TOKEN2049 Singapore 2025
who it's for
crypto founders and builders, decentralized finance developers, blockchain infrastructure engineers, web3 product managers, institutional investors and traders, tokenization and asset teams, blockchain security and audit teams
topics
app chains for DeFi; native stablecoin primitives; high throughput scaling (100k TPS); omnichain virtual machine; onchain privacy solutions; self sovereign zk identity; AI powered DeFi infrastructure; data provenance blockchains; tokenization of real assets; atomic crosschain execution; trustless bitcoin vaults; NFT 2.0 and digital collectibles
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The End of Old Money | Sandeep Nailwal | 13m |
Polygon states a clear scaling roadmap: currently ~1,000 TPS, moving to 5,000 TPS gigagas in months and targeting ~100k TPS within a year via validator‑elected… | ||
| Building App Chains for DeFi in 2025 | Zaki Manian | 13m |
Argues 2025 makes app chains viable by combining the hyperliquid playbook—native order books with subsecond finality, revenue from day one, and 200,000 TPS… | ||
| 10 Things I Hate About Crypto | Shuyao Kong | 10m |
Lists ten concrete grievances: cycles that pump capital then kill morale, finance-first behavior with 45 seconds average holding time, decentralization treated… | ||
| Markets - Brave New World | Andrei Grachev | 13m |
Claims that US regulation flips crypto friendly and institutional flows drive BTC 100k and fresh stablecoin momentum, while liquidity splits between durable… | ||
| Can Crypto Fix the Internet? | MAREK OLSZEWSKI, RENE REINSBERG | 11m |
Claims that zero knowledge identity can stop Sybils and keep KYC off central servers with Self zk identity using zk-SNARKs and biometric passports/Aadhaar… | ||
| A New Way to Trade | Alex Svanevik | 14m |
Nansen launches a mobile AI agent that combines real‑time onchain data (tens of billions of txns) with 450 million labeled addresses to answer prompts, explain… | ||
| AI That Powers Experiences | Jawn Lim | 17m |
BytePlus (ByteDance) offers managed GPU infrastructure plus APIs and claims specific results: SeaDream 4.0 generates studio‑grade images in ~3 seconds up to 4K… | ||
| Building a People-Centered Blockchain | Irina Heaver, Andrey Lazorenko, Alex Gluchowski | 14m |
Claims a goal of one billion people by 2030 on a sovereign ADI chain hosting a FAB IHC ADQ–backed digital dirham stablecoin, with concrete pilots: tokenizing… | ||
| TEXITcoin: the Future of Money in Texas | Bobby Gray | 11m |
TEXITcoin is a proof-of-work Litecoin clone that is mined exclusively in Texas, claims a fixed supply of 353 million coins over 137 years, and says there is no… | ||
| OpenLedger, The Blockchain Built for Specialized AI | Ram Subramanian | 12m |
OpenLedger claims a purpose-built layer‑2 blockchain that records dataset provenance and pays contributors onchain, with a first to crack data attribution on… | ||
| DeFi: The App Store Moment for Finance | Andrei Anisimov | 10m |
Argues DeFi is now an "app store" for finance and shows a concrete build: a permissionless, noncustodial infrastructure for cover calls that manages risk by… | ||
| One Path to Mass Adoption | Sergej Kunz | 11m |
Claims a single product delivers Competitive rates, zero gas, crosschain by combining three breakthroughs: Pathfinder scans more than 3 million liquidity… | ||
| NFT 2.0 | Gareth Jenkinson, Max Crown, Yat Siu, Andrew Rogozov, Farokh Sarmad | 19m |
Claims that NFT trading never died (150–200M/month at the trough) and that new launches hit $50M/day overnight drive the panel’s case; markets like OpenSea and… | ||
| OpenMind: Building the Machine Economy | Jan Liphardt | 13m |
Open-source stack for humanoids runs 10–20 distinct AIs concurrently, fusing perception into actions and using Coinbase wallet + X42 micropayments with… | ||
| Jupnet: Our next-gen Omnichain VM | Nicholas Chen | 11m |
JupNet unveils an omnichain VM built as a heavily modified SVM that aggregates ledger state, runs built‑in cross‑chain consensus, and accepts “infinite”… | ||
| Introducing Drift v3: Built for Outperformance | Cindy Leow | 12m |
Drift v3 launches Q4 2025 as a native Salana perex claiming concrete performance gains: 10x faster fills, 15x faster take-profits and triggers, 5x tighter stop… | ||
| On-Chain Privacy Is Here | Paul Brody | 13m |
