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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The idealistic dream of Web3, an open and decentralized paradise that would liberate us from the tyranny of Big Tech, has seemed tempting from day one. A lot of it still seems like a pipedream, a mirage glimmering on the horizon. Aleph Cloud, formerly Aleph.im, sharply decides to rebrand. They...
Paris Blockchain week (PBW) 2025, hosted at the Carrousel du Louvre, was quite the spectacle. Over 9,600 attendees from 95 countries, a speaker lineup boasting names like Charles Hoskinson and Monica Long, and even a partnership announcement between PSG and Matchain – it all screams global. Let’s face it —...
The whispers are growing louder. Crypto regulation is coming. Who is it really for? Who will it hurt? We’re starting to see headlines like “SEC joins forces with top hedge fund managers” and “SEC takes aim with new targeted enforcement at fraud." Are these protections truly designed for the fast-growing...
