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Bylines and commentary on positioning, payments and Web3 — plus coverage of the ventures behind the track record.
Bylines & commentary
The Digital Wallet Race Isn’t About UX — It’s About Trust
Apple Pay and Google Pay are winning a features contest that the global data says doesn’t decide the market. What Alipay, WeChat Pay and M-Pesa did instead.
Revolutionizing Industries with Web3
One of eighteen contributors. On why a token that spends like cash reshapes loyalty programmes rather than crypto itself.
25 Most Impactful Branding Decisions That Shaped Early Startup Market Perception
“State the costly problem in plain words.” On cutting a category description down to what it costs a buyer to ignore.
Scaling a Startup: Advice from Experienced Founders
“Clarify the story pre-expansion.” Why every channel you add inherits whatever clarity you already have — scale the sentence before the spend.
Earlier coverage
RAK DAO partners with Phoenix Group and IOPn on $100m Web3 commitment
The six-year partnership with ADX-listed Phoenix Group and the Ras Al Khaimah government free zone, built during my time as co-founder at IOPn.
Leadership Summit 2024: Megavrse bosses to reveal Web3 revolution
Ahead of the Dubai summit, on engaging the leaders shaping how Web3 gets built rather than how it gets described.
AB Majlis: the power of Web3, Dubai’s pivotal role
With Mojtaba Asadian, on the metaverse beyond gaming, Dubai as Web3’s Silicon Valley, and why infrastructure — not hype — is the real blocker.
Metaverse 2.0: where the metaverse meets hyper-reality
Quoted as COO on the Binance NFT land sale and what a hyper-realistic environment changes about who shows up.
Megavrse unleashed: a dive into Web 3.0’s future
Coverage of the Crypto OGs appearance on Binance Live, on community as the thing a Web3 product lives or dies by.
Crypto OGs: the full Binance Live episode
The interview itself — community, the UAE, and what Apple’s Vision Pro was about to change.
Partnership and cross-collaboration
Session contributed to TDeFi’s founder resource library, on structuring Web3 partnerships that survive contact with both sides’ internal politics.
Metaverse as a new home for social media interactions
Long-form interview on building Megaverse, the partnerships with Polygon, Chainlink and Filecoin, and why shipping beat announcing.
Megaverse featured at Manchester United vs. Fulham FC
Pitch-side activation kicking off the Fulham FC partnership at Craven Cottage, running through the rest of the Premier League season.
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