Tether and Bitqik Launch Digital Asset Education Program in Laos - Crypto Giants Target Southeast Asia’s Next Frontier
Tether and Bitqik just dropped a new playbook in Laos—and it's not about mining or trading. It's about teaching.
Why Laos? The Unlikely Crypto Classroom
Forget Silicon Valley or Singapore. The latest digital asset education push is targeting Southeast Asia's emerging markets. Laos, with its evolving regulatory landscape and growing tech adoption, presents a fertile—if unexpected—ground for foundational crypto knowledge. The move signals a strategic pivot: building markets from the ground up, one educated user at a time.
Education as Infrastructure
This isn't just philanthropy with a blockchain badge. Think of it as laying digital rails. By educating local businesses, developers, and even regulators on stablecoins, DeFi mechanics, and asset tokenization, Tether and Bitqik aren't just creating users—they're building the operational and intellectual framework for a future crypto economy. It's a long-game investment in human capital, where the dividend is adoption.
The Real Bet: Beyond the Bull Run
The program cuts straight to the industry's Achilles' heel: widespread misunderstanding. It bypasses the hype cycle to address practical use—how digital assets work in remittances, SME finance, and cross-border trade. The goal? To make crypto boringly useful before the next wave of speculative fervor hits. Because let's be honest, nothing terrifies a traditional finance suit more than a population that understands the system better than they do—except maybe a crashing bond market.
The Bottom Line
While Wall Street debates ETFs and rate cuts, the real expansion is happening in places like Laos. This education initiative is a calculated bet that the next phase of crypto growth won't be driven by leverage and memes, but by utility and literacy. It's a refreshing, albeit cynical, acknowledgment: you can't bank the unbanked if they don't know what a bank is.
Tether and Bitqik foster widespread adoption of cryptocurrency among individuals
Regarding Tether and Bitqik’s education program, sources familiar with the situation who wished to remain anonymous due to the confidential nature of the matter mentioned that the initiative will offer online resources and host live, face-to-face gatherings in key cities to share knowledge on the practical uses of cryptocurrencies such as stablecoins and the blockchain technology, particularly USDT to individuals of all walks of life.
By the end of this move, the two partners aim to engage more than 10,000 individuals, encouraging the adoption of digital assets among communities and students as their preferred payment method.
In a statement, Virasack Viravong, the CEO of Bitqik, asserted that this partnership is a game-changer for the people of Laos as it will improve digital asset education in the Asian country via the Bitqik Academy.
Some of the topics set to be covered in this initiative include learning activities focused on blockchain technology, investing in Bitcoin, and using stablecoins, enabling a large number of individuals interested in cryptocurrencies to access digital assets throughout the coming year.
Cryptocurrencies set to conquer the traditional correspondent banking networks
As cryptocurrencies become more popular among individuals, reports highlighted that, apart from Tether and Bitqik, Coins.ph, the leading and most established cryptocurrency exchange and mobile wallet platform in the Philippines, launched a significant educational campaign to help several Filipinos lower their remittance costs towards the end of last year.
This education program is set to take effect from late 2025 to the second quarter of 2026. The initiative will cover topics, particularly remittances and payments, and will include a Polkadot Stablecoin Adoption Program that provides new users with a one-time reward. Notably, this program focuses on areas with large numbers of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), such as Metro Manila, CALABARZON, and Central Luzon.
The educational effort was initiated following the Polkadot Asset Hub upgrade. This upgrade has played a crucial role in enhancing Coins.ph’s ability to manage cross-border transactions. With the Polkadot Asset Hub, designed to facilitate stablecoin movement, users on the cryptocurrency exchange Coins.ph can easily send, receive, and transfer popular stablecoins such as USDT and USDC faster and at a lower cost, without delays.
Meanwhile, it is worth noting that Coins.ph is capitalizing on a worldwide trend in which stablecoins are swiftly positioning themselves as cost-efficient alternatives to traditional correspondent banking networks.
Following this finding, sources noted that stablecoins are expected to account for about 23% of global remittance flows.
Moreover, analysts predicted that this cryptocurrency WOULD reach a new all-time high of $250 billion in remittance volume, supported by stablecoins for Asia, by 2028. With this projected, massive shift in financial infrastructure, Coins.ph seeks to establish the Philippines as a leading digital finance hub.
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