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IOSG Ventures is a community-friendly and research-driven early-stage venture firm. Our portfolio covers L1/L2 (Polkadot, NEAR, Arbitrum, Starkware), DeFi (1inch, 0x, UMA), GameFi (Bigtime, Illuvium) and SocialFi (Roll, Galaxy, Cyberconnect). We are crypto native BUIDLer and long-term HODLer to our early-stage developers & founders.
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Finding the Way to Balance: Navigating the Delicate Line Between Maximizing Financial Returns and…
Acknowledgment: Thanks to Momir, Ray, Sid and Jocy’s valuable review of the article.
Dec 01, 2023 / Read More
Join Us! IOSG OFR Istanbul — Autonomous Arcade & Mass Adoption Is Around The Corner
💥 Welcome to a whole new world by joining our Old Friends Reunion Istanbul event with the topic of Web3 Games & Applications at Ciragan P...
Nov 30, 2023 / Read More
IOSG OFR Istanbul | Autonomous Arcade & Mass Adoption Event Recap
IOSG 10th Old Friends Reunion — — Autonomous Arcade & Mass Adoption in Istanbul was an astounding success on Nov 14th. With dynamic parti...
Nov 30, 2023 / Read More
ZK Coprocessor Zero to Hero (1): WTF Can It Do?
We would like to thank Mo Dong from Celer Network and Brevis for the insightful discussion on ZK Coprocessor’s core concepts and use case...
Nov 30, 2023 / Read More
Stylus: Solve the Scalability Issue V2
The layer 2 landscape is evolving rapidly as zero-knowledge rollups (ZKRUs) like zkSync and StarkNet have launched mainnets. Traditionall...
Oct 11, 2023 / Read More
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2022
Sovereign Individual & ZK Odyssey
Join the sovereign individual movement with the exploration in the spell of zero-knowledge with us in the 9th Old Friends Reunion.The 9th edition will happen in Lisbon on Nov 1st, 2022, with the theme of Sovereign Individual & ZK Odyssey. This flagship event will navigate the topics Data, Privacy, DID, zkEVM, ZKPs, zkRollup, etc., featuring zero knowledge’s implementation in Blockchain and how to navigate cryptographic primitives as a buidler.
2021
Scaling Summit
On December 18–19th, IOSG 8th Old Friends Reunion will spotlight to reunite friends again. Following the success of our 7th Old Friends Reunion-DeFi Summit 2020, we will bring together renowned blockchain developers, investors, and community enthusiasts from home and abroad to share their ideas and opinions. Enlightening like stars and shining like diamonds, each of us will be the brightest star to create brilliant achievements for the industry together!
2020
7th Old Friends Reunion
– DeFi Summit
On October 26, Old Friends Reunion came to a successful close at 1933 Shanghai. With the theme of “DeFi Summit 2020”, IOSG, together with imToken, DeBank and Aave, had brought you the ultimate carnival of DeFi space. We have a total of 912 people registered on Eventbrite and Huodongxing (活动行), and the actual number of attendees had exceeded 1000.
2019
6th Old Friends Reunion
– Next Platform Camp
On September 18th, IOSG’s sixth “Old Friends Reunion Meetup” was held in Shanghai Lavin Rose. A total of more than 600 people consists of well-known investors, project developers and founders and blockchain enthusiasts from home and abroad participated in the event. The Meetup is hosted by IOSG, the star cross-chain project Polkadot, the deep segment expansion project NEAR Protocol, and the blockchain platform CasperLabs. It’s an excellent opportunity for the audience to get in touch with the blockchain industry.
2018
IOSG & Chainlink L2 Hackathon
Scaling is a Blue Ocean waiting for the developers to explore and find the New World. Scaling blockchains and specifically Ethereum has been a challenge. Every scaling approach has its own trade-offs regarding the security, decentralization, throughput, and flexibility choices.
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Blockchain is eating the world. With the rapid development in the blockchain space, we are witnessing a sharp increase in the number of developers and projects. As a developer-friendly venture capital, IOSG believes there are world-changing entrepreneurs. Kickstarter Program is designed to support those developers and early-stage project teams contributing to the blockchain ecosystem worldwide. What we need is to DISCOVER, ACCOMPANY and HELP them, and they will stun the entire world at the right time.
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CAPITAL
Direct capital investment for project development, support community building and business adoption.
MENTORSHIP
Incubation from a network of industry professionals and subject matter experts.
GROWTH HACKING
Link strategic partners and industry experts to drive value to the project.
Product Delivery
Suggestion on go-to-market plan and extension for market and community influence.
STAKING & VALIDATION
Staking to support token economics and active node validator for specific portfolio companies.
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Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder
NEAR
Jordan Momtazi
Co-Founder
Synthetix
Stani Kulechov
Founder
AAVE
Imran Khan
Lead
Alliance
Nikita Ovchinnik
CMO
Garrett MacDonald
Aidan Hyman
Co-Founder & CEO
ChainSafe
Liu Feng
Investor
ChainNews
Lei Daxiong / Daidai
CMO
DODO
Camila Russo
Founder
The Defiant
Mildred Idada
Founding Partner
Deniz Omer
Founder
Yaoqi Jia
Asia Lead
Polkadot
Zhang Weijia
Head of China Region
EEA
Dong Mo
CEO
Celer Network
Typto
Initiator
DAOSquare
Jocy Lin
Founding Partner
IOSG Ventures
Xinshu Dong
Technical Partner
IOSG Ventures
Scott Moor
Co-founder
Dawn Song
Founder & CEO
Emma Cui
Founding Partner
Longhash Ventures
Sam Williams
Founder
Arweave
Sami Start
Co-founder & CEO
Transak
Niteesh Settypalli
Head of Ecosystem
Flux
George Beall
Head of BizOps
Calvin Chu
Core BUIDLer
Fred Lacs
Software Engineer
Arbitrum
Jaynti Kanani
Co-founder
Polygon
Thanh Le
Founder
Coin98
Amir Bandeali
CEO
0x Labs
Amanda Jaskiewicz
Senior Vice President, Senior Relationship Manager
Derek Yoo
CEO
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DeFi Alliance
NEAR
Synthetix
1inch Network
imToken
DODO
ChainSafe
Celer Network
ECN
OWC
Open DeFi
Impossible Finance
DAOSquare
EEA
Oasis Labs
Avalanche
LongHash Ventures
Flux
Commonwealth
Arbitrum
Polygon
Coin98
Proximity
Skynet Labs
TokenPocket
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