India Showcases Global Ambition with WAVES Bazaar Pavilion at Busan Film Festival 2025

Swati Bhat

Busan, South Korea –September 20,2025

India strengthened its global creative footprint at the Busan Film Festival 2025 with the inauguration of the WAVES Bazaar Pavilion, a dedicated space designed to connect Indian creators with international markets. Dignitaries at the event emphasized India’s growing influence in the global content economy and the pavilion’s role as a bridge between Indian storytelling and global audiences.

The WAVES Bazaar Pavilion serves as a dynamic platform for showcasing Indian films, digital content, and original stories to international buyers and distributors. It will also host B2B meetings between Indian and foreign producers, distributors, and content platforms, fostering new collaborations in global entertainment.

A major highlight of the pavilion is its focus on emerging creative industries such as animation, VFX, gaming, and immersive storytelling, aligning with India’s ambition to lead in new-age media innovation.

“WAVES Bazaar embodies India’s creative vision and its commitment to global collaboration,” noted one of the dignitaries at the Busan Film Festival.

The launch marks a significant milestone in India’s active participation in international film markets, further strengthening its position as a global hub for creativity, innovation, and cultural exchange.

Pi Network Launches Open Mainnet, Pi Coin Sees Major Price Volatility

Pritish Bagdi

The Pi Network officially transitioned to its Open Mainnet on February 20, 2025, marking a major milestone from its closed ecosystem to full decentralization. This long-anticipated move has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market, triggering sharp price fluctuations in Pi Coin.

Within hours of the launch, Pi Coin surged to a peak of $1.97, fueled by investor excitement and heightened trading activity. However, the rapid rally was short-lived as the price plunged to $0.737, reflecting the market's volatility. In a surprising rebound, Pi Coin recovered by nearly 80%, stabilizing around $1.29.

The Open Mainnet launch signifies Pi Network’s commitment to decentralization, granting users unrestricted access to peer-to-peer transactions, decentralized applications (dApps), and enhanced blockchain functionalities. This pivotal shift is expected to drive long-term growth while attracting new developers and investors.

Crypto analysts highlight the importance of market caution during such volatile phases but remain optimistic about Pi Coin’s future. As the network matures, many believe Pi could solidify its position among top-performing cryptocurrencies.

Investors are now watching closely to see how the Open Mainnet will shape Pi Network’s evolving ecosystem and its impact on global crypto markets.

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Will Ethereum metaverses be transformed by ERC 6551 NFT-owned wallets?

A recent episode of the Unchained podcast addressed how ERC 6551 could revolutionise the crypto market by providing NFTs with their own wallets. The planned ERC 6551 token standard for NFTs has piqued the curiosity of crypto fans since it would allow digital assets to hold other tokens, a development that has the potential to radically alter the NFT and metaverse scene.

Pritish Bagdi

ERC 6551

What exactly is ERC 6551?

The token standard proposal, announced in February, aims to create a system that provides a smart contract account to every ERC-721 (non-fungible token). These tokens will be able to hold assets and interact with applications without requiring any changes to existing ERC-721 smart contracts or infrastructure.

The key components of this system are a permissionless registry for deploying token-bound accounts and a standard implementation interface.

Each ERC-721 coin will be assigned a unique smart contract account, allowing it to interact with the blockchain, record transaction history, and possess on-chain assets. The owner of the ERC-721 token has control over each token-bound account, allowing them to initiate on-chain operations on behalf of their token.

The proposal aims to be as backward compatible as possible with existing non-fungible token contracts. EIP-155 chain IDs are also used to uniquely identify ERC-721 tokens, allowing for the optional support of multi-chain token-bound accounts.

What are the benefits of ERC 6551?

The ERC 6551 standard was a potential solution to past attempts to standardise NFTs owning assets, such as the requirement for custom logic in their smart contract. The ERC 6551 standard eliminates these limitations by offering NFTs the same rights as Ethereum users, allowing them to hold assets and execute actions.

While ERC 721, ERC 1155, and soul-bound tokens exist as means to own objects on Ethereum, the podcast panelists emphasised that ERC 6551 is not a token standard in the traditional sense because it offers every current ERC 721 its own wallet, unlocking a new layer of compatibility for NFTs.

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