The 2026 Google Cloud Stablecoin Hong Kong Forum, co-hosted by Google Cloud and ODIG, concluded successfully on April 20th. This year's forum brought together industry leaders to focus on topics such as AI-driven new payment paradigms, the integration of Web3 infrastructure and AI, and the key role of stablecoins in the smart agent economy.

Marx Wu, head of Google Cloud Web3, delivered the opening remarks, setting the tone for the forum's theme: "Leading the AI ​​Innovation Wave in the Cloud, Stablecoins, and Connected Ecosystems." In subsequent speeches, several prominent speakers provided attendees with a clear industry landscape through in-depth industry insights.

 (Marx Wu, Head of Google Cloud Web3)

Ray Chan, Head of AI Marketing for Google Cloud North Asia, delivered a speech titled "Google Cloud AI and Intelligent Agent Business," showcasing Google's full-stack AI optimization strategy and using it as a starting point to analyze the future of deep integration between AI, Web3, and business scenarios. He stated that with the surge in Gemini users and the full arrival of the Agent era, Google Cloud will continue to lead the AI ​​market towards autonomous and commercial transformation with strong confidence, leveraging Google's industry-leading multimodal models and enterprise-grade security.

 (Ray Chan, Head of AI Marketing, Google Cloud North Asia)

Andy Chow, Head of Customer Engineering at Google Cloud, delivered a speech on "Building the Next Generation Intelligent Agent Economy Architecture Based on Google Cloud Platform" from an engineering implementation perspective. He detailed Google Cloud's co-evolution path in the Web3 direction and revealed the certain final evolution of the industry ecosystem toward deep integration of underlying architecture and global ecosystem collaboration.

 (Andy Chow, Customer Engineering Manager at Google Cloud)

Lennix Lai, Global Chief Business Officer of OKX, and Eefy Lin, Customer Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, jointly delivered a keynote speech entitled "Agentic Commerce & The A2A Economy: Building the Financial Infrastructure for Autonomous Agents." Focusing on agent-based commerce and the A2A economy, OKX integrated Google's top AI model—Gemini—with full-stack technology to enhance the user trading experience while building a leading technological moat in the Web3 industry through Google Cloud's enterprise-grade security system. As an industry pioneer, OKX possesses outstanding leadership and continuous technological innovation capabilities in the Web3 field. Through its collaboration with Google Cloud, OKX will significantly enhance market confidence in the security and intelligent transformation of crypto asset platforms.

 (Lennix Lai, Global Chief Business Officer of OKX)

Dr. Changhao Jiang, co-founder and CTO of Cobo, and Leon Li, Google Cloud Customer Solutions Architect, delivered a keynote speech titled "When Agents Begin to Govern: How Cobo Agentic Wallet Builds Execution Trust." Both believe that to embrace the explosive growth of the intelligent agent economy, infrastructure must undergo an architectural reshaping. Cobo and Google Cloud are collaborating to provide enterprise-grade security for autonomous collaboration among intelligent agents globally.

 (Dr. Jiang Changhao, co-founder and CTO of Cobo)

DeepX co-founder Sean Chen and Google Cloud Web3 customer engineer Connor Liu delivered a presentation titled "DeepX: An AI-Native Unified Trading Platform," sharing DeepX's innovative integration with Google Cloud's AI-Native system. The speakers believe that AI-native financial trading infrastructure holds immense potential in the new era of machine-driven trading.

At the event, DeepX also released Litepaper, which systematically elaborates on the technical blueprint of AI-native transaction architecture. Going forward, it will continue to deepen its integration and support for AP2 payment protocol, intent-driven front-end, and cross-platform universal standards, and expand in synergy with the AI-native evolution path of the Google Cloud ecosystem.

 (DeepX co-founder Sean Chen & Google Cloud Web3 lead Marx Wu)

The first roundtable, moderated by Bai Liang, founder of Zero One Think Tank and Web3.01, brought together Samuel Tse, Vice President (Investment, Advisory and Portfolio Management) of Animoca Brands, Sailing Wang, Head of Stablecoin Strategic Partnerships at OSL Group, Jordan Liu, Founder and CEO of Alsa, and Walter, Director of Corporate Development at Sunrate, to engage in a thought-provoking exchange on the topic of "The Intelligent Agent Economy Has Arrived: The Reconstruction of Business Paradigms Driven by AI Agents and Stablecoins".

The panelists focused on the fundamental shift in productivity paradigms, exploring the differences between the intelligent agent economy and the traditional internet economy from the perspectives of execution logic, protocol standards, and application scenarios. They argued that in future commerce, decision-making power will shift from "humans" to "agents," highlighting the continued importance of AI payment standards. Looking ahead, the panelists believed that stablecoins are irreplaceable in high-frequency M2M (machine-to-machine) micro-payments, and that the GDP share driven by seamless A2A exchanges will grow. They also emphasized that compliance and trust mechanisms remain crucial for achieving large-scale application.

The forum's closing roundtable was moderated by Eefy Lin, Google Cloud Customer Solutions Architect, with Rachel Qiu, COO of HashKey Group's On-Chain Business Group and Head of Group Business Development, Fenton Li, CEO of StablePay, Thomas Yang, Vice President of Lianlian Pay, and Terence Ng, co-founder of EX.IO, discussing the topic "Intelligent Agent Economy and the New Era of Payment: Who is Defining the Next Generation of Business Infrastructure?"

The guests analyzed the future blueprint of the machine economy from the perspectives of payment protocols, integration with traditional finance, and underlying blockchain performance, emphasizing that the payment sector is a key area of ​​the intelligent agent economy, and stablecoins and the AP2 protocol will become the cornerstone of M2M payments. Facing the intent-driven interactive revolution, the guests discussed the new KYA (Know Your Agent) identity verification framework and the evolutionary path to achieving "seamless payments" under compliant conditions. In the future, with the improvement of cross-chain standards and security protocols, intelligent agents are rapidly moving from a technological concept to the core of a new global economic paradigm.

Summarize

The Google Cloud Stablecoin Hong Kong Forum brought together more than 30 industry leaders to speak. It was a deep strategic collaboration and collective consensus-building event for industry cooperation, attracting more than 200 participants.

Stablecoins and Web3 technology undoubtedly bring exciting opportunities to the intelligent agent economy. This forum delves into the definite path of technological evolution in the Web3 ecosystem in Hong Kong and globally, and further sparks a wave of AI innovation through the synergistic evolution of cloud computing, stablecoins, and the interconnected ecosystem, injecting transformative growth momentum and innovative foundation into the global collaborative network driven by the intelligent agent economy.