Loopring to Partner with Tokenize (weekly intern report 6/22/18)

Loopring Intern Weekly Report 6/22/18

This week I will discuss the partnership I secured between Loopring and Tokenize, and go further in-depth of what I want to do moving forward, and how I feel my responsibilities are greatly increasing.

Overview

It has been another rather successful week, but also a shortened one with the Chinese boat festival happening on Monday. Most of this week has consisted of a lot of document translating, 7 to be exact. I feel as though I am starting to gain more responsibility as they need a lot of documents to be translated by the end of the month, and I am on the front end for English.

My supervisor, Jay, has given me the opportunity to make a presentation in front of the company with what I have learned and what I understand about Loopring and their competitors. I know more research needs to be done so I can give the developers some useful content, rather than simply presenting what Loopring is, even though that is also important. The most exciting development of this week has been securing a partnership with the small Singapore exchange, Tokenize. I had a skype video call with Darren and the founder of the exchange about our potential partnership, the listing of LRC on their exchange, and to try my best to open them up to implementing Loopring's API. It went very well and I believe this week was quite successful.

Tokenize & Loopring, Sitting in a Tree

Tokenize is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange based in Singapore, and although they are small at the moment, Singapore is in dire need of a solid local cryptocurrency exchange. They are currently attempting to roll out the support for over 60 ERC-20 based tokens on their exchange, and are still in the early phase of their growth.

They told me they were looking to list our coin by the end of the month and all we needed to do was fill out some legal documents and I would basically have my first sale for Loopring, if you think about it. I explained all about what Loopring is looking to accomplish, and a little bit about how the underlying technology works, mentioning the order-matching system, relays, on and off-chain hybrid solutions, and how it helps us be a superior protocol. I then went into how the Loopring API could be implemented into their exchange, and how it can benefit them. They were quite impressed with the technology behind, and really liked what we are doing here. I told them we could greatly increase their liquidity, as we have around a community of around 200-300k in Asia, and over 200k outside of Asia. They told me they really wanted to list our coin and start a healthy partnership, then through talks they would consider implementing our API with more info. I will be happy to relay information I have to help them, and to make sure they are comfortable integrating our API. I think this is a great development and I am very excited to see what this partnership can lead to.

Discovering More of What I Want to Accomplish Here

I am deciding to write a little bit about my general feelings about working at Loopring, and what I have realized through the past few weeks. It has really hit me recently that I can spend my time working on really whatever I want here moving forward. After I finish translating the documents that Loopring needs to finish their website, I seem to have significantly more freedom. I have been grinding on these translations because I want to do useful work that the company really needs from someone that is a native English speaker. I am also expecting to get some coins out of all the translation work I have been doing. The fact that the CEO has personally asked me to accomplish this means I should do my best to complete them before I continue.

Some things I know I would like to do while I'm here is to do some public relations, in the way of setting up partnerships, by identifying what each needs and delivering on it. Another possibility is to go to Loopring events to network and learn, and sign up for and present at events, explaining to people what Loopring is and why they should be interested in it. This would probably be my favorite use of time because I know I need to improve my public speaking skills, and I would love to have that much responsibility behind me. The last thing I know I will work on is writing more articles on Loopring. I think this will be critical in my development as a business communicator, as it will test how well I can explain important topics in writing. I want to get my name out there as someone that really enjoys contributing to the Blockchain ecosystem and I think this is a great way to do it. I have chosen these based on what I want to improve upon professionally, and what will also help Loopring in the long run. I am exuberant for what is to come.

Conclusion

I am quite satisfied with how this week went, and am very motivated to do even more next week. I am going to try and work on my presentation over the weekend, but it will be tough since I will be in Beijing. I hope I can knock out the rest of these translations next week, go to a few Blockchain events outside of work, and knock the socks off of my company members with my presentation. Lastly, I want to try and focus on learning new things at work every day, like some Chinese, coding, and research for my research paper for Miami. Until next time.