HONG KONG, April 3, 2023— As one of the largest crypto-focused events Hong Kong has ever seen, the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 (12-15 April) is approaching. More than 300 industry leaders, project founders, investors, representatives from regulatory agencies, experts and scholars will be invited to bring to every participant the cutting-edge Web3 technologies and discuss the key issues for the development of the Web3 future.



The opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023 will be held on the morning of April 12 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). The Honourable Paul CHAN Mo-po, GBM, GBS, MH, JP, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, will kick the event off this opening remarks at the ceremony. Other renowned guests speaking at Morning Session of the Opening Day including Clara Chan, Executive Director for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA); Dr. XIAO Feng, Chairman and CEO of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman of HashKey Group; Hong, President of OKX and Peter YAN King-shun, JP, CEO of Cyberport.



The main stage session in the afternoon of April 12 is themed “What’s next for Virtual Assets”, featuring top-league guests such as Changpeng Zhao, Founder and CEO of Binance, who will be having a fireside chat with HashKey Capital’s CEO Deng Chao. Other events happening simultaneously across other sub-stages include sessions on “Integration of Web, AIGC and Privacy Preserving Computing”, (Sub-stage 1), “Hong Kong’s New Development in Web3—The Evolution and Integration from Web2 to Web3” (Sub-stage 2), “Digital Finance Frontiers and Cross-border Trade” (Sub-stage 3), and “DeSoc in Trend—SBT, DAO and SocialFi” (Sub-stage 4). A premium line-up of industry leaders and experts including representatives from OKX, Circle, Fidelity, FalconX, Onyx by J.P. Morgan, Anchorage Digital, Dragonfly Capital, GMX and more will shed light on the frontiers of the virtual asset industry and the Web3 innovations worldwide.