RWA (Hong Kong) Summit Successfully Held: Exploring a New Paradigm for Asset Tokenization

Recently, a summit focused on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) was successfully held in Hong Kong. As an important peripheral event of the 2025 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, this summit brought together many industry leaders and entrepreneurs from government agencies, industry associations, financial institutions, and the Web3 field from both Shanghai and Hong Kong. The event attracted over ten thousand online viewers through live streaming.

The summit conducted an in-depth discussion around the compliance framework, technological innovation, and market opportunities, with several participants injecting new momentum into the global RWA development from dimensions such as technological empowerment, ecological cooperation, and compliance practices.

A consulting partner from a certain Web3 solution provider shared the innovative experiences and achievements of the company in empowering the financial and real economy sectors through blockchain technology over the past two years. The company is a major builder of several national and global blockchain infrastructures and also provides technology and product innovations for multiple mainstream public chains. As a strategic technology partner for several globally licensed financial institutions, the company is committed to providing technology implementation for digital asset services to its partner organizations.

The company has reached a partnership with Hong Kong's largest bike-sharing operator to jointly launch the world's first bike-sharing system that supports cryptocurrency payments. Users can now make payments using mainstream cryptocurrencies such as USDT, USDC, and ETH. In the future, both parties will also explore cooperation in areas such as new energy asset RWA, tokenized carbon credits, and NFT digital marketing.

A certain compliant financial infrastructure builder showcased its unique positioning in the RWA field at the summit. Its BD head delivered a keynote speech titled "Unlocking Real World Assets on Chain", systematically explaining how to address the pain points of insufficient liquidity and high participation barriers of traditional assets through technological innovation and compliance design. Currently, the global RWA market has exceeded one trillion dollars, but due to regulatory differences and technical barriers, a large number of assets remain in a "sleeping" state. The company supports asset issuance, collateralization, and derivatives development by building a compliance-friendly public chain ecosystem, while leveraging a multi-level auditing mechanism and cross-chain interoperability protocol to achieve safe, trustworthy, and efficient circulation of assets on-chain.

The company has currently established partnerships with traditional financial institutions such as China Pacific Insurance and Bosera Asset Management, supporting the issuance of multiple financial assets on the blockchain, and has shortened the traditional T+2 cross-border settlement cycle to seconds, significantly reducing intermediary costs and providing technical support for the large-scale implementation of financial applications.

During the roundtable discussion, the participants engaged in an in-depth dialogue on "RWA Driving Global Asset Flow: Compliance Framework, Technological Innovation, and Market Opportunities." Experts emphasized that the explosion of RWA must be predicated on regulatory transparency, and Hong Kong, as a hub connecting international markets, can provide a testing ground for innovation through a "regulatory sandbox" mechanism. At the same time, the combination of cross-chain technology, zero-knowledge proofs, and oracle networks will effectively address core issues such as asset rights verification, price discovery, and the reliable on-chain representation of off-chain data.

A certain cloud computing service provider, as the host of this event, had its Web3 Technology Director introduce the team's long-term experience and achievements in the Web3 field. The Solutions Architect shared typical service cases of two major exchange clients leveraging cloud services to achieve high security, scalability, and global compliance.

The entire summit showcased the immediate application value of blockchain technology in consumer scenarios, as well as innovative breakthroughs at the financial infrastructure level. The participating institutions regard "compliance" as a core competitive advantage, and this deep commitment to compliance not only sets a benchmark for the industry but also closely aligns with Hong Kong's strategic goal of building a "global virtual asset center."

As the discussion on the roundtable comes to a close, this summit, with Hong Kong as its pivot, sends a strong signal to the world regarding the compliant development of RWA. Blockchain technology is breaking through the singular narrative of cryptocurrency, shifting towards supporting the deep value of digitizing real assets and global liquidity. Whether it’s the combination of shared bicycles and cryptocurrency payments, or the exponential improvement in cross-border settlement efficiency, these cases reveal the disruptive potential of Web3 technology on traditional business models.

Standing at the critical point of the integration of the digital economy and the real economy, Hong Kong, with its unique policy environment and status as an international financial center, is becoming an ideal place for RWA innovation experiments. Future competition will not only be a technological contest but also an ecological competition. When compliance frameworks, technological innovation, and market demand resonate with each other, a global financial transformation linked by asset tokenization has quietly begun.