In the Web3 industry, the foresight to predict trends and the execution to delve deep and persevere are what distinguish long-term builders from short-term speculators. This space is never short of intelligent minds; what is truly rare is a long-termist who can place bold bets before a trend takes off and possess the patience to see them through to fruition.
From an early blockchain adopter holding 4,000 Bitcoins, to a pioneer helming a $5 billion RWA empire, and now to an ecosystem builder using SFI to unlock stablecoin infrastructure—since entering the blockchain space in 2015, he has anchored every major decision in solving the industry's pain points. His clear and steadfast logic has consistently kept him ahead of the market consensus at every turn. As Chairman of the SFI (Stablecoin Financial Infrastructure) Ecosystem Foundation, Founder and President of X Infinity, and Executive Chairman of the HK Web3 Club, this Malaysian entrepreneur, based in Singapore, has a business footprint spanning major global markets. He is affiliated with over 100 Web3 and traditional enterprises, and his entrepreneur-centric community network reaches over 20 million people. What carries more weight than these numbers are his three market-leading track decisions—each precisely targeting an industry pain point, each completing a full closed loop from strategic layout to commercial implementation.

1. From Payment Pain Points to Building a Custom Public Chain to Break Performance Bottlenecks
   In 2015, Eddie Chong first encountered Bitcoin while grappling with inefficiencies in international trade payments. At the time, Bitcoin's 75-minute settlement time was a significant improvement over traditional banking. Yet, he astutely identified a core flaw: its mere 7 TPS (transactions per second) made it utterly unfit for large-scale real-world payment scenarios—a critical barrier to blockchain's practical application.
   This forward-thinking judgment led him to found X Infinity in 2017, dedicating himself to developing a high-performance proprietary public chain. After two years of rigorous development, the X Public Chain was officially launched in 2019, achieving a groundbreaking 100,000 TPS with a transfer confirmation time of just 0.1 milliseconds—a qualitative leap in performance compared to Bitcoin. That same year, X Infinity was acquired in a $160 million deal, and this technological exploration, driven by solving payment pain points, finally gained market recognition.
   Yet Chong's thinking didn't stop at technological implementation. He realized that while a high-performance public chain solved blockchain's transaction efficiency, a new shortcoming emerged: the lack of real asset backing on the chain rendered even the most efficient technology a hollow concept. This insight led him to turn his attention to the then-underappreciated RWA track, ushering in a new phase of practical application for his track selection framework.

2. Contrarian Layout of RWA in a Bear Market: Empowering Blockchain to Carry Real Asset Value
   From 2019 to early 2020, the crypto market was mired in a bear market slump. While most participants clung to pure tech narratives and virtual asset speculation, Eddie Chong was the first to shift his investment focus to the tokenization of real assets. In his view, if blockchain could never carry real assets, it would forever be trapped in speculative attributes; only by integrating the virtual and the real could the industry achieve sustainable development. This judgment was a full three years ahead of RWA becoming a buzzword and was another embodiment of his problem-solving-centric framework.
   In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic roiled global markets and most investors opted for a cautious wait-and-see approach, Chong launched a series of precise contrarian moves, making heavy bets in the real asset space:
   ●He invested $350 million in the MICK Malacca Gold Port, a core hub asset in Southeast Asia, now valued at $5 billion.
   ●He invested $4 million in Nextglass, entering the smart glass track; the project has since soared to a valuation of $300 million and become a leader in its niche.
   ●He invested $20 million in Delta Private Jets, deepening his presence in the high-end travel track; the project is now valued at $200 million.
   ●He invested $20 million in WebTvAsia, a play in the Asian streaming market, whose market value exceeded $500 million in 2025.
   During the same period, leveraging his precise grasp of industry trends, he achieved a cumulative return of over $400 million through compliant two-way cooperation and value investment in digital currencies, gold, biotech and healthcare, and other tracks.
   These investment cases together form the core investment model of X Infinity Capital: efficiently connecting high-quality real assets—such as ports, real estate, and advanced manufacturing facilities—with the capital market through digitalization, tokenization, and structured financial tools. This creates a dual-drive closed loop of "real asset value + digital empowerment." Today, the fund manages $5 billion in assets and has invested in over 400 projects, emerging as a benchmark investment platform in the RWA track. This $5 billion RWA empire is the fruitful result of his track selection logic.

