On September 16, the "Corporate Alternative Asset Investment Summit 2024" hosted by Bloomberg was grandly held at the Bloomberg office in Singapore.
As a Web3 industry media, Followin assisted Bloomberg in planning the summit and invited representatives from leading companies in the Web3 industry, including investment research, asset management, trading, and media, to participate.
Followin CMO Tracy Zhang attended the conference on behalf of Followin and chatted with guests on hot topics including crypto asset investment, 24-year crypto industry trends, crypto and the real economy, RWA, etc.
The following are the wonderful views from the guests of the "Corporate Alternative Asset Investment Summit 2024". 
Shenyu (CEO & Co-founder, Cobo) shared in his keynote speech that modular architecture and Layer 2 technology have effectively improved the scalability and transaction speed (TPS) of blockchain, but asset security storage is still the focus of industry attention. He also pointed out that the combination of blockchain and AI will bring huge development potential. At present, the development of AI underlying technology is highly consistent with the open source characteristics of blockchain and the transparency of its code and data. In the future, AI agents are expected to monitor on-chain protocols, assets, risks and returns in real time, replace humans in complex contract analysis and decision-making, and greatly improve efficiency. At the same time, transactions between AI agents will be automatically executed through on-chain smart contracts, and blockchain will become the core carrier of these smart contracts, promoting a new ecology from human dominance to the coexistence of humans and AI agents. 
Yu Jianing (Foundr of Uweb) shared the eight core narratives in the Web3 field that he summarized and refined after 24 years, namely virtual asset spot ETF, modularization, RWA tokenization, Layer2, BTC ecology, decentralized artificial intelligence, DePIN, ZK zero knowledge, etc.
Hedy Bi (Chief Researcher of OKG Research) discussed how to use on-chain data to achieve alternative asset investment in her keynote speech. She emphasized that through on-chain data, investors can gain in-depth insights into every detail of the on-chain crypto market, including the health of public chain operations and on-chain trading behaviors. These insights can help optimize investment strategies. Hedy Bi likened the on-chain data platform to the "on-chain Bloomberg Terminal" that is essential for crypto investment.
In 24 years, with the approval of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs and the gradual clarification of supervision, the concept of RWA (Real World Assets), which is considered to be a bridge between traditional finance and crypto economy, has become extremely popular. In the roundtable entitled "Decoding RWA, a new wave of finance under the integration of traditional finance and crypto economy", Followin CMO Tracy Zhang, as the moderator, had a wonderful discussion with Jocy Lin (Founding Partner.IOSG), Benson Yan (Director of OKX Ventures), and Chris Lee (Co-Founder of Merkle 3s Capital).
In their view, RWA is an undisputed and highly promising track in the crypto field, but it has a very high entry threshold, for example, it requires heavy investment and professional background. Several guests believe that although the 24-year RWA track has attracted a lot of attention, RWA is still in its early stages and needs time to settle. It will be a track that requires long-term cultivation. At present, the RWA project around stablecoins is relatively mature, and this will be the subdivided track where the RWA concept is most likely to see "results" first.
The RWA theme roundtable focused on financial innovation, while the "Digital-Real Integration, the Two-Way Journey of Web3.0 and the Real Economy" roundtable focused on the integration of encryption and the real economy. As the host, Foresight Ventures Partner Min Xue and Jude Zhu (Sales Director. Fireblocks), Lin Chen (APAC Business Development. Deribit), Chen Zhao (Director of Digital Assets. Fosun Wealth), and Bruce Lan (General Partner of Bing Ventures) launched a wonderful discussion. 
In the past 24 years, the real industry, traditional finance and the new species of Web3.0 have interacted and merged in various fields, and have been adopted on a large scale in new models and forms. This is undoubtedly an unstoppable trend. However, there are also many frictions in the two-way rush. In the view of the guests, supervision and compliance and the exploration of effective models for combining Web3 with the real economy are the biggest challenges.
Since the advent of Bitcoin, Web3.0 has gone through more than ten years of development, and basic technologies such as blockchain and NFT have made rapid progress. In the past 24 years, "Web3.0", which has always been regarded as virtual, is "running in both directions" with the real economy and traditional finance, and is bursting with strong innovation momentum and industrial opportunities.
The topics are exciting, the guests are important, and it coincides with the annual Web3 event TOKEN2049 being held in Singapore, which has attracted widespread attention from practitioners for the "Corporate Alternative Asset Investment Summit 2024" hosted by Bloomberg.
