RWA Demo Day Successfully Held: Four Winning Projects Showcased, Ushering in a New Era of Real-World Asset On-Chain Implementation

On April 19, 2026, the RWA Demo Day successfully concluded at the University of Hong Kong. Hosted by Nano Labs and co-organized by ABGA, ICC, and ME, with BNB Chain as the official public chain partner, the event focused on the core track of Real-World Asset Tokenization (RWA), bringing together high-quality RWA startups, top investment institutions, industry leaders, and technical experts from around the world. Through project presentations, keynote speeches, roundtable discussions, and a brand upgrade ceremony, the event explored in depth the practical application of RWA and Web3 integration. The event attracted over a thousand attendees, becoming the most influential RWA-themed event during this year's Hong Kong Web3 Carnival.

In his opening remarks, Nano Labs VP Kevin Shao stated that the true value of blockchain lies in connecting the real economy and serving real needs. RWA is a key direction for reshaping the formation, circulation, pricing, and allocation of assets, and it is also the core answer for Web3 to create sustainable value for the real world. RWA Demo Day was born in this context, aiming to build an open and efficient industry matchmaking platform, promote the formation of a closed loop of projects, capital, technology, and ecosystem resources, and truly move RWA from conceptual narrative to large-scale implementation. Simultaneously, with the accelerated integration of AI and blockchain technologies, the two will jointly foster the next generation of global digital business models, opening up broader possibilities for RWA's development.

Meanwhile, with the core orientation of linking physical assets with the digital economy, this event has built a professional platform for project display, resource matching, and industry exchange, comprehensively showcasing RWA's innovative potential in areas such as asset liquidity release, financial inclusion, and cross-border value transfer. It injects new momentum into the large-scale application of real-world assets on the blockchain, and promotes the deep integration of the Web3 ecosystem with the traditional real economy. The following are the core highlights of the event:

I. Demo Day Winning Teams' Roadshow Highlights: Top 4 Innovative Projects Lead the Way in RWA Implementation

After rigorous selection and professional review, four outstanding projects were selected from over 100 applicants for this RWA Demo Day. These projects focus on innovation in the RWA field, comprehensively promoting the intelligent and large-scale implementation of on-chain real-world assets, from transaction infrastructure and asset execution layer to identity and financial infrastructure.

Dexless

Dexless, as a permissionless RWA market creation layer, focuses on solving the pricing challenges of perpetual RWA markets. It builds a pricing infrastructure centered on a validation engine, enabling an upgrade from tokenized assets to a smart global market. Leveraging an AI-native trading layer and deep shared liquidity, the project creates a permissionless RWA trading system where users can independently create markets. Through a modular AI trading architecture and Orderly Network liquidity support, it provides a reliable and scalable on-chain trading and risk management environment for various RWA assets, effectively improving asset trading efficiency and security.

Prime Piper

PrimePiper positions itself as a service provider for AI agent clusters, precisely addressing the core pain points in the execution and operation of AI trading. It provides AI agents with unified account management, strategy execution, and compliance auditing infrastructure. Its products cover mainstream trading platforms such as Hyperliquid, OKX, and Binance, building a full-lifecycle service system from SaaS tools to universal agent accounts. Through its strategy engine and flexible risk control rule configuration, PrimePiper enables the large-scale deployment of AI agent cluster trading strategies, becoming an indispensable execution-layer infrastructure in the AI trading ecosystem.

twin3.ai

twin3.ai innovatively proposes the concept that "humans are the true real-world assets," building identity and payment infrastructure for the agent economy and providing AI agents with verifiable human digital identities and trusted interaction capabilities. The project centers on the 256D soul-binding token Twin Matrix, transforming human experiences, preferences, and value judgments into verifiable on-chain digital assets, solving the industry challenge of AI agents lacking genuine human trust backing. Based on the BNB Chain, it constructs a dual-revenue model, creating a human experience trading market and subscription service system. Currently, it has over 140,000 SBT holders, and its ecosystem is beginning to take shape.

