AXC Co-founder & CEO, @0xEdisonL, took the stage on ViuTV's 'Market Pulse' alongside @cyberport_hk to discuss the future of on-chain business models and tokenized economies. 🇭🇰
💡 Key Takeaways:
The Power of Tokenization: AXC Labs highlighted bringing assets on-chain isn't just theory—it's actively solving the liquidity crunch and redefining enterprise operations
TradFi vs. DeFi Settlement: Smart contracts and decentralized ledgers are proving to be the ultimate solution to the high costs and slow clearing of traditional finance.
Institutional Support: @cyberport_hk is accelerating Web3 mass adoption through targeted funding, pilot sandboxes, and direct enterprise matchmaking.
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Last week’s Draper Summit felt like a homecoming. I remember reading about Tim Draper's incredible track record backing companies like Baidu, Tesla, SpaceX, and Coinbase. Back in college, when I first aspired to be a founder and VC, I bought his book, The Startup Hero. Today, I’m incredibly grateful to be here learning from the greats, discussing the future, and reconnecting with fellow founders.
Key Themes
1/ Democratisation
-Tom Staudt (President & COO, ARK Invest) highlighted the demand for financial vehicles that democratise retail access to pre-IPO investments, especially as high-quality companies stay private longer. (ARK’s Venture Fund has surged 62% over the past year, reaching $900M in total assets).
-Mogul (a Draper Associates portfolio company) is democratising real estate investment in which lowering the barrier to entry isn't just about general accessibility; it's about reducing minimum investment amounts and operational overhead.
2/ Convergence of Technologies
-Sid Sijbrandij (GitLab Co-founder) provided a perfect example of how converging technologies push humanity forward through his approach to treating his own osteosarcoma (bone cancer). He leveraged AI to review medical literature, open-sourced his clinical data and experimental scans to target specific biomarkers, and then underwent surgery based on those findings.
Key Macro Themes
1/ The Headwinds -Britt Harris (former CEO of Bridgewater) and Robert Steven Kaplan (Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs) deconstructed current macro challenges.
-Persistent fiscal deficits are potentially stress-testing the private credit sector.
-AI threatens to accelerate unemployment and inequality; we have no choice but to embrace and adapt to the disruption.
-Geopolitical risks threaten to spike energy costs, and high oil prices increase the risk of stagflation.
2/ The Tailwinds
-Baiju Bhatt (Robinhood Co-founder) is now building Cowboy Space Corporation to scale orbital power grids. This addresses the massive energy and compute infrastructure bottlenecks facing AI hardware.
-Rosie Rios (43rd US Treasurer) remains optimistic about empowering young founders, highlighted by her involvement in the America 250 startup competition and Draper TV.
-There is still a strong appetite to deploy capital into disruptive technologies, setting up a potentially big year for IPOs. Capital continues to concentrate in heavyweights like SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, and Stripe.
Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 was full of optimism despite the crypto bear market and recent DeFi exploits. RWA and Hong Kong's macro outlook dominated the conversation and for good reason. The regulatory and structural catalysts emerging now are the most significant since the city positioned itself as Asia's digital asset hub. AXC Labs shared the stage with @_BitfireGroup , @AWSstartups , @Hex_Trust , @GSR_io , @ostium , and many more to unpack why digital asset adoption will scale in Hong Kong.
1/ China's Document 42: -Issued in February 2026, Document 42 replaces prior guidance with a categorized onshore regulatory framework.
-Cryptocurrency remains prohibited, but the real signal is what's now permitted RWA has been formally defined in ministerial documents for the first time, asset-backed security tokens will follow the CSRC filing system, and financial institutions can now participate in compliant RWA products.
-The message is clear, crack down unregulated crypto activities while integrating tokenized real-world assets into the formal financial system with a tangible compliance path.
2/ First HKD Stablecoin Licenses: -In April 2026, HKMA granted the first batch of stablecoin licenses to HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial, a joint venture between Standard Chartered, HKT, and Animoca Brands.
-The addressable market for on-chain wealth management products in Hong Kong will continue to scale.
3/ Hong Kong as a Strategic Hub: -The macro backdrop continues to favor Hong Kong. The city remains the primary channel through which foreign capital enters China and Chinese companies access global markets
-In 2025, its IPO market reclaimed the top global position by capital raised. We expect Hong Kong to serve as the dominant hub not only between Chinese and international capital markets but also between TradFi and the on-chain economy.
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RWA is moving beyond yield
Liquidity is the next frontier.
