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I have decided to take a career break due to an urgent family situation. I will be stepping down from my role at Cosmoverse.
This is a difficult decision, particularly with Cosmoverse’s Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit now just two months away. My father’s health has deteriorated and he requires my full assistance, which means I will not be able to give the level of commitment the coming months will require.
Given the circumstances, I believe stepping away is the right decision, both to give @CosmoverseHQ the time and space to manage the Summit, and, most importantly, to be there for my family.
I’m proud of what we have built at Cosmoverse. When I joined, Cosmoverse was primarily an ecosystem conference. Together, we transformed it into an institutional digital asset summit, bringing financial institutions, public-sector stakeholders, regulators and infrastructure providers together around the future of digital assets.
Seeing that transformation take shape has been one of the most rewarding parts of my time there. From shaping the company’s strategy and positioning to building relationships across the institutional and public sectors, I’m proud of the role I played in helping bring Cosmoverse to where it is today.
I’m also grateful to @Cryptocito. Working with him has been one of the best professional relationships I’ve had. He is highly receptive to feedback, quick to adapt to the market, and has exceptional business development instincts. I learned a lot from him, and I have always appreciated how straightforward and principled he is.
The past 12 years have been intense. I moved from law, to photography, to technology and finance, across very different industries and roles. I have never been someone who particularly likes to slow down. I’ve always been driven by curiosity, by learning something new and by seeing where it takes me.
But there are moments when you need to stop and recognize what matters more.
My father is the person who taught me to think critically, to stay humble and, above all, to keep learning. Much of who I became, and the career I was fortunate enough to build across very different industries, started with those lessons.
So for the first time in a long time, I’m going to take a step back. Not because I’ve stopped being curious about what comes next, but because right now there is something more important.
I’ll be back.
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We are pleased to welcome Serena Yu, Director, Digital Assets Product at @StanChart, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.
Serena drives Standard Chartered's digital assets strategy, leads tokenization initiatives globally, and oversees the digital assets roadmap and development across Greater China and North Asia markets.
Her participation brings a senior perspective on what institutional-grade digital asset custody requires in practice, grounded in direct experience building custody operating models and infrastructure at one of the region's most active global banks.
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The US Clarity Act still can't clear 50% odds of passing.
Meanwhile Hong Kong has a five-year digital asset roadmap and is already deploying stablecoin licenses.
Joshua Chu on why regulatory predictability is the real competitive advantage ⬇️
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We are pleased to welcome René Michau, Global Head of Digital Assets at @StanChart, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.
René leads Standard Chartered's digital assets strategy globally, spearheading the bank's innovation and delivery of secure digital asset solutions for institutional clients across cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and stablecoins.
He also serves on the board of Anchorpoint Financial Limited, a majority-owned Standard Chartered subsidiary and HKMA-licensed stablecoin issuance company based in Hong Kong.
René co-chairs the Global Digital Finance Financial Institutions Crypto Working Group and the Institute of International Finance Digital Assets Forum, and serves as a member of the Digital Asset Markets sub-committee within the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee. He also serves on the Reserve Bank of Australia's Project Acacia Independent Advisory Group.
His participation brings a senior perspective on how a major global bank is building and scaling institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure, and what the integration of cryptocurrencies, tokenization, and stablecoins into regulated banking operations requires in practice.
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1/ @trylimitless joins Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit as Prediction Markets Partner.
The platform has moved over $4B in volume, a clear sign prediction markets are becoming one of the lead industry categories alongside tokenization and stablecoins.
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A HKD licensed stablecoin just cleared its Ethereum mainnet test. Issuance is next.
Everything you need to know about the first Hong Kong regulated stablecoins ⬇️
cosmoverse.org/insights/hong…
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The CFTC just approved regulated perps trading. dYdX Foundation CEO Charles d'Haussy breaks down what it means for crypto.
A deep dive on distribution, DeFi, and why he is still bullish on crypto markets.
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We are excited to welcome Cyberport as a Supporting Partner of the Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.
Wholly owned by the HKSAR Government, Cyberport is Hong Kong's digital technology hub and AI accelerator, home to over 2,300 companies including 9 unicorns and Hong Kong's largest FinTech community. Its mandate spans AI infrastructure, blockchain development, and the commercialization of emerging technology across financial services and beyond.
Cyberport's support reflects the institutional depth this summit is designed to serve.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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/CosmoverseHongKong
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Swift joins us at Cosmoverse in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 bringing the largest APAC players together. More names dropping soon!
We are pleased to welcome Don Ng, Director, Digital Assets at @ChinaAMC_HQ (HK), to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit.
Don is part of the digital assets team at ChinaAMC (HK), one of China's largest fund management firms and one of the most active institutional players in Hong Kong's digital asset market. In early 2025, ChinaAMC (HK) launched the ChinaAMC HKD, USD, and RMB Digital Money Market Funds - the first retail tokenised fund suite in the APAC region - and the only asset manager globally to offer tokenised money market funds across all three major currencies. This marks a significant milestone in the firm's broader digital assets strategy, which also encompasses Asia's first spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs and Asia's first Solana ETF.
Don brings a career spanning Web3 investment, crypto wealth management, and traditional banking across Hong Kong. This breadth of experience bridges the operational realities of digital asset markets with the rigour of institutional finance, giving him a rare vantage point across the full spectrum of the digital assets ecosystem.
His presence brings a senior asset management perspective on how tokenisation moves from regulatory approval into live product infrastructure, and what institutional-grade digital asset deployment looks like in practice for one of Asia's most active fund managers in digital assets.
