Coinfest Asia 2025

Coinfest Asia 2025

Starke Finance attended Coinfest Asia in Bali, one of the world’s largest Web3 events where digital assets and Real-World Asset tokenization were featured prominently.

With more than 200 side events hosted across the island of Bali, Indonesia built on the enormous success of 2024 with more than 10,000 attendees, supported by industry heavyweights such as Binance, ByBit, CoinW, Fireblocks and Ripple. With many of the world’s top KOLs and traders in attendance, Starke Finance made in-roads with several local and global projects who were eager to learn about our suite of Web3 investment products.

Starke’s upcoming Blue Chip Fund was a hot topic of interest, our digital asset fund that combines cryptocurrencies, RWAs, and tokenized shares under the guidance of a singular investment strategy for accredited investors in the United States. This multi-asset investment instrument gives the best of all worlds: instead of separate accounts being held by investors for digital assets and traditional stocks, Starke’s Blue Chip Fund will combine these in order to grant exposure to both DeFi and TradFi simultaneously.

The push towards RWAs to be included on the blockchain was a hot topic at this week’s conference. From real estate to coffee, gold to precious gemstones, commodities that trade on traditional markets are seeing increasing demand for blockchain twins that would allow for 24/7 tradable markets, increased geographic investment access, fractional investment opportunities, near-instant trade settlement, and buy-and-sell price data that is open and transparent, leading to greater trust in the market.

Key takeaways from Coinfest Asia 2025 include:

• RWAs are pushing beyond theory and into reality, with the next step being seamless access for investors looking to trade these traditional assets with all of the benefits of decentralized finance.

• Centralized Exchanges are hungrier than ever for new investment instruments: With bot trading, copy trading, and launch pads increasing in popularity, token listings are a clear demand activity from the CEX side as new projects and memecoins continue to grow in popularity.

• Memecoins have staying power: From Pepe to Kokok The Roach, the Internet remains undefeated. Existing or planned future use cases aside, memecoin mania appears to be evolving into a much more serious domain as it pertains to marketing, events, and international road shows. Entire subcultures are being built around these tokens, and thus, Starke Finance will include vetted memecoins in its future Culture Fund to take advantage of potential investment upswings.

• Indonesia has a thriving blockchain ecosystem: From local grassroots projects in Jakarta and Java, to remote-first companies setting up employees in Bali, Indonesia has one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic Web3 scenes, one that moves at rapid pace, and is culturally home to passionate builders with support from the Indonesian government. In fact, the Indonesian government is currently considering adding Bitcoin to its national reserves.

Starke Finance representatives participated not only in panels and networking events, but in APAC media that had flown-in specifically for the event. Global Marketing Director, Anthony Karakai, discussed a wide-range of topics, from building a startup in stealth, to merging the best of DeFi and TradFi to deliver a seamless trading experience to investors looking for digital asset exposure. Interviews took place with journalists from BitPinas, one of the leading crypto news publications from the Philippines, and CoinsCapture, the online news portal and marketplace data aggregation platform.

With Indonesia being the third-fastest growing country for crypto adoption globally, and number one for total DeFi value received (Chainalysis, 2024), Bali played the perfect host for Coinfest Asia as a destination that both qualitatively and quantitatively, has proven itself to be a thriving hub for the international Web3 community.

In 2025, Starke Finance has taken strides in expanding its global footprint in-person at the industry’s most prominent events, showing that we take our unique position and value proposition in the space seriously. On the circuit, major players are beginning to recognize who we are and what we do, and as the bridge between DeFi and TradFi, we look forward to the launch of our Blue Chip Fund in Q4, 2025, while expanding access to our institutional-grade Solana validator.