KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian crypto investor is weighing a plan to revive the tech campus left vacant by the abrupt collapse of Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School, potentially giving a second life to an experiment that drew hundreds of entrepreneurs to the country.

Jeff Yew, a Malaysian motorsport enthusiast who previously headed Binance Australia, is considering establishing his own technology campus at Forest City, the US$100 billion (S$128 billion) development in southern Malaysia. His vision would take a different tack from Srinivasan’s, with a “Malaysia first” approach.

Yew may offer a lifeline not just to the empty campus, but to Forest City – a man-made island that’s struggled to live up to its billing as a futuristic…