PANews reported on December 25 that Jon Ma, founder of Artemis, an institutional data platform for cryptocurrencies, shared his experience of entering the cryptocurrency industry from the traditional financial sector on social media. He mentioned that when he first came into contact with Bitcoin in 2015, he did not take it seriously until 2017 when he paid attention to it again and purchased Bitcoin and other crypto assets.

He said that through communication with Erik Voorhees of Shapeshift, he began to realize the possibility of separating currency from the government. In the following years, he missed the DeFi craze and the rise of NFT, but re-entered the encryption field in 2021, invested in Solana and its NFT, and tried to participate in DeFi projects.

He and his girlfriend also support Filipino scholars through Axie Infinity. He believes that in the future, participants in the traditional financial field will drive crypto assets from US$3.5 trillion to more than US$100 trillion. Asset management companies such as Fidelity and BlackRock are actively launching digital asset ETFs and related products, and the world's largest fintech companies Stripe and Visa are also likely to benefit from the crypto payment network.