Powering Southeast Asia’s Digital Future

Published jointly by SCBX and Hashed Open Research following SEABW 2026—Southeast Asia’s flagship blockchain conference—this report covers essential takeaways from an exclusive, closed-door roundtable with key global institutions.

Decentralized prediction markets are not merely online betting venues. The more widely their prices come to be used as a reference point for societal judgment, the greater the trust and accountability demanded of the market structures and resolution mechanisms that form those prices. We examine both the potential and the risks of decentralized prediction markets.

At the ‘Web3 Leaders Roundtable’ held during “Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) 2025,” institutions that shape global capital and norms — including BlackRock, Circle, Tether, and the European Commission — gathered to consider the conditions for the coming machine economy and autonomous finance. We share the outcomes of the discussions held at the roundtable.

This piece synthesizes the key arguments from the seminar “Strategies for Collaboration and Expansion Between DeFi and Traditional Finance — A Vision for the Hybrid Finance Era,” co-hosted by Hashed Open Research, KODA, and Hashed, to outline a design direction for the future financial system.