Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar Market: The RWA in Consensus Thematic Side Event Successfully Concluded

On the afternoon of February 19, 2025, the RWA-themed side event, co-hosted by HashKey, Web3 Future, Starbase, and thePAC, successfully concluded during the Consensus industry conference in Hong Kong. The event, themed "RWA in Consensus: Real Assets, Real Transformation," focused on innovation and practice in the RWA field, attracting over 800 registrations, with more than 300 industry leaders, developers, investors, and Web3 enthusiasts gathering to discuss the future of the industry.

During the event, guests from institutions and projects deeply involved in the RWA sector, including HashKeyChain, HashKey Cloud, Mantra, Plume, Avalanche, Pharos, NERO Chain, Google Cloud, Advertising Time Trace, Secured Finance, DMZ Finance, and D3, engaged in keynote speeches and panel discussions to explore the critical role of RWA in the digital economy and crypto world. They conducted in-depth exchanges on core topics such as asset diversity, compliance pathways, technological innovation, and market opportunities.

Thanks to all the speakers, partners, and sponsors Baidao Data and NERO for their strong support of this event.

Here is a highlight of the event.

Keynote Speeches

HashKeyChain is a compliance-oriented on-chain financial infrastructure public chain that provides efficient, secure, and transparent public chain solutions, dedicated to promoting the deep integration of blockchain technology and RWA. Its BD Head Ellie shared the future core layout of HashKeyChain, emphasizing RWA as a key direction for blockchain development and its vast prospects for integration with traditional finance.

As an important player in this field, HashKeyChain's core advantages in the RWA sector are reflected in four aspects: technological leadership, providing high-performance and secure public chain infrastructure; industry resource integration, connecting traditional finance with the blockchain ecosystem; compliance assurance, ensuring products meet global regulatory requirements; and ecosystem support, creating an open and prosperous Web3 ecosystem. In the future, HashKeyChain will continue to promote the implementation of RWA products, providing on-chain solutions for traditional financial institutions and facilitating the digitalization of more real-world assets, accelerating the widespread application of blockchain technology.

thePAC is an RWA platform dedicated to providing institutional-level asset management products, connecting traditional finance with blockchain, and promoting the establishment of a new financial system. Its BD partner Ahaya introduced how thePAC leverages RWA to introduce high-quality real-world assets into the Web3 ecosystem, enhancing the underlying asset diversity and stability of Web3 while using blockchain to provide better liquidity and application scenarios for traditional assets. The core team of thePAC comes from top financial institutions and C-level backgrounds in blockchain projects. Currently, the first quantitative arbitrage fund that thePAC has launched is deployed on HashKeyChain, bringing more traditional client TVL support to the Web3 industry, with China Taiping Investment Management Hong Kong Limited serving as the fund's investment advisor and distributor.

Web3Future is a professional marketing agency that has been deeply involved in the crypto industry since 2021, successfully helping over 30 brands expand and consolidate their market influence in the Asia-Pacific region. In this presentation, Web3Future's Community Advisor Jimmy discussed "Building Web3 Communities in the Wave of Crypto Rightism," drawing on the team's four years of experience in Web3 community building to explore the industry's shift from technological idealism to financialization and capital concentration.

He combined the global wave of right-wing politics (such as the elections of Trump and Milei) to reveal the multiple identities and internal fractures of the crypto community in terms of ideology. Additionally, Jimmy conducted a comparative analysis of different public chains such as Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain, discussing the conflicts between technological narratives and capital operations, and pointed out the intensifying trends of compliance and centralization in the industry. Jimmy believes that under the current wave of crypto rightism, the RWA sector is facing unprecedented development opportunities.

Starbase is an accelerator focused on the Web3.0 field, dedicated to providing platform-based acceleration support for startups through a global innovation cooperation network, addressing three core needs: application scenarios, funding assets, and user growth. In this speech, Starbase founder Vivian analyzed the opportunities and challenges in the RWA sector and shared how Starbase helps RWA projects break through bottlenecks and achieve rapid development.

With over seven years of practical experience in digital securities and STO (Security Token Offering), as well as a broad ecological network of over 300 capital, infrastructure, industry funds, and developer community partners, Starbase can provide in-depth support for RWA projects in compliance architecture, tokenization, and business models. This helps address key issues such as the scarcity of quality assets, insufficient professional teams, and low market attention, promoting asset liquidity and cross-border integration, and facilitating project growth. Vivian believes that RWA is a key direction for the integration of Web3 and traditional finance, and is expected to usher in a golden period in the next decade. Starbase will continue to focus on this field, helping more projects bridge the value closed loop between real assets and on-chain ecosystems through investment and acceleration.

HashKey Cloud, as a leading provider of global Web3 infrastructure and a core member of HashKey Group, focuses on providing professional, stable, and secure blockchain services to global clients. Its product expert Perry Wang explored the key enabling points of WEB3 infrastructure in RWA (Real World Assets) business scenarios. He pointed out that information transparency and the optimization of governance processes will be key factors distinguishing RWA on-chain assets from traditional assets. Additionally, considering the complexity of RWA business scenarios, products will be deeply customized and precisely adapted to industry characteristics to ensure optimal solutions for different business needs.

Panel Discussions

Panel 1------RWA Diversification: How Traditional Institutions and Web3 Unlock a Trillion-Dollar Market

This panel was hosted by D3 co-founder and CBO Michael Ho, with Mantra founder and CEO John, Avalanche Asia head Justin, NERO Chain co-founder and CEO Jake Stolarski, Secured Finance founder and CEO Masa, and AI Mall strategic planning and ecosystem growth head Ronnie sharing their views on the RWA ecosystem from macro to micro perspectives. They engaged in in-depth discussions on core topics such as the definition of RWA, asset diversity, core value, and technological architecture innovation, and looked ahead to key breakthroughs and development trends in the RWA field over the next 1-3 years.

Panel 2------RWA Compliance: From On-Chain Issuance to Global Circulation

This panel was hosted by DMZ Finance Vice President Evelyn Xiong, featuring Asia-Pacific Web3 expert Kyle Song from Google Cloud, growth head Anthony from Plume, and co-founder and CTO Wishlonger from Pharos. They engaged in in-depth discussions on core topics such as the current structure and development pattern of the RWA industry, compliance development, and technological and policy-level innovation opportunities, including the entire process from asset tokenization and issuance to circulation, the key roles and participants in the RWA industry, and the importance of compliance in the development of RWA, as well as the support and innovation in regulation from various countries/regions.

Looking ahead, RWA, as a core track connecting the real world and the crypto ecosystem, will continue to promote the deep integration and innovative development of traditional finance and Web3. We look forward to RWA playing a greater role in the digital economy, leading the transformation and upgrading of the global financial and technological fields.