Remember that street food vendor in Bangkok? He was such a happy guy, despite all this heat he was always smiling and cooking the best Pad See Ew ever!! Now imagine that vendor, empowered by blockchain, directly sourcing the freshest ingredients, cutting out middleman markups, and offering loyalty rewards via...
$150 million. That's the headline. With venture capital again flowing back into crypto in June, it certainly feels like the bear market winter is behind us. And the whisper on the wind? DeFi is back, baby! Hold on just a second before you start dusting off those Lambo dreams, because...
Telegram's billion-dollar valuation via The Open Platform (TOP) isn't just another tech headline. It's a potential seismic shift for crypto adoption in Asia, especially for countries like the Philippines. Forget the technical jargon for a moment, and let's talk about something real: opportunity.Filipino Founders: A New Dawn?Now, picture an equally...
A billion-dollar acquisition valuation for The Open Platform (TOP)? That's unicorn territory. Even as wonderful as that $28.5 million Series A round, led by Ribbit Capital and Pantera Capital, sounds … Hold on a second, let’s stop and think about what this really says. We all remember the dot-com boom,...
While in Manila last year, I made the acquaintance of a young woman named Anya. She was putting in round-the-clock work in her family’s small sari-sari store, just getting by. This year, she’s discussing moving up, increasing, investing in new inventory, and even putting her little brother through college. What...
Let's be blunt: the crypto space is a battlefield of hype and hope. And now everyone’s promising that they’re going to be the next savior on the way to the disco. But get past the hype, and you’ll see that lasting, sustainable supremacy is all about data. And that data,...
If venture capitalists are pouring money into the crypto-AI mashup like it’s Korean BBQ on a buffet night, well, you get the picture. Rails receives $20M, Inference Labs pockets $6.3M, and Gradient Network lands a sweet $10M. No surprise therefore that Even Yupp, an AI evaluation platform, is hitting a...
That scene for crypto VC funding is clearly holding up very solidly, wouldn’t you agree? We see the headlines: millions flowing into DeFi, AI, and hybrid exchanges. Yet where is this innovation actually taking seed? While Silicon Valley often hogs the spotlight, a quiet revolution is brewing in the Philippines,...
$136.8 million poured into crypto in June. Sounds like a win, right? Before you pop the champagne, ask yourself: is this a genuine surge, or just a cleverly disguised mirage shimmering in the desert heat? Well, I’m here to tell you it’s much more likely the latter. What VCs are...
Forget the Silicon Valley hype. While everybody else has been watching the show on the West Coast, a parallel and quieter revolution was taking place much further East. Asian crypto startups, often operating on a shoestring and facing unique regional challenges, are silently crushing it in the VC game, even...
