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Friends, it’s me—once again, it’s time for this year’s "conscience-saving" discount.
This year is the 12th Shanghai Blockchain Global Summit hosted by the Wanxiang Blockchain Laboratory, and it’s also the third year in a row that I’ve received a community partnership discount code.
To be honest, after advertising for the same conference for three consecutive years, I even feel a little "carried away"—but it really is worth it, so I’m coming again this year.
1. What level is this conference, exactly?
Let me put it this way: from 2015 to 2026, that’s already been 12 years. An event can last 12 years, and it’s even livelier year after year—by itself, that already says it all.

According to Bernstein, the market value of tokenized real-world assets has exceeded $51 billion, up 40% year to date, while the broader crypto market’s value has fallen by about one-fifth over the same period.
Analysts say that the battleground for equity tokenization is now playing out across two distinctly different models: trading infrastructure—where third-party sponsors provide access to equity tokenization but do not grant shareholder rights—and settlement infrastructure, where the blockchain serves as the actual ledger for company-issued shares.
In a report on Monday, Bernstein analysts said the market value of tokenized real-world assets has exceeded $51 billion, up 40% year to date, while the broader crypto market fell by about 20% over the same period. This suggests that institutional interest in tokenization is accelerating, regardless of crypto market conditions.

I recently read something called "AI Technology Daily News"—ten items a day—and I kept reading for 26 straight days.
After reading, I came to a conclusion: both people working on AI and people getting targeted by AI are all in a state of collective mental euphoria. The only difference from a pyramid scheme meeting is that at least the pyramid scheme venue still provides meals.
Apple raised prices. The MacBook Air went from $1,099 to $1,299, and the iPad Air from $599 to $749. The largest increase was up to 25%. The reason is—AI data center expansion has driven storage-chip costs skyrocketing.
Did you get it? Apple spent money building AI, so your iPad has to cost you more than a hundred extra dollars. It’s like your landlord says your rent went up 25% because there’s a gym downstairs using a lot of electricity. You ask why, and the landlord says, because you live on this street.

There’s a gap between what most enterprise teams envision and the products they actually deliver. There’s no shortage of creativity—what’s missing is people who can turn ideas into reality.
The operations team knows exactly which tool can solve their weekly reporting process problems, while at the same time the customer success team has been discussing the same dashboard on Slack for as long as eight months. The product team urgently needs an internal application, but the development team’s backlog is already full and won’t be able to deliver until next quarter.
They have ideas, but not the capability.
What exactly does caffeine do?

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or any other compatible MCP AI tools directly to your Caffeine account.
Once set up, you can have the assistants you use every day list your projects, initiate Caffeine chat sessions, view build progress in real time, and continue conversations running on Caffeine—all of which can be done inside the AI tool without copying and pasting between tabs.
AI tools that can run commands on your computer (e.g., Claude Code or Cursor). Even further, you can use the Caffeine CLI to handle your project code locally.

As of 2026, the RWA market size has surpassed $30 billion. This figure was unimaginable just a few years ago, and it’s still growing rapidly.
Tokenization is no longer just a concept people discuss at crypto conferences—it’s flourishing across industries with real institutional capital backing. Now, the question isn’t whether real-world assets will move on-chain, but who will build the trusted infrastructure that makes it worthwhile.
That’s exactly what ORIGYN does.
What is RWA tokenization?
Real-world asset tokenization refers to converting physical or financial assets into digital representations on a blockchain—this can include real estate, luxury watches, bonds, one kilogram of gold, or even products sitting on a shelf.

I've been having a puzzler.
Every six months, some place around the world declares itself the 'Asian AI Hub' - Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Dubai, taking turns as if it's a game of musical chairs, each announcement backed by a flashy national strategy name, bigger than a real estate ad in a condo complex.
And usually, not much happens after that.
This time, Singapore is a bit different; it didn't just talk the talk, it walked the walk.
OpenAI's first Applied AI Lab outside the U.S. chose Singapore, with over 300 million SGD, 200+ FDE and tech positions; this isn't just hot air - they actually moved people, budgets, and their strategic HQ over here.

In a co-working space in Singapore, three Oxford and Cambridge elites are sitting together with a whiteboard and some coffee.
The whiteboard says: Let's build a chat app.
If Zuckerberg heard this, he’d probably put down his flip-flops and say - I thought of that back in my Harvard dorm in 2004, and I made it happen. Now I wear the same T-shirt to work every day because choosing clothes is a waste of time.
But Matt Grogan isn't Zuckerberg.
Matt has been working with Dominic Williams since the 90s - yeah, the same guy who founded DFINITY and brought us ICP. Back then, they were involved in different projects, and nobody knew that twenty years later, one would be building a public blockchain while the other would create a WeChat on that blockchain.

At this year's SuperAI conference in Singapore, I met an entrepreneur who really impressed me - Dr. Xiao Zhang, Francis (@⁠Francis⁠).
Unlike many flashy AI entrepreneurs, Dr. Zhang has that classic researcher vibe: low-key, rational, and restrained. But once you dive into his background, you’ll see this seemingly quiet scientist has been grinding in cryptography, AI, blockchain, and digital identity for over twenty years.
If I had to sum him up in one sentence, I’d say: “This is a tech entrepreneur who truly brings scientific breakthroughs into the industry.”