The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) was given the opportunity to be a part of Startup Grind Europe, an amazing event held at the Westminster Central Hall, London.
Startup Grind helps bring together founders, innovators and investors through events packed with unique content and networking opportunities around the world. Startup Grind has associated ‘chapters’ in over 350 cities in 120 different countries. The London event boasted over 100 sessions, 75 exhibiting startups, 20 partners and more than 2,000 attendees. The overarching theme of the event centred around the future of tech, funding and fintech.
The Crypto Harbour
A Gibraltar-specific panel discussion titled “Gibraltar: The Crypto Harbour For Blockchain and Fintech,” introduced by Denise Matthews, Startup Grind Gibraltar Chapter Director and Operations Manager of the GSX Blockchain Innovation Centre, gave attendees the opportunity to understand more about the progress of Gibraltar as a jurisdiction. Nick Cowan, founder and CEO at GBX and GSX, chaired the panel that included Paul Astengo, Senior Executive at Gibraltar Finance & Co-Chair of the DLT Working Group, and George McDonaugh, the CEO at KR1.
They discussed the journey of Gibraltar as a growing hub for fintech and becoming a world-leading jurisdiction in the blockchain space through the establishment of a supportive regulatory framework. Paul Astengo spoke about how Gibraltar was open and accessible to this emerging innovative industry and the huge amount of interest the jurisdiction has received from blockchain companies since the regulatory framework was launched in January 2018.
Nick asked George McDonaugh what his views on Gibraltar as a jurisdiction for fintech and blockchain companies were, to which George replied:
“We see projects come to us and our network looking for jurisdictions. Where can they start a company? Who do they talk to? And we started to ask the same questions, then our relationship with GBX started. It is like everyone has swallowed the blockchain pill, and everyone knows what’s going on.”
During the panel’s Q&A, the following question was asked; what do best practices look like for a token sale? Nick Cowan answered:
“[From a GSX and GBX perspective], we have taken what we know about capital markets and applied them to the token sale space. Our aim is to provide participants with everything they need to make an informed decision, […] incentivising collective behaviour and best practices.”
The event brought a mixed crowd, with attendees coming from across a wide spectrum of both industries and countries. Speakers such as Tony Wheeler, Co-founder of Lonely Planet, and Danny Aranda, Managing Director of Ripple, were among some of the day’s speakers. In between keynote speeches, the GBX stand was flooded with interested attendees as one of only a handful of blockchain and crypto-related sponsors at the event.
We discussed our aim to build a world-leading, institutional-grade token sale platform, the GBX Grid, and Digital Asset Exchange, establishing new industry standards for token sales through best practices brought over from the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX). Many startups spoke with us, interested in the new avenues of funding that token sales could offer their projects.
The event was a great success and a great opportunity for GBX to demonstrate our project to a demographic of startups not necessarily fluent in blockchain. We would like to thank the organisers of Startup Grind for organising the event and for inviting us to be a part of it.
To find out more about GBX, visit:
Website: https://gbx.gi
Medium blog: https://medium.com/@Gibraltar.Blockchain.Exchange
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GibBlockEx/
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Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/GBXCommunity/
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