After taking a few months off to travel and spend time in the jungles of Thailand learning Muay Thai 🥊, I'm excited to share that I've started a new position as Director - Capital Markets at
@animocabrands
in HQ in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
📍 Sydney soft launch photo. Yes finalllly made the move to Syd and keen to meet with the east coast crypto community irl. DMs open.
Going to
@nftsydevents
tonight 👋
Putting
@ysiu
in the hot seat during our last session of our
@animocabrands
Australia Investor Day in Sydney on Monday was a treat. The man didn't skip a beat.
I met Len and the team when I first moved to Dubai and was so impressed I had to pitch the project to our IC. I am super excited about this investment and partnership. Its gonna be HUGE 🔥
We are excited to announce that
@animocabrands
has joined our seed SAFT round, investing in Saltwater Games’ $XR Token. This investment marks a significant milestone as we integrate XR One with
@Moca_Network
to provide cross-community benefits and enhance competition-based
🗺️in the last 18 months, i have lived and worked in crypto in three countries, and here is my opinion on the state of crypto for start ups in
#Australia
,
#HongKong
, and the
#UAE
... bcos absolutely no one ask for it....
Wowweeee, what a weekend at the
@AusCryptoCon
😅 So wonderful to be able to celebrate in person the strength of the Aus crypto community. I had a blast chatting about all things
@BNBCHAIN
. I am truly inspired by the talent and number of projects within Australia
#KeepBuilding
🖼 Sydney’s firsts in-person
#NFT
art gallery at the
@wholesaleinvest
conference last week. I loved speaking + sourcing artists from around the globe to showcase.
@Binance_AUS
i have decided to tokenise my time...
i have made a lot of poor decisions with my time, doing an MBA, for example = bad use of time. however now i have finally found a good use case
@timedotfun
is a protocol built on base and allows people to trade and redeem time with you. you
i’ve been learning Spanish the last 6ish months (just passed A1.2 lol). but my tiny brain can’t comprehend two languages. so when someone speaks to me in a language i dont understand, eg Arabic, i default respond in Spanish. which has honestly made this Saudi trip so hilarious 😅
👋 Last month I said bye Hong Kong -> hello Dubai 🇦🇪
Aside from taking cringeworthy insta fotos, the focus remains: to continue expanding
@animocabrands
in MENA. Jumping between UAE and Saudi Arabia every month, I am keen to meet the
#Web3
community & regional capital allocators
‘Expansion in the Middle East’
Learn more about what
@animocabrands
has been up to recently..
w/
@charis_campbell
Join us tomorrow at 11AM UTC
Reminder below 👇
In for a treat with a special edition of the Open Metaverse! ✨
From flying cars in Australia to leading a gaming studio in Dubai, take a journey down memory lane with Len Findlay (
@Salty_Len
), CEO of
@saltwatergames
, and host
@charis_campbell
as they explore
#gameownership
,
Heyyy
#aussiefollowaussie
movement ♥️ I’m chatting to a crypto analyst this week and wondering if you have any burning questions on what’s going on in the macro/crypto markets. Will ask and record AMA
eg y JPowell print for so long? wen will I see green? etc
@Binance_AUS
you beautiful beast, it's time to say goodbye. Thank you for all the good times. Team - I will miss you dearly 👋👋👋
Looking forward to the next adventure.
But first, sleep.
We’re excited to share an incredible milestone: our portfolio now spans 540 companies, including investments from both
@animocabrands
and
@AnimocaVentures
. Our ecosystem's community on
@X
has reached 50M+🧑🤝🧑
We're proud to back visionary founders in
#Web3
and gaming! 🕹️⛓️
I may still get asked for ID to buy booze 🥃 but I’ve been through a GFC, been part of institutions that have been issued an EU, seen the FOFA reforms + the Banking Royal Commission. Forgive my skepticism of the current banking climate.
