On September 23, 2026, the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, organized by Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory, grandly opened at the Hyatt on the Bund in Shanghai.

This summit is themed "New Economy of Blockchain · Symbiosis of Intelligent Chains," bringing together guests from the fields of policy, finance, academia, technology, and industry to jointly discuss how technological innovation will reshape financial infrastructure, expand the boundaries of industrial applications, and inject new momentum into the development of the new blockchain economy at a time when artificial intelligence and blockchain are accelerating their integration, and the practice of digital currency and asset tokenization is deepening in finance.

Since its first session in 2015, the Global Blockchain Summit has come a long way over the past twelve years. From early exploration of underlying technology to the booming development of digital assets and financial innovation, and the continuous deepening of blockchain applications in finance and industry, the summit has always been at the forefront of technological and industrial transformation, recording important processes of industry development and leaving profound annotations for each critical stage of exploration and breakthrough.

Today, twelve years later, blockchain is facing new development topics. The global regulatory framework is gradually improving, with digital currency and asset tokenization accelerating into financial practice; the wave of artificial intelligence continues to evolve, and the economy of intelligent agents poses new demands on transaction, cooperation, and trust mechanisms. Underlying technologies such as privacy computing, cryptographic security, and quantum computing also face new opportunities and challenges. The intersection of financial innovation and technological evolution presents blockchain with broader development space.

Guests gathered at the summit include Xiaofeng, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Wanxiang Holdings, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain; Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (online); Kenneth Ka, Legislative Council member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (technology and innovation sector); John Riggins, CEO of Moon Inc; Li Guoquan, Dean of the Global Institute of Fintech; Fan Wenzhong, Executive Director of the China Financial Society and former Chairman of Beijing Jinkong Group; Ba Qing, Chief Economist and General Manager of the Group Strategy Department of HashKey Group; Shan Fu, Dean of Hainan Jun Gu Digital Science Research Institute; Zhao Ying, Partner at King & Wood Mallesons; Chen Long, Secretary-General of Luohan Hall; Miguel Palencia, co-founder and COO of Qtum; Du Yu, head of Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory; Chen Bin, General Manager of Wanxiang Blockchain; Rita Liu, CEO of Yuanb Coin Technology; Anna Liu, CEO of HashKey RWA; Min Lin, Managing Director of Global Business Development at Ondo Finance; Thomas Chou, Head of APAC at Canton Foundation; Abdelhamid Bizid, Head of Active and Alternative Investment Products Development for the Asia-Pacific region and product supervisor for China at BlackRock Global Product Solutions (GPS); Yang Donglin, Head of Central Bank Digital Currency and China Digital Asset Business at Standard Chartered Group; Yu Yu, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Dean of the Encryption College at East China Normal University; Leo Lin, co-founder of Arkreen; Xavier Xia, co-founder of Primus; MOMO, Chief Security Officer at KUN Global; Zhu Xiaoxiao, R&D Director of Edge Computing Division at Saifang Technology; Zhao Xi, Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Management at Xi'an Jiaotong University; Morris Mao, Partner and Chief Data Scientist at Blue Elephant Intelligence; Liu Tao, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Zen7 Labs; Bi Tongtong, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of PANews; and Cao Heng, founder and CEO of Boundary Intelligence, among others, gathered at the summit to bring diverse perspectives that bridge the frontiers of finance and technology. (Guests are listed in no particular order.)

At the beginning of the conference, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, delivered a keynote speech online titled "From Blockchain to Blockchain + Cryptography," exploring the technical evolution direction of the deep integration of blockchain and cryptography. He pointed out that breakthroughs in cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption are pushing blockchain's expansion from public ledgers to privacy protection and secure computation. As artificial intelligence accelerates research in cryptography and formal verification, blockchain is expected to break through the capacity boundaries of traditional architectures, moving from trustworthy circulation of digital assets to trustworthy collaboration of information and computation, opening up broader development space for the next generation of digital infrastructure.

This summit will feature multiple keynote speeches and in-depth roundtable discussions, focusing on cutting-edge topics such as the integration of AI and blockchain, global regulation, digital currency payments and settlements, tokenized deposits, U.S. stock tokenization, privacy computing, and quantum cryptography, gathering the latest judgments and practical experiences from different fields to jointly explore the development direction of the new blockchain economy.

Regarding financial innovation, the summit will start from global blockchain policy and regulatory trends, discussing the future development paths of financial infrastructure, and further delve into the underlying logic and regulatory frameworks of digital currency payments and settlements, tokenized deposits, as well as cutting-edge practices like U.S. stock tokenization, exploring more possibilities for the deep integration of blockchain and traditional financial systems. At the same time, as the wave of artificial intelligence develops rapidly, intelligent agents are transitioning from information processing to autonomous decision-making and trading, pushing blockchain towards new frontiers of intelligent economic development. The summit will focus on Agent economy, discussing how blockchain can provide trusted infrastructure for autonomous trading and value exchange among agents, as well as the future evolution of smart contracts and on-chain trading mechanisms, and will extend discussions to cutting-edge technologies such as privacy computing, data protection, and cryptographic security, addressing privacy and trust boundaries in the era of artificial intelligence, as well as the challenges that quantum computing poses to the existing cryptographic systems.

After twelve years, we embark on a new journey. From technical blueprints to real-world applications, from financial innovation to the intelligent economy, the Global Blockchain Summit has witnessed the important processes of industry development, as well as the exploration and practice of blockchain continuously expanding its application boundaries and moving towards a broader world. Standing at the starting point of a new twelve years, the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, themed "New Economy of Blockchain · Symbiosis of Intelligent Chains," once again gathers industry wisdom from around the world, opening new development spaces in the deep integration of finance and technology, and jointly embarking on a new chapter of the blockchain new economy in the continuous intersection of innovation and practice.

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