Anndy Lian urges continued crypto donations to Shanghai animal shelters

Anndy Lian urges continued crypto donations to Shanghai animal shelters

Anndy Lian continues to support animal shelters in Shanghai through cryptocurrency donations. Lian, using the BNB token, emphasizes the importance of leveraging cryptocurrencies for charitable causes and hopes that this momentum will grow as 2026 approaches.

 

 

Lian’s advocacy for digital philanthropy reflects broader shifts in the financial landscape, including concerns over inflation linked to money printing, as highlighted in his analysis of hidden inflationary pressures. Looking ahead to 2026, these developments also intersect with regulatory milestones such as China’s plan to introduce interest-bearing digital yuan wallets, signaling the increasing convergence of digital assets and mainstream finance.

 

Source: https://tradersunion.com/news/market-voices/show/1180014-crypto-donations-shanghai/

 

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Top 27 contributors of 2025: Voices that defined the year

Top 27 contributors of 2025: Voices that defined the year

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

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/

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China to let banks pay interest on digital yuan wallets from January 2026

China to let banks pay interest on digital yuan wallets from January 2026

China’s central bank is rolling out a new framework for the digital yuan that will allow commercial banks to pay interest on e-CNY wallet balances starting Jan. 1, 2026, a move officials say will push the central bank digital currency (CBDC) beyond its original role as a cash substitute.

The new CBDC framework will allow banks to treat the digital yuan as part of their asset-liability operations, Lu Lei, a deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, wrote in a PBOC-affiliated China Financial Times article published on Monday.

“The digital RMB will move from the digital cash era to the digital deposit currency (Digital Deposit Money) era,” said Lei in the report. “It has the functions of monetary value scale, value storage, and cross-border payment.”

While cryptocurrency transactions and stablecoins are banned in Mainland China, the PBOC continues developing its CBDC framework, seeking to utilize the efficiency of blockchain rails through a central-bank-issued digital cash alternative.

This is in contrast to the stablecoin-friendly US regime, where President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning the creation of a CBDC, citing concerns over their potential to threaten financial system stability, individual privacy and national sovereignty.

The executive order, signed on Jan. 23, prohibits the establishment, issuance, circulation or use of CBDCs, a development described as a “game-changer” for the growth of the US crypto industry, Anndy Lian, an author and intergovernmental blockchain adviser, previously told Cointelegraph.

In July, Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, the US’s first comprehensive stablecoin framework, which established clear rules for stablecoin collateralization and mandated compliance with Anti-Money Laundering laws.

China’s “Action Plan” to accelerate e-CNY adoption

China’s new framework, the “Action Plan on Further Strengthening the Digital RMB Management Service System and Related Financial Infrastructure Construction,” seeks to expand the national use of the e-CNY and build the necessary infrastructure.

In September, the central bank established the RMB International Operations Center in Shanghai, a blockchain services platform seeking to build onchain settlement tools and crosschain transfer capabilities to promote the use of the digital yuan in cross-border settlement.

While the PBOC said that the digital yuan could create more financial inclusion, some critics are concerned about its ability to give more financial control to the central bank.

“The Chinese government wants more control over payments,” according to Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at non-profit organization the Human Rights Foundation.

While the central bank already holds a “firm grip” on the two leading commercial payment giants, direct control and oversight over a digital currency would provide more data and “power to deny people access,” Gladstein told MIT Technology Review in August 2023.

 

Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/china-digital-yuan-interest-wallets-2026

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