Needless to say, we’re hearing a great deal about AI’s ability to revolutionize M&A due diligence. Kraken leveraging Termina.ai to accelerate their NinjaTrader acquisition is only the most recent example. Hours instead of weeks? Sounds amazing. Look, we don’t mean to sound like Chicken Little here, but before we crown...
Imagine this: a young, ambitious blockchain startup in Jakarta, BatikTech, is building a revolutionary supply chain tracking system. They use the best advanced technology. Their non-human counterparts—such as API keys and tokens used for communication between systems—are a tangled mess of credentials that are manually maintained. One oversight, one disgruntled...
This round of crypto VC funding in Q1 2025 wasn’t just a blip on the radar. Seismic changes don’t get much more seismic than this! Focus on the AI side of things, or risk losing out on amazing opportunities. This isn’t your 2021 bull run funded by memes and hype....
Riptides recently caught $3.3 million in pre-seed funding. That's huge, especially for a Hungarian startup. This is a reflection of that, this is more than a bottom line focused corporation. It’s a real change for the security of crypto, a bright vibrant flash of neon beacon. This is the premise...
Here's a question that’s been buzzing in my head lately: can a company built on the seemingly arcane science of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) actually become a billion-dollar powerhouse in Asia? Specifically, Lattica?I’ve been tracking the emergence of AI and growing concerns about data privacy for some time. What I've...
Lattica’s emergence from stealth with its FHE-powered cloud service isn’t just big news. The promise of querying AI models with encrypted data, without decrypting the models themselves, sounds like the holy grail for privacy-conscious industries. But is it really a game changer? Or just another overhyped tech solution? Now let’s...
Malaysia's recent flirtation with Binance, symbolized by CZ's meeting with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, is more than just a photo op. It's a high-stakes gamble. The potential payoff? Becoming a southwest blockchain mecca. The danger? Wasting time, money and missing the opportunity to catch up. Put aside the glitz and...
The other day I chatted with Anya, a Filipina founder bootstrapping her blockchain-based supply chain solution to the local mango farmers. She’s brilliant, dedicated, but always fighting tooth and nail for pennies on the dollar with the big boys. Her story isn’t unique. It’s the reality for so many other...
Picture Aling Maria, a vendor in a vibrant, but polluted, Manila market. She must deal with the dangers of carrying a lot of cash and risk being robbed or having to make change for customers each day. Picture this — Aling Maria not only accepting Picoin, a cryptocurrency she can...
As you might expect considering the price of Bitcoin, the answer is an ever-moving target. One thing's for sure: with a market cap hovering around trillions, crypto is no longer a niche interest. Are we really about to see a crypto-fueled, crypto-accepted, crypto-powered daily economy come to pass? Picoin, with...
