Press Release
Alchemy Pay Joins Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 as Gold Sponsor
Hong Kong, 26th February 2026, There’s a certain energy that builds in the months leading up to Hong Kong Web3 Festival, and this year, that energy just got a significant boost. The festival has officially announced that Alchemy Pay is joining as a Gold Sponsor for the 2026 edition — and honestly, it’s a pairing that makes a lot of sense.
If you’ve spent any time in the crypto payments space, you already know what Alchemy Pay brings to the table. The company has spent years doing something that sounds simple but is actually incredibly difficult: making it easy for fiat money and crypto to work together. Think about the friction that still exists today — a merchant who wants to accept digital payments, a consumer who wants to spend their crypto in the real world, a developer trying to build financial tools that don’t force users to choose between traditional and decentralized systems. Alchemy Pay sits right at that intersection and makes those connections happen smoothly, for consumers, merchants, developers, and institutions alike. If you want to dig deeper into what they’re building, head over to https://alchemypay.org.
Three Years In, and the Festival Has Found Its Groove
Some events take a few years to figure out what they are. Hong Kong Web3 Festival figured it out fast. Co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, and organized by W3ME, the festival has been running every year since April 2023 — and each edition has built on the last in a way that feels genuinely organic rather than forced. It’s become the kind of event that people in the Web3 world block out on their calendars months in advance, not just because of the speakers or the panels, but because of the quality of the people in the room.
This year, the festival runs from April 20 to 23 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Four days. One of the world’s great financial cities. And an agenda that’s shaping up to be the most ambitious yet.
The Track Record Is Hard to Ignore
Here’s what three editions of Web3 Festival have looked like in practice: over 350 exhibitors, more than 1,200 speakers, a cumulative audience of 100,000 visitors, and upwards of 400 side events that stretched the conversations well beyond the main hall. These aren’t inflated numbers designed to impress — they reflect the reality that this event has become a genuine gathering point for the global Web3 community.
For 2026, the festival is expecting up to 300 speakers from across the Web3 and crypto world. But the detail that really stands out is this: over 500 executives and decision-makers from traditional finance and the broader real economy have already registered. That shift matters. It means the conversation happening at this festival isn’t just crypto insiders talking among themselves — it’s the kind of cross-industry dialogue where real business gets done and real decisions get made.
Hong Kong Isn’t Just a Location — It’s Part of the Point
It would be easy to assume that Hong Kong is simply a convenient host city. But the truth is that Hong Kong is load-bearing in what makes this festival work. Nowhere else in the world sits quite at the intersection of global finance, Mainland China’s enormous market, and the kind of regulatory and innovation environment that actually attracts serious institutional players. For Web3, which is still very much in the process of finding its place within the broader financial system, that positioning is invaluable.
When you bring together the right people in a city that genuinely understands both the old financial world and the new one, interesting things happen. Deals get made. Partnerships form. Regulations get shaped by people who actually understand the technology. That’s what Hong Kong Web3 Festival is designed to make possible.
Want to Be Part of It?
If you’re thinking about attending, speaking, exhibiting, or coming on board as a partner, the time to move is now. Everything you need to know about the 2026 edition is at https://www.web3festival.org/hongkong2026/#/en. Partnership inquiries can go through https://tally.so/r/w5YEbP.
With Alchemy Pay stepping in as a Gold Sponsor, the festival is sending a clear signal about where Web3 is headed — toward a future where the walls between traditional finance and the crypto economy keep coming down, one partnership at a time.
Press Release
Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation Announced as Speaker and VIP Lounge Sponsor at Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026
Hong Kong, 10th April 2026 — Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 is honored to have Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation onboard as Speaker & VIP Lounge Sponsor.
Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation is dedicated to fostering the development, adoption, and sustainability for the Kaspa ecosystem. Kaspa utilizes the GHOSTDAG protocol, a generalization of Nakamoto Consensus, and is the fastest Proof-of-Work network that will soon enable native programmability. Read more at: https://kaspafoundation.org
Hong Kong Web3 Festival (“Web3 Festival”), co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, is Asia’s premiere crypto conference since 2023. The previous editions brought together over 350 exhibitors and more than 1,200 speakers for in-depth discussions, attracted a cumulative total of 100,000 visitors, and saw over 400 diverse side events. It has solidified its status as a leading crypto event, influencing Hong Kong’s Web3 landscape.
Following the sellout success of its previous editions, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has announced its return on 20–23 April at HKCEC. Now in its 4th year, this four-day event will once again bring tens of thousands of Web3 professionals, investors, and enthusiasts across the globe to connect, learn and be inspired.
Web3 Festival 2026 has set the agenda for Web3 growth and innovation, focusing mainly on traditional finance and crypto finance, AI + Web3, and RWAs.
The conference will also convene top experts and leading Web3 projects to exchange ideas, share best practices and gain perspectives on today’s evolving Web3 landscape.
Join Hong Kong Web3 Festival on April 20–23 and be part of an epic Web3 journey: https://luma.com/hkweb3festival_2026
Hong Kong, 9th April 2026 — Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 is proud to welcome BytePlus as a Gold Sponsor.
