Hong Kong Web3 Festival | 1號 Expo Dr, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Over Hong Kong Web3 Festival

The Web3 Festival is an annual event that brings together industry leaders, innovators, and enthusiasts to explore and discuss advancements in Web3 technologies. The 2025 edition took place from April 6 to 9 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), featuring over 300 distinguished speakers and attracting more than 50,000 attendees.

The festival included a variety of activities such as keynote speeches, panel discussions, and side events, covering topics like blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and the future of the internet. The event was co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME

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The Honourable Paul CHAN Mo-po

GBM, GBS, MH, JP, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Christina Choi

Executive Director of Investment Products, Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission

George Chou

Chief Fintech Officer at Hong Kong Monetary Authority Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Vitalik Buterin

Co-Founder, Ethereum Ethereum Foundation

Feng XIAO

Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group HashKey Group

Duncan Chiu

Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong Hong Kong Alliance of Technology & Innovation

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Henry Ma

Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer at WeBank; Director at WeBank Technology Services WeBank

SHEN Jianguang

Vice President & Chief Economist, JD.com, Inc. JD.com

Genki Oda

Chairman, Japan Virtual and Crypto assets Exchange Association JVCEA

Lily Liu

President at Solana Foundation Solana Foundation

Ed Felten

Co-founder & Chief Scientist at Offchain Labs Offchain Labs

Sreeram Kannan

CEO at EigenLabs Eigen Labs

Alexander Pack

Managing Partner, Hack VC Hack VC

Lasse Clausen

Founding Partner at 1kx 1kx

Qifu (Keywolf) Zhong

Partner & CPO, SlowMist SlowMist

Blue

Partner & CTO, SlowMist SlowMist

Rita Liu

CEO, RD Technologies RD Technologies

Devon Sin

General Manager of Business Banking and Lending, ZA Bank ZA Bank

YU chen

Chief Advisor at KUN KUN

Michael Dong

Co-founder at Brevis Brevis

Bugra Celik

Director of Digital Assets at HSBC HSBC

Stanley Huo

Partner & Head of Asia at Hivemind Capital Hivemind

Terence Kwok

Founder & CEO at Humanity Protocol Humanity Protocol

3 ICO

$53 457 089

David LEE Kuo Chuen

Chairman at Global FinTech Institute Global Fintech Institute

Abel Seow

Head of APAC, Bitgo BitGo

Shaw Walters

Founder at Eliza Labs Eliza Labs

Kye Gomez

Chief Executive Officer at The Swarm Corporation The Swarms Corporation

Ming Wu

CTO at 0G 0G Labs

Michael Gao

Co-Founder & CEO, RedotPay RedotPay

Dr. Kang Li

Chief Security Officer at CertiK CertiK

Yat Siu

Co-Founder & Chairman at Animoca Brands Animoca Brands

4 ICO

$20 000

Henrique Centieiro

Co-Founder at Be Limitless Ventures Be Limitless

Leo Lin

Founder at Arkreen Arkreen

Sam Seo

Chairman, Kaia DLT Foundation Kaia

Gavin Wang

CIO, SNZ Holding and SNZ Capital SNZ Capital

Nils Pihl

CEO & Founder, Auki Labs Auki Labs

Mark Medum Bundgaard

CPO at Partisia Partisia

Alex Lee

CEO at Umy Umy

Darren Wong

Head of Business Development, Space Nation Space Nation

Andy (Yajin) Zhou

CEO at BlockSec BlockSec

Kyle Tang

Senior Advisor, Bitmodel Labs Bitmodel

Calanthia Mei

Co-founder, Masa Masa

Christian Pusateri

CEO & Co-founder, Mind Labs Mind Labs

Coco Kee

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Kee Global Advisors Kee Global Advisors

Kelvin Koh

Co-founder and Partner, Spartan Group The Spartan Group

Bob Xu

CEO & Co-Founder at Questflow Questflow

RU Haiyang

BU Co-CEO, Hashkey Exchange HashKey Exchange

Jason Brett

Managing Director, Key Bridge Advisors Key Bridge Advisors

Justin Kim

Head of Asian, Ava Labs Ava Labs

Kevin Goldstein

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Kee Global Advisors Kee Global Advisors

Tetsuya Sanada

CEO, BlockSmith & Co. BlockSmith & Co.

