The Good Tech Companies - Eight Insights from TOKEN2049 Singapore by Vasily Rudomanov, CEO of GetBlock

Starting point is 00:00:00 This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Eight insights from Token 2049 Singapore by Vasili Rudaminov, CEO of Get Block. By Get Block As the dust settles after Token 2049 Singapore, while our team is already making waves at blockchain life 2025 in Dubai, we caught up with Get Block CEO to hear about his experience. Here are his eight biggest insights from the conference. Number one, Singapore is wealth. Singapore possesses a certain genius loci, Vasili says.

Starting point is 00:00:34 Even our crypto community, accustomed to Dubai's and Hong Kong's megalomaniacal architecture, Istanbul's creative chaos and the whispering luxury of Paris and Amsterdam, encounters something genuinely novel here. It's difficult to categorize whether this city is designed for living, like old European capitals, or for work, like New York. Immaculate Urban Planning Co. exists seamlessly with thriving business districts, shopping centers, contemporary art museums, and cycling infrastructure. One thing is certain, Singapore understands wealth creation. In our era of sanctions and trade wars, every major financial

Starting point is 00:01:09 institution you can name maintains offices here. Number two token 2049 is massive. Beyond five stages and over 500 booths spanning five floors, organizers offered ziplines, meditation zones, numbered networking desks for instant meeting arrangements, and cuisine representing every corner of the globe. It feels almost reductive to call the speaker lineup, five star. From Fundstrats, or should we now say bitmines, Tom Lee to Bitmex founder Arthur Hayes, from Circle and Tethered to Hyperliquid and Athena, the entire ecosystem was represented. Number three, regulatory U-turn is real, and EU is lagging behind. The genuine excitement when Donald Trump Jr. and Zach Whitkoff took the stage waspalpable. We can debate the merits and risks of this political alignment,

Starting point is 00:01:56 but the pro-crypto stance emerging in the U.S. represents an opportunity we can'taferred to squander. Tom Lee's presentation particularly resonated with me. He articulated what transformed Bitcoin into digital gold, and what is currently positioning Etherium as digital money. Arthur Hayes delivered a brilliant critique of the European Union's rigidly anti-crypto position. His message underscored a simple truth, you cannot resist crypto. You either embrace it or resign yourself to second-tier status. Number 4 RWA's Stable Coins' Synergy takes shape.

Starting point is 00:02:30 After every major event, Vassili assesses which themes dominated the discourse, the panels, speeches, and hallway conversations. At token 2049 Singapore, five topics prevailed. Stable Coins, real-world asset tokenization, perpetual dexes, prediction markets, and artificial intelligence, in that order. The Stablecoin conversation has evolved. Rather than simply launching new tokens, builders are constructing entirely new infrastructure. We're witnessing the emergence of corporate stablecoins and stable

Starting point is 00:03:01 coin-centric layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains. Intrigingly, these same rails are being developed for other real-world assets like equities, commodities, and beyond. Stable coins and RWAs have already achieved infrastructural and economic synergy. Number 5 perp dexes are here to stay. Perpetual dexes like Hyperliquid, Astor, and lighter-dominated conversations. They've attracted sophisticated traders who survived 2017's ICO mania in 2020S-Defi summer, offering transparency, speed, cost efficiency, and, yes, the return of no KYC functionality. Number six prediction markets are more than online betting. Prediction markets revealed themselves as a novel form of collective intelligence, emerging as trust in traditional media and social

Starting point is 00:03:48 networks erodes. People won't wager on outcomes they don't believe in. No government or bot farm can compel them. This isn't betting 2.0. It's something fundamentally different. Number 7 AI moves from hype era to adoption 1. I applications appeared throughout the conference. Analytical systems and software development copilots emerged as the two dominant categories. Many innovators have recognized that Web3's transparency and cost efficiency create ideal conditions for agentic economies and research.

Starting point is 00:04:19 The question mark in this section's heading is deliberate. it. What impressed memost. Narratives are transcending mere narrative. In previous hype cycles including DEPIN, DESHY, and others, most projects simply adopted trendy labelstow attract retail capital. Number 8 get block covers IT all get block, evolving from an RPC node provider into a one-stop Web 3 infrastructure powerhouse, is ready to support all the latest blockchain and AI use cases. In fact, it's already powering hundreds of applications across multiple verticals worldwide. So don't wait and join us in building a better web 3. Sign up for premium RPC nodes today and get 50% off for the first six months. Always here for you. Get Block

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The Good Tech Companies - Eight Insights from TOKEN2049 Singapore by Vasily Rudomanov, CEO of GetBlock

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