TRON DAO and BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) announced Poloniex, Houbi Incubator, Houbi Ventures, Gate.io and KuCoin Ventures as partners who will join the permanent jury.
Trading partners will serve as judges for Hackathon projects built on TRON or BTTC. Each of the partners can consider financing projects with high potential. Winning projects that issue utility tokens will have the opportunity to work with our exchange partners on potential future listings and will be invited to integrate with some of their native blockchains, such as GateChain on Gate.io.
Meet the exchange partners
Poloniex
Poloniex is a global cryptocurrency exchange with a world-class trading platform and security. Poloniex supports perpetual contracts, spot and margin trading, and leveraged tokens. Its services reach global users in nearly 100 countries and regions with different languages available.
“Poloniex is delighted to be part of this Hackathon. In the past, we have seen many quality projects ramp up that have taken the industry to the next level,” said Eddie Jiang, Chief Marketing Officer at Poloniex. “I’m also excited to meet other great developers at this event, and Poloniex is ready to support the most forward-thinking and innovative projects.”
As Judge of Poloniex we have Yie Sean Teoh, who joined the company in September 2021 as Head of Listings and is a seasoned crypto investor himself. Prior to joining Poloniex, Teoh worked in banking, finance and asset management for six years. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2010 and passed the third and final CFA qualifying exam in 2014.
Huobi Incubator
Huobi Incubator is the project incubation arm of Huobi Group. It positions itself as a professional investment incubator integrating industrial research, investment funds and accelerator. He is committed to helping the next generation of blockchain entrepreneurs and technical teams grow at high speed.
“Huobi Incubator has been committed to incubating projects in the Web3 field since its inception, and has partnered with several organizations and companies to launch the Web3 Fellowship to fund projects in this field,” said Zhe Li, head of the research. “This synergistic partnership with the TRON ecosystem and BTTC will help nurture budding Web3 projects, so that all Internet users will benefit from the innovation brought to you by the talents of up-and-coming developers.”
Jinbin Xie, Senior Investment Manager at Huobi Strategic Investments, specializing in cross-chain technologies, layer 2, privacy technologies and Web3, joins us in our Huobi Incubator jury. With enormous credentialed experience as a startup founder, Xie has overseen the mass operations of a crypto community with over 100,000 participants. He has a deep understanding of the challenges and issues that founders still face to help them remove obstacles on their path to success.
Huobi Ventures
Huobi Ventures is focused on growing its venture capital investment portfolio and supporting blockchain projects through long-term investment strategies. Huobi Ventures aims to identify strategic opportunities in different blockchain verticals to complement and expand Huobi’s product offerings. Additionally, Huobi will integrate the acquisitions into its growing suite of blockchain-enabled applications and services to expand business into new markets.
“The TRON team is ambitious and has achieved a lot in the past year,” said Evans HuangFu, Senior Investment Manager. “We look forward to supporting founders with great vision and execution in the TRON ecosystem from the early stages.”
As a judge of Huobi Ventures, we have Haijing Lin, who is their chief investment officer in this branch of Huobi Global. Lin is a seasoned VC-turned-crypto investor with deep and intimate experience in project positioning strategy during the full lifecycle incubation of blockchain projects.
Gate.io
Over the past eight years, Gate.io has strived to provide its users with the best trading experience. Gate.io is one of the top 10 crypto exchanges in the world, listing high quality crypto assets. The platform offers low transaction fees and offers over 1,200 crypto assets.
Mariela Tánchez, Head of International Business Development for Gate.io, also joins us on our judging panel. She has been involved in many startup blockchain projects and has helped support many blockchain foundations to expand crypto knowledge. Its philosophy is that everyone should have access to a fair economic system, and blockchain is the solution to that.
“We have supported various lists of TRON-based projects and will continue to support the TRON ecosystem,” said Mariela Tánchez. “We will also consider investments and the list of TRON-based projects. We invite TRON-based projects to integrate with GateChain. We are happy to support the growth of the TRON ecosystem, seek out great projects to invest in and list in, and build new relationships between GateChain and TRON/BTTC. We consider DAO and Web3 to be the future of crypto and are optimistic for GateChain’s next achievement.
KuCoin Ventures
KuCoin is a leading cryptocurrency exchange (with over 10 million users), now accessible in over 207 countries, with over 600 digital assets to choose from. Currently, the platform offers P2P fiat trading, staking, spot trading, lending, and margin trading.
James, a senior partner at KuCoin Ventures and a proactive investor in the crypto space, specializes in the areas of infrastructure and layers. Fang is a strong supporter of Web3 builders and wants to be part of the team. He led the investment in Pocket Network and other such infrastructure projects.
“We are excited to see BTTC tap into Web3 and are excited to partner with the TRON Grand Hackathon to support the ecosystem,” James said. “BTTC is building a multi-chain layer 2 solution for EVM-enabled chains, which we see as great added value for Web3 and the KuCoin ecosystem. Additionally, we believe it is important to become the co-founders and friends of builders by providing them with information and resources.”
As part of the Hackathon, we’ll be hosting some of our judges and partners on the “Around the Block” podcast series streaming live on TRON DAO Youtube and DLive Protocol (a truly decentralized live streaming platform).
About TRON DAO
TRON is dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the Internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps). Founded in September 2017 by HE Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to deliver impressive achievements since the launch of MainNet in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the integration of the ecosystem of BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized services with nearly 100 million monthly active users. The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years, with over 78 million users on the blockchain, over 2.8 billion transactions, and over $8 billion in total value locked. Additionally, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of USD Tether stablecoins across the world, surpassing USDT on Ethereum in April 2021. The TRON network completed its full decentralization in December 2021 and is now a purely community DAO.
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