Innovative Finance Day | Hong Kong 2025
The Innovative Finance Day | Hong Kong 2025 brings together the industry leaders — the banks, exchanges, market makers, trading firms, founders, protocol builders, and more — for an action-packed day with discussions and talks around three major modules.
Agenda: Three Modules
No lengthy and meaningless panels & presentations! This event will be formed with three major modules. Each session contains various small, short and valuable discussions around the module topics.
1. Wall Street vs. Wild Street
Dive into market overviews, emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities, with a focus on navigating regulatory landscapes in both traditional and decentralized finance.
14:05 - 14:15 Keynote: The Price of Everything
Abhimanyu Bansal, Head of Ecosystems, Douro Labs
14:15 - 14:30 Fireside Chat: Selini Capital
Jordi Alexander, CEO, Selini Capital
14:30 - 14:40 Fireside Chat: Pendle
Wilbert, Ecosystem, Pendle
14:40 - 14:50 Keynote: Derivatives Decode: The TradFi Blueprint for Risk and Liquidity
Will Leung, Head of Partnerships, Caladan
14:50 - 15:15 Panel: Wall Street v.s. Wild Street
Laura, COO, MegaETH
Jesse Tasman, Senior Tech Product Manager, bloXroute
Mario Bernardi, Head of Ecosystems, Pyth Data Association
2. Real User Cases
Discover how DeFi innovations are shaping the financial ecosystem and explore how traditional finance professionals can incorporate these principles into their crypto strategies.
15:15 - 15:30 Fireside Chat: Flow Traders
Mike Kuehnel, CEO, Flow Traders
15:30 - 15:45 Keynote: Why Perpetual Options Will Takeover Crypto
Anand Gomes, CEO, Paradex
15:45 - 16:00 Keynote: Bringing Decentralized Finance to the Next Level with Artificial Intelligence
Rachel Lin, Co-founder & CEO, SynFutures
16:00 - 16:10 Keynote: Joule Finance
Shivam, Co-Founder, Joule Finance
16:10 - 16:20 Keynote: Skate
Gordon, Engineering, Skate
3. Community & Cultures
Unpack the unique aspects of Web3 that drive market adoption, from decentralization to the collaborative culture reshaping finance.
16:20 - 16:30 Keynote: Pudgy Penguins
Aaron Teng, CEO, Igloo Asia
16:30 - 16:40 Keynote: Deep Dive into the Chinese Crypto Market
Zolo Xiong, Partner, TechFlow
16:40 - 16:55 Fireside Chat: Amber Group
Haoyu Si, Research Analyst, amber.ac, Amber Group
16:55 - 17:10 Fireside Chat: Linera
Nick Ruzicka, Head of BD and Ecosystem, Linera
17:10 - 17:20 Fireside Chat: RabbitX
Ming, Founder, RabbitX
17:20 - 18:30 Cocktail Mixer
Due to space limitations at the event venue, participation will be on an approval basis to ensure a comfortable and engaging experience for all attendees. If you are interested in attending, please sign up as soon as possible to secure your spot.
About us
Pyth Network is a public, decentralized data infrastructure designed to power the next generation of financial applications.
As the largest and fastest-growing first-party financial oracle for real-time asset price data, Pyth delivers over 500 low-latency price feeds across digital assets, FX, ETFs, equities, and commodities to more than 80 blockchain ecosystems.
SynFutures (F) is a leading decentralized exchange and full-stack financial infrastructure provider. Utilizing its innovative Oyster AMM model and a fully onchain order-matching engine, SynFutures enables anyone to list and trade any asset with leverage. As the top perpetual futures DEX on multiple networks like Base, it introduced the industry’s first Perp Launchpad, attracting bluechips, AI tokens, memecoins, and more.
Backed by top-tier institutions like Pantera, Polychain, Dragonfly, Standard Crypto, Framework, and SIG, SynFutures is building an all-in-one platform for spot, perpetual, and wealth management, streamlining DeFi for all.