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. Here, as an institutional investor, I will…

tl;dr For light-client data availability, there is little disagreement that erasing codes are used to solve the problem, the difference being how to ensure that the erasing codes are properly encoded. KZG commitments are used in Polygon Avail and Danksharding, while fraud proof is used in Celestia. For Rollup’s data availability…

👀 TL; DR On July 21st, 2022, IOSG successfully hosted the IOSG Dataverse Day at Les Salons de l’Architecte, Paris, France during the ETHCC week. IOSG Dataverse Day covers the theme of “Empowering Web3 Data” and it is a 2022 IRL sequel to our last year’s Metaverse Summit panel discussions, where BUIDLers and…

Author: Jiawei, IOSG Ventures tl;dr If ‘The Merge’ goes well, sharding will be the main focus of Ethereum in 2023 and beyond, and the implications have changed considerably since 2015 when sharding was proposed. After Vitalik proposed a ‘A rollup-centric Ethereum Roadmap’ and ‘Endgame’, Ethereum actually switched its way forward —…

Where it all begins We are living in an increasingly connected world. The so-called Web2.0 brings creators and consumers of information together, allowing us to enjoy peer-to-peer interactions on a global scale. However, the Internet we have today is broken. The data architecture is still based on standalone servers, where data is centrally stored…

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…