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My New Role, and the Essential Web3 Course for Enterprises

許明恩

許明恩

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My New Role, and the Essential Web3 Course for Enterprises

GM,

First, an important announcement: Blocktrend’s first in-person event of the year is now open for registration.

Corporate Web3 Essentials: From Beginner to the Negotiation Table

On Friday, March 6, I’ll be hosting a full-day, corporate-focused Web3 workshop at the GIS NTU Convention Center, limited to 25 participants.

Register here

This course distills content from my years of teaching at banking and financial holding groups, government agencies, and technology companies, along with eight years of hands-on experience writing Blocktrend. After the workshop, each participant will also receive a 1.5-hour one-on-one needs assessment, during which I’ll act as a consultant to help you clarify your challenges and explore possible directions together. The cap of 25 participants is a matter of time—between ongoing research, writing, and family commitments, I can only provide in-depth, hands-on support to a limited number of companies.

Although this is Blocktrend’s first self-hosted workshop, over the past seven years I’ve delivered hundreds of talks, with an average satisfaction rating of 4.9 / 5. The course also includes a one-year Blocktrend subscription. My hope is that participants gain not just one-off knowledge, but the ability to continuously track industry trends—and have someone to turn to when real-world issues arise.

If your company is evaluating Web3, or looking to strengthen the fundamentals of your partners, this course is the best point of entry. I will personally teach the entire program to ensure quality, connecting concepts and real-world applications in one coherent framework. As for why I’m launching this course—it has to do with my new role.

My New Role

At the end of 2025, I was invited to serve as an independent director of Fusheng Digital, a subsidiary of Taiwan Mobile. Under Fusheng Digital, the TWEX exchange was launched on Pizza Day last year, marking the first time Taiwan’s telecommunications industry has entered the exchange business. At the same time, I’m about to join Fluidkey, an on-chain privacy tool, as an advisor—helping with its Taiwan market strategy and the search for its first local partner.

The market has been quietly shifting in 2026. In the past, cryptocurrencies were largely a matter of personal investment or hobby, with companies and governments still on the sidelines. But after Blocktrend opened corporate subscriptions last year, Taiwan Mobile and Cathay Financial Holding joined in succession. This reflects a shift from experimentation to a genuine intent to roll up sleeves and do business.

To preserve my editorial independence, I had deliberately kept a distance from corporations. This year, however, I saw Taiwan Mobile’s ambition to bring Web3 into everyday life, and at the same time encountered Fluidkey, a startup whose vision closely aligns with mine and that aims to take root in Taiwan. As a result, I decided to move from “conflict avoidance” to full disclosure and hands-on participation. This allows me to support like-minded teams while bringing frontline, real-world perspectives back to Blocktrend.

That led me to ask: since I’ve already been teaching on the front lines to companies and government agencies, why not go one step further and offer a complete set of services? Looking back, my past research, analysis, and recommendations have actually become the reason for launching this course—rather than writing post hoc warnings, it’s better to get involved earlier and help everyone avoid unnecessary detours.

The Best Timing

Recently, I’ve been reviewing the 2025 content satisfaction survey. Several readers independently mentioned that opportunities for retail participants have shrunk significantly, making crypto feel even further removed from daily life. I’ve observed the same trend myself: compared with a few years ago, Blocktrend’s content now focuses less on immediately actionable DeFi or NFT tools, and more on enterprise applications and infrastructure.

Mechanism innovation is fascinating, but the real test is whether it can survive. Many well-designed products fail because most market participants chase short-term returns. Fluctuations in Blocktrend subscriptions have often tracked market cycles as well. Expanding into enterprise services is therefore a necessary pivot—extending from existing content and trust to provide exactly what companies now need: onboarding and long-term accompaniment.

Three years ago, when I gave talks at universities, students would still ask, “How do you get a job in crypto?” I always felt awkward. On one hand, I wanted to be encouraging; on the other, I couldn’t honestly point to real demand beyond exchanges. Today, as companies steadily enter the space, the talent gap is bound to widen. The best time to get involved was three years ago—the second best time is now:

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