Author: Web3 Xiaolu

Hong Kong Carnival × Bangkok Money 20/20 Observation Notes

What impressed me most about the Hong Kong Blockchain Week this April wasn’t any particular panel, but a scene.

Around 10 p.m., in a tea restaurant in Wan Chai, four or five people squeezed around a table, eating stir-fried beef noodles and chatting about their next plans. One friend, who used to work on stablecoin payments, said that his team had fully transitioned to AI; another, who works on on-chain data, said that he now spends half his time helping AI companies build data pipelines.

Nobody was talking about coin prices, nobody was talking about narratives, and even the term Web3 barely appeared.

My initial reaction wasn’t surprise, but a strange sense…