Day 2 at Token2049 Singapore, the largest crypto event of the year, is officially in the books.
The last day packed in institutional heavyweights on the OKX Main Stage, a wallets panel with MetaMask and Trezor, NOW Effect interviews with Zcash, USDD and Sonic, and a private Ferrari Luce preview.
Here's how it went at the ChangeNOW booth and beyond.
The ChangeNOW booth on Day 2
Token2049 Singapore: OKX Main Stage
- Jenny Johnson, CEO at Franklin Templeton, Richard Teng, Co-CEO at Binance, Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder and CEO at Canton and Michael Ippolito, Co-Founder at Blockworks discussed a new institutional market: tokenized assets, global liquidity and on-chain settlement.
- Representatives from PayPal, MoonPay and Fireblocks weighed in on stablecoins and the payments industry.
- C-level voices mapped out Ethereum's future.
- Top management from MetaMask, Robinhood and Bankless talked about RWA.
- Justin Sun was in the building too, naturally.
Singapore Crypto Event: On Camera
The studio stayed busy right up to the last day.
Crypto Wallets Panel Talk
One of the day's panels put Francesco Andreolí* from MetaMask (*yes, the same Francesco who peeked into our studio on Day 1. This time he came through the front door), Denis Rojčyk from Trezor and and Kelvin Sparks Jr. as the host at the same table with ChangeNOW's Yana to talk about crypto wallets: the problems of adoption and ease of use, for advanced and beginner users alike.
Crypto wallets panel: MetaMask, Trezor and ChangeNOW's Yana
Yana mentioned that ChangeNOW is working on bringing multi-chain options to the table, and Francesco from MetaMask agreed:
"What you mentioned about multi-chain is super interesting. People don't want to be just on Solana or just on Ethereum. This concept about EDM/non-EDM just needs to collapse into one single one. And I really like the fact that we are bringing more abstract experiences around."
Sound familiar? It's the same idea Pauline brought to the Bit Digital Stage, just seen from the wallet side.
The Block feat. Martin Masser
This is also the exact topic Martin Masser, Director of Strategic Partnerships at ChangeNOW, used to open his conversation with Kelvin Sparks Jr from The Block. Discussing the complexity of crypto UX and how many choices a product should offer before scaring users away, he noted:
"I think the more complexity you give a user, the more scared they get or the less time they want to be spending on the product. I think we need the basics. You know, I want to send you your USDT. I need to make that as easy as possible."
HSC Singapore Stage: Liquidity at Scale
Martin wasn’t just busy in front of the camera, though. During TOKEN2049 week, he also took the HSC Singapore stage alongside heavy hitters like Binance, MEXC, Deribit, Alpaca, and Arcadia.
The conversation dove deep into what makes liquidity actually work at scale. The panel tackled the need for better infrastructure, more efficient capital movement, and a stronger market structure, mapping out exactly what still needs to mature as crypto finally grows up.
Interview with Linkedin
Pauline talking LinkedIn and personal branding
Pauline had an interview with Nicolette Callie Wee, Account Executive at Linkedin Singapore.
They chatted about personal branding, and the upcoming Linkedin short videos feature. Pauline couldn’t hold back and share her excitement about doomscrolling a new video feed on Linkedin.
NOW Effect Interviews
Ramia Farrage at the NOW Effect studio
NOW Effect, our interview series hosted by Ramia Farrage, brought three more guests to the studio. And yes, the ones we teased yesterday made it.
- Zcash: Tom Howard, CEO of Zcash on for a conversation about the duality of privacy: where privacy ends and accountability begins, the quantum threat and Zcash adoption.
- USDD: Yvonne Chia, Head of Communication, on whether stablecoins are becoming banks and if decentralization is still the point
- Sonic: Matt Visser, CEO, on what actually makes a blockchain valuable when every L1 is fast now
You can watch all the interviews on ChangeNOW YouTube channel.
Singapore Crypto Conference: Behind the Scenes
And behind the scenes ChangeNOW Head of Growth & Director of Strategic Partnerships unboxing merch from the other projects. Like kids on Christmas eve :)
Cool Story of the Day
Our Head of Growth, Tim Stanyakin was going places. Like really cool places.
He got to attend an exclusive, closed-door preview of the mind-blowing Ferrari Luce, and let’s just say we’ve never been more jealous of his calendar.
Tim spent the day getting up close and personal with this absolute masterpiece, and he's still raving about it. Take a look for yourself.
A closed-door look at the Ferrari Luce
The sheer level of innovation, futuristic tech, and boundary-pushing design was just unreal. Ferrari is genuinely building the future of automotive greatness. Let's just say we’re already trying to figure out if we can expense one for "business growth" purposes.
Tim’s day didn't stop there. He also caught up with Garen Mehrabian, Co-Founder and COO of Public Masterpiece , an exciting RWA project. They dove deep into tokenization, art, the tokenization of art, and everything in between.
Fun Fact Of the Day
Side events, fully booked
The side events we hosted at The Garden Room and the Republic bar were entirely booked out. We had to do some quick on-the-spot improvising to make it work, which gave us a very valuable takeaway for next year: we are going to need much bigger venues.
But man, what a way to end the day. Going straight from the bustling ChangeNOW booth to the Flower Dome at Gardens by the Bay for our side event, co-hosted with Paybis and INPUT, was surreal.
We brought founders, investors, and Web3 leaders together for a quieter kind of evening. Just good people and meaningful conversations to cap off the bustle.
Token2049: Wrapping Up
And just like that, it was the last day of this absolutely stellar event. We’ve met, talked to, and (not gonna lie) shared a few drinks with an incredible crowd of CEOs, founders, developers, and builders.
So, what is next on the agenda? A massive rollout of post-Token2049 materials.
Keep an eye out for upcoming articles and posts loaded with hard numbers, key takeaways, and insider quotes. We have so much ground to cover, we just need a quick minute to recover first because, boy oh boy, what an unbelievable week it has been.
