Here's what's actually moving in AI right now:
1/ SCI-HUB BEAT THE $40B LABS
Sci-Bot launched in April — trained on 95M papers the venture boys sued over.
Result: zero hallucination. Free side effect of training on a corpus that actually contains the books.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google all still solving what Sci-Hub solved incidentally.
The pirates built the thing the whole industry is still chasing.
2/ THE COMPUTE ARMS RACE YOU'RE MISSING
Singapore + Malaysia imported $13-15B of Nvidia GPUs in 4 months.
That's 20% of Nvidia's entire Q1 guidance. Into Johor.
U.S.-headquartered companies are building in Malaysia because Singapore is full.
This is the Southeast Asian compute buffer — Washington's plan B for AI chip distribution.
Power infrastructure = the new oil. Watch Johor.
3/ SERVICES-AS-SOFTWARE IS A REAL $7M BUSINESS
ColdIQ: $7M+ ARR, bootstrapped, 70 clients.
3 workflows. 3 full-time roles eliminated.
1 GTM engineer now runs 13 clients instead of 4.
YC named this a 2026 bet.
The model: sell the service output, automate the delivery, get software margins on agency-tier ticket prices.
Every industry with an outsourced services budget is compressible.
4/ KIMI K2.6 — VERIFY BEFORE WE BUILD
Open-source, 1T params, 300 parallel agents × 4,000 steps, 12 hours zero human oversight.
Claims to beat Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro, 8x cheaper.
Sounds like the masscontent operator hype.
Need to confirm the benchmark is real before anyone acts on this.
Bookmark it. Verify it. Then use it.
5/ THE PATTERN IN ALL OF IT
Knowledge had a fence. Guilds, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Stationers' Company.
Every fence had guards who didn't write the books.
The fence keeps getting rebuilt. The books keep flowing anyway.
Sci-Hub. ColdIQ. @imbaproject
Build the thing, survive the lawsuits, be too useful to kill.
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The smart money is not panicked. But retail is.
Let me show you what I mean.
Bitcoin ETFs just recorded their strongest weekly inflows since January. We are talking nearly half a billion dollars flowing into Bitcoin funds in a single week. BlackRock, Fidelity, the big boys — they are not selling. They are buying.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin miners liquidated over 32,000 BTC in Q1 2026. That is not a conspiracy. That is just math. When your cost basis is high and the price gets volatile, you sell to cover overhead. Miners are a forced seller. Institutions are not.
This creates a predictable dynamic. Forced sellers meet patient buyers. The patient buyers win over time.
This is why I keep saying: do not watch the price. Watch the flow. Who is buying? Who is selling? ETF inflows tell you what the smart money is doing. Miner liquidations tell you what the cost pressure looks like short-term.
This week we saw Bitcoin swing from 78K to 71K on geopolitical noise around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. The headline risk was real. But BTC stablecoins were reportedly being used as passage fees through the Strait. Think about what that means. Bitcoin being used in actual trade settlement during a geopolitical incident. That is adoption happening in real time, not in a whitepaper.
The people selling today are selling because of headlines. The people buying are buying because of math and conviction.
I have been in this space since Bitcoin was 15 dollars. I have seen this cycle play out a dozen times. The pattern never changes. Volatility scares people out. Smart money accumulates. Then the narrative flips.
If you are new to this community, here is what I want you to understand: the price you see today is a snapshot of sentiment, not value. Bitcoin's network effect grows every day. The institutions buying today are not day traders. They are building positions for years.
Stop checking the ticker. Start understanding the network.
Cheers
Colbert Low
Malaysia's ringgit stablecoin and tokenised deposit story — the full picture as of April 2026.
A thread 🧵
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RINGGIT STABLECOIN UPDATES
10 December 2025: A ringgit-backed stablecoin on Zetrix blockchain went live in Johor as part of expanded trials
12 December 2025: Capital A + Standard Chartered Malaysia signed an LOI to explore a dedicated ringgit stablecoin via DAIH
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MAYBANK CROSS-BORDER TOKENISED DEPOSITS
11 February 2026: Maybank began trialling ringgit tokenised deposits on a permissioned blockchain under BNM's Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH), with energy firm Yinson Holdings as the pilot user
30 March 2026: Maybank completed its first on-chain MYR-SGD transaction — tokenised deposit + FX conversion + cross-border payment to Singapore, executed 25 March 2026
This is a real working corridor, not just a whitepaper.
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DIGITAL ASSET INNOVATION HUB (DAIH)
ORIGIN — June 2025
Launched by PM Anwar Ibrahim at the Sasana Symposium 2025, at Sasana Kijang
BNM's stated focus: programmable money + ringgit-backed stablecoin
Purpose: sandbox for applicants to test digital asset solutions and give feedback to shape regulation
End goal: refine regulatory and security frameworks
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THE 3 INITIATIVES ONBOARDED — February 2026
1. Standard Chartered + Capital A — Ringgit stablecoin for B2B settlement
Capital A = parent of AirAsia, Tune Group companies
Standard Chartered = global bank with cross-border FX infrastructure
These two are a powerful combination: corporate treasury needs + international banking rails
2. Maybank + CIMB — Tokenised deposits for payments
Maybank already ran its own MYR-SGD pilot with Yinson — so this is layering on top
CIMB = another Malaysian giant, cross-border ASEAN presence
3. Yinson Holdings — Used as the corporate client in Maybank's tokenised deposit pilot (cross-border payment use case).
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@sirshibaninja I've seen talented developers from underrepresented regions get overlooked for opportunities while less qualified folks in 'hubs' get the breaks.
It's time to level the playing field and make the industry truly borderless.
McAfee last warning really feels off when you think about your freedoms now.
- Can travel without permits or not
- Can send money without anyone checking
- Can talk without getting in trouble
- Can build things without getting blocked
That empty feeling, maybe that's just the cage lah.