Mona Shaikh did not enter Web3 with a whitepaper. She entered with a punchline. Through “Web3 Is a Joke,” she roasts crypto culture, industry egos, and hype cycles, turning satire into a surprising bridge between mainstream audiences and an ecosystem often accused of taking itself too seriously.
Shardeum is building blockchain infrastructure around India’s real constraints, cost, accessibility, and scale. By prioritizing usability, community run validation, and gradual scaling over raw throughput, the network aims to create an ecosystem where everyday users can transact onchain without friction.
In a market constrained by taxes and regulation, Pi42 is building India’s first INR margined crypto futures exchange to bring trading onshore. CEO Avinash Shekhar bets that compliance, local currency design, and institutional discipline can rebuild trust and reshape India’s role in global digital asset markets.
At its Bengaluru summit, ConvoZen unveiled an end to end conversational AI stack and two indigenous speech models, Akshara and Ragini, built for India’s multilingual, voice first ecosystem. Backed by enterprise adoption, the platform positions itself as sovereign AI infrastructure for large scale customer operations.
CULTD challenges Web3’s obsession with vanity growth, arguing that followers and hype mean little without real economic activity. By linking attention directly to liquidity and user behaviour, the platform reframes growth as measurable performance, aiming to replace noise driven marketing with accountable, outcome based infrastructure.
In Web3, security failures rarely begin at launch. SecureDApp focuses on what happens after deployment, using real time monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated response to catch threats before damage occurs, reframing security as a continuous operational layer rather than a one time checkpoint.
Algorand was built for moments when systems cannot fail. Under Staci Warden, the Layer 1 has doubled down on instant finality, zero downtime, and decentralization in practice, positioning itself as infrastructure meant for real economic activity rather than market cycles.
The partnership marks a significant milestone for Al-Futtaim Technologies as it supports ConvoZen’s first expansion beyond India and into international markets, leveraging Al-Futtaim Technologies’ deep regional presence, enterprise relationships, and technology expertise to bring advanced CX intelligence capabilities to organizations across UAE, KSA, and Qatar.
HONG KONG – Feb 13, 2026 – Consensus Hong Kong 2026, held from February 10–12 at the Hong Kong Convention and…
Finternet Labs is co-created by Pramod Varma (Chief Architect of Aadhaar) and Siddharth Shetty (CEO of Finternet Labs). It is backed by the vision and leadership of Nandan Nilekani, one of India’s most influential architects of digital public infrastructure.
Following historic legal finality achieved in January 2026, investor attention has shifted to the asset's utility in the $150 trillion cross-border payments market.
The show attracted 5,000+ participants, and 100+ international keynote speakers were represented in 50+ different sessions and featured over 100+ different companies and startup businesses.
Abhishek brings with him several years of experience in building and scaling large, consumer-facing technology platforms across high-growth digital businesses. Prior to joining Stashfin, he also held senior technology leadership roles, including Vice President at Zupee, CTO at Creditas Solutions, Associate Director of Technology at the Goibibo Group, and Manager – Technology at Times Internet.
The collaboration highlights a deepening integration between one of the largest public XRP treasury companies and a core onchain infrastructure provider, paving the way for deeper convergence between traditional finance and XRPL-native financial systems.
Solana Accelerate's debut at Consensus Hong Kong will bring together the full spectrum of the crypto ecosystem - founders, developers, institutions, protocols, policymakers, and innovators - uniting them under one roof to shape the future of digital assets in the Asia-Pacific region.
As of January 2026, Bitcoin maintains a dominance above 64%, ETF assets under management exceed $110 billion, and realized capitalization continues to trend upward. These metrics suggest that capital entering the network is increasingly long-term and price-insensitive.
Pi Network is at a "make-or-break" point! With 134M tokens unlocking this month and a $10M fraud lawsuit in the news, can $PI bounce back? Check out our expert price prediction for 2026-2030. Is $22.00 a realistic target or pure hype?
This partnership marks the first collaboration between SBI Ripple Asia and an XRPL-native protocol, signaling a new chapter for institutional-grade finance on the XRP Ledger. Through this alignment, both parties aim to accelerate the adoption of transparent, compliant, and yield-generating products built on the XRPL.
Their Cashflow-linked financing is set to address gaps in India’s SME credit landscape.
Each avatar represents a different school of trading logic, ranging from conservative hedging and major-coin momentum to high-beta altcoin breakouts, contrarian reversals and mechanical execution.
Assam’s vibrant developer community accelerates web3 technology growth as Web3Assam launches its flagship builder program, Winter Cohort 2.0, bringing cutting-edge blockchain learning and collaboration to the region.
Renowned for uniting India’s Web3 ecosystem with global leaders, IBW 2025 will feature more than 100 side events, workshops, and networking sessions, hosted by organizations including Hashed Emergent, Binance, Aptos Foundation, Polygon, Devfolio, TON, Cardano, and others.
Supported by the Abu Dhabi Convention & Exhibition Bureau and arranged in association with Times of Blockchain, the Global Blockchain Show enhances the UAE's reputation as a world hub for blockchain innovation and quality.
As part of this partnership, Scienaptic will also facilitate lender matchmaking, ensuring customers are seamlessly connected with the right bank partners.
