The panel on "Re-engineering Global Money Rails: APAC, Interoperability... & Scale" just wrapped at LEAP East and what a conversation it was. 🙌 Our Global CEO Nenter (Nenter Chow) joined an incredible group of minds on the Orbital Stage at HKCEC to dig into the future of #crypto-enabled cross-border payments, interoperability, and what it takes to build financial infrastructure at scale across APAC and beyond. A huge thank you to our fellow panelists: • Elliott Gotkine (Elliott Gotkine) for moderating with sharp, incisive questions • Nicole Sandler, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Ubyx • Dr. Yanan Wu, Chairman & CEO at Surfin Meta Digital Technology • Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at Financial Conduct Authority The conversation was real, the room was packed, and the ideas were bold. This is exactly the kind of dialogue that moves the industry forward. 📍 Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre #LEAPEastshow more

The industry is accelerating toward digital finance at scale... – but why now? Manish Kohli, Global Head of Payments at HSBC, gives his perspective on why the market is ready to move forward. To build on this momentum, we’re working with 40+ financial institutions to add a blockchain-based shared ledger to our infrastructure stack. It will allow for instant, always-on cross border transactions and support interoperability as tokenisation accelerates. Want to learn more? #SwiftCommunity #SwiftLedger #Blockchainshow more

What an incredible group of patriots! It was an... honor to speak at the Texas Republican Convention this week. I am grateful for the overwhelming support as we work to unite our party and win in November. Texas is red, and we’re going to keep it that way.show more

We’re excited to announce that the Hack Seasons Conference... will be taking place at the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong on February 20, 2025! Register for free: Don't miss the chance to connect with leading founders, investors, and developers while exploring DeFi, Layer 2 solutions, VCs' insights, infra, TON ecosystem, AI integration, real-world use cases and mass adoption, ZK proofs, and the fresh alpha from the top exchanges! Among confirmed speakers: Gracy Chen (Gracy Chen @Bitget), CEO at @bitgetglobal Lennix Lai (Lennix Lai), Global Chief Commercial Officer at OKX Kenny Li, (🤓Kenny), Co-Founder of Manta Network (🔱,🔱) Smokey (Smokey The Bera 🐻⛓), Co-Founder of Berachain Foundation 🐻⛓ Kelvin Koh (Kelvin Koh), Co-Founder of The Spartan Group Nenter Chow (Nenter), Head of Portfolio Strategy & Venture Investments at Animoca Ventures Mark Rydon (Mark), Co-Founder of Aethir Igor Pugachevsky (), Co-founder of Blum Special thanks to our stategic partner TONX 💎 and media partners: 動區動趨 BlockTempo JinSe Finance @EdgeofNFT AKINDO | The world’s first Buildathon Platform🌊⚒️ EAK Digital Pacific Meta As well as: TON 💎 Blum Monad Animoca Brands Filecoin HashKey Global Sonic Labs Amigo BNB @BuzzUpHQ Helium🎈 #HSCHongKong #HackSeasonsConference #HackSeasons #HackSeasons_HongKongshow more

A great day at LEAP East 2026 at HKCEC... building and connecting. Spent time at the Animoca Brands booth discussing Minds by Animoca Brands and the next wave of persistent AI agents. Think persistent AI agents with memory, identity, and on-chain wallets, that's what it was! For us at Rice Robotics, that's an exciting direction. As robots become more autonomous, they'll need persistent digital identities, long-term memory, and the ability to interact with both people and decentralized networks. Oh... and we had an insightful and in-depth discussion with someone pretty special and big 👀 More on that soon🤫show more

🚨Real Token will Officially be Listed on a Global... CEX December 5th, 2025! The countdown is on—we’re just 8 DAYS AWAY from Real Token going live on a major global centralized exchange, opening the doors to over $5 BILLION in daily trading volume and 40+ MILLION users who will soon be able to trade REAL Token! RealFi is charging forward, expanding its presence worldwide and connecting with key industry powerhouses. We’re on a mission to solve multi-trillion-dollar problems using blockchain—and we’re doing it at the frontline of payment infrastructure innovation. This is only the beginning. Discover our game-changing Payment Rewards Solution at and learn more about Real Token’s decentralized technology atshow more

