Recently, Gate.io, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, successfully held Lead Asia Demo Day and participated in Seoul Meta Week 2024 as a platinum sponsor. Dr. Han Lin, founder and CEO of Gate.io, delivered a keynote speech during Seoul Meta Week 2024. He emphasized the importance of blockchain development and financial innovation, and said that both events provided an important showcase for the future development of blockchain technology.

Empowering startups with Lead Asia Demo Day

On June 28th, Gate.io and Wemade, a leading Korean game developer, co-hosted Lead Asia Demo Day in Seoul, attracting more than 300 attendees. The event kicked off with welcome remarks from Leo, Director of Strategy and Operations for East Asia, and Tiffany Chang, Senior Investment Manager, who emphasized Gate.io's commitment to driving innovation and industry growth. They detailed Gate.io's venture capital arm, Gate Ventures' active investment and support for blockchain startups, with a particular emphasis on its focus on community-driven token economics, groundbreaking innovative projects, robust engineering, and sustainable business models in the Asia-Pacific region. Gate Ventures provides comprehensive support in areas such as product development, code auditing, liquidity provision, and market makers, giving startups the necessary resources and strategic guidance in today's rapidly evolving blockchain ecosystem.

Providing a stage for potential start-ups

At Lead Asia Demo Day, four promising startups - Batching.ai, CYRUS, Amnis Finance and Quranium - showcased their innovative achievements, injecting new vitality into the development of the Web3 industry.

• Batching.ai: An AI-driven NFT gaming platform that uses NFT information combined with AI technology to generate images, allowing users to participate in games using their NFT decks.

• CYRUS: A blockchain startup dedicated to environmental and healthcare solutions, seamlessly combining personal health, environmental initiatives and blockchain technology.

• Amnis Finance: Amnis is the leading liquid staking platform on the Aptos platform, offering up to 10% annualized staking yields and abundant opportunities to farm income. As of now, Amnis' total locked value (TVL) has exceeded $104 million, with more than 200,000 stakers.

• Quranium: The world's first quantum-safe hybrid distributed ledger technology (DLT), designed to build a groundbreaking decentralized infrastructure to meet the challenges of the quantum computing era. This innovative solution stands out for its unparalleled speed and scalability, ensuring powerful and reliable performance.

Driven by vision and passion

The startups participating in the event have demonstrated their project innovation and technological potential, making the competition for the Best Innovation Award extremely fierce. In the end, Batching.ai stood out with its groundbreaking innovations. Tiffany Chang commented: "We believe that their groundbreaking AI-driven NFT game platform will completely change the Web3.0 gaming experience."

At the end of the event, Gate.io expressed its sincere gratitude to co-organizer Wemade, a pioneer in Korean game development that operates the world's largest Web3 game platform Wemix Play using blockchain technology. Gate.io also particularly thanked Gold Sponsors Quranium, Batching.ai, CYRUS, and Amnis, as well as Silver Sponsors Burrito Wallet, TetherMax, UNICE, WEMIX, and Kroma for their strong support in ensuring the smooth running of the event.

Lead Asia Demo Day successfully brought together Korean Web3 industry leaders and communities. “We are honored to be part of this event carefully planned by Gate.io. South Korea is a critical market focus for Quranium, and Gate.io’s leadership in driving the development of the Web3 industry in Asia will be an important contribution to our efforts to build a strong ecosystem. We look forward to working more closely with Gate.io in the future,” said Benjamin Shin, Chief Business Officer of Quranium.

Building trust beyond blockchain

From June 26 to 28, Gate.io participated in Seoul Meta Week 2024 as a platinum sponsor, contributing to the gathering of industry leaders and enthusiasts to explore the future of blockchain technology. In his keynote speech titled "How We Build Trust on the Blockchain", Dr. Han Lin, founder and CEO of Gate.io, focused on the recent security challenges facing the industry and Gate.io's mission to build a secure and user-friendly trading environment, emphasizing blockchain development and financial innovation.

In addition to Dr. Han’s keynote, Gate.io Senior Investment Manager Tiffany Chang also participated in a panel discussion titled “AI’s Transformation in Web3: Changing the Future of Decentralized Technology.”

Seoul Meta Week 2024 and Lead Asia Demo Day concluded successfully, promoting the development of blockchain technology and its application cases, and demonstrating Gate.io’s determination to promote Web3 innovation and industry development.

Disclaimer

This event is for professional knowledge sharing and communication purposes only. The content here does not constitute an offer, solicitation or recommendation of any product or service. Please note that Gate.io may limit or prohibit the use of all or part of the Service in restricted locations. For more information, please read the User Agreement.