Provided my commentary during BTC Asia 2026, regulation and compliance is the name of the game for stablecoin issuers and aspiring participants.
No licence, no business: @willau2k of @solsticefi on why stablecoin companies move wherever they can get one.
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BITCOIN ASIA IS MORE THAN A CONFERENCE 🎉
✅ Meet the biggest names in Bitcoin
✅ Discover new job opportunities, partnerships, and ideas
✅ Experience exclusive side events and after parties
✅ Learn directly from builders and institutions on Bitcoin
See you soon Asia 👋
Very grateful to have been invited to Malaysia Blockchain Week #MYBW2026 to panel speak about “Interoperability, Liquidity and the Infrastructure Bottlenecks Ahead” in the fast moving Stablecoin industry, and how @solsticefi differentiates in building out its Yield Layer!
Liquidity is not just about more chains, it is about whether infrastructure can actually move value across ecosystems smoothly.
At the DFNS Institutional Stage, Quincy Dagelet (@QDagelet) from Rhei (@rheifinance), Randy Tan from EUGE (@euge_io), and William Au (@willau2k) from Solstice Finance (@solsticefi) joined moderator Yudhishthra (@0xYudhishthra) from Aqua0 (@AquaZero0) for the panel:
“Interoperability, Liquidity and the Infrastructure Bottlenecks Ahead”
A focused discussion on cross-chain infrastructure, liquidity fragmentation, and the technical bottlenecks that still need to be solved before Web3 can scale properly.
Most AI agents don't need complex wallets. We built ours for the 90% case. Finance District's agentic payment infra: fd.xyz/finance-district-blog…
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🧵 If you joined us on the "No Ramp Tour," you felt the shift.
In crowded rooms from Hong Kong to Singapore, the conversation changed. We stopped asking "How do we on-ramp?" and started asking "How do we make the ramp invisible?"
This film isn't just our story. It is the manifesto of the builders in those rooms.
🎬 Watch the full story of the industry's next chapter:
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been building a neobank app lately and kept thinking: why not talk to someone who’s actually shipped this stuff at scale?
so I invited Will Au, Head of Engineering at @FirstDigitalHQ , to break down everything neobank
Full convo + timeline below ⏱️
In Dubai at Binance Blockchain Week (BBW) in December, First Digital (FDUSD) publicly introduced Finance District for the very first time - our vision for the next era of programmable, AI-native stablecoin driven finance. Watch my interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=tcWQ-7t8…
Having an amazing time at BBW!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to meet us!
Really great to see so many familiar faces and new friends.
Appreciate all the conversations and support 🙌
#BinanceBlockchainWeek
Never thought that this day would come, but with AI code editors like Cursor AI, it’s actually made boring development methodologies like TDD that much more fun!
Get in or get out: choose your destiny!
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
$4b usd in revenues from 2022 alone for Genshin Impact from a China-based gaming studio…OK, let me download and find out why…#GenshinImpact
Still remember the days of Quake 1 with the 3Dfx Voodoo1 GPU…
Last night I downloaded Quake III Arena on Steam. I always looked back at it as my favorite Id game, but it had been many years since I had actually played it. There are a few polish things that I would nitpick today, but it was like dropping a quarter in a classic arcade game.
I played through the first couple tiers against the bots with a smile on my face. Yeah, I’m still proud of this game.
It is laudable that the PC ecosystem lets you easily go play a game from 1999 and everything Just Works.
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Last night I downloaded Quake III Arena on Steam. I always looked back at it as my favorite Id game, but it had been many years since I had actually played it. There are a few polish things that I would nitpick today, but it was like dropping a quarter in a classic arcade game.
I played through the first couple tiers against the bots with a smile on my face. Yeah, I’m still proud of this game.
It is laudable that the PC ecosystem lets you easily go play a game from 1999 and everything Just Works.
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.@VancityReynolds addresses the rumors that he is interested in buying the @NHL @Senators. 👀 #FallonTonight