According to ME News, the "Crypto Finance Forum," jointly organized by WLFI, Bakkt, HKU School of Management Executive Education, and ME Group, was grandly launched on February 12, 2026, on Hong Kong Island on February 13 (UTC+8). A fireside chat focusing on the underlying infrastructure of blockchain attracted the attention of the entire audience. The chat was moderated by Professor Yu Yang, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the HKMA (Central Bank Digital Currency) Expert Group of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. It invited Adam, Asia Pacific Representative of the Solana Foundation, and Kai Qiu, Web3 Solutions Architect at Tencent Cloud, to discuss how high-performance public chains and cloud services can solve the challenges of large-scale deployment of crypto payments.
Regarding performance considerations, Adam addressed Professor You Yang's question about payment bottlenecks, pointing out that transaction speed and cost are key. He explained that Solana, with its unique parallel processing mechanism, has achieved a transaction confirmation speed of 400 milliseconds, and is expected to optimize this to 250 milliseconds within the year, with a cost as low as $1 to complete approximately 10,000 transactions. Meanwhile, Kai Qiu emphasized that Tencent Cloud is leveraging its deep expertise in game cloud technology, effectively ensuring network stability and decentralization under high load through one-click global node deployment capabilities. On compliance breakthroughs, the panelists shared cutting-edge technical solutions. Adam detailed Solana's "token expansion" mechanism, which supports native KYC locking, privacy auditing, and targeted asset withdrawal, reducing smart contract risks while precisely addressing regulatory requirements. Kai Qiu proposed a vision of "embracing regulation," sharing how Tencent Cloud assists financial institutions in strictly meeting legal compliance requirements such as data non-border entry by deploying local data centers and private cloud solutions in heavily regulated regions.
At the end of the dialogue, Adam, representing Solana, proposed a forward-looking direction for the deep integration of AI and Web3, pointing out that Solana has achieved machine-readable programming languages, and in the future, AI agents will be able to directly access the underlying infrastructure to complete transfers and transactions within a compliant framework. Professor You Yang, the host, summarized and emphasized that under the major trend of compliance, ensuring data security and the stability of the underlying infrastructure is the only path to propel blockchain from simple transactions to everyday consumer scenarios. (Source: ME News)
