZK narrative." At the same time, well-known Web3 VCs such as Wintermute Co-founder Yoann Turpin and IOSG Ventures Investment Director Momir Amidzic will discuss the "narratives worth paying attention to in the future bull market."

For more details on the highlights of the event, please refer to the following text. The following is the complete schedule of the event:

Activity Schedule 

Keynote Speech

Morning Session

9:45-10:00 Yawn, StepN

Yawn is a co-founder of Find Satoshi Lab, a well-known "move to earn" lifestyle application developer. Since its establishment in 2021, STEPN has quickly become one of the most popular Web3 applications, with a highly active community and monthly active users reaching 2-3 million.

10:00-10:15 Professor Zhu Feida, Singapore Management University

Professor Zhu Feida is the Associate Dean of the School of Computing and Information Systems at the National University of Singapore. His main research areas include large-scale data mining, blockchain and distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, social network and new media data mining and analysis, data-driven business intelligence, and innovative research.

10:15-10:30 David Song, Green Link Digital Bank

David Song is the head of GLDB's digital assets and innovation department. Prior to joining GLDB, David served as the Chief Information Officer at River Valley Capital and held various positions at Bank of China, Teradyne, Keysight Technologies, and Ericsson. David holds dual master's degrees from Southeast University and Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland, as well as a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Southeast University.

10:30-10:45 Marco, Cregis

Marco is the Chief Marketing Officer of the self-hosted wallet Cregis. Cregis aims to provide a secure, user-friendly, multi-functional, and professional digital asset collaboration management service platform for the Web3 field.

10:45-11:00 Ola, ArrayFi

Ola is the CEO of ArrayFi, an intelligent contract platform. ArrayFi aims to achieve decentralized applications powered by its proprietary AI algorithm, ArrayGo, on its network. The system is expected to have various use cases, including payments, remittances, and investments.

11:00-11:15 Guojing Tang, Paiwang

Guojing Tang is the CEO of Pionex US and also serves as the CEO of Huatai GreatWall Capital Management. He previously worked as a commodity structurer and trader at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Guojing Tang holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

11:15-11:30 Hara, Jasmy

Hara is the CEO of Jasmy Lab, a Japanese offline platform developer. Jasmy is a blockchain platform that focuses on providing data security and sharing services in the era of the Internet of Things.

11:30-11:45 Elliot Hil, Verasity

Elliot Hil is the Chief Marketing Officer of Verasity, an advertising optimization protocol. Verasity is a protocol and product layer platform for esports and video entertainment, which allows video publishers to significantly increase engagement and advertising revenue on any platform.

Afternoon Session

1:30-1:45 Irene Wu, LayerZero

Irene Wu is the strategic director of LayerZero. She previously worked as an investor at Insight Partners and as a user experience designer and engineer at IDEO and JPMorgan. In addition, she studied computer science at Harvard University.

LayerZero is an Omnichain interoperability protocol that utilizes the principle of lightweight node technology. In April of this year, LayerZero Labs completed a Series B financing round with a valuation of $3 billion and raised $120 million. Participants in the financing round included a16z Crypto, Christie's auction house, Sequoia Capital, Samsung Next, BOND, Circle Ventures, and OpenSea Ventures.

1:45-2:00 Elvin Ng, veDAO

Elvin Ng is the Asia-Pacific Business Director of veDAO. veDAO is a Web3 investment decision-making platform driven by AI technology. It conducts big data analysis through emotional indicators and on-chain and off-chain indicators to discover trends and accurately capture Alpha. By creating an AI advisor, it helps users invest efficiently and profitably.

2:00-2:15 Leon, MetaStone

Leon is the founder of MetaStone. MetaStone was established in 2017 as a comprehensive investment group, covering primary and secondary markets, investing in excellent projects and companies in various fields such as blockchain metaverse, full-chain games, VR, AR, and NFT, with assets under management of $1 billion.

2:15-2:30 Andrew Zhang, Xinhuo Technology

Andrew Zhang is the Chief Technology Officer of New Fire Technology. New Fire Technology is committed to building a leading one-stop compliance digital asset service platform, and building a bridge connecting the traditional financial world with the digital asset world.

2:30-2:45 TN Lee, Pendle

TN Lee is the co-founder of Pendle. Pendle Finance is a decentralized DeFi protocol that enables tokenization and trading of future yields. As a derivative protocol for yields, it brings the interest rate derivatives market from traditional finance to DeFi, making it more accessible to everyone. Pendle helps unlock the full potential of yields, allowing users to execute advanced yield strategies such as fixed income and long yield.

In August of this year, Binance Labs announced an investment in the DeFi yield protocol Pendle Finance.

2:45-3:00 Liron Hayman, StarkWare

Liron Hayman is the Business Director of StarkWare, holding a Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and has 5 years of industry experience in the field of data science. He previously worked as a data scientist at Intuit Israel's research and development office. Liron is very interested in the practical applications of introducing STARK proofs into the blockchain and is committed to exploring the possibility of adopting this technology with various teams.

StarkWare announced in May 2022 that it has completed a Series D funding round of $1 billion, with a total funding amount of $2.62 billion. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital and Coatue, with participation from existing and new investors including Tiger Global.

Roundtable Discussion 

3:00-3:40 ZK Roundtable: "Why zkEVM's Ethereum Equivalent Deserves Attention"
Presenter: Jack, Executive Deputy Editor of BlockBeats.