Haven AI

Haven AI focuses on autonomous execution of on-chain fixed income, addressing the industry pain point of "easy to add to the chain, difficult to use effectively" for RWA assets. It has created an AI-driven on-chain asset allocation and yield management platform. Through the HavenScore risk assessment system and the HavenClaw autonomous execution engine, it achieves automated cross-chain allocation and dynamic rebalancing of stablecoins, DeFi, and RWA assets. Users can obtain institutional-grade fixed income strategies via natural language commands, constructing a fully transparent execution loop through four steps: deposit, AI analysis, asset allocation, and yield generation. This covers the intelligent management of various types of RWA assets, including government bonds and corporate bonds.

II. Keynote Speech: Industry Leaders Discuss Future Trends of RWA

This Demo Day invited four industry leaders to deliver keynote speeches, sharing their cutting-edge insights and practical experience in the RWA field from four dimensions: national digital infrastructure, on-chain full-stack facilities, large-scale deployment, and on-chain innovation of traditional finance.

Nina — BNB Chain Executive Director of Growth "From Issuance to Application Deployment: The Full-Stack Infrastructure Behind RWA Distribution"

Nina shared BNB Chain's ecosystem layout and practical achievements in the RWA field. Currently, the on-chain RWA assets exceed $3.55 billion, covering diverse asset classes such as government bonds, stocks, and commodities. She emphasized that the large-scale development of RWA not only relies on asset tokenization but also requires deep collaboration between the distribution layer and the DeFi ecosystem. BNB Chain, leveraging stablecoin liquidity, on-chain transaction infrastructure, and institutional-grade service systems, has built a complete closed loop from asset issuance to user adoption, validating the crucial supporting role of full-stack infrastructure for RWA implementation through benchmark projects such as Ondo.

Henry Zhang — DigiFT Founder & CEO "Beyond Tokenization: The Conditions for RWA to Scalable"

Henry Zhang pointed out that the RWA industry has moved from "tokenization 1.0" to a new stage of "scaling 2.0." Simply putting assets on-chain can no longer meet the needs of institutions and the market; the lack of a trading, distribution, and circulation system is the current core bottleneck. As a licensed digital asset platform, DigiFT has built a service system covering the entire lifecycle of RWA, solving industry pain points such as compliant issuance, secondary trading, and liquidity management. He believes that the next stage of RWA development will focus on real-world financial scenarios, breaking down the barriers between traditional finance and the on-chain economy through compliant infrastructure, and achieving efficient asset value circulation.

Philip Fei — Chainlink Ecosystem Growth, Asia "The On-Chain Awakening of Traditional Finance: From Concept Experiment to Real Business"

Philip Fei, from the perspective of financial evolution, pointed out that the essence of finance is the technology of bookkeeping, ownership confirmation, and value transfer, and blockchain is the core upgrade of the next-generation financial operating system. His presentation shared how Chainlink, through its CCIP oracle network, connects traditional financial systems with on-chain infrastructure, solving three major challenges: trusted data on-chain, cross-chain interoperability, and automated compliance execution. From the Brazilian Central Bank and the Financial Supervisory Authority's CBDC cross-border pilot program to UBS's tokenized fund workflow, Chainlink is becoming a key interface for the migration of traditional finance to on-chain, promoting the deep integration of the traditional financial system and the digital financial ecosystem.

Xin Yan — Sign Co-founder, "RWA: The New Global Capital Markets"

Xin Yan's speech focused on the construction of sovereign-level digital infrastructure, explaining how Sign, through four core modules—CBDC, stablecoin middleware, virtual accounts, and compliance systems—helps nations build the next generation of programmable financial systems. Xin Yan pointed out that the fragmentation and high transaction friction issues of traditional financial systems are being gradually restructured by blockchain-driven sovereign-level infrastructure. Through verifiable credentials and transaction proof layers, it achieves integrated collaboration between digital identity, cross-border payments, and compliance regulation. This has already been implemented in several countries, including the UAE, Pakistan, and Bhutan, promoting a full-chain digital transformation from digital identity to RWA asset tokenization.

