Truly witnessing the development of the blockchain industry in China and globally, without missing a single year for eleven consecutive years, the 2025 Shanghai Blockchain International Week will grandly open again in October. Among which, on October 23rd, the "11th Global Blockchain Summit" hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory will serve as the core activity of the international week, gathering industry luminaries once again. During the Shanghai Blockchain Week from October 20th to 25th, dozens of technical sharing sessions, project roadshows, and academic seminars will be simultaneously presented at multiple venues in Shanghai, creating a Web3 feast covering technology, business, and culture.
Eleven Years of Accumulation, Witnessing Industry Trends
Since the first summit in 2015, the Global Blockchain Summit has now reached its eleventh year, becoming the top conference in the global blockchain field, gathering top thought leaders from technology, finance, and academic domains. Industry legends such as Li Lihui (former Bank of China president), Xiao Feng (Wanxiang Blockchain Chairman), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum co-founder), Nick Szabo (Smart Contract father), Gavin Wood (Polkadot founder), Juan Benet (Protocol Labs founder and CEO), Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana co-founder), Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink co-founder), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol co-founder), Avery Ching (Aptos co-founder and CTO), Jed McCaleb (Stellar co-founder and CTO & Ripple founder), Zeng Ming (former Alibaba Chief Strategy Officer), Steven Goldfeder (Offchain Labs co-founder and Executive President), Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare co-founder and President), Jae Kwon (Cosmos project founder), Zhong Shao (Yale Computer Science Professor & CertiK co-founder), Zhi Guo He (Stanford Business School Finance Professor), Silvio Micali (MIT Ford Engineering Professor & Turing Award winner), Yat Siu (Animoca Brands co-founder and Executive Chairman) have all attended or repeatedly attended the Wanxiang Summit and delivered important speeches.
Over the past year, public chain ecosystems have exploded, with trends like RWA large-scale applications becoming hot topics; meanwhile, stablecoin regulatory frameworks have gradually become clearer, and blockchain is transforming from a "disruptor" to an "enabler". Against this backdrop, the 11th Global Blockchain Summit, themed "Web3, Boundless", aims to discuss how technological breakthroughs can drive the industry towards broader application scenarios.
Focusing on Frontiers, Application Landing: Payment, AI, and RWA
This summit will continue its high-standard, professional style, covering the following hot topics:
Web3 Large-Scale Application Landing: How infrastructure, finance, entertainment, and other fields can break through user growth bottlenecks;
AI+Web3: Solving trust, data monopoly, and incentive issues in the AI field through blockchain technology;
Payment: Core value of Web3 payment, industry transformation, stablecoins and technological innovation, compliance and security;
RWA and Compliance Process: Practices and regulatory challenges of traditional asset tokenization
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"Web3, Boundless": Breaking Boundaries, Reshaping the Future
The 2025 Shanghai Blockchain International Week, with the theme "Web3, Boundless", profoundly echoes the core trend of current industry development - decentralized technology is dissolving the boundaries of the traditional world, constructing a more open, interconnected, and free digital new world.
Technological Boundlessness: Breaking technological silos, achieving composability and interoperability;
Financial Boundlessness: Capital flow unrestricted by geography and time zones, reconstructing value distribution logic;
Collaborative Boundlessness: Achieving permissionless large-scale collaboration based on DAOs and smart contracts
The 2025 Shanghai Blockchain International Week series of activities is open for global registration, with early bird tickets at only 399 RMB. Whether you are a developer, investor, scholar, or enthusiast, this event will provide an excellent opportunity to gain insights and connect resources.
Join us in defining the "boundless" future!
Speaker and partner (media, sponsorship, community) applications can be sent to: summit@blockchainlabs.org
Organizer - Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory
Established in 2015 by China Wanxiang Holdings, Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory gathers domain experts to research technological development, business applications, and industrial strategies, providing guidance for entrepreneurs and references for industry development and policy-making, promoting blockchain technology's service to social and economic progress. Since its establishment, the laboratory has built a global Web3 community and developer network through annual Shanghai Blockchain Global Summit & Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, organizing hackathons, bootcamps, incubators, blockchain book publishing, developer and entrepreneur courses, and blockchain and Web3 research.
Previous Summits
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In 2023, the global blockchain and Web3 industry developed in-depth, with continuous technological and application innovations emerging. The 9th Global Blockchain Summit, themed "Next Stop, Web3.0", focused on cutting-edge topics and technological breakthroughs in the blockchain and Web3.0 industry, inviting industry experts and prominent project leaders from home and abroad to deliver a feast of knowledge for participants.
In 2024, the 10th Global Blockchain Summit continued the Shanghai summit's tradition of focusing on technological development and promoting real-world implementation, concentrating on new topics such as stablecoins and RWA, "forging ahead with technology" and looking forward to the next decade.
