Organization: Golden Finance

From April 20 to 23, 2026, the 2026 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival will grandly open at 5BCDE, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Many important guests from regulatory agencies, crypto ecosystem, traditional finance and technological frontiers will attend the event and share their insights, from the convergence of traditional finance and the crypto world, to the collision of AI and Web3, to the real dismantling of RWA from concept to large-scale, three core topics will run through the four-day agenda, jointly defining the evolution direction of the next generation digital world.

Golden Finance specially organizes the conference agenda, key guests and peripheral activities conference guide to help readers quickly grasp the key points and provide practical reference for participating in the conference.

1. Speakers

• Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong

• Lu Weiding, deputy to the National People’s Congress, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, chairman and CEO of Wanxiang Group

• Chan Ho-Lin, Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong

• Yip Chi-heng, Executive Director of the Intermediaries Department of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission

• Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group

• Michael Faulkender, former Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland

• Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum

• He Yi, Co-CEO of Binance

• Richard Teng, Co-CEO of Binance

• Justin Sun, founder of TRON, Huobi HTX Global Advisor, B.AI Advisor

• Lennix Lai, OKX Global Chief Commercial Officer

• Joseph Chalom, Sharplink CEO

• Yan Ying, CTO of Ant Digital

• Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation

• Brian Mehler, Stable CEO

• Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands

• Francis B. Zhou, CEO of Quantum Solutions

• Chef Kids, Pancakeswap CEO

• Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and CPO of Mysten Labs

• Rita Liu, CEO of RD Technologies

• Arda Senoz, Head of Alchemy Pay Ecosystem

• Gracy Chen, Bitget CEO

• Mykolas Majauskas, Senior Policy Director, Bybit

• Abdelhamid Bizid, Managing Director, BlackRock plc

• Bugra Celik, Director of Digital Assets, HSBC

• Franklin Bi, Partner at Pantera Capital

• Sungmo Park, Head of Asia Pacific of a16z

• Zeng Yuchao, Managing Director of Futu Group

• John Cahill, Galaxy Digital Asia COO

• Leonard Hoh, President of Bitstamp

2. Meeting agenda

This Hong Kong Web3 Carnival will last for four days, from April 20th to 23rd.

April 20 (Monday)

Main Venue · Mountain

09:00-12:00

Theme: Opening Ceremony

Guests: Chen Maobo, Lu Weiding, Chen Haolian, Ye Zhiheng, Michael Faulkender, Vitalik Buterin

13:30-16:30: Traditional Finance x Crypto Finance: Convergence

13:30-14:00

Roundtable discussion: From leapfrogging to reconstruction: the future of finance is being “reprogrammed”

Guests: Du Yu, head of Wanxiang Blockchain Lab; He Yi, co-CEO of Binance

14:00-14:15

Keynote Speech

Guest: Ru Haiyang, founder of HashKey Exchange Business Group

14:15-14:30

Keynote Speech

Guest: Lennix Lai, OKX Global Chief Commercial Officer

14:30-15:10

Roundtable Discussion: Hong Kong’s “Sandbox Experience” of Stablecoin Regulation and the Implementation of the First Batch of Licenses

Guests: Rita Liu, CEO of RD Technologies; Bugra Celik, Director of Digital Assets at HSBC

15:10-15:50

Roundtable Discussion: From Finance to Strategy: How Listed Companies Layout Based on Digital Assets

Guests: Deng Chao, founder of HashKey Capital; Francis B. Zhou, CEO of Quantum Solutions; Joseph Chalom, CEO of Sharplink

15:50-16:30

Roundtable discussion: The present and future of cross-border payments and asset digitization

Guests: Kevin M. Goldstein, Managing Partner of KGA; Richard Teng, Co-CEO of Binance; Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable; Akhil Devmurari, Head of FinTech Industry, Asia Pacific (Payments Business), JP Morgan; Leonard Hoh, President of Bitstamp

Venue 1 · Wind

14:00-17:25: Web3xAI: Value reconstruction in the intelligent era

14:00-14:15

Theme: New experience of cloud-native AI agent: exclusive lobster for enterprises, fully empowering all departments

Guest: Sophia Jin, Technical Director of Byteplus HK

14:15-14:30

Topic: What is Silicon Valley doing with lobsters? A teardown of a tech blogger

Guest: Lang Hanwei, Silicon Valley AI technology blogger

14:45-15:15

Roundtable discussion: Does AI really need Web3?

