We've spent over ten years contributing to communities

From establishing technical user groups and meetups, through to helping institutions develop their own hackathons & communities

 



The Business of Building Blockchain Businesses15th September 2025

R1 has helped many startups over the years. Originally founded to take over the MongoDB related projects we had started working on at Laulima. On occasion, R1 has been hired on a more permanent basis to either help establish an efficient technology team or to temporarily act as one.


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Coaching the Globe to Train15th September 2025

From personal fireside chats to intense deliberating panels and everything in between... Our recent training in Penang where we partnered with Sinegy and Forward College was perhaps one of the most exciting sessions we’ve ever done as it was with students studying computer science. If your organisation could benefit from training or workshops, please read more.


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Automattically biased to Content Management15th September 2025

We have been working with WordPress since 2009. From BackPress to BuddyPress and a host of products and services in between. There’s a reason over 40% of the web continues to use WordPress, and R1 is proud to be one of those reasons! If you’d like to learn more about how we can use WordPress to build practically anything for you, read more.


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Ovi-ous Opportunities with Bitcoin in San Mateo15th June 2025

Having just completed the second batch of the latest Bitcoin accelerator in Silicon Valley, led by industry goliaths such as BoostVC, Draper Associates and Thesis, it’s clear that despite the continuous growing number of blockchains and VC-driven tokenomics - some investors are continuing to focus their resources on the network that started it all.


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Re-Introducing Bitcoin to Developers in Penang15th May 2025

It’s been 13 years now since I started building on the blockchains. What began with Bitcoin and then later Dogecoin was eventually forgotten to the smart contracts in EVM land and beyond. Nonetheless, after all that time and effort I find myself back where I started - building on Bitcoin. We explored this in more detail on the 14th of May at Forward College in Penang


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Sailing to the moon (and back)29th April 2023

It’s been exactly 5 years, 10 months and 34 days - for a total of 2,164 days since I set-out on my personal journey to obtain regulatory approval for the custody of digital assets in Malaysia. I could’ve sailed to the moon and back in less time, and to be honest, it sometimes felt as though I did.


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Applying Islamic Finance to Blockchains18th October 2019

Now that Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple are available to the general public, it’s even more important to understand the intricate differences between the three assets that have now been approved. How does the divergence of technical and economic foundations of these crypto-currencies affect the view of Shariah scholars and their opinions of blockchains as a whole?


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WTF is BloqVerse?14th April 2019

With the new website for bloqverse having recently been launched, it’s time to slowly retreat from our stealth mode establishment and to start publicly talking about the work that has taken place on this project over the past eighteen months.


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Islamic FinTech Dialogue - 201921st February 2019

The Islamic Fintech Dialogue (IFD) Conference is an event that focuses on the convergence of the Islamic finance industry with the financial technology (fintech) industry. The inaugural IFD 2017 was attended by more than 300 participants from across the globe. This year’s event took place on the 19th and 20th of February, 2019 at Sasana Kijang, where our CEO (Mark Smalley) was invited to take part in a discussion regarding the topic of competing Vs collaborating.


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Applying Blockchains to Financial Services26th January 2019

As we kick-start 2019, Malaysia makes bold new moves within the crypto world by introducing new laws on digital currencies and tokens, which came in effect last week. In partnership with REDmoney Events, R1 will be conducting our first public seminar of 2019, which is taking place on the 27th of February in KL, Malaysia. The audience will be taken on a tour starting with the technical foundations through to analysing some of the most popular use cases, such as trade finance and escrow.


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