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Tonik became the first standalone digital bank in the Philippines to reach cash-flow profitability in Q1 2026, a milestone GCash and Maya's own banking arms reached only with a telco or e-wallet parent behind them.
Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital to scale an AlphaFold-derived drug design engine already…
A researcher used publicly accessible quantum hardware to break a toy-scale elliptic curve key in April and collect a Bitcoin…
Salmon Group closed a $100 million equity-and-bond round in April, the largest single funding event for a Philippine startup in…
Grab is consolidating its stake in Indonesia's publicly-listed Superbank into GXS Bank, its Singapore digital banking venture with Singtel, combining…
A Solana-based DeFi protocol lost $285 million in 12 minutes on April 1 after North Korean state-linked hackers spent six…
DTI's target of a $10 billion Philippine startup ecosystem by 2028 requires nearly tripling the 2023 Startup Genome baseline, a…
Foxmont Capital Partners is targeting up to 4 billion pesos for Philippine startups and reports private capital deployment hit a…
A government grant window and a new agri-focused startup competition are surfacing real Philippine agritech ideas, but the entire sector…
The Philippines' year-old crypto exchange licensing framework moved from paper to enforcement in March, when regulators ordered Bybit's app pulled…
BCRemit and Coins.ph are moving OFW remittances through USDC stablecoin rails at roughly 1 percent cost against a 6.4 percent…
Kredivo Group finalized its acquisition of Vietnam's Timo digital bank in March 2026, extending a BNPL and lending platform already…