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Session 8a : Venture Capital, Hedge Funds & Blockchain Investment

  • Adelaide Convention Centre North Terrace Adelaide, SA, 5000 Australia (map)

Venture Capital, Hedge Funds & Blockchain Investment

What investment opportunities should investors be observing and considering in this rapidly evolving sector? What is common about this wave of DLT based investments cycle in the emergence of entrepreneurial blockchain projects that have attracted billions globally compared with other waves of new technology adoption in the past like the tech boom of the 90’s? What’s different this time if anything? Is there a clear ‘facebook, google or amazon’ yet? Or are we looking at the myspaces of our time? What role do these huge tech giants have to play in planting a flag in blockchain? Will they get it right? Where are the opportunities presenting themselves for digital assets and investment in DLT and blockchain projects the next 2 to 5 years? Is the institutional waive of capital coming now the introduction of custodial solution is beginning to emerge?

Lead Participants

Joe Schoendorf, Accel Partners
Henrik Andersson, Apollo Capital
Patrick Byrne, CEO Overstock.com
Ben Yablon, Chairman SALT Lending
Wei Zhou, CFO Binance

Moderated by

Stephen Roux, Vice Chair ADC 100