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Abhinav Gupta (@btc_abhinav) of @HashedEM opened The Future Asset Forum on the IBW main stage.
Here's the recap 👇
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The Future Asset Forum just opened on the IBW main stage with Abhinav Gupta (@btc_abhinav) of @HashedEM asking: what becomes valuable as intelligence becomes abundant?
Not “what are humans for.” A narrower question you can actually work with: where does the value go?
Here’s the framework 👇
Sharanya Sahai, Investments at Hashed Emergent (@sahai_sharanya), launched the India Web3 Landscape Report 2026 at India Blockchain Week Conference.
Here’s the recap 👇
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India Web3 Landscape Report 2026 is out.
Presented at IBW2026, Fairmont Mumbai, by @HashedEM with knowledge partners @officialmudrex, @Pi42Exchange, @PwC_IN, @riseinweb3 and @TrilegalLaw
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Tak Lee, CEO & Managing Director, Hashed Emergent (@taaklee) opened the India Blockchain Week Conference 2026 with his keynote: How India Wins Really Big.
Checkout the recap 👇
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IBW2026 Opening Keynote Recap
India Blockchain Week Conference 2026 just opened with @taaklee's keynote: How India Wins Really Big.
This year the talk is about something bigger than blockchain. How India can help shape the new economy.
Here’s the full argument 👇
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India's web3 developer ecosystem keeps shifting and we're mapping the builders behind it.
Take part in the Developer Survey for the India Web3 Landscape Report 2026 by Hashed Emergent, in collaboration with @riseinweb3.
Help us capture how India's developers are building in web3.
This year's survey covers where India's developers are building, the chains, tools and languages they use, what keeps them in web3, and the challenges they're running into right now.
What you get for completing it:
• Spotlight at IBW2026, your name on the official recognition board
• 25% discount code on IBW2026 tickets
• 5 participants win free IBW2026 tickets
Take the survey here: forms.gle/3vDZnqbTK7cuBSf69
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Last June, we brought founders from across Africa to Nairobi for the inaugural Hashed Vibe Haus – Africa Edition, powered by @tether @Tether_Africa
For five days, Nairobi became a space for these founders building at the intersection of stablecoins, and AI/agentic payments, to connect, exchange ideas, learn from experienced ecosystem leaders, and think deeply about what they’re building next.
But we didn’t just want to hear about their products.
We wanted to hear their stories.
What inspired them to start?
What problems are they solving?
What does building from Africa look like today?
What have they learned along the way?
So, throughout the residency, we sat down with each founder for candid conversations about their journeys, their companies, and their experience at Vibe Haus Nairobi.
🎥 Hear from the founders who joined us in Nairobi.
📢𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐛3 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 2025 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞
We are excited the unveil the first-ever Kenya Web3 Landscape Report, in collaboration with our knowledge partners @Web3Clubs, and @vaspchamber.
As the inaugural edition, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of Kenya's Web3 ecosystem, exploring the growth of its developer community, evolving funding landscape, and regulatory developments shaping innovation across the country.
The report covers 🔎:
1️⃣ Startups & Investment Landscape – A deep dive into funding trends and Kenya’s growing web3 startup ecosystem
2️⃣ Developer Ecosystem – Kenya's role as one of the leading hub for web3 talent Africa
3️⃣ Regulatory, Tax & Policy – The evolving policy landscape and what it means for innovation, builders, and investors.
A Snapshot of Key Insights 🧵:
🌃 Afterhours | Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
To wrap up Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, powered by @tether, @Tether_Africa, we brought together founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders for Afterhours - an evening of conversations, new connections, and networking sessions.
After a week of sessions and workshops, the evening created space for the cohort to continue conversations beyond the structured program, strengthen relationships across the ecosystem, and make new connections.
A few moments from the evening. 🎥👇
🏡 Day 5 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
The final day of the residency featured a GTM and distribution masterclass with Peter Chege Mureu, Africa Business Development Lead at @binance.
Drawing from his experience across fintech, payments, and digital assets, Peter shared practical perspectives on product-market fit, customer acquisition, partnerships, and scaling across African markets. The session concluded with one-on-one discussions, where founders received direct feedback on their GTM strategies and distribution plans.
Moments from Peter's Session. 🎥👇
🏡 Day 4 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
Day 4 was dedicated to one of the crucial parts of startup building - Go-To-Market.
Florence Githinji from Yellow Card, shared practical GTM strategies and lessons for fintech and payments/stablecoin products across Africa, from early customer acquisition and strategic partnerships to building sustainable distribution in emerging markets.
🧵Here's a glimpse into Day 4. 🎥👇
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Drawing from her experience building partnerships and driving commercial growth across fintech and payments companies, She shared practical lessons on what it takes to move product to adoption.
The session was interactive, with founders asking candid questions about partnerships, market expansion, customer acquisition, and the realities of scaling across African markets.
🏡 Day 3 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
The day opened with a workshop on QVAC, led by @decentraldev_ from @tether, introducing founders to Tether's decentralized AI framework and its vision for private, local, and permissionless AI.
Founders joined a roundtable session with @GMosomi sharing product updates, discussing challenges, and receiving practical feedback through group discussions and one-on-one sessions.
The day wrapped up with a session led by @yosephayele, and the @lavavc_ team, where founders openly discussed fundraising challenges, asked candid questions, explored investor expectations for Africa's evolving stablecoin landscape, and unpacked what it takes to build venture-backable companies in emerging markets.
