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LK Shelley

LK Shelley

Affiniti Ventures | AV(M)

San Francisco, California, United States

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LK Shelley is the MP at Affiniti Ventures | AV(M), collectively it invests in early stage mobile first startups including technology, platforms, and digital media.

LK has over 22 years’ international experience in the US, EU and Asia/JP. She participated in and transacted investments from US$5-$900M and exited a couple of ventures of her own. She has been an early investor in blockchain and crypto since 2016.

As part of the investment, LK also led the team to launch a metaverse live NFT art event with the $Whale Community & Makersplace.

In addition, LK has been a speaker and given talks at numerous major conferences including TEDx 2017 on the topic of how Blockchain Democratizes the Creative Industry. She is also a contributor at Seeking Alpha. She holds MBA and MS degrees from MIT.

Area of Expertise

  • Finance & Banking
  • Business & Management
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Topics

  • blockchain
  • cryptocurrency
  • DeFi

Why NFT might weather better than other assets / tokens during the crypto downturn or winter?

While there is no doubt Crypto space is facing a repeating downturn cycle aka "crypto winter" to a great extent, NFT would weather possibly better than the liquid assets. To put it simply, NFT as of now is still primarily associated with art or digital assets, it's the "soft" asset in crypto. It's art, it's more of the social and culture and it has much "inefficient" market and it's not a sophisticated financial product like derivatives and options compared to the fungible tokens and defi products which are highly tradable or easy to liquidate. So that in a way, that already slowed the growth of NFT in the hyper-bull run 2021 and also will prevent it from the cascading effects and contagion from the liquidation downfall event that's hurting the crypto market broadly. Certainly, NFT will face decline in volume and price as well as the pain of the bear markets while the sentiment is low, fear is high and risk curve is flatten across the board alongside macro economic concerns. LK Shelley would like to openly discuss and share thoughts in a panel discussion with other industry participants and leaders in the field.

LK Shelley

Affiniti Ventures | AV(M)

San Francisco, California, United States

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