Conference in Manila last year, and then with Aisha. She’s a young Filipina entrepreneur who operates a small online business producing lovely, handcrafted jewelry. She joined Roller after Degen’s launch, but was thrilled by DeFi and what it could do to help people bypass traditional banks and access global markets....
Coinbase's foray into wrapped tokens on Base with cbXRP, cbADA, cbDOGE, and cbLTC is more than just a product launch. It's a high-stakes game of chess in the DeFi arena. The question is not whether it will change the landscape, but rather how and to what degree. Are we actually...
Asian investors were the ones to throw $100 billion at startups last year. Let that sink in. That’s more than just pocket change, it’s a major, seismic shift. We’ve all been duped by a Silicon Valley-focused picture of the world for long enough. Are we, as Americans, sleepwalking into a...
I still recall meeting Anya for the first time in Manila last year. Straight out of university, she was already on her grind, creating a sustainable packaging enterprise composed of upcycled materials. Her passion was contagious, but she fumbled with access to capital and mentorship, resources that come standard in...
Coinbase joining the S&P 500? It’s much more than a win for Wall Street. Southeast Asia’s crypto dreams are in the terms of race cars and skydivers, ZOOMING TO THE NEXT LEVEL. This region is indeed a land of opportunity, but it is under siege by disbelief. You might think,...
Coinbase in the S&P 500. It's huge. A big win today—not just for Coinbase, but for the entire crypto space. Put aside the short-lived meme coin crazes, this is not just a get-rich-in-a-night scheme. This is more than just legitimacy, more than just crypto getting a seat at the grown-up...
Imagine this: A Filipino domestic worker, let's call her Aling Maria, diligently saves every month from her meager salary in Singapore. She wants to be able to send money back home to her family in the Philippines. Her dreams involve paying for her kids’ college, settling her parents’ medical debt,...
A privacy stablecoin on Cardano? Ambitious, undoubtedly. Is that a visionary leap or a reckless plunge into regulatory quicksand? Let's be brutally honest: the path to crypto innovation is paved with good intentions and regulatory landmines.Privacy's Price Regulatory Crackdown Coming?Hoskinson is right to highlight the privacy shortcomings of current stablecoins....
The crypto world moves fast. Blink, and you've missed a revolution. One thing is becoming increasingly clear: institutional money is finally starting to trickle, then flow, into the digital asset space. We’re no longer speaking of a few bad act hedge funds. We’re not just talking about Mom and Pops,...
Take for example a young Filipino developer, Maria, working late into the night in her cramped Manila flat. She’s building a groundbreaking platform in DeFi to change that. With direct access to the global market, farmers in Luzon will find it easier to enjoy fair prices for their crops —...