Guests: He Xiaoyang, CEO of Gen Labs Limited; Michael Yung, Google Cloud strategic advisor; Keywolf, partner and product leader of SlowMist Technology

15:30-15:45

Topic: To the Age of Sentient AI

Guest: Miguel Palencia, co-founder of Qtum

16:15-16:55

Roundtable Discussion: How does AI Agent change human-computer interaction?

Guests: Zolo Xiong, co-founder of TechFlow; Cindy Shi, chief marketing officer of Kite AI; KK, chief operating officer of Virtuals Protocol; Bob, CEO of Questflow

Venue 2 · Cloud

14:00-17:35: Tokenization: the bridge between the real world and the digital economy

14:45-15:15

Roundtable Discussion: Exploring the Road to RWA for Physical Assets

Guests: Leo Lin, co-founder of Arkreen; Marques McCammon, president of Karma Automotive; Nazmus Saquib, CEO of Oak Network; Chen Shanlong, head of Asia of XDC Network

15:30-16:10

Roundtable discussion: The value of Tokenization to the Web3.0 financial system

Guests: Sunny Ng, CEO of PANONY&PANews; Cynthia Wu, founding partner and chief commercial officer of BIT; Henry Zhang, founder and CEO of DigiFT; Jakob Kronbichler, co-founder of Clearpool; Jeremy Ng, founder and CEO of OpenEden

16:10-16:25

Topic: Bridging Traditional Finance and Web3: Building an Infrastructure for Real-World Finance

Guest: Arion Ho, founder and CEO of ENI

16:50-17:20

Roundtable discussion: How RWA moves from concept to scale

Guests: Zhou Zhou, deputy editor-in-chief of Foresight News; Jason Huang, executive director and president of GCL New Energy Holdings Co., Ltd.; Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos Network

17:20-17:35

Topic: From Jiaozi to on-chain finance: Who is reshaping the operating system of the global financial market

Guest: Philip Fei, Head of Ecological Growth, Asia Pacific, Chainlink Labs

April 21 (Tuesday)

Main Venue · Mountain

10:00-12:25: AI x Crypto: A new generation of financial infrastructure

10:15-10:30

Keynote Speech

Guest: Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation

10:30-10:45

Topic: Sui: Where Money Moves as Freely as Messages

Guest: Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and chief product officer of Mysten Labs

10:45-11:00

Topic: The Future of AI UGC Onchain

Guest: Kai Xu, Meet48 COO

11:00-11:30

Roundtable discussion: From the bottom to the entrance: the path of crypto assets to mainstream finance

Guests: Franklin Bi, Partner of Pantera Capital; Mykolas Majauskas, Senior Policy Director of Bybit; Zeng Yuchao, Managing Director of Futu Group

11:30-11:45

Topic: From TRON to B.AI: Infrastructure as the Game-Changer in the AI Era

Guest: Justin Sun, founder of TRON, Huobi HTX Global Advisor, B.AI Advisor

11:45-12:25

Roundtable discussion: Let’s talk about the star applications of the year: OpenClaw, prediction markets, DEX and others

Guests: Justin Sun, founder of TRON, Huobi HTX global consultant, B.AI consultant; YQ Jia, founder of Altlayer; Peter H.K. Koh, PBM, executive director and CEO of Oceanus Group, Nina Rong, executive director of growth of BNB Chain; Chef Kids, CEO of Pancakeswap; Sungmo Park, head of a16z Asia Pacific

13:00-16:55: RWA Ultimate Q&A

14:00-14:15

Topic: RWA Ultimate Q&A: Start Here

Guest: Anna Liu, CEO of HashKey Tokenisation

14:15-14:55

Roundtable discussion: Linking physical and digital: Chinese assets going overseas through RWA - compliance, opportunities and challenges

