We are pleased to welcome Serena Yu, Director, Digital Assets Product at @StanChart, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Serena drives Standard Chartered's digital assets strategy, leads tokenization initiatives globally, and oversees the digital assets roadmap and development across Greater China and North Asia markets. Her participation brings a senior perspective on what institutional-grade digital asset custody requires in practice, grounded in direct experience building custody operating models and infrastructure at one of the region's most active global banks.

We are pleased to welcome @jeffrey_hu, Investment Director at @yzilabs, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Jeffrey focuses on Web3 and the emerging intersection with AI at YZi Labs. Prior to this role, he served as Head of Investment Research at HashKey Capital, and has been an active contributor to Bitcoin and broader crypto research communities. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His participation brings an investment and research perspective on how Web3 infrastructure and AI are converging, and what that convergence means for the next generation of digital asset markets.

The US Clarity Act still can't clear 50% odds of passing. Meanwhile Hong Kong has a five-year digital asset roadmap and is already deploying stablecoin licenses. Joshua Chu on why regulatory predictability is the real competitive advantage ⬇️

We are pleased to welcome René Michau, Global Head of Digital Assets at @StanChart, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. René leads Standard Chartered's digital assets strategy globally, spearheading the bank's innovation and delivery of secure digital asset solutions for institutional clients across cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and stablecoins. He also serves on the board of Anchorpoint Financial Limited, a majority-owned Standard Chartered subsidiary and HKMA-licensed stablecoin issuance company based in Hong Kong. René co-chairs the Global Digital Finance Financial Institutions Crypto Working Group and the Institute of International Finance Digital Assets Forum, and serves as a member of the Digital Asset Markets sub-committee within the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Reserve Bank of Australia's Project Acacia Independent Advisory Group. His participation brings a senior perspective on how a major global bank is building and scaling institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure, and what the integration of cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and stablecoins into regulated banking operations requires in practice.

1/ @trylimitless joins Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit as Prediction Markets Partner.

The platform has moved over $4B in volume, a clear sign prediction markets are becoming one of the lead industry categories alongside tokenization and stablecoins.

We are excited to welcome Alexandra Zhao, Head of Digital Assets at CSOP Asset Management, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.
 Alexandra drives CSOP's digital asset strategy, leading initiatives across product development and market engagement at one of Hong Kong's largest asset managers. Prior to joining CSOP, she served as Executive Director, Web3 Business at Futu Holdings Limited, where she contributed to investor relations, corporate development, business development, and corporate financing. She holds a Master of Science in Finance from Johns Hopkins University.
 Her participation brings a perspective on how a leading Hong Kong asset manager is building and deploying digital asset product infrastructure, and what tokenization looks like in practice at institutional scale.

We are excited to welcome Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, Asia Pacific at @Visa, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Nischint is responsible for overseeing Visa's digital currency business performance across the region, including creating and growing new revenue streams and partnerships. He also serves as a subject matter expert supporting client-facing teams on digital currency and Web3 engagements with key stakeholders, including banks, fintechs, regulators, and blockchain infrastructure companies. His participation brings the perspective of one of the world's leading payment networks on the opportunities and challenges surrounding digital currencies, tokenized money, and the next generation of financial infrastructure.

A HKD licensed stablecoin just cleared its Ethereum mainnet test. Issuance is next. Everything you need to know about the first Hong Kong regulated stablecoins ⬇️ cosmoverse.org/insights/hong…

The CFTC just approved regulated perps trading. dYdX Foundation CEO Charles d'Haussy breaks down what it means for crypto. A deep dive on distribution, DeFi, and why he is still bullish on crypto markets.

We are excited to welcome Cyberport as a Supporting Partner of the Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Wholly owned by the HKSAR Government, Cyberport is Hong Kong's digital technology hub and AI accelerator, home to over 2,300 companies including 9 unicorns and Hong Kong's largest FinTech community. Its mandate spans AI infrastructure, blockchain development, and the commercialization of emerging technology across financial services and beyond. Cyberport's support reflects the institutional depth this summit is designed to serve.