Curtis Plot Mak

Chief Business Officer, bloXroute bloXroute Labs

Rok Kopp

Co-founder at ether.fi EtherFi

Elizabeth Wong

Director and Head of Fintech unit, Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission

DUAN Xi

CEO at Japan Hash HashPalette

Sam Yu

Chairman, Hong Kong Investment Funds Association Hong Kong Investment Funds Association

Will Wang

Partner at Generative Ventures Generative Ventures

Tong Pow

Founder & CEO, Hologram Labs Hologram Labs

Jeremy Ng

Founder & CEO at OpenEden OpenEden

Amir Forouzani

Core Contributor, Puffer Puffer Finance

Kyle Ellicott

Executive Director, Stacks Asia Foundation Stacks

Himanshu Tyagi

Co-founder, Sentient Sentient

Hongzhou Chen

Research Lead at CKB Eco Fund CKB Eco Fund

Jeffrey Hu

Head of Investment Research, HashKey Capital HashKey Capital

Sinka Gao

Founder, Delphinus Lab Delphinus Lab

Terence An

Founder, Hyperplex Hyperplex

Chris Yin

CEO & Co-founder, Plume Plume Network

Khushboo Khullar

Venture Partner, Lightning Ventures Lightning Ventures

Rushi Manche

Co-Founder, Movement Labs Movement Labs

Federico Tenga

R&D, Bitfinex Bitfinex

John Cahill

COO (Asia), Galaxy Galaxy

Kan Yang

Solution Architect Lead, BytePlus BytePlus

Lennix Lai

Global Chief Commercial Officer, OKX OKX

Sharon Sciammas

CMO, ChainGPT ChainGPT

Alessio Quaglini

CEO & Co-founder, Hex Trust Hex Trust

Alex Zhang

CEO, Pharos Network Pharos Network

Arda Senoz

Ecosystem Lead at Alchemy Pay Alchemy Pay

Ella Zhang

Head at YZi Labs YZi Labs

Fubiao Xia

Co-founder, Primus Labs Primus Labs

Jakob Kronbichler

Co-founder & CEO, Clearpool Clearpool

Cindy Shi

CMO, Kite AI Kite AI

Yuan Gao

Co-founder, Gradient Network Gradient Network

LIU Xiaoyu

Director of the National Engineering Laboratory, Big Data Circulation and Transaction Technology

YuShan Zheng

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Waterdrip Capital Waterdrip Capital

Aaron Teng

CEO, Igloo Asia Igloo Asia

Chris Su

Founder & CEO, HolmesAI HolmesAI

Yukang Chen

Software Engineer, Cryptape Cryptape

Jacqueline Qiao

Partner, Jun He Law Offices JunHe LLP

Sarah Song

Head of Business Development, BNB Chain BNB Chain

Amanda Cassatt

Founder & CEO, Serotonin Serotonin

Ian Yang

Fiber Engineer, Cryptape Cryptape

James Yu

Partner, Rivtower Technology Rivtower Technology

Jayant Ramanand

Co-founder, MANTRA MANTRA

Anna Liu

CEO of Hashkey Tokenisation, HashKey Group HashKey Group

Kenneth Shek

Project Lead of Moca Network , Animoca Brands Animoca Brands

Alex Bosworth

Head of Lightning Liquidity, Lightning Labs Lightning Labs

David Palmer

Chief Product Officer, Pairpoint by Vodafone Vodafone

2 ICO

$2 352 240

Scott Moore

Co-founder at SuperNet, Co-founder at Gitcoin Gitcoin

Hong F

President, OKX OKX

YAN Hui

Vice President of Strategy, CSDN CSDN

Jocy Lin

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Founding Partner at IOSG Ventures IOSG Ventures