Guests: Yao Shijia, co-chief analyst of Cathay Haitong Securities Industrial Policy Research Institute; Zhao Yao, distinguished senior researcher of the National Finance and Development Laboratory; Qiao Zheyuan, head and partner of JunHe’s virtual asset business department; Chen Bin, general manager of Wanxiang Blockchain

14:55-15:35

Roundtable discussion: From "asset registration" to "on-chain issuance": opening up the last mile of RWA cross-border compliance

Guests: Tang Bo, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Diao Zhihai, Head of International Wealth Management Business of China International Capital Corporation; Faith, Partner of King & Wood Mallesons; Gavin Wang, Managing Partner and CIO of SNZ Holding & SNZ Capital

15:35-16:15

Roundtable discussion: Asia-Pacific’s “RWA moment”: Hong Kong vs Singapore

Guests: Celine Tan, Head of Liquidity Distribution at BNY Mellon Investment Management Hong Kong Limited, Kelly Sohn, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Limited; Xu Ping, Managing Director of JP Morgan Global Investment Banking and Head of Asia Fintech; Victor Jung, Head of Digital Assets at Hamilton Lane

16:15-16:55

Roundtable Discussion: From Wall Street to Blockchain: The practical logic and future prospects of RWA global issuance

Guests: Li Baiwei, partner of HashKey Tokenisation; John Cahill, chief operating officer of Galaxy Digital Asia; Abdelhamid Bizid, managing director of BlackRock Group; Min Lin, managing director and head of global business development of Ondo Finance

Venue 1 · Wind

10:00-12:10: New trend of currency-stock linkage

10:00-10:15

Keynote Speech

Guest: Zhu Junwei, Executive Chairman of Solana Company

10:15-10:30

Topic: Universal Exchange and Global Market Integration

Guest: Gracy Chen, Bitget CEO

11:30-12:10

Roundtable Discussion: Breaking the Boundaries of Stocks and Currencies·Compliance and Symbiosis: The Hong Kong Paradigm of Concentration of Traditional Finance and Digital Assets in the Web3 Era

Guests: Zhao Lan, webmaster of Sina Finance Hong Kong; Livio Weng, CEO of Bitfire; Junyu Wu, digital asset business director of China Asset Management (Hong Kong); Lui Zhihong, digital asset managing partner of Deloitte China Hong Kong

14:00-17:25: Intelligent hardware: physical entrance and scene extension of Web3

14:15-14:55

Roundtable discussion: From "selling products" to "selling services": exploration of subscription economy and assetization of smart hardware

Guests: Alven Lin, financial technology and blockchain partner at Summer Capital; Ben Zhai, CEO of Robo.ai; Chen Jianqiu, executive director of Aberdeen Robotics Group; Spur, CTO of the AI Hardware Division of Zhumi Technology

14:55-15:35

Roundtable Discussion: Hong Kong Opportunities: Cross-border Data Flow and Compliance Innovation of Smart Hardware

Guests: Patty Tu, Web 3.0 business research manager of China Mobile (Hong Kong) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd.; Wang Jue, partner of Hash Global; Wallace Leung, general manager of Starise Technology (Hong Kong); Liu Tao, CEO of Starise Tech Limited

15:50-16:30

Roundtable Discussion: DePIN’s “Golden Closed Loop”: When machines create assets, stablecoins complete payments

Guests: Jerrina Yu, Marketing Director of FutureMoney Group; Shukyee Ma, Chief Strategy Officer of Plume; Peter CHEN, Director of Institutional Development of Tether Asia Pacific; Steven Wang, Chief Product Officer of Goldwarts Limited M2M Pay

16:30-17:10

Roundtable discussion: How to successfully "cold start": a breakthrough in smart hardware applications

Guests: Peng Zhao, founder of IoT Think Tank; Henrique Centieiro, CIO of Maverick Capital; Rohan JT, chief marketing officer of Roam; Gao Yuan, co-founder of Gradient Network

