About Mark Radar
Finding the signals that actually matter in an age of information overload
I’m Mark. I’ve spent years working in fintech, software products and startups, and I also write MarkReadFintech, where I cover what’s happening across fintech, crypto and the technology industry.
Over the years I’ve read a great deal every day — news, industry reports and social media, from Taiwan and from abroad. But I’ve slowly come to see that the problem we face now is no longer that we “can’t find information”, but that there is simply far too much of it.
The same story gets written up separately by a dozen outlets. The news that matters gets buried in a flood of updates. Something you read today develops further a few days later, and it’s hard to go back and quickly retrace how it got there.
Everyone’s time and attention are limited. Very few people can read dozens of articles a day and then work out for themselves which stories genuinely matter, which are the same report repeated, and whether something is a passing talking point or an industry trend taking shape.
That is why I built Mark Radar.
What Does Mark Radar Do?
Mark Radar continuously scans Chinese and English sources, groups what different outlets report about the same story, and turns it into a single “signal” you can take in quickly.
Every signal tells you:
why the story is worth your attention, what has happened so far, which outlets are covering it, and whether the conversation around it is picking up.
You don’t have to open five similar articles one by one just to piece together the whole picture. Mark Radar sets out the background and the key details first, and keeps the original sources alongside, so anyone who wants to go deeper can carry on reading.
The site currently focuses on three fast-moving fields:
- Crypto: cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets and regulatory developments worldwide.
- Fintech: payments, digital banking, financial supervision, financial infrastructure and innovation in financial services.
- AI: large language models, AI agents, chips, applications, cybersecurity and industry competition.
Not Just What Happened Today, but How Things Unfold
A single news story is usually just one node in a much longer arc.
So Mark Radar does more than collect the latest updates: it links the related history together. When a company ships a new product, a bill clears another stage, or an industry issue flares up again, you can look back at what came before and see how this news relates to it.
The site also organises events into topic files by company, technology, regulation and industry issue — such as stablecoins, digital payments, agentic AI, AI chips or a particular company — so you don’t have to follow every piece of news, only the topics you genuinely care about.
To me, Mark Radar isn’t just a news aggregator; it’s more like a constantly updated map of industry signals.
Every Friday, the Week in One Email
Beyond what’s live on the site, Mark Radar Weekly goes out every Friday at 8am Taipei time.
It pulls together the week’s most-covered and most noteworthy stories across crypto, fintech and AI, so you can quickly see:
which events drew the most coverage this week, why they matter, where they stand now, and what they could lead to.
You don’t have to keep up with everything every day, and you don’t have to worry about missing the changes that count. A little time each week is enough to build a basic understanding of these three fields and a feel for the industry context around them.
You Don’t Need to Read Everything
The point of Mark Radar isn’t to make you read more. It’s to help you understand more of what actually matters, in less time.
The radar scans and sorts the signals. All you have to do is pick the topics you care about.
I hope Mark Radar becomes a fast, clear and trustworthy way in, whenever you are watching how crypto, fintech and AI develop.
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