The future fight won’t be won by size or... scale alone. It’ll be won by those who can innovate, adapt, and move at speed. That idea was at the heart of Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski’s recent conversation with Erik Torenberg of Andreesen Horowitz and Gary Steele Steele, CEO of Shield AI on The a16z Podcast. In a time of accelerating geopolitical risk, Horacio shared why speed—in technology, partnerships, and deployment—is the decisive factor for national security. Together with Shield AI and its Hivemind autonomy stack, Booz Allen is helping bring advanced, mission-ready AI to the edge faster. Listen to the full episode:show more

There is no shortage of things to weigh heavy... on the heart in Kenya right now. But sometimes you have to find the moments of joy, because joy is what reminds you that things can and will get better. This morning at RadioMaisha was one of those moments. Thank you to #OkumuNaSakali and Radio Maisha family for having me, the warm welcome, and for the dancing! Glad to be part of the Kenyan conversation on how we build a better, more united country, one honest discussion at a time.show more

Most stablecoins stay inside crypto. USD1 just stepped outside... of it. World Liberty Financial contributed $250,000 in USD1 to the UFC Freedom 250 bonus pool, with the payouts announced at the White House. This is notable because USD1 was used as a real payment for real athletic performance at a major global event. Earlier this month, USD1 expanded across staking, liquidity, collateral, and trading products. Now it has also entered sports and entertainment. This is not about price action. It is about adoption. The more places people see and use digital dollars, the stronger the bridge between crypto and the real world becomes. $WLFI WLFI #USD1show more

Today, we’re excited to share our intention to combine... with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP to create Hogan Lovells Cadwalader. This step reflects a shared strategic ambition: to create a firm anchored in the world’s most important financial centers, with unmatched expertise in highly regulated sectors. Our CEO, Miguel Zaldivar, said: “Clients are increasingly looking for law firms with deep sector expertise and broad global reach to advise on their most complex mandates around the world. Cadwalader, a premier Wall Street institution, brings top of the market finance capabilities, which combined with Hogan Lovells’ powerful global platform, expands our abilities to comprehensively advise clients at a time when cross-border investment is increasingly driving growth in key sectors – including finance, energy, technology, life sciences, and others.” Cadwalader’s Co-Managing Partners Patrick Quinn and Wesley Misson added: “This combination fulfills our shared ambition to create a global firm with a strong transatlantic platform anchored in the most important financial centers around the world. Our clients are at the center of this strategic decision, as this combination will enhance our ability to provide best-in-class service at scale. Throughout our discussions, it has been clear that we are driven by the same core values – excellence, ambition, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to our clients, people, and society. This alignment gives us confidence that our cultures will complement one another and help us thrive.” With 3,100 world-class lawyers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, the combined firm will serve clients in every major financial market. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader will have unmatched strengths across finance, corporate, regulatory, IP, and disputes, positioning the combined firm to represent the world’s leading financial institutions, multinational corporations, private capital funds, and sovereign entities on their highest value strategic challenges. Learn more about our shared ambition:show more

Today we're opening offices in Madrid, Milan, and Paris,... and building a dedicated engineering hub in London. The demand came before we did. Organisations across Spain, Italy, and France were already running Legora on their most complex work before we had a single person on the ground there. When customers adopt you in a market you haven't entered yet, you listen. These are markets that sit at the centre of European M&A, infrastructure, and cross-border regulatory work. The matters are hard, and the demand for AI that can actually handle that complexity is real. That's the work we're built for. London becomes the third pillar of our engineering org, alongside Stockholm and New York. The engineers who understand how AI applies in regulated, professional settings are concentrated there, shaped by proximity to some of the most demanding legal and financial institutions in the world. That's exactly the problem we're solving, and exactly the team we want building it. Sixteen cities. Four continents. Seven hundred EMEA hires in the next 6 to 12 months. All of it pointed at one thing: making lawyers 10x better at what they do. To be part of it, take a look atshow more

