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Taipei Blockchain Week Returns This September
TBW2025 Launches with Theme “Onboard AI” to Spotlight Taiwan’s Role in the Future of Web3 and AI
Asia’s Largest Community-Driven Web3 Event Returns to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei
Following the overwhelming success of last year’s event, which drew over 6,000 attendees, Taipei Blockchain Week (TBW) returns for its fourth edition September 4–6, 2025, at the iconic Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. This year’s theme, “Onboard AI”, will explore the convergence of Web3 and artificial intelligence, reinforcing Taiwan’s rising role as a regional hub for tech innovation and technological leadership.
Speaking at a joint press conference on the future of Taiwan’s fintech and blockchain industry, TBW Conference Director Tiffany Lai, shared:
“Taipei Blockchain Week is focused on future proofing Taiwan ensuring that our communities, businesses, and the next generation can keep pace with the rapid evolution of blockchain and AI.”
Global Leaders, Industry Giants, and Local Champions
TBW2025 will gather over 250 speakers from around the world including leading voices in Web3, AI, finance, and culture. The speaker lineup will feature:
- Key Topics at the intersection of Web3 and AI including DeFI, DePIN, Infrastructure, RWA, Policy and more.
- Fintech pioneers like Mastercard
- Key Players in Taiwan like Taiwan Mobile and AMD
- IP/consumer brands like Pudgy Penguins
Together, they’ll present use cases, cross-industry innovations, and a vision of the Web3 x AI future.
A Full Week of Events in Collaboration with Taiwan’s Leading Communities
This year, Taipei Blockchain Week joins forces with Asia FinTech Alliance and Taiwan Blockchain Summit to co-create an expanded weeklong experience. This year’s collaboration will focus on three pillars:
- Policy & Regulation
- Startup Innovation
- International Community Connectivity
Together, this unified effort aims to position Taiwan as a strategic hub for blockchain and AI in the Asia-Pacific region.
Introducing “BABY BLO$$OMS” – TBW’s newest IP
To make Web3 more accessible and culturally grounded, TBW is launching its official mascot: BABY BLO$$OMS (有錢花). Inspired by Taiwan’s national flower, the plum blossom (梅花), these characters embody the values of resilience, optimism, and growth.
These characters will appear across TBW activations, merchandise, and social media, making blockchain and AI more relatable, playful, and emotionally resonant for a wider audience.
TBW2025 Venue Highlights: 5 Immersive Zones Across the Venue
This year’s TBW spans four warehouses and the cultural boulevard at Songshan Cultural Park to create a fully immersive Web3 experience:
- Warehouse 2 – Partner Pavilion: A networking space for sponsors and global projects, complete with a community Chill Zone.
- Warehouse 3 – Experience Center: A lifestyle-meets-Web3 warehouse featuring a Pudgy Penguins pop-up, podcast area, local food markets, and Taiwan-inspired cultural activities like fortune-telling and massage.
- Warehouse 4 – Onboard Arena (Main Stage): Keynotes and panels designed to bridge blockchain and AI topics to both seasoned builders and curious newcomers.
- Warehouse 5 – Innovation Zone (Builder Stage) : A beginner-friendly stage, coworking space, and workshop hub designed for hands-on learning and technical collaboration.
- TBW Boulevard: A vibrant open space featuring the public debut of BABY BLO$$OMS and a McLaren showcase, turning it into a guaranteed photo hotspot.
🎟️ Tickets on Sale
Taipei Blockchain Week 2025 is your gateway to the future of decentralized technology, AI integration, and global collaboration.
Secure your spot now:
🌐 www.taipeiblockchainweek.com
🗓️ Dates: September 4–6, 2025
📍 Location: Songshan Cultural Park, Taipei
Full agenda will be released in early August.
Follow TBW on social media for the latest updates.
Organizers: TBW, TABEI, Google Cloud
Title Sponsors: BingX, MEXC, Zappa Game
Gold Sponsors: TRON, MyStonks, Scallop, Flipster, Bitget, Bitget Wallet, CoinUp
Silver Sponsors: Ministry of Digital Affairs (DoDA), Digital Gold Card, Taipei Computer Association, Taiwan Digital Nomad Association, Datagram, WEEX
For sponsorships, press inquiries, or speaker opportunities, please contact the TBW team directly.