🇭🇰 The Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit is where institutional digital finance in Asia Pacific gets built. Two days. One room. The people you need to meet.

We are pleased to welcome Andreas Neidhart-Lau, Head of Strategic Industry and Partnerships Practice, Asia Pacific at @googlecloud, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Andreas leads the Strategic Industries and Partnerships practice for Google Cloud in APAC, directing a team of industry principal architects and technologists who partner with C-suite executives to translate technical innovation into strategic business capabilities. Over a 20-year career spanning Europe and the Asia Pacific region, he has dedicated his work to building the partnerships and infrastructure required to sustain long-term digital transformation across industries. His participation brings a perspective on how enterprise cloud architecture and AI are converging to reshape the infrastructure layer of financial services, and what that shift requires from institutions operating at scale across Asia Pacific.

We are pleased to welcome Anna Zhang, Head of Payment Growth, APAC at the @SolanaFndn, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Anna leads payment growth for Solana across Asia Pacific, with a focus on stablecoin and agentic payments as emerging infrastructure for global money movement. Prior to joining the Solana Foundation, she spent over five years at Airwallex, overseeing key partnerships and go-to-market initiatives across APAC. Earlier in her career, she spent three years at McKinsey & Company across China and the Middle East, advising global enterprises on digital transformation and go-to-market strategy. Her participation brings a perspective on how stablecoin payment infrastructure is developing in practice across Asia Pacific, and what the conditions for institutional-grade adoption of onchain payment rails look like on the ground.

SpaceX going public is proof that IPOs are not going away, and neither are private markets. But for Florian M Spiegl, CEO of EVIDENT, the nature of private markets is about to change fundamentally.

Florian Spiegl is building EVIDENT, a licensed tokenization marketplace now in HKMA's Project EnsembleTX alongside BlackRock and HSBC. In this episode of Beyond Cosmoverse, @fmspiegl share his read on private markets and where tokenization stands ⬇️ youtu.be/l_4S4aDACkM

We are pleased to welcome @charlesdhaussy, CEO of @dydxfoundation, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Charles leads the dYdX Foundation, which supports a decentralized finance protocol for perpetual futures. Before joining dYdX, he served as Global Head of Business Development at ConsenSys, and earlier held the role of Head of FinTech with the Hong Kong government, where he worked closely with the local fintech and blockchain community. His career spans entrepreneurial ventures and executive roles across fintech startups in Asia and the Middle East. In 2021, he authored Block Kong, exploring Hong Kong's blockchain leaders, and in 2025 published Arabian Crypto, examining the development of the crypto industry across Arab markets, with a focus on the UAE. His participation brings a perspective shaped by policy, market development, and protocol governance across multiple jurisdictions, at a moment when digital asset markets in Asia and the Middle East are converging with institutional frameworks.

We spent months building this room. BlackRock. HSBC. SWIFT. Fidelity. Franklin Templeton. BIS. The decision-makers driving digital asset adoption across APAC are joining us. Will you? Early bird tickets are live, secure your place: luma.com/CosmoverseHongKong

We are pleased to welcome Italo Borssatto, Adviser at BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Italo works within the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre on applied research at the intersection of decentralised technologies and regulated financial infrastructure. At the Summit, he will be speaking on Project Tamga, a BIS Innovation Hub initiative exploring how a universal verification mechanism for regulatory proofs could support the future of compliance and supervision.

AI Agents will want capital efficiency, and they will select the currencies that deliver that. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research and Strategy at @BlockchainforEU, argues that the agentic economy is a regulatory question as much as a technology one.

The euro is the second largest currency in the world and holds just 1% of global stablecoin volume. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research & Strategy at @BlockchainforEU walked us through why that gap exists and what it would take to change it. New episode of Beyond Cosmoverse.