This is why we partner with Binance to reach global market. Our investors are also very global (e.g. Sequoia, top global traditional VC) so they help us to connect with local ecosystem. We value our community and have already established key person in China, Korea, and Australia (to handle US/Europe). We will be expanding our team to cover major areas.
Biggest obstacle for BAND is bootstrapping the ecosystem for both data providers and data consumers (dApps) at the same time. This is the reason why we have ecosystem fund to subsidize both sides and make it much easier to convince them to join as our initial partners. We have already made number of partnership, which we will be announcing soon.
Also in order to mitigate that, we are partnering with many layer 1 solutions as all of them ALSO need traction. Right now, regardless of their scalability, it will be very hard for any dApps developers to build any meaningful dApps without accessing real-world data. Most existing defi relies on centralized oracle which defeats the whole purpose of using smart contract in the first place.
By partnering with layer 1, they help us with resources (both monetary and developer resources) so it allows us to scale very quickly.