Antony Lewis

Crypto investing at Temasek | Author & occasional blogger
, R3 Worldwide and Temasek
Profile / Bio: 

Antony works in Temasek's blockchain venture building and investment team. He builds game-changing commercial businesses using decentralized technologies, and invest in these technologies too. Current ventures are in the areas of digital identity, digital assets, and digital money.

Previously he worked at enterprise blockchain firm R3 as Director of Digital Assets (responsible for getting traditional and new financial assets recorded on Corda), and Director of Research (responsible for navigating the blockchain landscape in Asia). He was regarded as the firm's subject matter expert in tokenised money and central bank digital currencies.

In this role, he produced reports and run seminars on the evolving concepts, technologies, and vendors in the distributed ledger landscape for R3 members, policymakers, and the wider Singapore and APAC community.

He has been working professionally in the distributed ledger industry since joining itBit (now Paxos) in 2013. In 2015-16 he independently consulted to clients in the finance,
consulting, legal, policy, and education sectors.

Prior to bitcoins and blockchains, Antony was a technology project and product manager at Credit Suisse in London and Singapore having started his banking career
as an FX trader at Barclays Capital.

Book: I wrote "The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains", an essential guide for anyone who needs to learn about cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and business blockchains. Written in plain English, it provides a balanced and hype-free grounding in the essential concepts behind this revolutionary technology. It is available on Amazon and Audible at https://amzn.to/2CJLhV5

In 2015 and 2016, he was recognized as a Top 100 influencer in FinTech in Asia at www.fintechasia100.com and a top 30 Singapore FinTech influencer. In 2017, he was an Asia top 8 blockchain influencer according to BlockShow. 

He also writes a personal blog explaining this technology at www.bitsonblocks.net. 

Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topic
Blockchain Technology and Distributed Ledger 28 April 2017 Slides Finance, ICT, Industry and Trade, Private Sector
Overview: Blockhain Technology and Distributed Ledger 28 April 2017 Document Finance, ICT, Industry and Trade, Private Sector