Tim Bass

Tim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Block8 Technologies.

Block8 is Australia’s leading blockchain venture studio, and was responsible for building the tech behind Havven, which became Synthetix.
Founded in 2016, Block 8 have worked with over 10 ventures and helped create over A$250m in enterprise value. The team has deep expertise in product management, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, incentive design, economics and full stack development.

Niki Ariyasinghe

"Amasa has the potential to be one of the key companies that truly takes blockchain adoption mainstream. The power for anyone in the world to earn yield on even the smallest amount of crypto – this is the investment engine for the 21st century".

— Niki Ariyasinghe, Chainlink Labs

Niki is a global strategist passionate about the frontier of distributed ledger technology and its potential to spur the development of innovative business models in financial services and adjacent sectors.

Currently Niki is Head of Business Development for Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and Africa for Chainlink Labs.

Through his career he has worked across a range of sectors including FinTech startups, banking and management consulting. He completed his MBA at UC Berkeley and previously was the head of Strategy at ING in Australia where he explored market opportunities for innovative new products and drove the development and execution of corporate strategy.

Prior to Chainlink Labs, Niki was focused on developing partnerships in Asia for R3 and driving adoption of the Corda platform.

Sameep Singhania

Sameep Singhania is a co-founder of Quickswap, a decentralised exchange built on Polygon.

His other work includes being lead developer for Paraswap - a decentralised exchange aggregator, and a developer with Bonded Finance, as well as being the founder and Director of Ginete Technologies, a blockchain focused software development company.

One of his main goals is to bring diversity in technology and promote widespread adoption of Blockchain Technology. He is a co-Founder of Blockchain Development company and an active keynote speaker at University of Malaya, University of Kuala Lumpur, Institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, and other MBA institutes.

Quickswap is based on Ethereum but is built on the Polygon layer-2 infrastructure which provides a number of benefits not seen in DEXs like Uniswap.

Because it uses layer-2 infrastructure for its transactions the users of QuickSwap can trade any of the thousands of ERC-20 assets with almost zero gas costs and at lightening fast speeds.

QuickSwap also uses a community-based governance structure, and a fair token distribution that was not based on any pre-mine or private offering.

George Samman

George is a blockchain and cryptocurrency investor and advisor to global financial institutions, startups and law firms.

George is the co-founder of Geora.io and has been a consultant and advisor to startups such as handle.fi, Meter, Fantom, Lightstreams, and Hedera. He also writes a blog on blockchain technology and use cases at sammantics.com including a report he co-authored on DAOs which can be downloaded here.

He was the lead author of “The State of Stablecoins 2019: Hype vs. Reality in the Race for Stable, Global, Digital Money” Download here. He also co-authored seminal reports on blockchain architecture with KPMG:https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2016/06/kpmg-blockchain-consensus-mechanism.pdf  and with Gilbert & Tobin: https://www.gtlaw.com.au/blockchain-and-shared-ledgers-new-age-consortium as well as working with Brian Kelly Capital Management, a NYC cryptocurrency hedge fund. 

George also co-founded BTC.sx, now magnr, a bitcoin trading platform in 2013. He is also a former Wall Street Senior Portfolio Manager and Market Strategist as well as a technical analyst. George holds the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

Reza Naeeni

Amasa will change the way people understand and use crypto. As an ecosystem pioneer, Amasa will shape a new economy, driving the next wave of mainstream crypto adoption.

— Reza Naeeni, Swash

Reza Naeeni is a Helsinki based tech entrepreneur with a background in IT Business Management. Before finding his calling to take the path of entrepreneurship, Reza worked as a Project Manager for several years that also included his experience of working at a Fortune 100 company.

Now, Reza is the co-founder and CEO of Swash.

Swash is a browser extension that lets you earn money as you browse, giving you control while you benefit from the value your data generates online. Swash is the first step in shaping a new data economy where users are rewarded for the value they generate. It is a tool that highlights the value of data, and ensures that users, as data generators, are rewarded fairly for the value they contribute.