Kik recently announced its decision to shut down its messenger app to focus entirely on crypto. What now?
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The relationship between the cryptosphere and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has been growing both closer and more tenuous over the last several years. For better or for worse, the cryptocurrency industry has been increasingly shaped by the SEC’s actions and rulings within the space.
Perhaps the most prominent example of this at the moment is Kik, a messaging app that has 300 million active users around the world, announced last week that it would be shutting down on October 19th--nine years to the day after the first message was sent on its platform. Instead of operating as a messaging platform, Kik will focus its effort entirely on building the Kin ecosystem and “converting Kin users into Kin buyers.” If the company is successful at converting users into buyers, the ecosystem would 100 million more users than Telegram's cryptocurrency ecosystem. (Telegram, another messaging service held funding rounds for a cryptocurrency of its own last year; its token will launch in the next few weeks. At press time, it had roughly 200 million users.
Number of registered Kik Messenger users worldwide from November 2012 to May 2016 (in millions)
And the company is restructuring in a massive way: as part of the decision, more than 100 employees have been cut from Kik. The company will continue on with “an elite 19 person team.” CEO Ted Livingston said at the Elevate conference in Toronto last Wednesday that “we have to keep going. Until that's it, we don't have a dollar left, a person left. We will keep going no matter how hard it is.”
Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of Kik Messenger (Reuters)
“But no matter what happens to Kik, Kin is here to stay,” CEO Ted Livingston said in a blog post. “Kin operates on an open, decentralized infrastructure run by a dozen independent companies. Kin is a currency used by millions of people in dozens of independent apps. So while the SEC might be able to push us around, taking on the broader Kin Ecosystem will be a much bigger fight. And the Ecosystem is close to adding a lot more firepower.”
How did we get to this point? And what does this case mean for the industry?
What happened?
Kik’s ICO took place in early 2017 and was marketed as a tradable token within the Kik ecosystem: users could send KIN tokens to each other, and developers could build applications on top of. At press time, the KIN website said that “built to scale for mass usage and supports an Ecosystem-wide digital economy where app developers and mainstream consumers make millions of micro-transactions.” $55 million of the roughly $100 million raised during the sale is said to have come from US citizens.
A beta version of the Kin cryptocurrency wallet, called Kinit, was launched in July of last year. At the time it was launched, the app’s Google Play Store description said that “Kinit is a fun, easy way to earn Kin, a new cryptocurrency made for your digital life. Earning Kin is just like playing a game, only better, because you get rewarded for completing fun daily activities like surveys, quizzes, interactive videos and more.”
In May of this year, when talks with the SEC seemed to be leading toward a legal battle, Kik announced that it would be setting $5 million aside for “Defend Crypto”, a fund that was specifically dedicated to fighting Kik’s court battle as well as other legal battles that crypto companies were fighting against the SEC.
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson was counted amongst the fund’s backers.
"It is my hope that DefendCrypto will be an inspiration for the many other important crypto projects that are silently battling with the SEC to come public and raise capital from the crypto sector to fund these efforts."https://t.co/YYoZj0F9LH
Then, in June, the lawsuit came: a statement on Defend Crypto’s website at the time read that ‘“after months of trying to find a reasonable solution, Kin has been unable to reach a settlement that wouldn’t severely impact the Kin project and everyone in the space. So Kin is going to take on the SEC in court to make sure there is a foundation for innovation going forward.”
The firm seemed to be aware of the fact that the results of the battle with the SEC could set important precedents: Kik said that it wanted not only to fight for its own future but also “to fight this out on behalf of the industry.”
The language in the lawsuit was unusually slanderous
In my view, among other things, Paragraph 91 of the #SEC's #complaint against #Kik is notable. It appears to make clear the view that, not only was the Kik SAFT a security, but so were the underlying Kin tokens sold pursuant to the SAFT. #blockchain#crypto
— Joshua Ashley Klayman (@josh_blockchain) June 4, 2019
However, the lawsuit also included details that seemed to have no other purpose besides painting Kik as a desperate, money-hungry company that turned to an ICO as a last resort.
“In late 2016 and early 2017, Kik faced a crisis. Fewer and fewer people were using Kik Messenger,” the lawsuit reads. “The company expected to run out of cash to fund its operations by the end of 2017, but its revenues were insignificant, and executives had no realistic plan to increase revenues through its existing operations. In late 2016 and early 2017, Kik hired an investment bank to try to sell itself to a larger technology company, but no one was interested.