Had the pleasure of connecting with the amazing Omoni... Oboli today, and it turns out we share a lot more than a great conversation. Our shared love for the ‘ice’ (yes, diamonds!) was the cherry on top. BOZ, are you seeing this sparkle? Such an honor to meet the incredible ambassador! If you haven’t also watched; “The uprising: Wives on strike”at the cinemas, what are you waiting for?show more

In 2017, we founded Aurora to transform the way... people and goods move on our roadways. We envisioned a future where transportation was safer, more efficient, and more resilient. Last month, after eight years of focused development, Aurora launched the world’s first commercial self-driving truck service on public roads. I’ve had the privilege of launching several products in my career; none compared to this one for their significance to the future of humanity. As I watched our trucks from our Texas command center as they rolled out on their various missions, this didn’t feel like just another product launch. It felt like the start of a new era. A critical turning point in addressing the devastating human and economic toll of road accidents, bolstering the resilience of our supply chains, and eliminating unnecessary friction in how we connect and move. This product is the culmination of thousands of person-years of unwavering commitment to a mission. It is a testament to an extraordinary team’s strategic vision, technological ingenuity, developmental execution, and commercial acumen. Their tireless work has positioned Aurora at the forefront of an industry, poised to deliver at immense scale in partnership with a powerful ecosystem of industry partners. To the Aurora team, thank you for your unwavering commitment to the cause. And to our partners, our suppliers, our customers, and our investors, thank you for your continued partnership as we build the future of self-driving freight together.show more

BOOM! 🚨 The Ripple $XRP takeover of global finance... is unfolding! STEP BY STEP! Ripple is now fully licensed to operate in the Middle East, with Bahrain added as a strategic payment hub alongside Dubai. This move finalizes a cross-border regulatory corridor across UAE, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, and sets the stage for $RLUSD to become the institutional bridge currency for the region. ZOOM OUT! The Middle East handles over $156B in cross-border payments annually and Ripple now has the greenlight to absorb that flow. On top of that, the tokenized RWA market in the region is projected to cross $500B+ in the coming decade. Ripple is not chasing headlines. It’s building financial plumbing. By the time everyone realizes what $XRP is powering, it’ll be too late to be early. If you still don’t get it, study my free course at Academy. You’ll understand what blockchain is and how it’s transforming the future of finance. Repost and follow if you want to learn the truth they’ve been hiding from you. I am buying the $XRP dips. You?show more

Our core contributor Ram hit the stage at Hack... Seasons Conference hosted by Mpost Media Group, delivering both a keynote and a panel. From grounding the vision of decentralized intelligence to unpacking where the AI revolution was taking Web3 next, he didn’t just speak - he dropped signal. OpenLedger showed up not just as a voice, but as a special partner that drove the conversation forward. Oh, and yes - the merch? It was live and looping.show more

We are excited to announce our $8.3M Series A... to build the financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoin, crypto and fiat rails. Stablecoins settle in seconds. Yet too many treasury, risk, and compliance controls still run on business-day logic. Range closes that gap: a single real-time platform unifying your wallets, custodians, bank accounts, and exchanges, with risk and compliance controls that screen transactions before money moves and full visibility across rails. This round brings our total funding to $11M. Investors in the round include TX Ventures, Maven 11, SixThirty Ventures, Stellar, Onigiri Capital, and others. Range is already running at scale: - $30B+ in assets under management protected - 99.41% of all stablecoin payments tracked across 200+ networks - 10,000+ integrations across banks, custodians, and wallets See what total financial control looks like across stablecoins, crypto and fiat 👇show more

