Coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou on Corporate Chains, AI Agents & Asia's Stablecoin Rails: Inside Coinfest 2026

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Asia moves roughly $245 billion in stablecoin volumevand on a stage in Bali in August the people who move a good deal of it spent forty minutes not talking about consumers.

The panel at Coinfest Asia on 20 August was "Stablecoins Are Becoming the New Financial Rails" and was moderated by Adriel Wong, Head of Institutions for the private sector at TRM Labs. Alongside him sat Jeannie Lim, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of xweave, Wei Zhou, Chief Executive of coins.ph, Tianwei Liu, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of StraitsX, and Patrick Ngan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Alchemy Pay. Four operating companies, one blockchain intelligence firm and, by the end of it, one uncomfortable point of agreement.

Four companies attacked retail, and three of them found the money somewhere else

Jeannie Lim gave the clearest version of it. xweave started life as...

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