Agentic Finance Platform Kuvi.ai Acquires Altura to Build Agent-Enabled Infrastructure for Web3 Gaming
TORONTO, CANADA, Aug. 06, 2025 (CRYPTO COIN SHOW) — Kuvi.ai, the platform pioneering Agentic Finance, today announced the acquisition of Altura, a Web3 infrastructure platform built to simplify blockchain game development. The acquisition lays the groundwork for the next evolution of in-game asset management, driven by AI agents and automation.
With a large, engaged community and a strong technical foundation in NFT tooling and developer SDKs, Altura built one of the earliest NFT infrastructure stacks for game developers. Its smart contract infrastructure, SDKs, and brand recognition remain trusted across the space, giving developers everything they need to build, manage, and scale on-chain games.
“Altura has everything we look for, passionate users, real tech, and a mission that aligns with where we’re going,” said co-founder and CEO Dylan Dewdney. “We’re building the financial OS for the next generation, making it agent-powered, cross-chain, and user-owned. Altura’s NFT infrastructure and dev tooling are a perfect fit for enabling game assets to be managed, automated, and monetized using Kuvi’s agent platform.”
As part of the full acquisition, Kuvi aims to stabilize Altura and rebuild trust among its long-time community and contributors, with plans to incubate a new consumer-facing app under the Altura brand to help users manage in-game assets, Web2 and Web3, through a single interface. Additionally the acquisition aims to monetize and modernize Altura’s dev stack, integrating it more deeply into Kuvi’s core agentic automation layer.
Kuvi has acquired the Altura brand, token infrastructure, exchange listings, and developer tools. Kuvi also inherits Altura’s partnerships (e.g., Immutable), which the company may activate or monetize via early access to Kuvi’s upcoming consumer tools.
The ALU token remains active and supported. In the near future, Altura will evolve into a consumer-facing app for managing in-game assets. integrated with Kuvi’s agentic finance stack. ALU holders will gain access to $KUVI rewards and freemium features on the Kuvi platform.
The new Altura app will enable users to manage assets across Web2 and Web3 games, staking, leasing, trading, or collateralizing them via Kuvi agents. It will operate on the $ALU token while interfacing deeply with Kuvi’s broader framework.
This acquisition marks Kuvi’s first major move into the gaming vertical, expanding its mission to bring intelligent, self-managing agents to every corner of the on-chain economy, from DeFi and identity to now, gaming.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of Kuvi’s seed round, led by Moon Pursuit Capital, and the expansion of its oversubscribed strategic round. Recent additions include legendary crypto investor Michael Terpin of Transform Ventures and leading Web3 educator Dennis Liu (aka VirtualBacon). Kuvi.ai’s valuation has now doubled from $15 million to $30 million.
The funding supports the recent private beta launch of Kuvi.ai’s Agentic Finance Operating System (AF-OS), the first of its kind next-gen interface that empowers users to design, automate, and deploy complex financial strategies using natural language.
Kuvi.ai replaces the need for centralized exchanges, clunky DeFi dashboards, or opaque robo-advisors, enabling users to act with precision, automation, and control. Kuvi.ai is an AI-driven crypto interface designed to make digital asset transactions as simple as typing a message or saying a few words, delivering text-to-trade functionality that removes the need to navigate multiple dApps, bridging solutions, or complex trading interfaces.
Users can instruct Kuvi.ai to buy, sell, or swap tokens across blockchains, and Kuvi.ai does the rest. Unlike pre-programmed bots or chat wrappers, Kuvi.ai allows users to define their financial intent — e.g., “Buy $1K in memecoins when sentiment spikes and gas is low, exit when BTC dominance rises” — and executes via our proprietary modular and functional agentic framework.
With private beta underway and TGE tentatively slated for late summer/early fall 2025, Kuvi.ai is set to scale its user base, integrations, and community. As the Agentic Finance movement gains traction, Kuvi.ai is positioned to be the flagship OS in a post-app financial world — empowering everyone to manage and multiply wealth through intent-based interfaces.