3. Targeting Circulation Shortcomings: Completing the Final Piece of the RWA Puzzle with SFI
   From 2023 to 2024, the RWA track finally emerged as a major industry trend. However, Eddie Chong once again keenly spotted a new structural problem: as more real assets were tokenized on-chain, the industry lacked efficient and stable circulation tools, leaving a large amount of RWA assets "locked" on the chain and unable to truly flow into the real economic cycle—a new bottleneck for the large-scale development of RWA.
   In his view, RWA and stablecoins are two sides of the same coin. Without RWA, stablecoins would be confined to mere trading and lack real value support. Without stablecoins, RWA assets would lose an efficient circulation carrier, making large-scale implementation unattainable.
   Based on this judgment, Eddie Chong co-founded SFI (Stablecoin Financial Infrastructure) in 2024, positioning it as a one-stop stablecoin ecosystem infrastructure. Its core goal is to break down all barriers between stablecoins, consumers, and enterprises, making stablecoins a bridge connecting on-chain RWA assets with offline real-world scenarios. This was another pivotal track layout he made to address a critical pain point in the RWA track.
   Today, SFI has built active communities in over 100 countries worldwide, with more than 200,000 genuine active users. Its ecosystem covers multiple core tracks, including stablecoins, digital asset cards, public chains, and DeFi. Combined with X-Pay, the payment system under X Infinity—a comprehensive crypto wallet equipped with physical digital asset cards supporting VISA, Mastercard, and UnionPay, connected to 800 million merchants globally, enabling cross-currency spending in daily bills, clothing, transport, and more—SFI and X-Pay have formed a deep synergy. Together, they have built a complete commercial closed loop: from RWA asset tokenization on-chain, to stablecoin circulation, and finally to implementation in offline real-world consumption scenarios, truly unlocking the circulation value of his $5 billion RWA empire.
   Conclusion: Delving Deep, Not Chasing Trends – A Core Methodology Centered on Solving Industry Pain Points
   Reviewing Eddie Chong's three pivotal choices, a clear framework for track selection runs through them all: from his early exploration of Bitcoin, to building a $5 billion RWA empire, and then to unlocking stablecoin infrastructure with SFI. He has never chased market hotspots. Instead, at every stage of the industry's development, he accurately identifies the weakest links in the chain, uses them as the core basis for his track choices, and personally steps in to solve the problems.
   ●From 2015 to 2017, targeting the pain points of low blockchain payment efficiency, he founded X Infinity to develop a high-performance public chain, filling the critical gap in the technological underlying layer.
   ●From 2019 to 2020, discovering the lack of real asset support on-chain, he laid out X Infinity Capital and systematically deepened his presence in the RWA track, enabling blockchain to truly carry real asset value.
   ●In 2024, identifying the new bottleneck of inefficient circulation tools for RWA assets, he co-founded SFI to build stablecoin infrastructure, breaking through the last mile of asset circulation.
   Each round of layout addresses the core bottlenecks of the previous stage, and each problem-solving process further refines and expands his business territory. Ultimately, a complete Web3 closed loop—covering the technological base (X Public Chain), the asset side (RWA track), and the circulation layer (SFI + X-Pay payment system)—has taken shape through his consistent, deep cultivation.
   Today, RWA remains the most certain trend in Web3, and Eddie Chong has been deeply cultivating this track for five years. With over a decade of experience in the blockchain industry, he has refined a clear framework through practice: do not chase trends, only fill gaps; anchor long-term value by solving core industry pain points. This offers a profound insight for all Web3 practitioners: the essence of track selection lies in solving real problems, not blindly chasing hotspots. Only in this way can one stand firm in the tide of the industry and achieve a leap from single-point exploration to ecosystem integration.

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