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Consensus, the world’s longest-running crypto conference, opens successful Hong Kong adjacent week, offering a unsocial viewpoint into integer assets successful Asia.
More than 270 speakers and thousands of attendees from implicit 90 countries are expected astatine the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for the lawsuit being held from Tuesday, Feb. 18 to Thursday, Feb. 20.
Here are immoderate of the highlights:
The conference’s opening keynote (Feb. 19) volition beryllium fixed by Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-Po, and volition beryllium followed by a sheet treatment connected bitcoin’s imaginable to beryllium the ground of a caller fiscal strategy with Bitcoin OG and Blockstream CEO Adam Back, JAN3 CEO Samson Mow and Babylon co-founder David Tse.
Then Julia Leung, the caput of Hong Kong’s superior fiscal regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, details the territory’s regulatory priorities.
Yat Siu, the co-founder and president of Web3 elephantine Animoca Brands volition sermon the combat for integer spot rights, portion the ever colorful laminitis of TRON, Justin Sun, is slated to speech astir his token’s meteoric rise.
Meanwhile, Solana Foundation president Lily Liu volition sermon the blockchain’s future, and is besides participating successful a sheet with Robinhood caput of crypto Johann Kerbrat connected wherefore retail investors are moving on-chain. SUI laminitis Evan Cheng volition explicate however his blockchain is adapting to organization needs. And, rounding retired the archetypal day, Binance CEO Richard Teng volition beryllium down with Consensus Hong Kong president Michael Lau.
On Thursday, regulators successful Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia volition supply an outlook connected regularisation successful the region. Stacks’ CEO Muneeb Ali headlines what should beryllium a spirited treatment connected the renaissance successful Bitcoin Layer 2s that besides includes Lombard Finance co-founder Jacob Phillips and aboriginal CoreDAO contributor Rich Rines. And Eric Anziani, the president of Singapore-based crypto speech Crypto.com, which precocious received a licence to run successful the EU, gives a fireside chat connected his company’s ambitious planetary plans.
Also Thursday, Memeland CEO and co-founder Ray Chan sits down with CoinDesk’s Sam Ewen to speech astir the memification of finance. And, connected the Emerging Tech stage, we person the Decentralized AI summit, featuring panels with Mark Rydon (Aethir), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera), Gary Liu (Terminal 3) and galore others.
Apart from the ceremonial programming, determination are besides a big of different events offering the accidental to web and compete. From Tuesday to Wednesday, the league volition spot hundreds of developers from Asia and beyond vying for prizes and imaginable investments from apical VC firms successful the EasyA Hackathon. And beryllium definite to drawback the unrecorded onstage pitching conflict betwixt galore of the world’s astir promising early-stage Web3 companies successful the CoinDesk Hong Kong Pitchfest 2025, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday.
Finally, for those with a sporting bent, the eighth installment of the fashionable Crypto Fight Night boxing accumulation will beryllium held connected Thursday night astatine the Grand Hyatt adjacent to the HK Convention and Exhibition Centre, headlined by a bout betwixt crypto influencers Bitlord and Korean Jew.
It each promises to beryllium an invigorating league astatine a peculiar time, acceptable successful 1 of the astir dynamic cities successful Asia.
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