BytePlus is an enterprise AI platform that helps developers build AI agents at scale. As the enterprise services arm of ByteDance, BytePlus delivers cutting-edge models, multimodal intelligence, and AI computing optimized infrastructure in a modular stack. BytePlus powers vertical-specific use cases across discovery, interaction, and conversion. More: https://www.byteplus.com/en
Hong Kong Web3 Festival (“Web3 Festival”), co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, is Asia’s premiere crypto conference since 2023. The previous editions brought together over 350 exhibitors and more than 1,200 speakers for in-depth discussions, attracted a cumulative total of 100,000 visitors, and saw over 400 diverse side events. It has solidified its status as a leading crypto event, influencing Hong Kong’s Web3 landscape.
Following the sellout success of its previous editions, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has announced its return on 20–23 April at HKCEC. Now in its 4th year, this four-day event will once again bring tens of thousands of Web3 professionals, investors, and enthusiasts across the globe to connect, learn and be inspired.
Web3 Festival 2026 has set the agenda for Web3 growth and innovation, focusing mainly on traditional finance and crypto finance, AI + Web3, and RWAs.
The conference will also convene top experts and leading Web3 projects to exchange ideas, share best practices and gain perspectives on today’s evolving Web3 landscape.
Featured speakers include:
Paul CHAN Mo-po, GBM, GBS, MH, JP, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Dr. YIP Chee Hang, Executive Director of Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission
Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group
Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong
Lennix Lai, Chief Commercial Officer, OKX Global
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Mysten Labs
Lily Liu, President, Solana Foundation
Joseph Chalom, CEO, Sharplink
Francis B. Zhou, CEO, Quantum Solutions
Abdelhamid Bizid, Managing Director, BlackRock
Phil Kang, CEO, ZR Financial Group
Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Chairman, Animoca Brands
Bugra Celik, Head of Digital Assets and Currencies at Global Macro, HSBC
Robert Lui, Deloitte China Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader; Member of Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development
DIAO Zhihai, Head of International Business of Wealth Management, CICC
Gavin Wang, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, SNZ Holding & SNZ Capital
David Lee, Chairman, Global FinTech Institute
Min Lin, Managing Director, Head of Global Business Development at Ondo Finance
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Join Hong Kong Web3 Festival on April 20–23 and be part of an epic Web3 journey: https://luma.com/hkweb3festival_2026
Hong Kong, 9th April 2026 — Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026 is proud to welcome SignalPlus as a Title Sponsor.
SignalPlus is a venture-backed technology company building institutional-grade infrastructure for financial and digital asset derivatives markets. Founded in 2021 by leading Wall Street and technology veterans, the platform delivers a comprehensive suite of pricing, analytics, execution algorithms, and volatility hedging tools — purpose-built for professional trading desks, market makers, and financial institutions that demand precision at scale.
Powered by an industry-grade quantitative engine covering the full derivatives spectrum — from vanilla options to exotics — SignalPlus provides the foundational trading layer that allows institutions to launch, scale, and optimize complex trading operations from day one.
Trusted by a global network of top-tier financial institutions and leading investors, their vision is to bridge traditional capital markets with 24/7 trading environments, revolutionizing the industry through a frontier suite of automated, scalable, and agentic-driven trading infrastructure. More: https://www.signalplus.com/
Hong Kong Web3 Festival (“Web3 Festival”), co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group, is Asia’s premiere crypto conference since 2023. The previous editions brought together over 350 exhibitors and more than 1,200 speakers for in-depth discussions, attracted a cumulative total of 100,000 visitors, and saw over 400 diverse side events. It has solidified its status as a leading crypto event, influencing Hong Kong’s Web3 landscape.
Following the sellout success of its previous editions, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has announced its return on 20–23 April at HKCEC. Now in its 4th year, this four-day event will once again bring tens of thousands of Web3 professionals, investors, and enthusiasts across the globe to connect, learn and be inspired.
Web3 Festival 2026 has set the agenda for Web3 growth and innovation, focusing mainly on traditional finance and crypto finance, AI + Web3, and RWAs.
The conference will also convene top experts and leading Web3 projects to exchange ideas, share best practices and gain perspectives on today’s evolving Web3 landscape.
Featured speakers include:
Paul CHAN Mo-po, GBM, GBS, MH, JP, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Dr. YIP Chee Hang, Executive Director of Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission
Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group
Duncan Chiu, Legislative Council Member (Technology & Innovation Constituency), Hong Kong
Lennix Lai, Chief Commercial Officer, OKX Global
Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Mysten Labs
Lily Liu, President, Solana Foundation
Joseph Chalom, CEO, Sharplink
Francis B. Zhou, CEO, Quantum Solutions
Abdelhamid Bizid, Managing Director, BlackRock
Phil Kang, CEO, ZR Financial Group
Yat Siu, Co-Founder and Chairman, Animoca Brands
Bugra Celik, Head of Digital Assets and Currencies at Global Macro, HSBC
Robert Lui, Deloitte China Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader; Member of Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development
DIAO Zhihai, Head of International Business of Wealth Management, CICC
Gavin Wang, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, SNZ Holding & SNZ Capital
David Lee, Chairman, Global FinTech Institute
Min Lin, Managing Director, Head of Global Business Development at Ondo Finance
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Join Hong Kong Web3 Festival on April 20–23 and be part of an epic Web3 journey: https://luma.com/hkweb3festival_2026
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