CryptoEconomics: Chicago Insight

Chicago , United States

About CryptoEconomics: Chicago Insight

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

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 executive experience in cash and derivative markets. Besides an extraordinary trading track record, 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 serves as BHW Capital’s President and manages the firm’s operations and partnerships.

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)
AGENDA

6:00-6:30 pm Networking Time
6:30-6:40 pm Opening Notes (Disruption Joe, CBP)
6:40-7:40 pm Panel Discussion
7:40-8:15 pm Q & A with the Community
8:15-8:30 pm Closing Notes (Mykyta Safronenko, Applicature)
8:30-9:00 pm Networking Time

#Crypto #blockchain #smartcontract #cryptoeconomics #ICO #STO #bitcoin #ethereum #fintech

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Start:
Jul 19, 2018, 6:00 PM , ACST (UTC +9:30)
End:
Jul 19, 2018, 9:00 PM , ACST (UTC +9:30)
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