2025 was a year that tested everyone in tech and venture. Funding tightened, geopolitical shifts entered the boardroom, and hype cycles moved faster than most teams could absorb. The outcome was clarity: founders became more disciplined, investors more selective, and operators more intentional about what they build and why.
At e27, we believe progress is collective. Community-driven knowledge is the backbone of this ecosystem, and our contributors bring insights you don’t find in headlines — grounded in experience, informed by diverse markets, and sharpened through real conversations.
These voices helped make 2025 smarter, clearer, and more connected. They challenged assumptions, shared practical lessons, and gave the ecosystem frameworks to act on. Their ideas travelled across borders, sparked dialogue, and helped founders, operators, and investors navigate a rapidly shifting landscape.
What follows is a snapshot of that community in motion: the top 27 contributors of 2025, presented in alphabetical order. Futurists, founders, strategists, marketers, product leaders, and capital allocators whose thinking shaped the year in meaningful ways. Their generosity in sharing hard-won insights has strengthened the region’s ability to innovate and adapt.
As 2026 approaches, one truth carries forward: this ecosystem grows strongest when it grows together.
Anndy Lian is a seasoned business strategist in Asia who has advised local, international, and publicly listed companies as well as government bodies. An early blockchain adopter and active board member, he is known across the region for his deep involvement in Web3, entrepreneurship, and policy work.
In 2025, he published one article every single day on e27, sharing market insights, tracking on-chain developments, and breaking down the evolving Web3 landscape. Across the year, he observed crypto shifting beyond speculation. Real-world adoption of stablecoins and DeFi began reshaping global finance, showing decentralisation’s viability at scale.
Decentralised AI models, combining blockchain-based data sovereignty with on-chain inference, will empower startups to build transparent, user-controlled applications that resist centralisation and enhance privacy.
Source: https://e27.co/top-27-contributors-of-2025-voices-that-defined-the-year-20251215/
Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.
Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.