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About Kuvi.ai
Kuvi.ai is an AI-driven crypto interface designed to make digital asset transactions as simple as typing a message or saying a few words, delivering text-to-trade functionality that removes the need to navigate multiple dApps, bridging solutions, or complex trading interfaces. Users can instruct Kuvi.ai to buy, sell, or swap tokens across blockchains, and Kuvi.ai does the rest.
Kuvi.ai is founded by Dylan Dewdney, a crypto OG active since 2011, along with Jay Nasr, and Maxim Sindall, bringing technical depth and go-to-market execution. Kuvi.ai’s momentum is powered by a heavyweight advisory and investor roster that includes Michael Terpin, founder of Transform Ventures and early advisor/investor to hundreds of crypto projects, including Ethereum and Tether; Dennis Liu (VirtualBacon), top-tier crypto educator with 400K+ followers; and Peter Vincer, advisor with institutional and U.S. policy access, joins as Advisor for Government Relations. For more information, please visit https://kuvi.ai.
Media contact: KuviAI@transformgroup.com
Nvidia CEO to meet Trump ahead of high-stakes China visit
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, just days before Huang embarks on a critical visit to China.
This private meeting comes when the US-China tech rivalry is heating up, placing Nvidia at the center of global semiconductor politics.
The topics for the Trump-Huang meeting are not known. The sources were not authorized to discuss the meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity, and neither Nvidia nor the White House made any official comment.
This sit-down comes on the heels of Nvidia reaching a record-setting high, becoming the first company to reach a $4 trillion market value, driven by investor enthusiasm for the red-hot AI space.
Trump lauded Nvidia’s market performance in a social media message earlier in the day, attributing the success to his trade policies.
“NVIDIA IS UP 47% SINCE TRUMP TARIFFS. The USA is taking in Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs,” Trump wrote.
Nvidia steps up push for China market
Huang’s soon-to-come visit to China will be especially delicate for Nvidia, which has been embroiled in Washington’s pursuit of an increasingly intense technology war with China. But once dominant in the Chinese market, Nvidia now faces strict restrictions on selling its most advanced artificial intelligence chips under a series of US export controls by the Biden administration, backed by Congress.
The US government has been trying to prevent China from accessing high-end chips and chip-making equipment, out of concern that they could be put to military or surveillance uses. That has led companies like Nvidia to create altered versions of their chips for sale in China, often with reduced performance.
But behind the scenes, they said, Huang is worried that these restrictions effectively give Chinese companies such as Huawei Technologies an advantage. He has criticized the export bans in previous interviews and industry discussions, saying that the measures are short-sighted and that they could speed up China’s attempts to develop its alternatives.
Nvidia estimates it will lose as much as $8 billion in potential revenue this quarter because of the export rules. The company has already scaled back its presence in China, and Huang’s return marks an attempt to patch up commercial and regulatory relationships.
While in Beijing, Huang will meet with some senior Chinese officials, such as the commerce minister. He will also go to the International Supply Chain Expo, where he is scheduled to deliver a speech on global semiconductor collaboration and the role of AI in overhauling logistics, health, and transportation.
Nvidia expands global clout amid AI boom
Nvidia’s reach has now extended far beyond gaming and graphic design. The company has been a stalwart in the global AI race, offering key hardware for data centers and AI research. Its chips are commonly deployed to construct generative AI models, such as the large language models underpinning chatbots, virtual assistants, and predictive analytics.
Big tech companies, such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet, invest huge chunks of capital into AI infrastructure. To put that in perspective, they are expected to invest over $350 billion in AI-related R&D next fiscal year. A lot of that investment will funnel directly into Nvidia’s ecosystem.
Nvidia’s rise has turned Huang into a prominent player in the global game of tech diplomacy. How he maneuvers the U.S. regulatory landscape while simultaneously working with the hard facts of the Chinese market will shape the company’s long-term strategy and the greater development path for this powerful new AI technology.
Born in Taiwan and raised in the United States, Huang has frequently played the role of a bridge between East and West. But in a world of increasing geopolitical pressure, even his talents are being pushed to the limit.
Whether his talk of cooperation and open markets will find traction on either side is unknown.
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