Commentary

Kenya's Crypto Law: A Global Model or Regulatory Overreach?

Kenya's Crypto Law: A Global Model or Regulatory Overreach?

Kenya's new Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill is here, and the question isn’t just about Kenya. It's about the future of crypto innovation across the globe. Are we getting a once-in-a-generation framework? Or is this yet another example of regulatory overreach that could strangle the industry it’s supposed to...

Mint & Noves Foresight: The Safety Net Web3 Desperately Needs

Mint & Noves Foresight: The Safety Net Web3 Desperately Needs

Web3. It sold the idea of a decentralized utopia, a world liberated from the gatekeepers of old-school finance. If we’re honest, it’s more like a blindfolded walk through a minefield. Heavy jargon and convoluted, dense code can scare away future users. At the same time, the overwhelming threat of scams...

5 Ways Noves & Mint Unlock Southeast Asia's NFT Art Boom

5 Ways Noves & Mint Unlock Southeast Asia's NFT Art Boom

Southeast Asia is an incredibly vibrant and provocative art region, filled with game-changing experimentation that is far too frequently sidelined in the larger worldwide narrative. The advent of NFTs provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The issue though? The technology is super scary, a huge obstacle to entry for artists and collectors...

5 Ways Kenya's Crypto Law Empowers African Artists & Creators

5 Ways Kenya's Crypto Law Empowers African Artists & Creators

It's not just another piece of legislation. It's a potential game-changer for African artists and creators. So put aside the arcane legalese for a second. Creative energy is all the rage these days across the continent! Music, art, fashion and digital design is flourishing, fueled by amazing talent and ambition...

SEC's Crypto Crackdown Ending? 3 Reasons Atkins' Overhaul Changes Everything

SEC's Crypto Crackdown Ending? 3 Reasons Atkins' Overhaul Changes Everything

For decades, it’s been a marriage marked by mistrust, regulation harassment, and the pervasive sense of tiptoeing around. Remember the ICO boom and bust? The SEC then swooped in with regulations designed for traditional equities. Their actions triggered a flood of costly litigation and handcuffed innovation in an emerging technology....

RTFKT's Glitch Shows Why Web3 Needs Southeast Asia's Resilience

RTFKT's Glitch Shows Why Web3 Needs Southeast Asia's Resilience

The black screen. That's all it took. NFT holders are left with a chilling digital emptiness. It’s an unfortunate reminder that, even in the most decentralized of cyberspaces, like that of Web3, there are still centralized vulnerabilities lurking beneath the surface. The RTFKT image disappearance wasn’t merely a technical hiccup....

SEC's Crypto Rules Need a Fix? 5 Ways to Empower Southeast Asian Artists

SEC's Crypto Rules Need a Fix? 5 Ways to Empower Southeast Asian Artists

Meet Dewi, a gorgeous batik artist from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. For countless generations, her family has carefully and respectfully drawn complex patterns on fabric, an art-form handed down through family trees like sacred bloodlines. Dewi dreams bigger. Her goal is to make her art accessible to the world. She’s interested in...

RTFKT's Vanishing NFTs: A $2800 Lesson in Web3's Broken Promises?

RTFKT's Vanishing NFTs: A $2800 Lesson in Web3's Broken Promises?

Well, your $2800 NFT just became a digital black hole. How does that make you feel? Angry? Defeated? Welcome to the club. RTFKT’s Clone X and Animus NFT images have recently disappeared, leaving just a spooky black screen. This deeply disturbing shift should send shockwaves to anyone who is interested...

Tokenize Indonesia: Is This RWA Accelerator a Regulatory Game Changer?

Tokenize Indonesia: Is This RWA Accelerator a Regulatory Game Changer?

Indonesia. Southeast Asia’s archipelago nation, an economic sleeping giant now truly awakening to the full potential and possibilities afforded by Web3. Highly touted by advocates, we’ve heard the numbers – over 100 million crypto users, a rapidly expanding tech hub. Is this merely hype, or is there substance behind the...

Indonesia's RWA Revolution: 3 Ways Tokenize Indonesia Empowers Artists

Indonesia's RWA Revolution: 3 Ways Tokenize Indonesia Empowers Artists

Indonesia. A place with a rich history of artistic culture, stunning natural landscapes, and unrealized creative capacity. We’re all familiar with the hard times artists are going through, particularly artists from our countries’ emerging economies. They produce brilliant works, put their hearts and souls into their art, and they continue...

Japan's "New Capitalism 2025" Plan Signals Regulatory Embrace of Bitcoin and Web3

Japan is strategically positioning itself as a global leader in digital innovation with its updated "New Capitalism 2025" plan, released on April 13. Taken together, this plan represents a major regulatory turning point event toward welcoming Bitcoin and Web3 technologies. The initiative aims to leverage digital assets to solve social...

Senate Republicans Forge Ahead on Crypto Market Structure Framework

Republican senators working on a new framework for digital assets legislation, riding the positive bipartisan wave in the Senate as of late. This announcement follows the Senate’s passage of a bill to regulate stablecoins last week. It was passing with overwhelming bipartisan support.Senators Tim Scott, Cynthia Lummis, Thom Tillis, and...

Trump Jr. at KBW2025: Web3's Mainstream Moment?

Donald Trump Jr.’s scheduled keynote address at KBW2025 is raising eyebrows and inspiring intense discussion across the Web3 ecosystem. He’s just a high-profile guy shaking things up in the crypto world. His presence further exemplifies the increasing importance of blockchain technology and its potential to revolutionize the traditional economy. Does...

Donald Trump Jr. Headlines Korea Blockchain Week 2025

Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2025, Asia’s largest and most influential Web3 conference, is returning to Seoul this coming September. The collaborative innovation summit recently announced its second wave of speakers and lead partners. You can expect big names such as Donald Trump Jr., Keone Hon from Monad Foundation, Guy Young...

Civitas Goes Immutable: Faster, Cheaper, and Gas-Free Trading!

Civitas is making a massive leap into the future of blockchain gaming, so join us! As an official partner of Immutable’s, our competitive game officially migrated from Ethereum to the Immutable zkEVM. This change will transform the Civitas experience for players all over the world. This new transition brings with...

Civitas Adopts Immutable Passport for Gas-Free Gameplay

Welcome to Civitas, an exciting new digital universe where players create and lead their own city-states. To make that experience all the more seamless, they’ve recently added Immutable Passport. This transition allows players to shape their civilization's future using augmented reality (AR), on-chain tools, and subDAOs without incurring gas costs....

Kazakhstan's Solana Zone: Web3 Oasis or Regulatory Mirage?

Kazakhstan is taking an ambitious step in the global Web3 race with its new Solana Economic Zone (SEZ). The SEZ is a controlled experimentation space. It seeks to establish a fertile environment for real-world crypto adoption and incubate new Web3 projects. The initiative is intended to mirror the success of...

Kazakhstan Launches Solana Economic Zone to Spur Web3 Innovation

Kazakhstan, officially registered as an SEZ the Solana Economic Zone Kazakhstan (SEZ KZ) in Astana. This is a major move towards encouraging the development of Web3 throughout Central Asia. The new zone, which is blockchain-driven, is the first of its kind in the region. The Solana Foundation jointly developed it...