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Crypto Trader Hears from Leading ICO VCs, Blockchain Co-Founders of NEO, Ontology, CertiK, QuarkChain

, has interviewed a slew of mostly Asia-based influential figures of the blockchain and crypto-ecosystem for his latest episode of CNBC Africa’s

; one that saw the crew travel to San Francisco in order to attend last week’s

that Neu-Ner conducted in the near-hour-long episode of

As first to be interviewed by Neu-Ner, Lee shared some of his investment philosophy that has guided his decision-making process en route to establishing

“an incredible track record of investing in all the top deals so far,” which includes “multiple 100x deals: AION and ICON.”

Lee insisted on tracking the progress of distributed ledger protocols that are tackling the scalability-based issue currently plaguing blockchain technology, saying that:

Solidity (Ethereum’s programming language) is awful to use. But, the next project that has high throughput plus easy-to-write smart contracts will be the major winner.” – Lee

A perennial early-stage investor in initial coin offerings (ICOs), Lee divulged that he is currently serving as a marketing advisor to both

(the project he’d comfortably “convert all [his] bitcoins into”). Per his Twitter account (

), the ICO Newsroom founder is a general advisor to

The crypto venture capitalist explained to Neu-Ner how

which begun by trading cryptocurrencies on-market before then learning about the lucrative ICO space.

“Three very good projects at about 100x returns,”

“really know[ing] the reason why it increases so much.”

Notably, the two projects Hsu considers his favourite for 2018 are

Another experienced crypto investor, Clausen revealed to Neu-Ner that he had achieved numerous “unicorn” investments – which he defines as achieving a valuation of one-billion dollars – including

is a decentralized encrypted database service called

, provided comforting insight to those rattled amid these multi-month-long crypto price slumps; explaining how the industry’s level of development

Hongfei talked to Neu-Ner about NEO’s upcoming whitepaper update, which will introduce

in so far as its applicability to the gaming space appears

Also revealed, NEO is soon to merge their very own token standard re: non-fungibility into their main branch; just like what

Li – who oversaw the recent mainnet launch of

– explained the origin story of the infrastructural crypto technology which he previously co-founded alongside Hongfei.

He identified two important problems he believes to be currently plaguing public blockchains:

Li proceeded to explain how Ontology solves both the above problems, before explaining what Ontology actually identifies as (i.e., a multi-chain ecosystem) and what projects are being currently built atop it.

was taking a rather unbounded approach to their investment approach, saying they invest

and determine the appropriate amount of capital to invest on

when it comes to their desired project categories. Exemplifying this is the variety of Binance Labs’ four investments made to date in

; each of which Chia justified to Neu-Ner in his interview.

the Colombia University assistant professor justified why CertiK requires a native token in order for its platform to properly function. Quarkchain Ico Date , the Colombia University assistant professor justified why CertiK requires a native token in order for its platform to properly function.

Gu reeled off the big-name investors CertiK has been able to attract, including

and its sharding-based approach to solving the much-publicized issue of blockchain scalability was explained by Zhou to the

We are expecting to launch our mainnet at the end of this year or early next year.” – Zhou

Zhou also spoke on the degree to which the crypto ecosystem will be able to facilitate for multiple blockchain protocols in the future; a topic fast becoming a talking point as hundreds of blockchains continue entering the space.

Neu-Ner also questioned Zhou on criticism directed at QuarkChain from the community in relation to their QKC token distribution regime.

Wang revealed that the already-top-ten (by daily volume)

was actually set up in Estonia last October, after the Chinese government enforced their policy outlawing the operation of all domestic digital asset exchanges.

The Bibox co-founder informed Neu-Ner of the fast-growing concept of

– a Chinese exchange. Wang revealed that Bibox itself recently took to investing in a new transaction mining-based crypto exchange known as

Matthew Willemsen is an Australian-based news journalist who covers the latest advancements relating to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Business from Monash University - majoring in both accounting and economics - Matthew soon grew fascinated in blockchain technology, becoming enthralled by its potentially disruptive social and economic implications. You can reach him at willemsen.mb@gmail.com or on Twitter @mwill_crypto.

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