DAS (Digital Asset Series) Seminars is a series of educational seminars covering 12 different key topics across the digital asset space.

• Date & time: Thursday, October 27, 2022 · 6 – 8:45pm HKT
• Location: New World Millennium, 72 Mody Rd TsimShaTsui Hong Kong, KOW

About this event

Background of Digital Asset Series (DAS) Seminars

Initiated and sponsored by the TADS Awards, the world’s first international awards for Tokenized Assets & Digitized Securities (TADS) inaugurated in 2020, Digital Asset Series (DAS) is a series of educational seminars delivered by industry leaders and practitioners, legal and consulting professionals, regulators, and academic scholars from the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong.

The objective of DAS is to educate the general public about the ever-growing landscape of digital assets and facilitate mass adoption by covering twelve (12) key topics across the digital asset space including Investment Strategies, Asset Management, Security Tokens, Web3, Metaverse, NFT, Regulatory, Stablecoin, CBDC, DeFi, Cryptocurrencies, ESG, Impact and Social Good.

From August to November 2022, DAS will be hosting ten (10) free educational seminars spanning a four-month period, including:

1. Aug 30th – Investment Strategies & Asset Management in Digital Assets (completed)
2. Sep 15th – Digitized Securities & Security Token (completed)
3. Sep 29th – ESG, Impact and Social Good (completed)
4. Oct 5th – Compliance and Regulatory Landscape (completed)
5. Oct 12th – Stablecoin & CBDC (completed)
6. Oct 17th – Real-Life Case Studies on Digital Assets & Blockchain Investment (completed)
7. Oct 25th – NFT Innovations and Opportunities (Online Workshop for HKUST Students Only)
8. Oct 27th – DeFi & Crypto (this event)
9. Dec 1st – Web3 Industry Expert Panels
10. Date TBC – Market opportunities in GBA

DAS (Digital Asset Series) 2022 – Session 8# : DeFi & Crypto

Co-hosted by : the Faculty of Digital Transformation Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Decentralized finance (or DeFi) emerged as an exciting new crypto space in 2017, and has poised to disrupt traditional finance with new “programmable money.” The market soared in the “DeFi Summer” of 2020 with the launch of major new applications such as Uniswap and Aave. Though the 2022 downturn has already taken a toll on many DeFi projects and the crypto space as a whole, it can still lead to game-changing breakthroughs. If past events are any indication, a new era of creativity seems inevitable.

In this session of DAS, we are very honored to be joined by some of the leading experts in the digital asset space for sharing their insights on DeFi & Cryptocurrencies.

Rundown

• 6:00 – 6:30pm – Registration + Refreshment
• 6:30 – 6:35pm – Opening Speech/Organizer Introduction
  • PolyU Organizer
    • Dr. Xin XU, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business & Associate, Professor of the Department of Management & Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    • Dr. Feng TIAN, Associate Professor, School of Accounting and Finance, Program Director, MSc in Accounting and Finance Analytics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • DAS Organizer
    • Sam LEE, Chairman of the Organizing Committee at DAS Seminars & TADS Awards
• 6:35 – 7:50 pm – Presentations
  • 6:35 – 7:50pm – Topic: DeFi: Opportunities and Risk, Speaker: SM YIU, Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
  • 6:50 – 7:10pm – Topic: Decentralized Treasury Management to Safe keep Assets for Communities, Speaker: Thor CHAN, CEO, BGE CTO, HKE Holdings (1726.HK)
  • 7:10 – 7:25 – Topic: From TradFi to DeFi , Speaker: Hinson WONG, Defi Entrepreneur and full-stack Developer
  • 7:25 – 7:40 – Topic: CeFi and DeFi Convergence, Speaker: Kevin LAW, Director of Business Development, Matrixport
  • 7:40 – 7:50 – Topic: How to profit $180K in 15 seconds with DeFi , Speaker: Jack POON, Professor of Practice, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 7:50 – 8:25pm – Panel Discussion
  • Moderator
    • Jack POON, Professor of Practice, School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Panelists
    • SM YIU, Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
    • Thor CHAN, CEO, BGE CTO, HKE Holdings (1726.HK)
    • Hinson WONG, Defi Entrepreneur and full-stack Developer
    • Kevin LAW, Director of Business Development, Matrixport
• 8:25 – 8:45pm – Q&A + Networking

Co-Organizers & Supporting Organizations

DAS is co-organized by seven (7) leading professional organizations in the digital asset ecosystem in Hong Kong, namely (alphabetically) the Asia Pacific Digital Economy Institute (“APDEI”), the Asia Security Token Alliance (“ASTA”), the Hong Kong Blockchain Association (“HKBA”), the Hong Kong Digital Asset Society (“HKDAS”), the Hong Kong Digital Finance Association (“HKDiFi”), the NFT Association of Hong Kong (“NFTAHK”) and the Society of Registered Financial Planners (“HKRFP”).

DAS is also supported by Invest Hong Kong, the HKSTP – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the Hong Kong Cyberport , and five (5) leading universities including the HKUST Crypto-Fintech Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the CUHK Engineering FinTech Applied Research Academy (CEFAR), the LITE-lab (Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab) of Faculty of Law at The Hong Kong University, the Faculty of Digital Transformation Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the EMBA Programme at the City University of Hong Kong.

Organized by Coinstreet

Founded in 2017, Coinstreet is an award-winning professional advisory and consulting firm in the Digital Asset sector. Coinstreet Partners also offers innovative fintech services, and business and operation solutions, covering four key business segments including : (1) Primary Market, Asset Tokenization & Initial Offerings, (2) Metaverse Solutions & Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), (3) DeFi, Prime Brokerage and Private Banking, (4) Asset Management, Tokenized Funds & Digital Asset Custodian.

Coinstreet is a co-organizer of TADS Awards – the world’s first international award for Tokenized Assets and Digitized Securities sector.

Coinstreet was awarded the “Asia Futurist Leadership Award” and the “Security Tokens Realised Awards London 2020”.

For more information, please visit Coinstreet Partners.