Blockchain Life 2020 Forum held in Moscow

On October 21-22, the Blockchain Life Forum 2020 took place in Moscow - the main offline event of the year in the industry. Despitecomplex COVID realities and closed borders, the Forum was attended by over 3,000 participants.

Global industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and start-ups from all over Russia came together to discuss current trends and determine the development of the industry in the coming years.

At the forum, dozens of contracts were signed between market companies, investors and funds.

One of the key speakers of Blockchain Life 2020became Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma finance committee. In his speech, Anatoly Gennadievich predicted the start of testing the digital ruble. The Russian government is preparing to launch tests next year.

Aksakov also stressed that there are no opponents of the blockchain in the government structures, "everyone understands how important it is to develop technology, but there are different points of view."

Particular attention at the Forum was paid to the section on blockchain implementation. Real cases of using technology in your business have demonstrated:

— Konstantin Klimenko (Product Director of the Blockchain Laboratory of Sberbank),
— Herbert Shopnik (Business Development Director at S7 TechLab),
— Artem Kalikhov (SRO Waves Enterprise),
— Kirill Polyakov (Head of the distributed registry technologies department of DIT Moscow),
— Ivan Maslov (COO of Bitfury in Russia),
— Pavel Kostyuk (Business Development Manager at Bitfury),
— Ilya Pelevin (Project Director of the Directorate of Innovative and Prospective Projects of IK SIBINTEK LLC).

The speakers told the guests: how to monetize the blockchain; in practice, we analyzed the cases of blockchain implementation in business and the public sector in 2020; revealed the insiders of new projects being implemented in Moscow and much more.

The third, central topic that aroused particular interest among forum guests was the section “All about DeFi — decentralized finance. How to make money on DeFi?”

At the forum, the country's leading experts spoke abouttrends, perspectives and new motivational models in DeFi; gave the Forum guests legal advice and explained what to do in DeFi projects so as not to end up like an ICO, shared up-to-date earnings insights and much more.

Participants' networking took place at the exhibitionwith an area of ​​more than 3000 square meters. A new element of the forum is networking in the form of quick acquaintances. Here guests of Blockchain Life 2020 had the opportunity to find more than 30 new useful contacts in 30 minutes.

The exhibitors were more than 70 companies in the industry: the world's leading exchanges, manufacturers and suppliers of mining equipment and services, innovative startups, agencies and various services.

Informal networking and agreementscontinued at the grand AfterParty Blockchain Life 2020 in one of the Moscow clubs. The special guest of the evening was the gold line-up of the Quest Pistols (Agon) group, who performed with a live concert and a secret duet with Irina Gorbacheva.

The forum is organized by the world's leading listing agency on exchanges - Listing.help.

The general sponsor of the forum was the Platin Hero crowdfunding platform.

The general sponsor of the AfterParty Forum was a provider of liquidity and technology for the Forex and Cryptocurrency markets — B2Broker.

The next 6th Blockchain Life Forum 2021 will take place in Moscow on April 21-22.

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