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Who captures the value in Singapore’s S$37 billion frontier tech bet?
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Who captures the value in Singapore’s S$37 billion frontier tech bet?

Jeremy Tan, Co-Founder of Tin Men Capital, authored an op-ed in The Business Times arguing that the enterprise value from the world's US$2.5 trillion AI infrastructure buildout will accrue to the workflow-embedded, vertically specialised companies that close the industry's deployment gap. The op-ed set out Tin Men’s three-layer framework for frontier tech, the fragmentation thesis behind why value will be captured in "uncountable large niches" rather than a few horizontal platforms, and why Singapore's full-stack frontier technology position makes it the natural anchor for a structurally resetting Southeast Asian venture market.

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Stablecoins are challenging Asia’s financial order
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Stablecoins are challenging Asia’s financial order

And for Singapore-based StraitsX, its local currency token presents opportunities to optimise payments made to merchants in the Republic.

Its XSGD token, which trades on Coinbase, is the only Singapore dollar-backed stablecoin to date that has been deemed "substantively compliant" with the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) single-currency regulatory structure, which was finalised in 2023.

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