Cryptocurrency Economics and Decentralized Token Governance are critical, symbiotic conditions for new blockchain projects. Together, as "Crypto Economics", these considerations set the course for successful funding, distribution, and adoption -- or failure.
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Cryptocurrency Economics and Decentralized Token Governance are critical, symbiotic conditions for new blockchain projects. Together, as "Crypto Economics", these considerations set the course for successful funding, distribution, and adoption -- or failure.
Expert panelists will discuss the opportunities and dangers of the crypto capital market:
> Token use case
+ Business plan
+ Token economic model
> Token sale / ICO
+ Hard and soft caps
+ Discounts
> Post-ICO governance
+ Distribution
+ Liquidity
+ Open market activities
PANELISTS:
Wulf Kaal - Kaal.io
Wulf Kaal is a leading expert on Blockchain Applications in broad arrays of industries, initial coin offerings, and smart contracting, as well as private investment fund regulation and compliance. His scholarship constitutes over 85% of the empirical and theoretical scholarship on Blockchain applications in corporate governance and private investment fund regulation in the United States. Additionally, Prof. Kaal is the leading proponent of dynamic regulatory solutions for innovation.
Kaal advises crypto companies, crypto startups, venture capital funds, and international policymakers on blockchain based solutions in FinTech and LegalTech. As an adviser, Kaal focuses on creating synergies for his clients and building successful new crypto businesses, among others, on existing solutions.
Kaal speaks regularly at leading conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His speaking engagements include presentations at the European Central Bank, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, George Washington University, Northwestern University, Emory University, and the University of Notre Dame, Bocconi University, and Tilburg University, among many others.
Matthew Leidlein
Matt Leidlein has 18 years of execution experience in cash and derivative markets. Besides a sterling track record of liquidity provision in volatile assets and derivatives, Matt has a uniquely comprehensive background, having led teams in the pits of the CBOE, Europe's call-around options market, by IM in OTC markets, and electronically across equity, energy, interest-rate, metals and foreign currency products. Matt pioneered the CME’s rollout of new products including exchange-cleared ethanol swaps and short-dated new-crop corn and soybean options; he was a day-one market-maker in options on BIDU, BABA, FB, and TWTR, among many others.
Matt serves as Big High Wall Capital’s President and manages the firm’s operations and partnerships.
Matt holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan, as well as EUREX’s Trader designation and FINRA’s Series 7 and Series 66 licenses.
Danny Johnson
Danny is one of the most knowledgeable people in the blockchain sector in Chicago. As a professional poker player, he found bitcoin in 2012. Tired of seeing the bad press around bitcoin and other issues facing the crypto community, he created Pinkcoin 2014. Pinkcoin is a blockchain based donation platform for social impact. As Founder & CEO he has witnessed the innovation, difficulties, and attacks a blockchain network faces while their team developed one of the worlds earliest proof-of-work/proof-of-stake hybrid governance systems. http://getstarted.with.pink
He is now on the Chicago Blockchain Project team, an advisor to multiple crypto funds, and coach to reputable blockchain projects. He is an experienced CEO & CTO with a demonstrated history of excelling in the technology industry & blockchain sector. He received his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from Hawaii Pacific University where he was also a collegiate athlete.
Mykyta Safronenko (Moderator)
Mykyta is an active member of Silicon Valley Blockchain Community. As Business Development Director in Applicature, he works with many crypto hedge funds, ICO projects and Blockchain Startups from all over the world. Mykyta graduated from San Francisco State University with the Marketing degree and worked for Google and Facebook during his career.
Yankun Guo
Principal Attorney at Yankun Guo Law
Yankun has been a beacon in the Chicago blockchain community. Formerly working as Regulatory Counsel at Opportunity Financial, LLC & as a legal and compliance consultant at CME Group. Yankun received a B.S. in Actuarial Science and a B.A in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School. She is also on the board of the Chinese American Bar Association.
