Dubai. A city shimmering with ambition, now beckoning Web3 startups with a million-dollar carrot at the HODL Summit in May 2025. Five thousand attendees, dreams of crypto fortunes, and the siren call of a desert paradise transformed into a tech utopia. Sounds like a Western feeding frenzy, right? Maybe not.Might...
Welcome to the enchanted kingdom of glass and glittering promises! To sweeten the pot, next May, as part of the Summit, we’ll have a $1 million Web3 prize hanging like a digital carrot. Five thousand crypto-curious souls, brimming with dreams of their own digital fortunes, will flood in, looking to...
Forget the hype. Forget the Lambo dreams. If you’re truly trying to position yourself for the next crypto wave, you have to look East. I’m not referring to yet another meme coin. I mean the projects actually building tangible solutions, that are solving tangible problems, that are literally changing lives...
Quite frankly, the crypto space can be a treacherous minefield. Each day has its own next big thing. Nearly each and every one of them vanish into thin air like so much smoke in your cyberspace purse. Every once in awhile, you come across a project that seems to be...
Picture a world in which state treasuries invest in Bitcoin. It's not some far-off fantasy anymore. Missouri—or Wyoming, Alaska, or not-so-distant West Virginia—is already leading the way. Bitcoin reaching $104,000 is ENORMOUS and it’s a warning signal at the same time. The tide is turning and that’s the unmistakable signal....
We’re all sick of reading doomsday headlines about the next killer crypto app. Decentralized finance, unprecedented scalability, transformational utility — these are the stories dominating our newsfeeds. Let's cut through the noise. Behind all the fancy programming, are these projects actually having a meaningful effect in the real world? Alternatively,...
The crypto ecosystem is all about a good underdog story. We've all seen the meteoric rise of projects that started with nothing but a whitepaper and a dream, challenging established giants. For Asian crypto startups, that dream is often much further away than it needs to be. They face a...
Crypto.com’s embrace of Lynq would be a huge leap for all digital asset traders. Instead, it could be a very shrewdly devised wager — one that only serves the interests of the larger stakeholders. The vision of real-time settlement and yield-bearing assets continues to be alluring. A deeper dive into...
You might think stablecoins are, well, stable. However, lurking under the surface of these not-so-harmless digital bucks is a tempest in waiting. A dark storm. Now, let’s talk about “dark stablecoins.” These censorship-resistant alternatives will be poised to prosper as governments globally clamp down on their control over the crypto...
Are we on the brink of seeing a quiet revolution take place in the center of the continent, underpinned by an innovation known as “dark stablecoins?” No, I’m not talking about a dystopian cyberpunk future. I’m describing one out of many palpable reactions to the growing regulatory squeeze on crypto....
