🔥2026 Speaker Lineup & Agenda Unveiled🔥 Now in the 4th year, #Web3Festival# will once again bring tens of thousands of Web3 professionals and investors, and has set the agenda for TradFi and crypto finance, AI + Web3, and #RWAs#. 🏆@WXBlockchain, @HashKeyGroup 🗓️20-23 April |📍HKCEC 🎫Tickets: —————————————————————— 01 /✨Speaker Lineup 🤵Paul CHAN Mo-po - Government of HKSAR 🤵YIP Chee Hang - Securities and Futures Commission 🤵Xiao Feng - @WXblockchain & @HashKeyGroup 🤵Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member 🤵Zhao Yao - National Institution for Finance & Development 🤵@LennixOKX - @okx 🤵@EmanAbio - Mysten Labs @Mysten_Labs 🤵‍♀️@calilyliu - @SolanaFndn 🤵@joechalom - @Sharplink 🤵@FrancisBZhou - @Quantum_SKK2338 🤵Abdelhamid Bizid - @BlackRock 🤵Phil Kang - ZR Financial Group 🤵@ysiu - @animocabrands 🤵Bugra Celik - HSBC 🤵Robert Lui - @DeloitteChina 🤵DIAO Zhihai - CICC 🤵Chris Lee - @ChinaAMC_HQ 🤵Gavin Wang - @snzholding 🤵@DavidKChuenLEE - @GFIfintech 🤵Min Lin - @OndoFinance 🤵Ru Haiyang - @HashKeyExchange 🤵‍♀️Anna Liu - HashKey Tokenisation 🤵DC - @HashKey_Capital 🤵‍♀️@thisisRita_Liu - @RD_Technologies 🤵@linyao01 - @arkreen_network 🤵@FranklinBi - @PanteraCapital 🤵@henriquecentiei - Maverick Capital 🤵John Cahill - @galaxyhq 🤵@0xLivio - Bitfire 🤵Zhang Yufan - NewTrails Capital 🤵‍♀️@CryptoCWU - @Matrixport_EN 🤵Arda Senoz - @AlchemyPay 🤵Andrew Fei - @kwmlaw 🤵‍♀️@lanarative - Sina Finance 🤵Chen Shanlong, @XDCNetwork 🤵Ben Zhai - 🤵Raj Kamal - @getTransFi 🤵‍♀️@CryptoQiao - JunHe LLP 🤵‍♀️@pattytu2 - China Mobile (Hong Kong) 🤵@EricChenHKR- Hong Kong Robotics Group 🤵Zhang Baolong - @Finanx_AI 🤵‍♀️@ivypeng_80 - Zillion Intelligence 🤵‍♀️Shukyee Ma - @plumenetwork 🤵@longwinsk - @HashGlobal

Japan should think twice before repeating the patterns of its past. China has every reason to remain highly cautious of Japan. Its modern history includes repeated cases of surprise attacks used to impose a new reality by force. More importantly, Japan is now rebuilding its military capabilities and expanding the scope of its military activities, while becoming increasingly involved in the Taiwan issue. China is waiting for the right moment to pounce on its prey.

CHINA’S 🇨🇳 CXMT BEGINS MASS PRODUCTION OF FIFTH-GEN DRAM PLATFORM CXMT says the platform reduces key memory-cell spacing to 11.95nm using quadruple patterning, allowing more memory to be packed onto each chip. It also unveiled two new 24-gigabit LPDDR5X chips for smartphones and portable devices, each offering 50% more capacity than its previous comparable products. The manufacturing improvement is also significant: CXMT says the new platform can produce at least 50% more gross chip dies per wafer than its fourth-generation process, based on an 8-gigabit chip. That figure refers to the number of potential dies produced before defective chips are removed, not a 50% improvement in final manufacturing yield. CXMT says critical parts of the process were developed through computer simulations and joint R&D with Chinese semiconductor-equipment makers, as China continues reducing its dependence on foreign chipmaking technology. Source: Reuters

China’s CXMT Begins Mass Production on New Memory-Chip Process Platform Hefei-based memory-chip maker CXMT said it had reduced the spacing between key structures in the chip’s data-storage region to 11.95 nanometres (nm), or approximately 12 billionths of a metre. The company achieved this using “quadruple patterning,” a technique that repeats multiple manufacturing steps to create finer circuit patterns. According to CXMT, the platform can produce at least 50% more gross dies per wafer than its fourth-generation platform, based on an 8-gigabit (Gb) chip. The company said it developed the platform using computer simulations and collaboration with Chinese semiconductor-equipment manufacturers on critical production steps.

China’s markets are off to a strong start in 2026, raising renewed comparisons to the 2015 boom‑and‑bust just as global tensions escalate — from dramatic US moves over Greenland to a surge in gold prices and a weakening dollar. With capital rotating out of U.S. assets and liquidity patterns shifting across Asia, does today’s rally carry familiar risks, or does it mark the start of a very different cycle? In this episode of Moving Markets – The View Beyond, Richard Tang, Head of Research Hong Kong at Julius Baer, speaks with Hong Hao, Managing Partner and CIO of Lotus Asset Management Ltd., to examine these cross‑currents: the resilience of A‑shares, the wave of Hong Kong tech IPOs, and why rising margin financing today is not a replay of 2015. They also highlight the key themes shaping 2026, including precious metals, AI‑linked industries, and high‑dividend opportunities. This episode was recorded on 21 January 2026.

BREAKING: China on the verge of banning AI companions! Just in time after we covered this topic in the latest episode of our latest podcast... Five agencies, led by the Cyberspace Administration of China (with the NDRC, MIIT, Ministry of Public Security and State Administration for Market Regulation), published the "Interim Measures for the Management of AI Human-Like Interaction Services". Co-issued on April 10, 2026 and in effect since July 15, 2026. It governs AI services that simulate personality, thought patterns and communication style to provide ongoing emotional interaction (companionship, emotional care, virtual partners or relatives) across text, image, audio and video, and explicitly excludes customer service, knowledge Q&A, work assistants, education and research. It bans virtual intimate relationships for all minors, restricts how providers may build emotional attachment in adults, mandates usage-time and AI-identity reminders plus distress interventions, and requires pre-launch security assessments. On the effective date ByteDance disabled Doubao's (i.e. most widely used AI/LLM app in China) human-like agent feature, and Alibaba and Tencent pulled persona-based companion features. The measure prohibits specifically "excessively catering to users, inducing emotional dependency or addiction, and damaging users' real interpersonal relationships" and using "emotional manipulation." The operative move is outlawing engagement-maximizing design, not the product, which is a far more radical and generalizable regulatory principle than a minors rule, and one no Western jurisdiction has on the books. So... Looks like you can keep your AI girlfriend for now, but she will sometimes have to remind you she is not human.