TechNode Global Staff

Animoca Brands’ Torque Drift 2 partners with Konig to bring out interoperable NFTs across three titles

Grease Monkey Games, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based gaming firm Animoca Brands and the creator of the popular Torque Motorsports series, has partnered with Konig to introduce the first-ever interoperable wheel non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to Torque Drift 2 and other games in the Torque Motorsport games franchise in the second half of this year.

Hong Kong’s Pantheon Lab completes seed round funding; seals partnership with New World Group

Pantheon Lab, a Hong Kong startup that specializes in creating digital humans with artificial intelligence (AI) technology to serve a plethora of industries, announced Tuesday that it has completed latest seed round of funding.

Singapore’s PropTech firm Ohmyhome debuts on NASDAQ

Ohmyhome Limited, a data-driven property technology company based in Singapore, has announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 3.78 million ordinary shares at a price of $4.00 per share.

Singapore’s Carro to give away a brand-new Hyundai IONIQ 5 EV

Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro is giving away a brand-new, made-in-Singapore Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric vehicle.

GSM invests in Be Group to expand electric car services in Vietnam

Green and Smart Mobility Joint Stock Company (GSM), a company founded by the owner of Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast, and Be Group, a Vietnamese technology company, have signed an investment and cooperation agreement to deploy electric cars and motorbikes in transportation services in Vietnam for the first time.

Animoca Brands and Hex Trust launch NFT-centric custodial wallet joint venture

Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based gaming firm, and Hex Trust, an institutional-grade digital asset custodian, have announced the public launch of Gryfyn. Gryfyn is a joint venture to provide an innovative custodial wallet solution focused on onboarding users to Web3.

Capital Markets Malaysia launches Corporate Venture Capital Program to advance local ecosystem

Capital Markets Malaysia (CMM), an affiliate of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), has on Tuesday launched the nation’s first Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Programm to advance the domestic venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) ecosystem by stimulating corporate investments by larger public listed companies (PLCs)

Indonesian insurtech Fuse achieves more than $200M gross written premium in 2022

Indonesian insurtech company Fuse announced Tuesday that it achieved more than 150 million policies in 2022, with gross written premium (GWP) exceeding $200 million.

Auros completes $17M fundraising round led by Vivienne Court

Auros, a Hong Kong-based crypto-native algorithmic trading and market making firm, has raised $17 million in a funding round led by global high frequency trading firm, Vivienne Court.

Malaysia’s Khazanah anticipates another challenging year ahead

Malaysian sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) is anticiping another challenging year ahead of below trend global growth on the back of monetary policy shift to combat inflation, and persistent geopolitical tensions.