Ant Financial Set up X Plan to Absorb Blockchain Talents from All over the World

Jul 10, 2020

Alibaba-affiliated fintech giant Ant Financial has recently set up an X plan to expand its talent pool in blockchain. The plan is intended to grow its reserve of blockchain talents for the next 20 years by cooperating with colleges and universities all over the world. It is learned t...

DeFi in China lacks Venture Capital in the Process of Application

Jul 9, 2020

How is the ongoing development of DeFi in China? Obviously, China has lagged behind the West countries. According to the statistics of DeFipulse, there is no Chinese developer team in the top 10 of the DeFi protocol; even in the whole list, there are no more than three Chinese devel...

Virtual Assets Exchange is Bound to Happen, Says Former President of China Securities Regulatory Commission

Jul 8, 2020

"The development of digital capital market is still facing the problem of organizational revolution. The most typical, such as the virtual asset exchange, is bound to happen in the future. How to deal with such organizational change is also a problem that we may encounter.” Said Xiao Gang, f...

China Has Over 45,000 Blockchain Companies Registered, Blockchain among Most Popular Career Options

Jul 8, 2020

There have been more than 45,000 blockchain companies registered with the Chinese government as of July 7, 2020, according to data from Chinese company information search engine Qcc.com. Of the over 45,000 blockchain companies, more than half (52.5%) are located in China’s economic power...

China Crypto Roundup (June 29 – July 6): Largest OTC Trader Detained by Police, DeFi Frenzy and More

Jul 7, 2020

In this past week, the Chinese crypto community was shocked by the detention of the country’s largest bitcoin OTC dealer Zhao Dong. Justin Sun warning against a Tron-based DeFi project triggered heated discussions among the crypto community. Blockchain is seeing steady development in t...

Sigma Prime at Hangzhou International Blockchain Week | Ethereum 2.0: Past, Present and Future

Jul 7, 2020

Known as the largest and most influential blockchain conference and crypto event within China, the Hangzhou International Blockchain Week 2020 was held by 8BTC on July 5. The conference brings together the most influential industry leaders, investors, KOLs and medias of the bloc...

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire: We’re Very Much Approaching a Time When Digital Currency Will Become Very Mainstream

Jul 6, 2020

After volatile seven years in the crypto space, Circle founder Jeremy Allaire saw that we are very much approaching a time when digital currency will become very mainstream, said Jeremy at the Hangzhou International Blockchain Week. At the conference, the cofounder and CEO of the...

Messari at Hangzhou International Blockchain Week | DeFi is Eating the World

Jul 6, 2020

On July 5, the Hangzhou International Blockchain Week 2020 held by 8BTC has kicked off under the guidance of local government. Started by China’s leading blockchain and crypto news media 8BTC since 2017, Hangzhou International Blockchain Week is an annual event series that brin...

China-Australia Stand-Off Could Impact Blockchain Collaboration

Jul 4, 2020

The deteriorating relationship between China and Australia may see their political wrangling extend from trade wars to threatening to have an adverse effect on other sectors including the budding blockchain-based collaboration between entities on both sides. Firms from various countries have ...

Justin Sun Warns Investors against a Tron-based Defi Project after the Latter Allegedly Turned Him Down

Jul 3, 2020

The controversial Tron CEO Justin Sun has recently distanced himself and his company from a Defi project built on Tron called Oikos (OKS) and issued a warning to investors against participating in the project. Sun explained that the Defi project was developed by Tron community...