Claims a workable on‑chain privacy stack: a compiler that turns Solidity into zero‑knowledge circuits (Starlite), and a ZK rollup payment layer that achieves… | ||
| Unlocking Reality: XR, DePIN & Blockchain | Luis Oscar Ramirez | 14m |
Claims a distributed XR compute network (Mawari) that orchestrates edge GPUs to deliver real-time 3D streaming with sub-20ms roundtrip latency, built a… | ||
| De-Banked and Disconnected | Milton "Todd" Ault III | 15m |
Claims that banks have cut off crypto businesses repeatedly—more than 10 shutdowns and one bank seizing 54 accounts—lead to building an alternative stack: a… | ||
| Decentralizing Connectivity from Space | TAE OH | 13m |
Spacecoin claims a working prototype: CTC0 blockchain transaction Chile→Portugal (~7,000 km) proves ground‑to‑space crypto messaging using a low‑cost… | ||
| Digital Asset Security, Reinvented | Mehmet Hüseyin Kafadar | 09m |
Retail threats are detailed: phishing, malicious smart contracts that grant full access, hot‑wallet vulnerabilities and seed‑phrase theft, and the talk names… | ||
| Digital Identity 3.0 | Terence Kwok | 13m |
Humanity Protocol launches a Layer‑2 mainnet with native verifiable credentials and claims 1.5 million verified humans, a utility token H for gas and attestor… | ||
| AID - AI Powered DEFI Infrastructure | Sahin Ali Bayar | 13m |
AI infrastructure claims real-time AI fund-flow tracking across 3 million smart contracts and 500 TB of data, an AI exchange that routes for low slippage and… | ||
| Midnight | Fahmi Syed | 14m |
A next‑generation blockchain called Midnight promises rational privacy by combining zero‑knowledge proofs with selective disclosure so private data stays… | ||
| Crypto’s Future: From Liquidity to Utility | Chengdiao Fan | 16m |
Pi Network frames the next phase of crypto as a shift from liquidity to utility, arguing value comes from real on‑chain production not token launches. Mainnet… | ||
| From Listing to Futures | Alvin Lee | 06m |
Claim: a one-stop crypto derivatives exchange grows from startup to serving millions in 200+ countries with three billion daily volume and over 1,000 trading… | ||
| Can AI make people richer? | Bryan Benson | 10m |
Claims that AI already boosts personal wealth via algorithmic finance: Aurum runs AI-powered bots, a neo bank and card and an upcoming exchange, with two years… | ||
| Innovating at the Speed of Web3 with AWS | Nile Natsheh | 12m |
AWS lays out three practical levers for speeding Web3 development: fully managed services (KMS, Nitro Enclaves, Amazon Bedrock and Nova models for LLM/vision)… | ||
| The Platform for Bitcoin Capital Markets | Orkun Mahir Kılıç | 12m |
Claims a Bitcoin-native platform called Citrea that makes BTC programmable using a BitVM-based Clementine bridge to remove custodian counterparty risk, and… | ||
| Appchains Are The New Apps | Zon | 13m |
Initia runs 14 live app chains launched four months ago on a Cosmos SDK stack that supports EVM Move and WASM and uses IBC plus Celestia for DA and native USDC… | ||
| Truth in a Post Truth World | Uma Roy | 16m |
Claims a production ZKVM called SP1 and a global GPU-backed prover network that issues proofs on demand, with a utility token paying provers and fees in the… | ||
| Why Smart Contract Audit is Not Enough | Dyma Budorin | 15m |
Audits catch code flaws but miss HR, infra and supply chain risks and upgradeable contracts that change after review. Recommends CCSS for key handling, cites… | ||
| Why Perpetuals Speak the Language of Tomorrow’s Investors | Vineet Luthra | 16m |
Perpetual swaps already move massive capital — 50 trillion notional and perps covering ~70% of crypto trading with Binance perps outgunning the LSE+TSE — and… | ||
| Rumour.app: Crypto Rumour Market | YQ Jia | 14m |
Rumour.app is a PWA that uses a central AI backend to aggregate Telegram, Twitter and user submissions, map rumors to tickers and enable on‑platform longs and… | ||
| Crypto Innovation with Collaborative Regulations | Jeth Soetoyo | 10m |
Indonesia claims a jump from 20th to 7th in crypto adoption by 2025 driven by a fivefold rise in internet penetration and a 25% jump in mobile subscriptions… | ||
| The Missing Layer | Eddie Hui | 13m |
MetacMP outlines a web 2.5 regulated layer that wires stablecoins into payment rails via its engine Stable X, claiming it moves a three‑day AED payout to 10–20… | ||
