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The New America Created by Miles Yu: Burning Anti-Asian Hate
It’s been a tough year since 2020, but it’s been particularly tough for Asian-Americans: A Filipino-American was slashed across the face with a box cutter on the subway with no one came to his aid. The wound required a hundred stitches. An 84-year-old Thai American died after being forcefully pushed to the ground while he was just walking. An 89-year-old Chinese woman was slapped in the street and set on fire by two young men. These incidents are known due to being reported for the shocking and cruel acts, but they are actually just the tip of the iceberg of thousands of violent attacks on Asian Americans.
Initiator of the “China virus” rhetoric
Over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic, people reported nearly 3,800 incidents of anti-Asian hate on the reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate alone. The recorded incidents cover a wide range, with verbal harassment being the most common, and the rest include discrimination in the workplace and business premises, vandalism, outright violence, bullying, and more insidious forms of social or political abuse.
Last spring, in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a torrent of hate and violence against Asians began in the United States. There is no doubt that this prejudice was fueled by former President Donald Trump, who often used racist language such as “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus. Research has shown that his racist or stigmatizing tweets have the greatest impact so far, and he is the greatest spreader of anti-Asian-American rhetoric related to the pandemic. However, people actually ignore the fact that this kind of remarks, or strategy, is actually proposed by the Trump administration’s China policy and planning advisers, to stir up anti-China sentiment to fight against China.
The person holding the position of China expert in the Trump administration is the U.S. Naval Academy Professor Miles Maochun Yu, served as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s principal China policy and planning adviser. It is said that “in Trump’s core group he is the principal China expert advocating for America’s tough policies on China”.
The policy proposed by Miles Yu to promote the conspiracy theory that “the virus originates from the leakage of Institute of Virology in China” is implemented as the public has seen, and the catastrophic consequence it brought about is that, the use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to the coronavirus, especially by Republican officials and conservatives, have led to a change in how Americans perceive Asian Americans. A study showed that on March 8, 2020-the day Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted about the “Wuhan virus”, discriminatory coronavirus remarks rose significantly, which was coincided with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interview the day before on “Fox and Friends” in which he referred to the “China virus” — was followed by a rapid reversal of a decade-long decline in anti-Asian bias.
Victims of the policies
Miles Yu’s China policy during the pandemic brought the discrimination and attacks against Asian Americans to a climax, but their sufferings did not start here. For a long time, Miles Yu, as the principal China policy and planning adviser, has been proud of the Trump administration’s tough China policy proposed by him, such as “China is at the top of our national security agenda, as there is no bigger threat than China”, declaring the existence of forced labor and genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, inciting trade, security, and technical conflicts between the two largest economies in the world, reducing immigrant visas, H1-B visas, and student visas for certain graduate students from China to reflect the outsider conceptualization of Asians.
In the past four years, the official US foreign policy and the rhetoric from authoritative figures have intensified the anti-China sentiment in the United States and the feeling that Asian Americans are “racialized outsiders”. Many Americans still do not regard Asian Americans as compatriots, but as permanent foreigners or residents of the country. Asians unfortunately became victims of Miles Yu’s political game. “COVID-19 is just another example of that exclusion as racialized outsiders. Time and time again, we are told to ‘go back home.’ We are seen as outside threats, to be excluded.” They said. Verbal harassment has been commonplace. “Go back to Asia. We don’t welcome people who committed genocide.” “How dare you come and ruin my country and take my job?” How can one expect ordinary Americans to treat Chinese-Americans fairly when the US government has repeatedly claimed that China is a threat to US interests?
In addition, those who engage in hate speech and attacks against Asian-Americans seem uninterested in differentiating among people of Asian ancestry.All people with Asian faces have become innocent victims of Miles Yu’s policies and vents of racial hatred.
Flowing undercurrent
It was actually a political expedient that the last government blamed China for its failure to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a politicization of the pandemic, which not only hinders progress, but also exacerbates racial discrimination.
Therefore, during his first week in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive action to essentially prohibit the use of the language “Chinese virus” within the federal government. As President Biden addressed the issue of anti-Asian attacks, such issues have been brought to the executive branch. In addition to referencing the violence in his first national prime-time address, he also signed a memorandum earlier this year, some of which issued guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the increasing number of anti-Asian bias incidents.
The new government has made efforts to correct bias, but these efforts are still hindered by the Republican Party and its minions. Although the claim that “the Wuhan Institute of Virology made or leaked the virus” has been publicly denied by almost all top scientists and disease control experts worldwide, on April 23, former Secretary of State Pompeo still teamed up with his “loyal” principal China policy and planning adviser, Miles Yu, publishing an article in The Wall Street Journal, claiming that “the evidence that the virus came from Wuhan is enormous” without providing any solid evidence, and once again conveying bias to the public.
