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SESSIONS September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre CHOOSE DAY > - Singapore Invest: Asia SESSIONS September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre CHOOSE DAY > - Singapore tmt.knect365.com/consensus-singapore/ Invest: Asia SCHEDULE September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre CHOOSE DAY > - Singapore TIME tmt.knect365.com/consensus-singapore/ Invest: Asia SESSIONS September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre DAY 1 - 11/09/2019 Singapore Registration & Coffee Godlike or rekt? How leverage turbo-charges Money Supply 2.0? Can sovereign coins volume and improves price discovery change the monetary policy game? 08:00 - 08:55 11:00 - 11:20 11:50 - 12:20 Main stage Main stage Welcome & Opening Remarks Godlike or Rekt? Crypto-native derivatives and Hear from the Marshall Islands government as it 08:55 - 09:00 leveraged trading capabilities are expanding rapidly attempts an unprecedented experiment in monetary across Asia. Hear how traders are winning big or being policy. Succeed or fail, what does this attempt portend Participants liquidated using these new products. for the future of sovereign cryptocurrencies? Andrew Work - Managing Director, Head of Media, Asia and Europe, NexChange Group Participants Participants Panel moderator: Sebastian Sinclair - Crypto Markets David Paul - Honorable Minister Republic of the Analyst and Journalist, CoinDesk Marshall Islands, Marshallese Parliament State of Crypto Markets in Asia Panellist: Lennix Lai - Financial Markets Director, OKEx 09:00 - 09:30 Panellist: Sunny Ray - Global Business Development Crypto.com A comprehensive overview of the Asian crypto Lead, Kraken 12:00 - 12:30 markets, from exchange volumes to mining pools and Changelog Stage ICOs/IEOs. TenX Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the Participants 11:00 - 11:30 development roadmaps for the projects that are Bobby Ong - Co-founder, CoinGecko Changelog Stage driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the CoinGecko team. Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the Escape Room: Fact and Fiction Behind How development roadmaps for the projects that are Participants driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the Capital Controls Drive Crypto Trading Eric Anziani - Chief Strategy Office, Crypto.com CoinGecko team. 09:30 - 10:00 Participants From Kimchi Premiums to dirty floats and currency State of Security Tokens in Asia pegs, Asian markets are replete with foreign exchange Toby Hoenisch - CEO & Co-founder, TenX 12:20 - 13:00 controls that create unique arbitrage opportunities for Main stage crypto traders. Hear from market participants how these intricacies are driving regional adoption. Finally solved? The booming crypto-custody Like other with other crypto use cases, security tokens business haven't penetrated and disrupted existing systems as Participants fast as Twitter pundits originally predicted. But interest 11:20 - 11:50 continues to grow, particularly with regards to real Moderator: Nolan Bauerle - Author, CoinDesk Main stage estate and property. What challenges need to be Panellist: Jack Ding - Partner, Duan & Duan Law Firm Coinbase says it's getting up to $400 million in resolved for these to go mainstream? Panellist: Javier Sim - Co-Founder and Managing deposits a week. Securing and storing digital assets Director, Bithumb Global Holdings remains a thorny issue for traders, but a plethora of Participants new solutions have come online. If custody is finally Panel moderator: Christine Kim - Tech Reporter, solved, what's the next step for providers? CoinDesk The Strategic Pivot: Why Asia is Critical to the Participants Panellist: Philip Pang - Associate Director, Colliers Global Crypto Conversation International Panel moderator: Aaron Stanley - Author, CoinDesk 10:00 - 10:30 Panellist: Zachary Cefaratti - Chief Executive Officer, Panellist: Vincent Chok - Chief Executive Officer, Dalma Capital Circle's recent decision to move its exchange Legacy Trust Company Limited operations to Bermuda raised the bar in the regulatory Panellist: Anthony Lewis - Director of Digital Assets, arbitrage conversation. What does this move mean for Panellist: Pete Najarian - Chief Revenue Officer, BitGo R3 other "by the book" crypto companies? How are small jurisdictions propelling the industry globally? TomoChain Terra Participants 11:30 - 12:00 12:30 - 13:00 Moderator: Joanna Ossinger - Global Markets Editor/ Changelog Stage Changelog Stage Asia Crypto Editor, Bloomberg News Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the Speaker: Jeremy Allaire - Co-founder & CEO, Circle Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the development roadmaps for the projects that are development roadmaps for the projects that are driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the