The TOKEN2049 conference held in Singapore from September 11th to 17th this year has become the largest and most popular Web3 industry event of its kind this year. It is reported that this year's TOKEN2049 welcomed more than 10,000 participants from more than 3,500 organizations, and a number of heavyweight encryption industry guests attended the meeting.
Among the series of activities held during the TOKEN2049 conference, the Swimming Pool Party Rave hosted by RockTree Capital and co-organized by Maelstrom was the most popular.
It is reported that among the more than 10,000 TOKEN2049 conference attendees, about 4,600 people signed up for the RockTree party event. During the event, more than 3,000 people participated in the RockTree party, gathering almost half of the TOKEN2049 attendees.
In fact, during the entry stage before the event, the queue outside the event venue was as long as 1 kilometer, and many participants even climbed over the fence to enter the event venue, and the scene was once out of control. After that, the event had to ask the Singapore police to come to the scene to maintain order, and it was finally held smoothly.
This RockTree party event is unprecedented among previous TOKEN2049 conferences, both in terms of the number of participants and its popularity.
Revealing the secret behind the popularity of RockTree party
The popularity of RockTree party activities stems from the high status of RockTree Capital and its founder Omer Ozden in the crypto industry.
Omer Ozden, the founder of RockTree Capital, has been deeply involved in the Eastern and Western markets since the early development of the Internet, and has since delved into the blockchain field. Omer Ozden has a strong influence in the legal, Internet, and encryption industries.
As early as 2000, Omer Ozden's team participated in the formulation of the "VIE Structure" framework for Chinese enterprises' foreign investment and IPO. After the introduction of this framework, it changed the previous dilemma of Chinese private enterprises' overseas financing difficulties and provided Chinese enterprises with access to overseas capital markets. Financing provides a legal basis and allows Internet technology to play an important role in China's modernization development process.
With the rise of the blockchain field, Omer Ozden established RockTree Capital and went deep into the field. Under the leadership of Omer Ozden, RockTree Capital has made great contributions to the development of the encryption industry. At the same time, it is also a link between the East and the West. The nexus of the crypto industry.
After 2017, Omer Ozden was committed to promoting the implementation and compliance of regulations in the blockchain and encryption industries. In 2018, under the leadership of Omer Ozden, RockTree Capital submitted the "Practical Compliance Agreement" to regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland. Token Guidelines" and submitted the "Security Token Guidelines" to the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019. During the same period, Ouyang Mo also participated in the formulation of regulations and policies for the encryption industry by Singapore MAS and Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission.
During the same period, Omer Ozden and his RockTree Capital have successfully participated in early investments in today's most well-known Web 3.0 companies, including ChainLink (LINK), The Graph (GRT), dYdX (DYDX), REN (REN), Fantom (FTM) , Maple Finance (MPL), Pocket Network (POKT), etc. At the same time, Omer Ozden, who has been deeply involved in the Eastern and Western markets for many years, also hopes to connect the top companies and businesses in the Western and Eastern cryptocurrency markets through RockTree Capital, bringing many well-known overseas projects into China, which also makes it a leader under the Web3 wave. One of the industry pioneers.
Omer Ozden and RockTree Capital have helped some leading blockchain projects in recent years with their development layouts such as transaction execution, overseas financing, and global expansion. With its help, many Web3 entrepreneurs have obtained financing and broader development opportunities, and venture capitalists have also achieved good results in their investment harvest.
It can be seen that Omer Ozden and his RockTree Capital have made important contributions to the long-term development of the encryption industry and have a pivotal position in the encryption industry. The presence of Omer Ozden was one of the important factors in the event's popularity.
RockTree Capital founder Omer Ozden DJed at the event
In addition, the co-organizer Maelstrom is Arthur Hayes' family foundation in Singapore. As the founder of BitMex, the world's largest crypto derivatives trading platform, Arthur Hayes also has a pivotal influence in the crypto industry.
Arthur Hayes tweeted to highlight the popularity of the event
A “super party” worth hundreds of billions of dollars
This event provided participants with a carnival venue in the form of a pool party, and the event also invited guests from the Winter Olympics fireworks show and a well-known Brazilian DJ to perform. The scene of more than 3,000 people participating in the pool party was also extremely shocking. The party hosted by RockTree became the largest and most shocking event in this TOKEN2049 conference.