III. ABGA Brand Upgrade Ceremony: Strategic Expansion of the AI x RWA x Web3 New Ecosystem

At the event, the ABGA brand upgrade ceremony was officially held, marking the alliance's entry into a new stage of development. ABGA, formerly known as Asia Blockchain Gaming Alliance, officially upgraded its brand name to AI Blockchain Global Alliance at the ceremony, while retaining the original abbreviation ABGA, and also realizing a comprehensive expansion of its strategic footprint.

This brand refresh marks a significant milestone in ABGA's development, signifying the alliance's expansion beyond its early focus on the blockchain gaming sector to encompass the convergence of Web3, AI, and RWA technologies, demonstrating a global vision for the next generation of digital economy ecosystem. Moving forward, ABGA will leverage its open ecosystem, global resources, and forward-looking strategy to bring together high-quality projects, developers, capital, and industry partners. This will drive the integration and application of AI, RWA, and blockchain technologies across diverse scenarios, accelerating the construction of next-generation digital economy infrastructure and an innovative ecosystem. ABGA will continue to leverage its core strengths in platform connectivity, resource synergy, and ecosystem empowerment, working hand-in-hand with global partners to explore new possibilities for technological innovation and industry growth, and jointly build an open, collaborative, and sustainable global innovation ecosystem.

IV. High-level Roundtable Forum: Cross-industry Dialogue Sparks New Thinking on RWA Development

The event featured a special roundtable forum titled "From Asset On-Chain to Large-Scale Application: How to Realize RWA," bringing together industry leaders such as Lynn (CoinFound, Head of Ecosystem), Dr. Kailong Cai (dStock, Co-founder), Thomas Chou (Canton Foundation, Head of Growth, APAC), Zhao Chen (Fosun Wealth, Executive Director of Digital Assets), and Brook (Dexify, CPO) to discuss cutting-edge topics including the large-scale application of RWA, the integration and innovation of AI and RWA, the synergistic development of traditional finance and Web3, and cross-border asset transfer, engaging in in-depth exchanges and discussions.

The guests discussed practical solutions and experiences to address current pain points in the RWA industry, such as insufficient liquidity, high compliance barriers, and weak user awareness. They explored innovative models combining DeFi, CeFi, and RWA, analyzing the application value and development prospects of CeDeFi architecture in on-chaining real-world assets. The guests also envisioned the potential applications of RWA in real estate, commodities, inclusive finance, and intellectual property, exchanging views on technological iteration, compliance construction, and ecosystem collaboration, and jointly discussing implementation paths to propel RWA from concept to mainstream application. The roundtable forum, through cross-industry dialogue, stimulated innovative thinking, built industry consensus, provided diverse perspectives and practical guidance for the sustainable and healthy development of the RWA ecosystem, and further promoted the collaborative progress of the global RWA industry.

Future Outlook

The successful hosting of this RWA Demo Day not only showcased the technological breakthroughs and innovative scenarios of putting real-world assets on the blockchain, but also marked the RWA industry's transition from the early exploratory stage to a new phase of high-quality development characterized by scale, compliance, and ecosystem building. With the deep integration of AI and blockchain technologies, the continued entry of traditional financial institutions, and the gradual clarification of the global regulatory framework, RWA is becoming a key bridge connecting the real economy and the digital economy, opening up new possibilities for global asset liquidity restructuring, cross-border value transfer, and improved financial efficiency.

In the future, with the implementation of more high-quality projects, continuous improvement of infrastructure, and the expansion of the industrial ecosystem, RWA will no longer be limited to niche innovation experiments, but is expected to grow into an important part of the next generation of global capital markets. The industry consensus, technological achievements, and cooperation opportunities gathered at this event will continue to be transformed into a powerful driving force for the industry's progress, helping Web3 truly serve the real economy and empower industries, and jointly ushering in a new era of deep collaboration between digital finance and the real world.