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...
The Web3 world is buzzing. HackerNoon’s “Startups of The Year 2024” is the world’s largest decentralized startup competition. It includes more than 150,000 participants and has received almost 300,000 votes in the Web3 category so far. So now we’re in this incredible kind of Cambrian moment of innovation in decentralization,...
Southeast Asia. An area humming with artistic innovation, business ingenuity, and a cultural proclivity for valuing private expertise. Now, Inco, flush with a new $5 million, believes they hold the proverbial magic key to the region’s Web3 potential. Is it all just smoke and mirrors, or can privacy truly be...
I would reminisce about the time I attended a small scale game dev game jam in Jakarta a few years ago. Talented artists, coders brimming with ideas… but the conversation kept circling back to the same problem: access. Access to funding, access to mentorship, access to a global audience. And...
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...
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...
The global financial winds are shifting, and while the giants grapple for control, a quiet revolution is brewing in the vibrant heart of Southeast Asia. Delete the stories about dollar hegemony and Bitcoin accumulation. The actual story is about artist empowerment and reclaiming cultural narratives through Web3. We're not just...
Now picture Wayan, a young Balinese artist, chiseling each detailed Garuda statue by hand, the tradition passed down in his family for ages. He envisions displaying these rarities as NFTs, too, honoring Indonesia’s longtime aviation prowess in the metaverse, a digital new world. The global stage seems far away, the...
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...
Southeast Asian artists are in the middle of an unprecedented renaissance. An invisible insurrection, powered by algorithms and imagination. It requires one big catalyst, and that catalyst may just be – wait for it – crypto legislation. I know, this one sounds as riveting as watching grass grow, huh? I...
