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Korean Ep. #2: From ‘0’ to the largest crypto asset management app in Korea, by Kain Seo, CSO and Co-founder of Coin Manager Oct 31, 2018

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In our Korean podcast 2nd episode, we interviewed Kain Seo, CSO and Co-founder of Coin Manager, the largest crypto asset management app in South Korea.

Kain shared about his journey in developing a crypto asset management app from ‘0’ to the largest user base in South Korea and his perspectives around the cryptocurrency and its service providers in South Korea.

Key insights from this episode:

From ‘0’ to the largest crypto asset management app in Korea
What is Coin Manager?
Our diverse collaboration model from multiple angles
What is crypto wallet, and who is it for?
What matters to us the most
Deep dive into the secure, decentralized crypto wallet
Macro perspectives on the blockchain industry in South Korea

About Kain Seo

Kain is chief strategy officer (CSO) and co-founder in CoinManager, No.1 blockchain wallet and portfolio tracker in Korea. Prior to launching CoinManager, he founded/worked in various Korean IT start-ups for 9 years. He is specialized in connecting UX-Product-Business strategy with the customer needs, that is what he wants to do in Blockchain industry.

Thanks for listening. For Korean interview enquiries, please email at yuree@ampliv.com

About the host:

Featured on Forbes and CNBC, Yuree is a growth-oriented visionary passionate about the future of decentralised network and alternative financing methodologies. She founded Ampliv, deep tech communications consultancy and SHE Blockchainers, the first women in blockchain initiative in Asia in 2017.

Yuree has ten years of working experience in APAC and the US. Her key skillset covers tech startup marketing and communications, blockchain tech research and training, and tokenisation consulting. She founded SHE Blockchainers Asia in 2017 with her passion for female inclusion in the blockchain industry. Ampliv is where the deep tech involving blockchain meets alternative financing methodologies and currently has a multimedia knowledge sharing platform Ampliv.io and Ampliv TV, YouTube channel. She is passionate about working with tech startups, who can leverage her experiences from top brands to the ground. She worked at Korean Telecom, Brandtology (Microsoft, Citibank, Estee Lauder), Omnicom Media Group (Intel, Visa) and technology startups.

She’s born in South Korea and lived in Australia, UK & Singapore. She’s a learning geek and very curious person.

Follow her on Twitter @yureehong17

Ep. #29: Regulations, Compliance, Security Tokens & Stablecoins with Patrick Tan (General Counsel, Compton Hughes) Oct 28, 2018

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In this epsiode, we speak to Patrick Tan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricktankoontat/), General Partner and Counsel at Compton Hughes. Patrick is a self professed ‘entrepreneur first and a lawyer second’. He has previously practiced law, founded companies and in his most recent role founded a Statistical Arbitrage Crypto Hedge Fund.

Tune in to this episode to hear about:

Patrick’s journey in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem
Regulatory environment in general – SEC, China, Malta, Gibraltar etc
Regulatory arbitrage
ETFs
How does a company approach an ICO from a legal perspective? An STO?
Patrick’s new venture: A Statistical Arbitrage Crypto Fund and his role as General Counsel
Strategies that his fund is deploying and what makes them unique
Process for client onboarding into a Crypto Fund in a compliant manner
Security tokens and Stablecoins: https://medium.com/predict/security-tokens-versus-stablecoins-2d33b91e2fd

Ep. #28: Hedera Hashgraph, a novel Consensus mechanism with Edgar Seah (APAC Head Hedera) Oct 21, 2018

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The Hedera Hashgraph platform provides a new form of distributed consensus – it is a fast, secure, fair ‘Blockchain’ with a novel Governance mechanism.
In this episode, we speak to the APAC Head of Hedera, Edgar Seah. Edgar has a very eclectic background with stints in Investment Banking, NGOs and corporates aroud the globe.
Tune in to hear about:

Edgar’s background and how ended up as Hedera Hashgraph’s Asia’s head
History of Hashgraph (consensus mechanism)
Hashgraph is leveraged in a private manner by a company called Swirlds and in a public manner by Hedera
Background on Swirlds and Enterprise clients on Swirlds (e.g. Credit Union Consortium)
Motivation behind creating a public ledger in addition to the private ledger
Properties of Hashgraph – Speed, Security (aBFT – Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance), Fairness
Governance and a deep dive into how Hedera is trying to solve this problem – Council Governance (off-chain governance) and Consensus Model (on-chain governance)
Discussion and views on the claim that Hedera is a private Blockchain and not a public one
Regulatory compliance and the path Hedera is taking to achieve mainstream adoption
Hedera Hashgraph’s roadmap and the 20 or so projects building on top of it etc
Specific areas of focus in Asia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashgraph
Website: https://www.hedera.com/
Hedera 18 Hackathon website: https://www.hedera18.com/

