Focusing on RWA and AI empowering the future of Web3, LEAP NIGHT 2025 and Conflux Digital Finance Night successfully concluded.

On April 7, 2025, "LEAP NIGHT 2025 – Conflux Digital Finance Night", a grand event for Web3 industry elites, was successfully concluded during the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025. The event was jointly presented by Conflux Network and PANews, co-organized by dForce and PANONEY, and ecosystem partners include Ant Group, AnchorX, Swappi, Meson, BitUnion, ABC Pool, Polyflow, PHX Pool, BlockBooster, SHUI, etc.

The event attracted global Web3 industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and representatives from international media, who came together to discuss cutting-edge topics such as Real World Assets (RWA), regulatory technology, Layer 1 public chain ecosystems, and artificial intelligence.

(Moderator: Renee, Co-Founder of PeoplEarth)

Conflux's three strategic directions: RWA, stablecoins, and payments

As the organizer of the event, Zhang Yuanjie, co-founder of Conflux, elaborated in detail on the three major development directions that Conflux is currently focusing on from the perspective of a blockchain infrastructure builder.

Zhang Yuanjie pointed out that RWA has always been a focus of industry attention, but after asset tokenization, it often faces the problem of insufficient liquidity, which prevents it from fully playing its financing role. To address this pain point, Conflux has partnered with Ant Technology to launch a green electricity battery swap project, planning to put an asset package worth about 3 million USD on-chain for refinancing. "We hope that after the project is successful, we can expand to more RWA targets, whether they are new types of assets or larger asset packages. We aim to leverage the liquidity of blockchain and the crypto industry to solve investment issues for the real economy in Hong Kong and mainland China," Zhang Yuanjie stated.

As the world's largest importer and exporter, China has a significant gap with the United States in the field of digital currency. Zhang Yuanjie mentioned that the current issuance of US dollar stablecoins has reached 220 billion US dollars, while the issuance of Hong Kong dollar and offshore RMB is still zero, which means that there is a huge market opportunity. Conflux is committed to becoming an infrastructure track for RMB stablecoins, creating an ecosystem for the issuance, distribution, and application scenarios of stablecoins. Currently, they are in talks with the world's largest stablecoin issuer and have co-incubated an offshore RMB project with Hony Capital, which has been licensed in Kazakhstan.

In response to the difficulties of industry practitioners in daily payment, Conflux helps users apply crypto assets to daily payment by cooperating with payment networks such as UnionPay and VISA. "In addition to payment, we also plan to provide financial services, similar to Alipay's Yue Bao model." Zhang Yuanjie explained, "Part of the income of these wealth management products comes from the endogenous income of the blockchain, and part of it comes from the underlying assets of traditional industries, such as the aforementioned micro-electric battery swap project, which may also be expanded to photovoltaics, real estate loans and other fields in the future." "

dForce's DeFi innovation exploration

In addition, dForce founder Yang Mindao shared his industry observations and company strategy since entering the space in 2013. As an early DeFi project, dForce initially focused on lending protocols and later expanded into areas such as stablecoins and trading, covering almost all DeFi tracks.

Yang Mindao particularly emphasized the importance of RWA asset on-chain and liquidity provision. "Over the past few cycles, the crypto market has been dominated by native assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, but these assets have had relatively limited sources of income. Putting a large number of physical assets on the chain can not only provide a more sustainable source of income for the entire crypto ecosystem, but also attract and retain non-crypto users. He predicts that RWA, an asset class and application area, will become one of the largest segments in the next 3-5 years. dForce has previously partnered with a number of institutions to promote the tokenization of U.S. bonds and provide lending services to help U.S. bond holders earn additional income.

Yang Mindao pointed out that there are many points of convergence and commonalities between AI and cryptocurrencies. "Although AI is still in the early stages in the crypto space, we have already seen applications such as AI frameworks and AI launchpads emerging." dForce is focusing on exploring the integration of AI and DeFi, using AI agents to help DeFi improve yields, manage risks, and automate strategies. "If AI can be integrated with DeFi, which has the most advanced infrastructure in the crypto space, there will be enormous application potential in terms of yield enhancement and automation."

Regarding the current market situation, Yang Mindao believes that the market does not truly reflect the fundamentals of the crypto space. "After Trump took office, there have been many positive news in the entire crypto space, and there is a considerable upward potential. The current market adjustment seems more influenced by macroeconomic factors, especially since the tariff policy has just been introduced, which may take a few weeks to a month to gradually stabilize."

He observed that in this cycle, the correlation between cryptocurrency assets and the macroeconomy is much higher than in previous cycles, partly because the issuance of ETFs has opened up liquidity channels between traditional finance and the crypto market.

Regarding the timing of investment, Yang Min Dao suggested during the event that investors may need to wait a little longer until the Trump administration's policies become clearer. "There is a lot of controversy regarding the entire tariff policy within the cabinet, so it is better to wait a bit longer."

In addition, many industry professionals and well-known institutions at the scene discussed the application prospects of blockchain technology in financial innovation, real economy empowerment, cross-border payment and other fields. With the implementation of these innovative ideas, blockchain technology will open up more possibilities for future economic development.