CoinGecko team. CoinGecko team. Morning Coffee & Networking Participants 10:30 - 11:00 Participants Long Vuong - CEO, TomoChain Do Kwon - Co-founder, Terra tmt.knect365.com/consensus-singapore/ Invest: Asia SESSIONS September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre DAY 1 - 11/09/2019 Singapore Networking Lunch Afternoon Coffee & Networking Fast Money: Why the Markets Love Stablecoins 13:00 - 14:00 15:00 - 15:30 16:00 - 16:30 Main stage Main stage Main stage Fast money: Why traders love stablecoins Networking Lunch Afternoon Coffee & Networking Fast money: Why the markets love stablecoins Fast money: Stablecoins lapping fiat 13:00 - 14:00 15:00 - 15:30 Fast money: Stablecoins lapping fiat Changelog Stage Changelog Stage Created in the vacuum left by bitcoin and banking services, allowed to flourish by traders for years, IEOs and Beyond: The Evolution of Crypto- Bear Attack: How the Downturn Changed Asia's stablecoins are finding new ways to push the crypto Capital Formation Crypto Funds industry forward. 14:00 - 14:30 15:30 - 16:00 Participants Main stage Main stage Panel moderator: Sebastian Sinclair - Crypto Markets From ICOs to STOs to IEOs, crypto capital formation Crypto funds were savaged by the bear market. Many Analyst and Journalist, CoinDesk continues to progress despite market slowdowns and of them aren't with us any longer. But those who Panellist: George Harrap - CEO & Co-founder, Bitspark greater regulatory scrutiny. How are crypto projects survived did so by expanding their services, including Limited raising money currently, and how can investors get things like market-making, prop trading, and coin involved? listing advisory services. We talk to some survivors. Panellist: Do Kwon - Co-founder, Terra Participants Participants Ontology Panel moderator: Christine Kim - Tech Reporter, Panel moderator: Zack Seward - Managing Editor: CoinDesk Startups, CoinDesk 16:00 - 16:30 Changelog Stage Panellist: Dorjee Sun - Chief Executive Officer, Panellist: Jason Fang - Managing Partner, Sora Perlin.net Ventures Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the Panellist: Zhong Yang Chan - Assistant General Panellist: Vincent Zhou - Founder, FBG Capital development roadmaps for the projects that are Manager, Securities Commission Malaysia driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the Panellist: Deng Chao - Managing Director, HashKey CoinGecko team Panellist: Kayvon Pirestani - Head of Institutional Capital Sales, Asia, Coinbase Participants Andy Ji - Co-founder, Ontology IoTex How Asia is Leading the Way in OTC 15:30 - 16:00 Innovations Changelog Stage From PoW to OTC: How Matrixport is changing 14:30 - 15:00 crypto-finance Main stage Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the development roadmaps for the projects that are 16:30 - 17:00 A look at the state of crypto OTC markets driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the Main stage infrastructure in Asia, along with the innovations OTC CoinGecko tea desks are embracing (fiat lending) to pad revenues Matrixport first made headlines as a spin-off from and stay competitive. Participants mining giant Bitmain into the OTC business. But Matrixport's CEO will appear onstage for the first time Qevan Guo - Co-Founder, IoTeX Participants to present exclusive data covering not just its OTC work, but also its services in custody, lending and Panel moderator: Nolan Bauerle - Author, CoinDesk more. He will then sit down for a conversation with Panellist: Darius Sit - Managing Partner, QCP Capital CoinDesk. Panellist: Hoe Lon Leng - Co-founder, CORA Network Participants Panellist: Michael Moro - Chief Executive Officer, Panel moderator: Wolfie eiW Zhao - Reporter, Genesis CoinDesk Panellist: Yuesheng Ge - CEO, Matrixport ZCoin Panellist: Daniel Yan - Senior Vice President, Head of Trading, Matrixport 14:30 - 15:00 Changelog Stage Changelog is a one-stop shop for updates on all the development roadmaps for the projects that are driving the industry. Hosted by Bobby Ong and the CoinGecko team. Participants Reuben Yap - Chief Operating Officer, Zcoin tmt.knect365.com/consensus-singapore/ Invest: Asia SCHEDULE September 11-12, 2019 Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre DAY 1 - 11/09/2019 Singapore TIME CHANGELOG STAGE MAIN STAGE 08:00 08:00 - Registration & Coffee 08:00 - Registration & Coffee 08:55 - Welcome & Opening Remarks 08:55 - Welcome & Opening Remarks 09:00 09:00 - State of Crypto Markets in Asia 09:00 - State of Crypto Markets in Asia 09:30 - Escape Room: Fact and Fiction Behind How Capital 09:30 - Escape Room: Fact and Fiction Behind How Capital Controls Drive Crypto Trading Controls Drive Crypto Trading 10:00 10:00 - The Strategic Pivot: Why Asia is Critical to the Global 10:00 - The Strategic Pivot: Why Asia is Critical to
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