Background & Biography
Angie Lau is a journalist and media founder whose work has connected Asian business reporting with blockchain and digital assets. Before launching Forkast, she anchored Bloomberg Television’s First Up with Angie Lau. Her subsequent media career applied that interviewing background to an industry whose technical vocabulary can obscure its commercial and social consequences.
Her current personal biography identifies her as founder and editor-in-chief of ASRV’s Life Beyond School and describes her continuing involvement in technology as an advisor and investor. Forkast is an important part of her professional history, but older biographies describing her as its current chief executive should not be repeated without qualification. This profile distinguishes her documented crypto-media work from her present educational focus.
Notable Contributions
Lau co-launched Forkast with Sarah Chang in 2018. An announcement by investor Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund documents the company’s focus on blockchain reporting and its ambition to explain developments in Asia to a global audience. The platform combined business, economic and political coverage with interviews and video journalism.
In January 2023, Forkast announced its merger with blockchain analytics company CryptoSlam to form Forkast Labs. The announcement named Lau and CryptoSlam founder Randy Wasinger as co-chief executives at that time. It proposed combining journalism with on-chain information, indices and other data products. That dated announcement establishes the transaction and intended direction; it is not evidence that Lau still holds the same executive position today.
Why Katharos.ai Follows Angie Lau
Lau’s relevance comes from making technical and institutional developments accessible to audiences outside the developer community. Forkast and CoinDesk announced a weekly interview program in 2021, hosted by Lau and designed around conversations with blockchain specialists. The partnership is a concrete example of her role in widening the audience for digital-asset reporting.
Katharos.ai follows this kind of contribution because public understanding depends on more than software releases and price charts. Interviewers help establish which questions receive attention, whose claims are challenged and how complex changes are explained. The value of that role should be assessed through the reporting itself, rather than through promotional descriptions of a journalist’s reach or influence.
Areas to Follow
The relationship between journalism and blockchain data is one useful area of scrutiny. Forkast’s 2023 merger announcement argued that price movements alone were an inadequate way to evaluate the digital economy. Combining reporting with transaction data can provide additional context, but it also raises questions about methodology, coverage and interpretation.
A good account should distinguish a stated product ambition from a demonstrated result. It should explain what an index measures, which activity it excludes and whether apparent volume reflects meaningful economic use. These are editorial questions, not endorsements of any proprietary indicator. Lau’s documented involvement in the merger makes this intersection relevant to her profile without attributing every subsequent data product to her individually.
Reporting Scope
Lau has also moderated conversations in policy settings. The OECD’s report on its 2019 Global Blockchain Policy Forum lists her among the moderators, while the accompanying conference photograph documents her participation. Such settings place industry representatives and public officials in the same discussion, making clear attribution especially important.
Her role as a moderator should not be confused with a regulator’s authority or a speaker’s policy position. Similarly, the questions asked in an interview are not automatically the interviewer’s own claims. Coverage of her work should preserve those distinctions and date historical titles. Her newer educational projects provide current career context, but do not by themselves establish additional blockchain achievements.
Areas of Influence Category
Community, Media & Education is the appropriate category for Lau’s documented contribution to digital-asset journalism, interviews and public discussion. Hong Kong is the primary market for this profile because Forkast’s origins and its Asia-focused reporting are central to the work discussed here. This market designation is not a claim about her current residence or citizenship.
The profile remains unranked. Inclusion recognizes a documented role in explaining the industry and does not endorse Forkast, its investors, a data service or any financial product. Future updates should follow primary evidence of her activities and keep historical leadership positions separate from current responsibilities.
Current Position
Founder of Forkast; founder and editor-in-chief, ASRV’s Life Beyond School.
Photo Credit
Archival photograph: Angie Lau, September 13, 2019. Photo: Slc2173 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped to 16:9. Cropped version shared under the same license.
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