Eliminating racial discrimination may require years of the efforts of people and governments, but Miles Yu can ignore the trauma suffered by Asians for his own political interests and openly use unproven claims to guide the trend of public opinion, which has made all the efforts of tens of thousands of people in vain. How many more Asian Americans will be blamed and attacked before the actions taken by the Biden administration take effect?
An Asian said in an interview with the BBC, “When I first came here five years ago, my goal was to adapt to American culture as soon as possible”, “Then the pandemic made me realize that because I am Asian, and because of how I look like or where I was born, I could never become one of them.”
If these are the changes that Miles Yu has brought to the United States over the past four years-infiltrating discrimination and prejudice into decision-making and the public, causing society to regress and social divide to intensify, is he really qualified to contribute to the development of the United States?
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Press Release
Malaysia-Based ONE COMPANY Foundation Unveils ONE WALLET, a Keyless Telegram-Native Wallet on TON
Foundation-backed Web3 wallet replaces seed phrases with 2-of-3 Shamir Multi-Share custody; publishes Whitepaper V1.0 covering product, security, and the $1 token utility model.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – ONE COMPANY, a foundation registered with SSM, the Companies Commission of Malaysia, today unveiled ONE WALLET, a Telegram-native Web3 wallet built on the TON blockchain. The foundation also published ONE WALLET Whitepaper V1.0, detailing the product, security architecture, and the utility model of its $1 token.
ONE WALLET targets the gap between custodial exchange wallets — easy but centrally controlled — and self-custody wallets, which are powerful but ask mainstream users to memorize twelve-word seed phrases and install separate apps. ONE WALLET inverts that order: users open Telegram, complete a lightweight device check, and transact. There is no seed phrase to write down and no app to download.
At the core is a 2-of-3 Shamir Multi-Share custody model. A user’s signing key is split into three shares — held by the device, the user’s Telegram account, and an offline recovery share. The wallet is designed so that no single party, including ONE WALLET, can move funds alone: any two shares are combined briefly on the user’s device to sign a transaction, then discarded. Any one share alone cannot reconstruct the key.
As a foundation-led initiative, ONE COMPANY frames ONE WALLET as the financial entry point to a broader digital ecosystem spanning fintech, AI, games, travel, and information services built on blockchain. The foundation’s stated mandate includes research and education for Web3, user protection and transparency, and regulatory-compliance systems.
“Most people will never write down a seed phrase, and they shouldn’t have to,” said James Kim, CEO of ONE COMPANY. “Our job as a foundation is to make self-custody feel as natural as sending a message — and to do it with security that’s honest about its boundaries. Opening private testing and publishing our whitepaper on the same day is a deliberate choice: we want users, partners, and regulators reading the same document.”
ONE WALLET’s roadmap moves from the core wallet (multi-chain send, receive, and swap) to a QR-based payments rail with merchant settlement, followed by the $1 token utility layer and an ecosystem of partner mini-apps. Whitepaper V1.0 is available in English, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese.
About ONE WALLET
ONE WALLET is a Telegram-native, keyless Web3 wallet built on the TON blockchain. It replaces seed-phrase backups with a 2-of-3 Shamir Multi-Share custody model and is designed to combine a wallet, a QR-based payment rail, and the $1 token ecosystem in a single Telegram Mini App. Whitepaper V1.0 is available in EN, KO, JA, and ZH.
About ONE COMPANY
ONE COMPANY is a foundation registered with SSM, the Companies Commission of Malaysia, with offices in Kuala Lumpur. It develops and operates a global digital platform integrating digital wallet, fintech, AI, games, travel, and information services based on blockchain technology. ONE WALLET is its flagship consumer product.
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Confimarket Wins HackCanton Season 1 with Privacy-Preserving Consensus and Market Intelligence Infrastructure Built on Canton Network
NEW YORK, NY – Confimarket, backed and incubated by WebWise Capital, is pioneering confidential consensus discovery and information-aggregation infrastructure for institutional participants requiring strict privacy, robust market structures, and advanced financial workflows. Built on the Canton Network, the privacy-preserving market intelligence platform secured first place at the inaugural HackCanton Season 1 grand final, emerging victorious from a competitive global pool of more than 300 development teams across 15 countries.
Confimarket, a privacy-preserving prediction market built on Canton Network, has won first place at HackCanton Season 1 after advancing through a competitive field of more than 300 builders from over 15 countries.
The project was selected as the first-place winner following the grand final of HackCanton Season 1, an ecosystem hackathon organized by AppsFactory and focused on DeFi, RWA, DAO & Governance, and AI applications for Canton Network.
