1. I was trying to run away from the Web3 space. And uncannily, I became the digital assets lead. When I first knew about Bitcoin, it was in 2013. Back then, I was a young bank auditor who was getting my feet wet about AML. – Wei Jie
2. Deep into some random forum related to things like gold and silver and all that and economics. Someone posted the Bitcoin white paper. And what I will say is like when I read the Bitcoin white paper, it basically clicked for me immediately. – Patrick Camuso / Camuso CPA Managing Director
3. I came across a paper, a white paper called Triple Entry Accounting, which was written by a financial cryptographer called Ian Grigg. He published this in 2005. – Umar / The Accountant Quits Founder
4. What got me inspired then was just being able to sort of see the use case of crypto kind of go beyond money transfer. – Atikh Bana / Acctual Co-Founder
5. I’m always a supporter of innovation. And I believe that Web3 world, for example, the core fundamental of it comes from decentralization, which is the focus is to empower customers or users. – Razin Nizar / Pragmax Consulting Founder
6. The reason why I entered Web3 is for the technology, especially for cross-border payments. – Christophe Lassuyt / Request Finance Founder
7. Seeing somewhere like an ad about Bitcoin.com and you can grow your portfolio, you can increase your money and things like that. So that kind of like, okay, what is this new technology that they’re talking about? And I actually did my master’s thesis in decentralization and distributed data transfers and everything. – Sukesh Kumar Tedla / Kryptos Founder
8. A lot of interest with regards to crypto because of digital assets, especially my own brother, you know, I have a twin brother who has been in the crypto space for more than 10 years.He’s been in crypto since 2012. – Jag Foo / Safeheron Partner
9. And that’s the first time we had an inquiry about a coin that had been launched in Kenya. And an investor was trying to confirm with the authority, the capital markets authority, if the coin has been registered in Kenya, and trying to get into it and get to know exactly what this coin is about. – James Hillary / CMA Kenya Regulatory Sandbox Regulator
10. We got interested in, in 2017, in crypto and realized, oh wait, this is kind of a complex thing to solve. This is really complex to track. And then the ICO boom happened and we, I, alarm bells went off. – Ben Taylor / Softledger CEO
11. I think it was really back in 2017, with all the hype around ICOs, obviously the bull run in the crypto market at that time, when some companies started approaching the company I was working for at the time, asking about insurance options. – Rob Russell / Continuum Founder
12. I first heard about Bitcoin in the early 2010s, but only really got into it in 2016, early 2017. I was attracted to Bitcoin, learning more about Bitcoin and selling it.I first started selling Bitcoin on eBay, because a lot of people did not have to buy Bitcoin. – Richard Pasquin / Cryptoworth Co-founder
13. There are clients who came, who start coming to us a few years ago for some services, and that’s where we thought this is a market that we can go into, and we explore a bit more, and yes, that’s how we enter the Web 3 space, knowing that this is a space that is growing and upcoming. – Eric Lim / GYK Group Partner
14. When I got into crypto, I started with trading, spot trading, and I got some gaming as well. And I developed that, I mean, I should say that’s like a real gumball from my end. I couldn’t really control my behavior in terms of putting some big lots in the trade. I was like, oh, I got burned. I got burned already. This is not working for me. I choose to approach it in a conservative manner. I got into crypto accounting. – Penuil Jr Catingub / Nara Labs Co-founder
15. I have a background in criminology and security studies. And having that background, I’ve always been somebody who wants to be in a world which is more safer, where people can be able to do their errands without criminal interference. – Sewe Wycklife / A&D Forensics Manager
16. I was a CFO with a fintech company previously .And this fintech company is a payment fintech company. What we do is that we do traditional credit card payment. And while doing this, right, we wanted to explore how to use a Web3 in terms of network or token to do payment. We want merchants to be able to accept USDC. We want to explore this area, because, because in the credit card space, right, it’s very competitive and we wanted to have an edge over the other payment companies. And this is when I want to look at everything. I try to understand Web3. I try to understand DeFi. I get my hands dirty and then try to try everything myself. And that is also the time when I got really interested in it. – Leon Low / Block Ledger Founder
17. When the blockchain actually came out to existence I realized this could be something that could change the world – Joe / Beosin CEO
18. Once you see something you cannot unsee. For me, it was not a decision. OK, I need to get into Web3. – Gaurav Mehta / Catax Co-founder
19. Someone actually offered me the opportunity to join Sparrow as a compliance officer back then. I’m very, very grateful for the opportunity. – Raynold Poh / Bitstamp Compliance Officer.