One of those times when the "it's better to seek forgiveness than to ask for permission" advice didn't work. https://t.co/NWIglsRwbG#Kik#Kin#SEC
So, said the SEC, “Kik decided to ‘pivot’ to an entirely different business and attempt what a board member called a ‘hail Mary pass’: “Kik would offer and sell one trillion digital tokens in return for cash to fund company operations and a speculative new Venture.”
The SEC noted in particular that “ Kik described Kin as an opportunity for both Kik and early Kin investors to ‘make a ton of money’”--which is the reason that the SEC claims that KIN tokens were unregistered securities rather than stable-value security tokens.
“By selling $100 million in securities without registering the offers or sales, we allege that Kik deprived investors of information to which they were legally entitled, and prevented investors from making informed investment decisions,” said Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in an official statement. “Companies do not face a binary choice between innovation and compliance with the federal securities laws.”
Word of caution to anyone who hasn't been involved in litigation before: the complaint *always* evokes a feeling of "ooo this is bad."
Kik’s response was equally as firey: “the Commission’s Complaint reflects a consistent effort to twist the facts”
Of course, Kik fought back vehemently against these allegations and against the accusations that the company had decided to hold an ICO as a last-ditch attempt to save itself.
In Kik’s counter-filing to the SEC’s lawsuit, the company wrote that “the Commission’s Complaint reflects a consistent effort to twist the facts by removing quotes from their context and misrepresenting the documents and testimony that the Commission gathered in its investigation.”
Tanner Philp, technical adviser to Kik’s CEO.
“The result is a Complaint that badly mischaracterizes the totality of the facts and circumstances leading up to Kik’s sale of KIN in 2017,” the rebuttal continues. “These tactics may have gotten the Commission a decent news cycle, but they will not withstand meaningful scrutiny at summary judgment or trial.”
Shortly after the counter-filing went public, Tanner Philp, the technical adviser to Kik’s CEO, told Finance Magnates that “the introduction to our answer highlighted just how misleading the SEC was in their complaint. They repeatedly twisted facts, presumably to make up for a weak case.”
“What resulted [from Kik] was a 131-page document going point by point to share the full context and let the facts speak for themselves. Given how important this is for the industry, we felt it was important that anyone reading the answer understood just how far the SEC will go to support their agenda instead of focusing on what is important: the facts and circumstances of the case.”
But Jay Arcata, VP of client operations at BX3 Capital, told Finance Magnates that the frankness of Kik’s response “is a tactic in which we do not typically see defendants engage.”
Jay Arcata, VP of Client Operations at BX3 Capital.
Usually, the defendant usually either simply pleads guilty or files a motion to dismiss the case. “In the normal course, an answer contains either a straightforward admission or denial of the facts as pled, along with any affirmative defenses that the defendant intends on pursuing.”
But in another light, the company’s latest choice could be seen as the smartest way to move forward and to maintain its integrity: to scale down into a light, agile entity that may be able to scale up into a larger company again once the storm with the SEC is over.
Either way, the cryptocurrency industry as a whole--as well as Kik itself--does certainly seem to have something at stake here: whether the company succeeds in turning itself around or dying in the process, important legal precedents will be formed.
Setting precedents
Marc Boiron, a partner at FisherBroyles, told Decrypt that Kik’s case could set standards for any company that is thinking of holding an ICO: “Kik's downfall makes it clear that the risks associated with an ICO are significant enough to threaten the existence of a business,” he said. As such, companies that are currently holding ICOs should take heed: “an existing ICO should objectively look at its situation and seek advice from legal counsel."
If not, they may run the risk of falling victim to a similar fate: "in the end, this means that most ICO-funded startups, especially those who did their ICOs when crypto prices were at all-time highs, are likely to shut down similar to Kik."
But on a larger scale, the SEC may have to revisit some of its past decisions: “strictly as a legal matter, there is no difference between the 2014 Ethereum crowdsale and an ICO-funded startup," Boiron said. "However, the SEC has decided to treat them differently based on the lack of clarity regarding the securities laws as applied to Ethereum's crowdsale in 2014 relative to the clarity the SEC believes it creates with the DAO Report in mid-2017."
The best outcome for the #crypto in the #KIK vs #SEC case is the SEC has to explain why ETH or even EOS for that matter isn’t a security under US law and KIN is. Otherwise I think it’s going to be a major step back for the US and to a smaller degree the industry generally
The relationship between the cryptosphere and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has been growing both closer and more tenuous over the last several years. For better or for worse, the cryptocurrency industry has been increasingly shaped by the SEC’s actions and rulings within the space.
