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Nickoo retweeted
The @HongKongFinTech x StartmeupHK starts today, so here's what our APAC Crypto Infrastructure Map says about the host city.
Across six markets, Hong Kong ranked highest (27) overall on the Builder Sentiment Index, modelled with @PreferencesAI.
But highest overall is not best for everyone. A payments company, an exchange and a token issuer will each read the map differently.
Use the report as your conversation starter during the week. Get the insights here: arc.xyz/cognitive-logs/2026-…
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2026 APAC Crypto Infrastructure Map: Builder Sentiment & Market Readiness Across the Region
ARC × @PreferencesAI
Six markets. Nine sectors. A practical map for founders, allocators, institutions and practitioners of where crypto businesses can:
→ operate
→ access capital
→ bank
→ hire
→ find customers
→ deploy
Full report is live.
Get it here:
arc.xyz/cognitive-logs/2026-…
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APAC led global growth in on-chain transaction volume. Over that same period, however, its most established hubs steadily raised their barriers to entry.
So, which APAC market is "winning crypto"?
Vietnam ranks highest for builder conviction in our six-market analysis. Yet it ranks last overall on the Builder Sentiment Index (BSI), which gives greater weight to the conditions businesses need to operate.
How does the most optimistic market end up at the bottom?
That's one of the questions behind the 2026 APAC Crypto Infrastructure Map report, co-authored by ARC and @PreferencesAI, with insights from our network layer at @arcthecommunity.
Pairing qualitative field research with large-scale synthetic modelling, the report examines six markets: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.
It covers nine sectors: Stablecoins, RWA/DePIN, DeFi/prediction markets, AI, centralised exchanges, funders/VC, macro, robotics and launchpads.
The analysis looks at what it takes to build a crypto business, from licensing and banking access to capital, institutional infrastructure and talent. It also examines builders' expectations and whether conditions are improving.
Hong Kong and Singapore lead the BSI rankings, supported by their strengths in institutional infrastructure and capital depth. Vietnam ranks last despite leading on conviction, reflecting gaps in the infrastructure businesses need to operate once licensed.
The report also explores where each hub's strengths lie. Depending on your priorities, its findings point towards:
- Hong Kong for institutional issuance
- Singapore for raising and holding capital
- South Korea for reaching users at speed
- Vietnam for testing consumer product-market fit
- Malaysia for a faster, realistic path to licensing
- Thailand for tax-efficient retail distribution
The full ARC × PreferencesAI report drops on Wednesday, 14 October.
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First-time founders and businesses looking to expand to APAC often ask us: "Where can a crypto business actually operate and grow?"
In APAC, a market might have users but limited access to capital. Another might have capital, but banking restrictions make it difficult to operate. Others have plenty of builders, yet institutional investors remain hesitant to deploy capital.
Honestly, there’s no straightforward answer.
If you were starting a crypto company in APAC today, where would you base it?
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- South Korea
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Vietnam
- Somewhere else
DM me. Always open to hearing about exciting projects.
Looking for businesses to back or founders to build with? Meet ARC during TOKEN2049 week in Singapore.
ARC is a venture scaling network proudly based in Singapore. We work alongside founders to shape their products, build their brands, and reach new markets. We connect them with investors and partners who can get their products into customers’ hands, and operators with experience scaling businesses.
What makes ARC unique is that we’re backed by a collective of 888 curated builders and investors across Web2 and Web3, @arcthecommunity. Their experience, relationships, and support help the businesses in our ecosystem grow.
During TOKEN2049 week, we’ll be bringing together our members, the teams we’re incubating, fellow investors, and venture builders.
So, if you represent a family office exploring new businesses in Asia, are a founder looking to back other founders, or can help a company reach new customers, we’d like to meet you.
Send us a DM with what you’re looking to build or back, and our team will get back to you.
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One of the best parts of building an ecosystem?
Watching different parts of it build on each other.
This time, it was the 3Ps: People, Probiotics, Pilates.
We recently welcomed VAURA Pilates as an ARC partner, giving members preferential rates on class packs and memberships across all their studios in Singapore.
To kick things off, members came together to sweat it out at VAURA Cross Street. Big shoutout to Steph and the team for hosting us!
And because apparently Pilates wasn’t enough wellness for one day, Archemi Labs (archemilabs.com/) joined the party too.
As one of the companies in the ARC ecosystem, Archemi kept everyone refreshed and sent each participant home either GLP1biotics: GLP-1 Signaling Probiotics+ or Neurobiome: Gut-Brain-Cellular Probiotics+.
VAURA brought the burn. Archemi took care of the gut. We'd say it was a pretty solid wellness stack.
That’s what we like about a great ecosystem. Bring great people and companies into it, and they start finding ways to make the whole thing better for each other.
ARC
Sport is always a great way to bring people together, break the ice and make good connections.
Looking forward to having more of these events for Stellars and guests moving forward!
