Crypto OGs Are Investing in Transhumanism

TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 · 8 Oct 2026 · 15:40

Herbert Sim, who calls himself the Bitcoin man, argues that early crypto investors are moving into transhumanism, which he describes as transcending humanity through technology. He points to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) such as Neuralink and Synchron, gene editing with CRISPR and longevity research, and names crypto figures he links to the field, including Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson and Yat Siu, along with Colossal Biosciences, which he says has revived dire wolves. He predicts the sector becomes a mega trend within six months to a year. He closes on what he calls human sovereignty, asking who owns the data a brain implant collects and warning that rights must be settled before big tech repeats what happened with social media.

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My name is Herbert Sim. I am the Bitcoin man. Uh so, I've been the Bitcoin man for the past uh since 2016. So, up-to-date, it's already 10 years. One full decade already. Uh so, I've been in crypto actually since 2010, right? 16 years ago. I founded the world's first repository for compiling blockchain research papers. Okay, it's called Crypto Chain Uni. A lot of these early days cypherpunks will remember me as well because I was one of the loudest guys like this marketing Bitcoin as well, right? Uh so, today I want to talk to you a very very special topic that you cannot hear anywhere else

in the world for fintech industry, right? Not even on the main stages, you will not hear this because this is very very insider news. Okay, so, the topic today is all the crypto OGs, okay? I would know it best because I'm a crypto OG myself, okay? Are all investing in transhumanism. Okay, I'm talking about uh the likes of Neuralink of Elon Musk, okay? I'm talking about Colossal Biosciences whereby they revive ancient dinosaurs, okay?

Okay, so, uh just a quick introduction again. Um I've been on uh crypto for the past 16 years up-to-date. Formally, I was the global operations director at Huobi. Today is renamed to HTX. So, I was the guy that actually the core team that brought uh them out from China into Singapore. We raised 400 million in 13 seconds uh creating the ICO boom in December 2017. Uh so, I have always been a researcher myself.

I'm very very deep into transhumanism. You can see that it's actually registered in 1997. Okay, I'm also behind Neuralink, which is uh neuralink.com, which is registered 17 years before Elon Musk even registered Neuralink. Okay? Uh so, I've been ahead of the game uh like from crypto and transhumanism as well. Okay, so like I mentioned earlier, because I've been in the space for some time now. Uh so, I had a head start 16 years and push um you know, the branding of Bitcoin globally. So, up to date um I have over 10 million subscribers. Less than uh like I celebrated this about 4 months

ago in May. Uh featured on L and many more magazines as well. Uh so, transhumanism um it's a maybe a new topic for you, but it's been well discussed all over the world on the top elite platforms like World Economic Forum and more. Okay? People like Klaus Schwab, the chairman, from Yuval Noah Harari are all pushing about transhumanism. So, what exactly is it? It is about transcending humanity through technology and science. Okay?

What am I talking about? I'm talking about having humanity live on for 200, 500 years. Okay? And how do we achieve that? Right? We're going to talk about the likes of genetics technology, where we tweak it with uh CRISPR technology. And the likes of Elon Musk, the Neuralink, right? Whereby you put the computer chip in your brain and you can send your thoughts, beam it onto the computer or even the cloud, the internet. So, right now there's a massive convergence, crypto and human enhancement. You never hear this in anywhere before. Okay? Because if you're Christian or if you're Muslim, you probably heard of

like for the Muslims they will talk about the Mahdi and Christians you talk about the Antichrist, right? In the book of Revelation they talk about the mark of the beast 666 on your forehand and forehead and you cannot buy or sell without this mark, right? And this mark is like a prophecy by the two biggest religions in the world, right? And it's coming very, very soon. All the technologies are here today. Okay? So, you have the likes of even the biggest names like Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum. You can see here there's a picture from 2016 in Consensus in New York.

So, he himself, right? Has already donated a lot of money towards transhumanism specifically in longevity philanthropy, right? And most recently he collaborated with CZ as well. Where CZ actually invested a CZ of Binance he invested into Vitalik's biotech startup. Okay? And you probably heard as well from Tether to BlackRock Neurotech. They are all into neurotechnology. Okay? That is basically brain-computer interface BCI, right? So, there's already $200 million raised. So, you have to see follow the money where all the big money are flowing towards. And

then you'll be able to catch the wave, right? Usually by the time retail hears of it the institutional boys already have their position set. Okay? So, next one this is the most interesting one because this company called Colossal Biosciences they actually revived dinosaurs, okay? From the animals that are already extinct, okay? So, the The of Animoca Brands, okay? Charles Hoskinson of Cardano, there's Draper Associates, Tim Draper, Breaker Capital, all of them have all invested as well.

So, if you follow where the crypto OGs are investing in, that is your next big mega trend. Okay? So, we're talking about the likes of woolly mammoth to dodo bird, right? And more, okay? And right now, the most exciting one is they have already achieved reviving the direwolves, okay? And the direwolves are wolves that are approximately three times bigger than the existing wolf today, okay? If you go to their website, you'll probably see all this as well, okay? So, next one I want to chat about is Charles Hoskinson, you probably heard of Cardano, right?

