On January 9, 2025, the Hong Kong Wealth Management Summit Forum and the 12th "Hong Kong Stocks 100 Strong" Awards Ceremony were grandly held in Hong Kong. Alec, the head of HTX Ventures, and Molly, the ambassador of HTX DAO, were invited to attend and shared insights on the development trends of Hong Kong's wealth management industry, investment directions, and cross-industry collaboration in the RWA ecosystem.

Strategic Focus: Emphasizing Productive RWA, AI Finance, and Compliant Payments

During the roundtable forum titled "New Benchmark for Global Asset Allocation: The Rise and Future of Hong Kong's Wealth Management," Alec, the head of HTX Ventures, analyzed that as the regulatory environment gradually clarifies and institutional funds continue to enter the market, the following areas in the integration of global wealth management and Web3 are particularly worth focusing on in the current and near future:

Productive RWA (Yield-generating Real-World Assets): Focusing on innovative platforms that tokenize traditionally high-threshold private equity (PE), private credit, and green financial debt.

AI-Driven Automated Asset Management (AI-Agentic Finance): Paying attention to middleware technology solutions that effectively integrate AI strategies with SFC compliance frameworks.

Compliant Stablecoins and Payment Gateways: Centered around Hong Kong dollar stablecoins, developing cross-border trade settlement and B2B payment businesses to build the underlying infrastructure for wealth management, enabling the instantaneous conversion of traditional fiat assets into on-chain configurable assets.

Alec, Head of HTX Ventures, at the "Rise and Future of Hong Kong Wealth Management" Roundtable Forum

Evolution of Investment Logic: Building Evergreen Foundations Amid "Dynamic Changes"

Beyond selecting the right sectors, HTX Ventures places greater emphasis on whether projects possess the ability to survive and evolve in a "dynamically changing market environment" over the long term. Alec further pointed out that HTX Ventures focuses on evaluating the following three core elements:

Architectural Flexibility: In an increasingly multipolar global regulatory environment, modular and scalable technical architectures enable projects to quickly adapt to compliance requirements in different regions without restructuring their underlying systems.

Sustained Market Competitiveness and Demand-Matching Capability: HTX Ventures not only provides financial support to projects but also leverages its global user data and industry insights to help projects establish efficient feedback loops and agile iteration mechanisms, ensuring they remain competitive in the fiercely contested Web3+AI sector.

Ecosystem Connectivity and "Unique Asset" Integration: Relying on the global fund and ecosystem partnership matrix built by HTX Ventures, projects are directly connected to unique asset sources worldwide, shortening their cycle from "proof of concept" to "commercial realization," thereby gaining a first-mover advantage in intense competition.

Alec emphasized that HTX Ventures will continue to focus on early-stage projects with cutting-edge technology and real-world application value, improving blockchain infrastructure investments, and accelerating the large-scale adoption of Web3.

The Role and Core Value of Blockchain in the RWA Ecosystem

During the roundtable forum titled "Exploring New Paths for Cross-Industry Empowerment to Drive High-Quality Development of the RWA Ecosystem," Molly, the ambassador of HTX DAO, analyzed that the key to achieving cross-border collaboration in RWA lies in role restructuring through resource complementarity. She pointed out that the real economy should provide authentic, sustainable assets and cash flow foundations, financial institutions should be responsible for structural design, risk management, and compliance output, while blockchain and Web3 infrastructure should serve as the central hub for ownership verification, circulation, and automated settlement.

Molly, Ambassador of HTX DAO, at the "Driving High-Quality Development of the RWA Ecosystem" Roundtable Forum

Molly further emphasized that the core value of blockchain in cross-industry RWA collaboration does not lie in "on-chain" processes themselves but in the systematic restructuring of collaboration processes and trust mechanisms. Through on-chain ownership verification and information transparency, all participants can verify asset status, profit distribution, and risk exposure in real-time on a unified ledger, reducing information asymmetry. By leveraging smart contracts for automated accounting, clearing, and maturity payments, manual operations and execution friction can be significantly reduced, thereby shifting trust from "human endorsement" to "institutional and code constraints," effectively lowering communication and trust costs between the financial and real industries.

HTX Ventures Honored as "Hong Kong Stocks 100 Strong" Best Web3 Venture Capital Institution of the Year

It is worth mentioning that during this event, HTX Ventures was awarded the "Best Web3 Venture Capital Institution of the Year" for its continuous efforts in the global Web3 ecosystem and outstanding investment performance.

In recent years, HTX Ventures has consistently increased its investments in Web3 underlying infrastructure and innovative application sectors. It has developed a clear and robust investment logic in the integration of blockchain technology with real-world business scenarios, exploration of global compliance paths, and long-term value investment, earning high recognition from the industry for its systematic layout.

The "Hong Kong Stocks 100 Strong" selection activity, initiated in 2012 by Tencent.com and Finet Group, promotes the healthy and prosperous development of Hong Kong's capital market by releasing rankings and awarding prizes. Additionally, the event combines a summit forum with an awards ceremony to discuss financial market and economic trends, with its influence expanding year by year, making it one of the annual grand events in Hong Kong's financial and economic circles.

As a deep participant in the global Web3 wave, this award not only recognizes HTX Ventures' past achievements but also serves as an incentive for its future strategy of deepening its presence in Hong Kong and connecting globally. Hong Kong is becoming a high ground for the institutional narrative of global Web3. HTX Ventures and HTX DAO will continue to play the roles of "connectors" and "enablers," committed to introducing unique assets, compliant technical architectures, and forward-looking business models to the Hong Kong market, jointly promoting the healthy and prosperous development of Hong Kong's capital market.

HTX Ventures Awarded "Best Web3 Venture Capital Institution of the Year"

About HTX Ventures

HTX Ventures is the global investment division of Huobi HTX, integrating investment, incubation, and research to identify the most outstanding and intelligent teams worldwide. As an industry pioneer, HTX Ventures has over 11 years of experience in blockchain construction and excels in identifying cutting-edge technologies and emerging business models within the field. To drive growth within the blockchain ecosystem, we provide comprehensive support to projects, including financing, resources, and strategic advice.

HTX Ventures currently supports over 300 projects, covering multiple blockchain sectors, with some high-quality projects already listed on Huobi HTX. Additionally, as one of the most active FOF funds, HTX Ventures invests in 30 top global funds and collaborates with leading global blockchain funds such as Polychain, Dragonfly, Bankless, Gitcoin, Figment, Nomad, Animoca, and Hack VC to jointly build the blockchain ecosystem. Visit us.

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