I think back to a visit to a tiny arts collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia a few years ago. Fabulous artists were producing beautiful batik creations, but having a hard time keeping afloat financially and making consistent contributions to their communities. They were stuck in a domestic bubble, their growth hampered...
Ubisoft's latest foray into Web3 with Might & Magic: Fates, in partnership with Immutable, throws down a gauntlet. We’re talking about an awesome free-to-play card game that leverages blockchain technology to provide true digital ownership. This idea is still developing and truly seems like the Wild West! Having full ownership...
Bitcoin had its moment. It ignited the crypto revolution, no doubt. Southeast Asia doesn’t need another store of value. We need more tools for construction, for creation—instruments to empower the artists and communities that traditional finance has passed over and continues to exclude. Drop the bluster, 2025 is all about...
Even hearing the word brings to mind visions of scams, rug pulls and ape JPEGs selling for more than homes. Worse, the media can’t get enough of a good crypto collapse, and regulators are circling like vultures. To be completely fair, much of the criticism is justified. Burying the whole...
Forget Silicon Valley. The next AI revolution shouldn’t be predicated on mountains of scraped data of dubious origin. Korean future It’s K-Pop-fueled data ethics that’s making the future undeniably Korean.Ethical Data? Is This Even Possible?Let's be honest, the AI industry has a dirty little secret: much of its training data...
Alexander Salnikov, co-founder of Rarible, is making waves with a bold claim: the NFT winter is thawing. Headlines overshadow the downturn with decreased trading volumes. Economic headlines trumpet the phenomenon of ‘failed NFT projects’. Salnikov insists adamantly that what we’re witnessing is a transition, not a collapse. A greater emphasis...
The NFT market is dead, right? That's what the headlines scream. A 93% decline in trading volume since 2021? A 98% project failure rate in 2024? Justin Bieber’s Bored Ape NFT dropping nearly 94% in value? It all paints a bleak picture. Let me tell you something: those headlines are...
The Web3 revolution had us believing that decentralization, democratization, and creator empowerment were just around the corner. The good news is that everybody should be benefitting. Look around. It's largely the same players who dominated Web2: Silicon Valley giants, established venture capitalists, and a select group of already-famous artists. The...
The future of education isn’t determined in a Silicon Valley board room. Rather than coming fully-formed, TED’s next big thing is being built, pixel by pixel, in the innovative studios and creative cities of Southeast Asia. And it's powered by Web3. You might think art and blockchain are strange bedfellows,...
We keep hearing the buzz: Web3 is going to revolutionize education. Decentralization! Democratization! Empowerment! As someone who's spent years digging beneath the surface of shiny new things, I've learned to ask the tough questions. Is Web3 e-learning really making an equal playing field… Or does it just rework the same...
