Huobi's chief operating officer (COO) Robin Zhu delivers speech at blockchain event, April 2018, via Facebook
Huobi is an international bitcoin exchange based in Singapore and with offices in Hong Kong, the United States, Korea and Japan. They are planning to move their headquarters to Hainan, China, the country they were founded in.
With China shutting down cryptocurrency exchanges within the country, Huobi has found itself at a crossroads and has decided to pivot towards research and development of blockchain technology, while still focusing on bitcoin trading internationally.
CoinJournal sat down with Huobi at the Consensus 2018 conference to talk about regulation, education, what Huboi is doing now and what happened with their SBI partnership.
CoinJournal: What do you think about the Ecosystem today and Huobi’s role in it?
Huobi: We are one of the first adopters and one of the pioneers in the blockchain industry. We started the company in 2013 so it has been running for five years now. Most of our competitors are speculators and tried to gain some money and cash out. But, we really wanted to build this ecosystem. So we decided to take a couple different approaches to achieve that goal. One is setting up this million dollar fund. Second, we set up the incubators in China. We have a 40,000 square meter office space. It is a massive space.
So, projects can come over and start a business, with all the resources and funding that we have. Hopefully, we will see some real adoption of the blockchain technology in the industry. And in the meantime, we’ve made some alliances. One example is we just made an alliance with Aelf’s Innovation Alliance. We added a couple other strategic partners too, including the including Michael Arrington, who’s the founder of TechCrunch and the managing director
