Former Binance Execs Create $100M Fund to Spur Crypto Adoption in Emerging Markets: Report

• Old Fashion Research was formed by Ling Zhang and Wayne Fu, antecedently Binance's vice president of M&A and caput of firm improvement respectively.

• The fund, which was backed by accepted task superior funds, household offices and angel investors, volition absorption connected the metaverse and crypto adoption successful emerging markets similar Latin America and Africa.

• "We are precise Southern Hemisphere-focused," Zhang said. "We’ll spell aft each of the emerging markets, but it’s our extremity and imaginativeness to accelerate adoption there.”

• The money has already invested successful implicit 50 blockchain projects, including a blockchain analytics level Nansen, trading level WOO Network and African gaming assemblage Metaverse Magna.

• Old Fashion Research was not disposable for remark astatine the clip of writing.

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