Since its inaugural launch in 2015, the Global Blockchain Summit has stood shoulder to shoulder with the industry for twelve consecutive years.
September 23, 2026, hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, the12th Global Blockchain Summitwill be grandly held at theHyatt on the Bund, Shanghai. With the theme"Blockchain New Economy · Intelligent Chain Symbiosis", this year's summit will bring together top guests from the fields of finance, technology, investment and industry by the banks of the Huangpu River, engaging in a high-density exchange of ideas around the key changes that are reshaping the industry landscape.
This year, the summit will directly address a series of core propositions that are shaping the future of the industry—the global digital asset regulatory framework continues to evolve, and on-chain practices in payments, settlement and asset circulation are deepening;Tokenizationreal-world assets (RWA) are accelerating from concept to reality, with explorations such as tokenized deposits and tokenized U.S. equities continuing to heat up. At the same time, AI is iterating rapidly, pushing privacy, trust and data security to a more important position,quantum computingThe development [of these technologies] has also brought new challenges to cryptographic security.
What new signals will global policies release? How will payment and settlement systems evolve? What are the underlying logic and regulatory framework of tokenization? As the AI wave sweeps across the world, what roles will blockchain and privacy technologies play in the future technological landscape? These questions, which are unfolding and whose answers are still taking shape, will all be brought to the stage at this year's 12th Global Blockchain Summit.
Question One
What new signals will global policies release?
Question Two
How will payment and settlement systems evolve?
Question Three
TokenizationWhat are the underlying logic and regulatory framework of [tokenization]?
Question Four
When theAIwave sweeps across the world, what roles will blockchain and privacy technologies play in the future technological landscape?
Alongside the cutting-edge topics gaining momentum, the lineup of heavyweight guests continues to expand. From policymakers, financial institutions and asset managers to technology researchers, blockchain entrepreneurs and industry practitioners, industry forces from different fields and perspectives will converge on the same stage, bringing observations and judgments from the front lines of policy, finance, technology and practice to these key propositions.
Currently, Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group; Duncan Chiu, Member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Technology and Innovation constituency); John Riggins, CEO of Moon Inc.; Li Guoquan, Dean of the Global FinTech Institute; Fan Wenzhong, Executive Director of the China Society for Finance and Banking and former Chairman of Beijing Financial Holdings Group; Ba Qing, Chief Economist of HashKey Group and General Manager of the Group Strategy Department; Zhao Yao, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow of the National Institution for Finance and Development; Zhao Ying, Partner at King & Wood Mallesons; Chen Long, Secretary-General of Luohan Academy; Miguel Palencia, Co-founder of Qtum; Du Yu, Head of Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory; Xu Ping, Head of FinTech for Asia and Head of Financial Institutions for China at JPMorgan Chase; Rita Liu, CEO of RD Technologies; Anna Liu, CEO of HashKey RWA; Min Lin, Managing Director of Global Business Development at Ondo Finance; Thomas Chou, Head of Asia-Pacific at the Canton Foundation; Abdelhamid Bizid, Head of Active and Alternative Investment Product Development for Asia-Pacific and Head of Product for China at BlackRock Global Product Solutions (GPS); Yu Yu, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Dean of the School of Cryptology at East China Normal University; Leo Lin, Co-founder of Arkreen; Xia Fubiao, Co-founder of Primus; MOMO, Chief Security Officer of KUN Global; Zhu Xiaoxiao, R&D Director of the Edge Computing Business Unit at StarFive Technology, and other guests(Speakers are listed in no particular order)Have successively joined the summit lineup 👇
More heavyweight guests and the full summit agenda will be revealed successively in the near future.
September 23, the 12th Blockchain Global Summit. We look forward to gathering again with industry peers from around the world in Shanghai, and, as transformation unfolds, exchanging judgments, colliding views, and jointly seeking answers.