The unique party process setting can be said to be one of the highest-level and most valuable events in the industry.
It is reported that about 130 top traditional institutions from the global encryption industry have registered and participated in this VIP event, including 1KX, Coinbase, Coinlist, Sequoia, JP Morgan, Temasek, ZhenFund, Grab Corporate Ventures, dYdX, Binance, OKX , Fantom, Galaxy, Hashed, Oxford and Cambridge Institute, etc.
At the same time, a number of well-known industry partners such as Maeltrom, Arcadia Group, Covalent, Ethena Labs, D3, Aethir, Term Labs, Inception, Secured Finance, NFTfi, Koii Labs, Gravita, ZKEX, Infinitas, CasperLabs, etc. also sponsored this event.
The luxurious lineup of guests and sponsors can also be called a super party worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
The event is a VIP Party event from 19:00 to 22:00. Participants can enjoy the carnival in the venue with a swimming pool and DJ. After the VIP Party event, it is a public event from 22:00 to 2:00 am.
The theme of the VIP Party is "Investors Meet Founders". It has already gathered top resources from the East and the West, including cryptocurrency, Web3, Wall Street investment institutions and many other fields. The purpose of the event is to further connect the East and West markets. Therefore, the second stage of the carnival pool party activity continues the essence of the VIP stage and creates an environment for participants to communicate with each other and efficiently connect resources, such as cooperation seeking among different industry roles, start-up teams looking for investors, and investors looking for investors. investment projects, etc.
From a deeper perspective, as a very large-scale encryption industry event, the event held by RockTree is breaking geographical restrictions and information gaps, and playing a role in promoting the efficient flow of industry resources.
Omer Ozden's "Strong Shot"
At the event, Omer Ozden, as the leader and soul of the currency circle, gave a speech during the event. It was also the most inspiring speech that united the industry in this TOKEN2049. It also gave a boost to the crypto industry in the bear market. Needle".
Omer Ozden said, "People who come to the RockTree Party don't want to miss it even if they wait in a long line, because everyone finds it very interesting. This VC VIP event has leading VC partners from the United States, Europe and Asia, as well as many top projects Sponsored this event, including some companies and project teams invested by RockTree, some companies invested by Arthur Hayes, and some companies and teams that we are not very familiar with. What RockTree did tonight, and has insisted on doing for a long time, is to act as a bridge The same bond, combining the best of the East and the West. Because we have our own teams in Beijing and New York, we are very "down-to-earth". We can understand the best of the best founders earlier than others project."
In the cryptocurrency industry, Omer Ozden can be called the "Decacorn Hunter" precisely because of the localization and down-to-earth nature of his team, and also because of his keen insight, which allows him to find potential "decacorns" before others. ” and helped internationalize these projects, turning them into “decagons”.
When China’s regulations on cryptocurrency were unclear in 2021, many people chose to leave, but because of their trust in this country, RockTree stayed.
Omer Ozden was one of the first foreigners to come to China. He witnessed China's reform and opening up, and also experienced the period when Web2 was restricted. However, he was still full of expectations in the end and participated in the formulation of the "VIE Framework" for foreign investment and IPO of Chinese companies. In the end, time rewarded the perseverance. His team unlocked the huge power of China's development in the field of science and technology, created tens of millions of jobs, and also boosted the entire Chinese and world economy.
Omer Ozden also mentioned that although many Chinese people are leaving China in 2021 and 2022, the Western encryption community has opened its doors and everyone has joined the Web3 global community in places such as Dubai, New York and Silicon Valley. But in 2023, friends in New York and Silicon Valley are also facing uncertain legal policies, and many Americans are coming to Asia. Therefore, I hope that Chinese brothers and sisters will also show Chinese humanity, open their hearts, welcome and help American projects, funds and exchanges find their place in the Asian market.
Since the first half of 2022, when the encryption market ushered in a series of black swan events, the industry has always been in a bear market and the market has tended to decline. However, the unprecedented “crypto carnival party” organized by RockTree Capital during the TOKEN2049 conference brought a perfect ending to the industry’s third quarter and played an encouraging role in the beginning of the fourth quarter.
RockTree Capital, as the best link between the Eastern and Western markets, not only demonstrated its strong appeal and made this event an unprecedented carnival, but also released the enthusiasm and vitality of the encryption industry, allowing the encryption industry to gain confidence again , and is expected to become a catalyst for the next bull market.