TOKEN2049 Wraps Up But Web3 Festival Continues in Singapore

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Jai serves as the Asia Desk Editor for Cryptonews.com, where he leads a diverse team of international reporters. Jai has over five years of experience covering the web3 industry.

The TOKEN2049 event wrapped up in Singapore but the crypto crowd is still here celebrating Web3. With over 800 side events alongside TOKEN20249 happening in Singapore, the city country is buzzed with crypto fever.

Here are some of the highlights from the TOKEN2049 Singapore:

One of the most delightful moments of TOKEN2049 came when Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took the stage and decided to deviate from his prepared speech and serenade the audience with a Japanese song Castle in the Sky from a Ghibli Studio movie. The unexpected performance delighted the crowd and added a touch of whimsy to the conference.

Rapper Iggy Azalea was fashionably late to her panel discussion one memecoins, making a grand entrance that shook up the room. Her arrival injected a burst of energy, and the crowd buzzed with excitement as they waited to hear her take on the memecoin craze. True to form, Azalea’s presence brought some extra flair to the Token event.

American whistleblower Edward Snowden also made an appearance through video at the event and warned us of the more sophisticated nature of government surveillance. He cited the arrest of Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, and the subsequent changes to its terms of service as examples of how governments are increasingly encroaching on individual privacy. Snowden emphasized the importance of designing services that are resistant to state interference, pointing to Bitcoin as a model.

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