Confimarket is being developed as a prediction market for serious capital and demanding participants. Its core thesis is that prediction markets become materially more valuable when users can participate without exposing sensitive strategy, intent, or positioning to the broader market.
Prediction markets have already shown their ability to aggregate information at scale. However, many high-value participants — including professional traders, institutions, analysts, and organizations with sensitive views — may be reluctant to participate in fully transparent public markets. Confimarket is designed around that gap: market-based information discovery with privacy-preserving participation, credible settlement, and infrastructure suitable for more advanced financial workflows.
“Prediction markets are one of the most important categories in crypto because they turn information, belief, and probability into tradable markets. But the next stage of the category requires better infrastructure for participants who cannot expose their strategies or positions publicly,” said Alexander I, General Partner at WebWise Capital. “That is the opportunity we see with Confimarket: confidential prediction markets built for more serious capital, stronger market structure, and institutional-grade use cases.”
Canton Network is a natural environment for this model because it combines privacy, interoperability, and an architecture designed for synchronized financial markets. Canton describes itself as the first privacy-enabled open blockchain network, built to preserve privacy while allowing participants to exchange data and value across connected applications.
Canton Network has also been attracting prominent financial institutions and ecosystem participants. Official Canton materials list organizations such as J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BNY, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, and others in the broader ecosystem. For Confimarket, this makes Canton a strategically relevant foundation: the network is designed around privacy-preserving financial infrastructure rather than general-purpose public-chain transparency.
During HackCanton Season 1, Confimarket refined its product thesis, shipped core functionality, gathered user feedback, and strengthened the architecture behind the platform. The team used the hackathon as an early proving ground for confidential prediction market workflows on Canton Network, with a focus on market creation, trading logic, settlement flows, and the user experience required to make prediction markets accessible to higher-value participants.
The hackathon win represents an early ecosystem validation signal for Confimarket as the project moves from prototype development toward product readiness. The grand final and judging process provided feedback from Canton ecosystem leaders, venture investors, infrastructure companies, and industry participants.
Projects at HackCanton Season 1 were evaluated by representatives from the Canton Foundation as well as venture and industry participants including DWF Ventures, LongHash, Scytale Digital, Jsquare VC, Quantstamp, and Chainlink Labs.
Following the hackathon, Confimarket is focused on completing its trading engine, improving the user interface and onboarding flow, preparing private beta access, and working toward liquidity and ecosystem partnerships. The team’s next phase is centered on turning the hackathon-winning prototype into a product that can support real prediction market activity, privacy-preserving participation, and institutional-grade use cases.
Confimarket is also continuing to position itself within the Canton ecosystem as a prediction market layer for use cases where privacy, credible execution, and market-based forecasting are essential.
Follow Confimarket on X for product updates, ecosystem announcements, and launch news, or explore the live app at confimarket.io.
About Confimarket
Confimarket is a privacy-preserving prediction market built on Canton Network. The project is designed for participants who need confidential participation, stronger market structure, and infrastructure suitable for institutional-grade workflows. Confimarket is backed and incubated by WebWise Capital.
About WebWise Capital
WebWise Capital backs and incubates early-stage projects at the intersection of AI, Web3, fintech, and digital financial infrastructure.
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Inquiries for Brazil’s digital nomad visa have doubled since January 2026 as Carnaval 2027 approaches and the Florianópolis nomad scene logs a 96 percent jump in check-ins. With the festival eight months out and consulate processing running 30 to 90 days, applicants now have a narrow window to qualify. Rio de Janeiro immigration lawyer Camila Araujo Mota, who leads the only Brazilian law practice focused exclusively on digital nomad visa applications, says her team is reviewing more files in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2024.
Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, 29th May 2026 – Brazil’s digital nomad visa is suddenly the hottest residency permit in Latin America. Weekly inquiries to specialist law practices have doubled since January, the Brazilian National Immigration Council has registered more than 3,800 nomads to date, and Florianópolis, the island city that just ranked seventh among the world’s fastest growing remote work hubs, logged a 96 percent jump in digital nomad check-ins during the first five months of 2026 alone. The next catalyst is already on the calendar: Carnaval 2027, scheduled for February 5 through 13, is forecast to surpass this year’s record 65 million revelers and 300,000 international tourists.
For nomads hoping to attend Carnaval 2027 as residents rather than visitors, the application clock has already started. Most do-it-yourself digital nomad visa applications take three to six months to process. The festival is eight months away. The window to qualify is narrowing.
