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We are pleased to welcome Tom Digby, Managing Director, Head of APAC ETF Distribution at Invesco, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Tom leads ETF distribution across Asia Pacific for Invesco, one of the world's largest ETF providers with over $638 billion in ETF and index assets under management globally. His work spans the full distribution architecture for one of the most active ETF businesses in the region, from capital markets and liquidity to retail, wealth, and institutional distribution across APAC. Invesco has been an active participant in Hong Kong’s evolving digital asset ETF market and has published institutional research on digital asset ETF opportunities, including Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure. In February 2025, Invesco cross-listed its flagship QQQ ETF on HKEX, the first cross-listing of the fund outside North America, reflecting the firm’s strategic commitment to Hong Kong as a distribution hub for the region. His participation brings a senior distribution perspective on how institutional-grade ETF infrastructure is evolving to accommodate digital assets, and what access, liquidity, and market structure look like in practice for one of the world’s largest ETF providers operating across Asia Pacific.

We are excited to welcome Peggy Kwok, Senior Vice President, Fintech at Invest Hong Kong, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. In her role, Peggy is responsible for InvestHK's fintech engagement as part of the government department responsible for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. In her role, she works closely with financial institutions, fintech companies, and infrastructure operators to support the development of Hong Kong's digital asset and fintech ecosystem, connecting international participants with the regulatory and commercial conditions the city offers. Her presence brings a public-sector perspective on the conditions, regulatory, commercial, and institutional, that are shaping Hong Kong's position as a leading jurisdiction for digital asset market development.

AI won't replace you. It will replace what you do. Every major technology in history has done exactly that, and the economy has always found new things for people to do with the time it created. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer of Pairpoint by Vodafone:

We are pleased to welcome Angelina Kwan, CEO of Stratford Advisory, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Angelina brings one of the most distinctive career profiles in Hong Kong's financial and digital asset landscape, spanning regulatory leadership, exchange operations, digital asset infrastructure, and compliance advisory across more than three decades. She began her career at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, where she served as Director of Enforcement and then Director of Supervision of Markets, building and leading teams responsible for supervising the city's financial markets and developing rules and regulatory frameworks for new products and services. She served as Managing Director and Head of Group Regulatory Compliance at HKEX, where she established the exchange's Group Regulatory Compliance Department and served as its primary interface with global regulators. She subsequently served as Global Chief Operating Officer at BitMEX and later as Group COO and Chief Risk Officer at HashKey Group, two of the most consequential digital asset institutions in Asia. Since 2019, she has led Stratford Advisory, a consulting firm specialising in regulatory and operational strategy for financial services and digital asset firms across the region. Angelina serves as Chair of The Women's Foundation and contributes to multiple Hong Kong government boards and committees, including the Financial Services Development Council. Her participation brings a perspective grounded in both sides of digital asset market development, the regulatory architecture that governs it and the operational infrastructure required to run it to institutional standards.

We are bringing the largest APAC players together. More names dropping soon!

We are pleased to welcome Don Ng, Director, Digital Assets at @ChinaAMC_HQ (HK), to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Don is part of the digital assets team at ChinaAMC (HK), one of China's largest fund management firms and one of the most active institutional players in Hong Kong's digital asset market. In early 2025, ChinaAMC (HK) launched the ChinaAMC HKD, USD, and RMB Digital Money Market Funds - the first retail tokenised fund suite in the APAC region - and the only asset manager globally to offer tokenised money market funds across all three major currencies. This marks a significant milestone in the firm's broader digital assets strategy, which also encompasses Asia's first spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs and Asia's first Solana ETF. Don brings a career spanning Web3 investment, crypto wealth management, and traditional banking across Hong Kong. This breadth of experience bridges the operational realities of digital asset markets with the rigour of institutional finance, giving him a rare vantage point across the full spectrum of the digital assets ecosystem. His presence brings a senior asset management perspective on how tokenisation moves from regulatory approval into live product infrastructure, and what institutional-grade digital asset deployment looks like in practice for one of Asia's most active fund managers in digital assets.

The system is built for 8 billion people transacting. By 2030, we could have 100 billion AI agents. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer of Pairpoint by Vodafone, is clear, the industry is not prepared for what is coming ⬇️

Vodafone has 250 million connected IoT devices. David Palmer's job: give them identity and the ability to transact. New episode of Beyond Cosmoverse dives into IoT as the next data frontier for AI ⬇️

The Hong Kong Tourism Board is joining Cosmoverse as a Supporting Organization. Hong Kong has a regulated digital asset framework, government backing, and institutional capital. HKTB's support reflects that.

@Cryptocito @CosmoverseHQ 🫡

@CosmoverseHQ Thanks for getting all of this out of me @0xRobbStack 😬

.@Cryptocito didn't come from finance. He came from community, a Mandarin degree, and a tweet. From grassroots meetups in Shanghai to a summit where the ECB and Revolut share the stage with blockchain devs. This is a special edition of Beyond Cosmoverse, the origin episode ⬇️

🇭🇰 The 2026 speaker lineup is taking shape. Franklin Templeton. InvestHK. Fidelity International. EVIDENT. EFPA. World Bank Group. #Cosmoverse26

Use AI tools, build with them, but understand the business model behind them! Peter Busch, 35 years at Bosch, advice to the next generation:

@buchmanster @zarinjo @informalinc Congrats on the new direction and focus, Ethan, looking forward to seeing how your work on Cycles evolves. I also really appreciate the way you acknowledged the contributors at Informal who are moving on. That’s leadership, and something not everyone gets right.

