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Welcome back to Chain Reaction<\/a>, a podcast diving deep into stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto.<\/p>\n For this week\u2019s episode<\/a>, I interviewed Gwendolyn Regina, investment director at layer-1 blockchain BNB Chain. Prior to her current role, Regina worked at Facebook \u2014 or, as some call it now, Meta<\/a> \u2014 building a new business unit for venture capital partnerships and startup growth. She\u2019s also a founder of a few different businesses and a founding team member for an early-stage tech investment firm, Thymos Capital.<\/p>\n As investment director, Regina looks at new projects, talks to developers and runs BNB Chain\u2019s grant program, which picks up to 10 projects a month to help them grow on the chain.<\/p>\n BNB Chain was launched in September 2020 and was initially kicked off by Binance, the world\u2019s largest crypto exchange by trading volume.<\/p>\n Since then, BNB Chain has aimed to be a decentralized, community-owned separate entity from Binance with a focus on three audiences: retail markets, builders and developers, and bridging Web2.0 businesses to web3, Regina said. \u201cWe\u2019re here to, number one, grow the blockchain and grow the pie.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the past year has been shaky for crypto markets, BNB\u2019s investment strategy takes a long-term view and is mainly not affected by day-to-day market events, Regina explained.<\/p>\n \u201cOur investment thesis doesn\u2019t change and yet it also changes,\u201d Regina joked. \u201cWe all know blockchain and crypto move incredibly fast, so we are more precise in certain areas but largely speaking it has not changed.\u201d<\/p>\n All in all, through the bear market and \u201cmini bulls\u201d along the way, \u201cwe\u2019re in a phase where everyone is building,\u201d Regina said. \u201cAnd we want to enable more capabilities on BNB Chain.\u201d<\/p>\n Web3 gaming<\/a> on BNB Chain also has grown \u201corganically through robustness and cheaper fees,\u201d but the blockchain\u2019s team is now \u201cdoubling down\u201d in that sector to encourage more gamers and developers to play and build on its chain, Regina added. Out of its 1 million daily active users, about 40% are gamers, she shared.<\/p>\n \u201cOur GameFi infrastructure has always been relatively strong but because things evolve so much we\u2019re really trying to find one-stop shop GameFi infrastructure,\u201d Regina said. \u201cGoing back to our investment thesis, when we look at the different themes, we always ask ourselves what is missing now and more importantly [\u2026] you have to think about what will be important in six months.\u201d<\/p>\n For Regina and the BNB investment team, investments are \u201cmore than financial capital; it\u2019s really a lot of growth incentives,\u201d among other elements.<\/p>\n Chain Reaction<\/strong> comes out every other Thursday at 12:00 p.m. PT, so be sure to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts,<\/a><\/strong> Spotify<\/a><\/strong> or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the action.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n