Perhaps the most prominent example of this at the moment is Kik, a messaging app that has 300 million active users around the world, announced last week that it would be shutting down on October 19th--nine years to the day after the first message was sent on its platform. Instead of operating as a messaging platform, Kik will focus its effort entirely on building the Kin ecosystem and “converting Kin users into Kin buyers.” If the company is successful at converting users into buyers, the ecosystem would 100 million more users than Telegram's cryptocurrency ecosystem. (Telegram, another messaging service held funding rounds for a cryptocurrency of its own last year; its token will launch in the next few weeks. At press time, it had roughly 200 million users.
Number of registered Kik Messenger users worldwide from November 2012 to May 2016 (in millions)
And the company is restructuring in a massive way: as part of the decision, more than 100 employees have been cut from Kik. The company will continue on with “an elite 19 person team.” CEO Ted Livingston said at the Elevate conference in Toronto last Wednesday that “we have to keep going. Until that's it, we don't have a dollar left, a person left. We will keep going no matter how hard it is.”
Ted Livingston, founder and CEO of Kik Messenger (Reuters)
“But no matter what happens to Kik, Kin is here to stay,” CEO Ted Livingston said in a blog post. “Kin operates on an open, decentralized infrastructure run by a dozen independent companies. Kin is a currency used by millions of people in dozens of independent apps. So while the SEC might be able to push us around, taking on the broader Kin Ecosystem will be a much bigger fight. And the Ecosystem is close to adding a lot more firepower.”
How did we get to this point? And what does this case mean for the industry?
What happened?
Kik’s ICO took place in early 2017 and was marketed as a tradable token within the Kik ecosystem: users could send KIN tokens to each other, and developers could build applications on top of. At press time, the KIN website said that “built to scale for mass usage and supports an Ecosystem-wide digital economy where app developers and mainstream consumers make millions of micro-transactions.” $55 million of the roughly $100 million raised during the sale is said to have come from US citizens.
A beta version of the Kin cryptocurrency wallet, called Kinit, was launched in July of last year. At the time it was launched, the app’s Google Play Store description said that “Kinit is a fun, easy way to earn Kin, a new cryptocurrency made for your digital life. Earning Kin is just like playing a game, only better, because you get rewarded for completing fun daily activities like surveys, quizzes, interactive videos and more.”
In May of this year, when talks with the SEC seemed to be leading toward a legal battle, Kik announced that it would be setting $5 million aside for “Defend Crypto”, a fund that was specifically dedicated to fighting Kik’s court battle as well as other legal battles that crypto companies were fighting against the SEC.
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson was counted amongst the fund’s backers.
"It is my hope that DefendCrypto will be an inspiration for the many other important crypto projects that are silently battling with the SEC to come public and raise capital from the crypto sector to fund these efforts."https://t.co/YYoZj0F9LH
Then, in June, the lawsuit came: a statement on Defend Crypto’s website at the time read that ‘“after months of trying to find a reasonable solution, Kin has been unable to reach a settlement that wouldn’t severely impact the Kin project and everyone in the space. So Kin is going to take on the SEC in court to make sure there is a foundation for innovation going forward.”
The firm seemed to be aware of the fact that the results of the battle with the SEC could set important precedents: Kik said that it wanted not only to fight for its own future but also “to fight this out on behalf of the industry.”
The language in the lawsuit was unusually slanderous
In my view, among other things, Paragraph 91 of the #SEC's #complaint against #Kik is notable. It appears to make clear the view that, not only was the Kik SAFT a security, but so were the underlying Kin tokens sold pursuant to the SAFT. #blockchain#crypto
— Joshua Ashley Klayman (@josh_blockchain) June 4, 2019
However, the lawsuit also included details that seemed to have no other purpose besides painting Kik as a desperate, money-hungry company that turned to an ICO as a last resort.
“In late 2016 and early 2017, Kik faced a crisis. Fewer and fewer people were using Kik Messenger,” the lawsuit reads. “The company expected to run out of cash to fund its operations by the end of 2017, but its revenues were insignificant, and executives had no realistic plan to increase revenues through its existing operations. In late 2016 and early 2017, Kik hired an investment bank to try to sell itself to a larger technology company, but no one was interested.
One of those times when the "it's better to seek forgiveness than to ask for permission" advice didn't work. https://t.co/NWIglsRwbG#Kik#Kin#SEC
So, said the SEC, “Kik decided to ‘pivot’ to an entirely different business and attempt what a board member called a ‘hail Mary pass’: “Kik would offer and sell one trillion digital tokens in return for cash to fund company operations and a speculative new Venture.”