Ep. #27: Email on Blockchain with George Hartley (Co-founder Sendy) Oct 12, 2018

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Our guest for this episode is George Hartley, co-founder of Sendy. Sendy is aiming to bring about improvements to emails by rewarding the attention of email receivers through cryptocurrencies. The attention is rewarded in Sendy tokens which can be purchased by advertisers.

George comes from a mixture of marketing and product background having worked with several startups and marketing agencies.

Tune in to hear about:

George’s background and journey in the blockchain/crypto space
Views on email marketing
What Sendy is about (https://sendy.network/)
Problems that exist in email marketing today and how Sendy is trying to address those
Stakeholders in the Sendy ecosystem and role of the token
How the current business (https://www.smartrmail.com/) is going to be leveraged/affected?
Sendy’s roadmap

Korean Ep. #1: How I became the top Korean YouTube influencer by ex-head of Coinsight, Dasom Song Oct 12, 2018

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We are excited to announce a release of the Korean podcast at Decrypt.Asia today!

Our first guest is Dasom Song, one of the top Korean YouTube influencers in the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry, an ex-head of Coinsight.

She shared her journey to become the top influencer and what triggered her interest in the blockchain space.

Key insights from this episode:

How I got into the blockchain rabbit hole
Be the ‘W’
The first view count of 50,000!!!
A note for the beginners
What I do as a YouTuber
My experience at Coinsight

Thanks for listening. For Korean interview enquiries, please email at yuree@ampliv.com

About the host:

She’s born in South Korea and lived in Australia, UK & Singapore. She’s a learning geek and very curious person.

Follow her on Twitter @yureehong17

Ep. #26: Infinite cash, monetary policies and synchronicity with Andrew Pantyukhin Pt. 2/2 (CEO Tangem) Sep 30, 2018

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In the second part of the interview with Andrew Pantyukhin, we speak about certain topics that occupy a great deal of his mindshare beyond the company that he is trying to build (Tangem – https://tangem.com/)

Tune in to hear about:

Concept of money as a means of communication
Making cryptocurrencies ubiquitous – infinite cash for everyone (along the lines of Universal Basic Income)
Optimistic and pessimistic views how the world looks like in a few years
Subsistence economies and monetary policies
Synchronicity in the world
Why speculation in crypto could be a good thing?

Ep. #25: Banknotes for Cryptoassets with Andrew Pantyukhin Pt. 1/2 (CEO Tangem) Sep 23, 2018

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In this episode, we speak to Andrew Pantyukhin, the CEO of Tangem. Tangem is aiming to make cryptocurrencies more accessible to everyday individuals by allowing people to store them in smart and secure banknotes. These banknotes can then be used to purchase items or make transactions just like how we use banknotes today.

Andrew has held several roles in various tech businesses prior to founding Tangem. He is a product guy with background in technology and Venture Capital.

Tune in to hear about:

Andrew’s introduction, background and about early days of crypto
Projects Andrew was excited about in the relatively early days of crypto (21/earn.com – https://earn.com/ and ZCash – https://z.cash/)
What Tangem does
How does on acquire a Tangem Note and how to use it?
What does the customer journey look like for using a Tangem Note
Details about the Tangem note – Is the card reusable? How to top up the card? How much does Tangem Note cost to the distributor and customer?
Tangem’s business model
Tangem’s roadmap and ambitions
Website: https://tangem.com/

Ep. #24: Decentralized CryptoBanking with Alex Wearn (CEO Aurora/IDEX) Sep 11, 2018

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Aurora is a decentralized financial platform with IDEX, a hybrid decentralized exchange, as its first product. Subsequent products will include margin lending on the hybrid exchange and a stablecoin to support the Cryptocurrency bank (called Decentralized Capital)

Our guest for this episode is Alex Wearn, CEO of Aurora DAO. He has previously worked with IBM and Adobe and is a graduate of Kellogg School of Management.

