![Tim Ying, GOW Exchange, [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review]](https://bitpinas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019-Blockchain-and-Crypto-Philippines-16-3-768x402.png "Tim Ying, GOW Exchange, [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review] 1")
Tim Ying: What I would personally love to see is more Filipino projects starting to emerge and the nascent Decentralized Finance trend coming to fruition. What is necessary for this to happen, however, is more regulatory clarity and clear taxation guidelines, without which bigger firms will continue to be reluctant to make any major commitment to this space.
![Emerson Fonseca, Paylance and NEM PH, [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review]](https://bitpinas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-Blockchain-and-Crypto-Philippines-10-3-768x402.png "Emerson Fonseca, Paylance and NEM PH, [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review] 2")
Emerson Fonseca: I still personally look forward for more blockchain awareness as well as more mainstream consciousness when it comes to cryptocurrency investing
I believe that the scope and framework for the Philippine Smart Regions are already in place: We have regions that have their economic identity based on geography, abundance of natural resources and their domestic or international export commodities.
![Miguel Cuneta, SCI Ventures [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review]](https://bitpinas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019-Blockchain-and-Crypto-Philippines-16-1-768x402.png "Miguel Cuneta, SCI Ventures [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review] 4")
Miguel Cuneta: I have a multi-year or even multi-decade view of the industry, and I am looking forward to the same thing since I started in 2014, and that’s Bitcoin becoming a global standard for open, transparent, borderless, and censorship-resistant value transfers on a massive scale. We are barely scratching the surface of what is possible.
![Luis Buenaventura, BloomX [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review]](https://bitpinas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Luis-3-1-768x402.png "Luis Buenaventura, BloomX [PH 2019 Crypto & Blockchain Year in Review] 5")
Luis Buenaventura: Our goal is to become the primary liquidity provider in the country in 2020, as we leverage both our license, our engineering capabilities, and our trading experience to invisibly power as many sales channels as possible: OTC, P2P, online retail, cash-to-crypto outlets, you name it.
BIMA previously offer Personal Accident plus Life Insurance exclusively to customers of mobile telco Smart.
These limits are in compliance with the rules set up by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and in compliance with Philippine laws.
Why cash out through LBC? Because there’s a chance that there’s a branch near you.
The partnership enables more physical locations where traders can buy bitcoin personally and at competitive rates.
Blockchain has a broad but very specific application: any situation where multiple parties that don’t trust each other need to transact safely without a middleman.
