Leah Callon-Butler

Leah Callon-Butler is the director of Emfarsis, a Web3 investment and advisory firm with special expertise in strategic communications. She is also a board member at the Blockchain Game Alliance. The author holds a number of cryptocurrencies, including Web3 gaming-related tokens such as YGG, RON and SAND, and is an angel investor in 15+ Web3 startups.

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Markets

Some Filipino Merchants Prefer Payment in Axie’s SLP

Hoping to benefit from the success of the blockchain game, merchants in the Philippines are now accepting Axie’s Smooth Love Potion (SLP) token.

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Markets

How Axie Infinity Creates Work in the Metaverse

A cute NFT pet game called Axie Infinity is currently raking in more protocol revenue than Ethereum and Bitcoin. Filipinos are benefitting.

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Finance

Artists Who Now Make a Living Because of NFTs

For artists living in remote parts of the Philippines, the rhetoric of NFT empowerment isn't empty buzzwords.

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Finance

For Filipinos, Axie Infinity Is More Than a Crypto Game

The popular Axie Infinity "play-to-earn" game has a big following in the Philippines. One local innovation: renting NFTs to other players so they can earn too.

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Finance

‘There’s a Sense of Vindication’: A NFT Pioneer Looks to the Future

Yat Siu, who invested in Dapper Labs and OpenSea, says NFTs remind him of the early days of the internet, before centralizing forces emerged.

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Markets

The Pandemic Was Just the Catalyst

Harry Dent predicted 2020's economic upheaval several years in advance. The coronavirus pandemic was just a trigger to a long-term reckoning over public debt, he says.

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Markets

Will the Next M-Pesa Be a Blockchain App?

A contest for inclusive fintech shows the potential for crypto-related tech to help the world's poor, but also how much it still needs to develop.

A Celo user earning with her phone.

Policy

Bitcoin, Mescaline and Parallel Worlds

From conspiracy theories to magical internet money, humans have bought into shared belief systems to make sense of reality.

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Markets

The NFT Game That Makes Cents for Filipinos During COVID

Axie Infinity, a NFT trading game running on Ethereum, has proven a pandemic lifeline for a small community north of Manila.

A collage of people in Nueva Ecija playing Axie (Emfarsis)

Policy

Is Crypto Fintech? It Depends Who You Ask

Crypto is financial technology. But Is it fintech?

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