In March 2021, Jocy the founding partner at IOSG judged the Shanghai Polkadot Hackathon where he saw 40 Chinese developer teams who developed ideas & products from 0 to 1. These teams had huge potential and executional prowess but required support — financial & in form of mentorship. Today, in…

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…

Special thanks to DODO and Longhash Ventures for providing valuable feedback! Author: Amidzic Momir | Analyst @IOSG VC Liquidity mining has proven to be effective incentivizing scheme for bootstrapping protocols and recently we witnessed one of the wildest liquidity mining events in the short history of DeFi. Notably, Uniswap launched…

Today is the annual gathering of old friends. In the past year, the entire crypto-economic circle has been ups and downs, but IOSG Ventures is instructed to invest in value, stuck to value investment, pursued long-termism, and has always been friends with time. …

Price feeds is not that simple: Defi use cases There are mainly two types of oracles that have been widely adopted in Defi. Chainlink, being a representative of generic oracles, has partnered with major defi protocols such as Aave and dydx by providing the novel Volume weighted average price. …

In my previous article ‘P2E is not sustainable — seeking the next Axie Infinity’, I predicted that Gen 1 P2E games will likely collapse in the short term. The prediction has been validated with Axie Infinity’s revenue dropping over 95% from the peak. I believe as an industry, we are…

Oracle：trust builder Oracle is usually reckoned as the bridge and window of on-chain and off-chain data. In short, oracle is a middleware providing real-world data services for blockchain projects. Source: IOSG If we recognize the definition that blockchain is the trust machine, then oracle can be essentially referred to as the trust-maintenance…

What is the Turing Test？ Let’s assume a simple experiment: you are in a closed room with a small hole in it, and a mysterious visitor in another room connected by the small hole. By your side, there is a pile of paper and a pen. …

TL; DR On December 19th, the Value factory at Shekou Shenzhen has witnessed the grand success of the 8th Old Friends Reunion event. The two-day event covered the themes of Scaling Summit and Metaverse Carnival, two of the most heated topics within the current crypto world. The event saw over ​​2000 onsite…