{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Good Tech Companies ","title":"Coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou on Corporate Chains, AI Agents & Asia's Stablecoin Rails: Inside Coinfest 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":857,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/coinsph-ceo-wei-zhou-on-corporate-chains-ai-agents-and-asias-stablecoin-rails-inside-coinfest-2026.\nFrom the Coinfest Asia stablecoin panel to coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou on corporate chains, the $5m token exemption and why cards win the first AI agent wave.\nCheck more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined.\n You can also check exclusive content about #coinfest, #web3, #stablecoin, #ai-agents, #technology, #good-company, #wei-zhou, #software-engineering, and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nAt Coinfest Asia in Bali on 20 August 2026, a panel titled \"Stablecoins Are Becoming the New Financial Rails\" brought together Adriel Wong of TRM Labs as moderator with Jeannie Lim of xweave, Wei Zhou of coins.ph, Tianwei Liu of StraitsX and Patrick Ngan of Alchemy Pay. Three of the four operators reported that consumer stablecoin volume alone does not sustain a business, with xweave pivoting from business-to-consumer remittance to corporate treasury flows and Alchemy Pay finding its weight in business-to-business settlement, while StraitsX runs retail at scale in Singapore underneath Grab and Alipay QR payments where the user cannot tell stablecoins are involved. The panel agreed that fragmentation is the sector's biggest risk. In the interview that followed, coins.ph chief executive Wei Zhou argued that recent SEC guidance exempting token issuance below five million dollars will lead Google and Facebook to launch their own blockchains attached to existing distribution, that Visa and Mastercard rather than stablecoins will capture the first wave of AI agent payments, and that his ambition is to give banks stablecoin addresses they can hand to their own customers.\n\nWho was on the Coinfest Asia stablecoin panel?...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HZ9CRzf5js9DK86xzUVMWBRbXYwg4dA8xVXJGVzpL6Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}