| XchangeOn | Matloob Khushi | 14m |
Claims an AI-driven crypto exchange linking 35 leading venues, backed by collaborations for UK/Australia supercomputing and a team of over 100 engineers… | ||
| JU.COM - Rewrite “I’mpossible” | Sammi Li | 16m |
JU.COM pitches a three-step UX called point click trade that removes external wallets and no seed phrases by routing, execution and settlement under the hood… | ||
| Qubic Smart Domination | Alberto Fernandez | 14m |
Qubic claims a decentralized network that combines into the sixth largest computer and a mainnet 50 million TPS benchmarked by Qubic, with governance that… | ||
| The Future is Not Centralized - It's Universal | Gracy Chen | 14m |
Claims a universal exchange (UEEX) that merges centralized order books, decentralized asset access and tradfi tokens so bitcoin sits beside Tesla and tokenized… | ||
| Real Politics Assets | Pauline Shangett | 11m |
Celebrity-backed political tokens repeatedly produce huge volume spikes and brutal collapses: ChangeNOW lists Dogecoin at the 2021 Elon wave, endures three… | ||
| AI Beyond Knowing - Explore Emotion AI with Neura | Kevin Pang | 14m |
Claims deployment with a Grammy-winning R&B icon Neo to build emotional avatars and accelerate a Web3 mobile app; cites user trust stats: 90% prefer humans… | ||
| Ethereum’s Roadmap to 10M TPS | Luca Donno | 14m |
Ethereum currently verifies ~20 TPS on L1 and ~300 TPS including rollups; ZK proofs are the verification path but remain experimental. Blob sharding and DA… | ||
| From Wall Street to Main Street | Silvina Moschini | 14m |
Company claims completion of the largest crypto deal by raising $3 billion in RWA contracts, builds a prelaunch brand with mass marketing (3,500 taxi toppers… | ||
| Exploring the TRON Ecosystem | Sam Elfarra | 13m |
Claims concrete metrics: a delegated PoS chain with 300 million users, over 11 billion cumulative transactions and about $21 trillion transferred since… | ||
| Japan Hub Global Debut | Hinza Asif | 14m |
Japan Hub announces a government-backed market entry program with 100+ founders, 70+ investors and 500+ institutional partnerships, plus startup visas and a VC… | ||
| Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network Panel Discussion | Anna Wroblewska, Sam Courtney, Matthew Blumberg, Roberto Klein, Arush Sehgal | 34m |
Alpaca unveils an Instant Tokenization Network that lets holders instantly mint and redeem traditional shares into tokens, bridging DTCC custody and crypto… | ||
| 0G - AI Without Limits | Jake Salerno, Ming Wu | 14m |
ZeroG announces a live mainnet (Sept 22) with a week-old public builder ecosystem and claims 350 partners already using its stack: a Layer‑1 with shared… | ||
| Catalyzing BTCFi with Trustless Bitcoin Vault | Xinshu Dong | 13m |
Babylon Labs describes a concrete system: trustless Bitcoin vaults implemented as Taproot UTXO scripts that use bitvm for optimistic verification, enabling… | ||
| The Future of Interoperable Data and Mass Monetization | Yu Hu | 10m |
Kaito AI claims to be the largest creator distribution network in crypto with 1 million registered users, 200,000 monthly active creators, 1,000 brand partners… | ||
| From Bitcoin to Stablecoins: The Next Chapter in DAT | Colin Butler | 13m |
Mega Matrix announces a first-of-its-kind basket of stablecoin governance tokens (Athena, Sky, STBL, Hyperlid, Aster) as part of a $2 billion initiative to run… | ||
| From digital chaos to harmony | Louis Bellet | 12m |
Claim: a chain abstraction layer named Yellow Network turns many blockchains into a single virtual layer by running TCP/IP nodes and deploying per-chain state… | ||
| The Next Renaissance | Zac Williamson | 14m |
Claims that privacy-first Ethereum layer 2 unlocks real-world asset liquidity by enabling on‑chain identity, compliance checks, and non‑custodial ownership… | ||
| Crossing the Chasm | Nick White | 13m |
A modular layer‑1 called Celestia claims to enable mainstream crypto by separating consensus/data availability from execution, using data availability sampling… | ||
| Zuzalu Hubs as d/acc and FOSS Accelerators | Isla Munro-Hochmayr | 14m |
Building a permanent Swiss village as an accelerator for open source and d/acc tech, with a May proof of concept that hosted 200 people for a month at a ski… | ||
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