Here's a glimpse into Day 3. 🎥👇
🏡 Day 2 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
The morning was dedicated to founder deep-dives and product discussions with the Hashed Emergent team before transitioning into hands-on sessions with the @tether team. Founders explored the Tether ecosystem, worked through the Wallet Development Kit (WDK), and left with practical integration roadmaps.
The day wrapped up with founders locking in for co-building sessions, with plenty of whiteboard conversations that continued long after the sessions ended.
Here's a glimpse into Day 2. 🎥👇
Excited to welcome @rraigal_ WDK's Developer Relations Engineer at @tether to the speaker lineup for Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi.
Working at the intersection of developer education, ecosystem partnerships, and product integration, she helps developers build wallet, payment, and AI-powered applications using Tether's Wallet Development Kit (WDK).
At Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, she'll walk builders through the capabilities of WDK, and answer questions on building AI-powered financial applications with Tether's developer tools.
🏡 Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi: Afterhours
Join us for Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi: Afterhours - a curated networking evening bringing together founders, investors, operators, and ecosystem stakeholders building in stablecoins, and emerging AI/Agentic payment space in Africa.
If you're in Nairobi, we'd love to have you join us.
📍 Nairobi · 28th June, 2026
🎟️ By approval, limited spots
📝 Register here: luma.com/0h6vwe0l
Joining the speaker lineup at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, powered by @tether, @Tether_Africa, is Florence Githinji.
As senior manager, strategic partnerships at @yellowcard_app, Florence brings over a decade of marketing and partnership experience across fintech, payments, and in global technology companies, including Microsoft. She has led high-impact partnerships, market expansion, and commercial growth initiatives across merchants, financial institutions, and technology providers throughout Africa.
At Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, she'll share practical insights on building strategic partnerships and scaling across African markets, with founders getting the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly.
Looking forward to the conversation.
Every payment system ever built was designed for transactions large enough to carry a human's cost: a salesperson, a credit officer, a card-network fee.
Below that line, the rail was never built, and the customer went unserved.
AI agents just erased that line. In our latest article, authored by @rangaszn, we examine what happens next, and why it happens in emerging markets first.
To frame this shift, we introduce what we call the empty-surface thesis.
A one-cent payment was never worth a human's time, so the markets full of too-small transactions went unserved for decades. Agents collapse the cost of serving them to almost nothing.
The first markets to flip are not the ones Silicon Valley is building for. They are the empty surfaces the existing system priced out, and stablecoins are the rail underneath them: an agent cannot hold local fiat, so it holds USDC, and that single fact forces the whole stack onchain.
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We're excited to welcome @yosephayele to the speaker lineup for Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi 🏡
@lavavc_ , backs startups building Africa's stablecoin payments and financial infrastructure.
Founders will have the opportunity to engage in open conversations around the challenges and decisions they’re navigating.
Looking forward to the conversations and perspectives he’ll bring to the cohort 🚀
🏡 We’re opening the doors to Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi.
Founders outside the residency can now book Office Hours with our team and program partners.
Building in stablecoins or AI/ emerging agentic payments and in Nairobi?
Join the Hashed Emergent team and program partners for sessions on product, GTM, fundraising strategy, or anything else top of mind.
What to expect:
• Focused conversations
• Practical feedback
• Access to operators and ecosystem partners
Slots are limited and curated.
Pick a day that works for you when you register, and our team will reach out to confirm your slot.
📝 Register here: luma.com/kpbigcue
See you at the Vibe Haus
We're excited to welcome Peter Chege Mureu to Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi as a speaker, to share practical lessons on growth, GTM, and scaling across African markets.
Peter Mureu is the Africa Lead, Business Development at @binance and a growth operator with nearly 20 years of experience across fintech, payments, and digital assets.
Having driven growth and market expansion at Binance, Yellow Card, Onafriq, and MoneyGram across 30+ African markets, Peter brings deep experience across GTM, partnerships, stablecoins, cross-border payments, and scaling in emerging markets.
At Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, drawing from his experience, he’ll share practical GTM insights with participating founders on building distribution, achieving product-market fit, and creating sustainable growth engines especially for stablecoin and payments companies in emerging markets.
Outside of work, Peter also mentors founders and serves as an Executive & Leadership Coach.
🏡 Day 1 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi
We kicked things off by welcoming the founders into the haus, a day centered around settling in, meeting one another, sharing stories, and setting the tone for what's ahead.
From founders introductions to conversations over dinner, Day 1 was all about bringing builders into one room, and creating space for meaningful connections before the work begins.
Here’s a glimpse into how it started 🎥👇
🏛️ Meet the full Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi cohort powered by @tether, @Tether_Africa - founders building at the intersection of stablecoins, payments, AI-powered finance and Agentic payments across Africa.
@Mark_Folabi, founder of @0xStableStack
@Chinaecherem, founder of @Nectar_finance
@b3npayd, founder of @paydhq
@timmyisagod, founder @evolutionapp_
@derrickbund, founder of @PretiumApp
@ToochukwuOkoro2, founder of @useazza
@devjoethuku, founder of @element_pay
@haroldsphinx, founder of @blockopsx
Over six days in Nairobi, this cohort comes together to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, build meaningful relationships, and spend intentional time with operators, investors, and ecosystem partners with conversations and connections we hope continue long after Vibe Haus.
