CZ Key takeaways from this interview:
1. BNB ecosystem direction: The ecosystem isn’t determined by one person. The team will keep in step with the trends and provide resource support. Recently, the fastest-growing area has been RWA (tokenizing real-world assets on-chain).
2. Why RWA is exceeding expectations: Tokenizing securities addresses two pain points: (1) difficult cross-border account opening, and (2) limited trading hours. In countries like the Philippines, where local exchanges are relatively weak, companies can fully tokenize their assets and reach more than 300 million users worldwide.
3. Stablecoins are also RWA: At its core, it’s about putting money on-chain—an even more direct way to make a country’s currency globally circulatable. With the current market size of roughly $200–300 billion, it’s almost entirely occupied by USD-backed stablecoins. Any country has strong incentives to put its own currency on-chain.
4. Timing for tokenizing other assets: Real estate is moving more slowly because price volatility is lower but liquidity is weaker; IP and virtual assets in the social-media space are relatively easier, but the current market size is still relatively small, so it’s hard to judge the outlook.
Bitcoin Asia 2026 (Hong Kong Aug. 27 Blockchain/Bitcoin Conference)
Common industry nickname: The Hong Kong Blockchain/Bitcoin Conference
Time: Aug. 27–28 (Thu–Fri), 09:00–18:00 (GMT+8). Aug. 27 is the main opening day.
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, HKCEC)
Organizers: BTC Inc (parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, under Nasdaq NAKA); Metaplanet is the title sponsor
Conference positioning:
Asia’s largest Bitcoin-themed summit, with 15,000+ attendees from 125 countries. Focus areas include: institutional ETFs, corporate treasury management, Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure, regulation of virtual assets in Asia-Pacific, Layer 2, and the Lightning Network—plus a B2B capital matchmaking “Deal Day” (invite-only, on Aug. 27 only).
1. BNB ecosystem direction: The ecosystem isn’t determined by one person. The team will keep in step with the trends and provide resource support. Recently, the fastest-growing area has been RWA (tokenizing real-world assets on-chain).
2. Why RWA is exceeding expectations: Tokenizing securities addresses two pain points: (1) difficult cross-border account opening, and (2) limited trading hours. In countries like the Philippines, where local exchanges are relatively weak, companies can fully tokenize their assets and reach more than 300 million users worldwide.
3. Stablecoins are also RWA: At its core, it’s about putting money on-chain—an even more direct way to make a country’s currency globally circulatable. With the current market size of roughly $200–300 billion, it’s almost entirely occupied by USD-backed stablecoins. Any country has strong incentives to put its own currency on-chain.
4. Timing for tokenizing other assets: Real estate is moving more slowly because price volatility is lower but liquidity is weaker; IP and virtual assets in the social-media space are relatively easier, but the current market size is still relatively small, so it’s hard to judge the outlook.
Bitcoin Asia 2026 (Hong Kong Aug. 27 Blockchain/Bitcoin Conference)
Common industry nickname: The Hong Kong Blockchain/Bitcoin Conference
Time: Aug. 27–28 (Thu–Fri), 09:00–18:00 (GMT+8). Aug. 27 is the main opening day.
Venue: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, HKCEC)
Organizers: BTC Inc (parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, under Nasdaq NAKA); Metaplanet is the title sponsor
Conference positioning:
Asia’s largest Bitcoin-themed summit, with 15,000+ attendees from 125 countries. Focus areas include: institutional ETFs, corporate treasury management, Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure, regulation of virtual assets in Asia-Pacific, Layer 2, and the Lightning Network—plus a B2B capital matchmaking “Deal Day” (invite-only, on Aug. 27 only).