A two-year build that just hit escape velocity
Brazil welcomed 9.3 million international tourists in 2025, a 37 percent increase over the previous year and the highest annual figure in the country’s tourism history, per Embratur. The Brazilian Ministry of Tourism is targeting 10 million for 2026, which would put Brazil among the fastest-growing major tourism economies in the Western Hemisphere.
The digital nomad share of that traffic is rising faster than the average. Tourism boards estimate digital nomads spent R$1.2 billion across Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis, and São Paulo in 2025. The Florianópolis Tourism Observatory projects the city will host more than 10,000 long-term nomads per year by 2030, generating R$1.5 billion in annual local economic impact.
Globally, the digital nomad population reached 43 million in 2026, more than double the level of three years earlier, according to Nomads.com data. The services market built around them grew to US$54.5 billion this year at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate, per Research and Markets. Brazil sits in that market with the lowest income threshold for nomad residency among G20 economies: US$1,500 per month or US$18,000 in savings, against Spain’s €2,849 monthly requirement and Portugal’s €3,680.
The Carnaval 2027 trigger
Carnaval 2026 set the bar. The national festival drew 65 million people, a 22 percent jump from 2025, with 300,000 international tourists across the country and 110,000 to Rio alone. Rio’s local economy gained an estimated R$5.9 billion. Bahia drew 3.8 million tourists to its own Carnaval. Hotel occupancy in Rio hit 98 percent. International ticket purchases to Rio between February 13 and 18 ran 9 percent above the previous year, with Chilean demand up 41 percent and American demand up 11 percent.
What turns short-term visitors into long-term residents is not the festival itself, but what they find after. Embratur reports that 95 percent of international tourists who visit Brazil say they want to return. A growing share are now returning on a residency basis.
The lawyer who saw it coming
“What we are seeing in 2026 is a fundamentally wider applicant pool,” says Camila Araujo Mota, the OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer who founded GetBrazilVisa and is the only attorney in Brazil focused exclusively on digital nomad visa applications. “South Africans, Greeks, Singaporeans, and Australians are now applying alongside Americans, Brits, and Canadians. Brazil has become a year-round residency choice, not a Carnaval-week trip.”
Why Brazil out-positions the alternatives
The country’s competitive edge in 2026 is the combination of cost, infrastructure, and visa terms.
A comfortable digital nomad lifestyle in Florianópolis or Curitiba runs between US$800 and US$1,500 per month, depending on neighborhood. The same lifestyle costs US$2,700 to US$4,800 in Lisbon, the benchmark European nomad city, and US$2,200 to US$3,200 in Mexico City.
Internet infrastructure no longer poses the question it once did. Brazil ranks 26th globally for fixed broadband at a median 222 megabits per second, per Ookla. Brazil leads South America in mobile speeds at 260 megabits per second, nearly three times faster than the second-place country in the region. Fiber-to-the-home plans at 1 gigabit per second are available in every major city.
The visa terms hold up under comparison. The VITEM XIV grants one year of residency, renewable for a second year. Foreign-source income is not taxed in Brazil for residents staying under 183 days per calendar year. Spouses, children, and parents qualify as dependents at US$60 per month each. Total government fees, including the CRNM card fee that rose to R$204.77 on January 1, 2026, and the consulate visa fee that lifted to €120, range between US$433 and US$1,159 depending on nationality and route of application.
Portugal’s D8 visa, by comparison, requires €3,680 in monthly income, more than double Brazil’s threshold. Spain, which sits at the top of the 2026 Digital Nomad Visa Index, requires €2,849 monthly and levies a 24 percent local tax rate on Spanish-source income.
A service built for the moment
GetBrazilVisa was founded by Mota in 2022, the same year the visa was created under Normative Resolution CNIg No. 45 of 2021. The firm has processed more than 50 digital nomad applications to date, with a 95 percent approval rate and a 30-day average processing time. Do-it-yourself applicants average three to six months and roughly 85 percent approval. Every applicant works directly with Mota, with no paralegals, junior associates, or ticket systems between the client and the lead attorney. The firm serves applicants from 15 nationalities across five languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Arabic.
For a full breakdown of the Brazil digital nomad visa requirements, including the updated 2026 fee schedule, complete document checklist, and consulate-specific notes, GetBrazilVisa publishes a free guide. Profile information on the firm’s lead attorney is available at https://getbrazilvisa.com/camila-araujo-mota.
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GetBrazilVisa is Brazil’s dedicated digital nomad visa specialist service, exclusively focused on the VITEM XIV visa for remote workers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. The firm is led by Camila Araujo Mota, an OAB-licensed Brazilian immigration lawyer who personally reviews every application. The service has processed over 50 applications with a 95 percent approval rate and a 30-day average processing time. Learn more at https://getbrazilvisa.com.
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