The 12th Global Blockchain Summit, hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, is scheduled for Sept. 23, 2026, at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai on the Bund. This year’s theme is 「Blockchain New Economy · Intelligent Chain Symbiosis」, and the event is set to bring together speakers from finance, technology, investment and industry. According to the organizer, the summit will focus on several issues now shaping the sector, including the evolution of global digital-asset regulation, blockchain-based payment and settlement, tokenization, privacy, trust, data security, and the implications of advances in quantum computing. The organizer has also released its first batch of guests. The list includes Xiao Feng, chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and chairman and CEO of HashKey Group; Hong Kong legislator Duncan Chiu; Moon Inc CEO John Riggins; and executives, researchers, lawyers and industry builders from institutions including JPMorgan, BlackRock, Ondo Finance, RD Technologies, Canton, Qtum and Sui Foundation-related circles. More speakers and the full agenda will be announced later, according to the event notice.

Caixin reported that Zhao Yao, a guest researcher at the Payment and Clearing Research Center under the Institute of Finance at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said offshore digital-asset platforms have recently launched on-chain trading products tied to Chinese technology companies including CXMT. Zhao said the move shows global digital-finance platforms are building trading exposure around high-quality Chinese technology assets and are getting ahead in shaping price expectations, trading liquidity, and cross-border capital access. He said these instruments do not represent A-share equity ownership. Instead, they are structured as synthetic perpetual contracts or pre-market perpetual contracts settled in stablecoins such as USDC and USDT. Zhao warned that if offshore platforms are the first to establish a continuous trading market for technology assets, the domestic capital market’s lead in pricing such assets could be weakened. He called for faster development of RMB-based digital financial infrastructure, including tokenized bank deposits, wholesale CBDC, and technology-asset tokenization, while using Hong Kong to explore pilot programs.

Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 will run from April 20 to 23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with sessions focused on TradFi-crypto convergence, AI and Web3, and RWA, alongside an expanded speaker list.

Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 returns April 20-23 with over 40 speakers from BlackRock, OKX, Solana, SharpLink, Ondo, and more, focusing on TradFi-crypto convergence, AI+Web3, and RWAs.