FFCON19: How Coinsquare Survived the Death Knell of Crypto Winter and Promising Spring Trends (CDGO, Coinsquare, Thomas Jankowski)

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April 3-Day 1 of the 2019 Fintech & Financing Conference in Toronto at venue partner Gowling WLG Office. Thomas Jankowski, Chief Digital and Growth Officer at Coinsquare, talks about updating 12 month old playbooks (which are no longer relevant), maintaining healthy balance sheets, diversification and hedge strategies, investing (eg., M&A), building and preparing for growth. Thomas also talks about volume growth, imminent regulation, stablecoins, EIOs, custody, interoperability and remaining Fearless! More info https://coinsquare.com https://fintechandfunding.com/ https://ncfacanada.org/

Technology

How Coinsquare Survived
the Death Knell of
Crypto
Winter
1
and the Most Promising
Trends this Spring
@thomasjankowski
@coinsquare CDGO

Surviving Crypto Winter
2
Because we all want to stick around.

SURVIVING CRYPTO WINTER
Healthy balance
sheet
Plan for a two year runway
Assume some commoditization
Trim fat everywhere
3

SURVIVING CRYPTO WINTER
Diversify & hedge
Contemplate micro-pivots
Research other business models
Don’t (try to) time the market
4

SURVIVING CRYPTO WINTER
Invest & build
Acquire for tech & market share
Build up core platform
Focus on safety & regulation
5

SURVIVING CRYPTO WINTER
Course correct
Change the story, especially on education
Maximize efficiency
Consolidate & join forces
6

SURVIVING CRYPTO WINTER
Prep for growth
Optimize sales & marketing
Get systems ready for next wave of scale
Accelerate product roadmap
7

Industry trends
8
Because evolution takes time & experimentation.

TRENDS
Volumes on the rise
BTC on-chain tx @ 400K | daily vol ~ 40B
Significant altcoin movement with intrinsic
potential (BNB, EOS, ADA, XLM)
Big movements in crypto derivatives
9

TRENDS
Regulation is coming
Regulatory participation worldwide is
increasing & getting smarter
Slight clash of AML/KYC with GDPR
Decentralization still unresolved
10

TRENDS
The rise of stablecoins
Hybrid ‘mass’ adoption
More than just Tether
Institutional / government interests
11

TRENDS
Vehicles of interest
Custody → Staking / lending
ICO → IEO → STO
Utility → Merchant / remittance
Fraud, interoperability, gaming, privacy all
areas of interest.
12

IN SHORT
Remain Fearless
All adoption curves are alike & we’re still in
the first 2.5% of the curve reserved for
innovation & very early adoption.
Blockchain based tech barely started
changing the world but it’s already triggered
a new digital age
Reduction of uncertainty remains core to all
blockchain development
13

Thomas Jankowski
Chief Digital & Growth Officer
tj@coinsquare.com
coinsquare.com
@coinsquare

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