Tag: digital economy

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

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

• Regulation

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...

Qubetics Ending Soon? Why Southeast Asia's Creators Need This

Qubetics Ending Soon? Why Southeast Asia's Creators Need This

• Commentary

Southeast Asia is one of the great sleeping giants of creativity. Picture this colorful tapestry of the cultures. Artists, musicians and innovators are creative and passionate, ready to tell their story to the world. There's a catch. A frustrating, archaic barrier stands in their way: code. Specifically, Web3 code. And...

Polemos & BUFF: Will This Partnership Finally Unlock Web3 Gaming for SEA?

Polemos & BUFF: Will This Partnership Finally Unlock Web3 Gaming for SEA?

• Commentary

Can one token launch and one strategic partnership really shift the game for SEA’s (Southeast Asia) Web3 gaming future? Maybe. Let's be real, the devil is always in the details, especially when you're talking about a region as diverse and nuanced as SEA. Polemos, launching its $PLMS token on June...

27x Gains? How Unstaked's AI Agents Empower Southeast Asian Creators

27x Gains? How Unstaked's AI Agents Empower Southeast Asian Creators

• Commentary

I’ve experienced the full force of this creativity myself on the ground in Southeast Asia. Too frequently, that promise is stifled by the overwhelming task of traversing the Web3 space. Imagine onboarding new users, fighting off a constant stream of spam, and offering round-the-clock community support. It's exhausting, and it's...

Is xTAO's 'Bitcoin of AI' Claim a Win for Southeast Asian Creators?

Is xTAO's 'Bitcoin of AI' Claim a Win for Southeast Asian Creators?

• Commentary

Karia Samaroo, fresh off her WonderFi journey, is betting big on Bittensor, calling it the "Bitcoin of AI" with her new venture, xTAO. And come on, everyone loves a good crypto analogy! Is this audacious assertion truly music to the ears of the next-gen creators and Web3 pioneers toiling in...

5 Ways Crypto Regulation Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Untapped Potential

5 Ways Crypto Regulation Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Untapped Potential

• Commentary

Picture Anya, a gifted fabric-maker hailing from a remote rural community in Cambodia. Her elaborate creations are stunning, but getting to customers outside her brick and mortar store? Almost impossible. It’s the fees, the intermediaries, the gaudy bureaucracy of traditional finance that continues to hold her back, and millions of...

Crypto's New Dawn: Regulation & Tokenomics Fuel Digital Economy

Crypto's New Dawn: Regulation & Tokenomics Fuel Digital Economy

• Facts

The crypto world has changed dramatically since those bubble days and is maturing beyond speculative assets into the realm of real-world use. Two equally important forces propelling this change are proportional regulation and sustainable tokenomics. These pieces are more than just buzzword bingo. These are the underpinnings that will fuel...

Web3's Harvard Moment: Are Elites Finally Listening to Emerging Markets?

Web3's Harvard Moment: Are Elites Finally Listening to Emerging Markets?

• Commentary

I’ll never forget Nandar though, an incredibly smart young woman from Yangon. Chloe survived on a diet of instant noodles for several months as she bootstrapped her first Web3 hackathon. Her enthusiasm for empowering her compatriots, other Burmese coders, with blockchain skills was infectious. The painful underlying scarcity of resources...

7 Ways Web3 Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Creative Startup Boom

7 Ways Web3 Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Creative Startup Boom

• Commentary

I’ve felt firsthand the raw talent that’s just bubbling in Southeast Asia. Only in the past year did I encounter Anya, a remarkable textile artist from a village in Vietnam. Her designs were so beautiful, imbued with centuries of cultural memory. Anya struggled. She was stuck in a vicious spiral...

7 Ways Web3 Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Creative Power by 2025

7 Ways Web3 Can Unleash Southeast Asia's Creative Power by 2025

• Commentary

Southeast Asia is an incredibly rich tapestry of vibrant cultures and heritage— full of artistic masterpieces and stories waiting to be told. All too often, these voices are silenced, choked by old gatekeepers and a lack of access to the world marketplace. Web3 provides this radical solution, the opportunity to...

Japan's Bitcoin Revolution: A Boon for Artists and Web3 Creators?

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...

5 Ways This Crypto Bill Empowers Southeast Asian Artists, Not Wall Street

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...

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...

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 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...

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....