Hong Kong, October 28, 2025 — The highly anticipated Finternet 2025 Asia Digital Finance Summit has entered its final countdown phase! On November 4th, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, a landmark industry event on the future of global digital finance is set to begin.
The inaugural Finternet Asia Digital Finance Summit is anchored by the goals of "Serving the Real Economy, Building a Global Stage, and Connecting the Web3 World." It aims to gather global intellect to foster the long-term development of the industry. The summit is supported by numerous top-tier institutions, including OSL Group, InvestHK, Financial Services Development Council of Hong Kong (FSDC), Cyberport, Visa, China Renaissance, King & Wood Mallesons, AWS, Morph, Banxa, Cobo, DigiFT, Deloitte, Sunrate, Avalanche, and Blockdaemon.
The concept of the Finternet Summit originates from the "Financial Internet," designed to build a crucial bridge connecting the Web2 traditional finance world with the Web3 digital asset realm. This is more than just a finance conference; it is an elite gathering and concentrated problem-solving session addressing the future direction of the digital asset industry. On the eve of a structural shift in finance, the summit, guided by the core philosophy of "Bridging Ideals, Building the Future," will directly address five core questions. Read on for the "must-see highlights" of this year’s summit.
In the digital finance sector, "compliance" is the indispensable foundation for all innovation to achieve long-term, sustainable, and robust growth—it is also a key standard by which capital decides whether to enter the market en masse. While global markets are still charting regulatory pathways, forward-looking "compliance centers" from Asia—represented by regulatory leaders from Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, and Malaysia—will meet on the Finternet stage for a high-level dialogue on the evolution of digital asset regulation, innovative breakthroughs, and regional cooperation.
This is more than a simple exchange; it is about the synergy and future direction of the regulatory frameworks across Asia and globally. Hong Kong represents the common law hub linking East and West, Malaysia is a blue ocean for the booming digital asset development in Southeast Asia, and Abu Dhabi is a major representative of Middle Eastern capital and rapidly evolving innovation models. Their discussions will offer the most authoritative regulatory insights and cross-regional strategic guidance for financial institutions seeking global deployment.
One of the vital elements of this summit is the connection between people—Web2 giants and Web3 pioneers will connect across sectors on this stage. The future of finance belongs neither entirely to the "traditional" nor the "native," but to their profound integration.
Alex Manson, CEO of SC Ventures (Standard Chartered Group's venture capital arm), will discuss how traditional financial institutions can break limitations, boldly deploy into cutting-edge verticals, and bet on the future in the morning's fireside chat. Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation, will offer first-hand industry insights on one of the world's most active public chain ecosystems. Yam Ki Chan, VP of Asia Pacific at Circle, will envision the broad prospects of stablecoins in the real economy, especially in cross-border payments and international trade. The summit will bring together elites from regulators, institutions, Web3 projects, and capital to collectively chart a new path from traditional finance to digital finance.
Both Web2 finance and Web3 pioneers view stablecoins as the core battlefield for "future payments." A recent report jointly compiled by institutions including Artemis and OSL Group shows that from January 2023 to August 2025, the accumulated identifiable stablecoin payment settlement volume reached $136 billion. Based on transaction volumes in August this year, the current annualized stablecoin payment scale is equivalent to $122 billion. Although the current market share of stablecoin payments remains negligible compared to major international payment networks, its annual growth rate is nearly 10 times that of traditional payments—a massive market potential that cannot be ignored.
While the value and risks of stablecoins remain contentious, they are gradually becoming the "chips" or "tracks" for integrating the digital world. At the Finternet Summit, two traditional payment giants, Visa and PayPal, will share the stage with stablecoin issuer Circle and fintech unicorn Sunrate to jointly discuss the future of global cross-border payments. This discussion is critical to how stablecoins can truly "break out" and empower the real economy.
Concurrently, Tether (the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, USDT) and international digital asset compliant payment platform Banxa, along with senior representatives from Web3 finance projects Interlace, Morph, and Aptos, will explore how this "fresh blood" in the digital finance sector can achieve large-scale adoption and application in broader economic scenarios. This will not only be a technical route debate between digital assets and fintech but also a forward-looking vision and bold innovation for the future global compliant payment landscape.
The tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) has evolved from an industry buzzword into a "must-contend territory" for top financial institutions. One of the most significant highlights of this summit is the gathering of "true practitioners" in the RWA field—they are not merely discussing the hot topic of RWA, but contemplating how to capture and unlock its immense potential, exploring the true meaning of the industry phrase, "everything can be tokenized."
Global asset management giants BlackRock and Franklin Templeton Strategic Ventures (FTSV) are pioneers in the RWA deployment of traditional financial institutions worldwide. In a roundtable discussion decoding RWA opportunities, they will be joined for the first time by Marketnode (a digital asset infrastructure platform supported by SGX and Temasek) and Antalpha (a leading global integrated solution provider for digital asset finance and supply chain). They will discuss why financial assets are first movers in the burgeoning RWA sector and analyze how financial institutions assess and operate within this trillion-dollar market.
Meanwhile, in another discussion on On-Chain RWA Asset Rights Confirmation, digital asset professional service providers from Clifford Chance and Deloitte, along with executives from Cobo, DigiFT, and Robo AI, will delve into property rights and value attribution—one of the most critical pain points in the process of putting assets on the chain.
How does traditional "Big Money" (Institutional Capital) enter the market? ETFs were the first bridge, and Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) represent a controversial next step. As a financial instrument for publicly listed companies to "hoard" digital assets, DATs face significant market and regulatory scrutiny due to their high leverage and risk characteristics. Are they a "new pathway" for institutions to place aggressive bets, or a high-risk "financial game"? Representatives from Bloomberg, global asset manager Invesco, and leaders from the DAT and ETF sectors will debate the foundations and value behind this new channel that once sparked market frenzy.
Concurrently, the crypto market witnessed a historic liquidation event on October 11th this year. Bitcoin plummeted over 13% within 24 hours. According to CoinGlass data, nearly $20 billion in crypto bets were forcibly liquidated, with over 1.6 million traders facing margin calls and forced closure overnight. This is not just a discussion of a financial tool but a significant "stress test" of institutional risk appetite and future regulatory direction. Colin Wu, Founder of Wu BlockChain, will engage in a dialogue with Patrick Pan, Head of Web3 at China Renaissance and Livio Weng, Executive Director & CEO of Sinohope, to peer into the sequence of events behind the plunge, discerning whether it was attributable to a "Gray Rhino" hidden in the market or a systemic failure within the crypto market itself.
The final 7 days—time is running out! Join us on November 4th at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. Real solutions, not just speculation! Let us convene at the Finternet 2025 Asia Digital Finance Summit and jointly usher in a new era of "Financial Internet."