Lendit Rewind

A Vision for the Future Tim Draper, DFJ Moderator: Deirdre Bosa, CNBC

China’s New Wealth Gets Wise Yihan Fang, Yirendai

Ontology is a new generation high-performance public chain infrastructure project and a distributed trust collaboration platform. Ontology blockchain framework supports public blockchain systems and is able to customize different public blockchains for different applications. Ontology supports collaboration amongst chain networks with its various protocol groups. Ontology will constantly provide common modules on the underlying infrastructure for different kinds of distributed scenarios, such as those for the distributed digital identity framework, distributed data exchange protocol, and so on. Based on specific scenario requirements, Ontology will continue to develop new common modules. With Mathias Leach Glintborg of Ontology.

Appetite for Disruption with Lee Schneider of McDermett, Will & Emery and Troy Paredes of Paredes Strategies.

Bitbond is the first SME lending platform that operates globally. Bitbond leverages blockchain technology and machine learning to connect creditworthy borrowers with lenders worldwide. We use business activity data from online sales, bank accounts, accounting, reviews and other sources for our machine learning powered underwriting. This enables us to deliver fast and flexible working capital financing for business owners. To process payments efficiently across borders we use blockchain technology. Based in Berlin (Germany), Bitbond is a BaFin licensed financial institution and one of the few regulated companies in the blockchain space. With Radoslav Albrecht of Bitbond.

Da Hongfei, Founder of NEO & Onchain from China, key opinion leader of blockchain industry. NEO is the one of the most globally recognized blockchain projects from technology, governance to performance. Hongfei will share his vision about Smart Economy. Attendees will learn: NEO history, current status and plan; Why compliance can be deployed to blockchain such as NEO; Risks and opportunities for blockchain industry. With Hongfei Da of NEO.

Building Distributed Digital Economy — Enterprise Perspectives with Jack Lee of HCM Capital, Foxconn Group

Traditionally, non-US real estate investors faced an expensive, cumbersome process when buying real estate. Through a new crypto-based real estate investment platform, international investors can have easier access to US real estate opportunities, and crypto high-net-worth-individuals can find a stable, liquid asset to grow their wealth. With Ari Shpanya of Slice.

CEO Mike Myers demonstrates how FinCryption's proprietary encryption software sets "The New Standard in Crypto Security" and establishes a secure environment for financial transactions involving any crypto asset. Mike will explain how FinCryption's white label SaaS solutions can enable your company to safely transact in crypto, including the burgeoning area of Crypto Asset-Based Alternative Lending. With Mike Myers of FinCryption.

ICO regulation is coming to Crypto so its critical to become an expert in securities laws. Learn what will happen to ICOs which didn’t comply in the past, how to perform a compliant security token offering and which key regulatory landmines you should look out for. With Ryan Feit of SeedInvest.

Decentralized Credit Scoring and Micro Credit Platform with Bulent Tekmen of Colendi.

Gregory Keough, CEO of Finova Financial and driving force behind a new approach to trading digital equity securities on the blockchain, will share his vision of the next-gen hybrid approach that he thinks will disrupt the traditional VC model by finally creating a pathway to IPO on the blockchain that will be open to investors of any size. Attendees will learn: Why digital equity securities offer a fast-track to going public and an expanded investor pool; How Jobs Act Regulations D and A+ could transform the ICO; How digital equity securities can provide liquidity in a crowdfunding model; and more. With Gregory Keough of Finova Financial.

The token sale space has grown at a blistering pace. There's been great success, painful mistakes, and lots of learnings. In this fireside chat, we'll discuss what it will take to make future growth sustainable. With Paul Menchov of CoinList.

Wei Wang, China Museum of Finance Moderator: Kevin Guo, Chairman, Starwin Group

Spencer Bogart is a Partner at Blockchain Capital, the oldest venture firm dedicated to investing exclusively in the blockchain and crypto ecosystem. In this fireside chat, Spencer sits down to discuss recent trends in the industry and where he thinks the next herd of unicorns will emerge within the industry. With Spencer Bogart of Blockchain Capital.

Financial capital has been flooding into cryptocurrency protocols and applications through the token funding mechanism, but many projects are now struggling to deploy that capital effectively to build network effects and organic demand for network capacity. The potential dynamics of competition amongst projects who have nearly unlimited financial capital but fierce competition for social and human capital will define the next generation of funds, companies, and projects in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. With Meltem Demirors of Athena Capital.

Foundations of Crypto Capitalism with Tom Ding of DFINITY & String Labs