🧵I have had MANY ex-colleagues + associates dismiss me and tell me
#crypto
is a fad which will never last. So let's take a moment to talk about what happened JUST this month in institutional adoption 👇
🐪 4/ Abu Dhabi is the grown up version of Dubai. if I had a start up it's likely where i would want to land. i would apply for Hub71 or ADGaming (if I had a web3 gaming project), and if successful, would get access to a visa, housing, OPEX support and intro to VCs. It's WILD to
I have never worked in VC, but being in Web3 I do get pitch decks sent to me and regularly hit up on LinkedIn, and 90% of the time I have no idea what the business is from the ppt AND the founder can't explain it to me in one sentence... I feel that the last part is important 🤔
I often get asked about crypto + Aussie regulation. Myself + my Binance colleagues much smarter then me have put together our recommendations to Senate 👇🏼👇🏼 Clear regulation, rather than self regulation, in the long run will be the most effective solution.
🧵1. As part of our commitment to working with Australian regulators, Binance Australia submitted our consultation paper to the Treasury to provide recommendations on licensing and custody requirements for crypto-asset exchanges. TLDR 👇
Got stopped by the flight attendant yesterday bcos he was concerned I didn’t meet the 15 y/o age requirement to sit in the exit row.
Am I ageing wonderfully?? orrrr is because I dress like a teenage skater boy who still gets pimples…
don’t answer that.
🇦🇪 3/ okay, let's split UAE into Dubai v Abu Dhabi… Dubai is the land of crypto and real estate. there are clear(ish) regulatory outlines with VARA, easy to access free zones, and VC capital that is ready to inject. outside of the summertime, it's a buzz of conferences,
🦘1/ Aus is uncommercial for crypto startups. yes, sure, perhaps kain and robbie would disagree, but imo, its difficult to network, find fundraising, and get government support. i low key love australia, but my recommendation is to leave…. it still has the best beaches tho and i
🧵1/ I was invited by
@BT_Financial
to present to Aussie financial advisers on the "101 of Crypto" this morning.
🇦🇺According to
@BetaShares
, 90% of Aussie financial advisers had received inquiries from clients about digital assets and turns out, it can be a little confusing...
Hung out at the
@EWC_EN
in Riyadh yesterday. Oh my! It was insane!
I got to try a F1 simulator and I’m sadden to say I did not make you proud
@mattsolomon
- it’s so friggin hard!! Sadly got disqualified 😑 Back to training 🏎️
I have been doing a lot of soul searching around
#soulbound
tokens lately. Obvs completely bias, but this
@binance
research article is a great introduction
.
@animocabrands
is looking to go public in 2025, and is considering crypto-friendly locations like Hong Kong or Middle-East, according to a report. By
@parikshitm899
.
💡New
#NFT
idea to get boyfriends attention.
1/ Create a series of NFTs that include chores/calendar reminders.
2/ Hype on
@discord
and make references to apes/Elon/memes.
3/ BF buys NFTs.
BF: Babe I just bought a Loot-inspired NFT titled ‘Dinner w/ in-laws on Sunday @ 6pm’
genuinely having so much fun playing around with
@GAMEEToken
and their WAT protocol episodes in
@telegram
... super simple, fun games
Putting that aside, they have 80m telegram users, 2.5m DAU, and 1.7M+
@ton_blockchain
wallets... don't sleep on this 😲😲😲
🇭🇰 2/ Hong Kong is China's sandbox for blockchain. whilst they have chopped and changed their mind over the last few years, right now, its generally pro-blockchain (stress the word blockchain, not crypto). a new subcommittee to draft blockchain laws has been announced, more CEX
8/📱
@solana
is going forward with a Solana-native smartphone called Saga, and Polygon is partnering with a mobile phone startup called Nothing to release the Nothing Phone.
i just had an irl meeting at a coffee shop, phones on the table, standard. but i noticed he had this cool looking keycard on the back of his phone. when i asked what it was, i was told its an AI voice recording tool that transcribes & was recording everything 🫠... everything is