On the invitation we said the best conversations don't happen in conference rooms.
More than 50 founders, builders and community members turned up one evening to test that, on a padel and pickleball court.
Most of them had played only a handful of times, which meant they spent the evening being visibly bad at something in front of people they had only just met. It is much easier to like someone who has just missed the same shot you did.
People walked out sweaty and were already arranging the next game between themselves.
The evening worked because four companies each brought the thing they build.
Love All (loveall.club/) gave us the courts, inside Grace Orchard School, where the club runs employment pathways for graduates with special needs.
Grain (grain.com.sg/) fed the room before we started.
We The Makers (wethemakers.xyz/), founded by our Stellar @KingOfMerch_, sponsored the welcome gifts.
LOOM (instagram.com/loomworks.stud…) co-hosted, where our Stellar @_andrewxchan is its Founder and CEO.
Thank you to everyone who played, and to our Stellar, Boba, for stepping in to coach pickleball.
If you are building something and want to be in rooms like this one, come talk to us.
Would highly recommend Assam Fish Head. Views are impeccable!
Yet another benefit for ARC members!
Say hi to Milli (millisingapore.com/ sister concept to the beloved Bae’s Cocktail Club). Perched atop the National Gallery, the Sky Dining & Bar serves refined plates, elegant cocktails and Singaporean cuisine from a Michelin-starred chef (LG Han) and an award-winning bartender (Vijay Mudaliar), all with an unobstructed view of Singapore's skyline.
One floor down is Milli Lounge, where you can groove to pop, disco, funk and house, plus a playlist of throwback anthems Singaporeans have loved through the decades.
TL;DR: dinner, drinks, and a dance floor, all without leaving the building.
With this partnership, ARC members will unlock priority booking, guestlist access and preferential rates for private events & corporate bookings.
Big shoutout to our Stellar @AryyyGold and Milli's co-founder Dharma, for bringing this to the ARC fam! 💜
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Elfa ATH celebratory dance. feat @decircusmaster
Last month I promised I’ll do another dance if we hit ATH again
Really dug a grave for myself. I’m not complaining though
If we hit another ATH in API usage next month, I’ll do ANOTHER dance.
Abuse Iris with haste if you like seeing us shake
Comment if you want any of your favourite people featured
We can fly them down to dance with us 👀
Elfa's API usage hit all time high. Again.
4th consecutive month of ATH is crazy. We may have found product-market fit
In this thread I'll cover:
> Why builders keep choosing @elfa_ai's Iris stack
> How Iris stack became so powerful
> Tangible ways to upgrade your agent system today 👇
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Some communities give you a Discord. ARC gives you and your family healthcare across three countries.
Our partnership with Thomson Medical is renewed and expanded, now covering Stellars in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. Screenings, specialist care, maternity and more, at preferential member rates.
Curated global benefits for a curated global collective.
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Huge shoutout to our Stellar @maxlsy94 and GIL System (gilsystem.com/) for sponsoring ARC @ KL Dinner. 💜
And no, it wasn't hotpot. A few of the Stellars looked genuinely relieved.
Full photos and shoutouts to the Stellars who pulled up coming soon. 👀
For everyone still in KL, go enjoy Day 2 of @MalaysiaBCW!
Just wrapped up the ARC @ KL dinner yesterday.
Had the pleasure of sponsoring the dinner at If Only through GIL System. Spent the whole evening catching up with the community and connecting over some good food.
Thanks @arcthecommunity and @imthejoan for putting it together and to everyone who came through 💜🔥
Peak audio. Doesn't get better than this.
We lost the audio budget in the trenches, but our devs still shipped.
New features on Nocturnal:
1. Instant trade (with hotkeys)
2. Trade panel
3. Filter for transactions
Try them out tonight: nocturnal.xyz
We won the Seoulana: WarmUp Hackathon!
Built to give all @solana enjoyoors an AI edge when trading memes, Nocturnal sits at the intersection of attention and liquidity as we work to onboard more retail into Solana through crypto’s best onboarding funnel: memes.
Trade on Nocturnal tonight.
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Stellars
🚀 Featured Speakers joining MYBW 2026: YellowPanther, Pukerainbow and KC Thee.
YellowPanther (@yellowpantherx), Co-founder of CRISP (@CrispPredict), is a gamer turned full-time content creator, angel investor and advisor building across crypto gaming and prediction markets.
Pukerainbow (@pukerrainbrow), Founder of Pukecast (@pukecast) and host of New Money Cast, covers the biggest stories in tech, AI and crypto while building one of Asia’s growing media platforms.
KC Thee (@vtes369), CEO of NextRare (@NextRare_cards), is building better experiences for modern collectors in the digital asset space.
From gaming and creator-led media to digital collectibles, this group brings a sharp view on how Web3 reaches culture, communities and everyday audiences.
📍 World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur
📅 29–30 July 2026
🎟️ Get your tickets now: myblockchainweek.com/buy-tic…
