The Philippine Star takes a closer look at how BYC Ventures moved from startup to building blockchain infrastructure for public institutions.
Read how it all came together ๐https://t.co/v6naKgoBnW
BYC Ventures CEO Paul Soliman joined the roundtable on the Philippine Blockchain Ecosystem Map at @AIBC_World.
"Blockchain is no longer just a technology conversation. It is becoming a foundation for transparency, digital trust, and more responsive public services." - Paul Soliman
Paul Soliman (@heypaulroots) is joining @AIBC_World Asia Roadshow Manila on June 2 for a discussion on the Philippine Blockchain Ecosystem Map.
The industry is entering a new phase, shaped by infrastructure, real deployments, and systems built for institutional use.
Congratulations to our co-founders Gelo Wong (@gelowongg) and Raphael Sevilla (@raphsevi) on making the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.
From the first government deployment in the Philippines to legislation on public fund integrity.
The work got them here.
BYC Ventures is hiring engineers, designers, operators, and systems thinkers to build infrastructure for verification, trust, and resilient digital systems.
Apply here: https://t.co/Y4j1Gor1gF
Fake news isn't just a media problem. It's a records problem.
When documents can be altered without a trace, everything becomes a claim.
@LumenSuite makes records self-proving. Alteration becomes immediately visible.
๐https://t.co/a9SHUPXDDF
โฑ100K incubation grant.
2x Project RISE winner.
40 sign-ups in a single day.
A community that's still growing.
ISkolar started with a simple premise: Filipino students deserve a faster, more transparent path to scholarships. The numbers are starting to back it up.
This is the kind of company BYC Ventures builds around.
๐https://t.co/y2jDO8WoAm
Auditing was designed to be periodic. Human. Reactive.
The architecture just caught up with what institutions actually need.
Paul Soliman's (@heypaulroots) full argument is in his Audit 3.0 litepaper.
๐https://t.co/HJTEdVThjv
If most of the computation is already done, deriving a private key doesnโt start when you act. Itโs already in motion.
Thatโs what a primed quantum system changes. The time to break a key starts earlier, while Bitcoin still relies on ~10 minutes to confirm.
Thatโs where the margin gets tight.
No such system exists today, but the direction is becoming harder to ignore.
Which is why the focus now is post-quantum resilience, not waiting for the hardware.
Full breakdown by Paul Soliman (@heypaulroots) on BitPinas: https://t.co/CWdD6wn3w1
Audit 1.0 documented what went wrong.
Audit 2.0 documented it faster.
Audit 3.0 catches it before the report exists.
The difference is architecture, not effort.
Full breakdown in the litepaper๐
https://t.co/HJTEdVThjv
An audit reviews samples.
Compliance confirms process.
Clean records prove nothing was flagged.
None of that is a test of trust.
Real trust holds up when someone goes looking at the source not the summary.
Trust is only real if it can be tested. BYC Ventures builds for that.
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ'๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ผ.
Every major infrastructure category of the last two decades was built because the previous layer solved one problem and exposed another.
๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ made software accessible without ownership costs.
๐๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ made server infrastructure available without physical hardware.
๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ made application development possible without dedicated engineering teams.
๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐-๐ฎ๐-๐ฎ-๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ made enterprise-grade protection available without in-house security expertise.
Each time, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
The current gap: institutions have gone fully digital, but very few can actually verify that their records are accurate and unaltered. That is an operational liability sitting inside infrastructure most organizations are already running, and most systems today have no answer for it.
๐ง๐ฟ๐๐๐ต-๐ฎ๐-๐ฎ-๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ is the infrastructure category built to close that gap. That is what BYC Ventures builds.
Some people enter technology because the market is hot. Gelo Wong (@gelowongg) entered it because he kept running into problems that required infrastructure nobody had built yet.
Before BYC Ventures, he spent nearly a decade building across food and beverage, retail, and technology. Each venture sharpening the same instinct: if the system underneath is broken, nothing on top of it holds. That instinct led to Likha, a verification platform designed to give Filipino artists provable ownership of their work. Not because blockchain was trending. Because creators had no defensible record.
That same design philosophy now drives his work as Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of BYC Ventures, a company building institutional truth infrastructure for enterprises and regulated environments.
The problems are larger. The principle is identical: ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐ณ.
Read the full story. ๐
https://t.co/lLNhXG5weI
The audit system was built for an era when financial flows were slow enough to sample and simple enough to review annually.
๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ด๐ต๐ ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ฝ.
Financial operations today move at a speed and scale that periodic auditing was never designed to handle. By the time a finding surfaces, the events it describes are already history. The accountability gap this creates is not a failure of diligence, it is a ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ that was never built for the environment institutions are operating in now.
๐๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ ๐ฏ.๐ฌ is the framework for closing it.
See the full case: https://t.co/690fhAYz7Q