Laura Shi, Consensys International Expansion Director: Laura Shi has over 10 years of experience in investment consulting and asset management, with a deep understanding of the market and expertise across multiple industries and business cycles.

Victor Ji, Co-founder of Manta Network: Victor Ji graduated from the Kennedy School of Harvard University. As an investor, he was also one of the earliest followers of ZK and modularization.

Tiancheng Xie, Polyhedra Co-founder and CTO: Polyhedra is a team that focuses on developing Web3 full-stack infrastructure using ZKP (Zero-knowledge proof) technology, with a particular emphasis on blockchain interoperability, scalability, and privacy.

ZK infrastructure start-up Polyhedra Network completed two rounds of financing totaling $25 million this year: the first was a strategic round led by Binance Labs and Polychain Capital, completed in February; the second was a Pre-A round led by Polychain Capital, completed in April.

3:40-4:20 VC Roundtable: "Narratives Worth Watching in the Future Bull Market"

Host: Zhang Shuhao, Executive Editor-in-Chief of BlockBeats.

Guests:

Nico, MetaStone North America Investment Director: MetaStone was established in 2017 as a comprehensive investment group with business covering primary and secondary markets. It invests in excellent projects and companies in various fields such as blockchain metaverse, full-chain games, VR, AR, and NFT, with assets under management of $1 billion.

Yoann Turpin, Wintermute Ventures: Wintermute Trading is a cryptocurrency market maker, specializing in high-frequency algorithmic trading and market-making services, dedicated to proprietary trading and providing market-making services for cryptocurrency projects (ICO and listing) and cryptocurrency exchanges.

Matthew Graham, Founder of Sino Global Capital: Since 2013, Matthew has been actively involved in the blockchain industry and has supported numerous well-known entrepreneurs and companies in complex market environments. In 2015, he founded SGC, initially a sell-side technology investment platform, focusing on representing international technology companies in strategic cooperation and investment in emerging markets. Matthew is also a key driver of SGC's long-term strategic vision and mission.

Momir Amidzic, IOSG Ventures Investment Director: IOSG Ventures is a cryptocurrency fund established in 2017. As an investment-oriented company, IOSG assists project founders in developing community-driven protocols that have the potential to change the landscape of the cryptocurrency industry.

Ian Emerson, Partner at Fabric Ventures: Since 2020, Ian has been a partner at Fabric Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on gaming, media, and vertical consumer markets. Ian holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Management from Imperial College London, as well as a degree from Imperial College Business School. Fabric Ventures, as a leading European Web3 fund, is dedicated to supporting the most ambitious founders in the Web3 space, building an open economy together.

Jademont, Waterdrip Capital founding partner: Jademont has been involved in blockchain since 2012 and has been active in multiple blockchain open source communities. Currently, Jademont is engaged in blockchain project investment incubation and blockchain application research.

4:20-5:00 Modularization Roundtable: "Is Modularization the Infrastructure for Building the Next Generation Public Chain?"
Host: Aaron, MetaStone Research Director.

Guests:

Nick White, Celestia Co-founder: Nick White is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Celestia. Previously, he was a co-founder of Harmony and a senior AI expert at Zeroth.ai. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Celestia is a modular blockchain network built on top of Ethereum's L2 Rollup, where the Rollup of blockchain and all VMs (not just EVM) can use Celestia as a data availability layer and consensus layer.

Modular blockchain Celestia team Celestia Labs announced the completion of a $55 million Series A and B financing in October 2022, led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital.

Nick Dodson, Fuel Labs CEO: Fuel Labs is building a new execution layer to scale the next generation of blockchain applications. FuelVM is designed to be modular and can serve as the execution engine for any blockchain.

Ethereum scaling solution Fuel Labs announced in September 2022 that it has completed an $80 million financing round, led by Blockchain Capital and Stratos Technologies.

David, Radius联创: Radius was the first to introduce a trustless shared sorting layer, providing an economical and sustainable solution for Rollups, while protecting its users from harmful MEV effects.

The shared sequencing solution provider Radius announced in June this year that it has completed a pre-seed round of financing of $1.7 million, with Hashed as the lead investor and Superscrypt, Lambdaclass, and Crypto.com as co-investors.

Alvin Kan, Sei Foundation Asia Pacific Director: Sei is a Layer 1 blockchain developed based on Cosmos, optimized for seamless exchange of digital assets.

Sei Network announced in April of this year that it had completed a $30 million financing round with a valuation of $800 million. Jump Capital, Distributed Global, Multicoin Capital, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Flow Traders, Hypersphere Ventures, IOBC Capital, and Bixin Ventures participated in the investment.

Kartin, Hyper Oracle Co-founder: Hyper Oracle is a programmable zkOracle network that provides ultra-high scale computation for Ethereum. Hyper Oracle does not rely on a staking mechanism, but instead utilizes Ethereum's security through zero-knowledge proofs.

ZK oracle network Hyper Oracle announced the completion of a $3 million seed round of financing in January this year, with dao5 and Sequoia China Seed Fund co-leading, and Foresight Ventures, FutureMoney Group and others participating.

5:00-5:30 Roundtable
Host: Rocio, Investor Relations Partner at Commonwealth Capital.

Guests:

Herbert Sim, Websea COO: Websea is a Web3 digital asset trading platform designed specifically for young people around the world. With a dual-account security system and innovative services such as intelligent copy trading, Websea helps more young people enter the Web3.0 world conveniently, quickly, and safely.

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