Thank you SO much to all our followers, supporters... and fans for all of the love at TsumiCon @ Houston, TX this past weekend!! ❤️❤️ (Long Post Incoming)⬇️ Our hearts are so full and words cannot describe how we are feeling right now 🥹 We are so happy to have met all of you! Thank you for stopping by our booth, hanging out with us, and taking pictures with us. Our group photo session took over an hour (we literally still can’t believe it). To be honest, it was a bit hectic since it was so busy. However, you guys were all so nice and patient and understanding! And even though it lasted over an hour, you guys waited in line just to meet us 🥹. Thank you for purchasing our JolliBaddies posters (we SOLD OUT omg!!🤯)! This is also unbelievable to us. Thank you for going to our panel on Saturday and playing Bingo with us!!! IN THE MAIN PANEL ROOM TOO!!!! We thought that only 20 people would attend and were originally going to be in the smallest room. However, the line for the panel was SO long that Tsumicon staff ended up switching our room from the smallest room to literally the LARGEST panel room!!! Our minds are still blown away by this. In addition, our panel line was SO long that staff had to cut it off because we were at MAX capacity!!!! Once again, thanks again to ALL OF YOU for coming out to Tsumicon and supporting JolliBaddies first public appearance!!! PS: we are sorry if this message is all over the place but our hearts are full and we have so many emotions right now that we can’t put into words. Literally crying happy tears right now as we right this 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹show more

There is a room in Málaga that was built... to be the closest thing on earth to standing inside heaven. It is called the camarín of the Virgin of Victory, and it is hidden at the top of a tower inside the Santuario de la Victoria. To reach it, you climb and the ascent is the entire point... The building you are climbing through was completed in 1700, and it was designed as a single argument made in stone. At the bottom lies a crypt: a black chamber crowded with white plaster skeletons, a meditation on death and the brevity of life. From there a staircase rises, and as you climb it the light grows stronger and the imagery changes from bones to saints. The architects of the time understood this ascent as the soul's own journey, the dark crypt as the stage of penitence, the staircase as the stage of spiritual progress, and the room at the very top as the final stage: the union of the soul with the divine. That room at the top is the camarín, and its dome is one of the most extraordinary interiors in Spain... Every surface is covered in white and gold plasterwork. There is no empty space anywhere. The Baroque called this horror vacui, the horror of the void: the conviction that a space meant to represent heaven should not contain a single bare patch of stone. Out of that plasterwork emerge angels, flowers, birds, and mirrors. The mirrors are not decoration alone. They catch the light pouring in through the windows of the drum and throw it around the chamber, so that the gold seems to move and the whole room appears to shimmer and breathe. This wonder was built by people who believed that if you wanted to show a human being what heaven might feel like, you did not describe it to them. You built a room, and you let them climb into it... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.show more

Messiah Forms Strategic Partnership with Linea to Propel zkEVM... Infrastructure at Scale We are extremely proud to announce a landmark partnership with Linea.eth , one of the most innovative zkEVM networks poised to redefine Ethereum scalability without compromising security or decentralization. This collaboration marks a major milestone for Messiah and the broader Web3 ecosystem. NodeHub is now fully integrated on the Linea Hub, positioning us at the forefront of zkEVM infrastructure development and offering unmatched accessibility for developers, validators, and infrastructure operators alike. Explore our integration here: We have already successfully integrated Linea RPC nodes into NodeHub, enabling seamless deployment of secure, high-performance endpoints in just a few clicks. This is just the beginning. What is next? Comprehensive Linea Node Support on NodeHub We are set to expand our offerings with full support for a broad spectrum of Linea nodes from full nodes to archive nodes empowering users to participate deeply in the network’s evolution with zero operational friction. Simplifying the Future of zkEVM Participation By abstracting the technical complexity of node management, NodeHub enables builders and validators to focus on innovation, governance, and driving Ethereum’s next wave of scaling through Linea. This partnership represents a powerful fusion of technology and vision lowering barriers to entry, accelerating network growth, and reinforcing our shared commitment to a scalable, decentralized, and community-driven Web3. With Linea on NodeHub and seamless presence on the Linea Hub, we are proud to be shaping the future of Ethereum infrastructure at an unprecedented scale.show more