Webinar Replay: Is Crypto China/Hong Kong Ready To Rock Again? - Featuring Casey Lau & Ethan Pierse

"This webinar featured a discussion of the crypto ecosystem in Hong Kong/China. While China banned all crypto transactions in late September 2021, over the past several months, as Hong Kong lifted its pandemic restrictions and accelerated efforts to reopen the city, it also allowed retail investors to trade bitcoin and ether. And Web3 events are happening once again in Hong Kong, with a packed house of 10,000+ attendees at the Web3 Festival April 12th-15th. We’ve had two great featured guests: Speaker Bios Casey Lau, Co-Host of Web Summit Europe — Born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, it was in Hong Kong that Casey co-founded StartupsHK — an association connecting all things to do with startups, investors, corporate innovation to and from Casey is also the co-founder of HKG DAO — a DAO and community for tech startups in Hong Kong, and co-host of the RISE conference, the largest and most influential tech and innovation conference in the Asia-Pacific region with over 30,000 attendees. Casey also mentors at various accelerators including ChinaAccelerator in China and SparkLabs in Korea . Ethan Pierse, Director of the CryptoAssets Institute — A sprolific keynote speaker at leading tech conferences like Web Summit, The Next Web, Vivatech, SXSW, and many others, Ethan currently educates and inspires audiences on Web3 and the blockchain economy (NFTs, DAOs, Social Tokens, Tokenized Securities). Ethan is also a Co-Founder of the NFT Factor in Paris, a 400m physical digital art gallery and the HQ of Europe’s burgeoning web3 ecosystem, helping artists, entrepreneurs, and brands get started right on their Web3 journey. Other co-founded include folks from Ledger, Sorare, The Sandbox, RTFKT, Blackpool, Arianee, Dogami, and many others."