From December 19 to 21, 2018, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing. The conference redefined infrastructure construction, defining 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, and Internet of Things as " new infrastructure construction " or "new infrastructure" for short. Subsequently, "strengthening the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure" was included in the 2019 Government Work Report. Founded in June 2013, ZBExchange is an international digital exchange under ATXchange Limited that integrates digital currency, investment services and information services. 2020 is the 7th year of ZB. What has the 7-year-old exchange gone through? This AMA specially invited ZB CEO Ouma to explain to us: The infrastructure road of ZB, a 7-year-old exchange. Let's take a look at ZB's past infrastructure and future development. On the occasion of 41 Finance's second anniversary, 41 Finance launched the " 41 Show Time " online AMA. On May 13, the fifth session was held. 41 Finance specially invited ZB Exchange CEO Ouma to be a guest in 41 Finance's live broadcast room. Ouma took us to understand the current situation of ZB and see the infrastructure construction road of the 7-year-old exchange - ZB? In addition to being live-broadcasted on the 41 Finance community, this conference was also strategically forwarded in communities by 10 media outlets, including Mars Finance, Worldchain Finance, Wansha Information, Evangelism Finance, ChainSecurity Finance, Interstellar Vision, ChainTiger Finance, CoinValue Finance, AntChain Finance, Blockchain Bus, and Wall-E Finance. 41 Finance is a leading international media for domestic and overseas publicity and promotion, with first-hand overseas publicity and promotion channels. It is a comprehensive service platform integrating market trends, news, information flow, community services and live broadcast. [Content of this AMA] 41 Finance Four Young Masters: Mr. Ouma founded ZBG and ZB successively, including VC business. Can you share with us the general situation of taking over ZB? Ouma: Hello everyone, I am Ouma from ZB, and I am very grateful to the organizer 41 Finance for inviting me. Let me first briefly introduce myself. I used to work at ZBG. I majored in computer science, and after graduating from graduate school, I worked as a programmer at Ericsson, then worked overseas at Huawei for 10 years, and also worked in traditional VC/PE for a short period of time. In the past two years, I have grown together with ZBG and witnessed an exchange from 0 to 1 to the top ten in the world. At the beginning of this year, ZBcoin made additional strategic investments in two independent platforms, ZBG and BW. As a replacement, I was also assigned to be responsible for the ZB.com platform at ZBG. Currently, ZB.com has served tens of millions of users worldwide. In February this year, ZB Points was rated as one of the top 5 platform coins of CMC last year. 41 Finance: According to data from authoritative trading lists at home and abroad such as CMC, ZB.com is ranked in the top 5 or top 4. Can ZB.com, a 7-year-old exchange, successfully maintain its brand status among the top four? What is ZB.com's overall operational strategy? Ouma: At the end of 2019, ZB.com integrated its first instant chat community tool into the trading platform, which greatly increased user stickiness and greatly improved the user experience. In order to continuously improve security, we are currently also providing more security settings for institutional users, such as setting restrictions on trading pairs and so on. This year, we will continue to focus on the ecological construction and user experience of ZB. First, we will accelerate the globalization process at home and abroad, deepen the Southeast Asian market, and strengthen international cooperation. We will add multi-language versions and deepen localized operations. Second, we will continue to optimize our own products, continuously iterate and update, expand the incubation application of ZAPP products, and provide high-quality blockchain infrastructure for the industry. Third, we will serve the platform users well, aiming to protect the rights and interests of users and strictly control the risk of projects. Fourth, we will respond to user demands in a timely manner and provide users with a more convenient and efficient trading experience. We will remove hidden inactive currencies and eliminate the last-placed ones. In terms of global compliance layout, we have also made some targeted strategic arrangements. For example, ZB obtained the US MSB license and the operating exemption for digital currency payments from the Singapore PSA Monetary Authority this year; and we have built the ZB Innovation Think Tank Research Institute to analyze cutting-edge innovative projects in the industry and provide some basic blockchain course services. The most important thing is that our entire team has a clear goal to maintain our leading position among the top four in the world. (Welcome ZB CMO European code) 41 Finance Four: This year's platform tokens can be said to be quite popular. Does ZB have any plans and ecological construction in this area? Ouma: At present, ZB points have been applied in payment, transactions, financial services, lending and financial management, network security, leisure and entertainment and other fields. In terms of platform applications, ZB points have been used to deduct transaction fees (50% off), purchase ZB VIP membership, participate in the subscription of UP quota for high-quality projects, pay market maker service fees, serve as a deposit for OTC certified merchants, and be used for community voting for listing. ZB has been continuously deepening the ecological construction around the ZB ecosystem and exploring more application scenarios for ZB points. At present, ZB.com is also starting from these two points. First, the token of the ZB team is destroyed to make ZB points enter the absolute deflation stage. Second, the ZAPP incubation application ecological platform is currently being built to allow multiple applications to access, guide users to participate in the platform's various businesses, share the platform's growth rights, and continue to expand the application scenarios of ZB points. 41 Finance Four Young Masters: More and more exchanges are planning to enter the derivatives market. What does Huobi think of the derivatives market and what plans does it have? Ouma: Unlike the spot market, the contract market actually tests the hard power of the exchange. If you want to seize the blue ocean market of contract trading, you must carefully design risk control, transaction security, contract strategy, contract clearing and settlement, etc. to ensure an excellent user experience. Only when the funds are safe and the experience is in place will users come naturally. In this regard, ZB Exchange has obvious advantages in contract development with its nearly 7 years of safe and convenient spot trading development and operation experience and high-level talent reserves. But we are not in a hurry to go online. For ZB's strategic layout, globalization, compliance and specialization are very clear trends, and we must do it in a compliant manner so that our users can use our products safely and with confidence. We have already laid out our global market, and have obtained compliance licenses such as the US MSB and Malta. Other countries will also apply for them one after another. Next, we will continue to deepen our efforts in technology and product design. 41 Finance Four Young Masters: Bitcoin has completed its halving. What does Mr. Ouma think about the trend of the digital currency market this year? How do you predict the trend after the “BTC halving”? Ouma: The 5.12 halving does not seem to have brought about a big market. Looking back at the previous two halvings, we will find that the favorable market conditions brought about by the halving event do not occur immediately, but will stabilize for a period of time. Because the halving only provides a basic fermentation soil for the market, and then the market will catalyze it, which takes a certain amount of time. During this period of time, the price of the currency rises and falls, which are normal market reactions and behaviors. According to the historical experience of the halving market, the first halving was on November 28, 2012, and the real bull market did not come until half a year later. The second halving was on July 10, 2016, when the price was 645.32. Six months after the halving, until January 4, 2017, the price reached 1,075 US dollars. The impact of this market can only be seen clearly from the perspective of six months later. In the long run, the price of coins will definitely rise, and the bull market will definitely come. However, the situation this year may be more complicated, because the epidemic, the 3.12 black swan event, the flood season, and the halving all happened at the same time. These events, which are all major events when pulled out individually, happened together, and the chemical reaction they produced made it difficult to judge and estimate the prospects of the entire market. So overall, after this halving, there was no immediate bull market. But this is not a bad thing, because a real bull market cannot be hyped up by a hot event, but must be developed based on the stable and solid development of the industry ecosystem. If the entire industry can put more enthusiasm and focus on the industry's technological development and ecological construction, and everyone does their best to contribute to the development of the industry, then there is no doubt that the bull market will come naturally. (Social media screenshot) After the interview, facing the questions from the community members, ZB CEO Ouma interpreted the questions from community members from various angles and gave satisfactory answers to the community members. The atmosphere was warm. At the same time, during the interview, ZB Exchange brought customized gifts to the audience, including a set of exquisite tea sets worth 700 yuan*2, and a limited edition ZB T-shirt worth 80 yuan*20. During the live broadcast, a ZB red envelope of 1,600 yuan was also provided. Finally, I would like to thank again the guests and media friends who participated in this AMA. |
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