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Singapore: Blockchain Fest – February 2023
- Asia’s tech news weekly, Nov 1st: NFTs as property in Singapore; Australia’s hacking woes continue; Taiwan’s battery-swapping in India; rice decarbonisation in Asia; Huawei faces Ireland ban; Korean VC looks to Vietnam; Vanuatu takes cashless steps…
- GrabPay and StraitsX are set to test ‘purpose-bound’ digital Singapore dollars, enabling senders to dictate conditions for the use of their digital SGD
- Singapore: Digital and Intelligence Service now formally inaugurated, providing a 4th military branch alongside army, air force and navy, unifying cyber and command, control, comm’s, computers and intelligence
- Singapore Deep-Tech Alliance partners gov’t Enterprise Singapore to be part of the agency’s Startup SG Accelerator programme, aiming to bring nascent technologies to market more quickly
- Monetary Authority of Singapore launches Ubin+, an expanded collaboration with international partners on cross-border foreign exchange settlement using wholesale central bank digital currency
“MAS is participating in SWIFT’s CBDC Sandbox, together with more than 17 central banks and global commercial banks, to explore cross-border interoperability across digital currencies based on DLT and non-DLT payment systems.”
- Singapore’s DBS and global partners including Google and The World Bank launch 2nd edition of Sustaintech Xcelerator, a 6-month climate-focused accelerator program
- Singapore’s AnyMind Group, end-to-end commerce enablement firm, approved by Tokyo Stock Exchange for listing of the Company’s shares
- Singapore’s DBS completes fixed-income trade on Onyx, JPMorgan’s blockchain platform which allows investors to lend for a period of hours without assets leaving their balance sheets
- An intro to Singapore National Parks Board’s trees management using digital twin tech, capturing LiDAR point clouds and then applying AI to geolocate each plant
“NParks then applies finite element models to the digital twin to assist the team in examining the overall tree stability under different weather conditions (Singapore experiences fierce tropical storms), considering factors like tree architecture, wood strength and root space.”
- At the recent Singapore International Cyber Week 2022, women leaders in cyber discussed the challenges and triumphs of women in the industry, and what they are doing to bridge the gender gap
- Thailand: Siam Commercial Bank’s SCB 10X invests $10M in Singapore’s digital asset custodian, RakkaR Digital
- Indonesia Stock Exchange inks MOU with Singapore’s Metaverse Green Exchange for IDX emissions trading scheme, launching in 2025, with MVGX to build blockchain-based carbon registry and exchange
- South Korea: TheVentures Singapore venture-building firm preps for launch, aiming to replicate success of Korea-based early-stage startup incubator and VC
Singapore: Blockchain Fest – February 2023
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