The SEC noted in particular that “ Kik described Kin as an opportunity for both Kik and early Kin investors to ‘make a ton of money’”--which is the reason that the SEC claims that KIN tokens were unregistered securities rather than stable-value security tokens.
“By selling $100 million in securities without registering the offers or sales, we allege that Kik deprived investors of information to which they were legally entitled, and prevented investors from making informed investment decisions,” said Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in an official statement. “Companies do not face a binary choice between innovation and compliance with the federal securities laws.”
Word of caution to anyone who hasn't been involved in litigation before: the complaint *always* evokes a feeling of "ooo this is bad."
Kik’s response was equally as firey: “the Commission’s Complaint reflects a consistent effort to twist the facts”
Of course, Kik fought back vehemently against these allegations and against the accusations that the company had decided to hold an ICO as a last-ditch attempt to save itself.
In Kik’s counter-filing to the SEC’s lawsuit, the company wrote that “the Commission’s Complaint reflects a consistent effort to twist the facts by removing quotes from their context and misrepresenting the documents and testimony that the Commission gathered in its investigation.”
Tanner Philp, technical adviser to Kik’s CEO.
“The result is a Complaint that badly mischaracterizes the totality of the facts and circumstances leading up to Kik’s sale of KIN in 2017,” the rebuttal continues. “These tactics may have gotten the Commission a decent news cycle, but they will not withstand meaningful scrutiny at summary judgment or trial.”
Shortly after the counter-filing went public, Tanner Philp, the technical adviser to Kik’s CEO, told Finance Magnates that “the introduction to our answer highlighted just how misleading the SEC was in their complaint. They repeatedly twisted facts, presumably to make up for a weak case.”
“What resulted [from Kik] was a 131-page document going point by point to share the full context and let the facts speak for themselves. Given how important this is for the industry, we felt it was important that anyone reading the answer understood just how far the SEC will go to support their agenda instead of focusing on what is important: the facts and circumstances of the case.”
But Jay Arcata, VP of client operations at BX3 Capital, told Finance Magnates that the frankness of Kik’s response “is a tactic in which we do not typically see defendants engage.”
Jay Arcata, VP of Client Operations at BX3 Capital.
Usually, the defendant usually either simply pleads guilty or files a motion to dismiss the case. “In the normal course, an answer contains either a straightforward admission or denial of the facts as pled, along with any affirmative defenses that the defendant intends on pursuing.”
But in another light, the company’s latest choice could be seen as the smartest way to move forward and to maintain its integrity: to scale down into a light, agile entity that may be able to scale up into a larger company again once the storm with the SEC is over.
Either way, the cryptocurrency industry as a whole--as well as Kik itself--does certainly seem to have something at stake here: whether the company succeeds in turning itself around or dying in the process, important legal precedents will be formed.
Setting precedents
Marc Boiron, a partner at FisherBroyles, told Decrypt that Kik’s case could set standards for any company that is thinking of holding an ICO: “Kik's downfall makes it clear that the risks associated with an ICO are significant enough to threaten the existence of a business,” he said. As such, companies that are currently holding ICOs should take heed: “an existing ICO should objectively look at its situation and seek advice from legal counsel."
If not, they may run the risk of falling victim to a similar fate: "in the end, this means that most ICO-funded startups, especially those who did their ICOs when crypto prices were at all-time highs, are likely to shut down similar to Kik."
But on a larger scale, the SEC may have to revisit some of its past decisions: “strictly as a legal matter, there is no difference between the 2014 Ethereum crowdsale and an ICO-funded startup," Boiron said. "However, the SEC has decided to treat them differently based on the lack of clarity regarding the securities laws as applied to Ethereum's crowdsale in 2014 relative to the clarity the SEC believes it creates with the DAO Report in mid-2017."
The best outcome for the #crypto in the #KIK vs #SEC case is the SEC has to explain why ETH or even EOS for that matter isn’t a security under US law and KIN is. Otherwise I think it’s going to be a major step back for the US and to a smaller degree the industry generally
Rachel is a self-taught crypto geek and a passionate writer. She believes in the power that the written word has to educate, connect and empower individuals to make positive and powerful financial choices. She is the Podcast Host and a Cryptocurrency Editor at Finance Magnates.
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Why loyalty is no longer a “nice-to-have” marketing feature for brokers
The building blocks of any loyalty program and what they mean: points, tiers, missions, stores, leaderboards, boosters, and cashback-style mechanics
Understanding of how key regulators read loyalty incentives and where the compliance lines are
What should go in the rewards store, and what quietly destroys ROI
How trading credits, rebates, VIP perks, education, and service benefits can recycle value back into the brokerage
The 5 mistakes brokers should avoid when building or buying a loyalty programme
Real figures from a live deployment: what moved in daily activity, tier progression, and trader spend
Acquisition is getting more expensive. Most brokers already know that. The harder question is what happens after the client funds the account.
