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We are pleased to welcome Anna Zhang, Head of Payment Growth, APAC at the @SolanaFndn, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Anna leads payment growth for Solana across Asia Pacific, with a focus on stablecoin and agentic payments as emerging infrastructure for global money movement. Prior to joining the Solana Foundation, she spent over five years at Airwallex, overseeing key partnerships and go-to-market initiatives across APAC. Earlier in her career, she spent three years at McKinsey & Company across China and the Middle East, advising global enterprises on digital transformation and go-to-market strategy. Her participation brings a perspective on how stablecoin payment infrastructure is developing in practice across Asia Pacific, and what the conditions for institutional-grade adoption of onchain payment rails look like on the ground.

Florian Spiegl is building EVIDENT, a licensed tokenization marketplace now in HKMA's Project EnsembleTX alongside BlackRock and HSBC. In this episode of Beyond Cosmoverse, @fmspiegl share his read on private markets and where tokenization stands ⬇️ youtu.be/l_4S4aDACkM

We are pleased to welcome @charlesdhaussy, CEO of @dydxfoundation, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Charles leads the dYdX Foundation, which supports a decentralized finance protocol for perpetual futures. Before joining dYdX, he served as Global Head of Business Development at ConsenSys, and earlier held the role of Head of FinTech with the Hong Kong government, where he worked closely with the local fintech and blockchain community. His career spans entrepreneurial ventures and executive roles across fintech startups in Asia and the Middle East. In 2021, he authored Block Kong, exploring Hong Kong's blockchain leaders, and in 2025 published Arabian Crypto, examining the development of the crypto industry across Arab markets, with a focus on the UAE. His participation brings a perspective shaped by policy, market development, and protocol governance across multiple jurisdictions, at a moment when digital asset markets in Asia and the Middle East are converging with institutional frameworks.

We spent months building this room. BlackRock. HSBC. SWIFT. Fidelity. Franklin Templeton. BIS. The decision-makers driving digital asset adoption across APAC are joining us. Will you? Early bird tickets are live, secure your place: luma.com/CosmoverseHong…

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We are pleased to welcome Devendra Verma, Business Lead, Digital Assets at Swift, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Devendra spearheads strategic client engagements for Swift's Shared Digital Ledger initiative, partnering with global financial institutions to drive the

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We are pleased to welcome Devendra Verma, Business Lead, Digital Assets at Swift, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Devendra spearheads strategic client engagements for Swift's Shared Digital Ledger initiative, partnering with global financial institutions to drive the integration of digital assets into the global financial ecosystem, with a focus on interoperability and strategic alignment. His participation brings a senior perspective on how digital assets are being integrated into global financial infrastructure, and what interoperability looks like in practice when the world's leading financial messaging network engages digital rails.

AI Agents will want capital efficiency, and they will select the currencies that deliver that. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research and Strategy at @BlockchainforEU, argues that the agentic economy is a regulatory question as much as a technology one.

The euro is the second largest currency in the world and holds just 1% of global stablecoin volume. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research & Strategy at @BlockchainforEU walked us through why that gap exists and what it would take to change it. New episode of Beyond Cosmoverse.

We are pleased to welcome Christie Chan, Director – Group Digital Assets and Currencies at HSBC, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Based in Hong Kong, Christie is central to the strategic build-out of digital assets and currencies capabilities for HSBC in the region. Since joining the firm in 2022, her work has included the landmark HKSAR Government Digital Green Bond issuances on HSBC Orion and HSBC's involvement in the HKMA's Project Ensemble. Her participation brings an institutional perspective on how digital asset and currency capabilities are being built and deployed in practice within one of the world's largest banking organisations, at a moment when Hong Kong's digital asset market infrastructure is entering a new phase of execution.

@Cosmos_Airdrops While the Hong Kong event will not be a Cosmos event, we appreciate the recognition. That lineup required a massive effort from our team.

@tonyler_ @CosmoverseHQ @cosmoshub In fact, we did it already. Our 2026 summit is called Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.

@tonyler_ Feel free to check on our website, but atm announcements are ongoing currently we have confirmed speakers from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity International, ChinaAMC HK, Invesco, Stratford Advisory, InvestHK, World Bank, EFPA Europe, EVIDENT.

We are pleased to welcome Abdelhamid Bizid, Head of Product Development APAC at @BlackRock, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Known as Abdel, he leads product development and governance across BlackRock's APAC investment platform, working to deliver a differentiated offering across active and private markets for institutional clients in the region. He also oversees BlackRock's China onshore product strategy, driving product innovation within the firm's local wealth and fund management subsidiaries. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with approximately US$13.9 trillion in assets under management as of Q1 2026. The firm has been one of the most active institutional participants in the tokenization of financial markets globally, from BlackRock's tokenized money market fund, now at approximately US$2.5 billion in assets, to new filings for tokenized Treasury and money market fund structures. His participation brings a senior product development perspective on how the world's largest asset manager is building and scaling institutional-grade tokenised product infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

@DariuszTroj @CosmoverseHQ @BlackRock Just for clarity, as of now Cosmos is not involved in our 2026 summit.

@DariuszTroj @CosmoverseHQ @BlackRock Actually more BlackRock speakers will be announced soon 😅

We are pleased to welcome Barton Lui, Director, Global Product Solutions at @BlackRock, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Barton sits within BlackRock's Global Product Solutions team in Hong Kong, focused on product development across the firm's investment platform. His work spans asset management product strategy and distribution, connecting institutional client needs with BlackRock's global product capabilities across Asia. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with approximately US$13.9 trillion in assets under management as of Q1 2026. The firm has been one of the most active institutional participants in digital asset market development globally, from its spot Bitcoin ETF, the fastest-growing ETF ever launched, to BlackRock's tokenized money market fund, which has grown to approximately US$2.5 billion in assets and expanded across multiple blockchain networks. His participation brings a product and distribution perspective from the world’s largest asset manager, at a moment when institutional product development and digital asset infrastructure are converging in practice across Asia Pacific.

We are pleased to welcome Tom Digby, Managing Director, Head of APAC ETF Distribution at Invesco, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Tom leads ETF distribution across Asia Pacific for Invesco, one of the world's largest ETF providers with over $638 billion in ETF and index assets under management globally. His work spans the full distribution architecture for one of the most active ETF businesses in the region, from capital markets and liquidity to retail, wealth, and institutional distribution across APAC. Invesco has been an active participant in Hong Kong’s evolving digital asset ETF market and has published institutional research on digital asset ETF opportunities, including Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure. In February 2025, Invesco cross-listed its flagship QQQ ETF on HKEX, the first cross-listing of the fund outside North America, reflecting the firm’s strategic commitment to Hong Kong as a distribution hub for the region. His participation brings a senior distribution perspective on how institutional-grade ETF infrastructure is evolving to accommodate digital assets, and what access, liquidity, and market structure look like in practice for one of the world’s largest ETF providers operating across Asia Pacific.

We are excited to welcome Peggy Kwok, Senior Vice President, Fintech at Invest Hong Kong, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. In her role, Peggy is responsible for InvestHK's fintech engagement as part of the government department responsible for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. In her role, she works closely with financial institutions, fintech companies, and infrastructure operators to support the development of Hong Kong's digital asset and fintech ecosystem, connecting international participants with the regulatory and commercial conditions the city offers. Her presence brings a public-sector perspective on the conditions, regulatory, commercial, and institutional, that are shaping Hong Kong's position as a leading jurisdiction for digital asset market development.

AI won't replace you. It will replace what you do. Every major technology in history has done exactly that, and the economy has always found new things for people to do with the time it created. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer of Pairpoint by Vodafone: