On April 14, Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman of HashKey Group , Kong Jianping , Chairman and CEO of Nano Labs, and Director of Hong Kong Cyberport attended the inauguration ceremony of the "Green Bitcoin Alliance". Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Department of Justice Zhang Guojun, Hong Kong Legislative Council member Wu Jiezhuang, Hong Kong Web3Hub Fund CEO Huang Junlang and many other people witnessed the establishment ceremony of the 100 million US dollar Web3 Ecological Fund. Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKey Capital jointly launched the Web3 Incubator.
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On April 14th, the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" co-organized by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group and hosted by W3ME continued. Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman of HashKey Group, and Chairman of Nano Labs Concurrent CEO and Hong Kong Cyberport director Kong Jianping and many people attended the inauguration ceremony of the "Green Bitcoin Alliance". Zhang Guojun, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Department of Justice announced that Hong Kong's Web3Hub Ecological Acceleration Plan with a scale of US$10 million has been launched. Huang Junlang, CEO of Hong Kong Web3Hub Foundation Said that it will launch a Web3 ecological fund with a scale of 100 million US dollars, based in Hong Kong, investing in global perfect projects, and will also promote the development of global Web3 norms. In addition, Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKey Capital jointly launched the Web3 Incubator.
With the theme of "Bitcoin Ecology: Technology and Development", the main venue aims to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by Bitcoin technology in the process of continuous development, and to look forward to the future development direction of Bitcoin ecology. Xiao Feng, chairman and general manager of Wanxiang Blockchain and chairman of HashKey Group, presided over the establishment ceremony of the "Green Bitcoin Alliance" . At the same time, HashKey Group and DePIN project arkreen released "Bitcoin block computing power carbon neutral application".
Guests at the inauguration ceremony included Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman of HashKey Group, Kong Jianping, Chairman and CEO of Nano Labs and Director of Hong Kong Cyberport, He Kaidong, Managing Director of Ebang International Hong Kong Office, and CEO of Ninth City NBTC Alen Cai, Inbit Co-Founder Zhu Wei , JDK Capital Founder Daisy Zhang, Diyi Investment President Dongzhen, Bitorigin Chairman and CEO Lucas Wang, Cypher Capital Chairman Bill Qian .
Xiao Feng said, "Purchasing green certificates and establishing the Green Bitcoin Alliance can 'greenwash' the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated by Bitcoin, and help promote Bitcoin as a green global currency. Bitcoin is becoming more and more widely used. At this time, industry players have ESG responsibilities.”
The Demo Day special event at the first session of the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" officially opened. Hao Yukun, Senior Director of Wanxiang Blockchain, announced the launch of the Web3 Incubator at the meeting . The incubator is jointly launched by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab and HashKey Capital. It is committed to providing high-value content, capital, market resources, technology development, community operations and other resource support for Web3 start-up projects, helping to create a two-wheel-driven Web3 ecosystem. Link Web2 and Web3 to promote the large-scale application of Web3.
In the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" session 2 "HashKey PRO: Digital Asset Exchange Stage" "CeFi or DeFi?" In the roundtable forum with the theme of "Application Scenarios and Future Trends" , Jeff Ren, partner of OKX Ventures, said that after several years of development, CeFi has become a very mature product with a very good experience, while DeFi is more open, transparent, and has no barriers to entry. Users around the world can use financial services, which enhances financial inclusion. DeFi and CeFi are not antagonistic, but complementary and integrated. OKX Ventures has so far invested in more than 300 projects in the five major fields of infrastructure, DeFi, GameFi , Web3, Metaverse andNFT , aiming to promote the sustainable development of the global blockchain industry.
In the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" sub-venue 4 "Web3.0 Standardization Innovation Summit", Du Yu, head of Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory, said in a keynote speech that the problems in the construction of Web3.0 standards are that most of the large-scale Commercial organizations and scientific research institutions may participate, and these institutions may lack talents who really understand Web3.0 standards. The organizational change of the Web3.0 standard should be regarded as a public product, and it is suggested to drive the research and formulation of the Web3 standard in the form of DAO.
