🐢 building onchain finance @turtledotxyz 🐧 prev CEO @IglooAPAC 🇲🇾 angel & advisor @HalogenCapital
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3 years with the same @pudgypenguins PFP has come to an end 🐧
I’m finally putting my own face on my profile, but I’m still a permanent holder and as big a believer as ever
What an incredible journey it’s been
From a holder and believer to having the privilege of building alongside the @IglooInc team and one of the greatest communities in Web3
Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to be part of a team that originated, reactivated, negotiated, managed and scaled countless partnerships and commercial deals across APAC and beyond
A few I’m particularly proud of include BE@RBRICK, Suplay, LINE FRIENDS, Lotte, 7-Eleven Japan, FamilyMart, Lawson, KAST, and 100+ more across events and community campaigns
But beyond the deals, it’s the people, friendships, trust and memories that made this journey so special
I’ll always be a Pudgy Penguin. A holder, a believer, a fan and someone who genuinely wants to see the team and the entire community win
I still believe Pudgy Penguins is best in class, and there’s so much more ahead for the brand
As for me, these past few years have taught me a lot about bringing people, brands, culture, capital and markets together
There’s a lot more I want to build, and I’m excited for what’s coming next
Different PFP, same conviction
Once a Pudgy, always a Pudgy 🐧
Keep shipping without all the noise
@turtledotxyz will be the face of onchain finance 🐢
Don’t forget there’s this too
50B
Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group Corp. chose locations in Malaysia for $50 billion in technology investments, the country’s prime minister said, an outlay that would accelerate the billionaire’s global bet on AI infrastructure. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
US$15B is a huge vote of confidence in Malaysia 🇲🇾
However, the bigger opportunity is building Malaysian talent, IP and companies on top of it
Who’s building this?
If you’re in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 on 5–6 Nov, my code "AARON30" gets you 30% off the Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit by @CosmoverseHQ.
some of the teams represented on the speaker lineup 👇🏻
@InvestHK
@BIS_org
@HSBC
@UBS
@StanChart
@scventuresDNA
@swiftcommunity
@Visa
@BlackRock
@Fidelity_UK
@InvescoUS
@CHINAAMCHK2008
@yzilabs
@circle
@AlchemyPay
@SolanaFndn
@coinbase
@DeribitOfficial
@dydxfoundation
@EVIDENT_Capital
@chainlink
@AvaLabs
@injective
@RIFTHQ
@googlecloud
@Coiniseasy
ticket link in the pinned reply 👇🏻
Even @elonmusk QRT this
you’re not bullish enough
Malaysia will undergo an onchain finance renaissance the next few years 🇲🇾
And @HalogenCapital will be at the heart of it
Saw a web3 job posting from Malaysia’s largest bank 👀
our bank negara just launched SSDS+, and it’s a much bigger deal than the dry acronym suggests. malaysia’s bonds and sukuk are going onchain, central bank edition. in simple terms:
1 | SSDS is the official registry where malaysian bonds live. SSDS+ rebuilds it on distributed ledger tech, built in-house by @BNM_official
2 | it’s wired into RENTAS+, the payment system banks use to settle with the central bank, now running 24/7. so the bond AND the cash move together, any hour, in central bank money
3 | why that matters: bond trades today settle in days, during office hours, with layers of middlemen reconciling records. tokenized bond + 24/7 settlement = minutes, anytime, and both sides’ records agree by construction
4 | no private stablecoins. crypto spent years arguing tokenized assets need stablecoins as the cash intermediary. BNM’s answer: the cash can be sovereign money directly. everything crypto showed was possible, but the ringgit stays with bank negara ('97 Asian financial crisis PTSD)
5 | our flex: malaysia dominates global sukuk issuance, and sukuk leads our $575.6B bond market. tokenized sukuk puts malaysia in position to set the standard for digital islamic finance
6 | what’s next: wholesale first, but BNM says the system is ready for tokenized government and retail bonds too. one day you might buy a govvie from your phone like a TnG topup
this is basically 24/7 markets with the central bank running the engine.
pretty big moment for malaysia 🇲🇾
onchain finance can make capital more productive by
> reducing intermediation
> improving access
> increasing transparency
> distributing financial opportunities more efficiently
That's a movement worth building
Pendle
@PenguAsia 👀
Aevo / Ribbon Finance
Malaysians goated
Why are Malaysians so good at crypto startups?
Etherscan
Jupiter
CoinGecko
Virtuals
Meteora
Other than the U.S. and maybe Hong Kong, that has to be the best roster of any country, right?
I don't mean crypto companies founded elsewhere that put their HQ in like Dubai or Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, I mean homegrown
Aaron Teng 安伦 🐧 retweeted
"take care of those who take care of you"
judge people by their actions, not their words, and never forget who stood up for you when it mattered
ty @dyli_io for showing us what true leadership is 🫡💎
Huddle IRL
🐧 Your PFP is your ID card @pudgypenguins
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Aaron Teng 安伦 🐧 retweeted
Hare by @GSR_io. The credit desk for onchain finance.
GSR launches Hare alongside @turtledotxyz, bringing trading and liquidity expertise to vault curation.
Supported by @aave, @PaxosLabs, @chainlink and @HypernativeLabs. Our first two vaults are coming soon.