Join us with @AXCLabs & BNB @VenusProtocol to explore how RWA meets DeFi 👇
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This is an excellent piece answering the 'why' of tokenising securities. Its cost-benefit framework makes a strong case for policymakers to adopt this technology. I’ve previously argued that tokenisation makes sense when (Value Creation from New Use Cases + Capital Efficiencies) > (Risk & Cost of Static Tokenization Wrappers). This a16z article takes that thesis even further.
1/ The Strategic Value of Moving On-Chain
-Beyond Operational Efficiency: Transitioning to the blockchain is a fundamental paradigm shift and enabling disintermediation in finance, not just a minor upgrade to existing operational workflows.
2/ Economic Trade-Offs of Native On-Chain Assets
-Key Benefits Atomic (instant) settlement and continuous 24/7 trading. Real-time, on-chain transparency. Concrete, direct cost reductions driven by smart contract automation. Lower barriers to entry for developers building products on top of the financial stack.
-Key Costs & Risks: Potential erosion of traditional investor protections and increased regulatory arbitrage. The risk that DeFi-enabled derivative ecosystems could introduce systemic stress to traditional markets. Additional layers of risk stemming from DeFi smart contract vulnerabilities.
4/ Core Operating Principles
-Non-Custodial Architecture: Users retain full control of their assets at all times.
-Neutral Execution: No discretionary trade execution, solicitation, or investment recommendations are provided.
-Decentralized Integration: Exclusive integration with genuinely decentralized protocols (with certain allowances for protocols actively pursuing decentralization in good faith).
The focus is shifting from 'why' to 'how.' Builders are creating frameworks for safe, credible asset integration across composable DeFi ecosystems leveraging tokenised securities for lending, restructuring, and tranching. Standardizing these modular CeDeFi workflows will be the key to unlocking mass adoption.
📌 Amundi launches $100M tokenized cash fund
Europe’s largest asset manager (with €2.3T AUM) quietly entered the tokenized RWA space with the Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund (SAFO), a regulated cash fund built under the French SPIKO SICAV framework and live on both Ethereum and Stellar. It targets institutional treasury and collateral management with 24/7 onchain liquidity; the shareholder register is recorded natively onchain, and subscriptions are open in EUR, USD, GBP, or CHF starting from one unit. Chainlink powers cross-chain aspects.
RWA Weekly Update – Mar 20, 2026
📌 SEC approves Nasdaq’s tokenized securities settlement pilot
📌 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce opens door to tokenization innovators
📌 European Central Bank said it is seeking experts to help integrate the digital euro into ATMs and card payment terminals
📌 RWA yield infrastructure emerges as the real alpha play (CoinDesk Research)
📌 Amundi launches $100M tokenized cash fund
📌 RWA yield infrastructure emerges as the real alpha play (CoinDesk Research):
Direct RWA token governance tokens miss the value, it accrues to curators/issuers. Platforms solving leverage + settlement friction (Morpho with $6.8B TVL and permissionless vaults; Fluid dominating RWA-adjacent stablecoin volume) are capturing the trade. Example: 9% RWA yield looped at 4% borrow can theoretically deliver 29%+ net, once rails mature.
https://t.co/l6WIJ1sC7X
📌 HashKey Group launched a one-stop RWA issuance solution to bridge TradFi and Web3
HashKey Group has launched a one stop RWA solution in Hong Kong, led by HashKey Tokenisation, to provide compliant end to end tokenisation infrastructure for asset owners and global investors, including issuance, custody, disclosure and trading via HashKey Exchange. Positioned around Hong Kong’s regulatory clarity and deep capital base, the platform targets funds, bonds and supply chain finance, aiming to make the city a leading global hub for RWA innovation.
https://t.co/zZ7jDyUeZf
RWA Weekly Update – Feb 27, 2026
📌 Gate secures Malta PSD2 license, unlocking EU-wide stablecoin payments under MiCA
📌 US OCC proposes curbs on branded stablecoins and bans yield rewards
📌 Japan’s SBI Holdings and Startale Group debut JPYSC, the first trust bank-backed Japanese yen stablecoin.
📌 HashKey Group launched a one-stop RWA issuance solution to bridge TradFi and Web3
📌 Japan’s SBI Holdings and Startale Group debut JPYSC, the first trust bank-backed Japanese yen stablecoin
Startale Group and SBI Holdings have unveiled JPYSC, the first Japanese yen stablecoin backed by a trust bank and issued by Shinsei Trust & Banking under Japan’s regulatory framework, with SBI VC Trade as distributor and Startale leading technical development. The fully compliant digital yen is designed to work across traditional finance and blockchains, with launch targeted for Q2 2026 pending regulatory approval.
https://t.co/49q3iFHQAS