Cafe ICML has officially become the between-sessions hangout we hoped for☕️
Sponsor drinks are moving, conversations are flowing, and AI researchers are finding a much-needed place to chill during ICML week.
Big love to our Sponosors for backing the drinks🔥
💙 @IronClawAI 💘 @arizeai 👋 @hellominds_ 🧡Dalpha
🎬BUIDL ASIA: Next Finance Summit — Recap
What happens when Korea's leading financial institutions sit down with global Web3 builders?
7 keynotes, 2 panels, 300+ attendees. One shared conviction: the institutional era of digital assets is here.
Thank you to everyone who joined and made this possible. This is just the beginning.🔥
@magic_labs@movement_xyz@GoKiteAI@injective@squidrouter@jito@plumenetwork@redstone_defi
Proof of AI - Builder and Influencer Day @ Korea Build Week 2026 presents:
🧠 Panel: Building the Agentic Economy
From autonomous workflows to agent-to-agent commerce, the agentic economy is redefining how value is created, exchanged, and governed. The next wave of innovation will be shaped by trust frameworks, business models, and interoperability standards that enable AI-native economies to scale.
🎙 MOD
@chillguyuno — Head of BD, @INF_CryptoLab
👥 Panelists
@TIGER_NODE — CEO, @tiger_research_
Jiwon Yoo — Researcher, NAVER Cloud AI
@iam1daboi — Head of Asset Strategy & Partnerships, @unifi_x@HSlee_INF — COO, @INF_CryptoLab
📅 5:00 – 5:40 PM | April 14, 2026
📍 Club D Cheongdam 클럽디 청담, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
🔗 RSVP: https://t.co/5y5jkRIZr7
Join the conversation on how Asia's leading tech players are building the infrastructure to power the agentic economy. 🪁
📢 BUIDL ASIA: Next Finance Summit
- April 15, 2026 | Grand Hill Convention, Seoul-
Beyond experimentation, the institutional era of digital assets is here.
RWA · Stablecoins · Payments · STO Korea's leading financial institutions + global Web3 infrastructure, in one room.
🎟️ Luma: https://t.co/ULNqmXPZ77
Featuring partners:
@magic_labs@movement_xyz@GoKiteAI@injective@squidrouter@jito@plumenetwork@redstone_defi
“Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was created to set people free”
This was an important - and controversial - line from the Trustless Manifesto ( https://t.co/QAvZfiNxpe ), and it is worth revisiting it and better understanding what it means.
“efficient” and “convenient” have the connotation of improving the average case, in situations where it’s already pretty good. Efficiency is about telling the world's best engineers to put their souls into reducing latency from 473 ms to 368ms, or increasing yields from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience is about people making one click instead of three, and reducing signup times from 1 min to 20 sec.
These things can be good to do. But we must do them under the understanding that we will never be as good at this game as the Silicon Valley corporate players. And so the primary underlying game that Ethereum plays must be a different game. What is the game? Resilience.
Resilience is the game where it’s not about 4.5% APY vs 5.3% APY - rather, it’s about minimizing the chance that you get -100% APY.
Resilience is the game where if you become politically unpopular and get deplatformed, or if a the developers of your application go bankrupt or disappear, or if Cloudflare goes down, or if an internet cyberwar breaks out, your 2000ms latency continues to be 2000ms.
Resilience is the game where anyone, anywhere in the world will be able to access the network and be a first-class participant.
Resilience is sovereignty. Not sovereignty in the sense of lobbying to become a UN member state and shaking hands at Davos in two weeks, but sovereignty in the sense that people talk about "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty" - aggressively reducing your vulnerabilities to external dependencies that can be taken away from you on a whim. This is the sense in which the world computer can be sovereign, and in doing so make its users also sovereign.
This baseline is what enables interdependence as equals, and not as vassals of corporate overlords thousands of kilometers away.
This is the game that Ethereum is suited to win, and it delivers a type of value that, in our increasingly unstable world, a lot of people are going to need.
The fundamental DNA of web2 consumer tech is not suited to resilience. The fundamental DNA of _finance_ often spends considerable effort on resilience, but it is a very partial form of resilience, good at solving for some types of risks but not others.
Blockspace is abundant. Decentralized, permissionless and resilient blockspace is not. Ethereum must first and foremost be decentralized, permissionless and resilient block space - and then make that abundant.
Meteora officially listed on both Upbit & Bithumb — confirming its strong presence in Korea. Dunamu x Naver merger moves forward — reshaping Korea’s digital finance stack and signaling a new era of integrated crypto-payment infrastructure.
https://t.co/MMWprNCuJt
A quiet week with no new listings still saw strong trading in XRP, BTC, and ETH. Meanwhile, Bybit–Korbit M&A talks, another potential crypto tax delay rumor, and rising retail frustration shaped Korea’s narrative.
https://t.co/bFMWn4Z0bs
Korea listed @GoKiteAI , @MMTFinance , and @0xIntuition last week.
Upbit volumes stayed dominant, while FIL, NEAR and 1INCH surged… and Bithumb saw wild moves led by SOON (+199%) and RESOLV (+135%). 🇰🇷📈
https://t.co/iafdEq1CTF
AI narratives back on radar? 🇰🇷
@zerobasezk re-emerges with TEE-based buzz, short staking rounds, and a fresh post-TGE push 🚀 Come find out what's happening in Korea!
https://t.co/UPD4phvTFG
During and following Korea’s long holiday week, trading stayed strong across majors — XRP, BTC, and ETH led both Upbit and Bithumb, signaling steady post-Chuseok momentum.
https://t.co/QtJJdILf5W
Listing frenzy in Korea! Over 10 new tokens hit Upbit & Bithumb last week, fueling speculation from $AVNT to $PUMPBTC. Traders kept majors steady while mid-caps stole the spotlight.
https://t.co/nwqXzd6jVg
@0xundefined_ x @INF_CryptoLab will co-host the Korea RWA & Stablecoin Summit 2025.
spotlighting RWA fundamentals and stablecoins’ role in Web3 amid rising regulation.
Join 20+ global financial institutions and Web3 leaders to share insights and spark collaboration.
New listings like @OpenledgerHQ , @LineaBuild , and @pumpdotfun shook up Korea’s exchanges last week.
$MOODENG soared 44% while $F exploded nearly 200% — a week of majors + memes moving together.
https://t.co/qWW38Fp7RT