Kay Lu

CEO of HashKey Eco Labs, HashKey Chain HashKey Chain

Li Liang

CEO, HashKey OTC HashKey OTC

RAY CHAN

CEO, Memeland Memeland

Sherry Xiao

Founding Engineer & Head of Production Engineering, Aptos Labs Aptos Labs

Felix Fung

Head of Risk Management at HKbitEX. Chief Risk Officer at Tykhe Capital HKbitEX

Hakan Sezikli

CBO, Initverse InitVerse

Leo Fan

Rutgers faculty & Cysic Co-Founder Cysic

Tom Ngo

CEO at Metis Metis

Ziming Chen

Manager of POW Ecosystem, Bitmain Bitmain

Henry Zhang

Founder & CEO, DigiFT DigiFT

Devan Mitchem

Principal, Cloud Web3, Strategy & Partnerships, Google Cloud Google

Donato Pio Giarnera

BD Head - Middle East and APAC, Arf Arf

YQ Jia

Founder, AltLayer AltLayer

Tang Han

Founder at SeeDAO SeeDAO

Feida Zhu

Aptos Move Chair Professor & Associate Dean at Singapore Management University Singapore Management University

Alvin Kan

COO, Bitget Wallet Bitget Wallet

Jack Long

Senior Vice President, Vobile Group Vobile

Mori Xu

Co-founder, Tabi Tabi

Allen Ng

Co-founder & CEO, EVG Everest Ventures Group

Oihyun Kim

Korea Japan Lead, BeInCrypto BeInCryptpo

Deli Gong

Co-founder, Automata Network Automata Network

Diana Dai

Core Contributor, DODO & Native DODO

Guyan Liu

Co-founder, Paimon Finance Paimon Finance

Lei Kong

Solution Architect Manager, Head of Web3 Architect at AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Larry Ma

CSO at SNZ Holding SNZ Capital

Matt Quinn

Director, Nervos Foundation Nervos Foundation

Momir Amidzic

Managing Partner, IOSG Ventures IOSG Ventures

Peet Chen

CEO & Co-founder at Trusta.AI Trusta Labs

Quinn Kwon

Director of Strategy at Delabs Games Delabs Games

Arthur Meng

Cofounder & CEO of Hemera Hemera

David Rogers

CEO of Asia-Pacific, B2C2 B2C2

Ezra Kebrab

CEO & Founder at Caliza Caliza

Jenny Cheng

Vice President, Animoca Ventures Animoca Ventures

Kun Peng

Founding Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund Blockchain Builders Fund | BBF

Ryan Hong

Investor, CoreDAO/Core Ventures Core DAO

Sagun Garg

Global Innovation Director - Software Engineering, Bank Julius Baer BANK JULIUS BAER

Siang Tan

Topos VP, PlatON PlatONNetwork

Suji Yan

Founder & CEO, Mask Network Mask Network

Xiao XIAO

Partner at HashKey Capital HashKey Capital

Derik Han

Head of APAC, Mysten Labs MYSTEN LABS

CG Zhou

CEO, CPIC Investment Management (HK) CPIC Investment Management (H.K.) Company Ltd.

Justin Chan, CFA

EVP, Head of Business & Partnerships, RD Technologies RD Technologies

Michael Tong

CEO & Founder, Xterio Xterio

Sal Gala

Founder at EV3 Escape Velocity Ventures

Sergio Mello

Head of Stablecoins at Anchorage Digital Anchorage Digital

Xin Yan

Co-Founder & CEO at EthSign EthSign

Xyn Sun

Research at Flashbots FLASHBOTS

Kevin Lee

Co-founder & Managing Partner, L2 Iterative Ventures L2 Iterative Venture

David Zell

Co-founder, Bitcoin Policy Institute Bitcoin Policy Institute

E.O. (Vince) Hao

Co-founder at FutureMoney Group FutureMoney Group

Jupiter Jialiang Zheng

Liquid fund and Research at HashKey Capital HashKey Capital

2 ICO

$15 950 000

Ryan Fang

Founder, Tomo Tomo

Alena Shmalko

Ecosystem Lead at TON Foundation TON Foundation

Calvin Poon

Executive Director, Spartan Group The Spartan Group

Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh

Co-founder & CEO, Lagrange Lagrange Labs

Michael Zhao

CEO at Klickl Group Klickl Group

Yonatan Sompolinsky

Kaspa originator at Research Affiliate at Harvard Harvard University

Pepper

Youtube, BTC Researcher, Investor Pepper Talk

Agenda

Main Stage

04:00 - 04:20 - XIAO Feng - Blockchain, Web3

04:20 - 04:35 - Steve Yun - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Tokenization

04:35 - 04:50 - Lily Liu - Blockchain, Web3, Infra

05:05 - 05:20 - Haze - Web3, Infra, Exchange

05:20 - 05:35 - Sreeram Kannan - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Infra

