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Dubai Web3 Events: Southeast Asia's Artists Are Missing Out!

Dubai Web3 Events: Southeast Asia's Artists Are Missing Out!

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Dubai’s rise as a global Web3 nexus is real and impressive. QuillAudits’ series of private, invitation-only events scheduled to coincide with TOKEN2049 Dubai next April/May, focusing on the crypto channels from DeFi to AI, shouts opportunity. Collaboration, innovation, the future of Web3 – it’s all so damn energizing. Backed by...

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

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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...

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

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

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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...

Is Trump's Crypto Embrace a Win for Artists or a Regulatory Trap?

Is Trump's Crypto Embrace a Win for Artists or a Regulatory Trap?

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Donald Trump’s unexpected crypto rebirth has the entire internet abuzz — and to be clear, it absolutely should. While Wall Street might be seeing dollar signs, I’m looking at this from a different angle: what does this mean for the emerging artists and creators in Southeast Asia who are increasingly...

NFTs Leveling the Playing Field for Southeast Asian Artists?

NFTs Leveling the Playing Field for Southeast Asian Artists?

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Are you sick of hearing about NFTs as the latest get-rich-quick fad? Think again. Because under the hype, there is indeed something truly revolutionary brewing, particularly for artists in Southeast Asia. Forget the tired narrative of speculative JPEGs. This time we’re all about real empowerment. It’s high time we changed...

5 NFT Art Platforms Empowering Southeast Asian Artists in 2025

5 NFT Art Platforms Empowering Southeast Asian Artists in 2025

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Sure enough, the crypto winter froze much of the hype found in the NFT space, and to that I say, good riddance. We're finally seeing the dust settle, revealing the true potential: art. Not monkey JPEGs created to pump and dump, but real, challenging art. And within this renaissance, Southeast...

CloneX's Cloudflare Fiasco Exposes Web3's Centralization Problem & Artists

CloneX's Cloudflare Fiasco Exposes Web3's Centralization Problem & Artists

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Or, I think back with great enthusiasm to last year, when we interviewed a young, amazingly talented digital artist from Malaysia. So imagine that she had been super excited about NFTs. Finally, she discovered a means of escaping the art world gatekeepers and reaching right past them, directly to collectors....

5 Ways This AI Web3 Platform Empowers Southeast Asian Artists

5 Ways This AI Web3 Platform Empowers Southeast Asian Artists

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It’s a tired, cliché phrase, and it’s a tragedy. Particularly when you factor in the energizing, frequently underutilized artistry that’s brewing in Southeast Asia. We're talking about a region brimming with raw talent, but often stifled by systemic issues: lack of access to funding, convoluted royalty systems, and the ever-present...

Ubisoft's Web3 Gamble: Empowering Artists or Exploiting Nostalgia?

Ubisoft's Web3 Gamble: Empowering Artists or Exploiting Nostalgia?

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Ubisoft is at it again. What a terrible world MMNFT might create. Holy crap, MMNFT is back, becoming the new hottest NFT game. It emerges from the ashes of two failed Web3 projects that were roundly denounced by the gaming audience. Of note, they’re dangling a carrot in front of...

PGI Founder's Crypto Scam Exposes Web3's Dark Side For Artists

PGI Founder's Crypto Scam Exposes Web3's Dark Side For Artists

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The SEC's charges against Ramil Palafox, founder of PGI Global, aren't just about another crypto scam gone wrong. They shine a misleading, baffling light on the predatory side of Web3. Their siren call drives desperate creators off the metaphorical cliff into abject poverty. Almost $300 million disappeared, commitments broken, and...

Crypto's 'Light-Touch' Regulation Gamble Will It Protect You?

The Senate Committee’s proposed “light-touch” regulatory framework for crypto is a long high-stakes poker game. Are we all truly holding a winning hand, or are we collectively bluffing our way into a future financial crisis? It’s a question every investor, every innovator, and frankly, every citizen should want to know....

Trump Jr. at KBW2025: Web3's Punk Rock Moment or Sellout?

Or I think about Nandar, a wonderful Burmese artist that I met in Yangon, sharing with me her latest NFT collection. Each work exploded with vivid imagery, bravely fighting back against the junta’s repressive hold. She began selling them directly to supporters around the world, allowing her to cleverly sidestep...

KBW2025: Is Trump Jr. Web3's Trojan Horse or its Savior?

Donald Trump Jr. at Korea Blockchain Week? It's a head-scratcher, isn't it? About as easy as locating a MAGA hat at a Burning Man soirée. Before we put this down as just another short-lived publicity stunt, let’s take a closer look at what this could IoTally Web3 means. Cynical ploy...

Schiff's Crypto Ban: Is He Protecting Us or Silencing Innovation?

Senator Adam Schiff's proposed crypto ban, the COIN Act, aimed at preventing the President (read: Donald Trump) from dabbling in digital assets, raises a critical question: Is this genuine protection against corruption, or a veiled attempt to stifle innovation, especially for emerging markets? Let's be real, the optics are terrible....

Immutable's Gamble: Will Gas-Free Trading Save Web3 Gaming?

Yet the hype around Web3 gaming is real, offering gamers true digital ownership and player-driven economies. Let’s get real: that promise usually meets a very different fate. High gas fees and a clunky user experience can quickly derail those intentions. Immutable is taking a big bet with its zkEVM and...

Civitas' Immutable Leap: A Win for Emerging Artists in Web3?

I think back to visiting a small art collective in Yangon just a few years ago. It was a time when the energy was electric, the talent readily evident, but the artists themselves were suffering. They were making amazing digital art and wanted to access the global NFT market. Those...

Kazakhstan's Solana Zone: A Web3 Oasis or Just Another Crypto Mirage?

Is Kazakhstan really developing a true Web3 utopia, or just another playground for the crypto elite? The establishment of a Solana Economic Zone Kazakhstan (SEZ KZ) in Astana has generated much enthusiasm but criticism. The prospect of a blockchain-powered haven in Central Asia, however, is tantalizing. We need to take...