Solana Accelerate APAC brings together founders, institutions, policymakers, and innovators to amplify the region’s momentum and showcase the future of internet capital markets.
Hong Kong has never waited for permission to reinvent itself. In the 70s and 80s it was the unofficial capital of Asian IPOs. In the 90s it became the dealmaking room for every multinational entering China. Through every boom and crisis, Hong Kong kept its edge – fast markets, hard rules, and a culture that treated finance like a full-contact sport. If London wrote the textbooks and New York wrote the headlines, Hong Kong wrote the term sheets. That history matters now more than ever. Because every era has its wild west.
For years, that frontier was cross-border trade. Then it was pre-WTO China. Then it was the Asian capital markets that global banks didn’t quite understand but desperately wanted in on. Each time, Hong Kong stepped in and did what it does best – take chaos, give it structure; take an unruly frontier and turn it into a functioning, investable market.
Crypto is the newest version of that story. Volatile, ambitious, occasionally messy, but full of real momentum. And once again, Hong Kong is leaning in with the same playbook that made it indispensable to global finance – clear frameworks, competitive licensing, and a culture that knows how to domesticate frontier markets without killing their energy.
This year, Solana Accelerate lands at Consensus Hong Kong. Together, these two anchor events bring founders, institutions, policymakers, and innovators into the same orbit, amplifying the region’s momentum and showcasing the future of internet capital markets.
Speakers include:
- Liu, President, Solana Foundation
- Joseph Chee, Executive Chairman, Solana Company
- Brian Smith, President, Jito Foundation
- Austin Federa, Co-Founder, DoubleZero
- Shayon Sengupta, Partner, Multicoin
- Mark Greenberg, Global Head of Consumer, Kraken
- Shawn Chan, CEO, Singapore Gulf Bank
- Steve Zeng, Managing Director, Futu Group
- Joosik Lee, Head of STO & Digital Asset Business, DB Securities
- David Rodriguez, Head of Advisory, Blockworks
- Saeed Badreg, CEO, Wormhole Labs
- Ben Nadareski, Co-Founder & CEO, Solstice Finance
- Chef Kids, Head Chef, PancakeSwap
- Gal Stern, Chief Business Development Officer, deBridge
- Jiani Chen, Growth, Solana Foundation
- Patrick Kim, Blockchain Data & Research, Artemis
- Zheng Jie Lim, Analytics, Artemis
- Chris Chung, CEO & Co-Founder, Titan
- Silvestre Ramos, Blockchain Partnerships Lead, Dune
- Cheryl Chan, Strategy, Kamino Foundation
- Dan Jablonski, Director of Growth, DFlow
- Kevin Kang, Co-Founder, Reap
- Mable Jiang, Co-Founder, Trends
- Yuan Gao, Co-Founder, Gradient Network
- John Teo, Senior BD Manager, OKX
- Yaoyao Ding, APAC Growth, Solana Foundation
- Jessica Cao, APAC CEO, HUMA
- Kevin Eum, Head of Product, Drift
- Tracy Chow, Business Development, Drift
- Jae Kim, Business Lead, Nodit
- Abhi Bansal, Head of Business Development, Douro Labs
- Yash Agarwal, CEO, SendAI
- Vesper A, Co-Founder, America.fun
- Robin Nordnes, Founder & CEO, Raiku
- Duke Song, Tech Researcher, Solayer Labs
- James Zhang, Strategic Advisor, Sharps Technology (NASDAQ: STSS)
- Shina Foo, Head of Growth, Perena
- Chloe Lo, Co-Founder, Unitas Labs
- Niki Ariyasinghe, Vice President (APAC & Middle East), Chainlink Labs
- Emily Bao, Head of Spot, Bybit; Founder, Byreal
- Andrea Chang, Head of Growth & Ecosystem, 2WA
- Theo Chapman, Business Development Manager, Lombard
- Sean Chung, Blockchain Partnerships APAC Lead, Chainlink Labs
- CJ Fong, APAC General Manager, GSR
- Andrea Fortugno, CEO & Co-Founder, MagicBlock Labs
- Jong Wan Kim, Senior Manager (Digital Asset Business), Mirae Asset Securities
- Antonio Liu, VP of Product, TopNod
- Rita Liu, CEO, RD Technologies
- Don Ng, Director (Digital Assets), China Asset Management (Hong Kong)
- Josh Ng, Head of Business Development, Matrixdock
- Tayo Oviosu, Founder & CEO, PAGA
- Connor Riely, Humidifi
- Veronica Wong, CEO & Co-Founder, SafePal
- Kiko Zang, Co-Founder & CEO, Gator Labs / CHOMP
- Amy Zhang, Head of APAC, Fireblocks
- Qingyuan Zhao, Deputy GM & Head of FinTech Solutions Architecture, Alibaba Cloud
- Jupiter Zheng, Head of Digital Assets, E Fund Management HK
- Chris Zhu, CEO, Donut AI
- Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu, President, Jupiter
- Aaron Teng, CEO (Igloo APAC), Pudgy Penguins
- Dean Little, Founder, Blueshift
- Nico Schapeler, Co-Founder & CTO, Arcium
- Nadia Song, Director of Marketing & Operations, WBTC
- Wee Kee Tiew, Co-Founder, Virtuals Protocol
- Fez Ko, Business Development, Ranger
- Brian Wong, Developer Relations Lead, Anza
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