The phrase ‘digital identification’ conjures up vivid images of the future, which may include flying cards and everyone living in VR, but the concept is already here and advanced in many parts of Asia. Forward-thinking governments across the region have turned their already-successful physical ID card programmes into trusted digital
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The Web3 Trust Summit 2025 concluded with a conversation that reframed stablecoins not as speculative instruments but as infrastructure for financial services export. The fireside chat between Kevin Kang (Co-Founder, Reap) and Yam Ki Chan (VP APAC, Circle) was yet another insightful addition to the Web3 Harbour SMART CONTACT series,
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Why business viability matters as much as investor protection How do you build custody infrastructure that's both secure enough for institutions and flexible enough for emerging use cases? We concluded the 2025 Summit with experts coming together to tackle this fundamental question. The discussion, moderated by Dea Markova
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A panel on institutional investment in digital assets at the Web3 Trust Summit 2025, hosted by Terminal 3, revealed a rather counterintuitive truth: crypto's professionalization is succeeding precisely because it is becoming less exciting. The panel was moderated by Syed Musheer Ahmed (Founder, FinStep Asia) and brought together:
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How did the collapse of FTX help the Web3 industry revaluate what really matters in scaling digital assets? At the 2025 Web3 Trust Summit, panelists explored the gap in exchange infrastructure that was exposed by the November 2022 incident, and what technologies are needed to be ready for institutional capital
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At the Web3 Trust Summit 2025, hosted by Terminal 3, the conversation turned to the most foundational infrastructure challenge that we face today: digital identity. Together, panelists explored how identity systems must evolve for a world of blockchain transparency and AI agents. The discussion revealed a paradox: we are building
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With 11 licensed virtual asset exchanges now operational and the stablecoin licensing regime launched in August, Hong Kong is translating ambitious policy into practical infrastructure. The first panel of the 2025 Web3 Trust Summit examined whether stablecoins truly function as the connective tissue of digital finance. Our opening panelists included:
Verifiable Private Identity
The exponential growth of AI is outpacing our ability to govern the safety and security of its data use. Agentic AI, a rapidly advancing form of autonomous decision-making AI, is transforming industries while raising new data privacy concerns due to the vast volumes of sensitive prompt data generated in real
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Digital identity is at a turning point. Terminal 3’s new paper explores Verifiable Private Identity (VPI), a user-centric approach that uses decentralized and privacy-enhancing technologies to transform how individuals and enterprises manage identity, security, and compliance. inside you'll learn * How Verifiable Private Identity protects user privacy &
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The final installment of our three-part series on Tether, the backbone of Web3 which makes tens of billions per year, looks at the future as it bids to grow its influence from the stablecoin leader to one of the most powerful firms in technology.
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This is the second in our three-part series looking at Tether, the shadowy company behind the world’s most traded cryptocurrency—the USDT stablecoin.
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GM, This week is the first of a three-part series of Tether, the company behind USDT—the world’s most traded stablecoin—which has grown into a multi-billion dollar business that holds more US bonds than many countries, and is charging into AI and other areas. Let’s start with