New York, May 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fusion Foundation, the non-profit organization building the next generation infrastructure for decentralized global finance, announced that its CEO and founder DJ Qian has been selected to give the keynote address at the inaugural Digital Asset Summit (DAS) May 15th in New York.
The only event during Blockchain Week designed for financial market professionals and investors, DAS will bring together hundreds of influential fund managers, banks, family offices, regulators, CIOs and blockchain innovators. The Summit is being convened at a critical time as real-world applications of blockchain are being adopted by a growing number of leading financial firms.
DAS attendees will hear from a curated blend of financial and blockchain industry leaders who together bring a balanced, pragmatic view of the developing blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. Attendees will be primarily buy-side and sell-side financial industry professionals interested in learning from and collaborating with other leaders in the space.
Blockchain technology innovator and Fusion Foundation CEO Dejun Qian will be delivering the keynote address, Digital Assets and the Internet of Value. Among the topics he will discuss:
- What is the Internet of Value, and how is it changing the way assets are being transacted?
- Why stablecoins hold so much promise, and how their adoption can be fast-tracked; and
- How digital assets can unlock trillions of dollars with innovative time-locking technology.
“I look forward to sharing Fusion’s insight on how we, as a community, can collaborate to fast-track blockchain adoption for institutional finance,” says Dejun Qian, CEO at Fusion Foundation and title sponsor of DAS. “We have an incredible opportunity to develop revolutionary financial solutions on the blockchain. The Digital Asset Summit is a great setting to discuss the possibilities and challenges that lie ahead as innovation in this space continues.”
The Digital Asset Summit, to be held at Cipriani 25 Broadway in New York City, will kick off with an invitation-only speaker dinner hosted by Fusion Foundation on May 14th. For more information about the Digital Asset Summit, contact events@blockworksgroup.io or click here. For more information about Fusion Foundation, visit www.fusion.org.
About Fusion Foundation
Fusion Foundation is a non-profit organization building the next generation infrastructure for decentralized global finance. By providing innovative companies and developers with the open source technology they need to build peer-to-peer time and value-based applications, the world will enjoy financial transactions that are more accessible, efficient and transparent than previously possible. Fusion’s seasoned team of industry veterans led by Founder and CEO DJ Qian, a blockchain pioneer who previously launched two top 20 global blockchain projects (VeChain and QTUM), is working to collaborate with financial institutions, cryptocurrency companies, businesses, peer-to-peer lenders, third-party app developers, academia, and the broader blockchain community. By providing the foundation that enables different cryptocurrency tokens, digital assets, off-chain values, and data-sources to be created and exchanged between the Fusion blockchain, other blockchains and financial systems, Fusion is moving ever closer to a globally accessible system for the free exchange of values. Visit www.fusion.org to learn more about Fusion and its partnership program.