Blockchain, fintech, and tech news from Philippine newsrooms.
A former pretraining researcher from OpenAI and Anthropic has resigned, warning that frontier labs are recklessly racing toward uncontrolled superintelligence.
Tech veteran Luis Buenaventura built Hiraia, an open-source AI science tutor that runs offline in Tagalog and Bisaya on $100 Android phones.
Bitget’s KCGI 2026 live trading competition is now active with a $3M USDT prize pool across crypto, tokenized stocks, and gold.
FinTech Alliance PH partners with the BSP and banking associations for Sportstacular 2026, following its successful ASEAN Tech Summit.
Proposed BSP rules ban third-party payment middlemen for offshore platforms, threatening foreign apps relying on QR Ph top-ups in the Philippines.
Regional crypto exchange CEOs from PDAX, CoinSwitch, and TRIV explain why 93% of retail traders lose money and how proper risk management prevents portfolio wipes.
Maya deploys AI-assisted document checks and self-service portals to eliminate administrative friction and streamline workplace operations.
Digital advocacy group Digital Pinoys supports integrating PhilSys identity checks into social media to eliminate troll farms without giving tech companies access to private ID data.
The Philippine SEC has cleared GCash operator Mynt to proceed with its historic ₱92.32 billion IPO on the Philippine Stock Exchange this October.
RCBC Chief Innovations Officer Lito Villanueva earns Digital Banking Champion of the Year at WFIS Philippines 2026 for expanding national digital financial access.
Filipinos can bypass card delivery backlogs and access an officially recognized Digital National ID on their smartphones today.
Mynt Inc. sets its October 2026 PSE listing timeline for GCash, offering shares at up to ₱10.00 each in a record-breaking ₱90-billion IPO.
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao says Bitcoin will hit $1 million much faster than 25 years as digital assets challenge traditional gold reserves.
Singapore’s central bank is proposing a complete ban on paying interest or yield on regulated stablecoins under new Payment Services Act amendments.
The Philippine government is asking Meta to mandate PhilSys National ID verification on Facebook and Instagram to combat online crime and identity masking.
Eight months after the Senate acted, the bill that would let Filipinos follow their own money is still waiting in the House
Coinfest Asia 2026 showcased Indonesia’s $28 billion plan for digital assets alongside a major industry shift toward AI, stablecoins, and tokenized real-world assets.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ruled out using foreign reserves to hold the peso below ₱60 as the currency fell to a historic low of ₱62.265 against the US dollar.
Philippine regulators and Meta have agreed to establish a rapid-response hotline for harmful content, officially shelving the threat of a nationwide Facebook ban.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas now allows banks to offer tax-exempt PERA time deposits with a minimum 30-day maturity and full PDIC coverage.
Developer Jason Torres launched an open platform where autonomous AI agent swarms debate Philippine laws and national budget policies in real time.
The SEC has proposed a draft overhaul of SRC Rule 48.1 to introduce dynamic, risk-sensitive margin trading rules for stock brokerages.
TRM Labs APAC Compliance Lead Claudia Hui details how indirect crypto exposures create compliance blind spots for traditional banks and how on-chain intelligence mitigates them.
Philippine regulators are evaluating a nationwide ban on Facebook following Meta’s delayed removal of violent content and mounting child safety concerns.
AI becomes the decision layer of the digital economy. Settlement, ownership, and provenance still have to run on something.
The SEC clarified that admitting Binance partner BlockShoals into its regulatory sandbox does not guarantee approval, cure past violations, or allow immediate trading.
The Department of Budget and Management has allocated ₱1 billion to the UP System to scale Project NOAH’s AI -driven flood forecasting and real-time hazard monitoring tools.
Qadena Foundation’s Gail Cruz Macapagal highlighted the evolution of what would eventually become The Cadena Act
Civil society groups and web3 organizations launch a petition urging the Philippine House of Representatives to pass the CADENA blockchain budget transparency bill.
The MEXC mobile application is no longer available on the Google Play Store in the Philippines following ongoing SEC regulatory action against unlicensed crypto platforms.
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