In addition, Li Ming, chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Standardization Technical Committee (IEEE BDL), delivered a keynote speech , saying, "Standardization will definitely have a huge impact on the entire Web3 industry. Artificial intelligence and the new generation Technology is the infrastructure for next-generation Internet integration, and blockchain alone cannot solve any problems. Web3 standardization organizations need to establish protocol stacks, technology stacks, system stacks, solution stacks, and application stacks, through the support of standards and the construction of technical ecology , while considering cryptocurrency, aviation manufacturing, financial education, chip manufacturing, and knowledge sharing platforms, this is what the standardized connection needs to do. At the same time, based on standardization organizations, aggregate talent pools, project pools, and enterprise pools to release real standards. Then Based on the results of theoretical research, a standard system is developed and exported to the industry, thereby promoting the development of the Web3 industry in Hong Kong and the world. IEEE BDL has a total of 31 standards, 4 standards have been released, and 27 standards are under research. Standardization is an industry, the cornerstone of human development, which can promote an industry from chaos to gradual innovation to further iterative development.”
In addition , Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Legislative Council Member (Science and Technology Innovation Circle) Qiu Dagen delivered a keynote speech . He said that at the regulatory level, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has released a consultation summary of the discussion paper on encrypted assets and stable coins, and expects to implement regulatory arrangements in 2023 or 2024. At the level of legal tender tokenization, we have studied CBDC very early. The government has taken a relatively clear position and adopted a three-track approach to development. The digital Hong Kong dollar will be officially launched on the third track. In addition, the Bitcoin futures ETF has been launched in Hong Kong before and has a good trading volume, and there is also a lot of room for the tokenization of other financial products. The Web3 standard that Hong Kong is currently practicing and designing can go to the world.
In the "2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival" session 4 "MetaEra x BitMart Session: Where are the opportunities for Metaverse" , Kong Jianping, Chairman and CEO of Nano Labs and director of Hong Kong Cyberport, said, "With the development of Web3, the application of 2D It will slowly iterate towards 3D. The code in Web3 digital native is the law. Web3 is the combination of AI and Blockchain. The four stages of Web3 development include the blockchain enlightenment era dominated by Bitcoin, the financial application era dominated by Ethereum, The original Web3 era and the industrial Web3 era. The Chinese are the backbone of Web3 entrepreneurship, and Hong Kong will definitely become a holy land for Chinese entrepreneurs around the world.”
In addition, Mr. Zhang Guojun, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Justice of Hong Kong, delivered a speech. The Web3Hub Ecological Acceleration Plan with a scale of US$10 million in Hong Kong has been launched , which will encourage more companies to settle in Hong Kong. Combining blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to provide a convenient and cost-effective security platform, looking forward to the future, Hong Kong must better develop the unique advantages of "one country, two systems", drive Hong Kong's high-quality development with technological innovation, and at the same time attract talents from home and abroad.
Afterwards, Mr. Huang Junlang, CEO of Hong Kong Web3Hub Fund, delivered a speech saying, " We will launch a Web3 ecological fund with a scale of 100 million US dollars , based in Hong Kong, investing in global perfect projects, and will also promote the development of global Web3 norms. In addition, in the previously announced In the US$10 million Web3Hub Ecological Accelerator in Hong Kong, US$1 million will be invested in the first phase to support entrepreneurs, and the application period is from April 14 to May 14. In the past two months, there have been 350 Web3 companies Coming to Hong Kong to register, there are already 100 strategic partners, and it is expected to create more than 1,000 job opportunities." At the same time, Multichain announced that it will cooperate with Web3Hub to raise initial funds of US$1 million for the three-month Web3.0 Global Acceleration Program. The main goal of the plan is to accelerate high-tech cross-chain application projects and establish a unified MultichainVerse for all encrypted ecosystems, while providing necessary economic incentives, technical empowerment and global acceleration for related projects.
The guests who witnessed the inauguration ceremony included Zhang Guojun, deputy secretary of the Hong Kong Department of Justice, Wu Jiezhuang, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Huang Junlang, the chief executive of Hong Kong Web3 Hub Foundation, Chen Zhenying, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Ge Peifan, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, Huang Jinhui, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, and Hong Kong Legislative Council Huo Qigang, CEO of Hong Kong Science Park, Huang Keqiang, CEO of Hong Kong Science Park, YT Tsoi (Cai), managing partner of Web3Hub, Kong Jianping, founder of Nano Labs, Sheldon, founder and CEO of BitMart , and Alfred Xu, co-founder of MultiChain Co-Founder.
In addition, BitMart founder and CEO Sheldon Xia gave a keynote speech on "New Financial Ecosystem and Digital Assets in the Web3 Era" . He said that blockchain solves the cross-platform transfer and efficiency issues of data assets. Asset categories in the Web3 era can be divided into: DeFi, DAO, games, NFT, etc. For example, NFT has become the identity and avatar of the future Web3 world, and has produced a large number of economic behaviors. BitMart hopes to promote the implementation of digital asset-related practical businesses under the new policies of the Hong Kong government.
