Is Japan on the verge of accidentally unleashing a tsunami of creative destruction and financial liberation onto the rest of the emerging markets? I know this seems like a tall order, but hear me out. Japan’s regulatory change to officially recognize Bitcoin as a financial product. This step is a...
Let’s be honest, when you hear about crypto regulation, your first thought probably isn't Southeast Asian artists finding new avenues for creative expression. Surely visions of Wall Street honchos and inscrutable derivatives dance in your head. Well, what if I told you that the Senate’s Banking Committee just released their...
I think back to the day I first met Anya (name changed), a young, accomplished digital artist who lived in a small village in Cambodia. Her art, bold, colorful, and unapologetically her, reflected her journey, her pain, and aspirations. She released an NFT collection, Beyond Imagination, and left it all...
The steppes of Kazakhstan. Solana. Web3. Tokenized real estate. At first glance, just like connecting a dial-up modem to a SpaceX rocket, these two things appear to have nothing in common. Dig a little deeper, and you’ll find a revolution shaking the trees. This exciting movement has the potential to...
The non-fungible token (NFT) craze is changing the landscape for digital artists. They provide artists with a new innovative tool for expression, and collectors are treated to unique forms of work to collect. NFTs make it possible for digital artworks to become distinct, ownable assets. Notably, they address the ongoing...
Whether you’re an established artist, or newcomer finding it difficult to pay the bills in Canada’s ever-growing arts and culture sector… Let’s be real though—the traditional paths are stifling, bureaucratic, and let’s be honest—soul crushing. What if the answer to your funding woes lies within the thrilling, new realm of...
Put aside the Lambo fantasies and the worn out story of crypto only making the rich even more rich. Wyoming's full-throated embrace of cryptocurrency, spearheaded by figures like Senator Cynthia Lummis, is poised to create a creative renaissance, particularly for artists in emerging markets. This isn't about Wall Street 2.0....
Southeast Asia’s digital landscape is set to be a whole lot more exciting. Hedera, the Layer 1 blockchain, is teaming up with The Binary Holdings to inject decentralized apps (dApps) into the mobile networks of major telecom providers in Indonesia and the Philippines. We're talking potentially reaching 169 million users....
The crypto world has moved on. Remember the NFT frenzy of 2021? Celebrities were shilling Bored Apes, and the world was sure that digital tulips were the way of the future. Now, it’s all about memecoins. Doge, Shiba, and all the other canine-themed bullshit that comes along in their wake....
A16z's hefty $70 million investment in EigenLayer's EigenCloud has the crypto world buzzing. We’re informed that it has to do with “mass-market crypto apps,” and bridging the gap between developer dreams and blockchain reality. I mean, come on. How much of that “mass” actually reflects the dynamic, but frequently marginalized,...