Tune in to hear about:

Alex’s background, introduction and journey in crypto
What is Aurora? (Decentralised financial institution)
Problems with the current financial system that Aurora is trying to address
Concept of free banking
Bundling of stable coins: https://www.tokensets.com/
1st product of Aurora ecosystem – IDEX which is a hybrid centralised/decentralised exchange
Decentralised aspect – custody and settlement
Centralised aspect – dispatch of trades to the blockchain
Liquidity providers / market makers on IDEX?
Key challenges during setting up IDEX and how they were overcome – acquisition of users, operating on Ethereum network
Fee structure on IDEX
ETH gas prices – https://ethgasstation.info/
Understanding Mempool (pending transactions) – https://99bitcoins.com/what-is-bitcoin-mempool/
Margin lending on IDEX
2nd product of Aurora ecosystem – Cryptocurrency bank (Decentralised Capital)
Stablecoin (Boreals) and how it’ll work
AURA token – staking token of IDEX network
IDXM token – membership token (3 years of free trades) to bring forth revenues for the company
Daily trading volume – highest was about 20-25m, average is 3-7m
Aurora’s roadmap
Views on the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem in general
Website: https://auroradao.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aurora_Dao
Discord: http://bit.ly/AuroraDiscord

Ep. #23: Android AppStore adopting Cryptocurrency with Tiago Alves (VP APAC AppCoins) Sep 06, 2018

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AppCoins (https://appcoins.io/) is a blockchain-based open-source protocol for the App Economy supported by the Aptoide App Store (http://www.aptoide.com/). It proposes to move to the blockchain three of the most critical flows of App stores: (i)advertising, (ii) in-app purchases and (iii) developer’s reputation.

Our guest for this show is Tiago Alves, the VP Asia Pacific of AppCoins. Tiago has held several roles in the Telecommunications industry mainly in Portugal before taking up a role as Aptoide’s/AppCoins’ VP of APAC.

Tune in to hear about:

Tiago’s background and intro
What is Aptoide? (Android App Store)
What are the App Stores beyond Google Play on Android Phones today?
The problems for smaller App Stores today – payments (lack of ability to monetise in-app purchase)
Appcoins – reducing the cut from in-app purchases from 30% (for Google Play Store) to 15%
5B fine for Google in the EU recently
Other problems – advertising inside App Stores, Application approvals and security
Solution – reward users in Appcoins for getting exposed to ads, sharing of information about viruses and malware to make apps more secure
How Aptoide’s current business is going to be affected and how dies it affect the various investors involved
How the native token works
How does the platform look like today?
Roadmap
Development of the AppStore Foundation
Telegram: https://t.me/appcoinsofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppCoinsProject

Ep. #22: Cryptocurrency Exchange & P2P Marketplace with Rahul Raj (CEO Koinex) Aug 26, 2018

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Our guest for this episode is Rahul Raj, CEO and co-founder of Koinex (https://koinex.in/). Koinex is one of India’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and peer to peer marketplaces which is backed by leading investors such as Pantera Capital (https://www.panteracapital.com/) and Beenext (https://www.beenext.com/).

Rahul is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and has dabbled in various startups and social entrepreneurship initiatives before starting Koinex.

Tune in to hear about:

Rahul’s background and intro
How Koinex (India’s first KYC compliant multi currency exchange) came about
Why Koinex initially decided to have only fiat to crypto pairs for all cryptocurrencies
Customer journey for transacting
Different steps involved in setting up a crypto exchange
Three important pillars of setting up an exchange: scalability, security, customer support
Other factors to consider while setting up an exchange: UI/UX, liquidity, ecosystem development
Building an exchange in house vs. using a white label solution/third party integrations – pros and cons
Where does an exchange source their crypto from?
How Koinex built liquidity on the platform
Highest daily trading volume that Koinex saw – USD 265m
Why BTC was trading at a premium in India
Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) current stance on crypto and way going forward
How the crypto-exchanges responded to the RBI directive
Koinex Loop (https://koinex.in/loop) – the crypto marketplace
Improvements of Koinex Loop over LocalBitcoin and LocalEthereum
Challenges with Koinex Loop as far as fiat is concerned
Koinex’s roadmap and plans beyond an exchange
Views on the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem in India
Projects beyond Koinex that Rahul is excited about: Ethereum, BAT

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