The Asia Onchain Finance Summit will be held on July 17 in West Kowloon, Hong Kong. The event is jointly initiated by Baillie Gifford, ETH HK Hub, SNZ and BlockUnion, with Sharplink, GSR, Lido and EthSystems serving as co-hosts.
According to the event description, the summit will bring together global institutional investors, Ethereum infrastructure builders, RWA ecosystem companies, payment and fintech firms, DeFi protocols, digital asset investment institutions, exchanges and liquidity providers to discuss the next stage of onchain finance.
EthSystems to appear publicly for the first time after launch
Institutional Ethereum privacy technology company EthSystems formally announced its establishment yesterday. The company was founded by former members of the Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy working group.
Its initial funding support came from SNZ Holding, Bitmine, Sharplink, and Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joseph Lubin. EthSystems says it is building privacy and compliance infrastructure for Ethereum aimed at regulated institutions such as banks and asset managers.
Mo Jalil to give keynote and join fireside chat
The summit will also mark the first public speech by EthSystems co-founder and CEO Mo Jalil since the company’s formal launch. Jalil previously served as the Ethereum Foundation’s institutional privacy lead and APAC enterprise partnerships lead.
He is also set to join a fireside chat with Henry Chen, partner and CBO at SNZ Holding and co-founder of BlockUnion. The discussion will focus on development trends in Ethereum’s institutional infrastructure, along with privacy, security, compliance and institutional adoption.
Baillie Gifford executives also set to attend
Baillie Gifford, which manages more than $250 billion in assets, will also be represented at the summit by Theo Golden, its global head of digital assets, as well as its Greater China head. Both are scheduled to deliver keynote speeches.