This session looks at how broker loyalty programmes are moving from “nice-to-have rewards” into a serious retention layer inside the client portal.
In this session, Desmond Leong, CEO of Returning.AI, will break down the practical mechanics behind high-performing broker loyalty programmes: what to reward, what not to reward, how onshore and offshore entities need different incentive structures, what belongs in the rewards store, and how brokers can recycle reward budgets back into trading value instead of letting them disappear as pure cost.
The talk will cover common mistakes brokers make when launching loyalty programmes, including copying retail-style rewards, ignoring jurisdictional constraints, over-relying on bonuses, failing to connect rewards to lifecycle stages, and measuring vanity engagement instead of retention, LTV, CAC payback, deposits, and active trading behaviour.
Attendees will leave with a clear do-and-don’t framework they can use to pressure-test their own loyalty strategy.
Why loyalty is no longer a “nice-to-have” marketing feature for brokers
The building blocks of any loyalty program and what they mean: points, tiers, missions, stores, leaderboards, boosters, and cashback-style mechanics
Understanding of how key regulators read loyalty incentives and where the compliance lines are
What should go in the rewards store, and what quietly destroys ROI
How trading credits, rebates, VIP perks, education, and service benefits can recycle value back into the brokerage
The 5 mistakes brokers should avoid when building or buying a loyalty programme
Real figures from a live deployment: what moved in daily activity, tier progression, and trader spend
Acquisition is getting more expensive. Most brokers already know that. The harder question is what happens after the client funds the account.
This session looks at how broker loyalty programmes are moving from “nice-to-have rewards” into a serious retention layer inside the client portal.
In this session, Desmond Leong, CEO of Returning.AI, will break down the practical mechanics behind high-performing broker loyalty programmes: what to reward, what not to reward, how onshore and offshore entities need different incentive structures, what belongs in the rewards store, and how brokers can recycle reward budgets back into trading value instead of letting them disappear as pure cost.
The talk will cover common mistakes brokers make when launching loyalty programmes, including copying retail-style rewards, ignoring jurisdictional constraints, over-relying on bonuses, failing to connect rewards to lifecycle stages, and measuring vanity engagement instead of retention, LTV, CAC payback, deposits, and active trading behaviour.
Attendees will leave with a clear do-and-don’t framework they can use to pressure-test their own loyalty strategy.
Why loyalty is no longer a “nice-to-have” marketing feature for brokers
The building blocks of any loyalty program and what they mean: points, tiers, missions, stores, leaderboards, boosters, and cashback-style mechanics
Understanding of how key regulators read loyalty incentives and where the compliance lines are
What should go in the rewards store, and what quietly destroys ROI
How trading credits, rebates, VIP perks, education, and service benefits can recycle value back into the brokerage
The 5 mistakes brokers should avoid when building or buying a loyalty programme
Real figures from a live deployment: what moved in daily activity, tier progression, and trader spend
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
Stablecoins from Experimentation to Implementation
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
With over $300 billion in stablecoins now in circulation and APAC regulators moving from frameworks to enforcement, the conversation has shifted.
Held in partnership with 8Circle, this session brings together the builders of new payment rails and the institutions putting them to work.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which stablecoin use cases have cleared proof of concept and are now operating at scale in APAC
Understanding of what the MAS Payment Services Act and Hong Kong's fiat stablecoin licensing regime mean for brokers and payment providers in practice
Insight into the infrastructure gaps firms most commonly underestimate before going live
Perspective on where the next wave of adoption is heading and what existing systems need to accommodate
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
Overfunded or Underregulated? The APAC Prop Trading Story
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
APAC now accounts for nearly half of global prop firm sign-up growth, with emerging markets pulling away from established hubs. The pass rates, however, tell a different story.
This session brings together prop firms, regional brokers, and specialists to examine where the APAC growth story holds and where it doesn't.
Attendees will walk away with:
A clear view of which APAC markets are generating real funded trader volume versus registration noise, and why that gap matters more than the headline figures
Understanding of how mobile-first acquisition funnels and grey-market legacies complicate KYC, payout infrastructure, and regulatory standing across jurisdictions
Insight into how India, Vietnam, and Singapore are each handling the shift from offshore leverage workarounds to licensed operations
Perspective on whether the low-barrier, high-volume prop model can survive regional professionalization without hollowing out its core audience