Venue 2 · Cloud

10:30-17:10: Stablecoins and Web3 payment revolution

10:30 - 10:45

Topic: Outlook for Payfi in 2026

Guest: Rita Liu, CEO of RD Technologies

10:45 - 11:00

Topic: BAXS: Connecting Traditional Finance and Digital Assets

Guest: Toby Poon, BAXS COO

11:00 - 11:15

Topic: Infrastructure layer of AI agent trading and stable currency payment

Guest: Athena Yu, CEO of United Stables

11:30 - 12:00

Roundtable discussion: AI agent payment: stable currency and large language model drive independent commerce

Guests: Rita Liu, CEO of RD Technologies; John, head of Asia Pacific of TON Foundation; Leon Li, solutions architect at Google; Jag Foo, chief security and policy officer of Safeheron; Gary Chu, business leader of INF Hong Kong Limited

14:00 - 14:15

Topic: From Chain to Reality: How Non-custodial Wallets Can Power the Global Adoption of Stablecoin Payments

Guest: Michael Wong, Partner and Chief Commercial Officer of TokenPocket

14:15 - 14:30

Topic: Bridging fiat currencies and the global crypto economy

Guest: Arda Senoz, Head of Alchemy Pay Ecosystem

14:30 - 15:10

Roundtable Discussion: Payfi Infrastructure: Web3 Payments

Guests: Daqi, chief product officer of RD Technologies; Zack Yang, co-founder of FOMO Group, Justin, head of Asia Pacific of Ava Labs; Vincent Yang, co-founder and chief commercial officer of Obita; Will Wu, head of Asia Pacific of Bitget Wallet; Jessica Cao, CEO of Huma Asia Pacific

15:10 - 15:50

Roundtable discussion: Looking ahead to global institutions

Guests: Debra, RD Innotech CCO; Byron Phillips, Partner, Hogan Lovells

15:50 - 16:30

Roundtable Discussion: Looking to the Future of Banking: Adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies and Stablecoins

Guests: Stanley Huo, partner and head of Asia at Hivemind Capital; Debra, RD Innotech CCO; Shiv Shankar, CEO of Boundless Network; Jacky Chong, head of compliance at Aspire Hong Kong; Daniel Lee Cheok Ching, CEO of Cactus Custody; Vincent Chan, head of technology innovation at Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Co., Ltd.

16:30 - 17:10

Roundtable Discussion: Unlocking Emerging Markets: Case Sharing in Latin America, Africa, and APEC

Guests: Iyembi Nkanza, Head of Middle East and Africa, RD Technologies; Raj Kamal, CEO of TransFi; Stephen Browne, CEO of Sorted Wallet; Justin Chan, Head of International Business, RD Technologies; Osman Mendoza, Head of Alfred Asia Business

3. Peripheral activities

April 20 (Monday)

Topic: Institutional Convergence: From Compliance to Business

Time: 14:00-17:00

Location: Open Stage · Sea

April 21 (Tuesday)

Theme: Capital Next: New Order, New Value, New Opportunities

Time: 16:30-18:00

Location: Open Stage · Sea

April 22 (Wednesday)

Topic: Ethereum Application Conference

Time: 11:00-17:30

Location: Main venue·Mountain

Theme: Web3.0 Standardization and Globalization Summit

Time: 10:00-17:00

Location: Venue 1·Wind

Topic: HashKey Exchange Asia Forum

Time: 14:00-17:00

Location: Venue 2·Cloud

Theme: Four-dimensional resonance: Reshaping the new global financial infrastructure in 2026

Time: 10:00-13:00

Location: Open Stage · Sea

Topic: House of AI: Building Blockchain for AI Agents

Time: 14:00-17:00

Location: Open Stage · Sea

April 23 (Thursday)

Topic: 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Wealth Management Summit Forum

Time: 10:00-17:00

Location: Main venue·Mountain

Theme: TON AI Builders Day and Telegram AI Ecosystem Co-creator Summit

Time: 11:00-17:00

Location: Venue 1·Wind

Theme: Web3 Scholar Summit 2026

Time: 12:00-17:30

Location: Venue 2·Cloud

Theme: On-chain Finance Summit Forum: Co-building on-chain financial infrastructure

Time: 14:00-17:00

Location: Open Stage · Sea