Keynote speeches

The second OGC global roadshow stop was held on February 26th at BitTemple in San Francisco after visiting Harvard Law School the week before. More than 100 investors, academics, industry experts, and blockchain community members gathered to discuss and share opinions on the current state and future of the blockchain industry.

Andy Ji, Co-Founder/CSO of Ontology, gave an opening speech, welcoming guests to the event and encouraging cooperation more so than ever at this time in the industry. He stressed blockchain is still in its infancy and real application landing must occur in this period for it to become a fully mainstream technology.

Gloria Wu, who engages with the Ontology ecosystem, said Ontology has hit multiple milestones to fulfill its mandate as the best designed and quickest engineered public chain infrastructure for real-world scalability, compatibility, and sustainability. Gloria points out that the thinking of blockchain mass adoption should not be limited to tech development. The architects of future products and solutions might focus on tackling trust issues, instead of solving pain points for individual use cases.

This might call for business model designs and adoption approaches to be factored with social, economic, and cultural aspects beyond the typical scope of technology. Blockchain is born global, not only due to the nature of its technology, but because of the diverse experiments it allows with organizations, societies, and regions, which are key to finding its place in the future.

Daniel Wen, OGC Venture Partner, said due to better infrastructure, continued adoption, and more clarity on regulation, he thinks the turning point of the blockchain industry is coming. Data shows that VCs are playing more important roles in emerging industries and OGC’s LP already includes many C-level executives of public companies, top entrepreneurs, and renowned scholars such as Ming Zeng. Daniel also shared OGC’s mission, which is to foster the development of blockchain technology worldwide while accelerating real world adoption. OGC aims to do this by exploring new innovations and opportunities, nurturing leaders and projects, and connecting portfolios with capital, advise, and expertise.

Several executives of the projects in the OGC portfolio also gave speeches. Meilun Li, Director of Operations at Bibox, discussed Bibox’s “perpetual contract” technology and upcoming decentralized exchange products later this year following a recent acquisition made by them. Ed Yu, Founder of StrongSalt, introduced their privacy API, which makes using clouds as private as storing data locally. Yiyi He, Co-Founder and CMO of MixMarvel, spoke on the future of the gaming industry, “in the future games have the possibility to become networks which are managed by players, content creators, and other contributors together”. Ava Wen, Asia-Pacific General Manager of Contentos, spoke about Contentos’ plans to provide content support for dApps and public blockchains in 2019, as well as the launch of the Contentos TestNet at the end of March.

Steve Wei, Co-Founder and CEO of TOP Network, spoke about the network’s upcoming MainNet release and the more than 50 million users that will be migrated to their public blockchain. Sarah Zhang, Founder of PTS, shared that the PTS data collaboration protocol system already has connected more than one billion identity authentications and 500 million personal credit profiles. Cicily Zhou, DAD’s Business Development Director, shared that the project has accumulated more than two million registered users since May and will focus on the layout of closed-loop advertising traffic this year. Eyal Hertzog, Co-Founder of Bancor Network, closed the event with a short speech on what to look for ahead.

In addition, two panel discussion were held about blockchain investment and mass adoption. In addition to the executives of the projects in OGC portfolio, Kevin Ding, Managing Director of DHVC, Tiffany Li, VP of OGC, Alex Shin, Partner of Hashed, Zhen Cao, Partner of JLabs, Chris McCann, Founder of RelayNode, and Chandler Song, Founder of Ankr Network, also participated in the discussion.

The theme of OGC’s “O-Show” is “What’s next for technology and digital innovation?”. OGC is using these events to share its investment philosophy and belief of blockchain’s place in the future digital economy, inviting speakers from its portfolio and community. The plan for 2019 is to cover several top universities, including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, as well as strategic locations for the industry in Silicon Valley and Asia-Pacific.

From March onwards, OGC will visit Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and more! We look forward to meeting you at one of our stops.

OGC is a leading venture capital fund focused exclusively on blockchain investment, with the backing of tier one investors globally and managed by a highly experienced investment team.

Our mission is to support the development of blockchain technologies worldwide and accelerate real adoption of business applications within the blockchain ecosystem.

OGC’s first fund, “Astra1”, has assets under management of 100 million USD. We sincerely welcome passionate industry professionals and future thought leaders, to join the OGC family.

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