They themselves as well are pushing towards healthcare, biotech, and strategically backing the industry as well. Okay? And of course, there's Yat Siu, right? The famous Sandbox, Axie Infinity. He [snorts] himself, right? Is backing Colossal Biosciences as well, right? So, the thing now is it's not just concentrate or genetics is separate from crypto. Actually, there's a convergence happening right now. Okay? And of course, there's also Brian Armstrong, one of the biggest guy pushing it as well. Already raised a series B of 1. Like right now, putting a valuation of over a billion dollars,

right? So, the thing now is everybody is running towards transhumanism, and if you haven't already catch wind of this, you need to quickly do DYOR, do your own research. Okay? And obviously, there is Neuralink, okay? Elon Musk is one of the biggest marketer of in the world for this BCI right now. Okay, and it's championing the likes of BCI brain computer interface all this time, right? You probably heard of a patient beaming his thoughts and say I love you to his wife. So, he hasn't spoken a word since birth. So, this are huge breakthroughs happening

right now. And in fact, Elon Musk actually patented the word uh telekinesis and telepathy. Why did he do this patent? Something big is coming soon. What is telekinesis? Okay, I can reach out to the cameras right there and grab it with just my thoughts alone, right? Or I can beam my thoughts to the audience even without opening my mouth. And this is the future of technology, not just crypto out there. Crypto is already here for the past 16 years now, right? 17 years. Now, what is next? And the next is actually BCIs.

So, this is one of my major competitors, uh Synchron. Obviously, they are number two to Neuralink. They are using EEG, whereby it's non-invasive helmets. So, Neuralink has to inject the chip into the human brain, while this one is simply wearing the helmet. You can like connect with the computer itself. So, I mentioned about Neuralink. Okay. And obviously, one of the biggest OG's in the world, right? Is a16z, right?

Their VC fund is very, very big and active in biotech as well. And this is where it's a convergence, not just BCI, but into biotech specifically on genetics. So, we are looking at people, you know, talking about using CRISPR technology to tweak you at the DNA cellular level down, right? Uh to the point that you're a mutant or a superhuman. Okay, uh of of course there's Tim Draper, also like me, uh all dressed up decked out in Bitcoin as well.

And Boost VC, I I can go on more and more about all the VCs that are pouring money into this sector as well, right? And not forgetting there's Sam Altman, right? He himself has a Retro Biosciences company that also already raised a hundred million and more. Okay, this is his personal investment. Can you imagine after making all your money, where you're going to spend it on? For him, he's spending on personal his money is spent on this uh biotech. Okay? And obviously, what is the drivers of investment interest? It's all about the technology maturity, and I foresee it already happening now. The tech is

already mature for consumer mainstream use very, very soon, right? And the availability of capital. And I like I said, capital is already flowing in. And now about the philosophy alignment, I have been at the forefront pushing this philosophy for the past almost 20 30 years up to date. And of course, clinical accountability. Uh I shouldn't talk too much about all this technical stuff. Uh so right now, you can see the funding evidence is evident across the world, okay? From uh the biggest BlackRock, New Limit, Synchron, Neuralink, and more. Neuralink is already in the billions of dollar

evaluation today. Okay? Um and talking about transhumanism again, okay? There's this uh brain computer interface, longevity, genetics engineering, and obviously decentralized science. Okay, these are terms uh that will come up more and more. It will become a mega trend in the next 6 months to a year. So, now uh if you look it up more, you will look up about specifically, I encourage you to talk about uh BCI, you know, research and look up more because any company that is dabbling on this will raise millions very quickly. Right?

In fact, the earliest speaker, right, uh from Firefly as well, talked about brain uh collecting brain data. Okay, so the world entire world is all about the human body itself, right? And the way we connect AI to the human body, it's through the brain. Okay? So, I am the guy that is behind transhumanism.com. My uh theology behind it is about human sovereignty, which means I am championing for your human rights. Okay?

Meaning, okay, example, today uh Elon Musk's Neuralink has all your data. He knows your wife's likes and dislikes, your secret private life. He knows it all. Okay, he knows your password, your bank accounts, everything that you know, he knows. Now, is that right? Is that ethical? And who owns that data? Because his computer hardware is in your brain, right? And he's collecting all that data for whom?

To help you for your convenience, but at the end of the day, who truly owns that data? And can he use that data? Okay? Now, the thing is AI is the one that's running in the background, the software, okay? And now it's collecting all this data from billions of people across the world. What is going to happen then? Do we still have our human right? Okay, and that is I'm the among the loudest champions in the world for this right now because if we do not manage to get this human rights settled, the the dangers of it would be like social media. Okay, it accelerated too fast. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. And the big tech, the big social media platforms, they own your data.

Okay? So now, what happens then? Okay, governments came in too late to regulate the sector. Okay, but now I am ahead of the game now championing for human rights in this specific BCI. And I encourage you to interact with my social media as well to come fight for your right in this world, right? Against the big tech. So I have a lot of frameworks. I'm speaking to academics, professors across the world, but I encourage you to look it up online. Okay? It's about human sovereignty, transhumanism, to neuro-cypherpunkism.

I'm the guy behind cypherpunkism. You you can look it up as well. And I even talk about the likes of what is demonic intelligence, satanic intelligence. Something you've never heard before, probably, right? What exactly is it, right? Like today we're talking about AI, and Trump just announced a change the name to superintelligence, right? What if the SI actually means satanic intelligence, right? Which is actually coined by myself.

Okay. And I'll go on and on. There's a lot of theories to go through, but just to quickly share, actually in the audience here today, there's a neuro-sense company. I'm doing a shout out for them. They are ahead of Neuralink. Neuralink has about 11 patients, but in China they have hundreds of them already. So who is truly ahead of the game, right? It's like China suddenly suckered punch USA deep six suddenly now ahead of the game. Okay? And that's what I'm talking about. So anyway, I've come to the end of the my speech. I love to chat more with you off stage and take a photo. Yeah, thank you everyone.