05:35 - 06:05 - Stay tuned

06:05 - 06:55 - Crypto Infrastructure: Present and Future - YQ Jia, Lennix Lai, Sarah, Scott Moore

09:00 - 09:15 - Kay - Blockchain, Infra

09:15 - 09:30 - Ed Felten - Blockchain, Web3, Infra

09:30 - 10:10 - Will L2 improve or worsen Web3? - Larry Ma, Michael, Tom Ngo, Amir, Leo Fan

10:10 - 10:25 - TON 2025: What's Next for Developers? - Alena

10:25 - 10:45 - Alex Bosworth, Federico Tenga, Hongzhou Chen

10:45 - 11:00 - Sherry Xiao - Blockchain, Web3, Infra

11:00 - 11:15 - Stay tuned

11:15 - 11:30 - Alex Lee - Blockchain, Infra, Mass Adoption

11:30 - 11:45 - Yat Siu - Blockchain, Web3, Infra, Mass Adoption

Stage 1

09:00 - 09:15 - Sam Seo

09:15 - 09:30 - Kenneth Shek

09:30 - 09:45 - Ray Chan

09:45 - 10:25 - Which Matters More - Game or Fi?, Andy Duan, Japan Hash CEO (MC); 真田哲弥, BlockSmith&Co. CEO

10:25 - 10:40 - Aaron Teng

10:40 - 10:55 - Michael Tong

10:55 - 11:35 - Where GameFi is Heading: The New Frontier of Blockchain Gaming - Oihyum Kim; Quinn; Hason; Chris; Tabi Clement.

Main Stage

04:30 - 04:40 - XIAO Feng - Blockchain, Stable Coin, Digital Asset

04:40 - 04:55 - The Honourable Paul CHAN Mo-po - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Mass Adoption

04:55 - 05:10 - Christina Choi - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Mass Adoption

05:25 - 05:40 - Henry Ma - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Tokenization

05:40 - 05:55 - SHEN Jianguang - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Mass Adoption, Regulation

05:55 - 06:30 - Regulation: Genki Oda, Kevin Goldstein, David Lee

06:30 - 06:45 - David Zell - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Bitcoin

06:45 - 07:00 - Chen Zhong, Professor at Peking University, Doctoral Supervisor

07:00 - 07:15 - Mr Joseph H. L. CHAN, JP, Under Secy for Financial Services & the Treasury

07:15 - 07:30 - Jason Brett - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Mass Adoption

09:00 - 09:15 - RU Haiyang - Digital Asset, Payment, Exchange

09:15 - 09:55 - Real World Assets (RWA) in Web3: Innovations and Challenges - Elizabeth Wong, Sam Yu, George Chou

09:55 - 10:15 - Stay tuned

10:15 - 10:55 - The Future of Stablecoins: Regulation & Adoption - Yam Ki Chan; Dominic Maffei

10:55 - 11:10 - John Cheang, TON Foundation, Head of APAC - Blockchain, Web3, DeFi

11:10 - 11:25 - Siang Tan - Blockchain, Digital Asset, Infra

11:25 - 11:55 - Stay tuned

11:55 - 12:35 - The Ongoing Maturation of Crypto Market Structure - Ryan Chen, Lasse Clausen, Gavin Wang, Ella Zhang, GM

05:00 - 05:30 - Open Stage | AiDav2

05:30 - 06:00 - Open Stage | AiDav2

05:00 - 07:00 - Game Center | Pudgy Penguins | Blockchain, Web3, GameFi

06:00 - 06:30 - Open Stage | Kava

06:30 - 07:00 - Open Stage | OnchainLabs

09:00 - 12:00 - Open Stage | Microsoft Open Stage: Secure the Future of Web3 & AI - Microsoft

09:00 - 12:00 - Game Center | Pudgy Penguins | Blockchain, Web3, GameFi

05:00 - 12:00 - Open Stage | ETHAsia 2025 @ Hong Kong Web3 Festival - ETHAsia

05:00 - 07:00 - Game Center | Pudgy Penguins | Blockchain, Web3, GameFi

09:00 - 12:00 - Game Center | Pudgy Penguins | Blockchain, Web3, GameFi