Author: ChainCatcher
On April 8th, during the Web3 Festival HK, ChainCatcher collaborated with RootData to successfully host an offline theme event "Crypto 2025: Breaking Through and Rebirth" in Hong Kong. The event atmosphere was enthusiastic, attracting numerous crypto industry leaders, frontier project representatives, renowned investment institutions, and top KOLs to gather and discuss the evolution direction and breakthrough strategies of the Crypto market in the new cycle.
This event focused on the theme of "Breaking Through and Rebirth", conducting in-depth exchanges around hot tracks such as AI, Memecoin, and RWA. Solana Foundation Advisor Adam Jin, Alchemy Pay Ecosystem Head Arda Senoz, Avalanche Chinese Market Head Jenny, Aethir Chief Architect Jaden Yan and other representatives shared their forward-looking industry trend judgments and practical experiences on-site.
Keynote Speeches
The event was officially launched with OKX Chinese Brand Director Lanng's keynote speech "OKX New Narrative". Lanng introduced that OKX has a compliance team of over 500 people and has consecutively released 29 reserve proof reports, with total mainstream cryptocurrency asset reserves reaching $24.6 billion and a clean asset ratio of 99.5%, demonstrating strong asset transparency and stable operational capabilities.
Lanng also disclosed that OKX Web3 wallet user growth reached 991% in 2024, with daily transaction volume increasing 20-fold, significantly enhancing ecosystem activity. Recently, OKX Web3 wallet has successively launched X floating plugins, AI insights and other functions, while adding black address monitoring and tracking capabilities to provide users with higher-level asset security guarantees.
In the sharing "MEME is Not a Dead End: Paving the Global IP Path with AI Agent", IPFUN core builder Hacky Sack stated that IP is a story with traffic and an influential product. New IPs can break free from single platform constraints, distribute content across multiple platforms while maintaining coordination with the owner.
Hacky also revealed IPFUN's operational model, where the team introduces and incubates KOLs, IP operation teams, and Non-Fungible Token transformation teams, helping them issue exclusive IP coins and supporting content production through multiple Agents. Users can invest in coins or consume the content.
Alchemy Pay Ecosystem Head Arda Senoz in his keynote "Bridging the Fiat and Crypto Global Economies" stated that since its establishment in 2017, Alchemy Pay, as blockchain payment infrastructure, has covered 173 countries with fiat entry and exit solutions, supporting over 50 fiat currencies, and holding relevant licenses in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, South Korea, and Indonesia.
As of 2024, Alchemy Pay has over 3 million registered users, processed more than 8 million orders annually, achieving 300% business growth. It is expected to officially launch Alchemy Chain this year, focusing on stablecoin payment and transfer, and plans to introduce new features like RWA fiat purchase and AI payment.
AEON CEO Eddie Li mentioned in "Unlocking the Future of Crypto Payments for Effortless Mass Adoption" that AEON is giving digital assets real-world application value through AEON Pay, breaking traditional crypto payment technical barriers with the "payment abstraction" concept to help cryptocurrencies truly reach the masses and promote crypto payments in offline scenarios and broader application domains.
RootData Co-founder Hunter also introduced the platform's overall development. Currently, RootData has recorded over 17,000 projects and 10,000 individuals, becoming a high-frequency query entrance for 2 million users with over 4.2 million monthly search requests.
RootData has established API data cooperation with over 50 projects, including OKX, Link3, RSS3, and TokenPocket.
Round Table Discussions
In the round table discussion "How Crypto 2025 Will Break Through", Solana Foundation Advisor Adam Jin, Avalanche China Market Head Jenny, Kite AI Chief Marketing Officer Cindy Shi, GMGN Growth Head Sunova, and Aethir Chief Architect Jaden Yan conducted an in-depth discussion on industry trends and future changes.
GMGN Growth Head Sunova stated that GMGN always adheres to a user-centric approach, dynamically adjusting product strategies based on user preferences. She noted that meme has strong wealth creation potential, creating economic value through "meme play", and will have more application scenarios in the future. She believes compliance is key to attracting traditional capital and will accelerate infrastructure and liquidity improvement. Sunova emphasized that on-chain compliance is still in early stages, but GMGN will fully embrace this trend once implemented.
Avalanche China Market Head Jenny stated that Avalanche will focus more on builder ecology in 2025, launching multiple incentive policies to support developer and community growth. She mentioned that the US is rapidly promoting crypto regulation in the new government cycle, and Avalanche will firmly support regulatory compliance. She also believes RWA and payment are huge opportunities, and more traditional financial institutions will accelerate entry as legal frameworks are improved.
The second round table with the theme "New Narrative of Crypto 2025" included XO Growth Head Feniz, LOOP Space Founder Joan Teng, SaharaAI Asia Ecosystem Head Eligos Cheung, 0G Greater China Head JT Song, and Juchain Chief Marketing Officer Anita, who explored the next stage of crypto narrative and innovation breakthroughs.
XO Growth Head Feniz emphasized that community building is crucial in Web3 projects, maintaining community activity and ensuring member benefits is an ongoing challenge. In potential tracks, he mentioned that current crypto consumption is mainly prepaid "top-up cards", far from achieving a true "crypto credit card". Due to crypto asset volatility, credit-based consumption products still need breakthrough.
LOOP Space Founder Joan Teng introduced that LOOP Space has hosted over 100 crypto-themed Space events and attracted over 150 KOLs. LOOP Space is an AI social platform driven by DeepSeek, introducing the GiftFi concept, aiming to subvert AI application in social scenarios.
