Much of January was taken up with planning for and delivering the MELD TGE. I’m not going to pretend it wasn’t without hiccups, doing something truly innovative, new and indeed ground-breaking is always going to throw up the unexpected. My role of supporting the process meant that January literally flew past with an avalanche of questions, queries and observations to attend to.
MELD aside though, several opportunities have presented during this time, and February is a month of locking in, developing and nurturing these so that my 2022 is mapped out clearly and my time is apportioned correctly. Whilst delivering MELD is my focus and indeed my passion I do have capacity to lift my head up and observe the wider landscape!
So, I have some very interesting and exciting news to share once things fall into place, and having now been in the crypto world for 18 months (I was told yesterday that a year in crypto is like 7 years in traditional business) I feel my experience now, coupled with my natural abilities for problem solving, relationship building and management and strategy, give me a unique perspective and set of attributes to be able to drive forward into 2022.
I’m going to resist naming specific projects I’ve been talking with in this post, but the diversity is huge, from real estate to trade finance, from OTC to mining, from micro lending to asset management and yield farming there is much to do in the coming months to bring these truly great projects to the fore.
Immediately on the horizon is a trip into Europe. I’ve not travelled too much this year yet, aside from a couple of meetings in London, but as I noted in my previous update, Europe and further afield beckon in the coming weeks and months.
Crypto pricing has been under pressure from a variety of angles since the end of last year, however I feel optimism and desire in the space remans very high, and with so much activity attracting attention and with so many new actors joining the space, 2022 looks like it will be a huge leap forward that is just waiting to happen.