Location: Taipei, Songren Road - Flare Taipei (OKX Exchange VIP Cocktail Party)
Travel note: This afternoon, I had a meeting at Biying near the World Trade Center. They brought in an Iris to join the meeting. What a small world—as we chatted, I suddenly remembered: isn't this the same Iris that Weiren introduced me to in Hong Kong? Iris runs her own fund in Hong Kong and previously participated in Luckin Coffee's IPO. I never expected to run into her again in Taiwan years later. Afterward, in the evening, I attended an event hosted by OKX Exchange. This is my third time at Flare Taipei in Xinyi District this month. Besides catching up with familiar crypto friends like Pei, Sunsun, Panda, Peter, Ray, Lunik, Ariel, Marx, Yvonne, Tiannong, and others, I also met new connections from DeFITs like Zayn, and Professor Liao Shiwei from NTU CS (our second meeting). Also there were Jeff (the host from the Future Commerce Forum panel), Jingyi (a crypto trader I met at Teddy's housewarming), Dr. Gan (who manages a tech fund in Singapore), Brother Ji and Datou from ACDC (who hosted us at ByBit's major shareholder's Taichung venue last time), Harry and Enya from OKX, Leo from MEXC, Paco (who jus…
