We are pleased to welcome Jonathan Gill, Client Co-Creation and Coverage Lead at SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Jonathan builds and scales ventures within Standard Chartered's innovation ecosystem, and originates and leads strategic opportunities across next-generation finance, digital assets and capital markets. He works with financial institutions, regulators and technology firms to develop investment products, digital asset platforms and market infrastructure for institutional investors. His career spans senior roles across banking, a sovereign wealth fund, a listed digital assets group, a global stablecoin infrastructure platform and international law firms. That mix of finance, law, technology and governance gives him a cross-disciplinary view of the regulatory, operational and commercial work involved in bringing new financial products to market. His participation brings a practitioner's perspective on how institutions move from experimentation to commercial adoption, and what trusted, scalable market infrastructure needs to look like to get them there.

The Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit takes place on 5-6 November at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. It brings together leaders from the SFC, BlackRock, Coinbase, Standard Chartered, Fidelity International, Binance, Visa , Solana Foundation and more for two days on where institutional digital assets in Asia go next. Full lineup and tickets at cosmoverse.org

Nic built @CoinBureau to 2.7M subscribers. These days he only owns #Bitcoin. On the newest episode of Double Down we got into the CLARITY Act, Fed hike and why @puckrin thinks altcoin season is not coming back. 00:00 No new retail 05:07 Banking lobby killed CLARITY 20:30 UAE accumulating Bitcoin 34:00 Losing 90% of revenue overnight 44:58 Memory chips beat crypto this year 45:32 No more Altcoin Season 1:02:43 Bitcoin low was made in June 1:04:19 Why Nic never sold his BTC Double Down is presented by @babylonlabs_io, also available on Youtube & Spotify.

Cycles Pay is now officially running on @arc mainnet. This is the first application built on top of the Cycles protocol, a privacy-preserving clearing algorithm that finds loops of mutual debt and settles them without altering what each party is owed on net. Try it today at pay.cycles.money/ We already have a web app and a mobile app, and we’ve already added support for both businesses and individuals. Perhaps more importantly, it has a combination of features no one else in the industry has built yet: private stablecoin payments, earn vaults, invoicing, expense splitting and AI assistants. And we’re working on adding invoice financing, credit scores, balance lending, and rotating savings groups with the ultimate goal of becoming the first on-chain credit bureau to deliver credit scores based on real payment history and active payment obligations. @arc is the foundation. We chose it because it is designed for payments with USDC as gas, sub-second finality, and reliable global infrastructure.

We are pleased to welcome Anna Zhang, Head of Payment Growth, APAC at the @SolanaFndn, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Anna leads payment growth for Solana across Asia Pacific, with a focus on stablecoin and agentic payments as emerging infrastructure for global money movement. Prior to joining the Solana Foundation, she spent over five years at Airwallex, overseeing key partnerships and go-to-market initiatives across APAC. Earlier in her career, she spent three years at McKinsey & Company across China and the Middle East, advising global enterprises on digital transformation and go-to-market strategy. Her participation brings a perspective on how stablecoin payment infrastructure is developing in practice across Asia Pacific, and what the conditions for institutional-grade adoption of onchain payment rails look like on the ground.

🇭🇰 We are pleased to welcome Andrew Robinson, Global Institutional Sales & CaaS GTM @coinbase to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Andrew co-leads Coinbase's institutional business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific, spanning Coinbase Markets, Coinbase Prime and Crypto-as-a-Service. Prior to joining Coinbase, Andrew was a senior strategy consultant in A.T. Kearney's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practice. He previously held roles at Lehman Brothers, Jefferies and HSBC across interest rate swaps trading and institutional equity sales. With experience spanning capital markets, corporate strategy and digital asset infrastructure, Andrew brings a deep understanding of how institutional requirements are shaping the next phase of the industry. His participation adds a senior perspective on the evolution of institutional digital asset markets across EMEA and APAC, and how platforms are adapting to support broader adoption.

🇭🇰 We are pleased to welcome Adrian Tan, APAC Head of VIP & Institutional Sales Binance, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Adrian oversees APAC coverage of the exchange's most sophisticated clients, ranging from individual traders and mid-sized proprietary teams to global financial institutions. Prior to joining Binance, Adrian spent 20 years in traditional finance at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BNP Paribas, specializing in Equities. With two decades on the institutional side of traditional markets and a front-row seat on how those same clients now approach digital assets, Adrian brings a rare view of both worlds. His participation adds a senior perspective on how institutional and professional clients across APAC are entering digital asset markets and what they expect from the platforms serving them.

We are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Wong, Director and Head of the Fintech unit Intermediaries at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Elizabeth leads the SFC's Fintech unit within its Intermediaries Division. Her work covers fintech policy and the licensing application approval process for virtual asset trading platforms, robo-advisers, virtual asset fund managers and traditional securities and asset management firms. Before taking up her current role, Elizabeth worked in the Investment Products Division and the Intermediaries Supervision Department. She played a key role in Commission-wide initiatives to strengthen Hong Kong as an international asset management centre and introduce guidelines regulating the sale of investment products through online distribution and advisory platforms. Prior to joining the Commission, Elizabeth practised as a banking and finance lawyer in Hong Kong. Her experience spans legal practice, investment products, intermediary supervision and fintech regulation. Her participation adds a senior regulatory perspective on the development of Hong Kong's virtual asset framework, the evolution of fintech policy and the foundations required for responsible institutional adoption.