Shanghai Blockchain Week 2021: Grand Occasion or Absence of Glory?
While crypto enthusiasts were sending out their “GM” tweets from Lisbon last week, Shanghai held its only state-sanctioned blockchain event, Shanghai International Blockchain Week. Hosted by Wangxiang Blockchain Labs, the event usually brings together the government, enterprise, academic, and DeFi degen side of the industry with a mix of excitement and anxiety.
Blockchain was publicly listed as a key industry in the digital economy in China's 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 long-term goal outline,