We're resetting Informal to focus on the highest impact opportunities in front of us. Today we’re announcing the new @informalinc, a more focused and refined Informal, with two big bets, one in software, one in money. We started Informal with a simple mission: to foster trust in software and money. We pursued that mission through a variety of means: research, engineering, audits, staking, cross-chain relaying, and various incubated projects. Our technology helped move ecosystems forward. But through all that we lost focus, spread ourselves too thin. While we felt everything we did was valuable, it was too much. So we have decided to simplify. Our two big bets aren’t new. In fact we’ve been betting on them for years already. It’s just that now they are our exclusive focus. The first is @quint_lang, a big bet on transforming how we approach and trust software. AI has already dramatically reshaped the cost of producing code, but now the problem becomes validating it. How do we know the code is correct? How do we express ourselves and our intent in a way that can be reliably iterated on with machines and can produce correct outcomes? How do we reason about and test our systems in this new AI-based world? Quint is our answer. A way to formally specify systems so humans and machines can reason about them together. It’s not about replacing developers, it’s about making intent explicit. Today we’re announcing the launch of Quint as its own company, with @bugarela as CEO, and an incredible team from Informal joining her. Follow her! And learn more about the team and what they're working on: x.com/bugarela/statu… The second is @cyclesmoney, a big bet on transforming how we approach and trust money. We’ve been pioneers in the cryptocurrency space for a decade, but something is still missing in how we think about money. Everyone is so focused on moving assets faster and faster that they miss the underlying reason we need to move those assets in the first place - the debts we have with each other. Cycles is built on the insight that we need to start from the debts. That the debts form a network, and liquidity is hidden in the structure of the network. That the debts can be *cleared*, with less money than you think. That clearing is the most powerful financial capability in the world and it’s available exclusively to the largest financial institutions, or to small groups of friends splitting expenses. Cycles brings that power to everyone else, to do more with less, to save liquidity, to access new avenues for growth. To trust in the graph. Cycles changes the perspective from a bilateral, transactional view to a multilateral, network view. The world is not a multi-asset spot market, it’s a network of balance sheets. Respect the Graph. Our goal with Cycles is to clear the most debt, for the most people, with the least amount of money. We’re starting with large crypto trading firms settling T+1 that want to save liquidity, and with small crypto-businesses that want privacy for their payments. If you want private payments with great UX and yield (thank you @hydromarkets!), follow @cyclesmoney and msg us or join our TG to try the beta t.me/cycles_communi… With this refocus on Quint and Cycles, we’re winding down other parts of the business that don’t align. That means services we’re proud of and people we deeply respect, and have worked passionately with for years. Saying goodbye to people is always difficult, and we’re so grateful for everything they’ve done for Informal over the years. We’ve had the privilege of working with such incredible talent, and we’re sad to see them go. We wish them nothing but the best in future endeavours. Through all of this, I’m beyond grateful for my two partners and co-founders at @informalinc, @ArianneFlemming and @zarinjo. We’re ready to take on this next chapter together with renewed focus. They are rock-stars. They have made it possible for us to get here, to make Quint and Cycles happen, and to grow them into generational bets. While they will primarily focus on Quint for now, they continue to support me on Cycles. For @informalinc, we're incredibly excited to be able to focus on the highest impact outcomes we think we can tackle. And we’re bringing on new partners and investors that believe in what we’re doing. As for me, I’m all in on @cyclesmoney with our amazing team because I believe in the power of clearing and I want to make it accessible to all. The crypto revolution is far from over. I spent 10 years transforming how the world thinks about blockchains. And I’ll spend the next 10 years doing the same for clearing. Back to startup mode ✌️

Your car will be able to authenticate itself to park, charge, and prove compliance. All autonomously, without a human entering credentials. Peter Busch's team at Bosch is building the hardware-based sovereign identity layer to make that possible.

Bosch, one of the world's largest engineering companies, has been building the Economy of Things from the inside for a decade. This is what they learned. A new episode of Beyond Cosmoverse is live. Peter Busch is @BoschGlobal 's Product Owner for Distributed Ledger Technologies and Co-Founder of the @Fetch_ai Foundation. He has been working on the Economy of Things from inside one of the world's largest engineering companies since 2016. His argument: the Internet of Things becomes the Economy of Things the moment connected machines need to transact autonomously, and that transition requires a trust infrastructure most of the industry has not yet built. In this conversation with our Marketing Director, @0xRobbStack, Peter walks through what that infrastructure looks like in practice, why decentralized identity is the foundational layer for machine-to-machine trust, and how EU regulation is creating the conditions for adoption that the industry needed but could not have produced voluntarily. 🎙️ The full conversation is linked in the first comment.

⚠️ Heads up, the @CryptoCakir account has been compromised and is currently being used to push a scam campaign tagging Cosmoverse. Do not click any links. Do not interact with any offers appearing to come from his account.

Tokenization won't replace traditional capital markets. It will upgrade them. Anina Milanović, The World Bank, puts it clearly:

Most emerging markets are still waiting for the right moment to regulate digital assets. Serbia didn't wait. Anina Milanović was inside that process. Her advice:

We are pleased to welcome Emma Pecenicic, Head of Digital Assets Distribution at Fidelity International, to #Cosmoverse26 Emma has spent nearly a decade at the intersection of asset management and digital infrastructure in Asia, leading the work that brings tokenised financial products from concept into live distribution. At Fidelity International, she leads digital assets distribution globally, having earlier built out the firm's digital product solutions and wealth strategy across APAC. Fidelity International's tokenised funds are already live with distributors across the region, a direct outcome of the distribution-led approach she has championed since joining the firm in 2021. She currently serves as a Board Member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, having previously co-chaired its Blockchain committee, and is a founding member of W3W, supporting women in Web3. Her presence at Cosmoverse brings a senior perspective on what institutional-grade digital assets distribution looks like in practice, from fund tokenisation and regulated market access to the infrastructure conditions that make it operationally viable at scale.