Charles Li, former head of the Hong Kong stock exchange, wants to bring its model of financing for a cut of daily revenue to Southeast Asia as early as the fourth quarter.
HashKey will facilitate the sale and purchase of Toncoin, the native token of the TON blockchain, which was started by Telegram Messenger.
While there were fewer exhibitors this year, the Web3 Festival has attracted a more international crowd with 80 per cent of participants from outside the city.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino’s new venture Holepunch has launched a peer-to-peer messaging app called Keet to aid the mission of ‘financial freedom’.
HKVAEX is advising users to withdraw funds this month ahead of its May 1 shutdown, just three months after it submitted an application for a crypto licence.
BitTorrent downloads topped 90,500 on the first day of release, far surpassing those of other popular Netflix series like Squid Game and Stranger Things.
In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we take a look at the ever-changing artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, and at what progress is being made in China as it struggles against US restrictions on hi-tech imports.
The Web3 video gaming unicorn has signed an MOU with Saudi Arabia’s state-backed science park, months after a US$50 million investment in its Neom smart city.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority launched a plan to trial stablecoins, announced in December, for companies with a ‘genuine interest’ in fiat-backed crypto.
Start-ups and investors say attending Leap tech conference is about building relationships for a market seen as ‘like China in the late 90s’.
HKSTP and Cyberport signed memorandums of understanding to share knowledge and explore collaboration opportunities in Saudi Arabia at the Leap conference.
The SFC saw a jump in last-minute applications, but the number of applicants so far falls far short of the 70 that Singapore saw after a similar regulation.
Hong Kong secretary for innovation Sun Dong tells Economist conference city is a bridge to mainland China and poised to be a major AI hub.
Brilliant Labs says AI is to smart glasses what multitouch was to the smartphone as it jumps into a market reinvigorated by Apple’s Vision Pro.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has issued a consultation paper on adopting the reserve requirements for cryptoassets proposed by the Basel Committee in 2022.
The SFC issued a notice on Monday reminding investors that a number of new licence applicants are not yet approved and pose risks.
Alibaba and TikTok played to their strengths at CES, as they catered to a market where it has been increasingly difficult for Chinese companies to operate.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stopped by the booth of a start-up that makes an artificial intelligence-powered belt to guide the blind at the CES trade show’s Hong Kong pavilion.
Realme’s 12 Pro+ smartphone to launch at the end of January will focus on providing a better zoom lens at a budget price, as the Chinese firm caters to young overseas users.
The company’s subsidiary AeroHT discussed two types of flying cars at CES, including a sportier eVTOL that made its international debut.
Hisense and TCL, the two biggest Chinese TV brands, offered competing narratives about AI processing and the ability to produce their own technology in-house at CES 2024 in Las Vegas.
More than 1,100 Chinese firms, including tech giants Alibaba and ByteDance, are exhibiting at CES this year, making up a quarter of the total, over twice the number from 2023.
Binance workarounds allow mainland Chinese traders to sign up by listing their location as Taiwan, betraying the market’s importance to the world’s largest crypto exchange.
A new system from China’s Blockchain-based Service Network and the Ministry of Public Security uses real-name verification for cryptographic keys published on a blockchain.
Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao’s guilty plea to US anti-money-laundering laws may present hurdles to the cryptocurrency exchange’s plans to gain a legitimate foothold in Hong Kong, industry experts said.
OKX, the world’s third-largest crypto exchange, is the seventh applicant under Hong Kong’s virtual asset licensing regime, a day after Futu-affiliated PantherTrade also applied.
The first ApeFest outside New York drew thousands of people from 60 countries, with support from the Hong Kong government, according to Yuga Labs.
Hong Kong officials tout new use cases for blockchain technology at city’s FinTech Week as the SFC unveils new rules for retail access to tokenised securities.
Under a deal with Neom Company, a Saudi Vision 2030 smart city project, Animoca aims to ‘nurture the local Web3 ecosystem’ amid closer ties between Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia.
Major Web3 events in Hong Kong have been focusing more on Web3 usability and use cases like identification, content ownership and video gaming.
