“Is This Time Different for Ethereum?” A Closer Look at Its Current Landscape and Challenges
“Ethereum is dead”.
This is a pervasive argument that has recently appeared in various communities and media. In fact, Vitalik himself used this sentence to analyze the various difficulties experienced by Ethereum at the previous Wanxiang Blockchain Conference. The audience understood that Vitalik was being self-deprecating — perhaps even playfully mocking the persistent FUD surrounding Ethereum. But what’s different this time is that many people are starting to believe that Ethereum may be past its prime.
CPIC Estable MMF Launches on HashKey Chain with $100M First-Day Subscriptions
Hong Kong, Mar. 21, 2025 – HashKey Chain announced that the tokenized USD Money Market Fund, “CPIC Estable MMF”, initiated and managed by CPIC Investment Management (H.K.) Co, Ltd, was successfully deployed on HashKey Chain, with subscription volume reaching USD 100 million on its launch day. This deployment enhances HashKey Chain’s position in the institutional DeFi […]
HashKey Capital Secures Type 1 Licence from SFC, Paving the Way for Broader Crypto Accessibility in Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Mar. 18, 2025 – HashKey Capital has obtained a Type 1 licence from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), further expanding its regulated capabilities under the SFC. HashKey Capital currently holds a Type 9 licence, enabling the firm to offer asset management products to both retail and institutional clients. The firm […]
Multi-Agent Systems— Current Landscape and Outlook
The idea of AI Agent, which refers to an intelligent software system that can understand its environment and autonomously perform actions on behalf of the user or machine to achieve its goals, was conceived in the 1980s. However, this concept only started gaining traction from the 2010s when the rise of deep learning and large language models (LLMs) demonstrated their abilities to understand and generate human-like responses.
2024 H2 Web3 Industry Review
Since the first half of 2024, the crypto market has experienced remarkable growth, with its total market capitalization surging by 44.2%, from $2.31 trillion to $3.33 trillion. This growth has been underpinned by key milestones, including the approval of spot BTC and ETH ETFs in 1H 2024 as well as the landslide election victory of Donald Trump in 2H 2024, whose deregulatory agenda and pro-crypto policies have fueled optimism in the industry.
Dr. Xiao Feng’s Keynote Speech at the HashKey Chain Web3 Voyage Event: Blockchain: Starting from the Origin
Hong Kong, Feb. 20, 2025 – Dr. Xiao Feng, Chairman and CEO of HashKey Group, delivered a keynote speech titled Blockchain: Starting from the Origin at the Web3 Voyage event hosted by HashKey Chain. Below is the full text of the speech, transcribed and organized from live notes, with some minor edits that do not […]
HashKey Capital Launches HashKey 20 Index Fund, Bridging Residency and Digital Asset Investment in Hong Kong
Singapre, Feb. 17, 2025 – The HashKey FTSE Digital Asset Top 20 Index Fund(“HashKey 20”), the first multi-token crypto index fund approved by the SFC, is now open toinstitutional and accredited investors following its official launch today. With the launch of HongKong’s New Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES) last March, HashKey 20 was designedto offer […]
Second-Round Speaker Lineup Announced for Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2025
Hong Kong Web3 Festival today announced the second-round speaker lineup for its upcoming 2025 edition, including: Henry Ma, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, WeBank; Director, WeBank Technology Services Ed Felten, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs John Cahill, Chief Operating Officer, Asia, Galaxy Digital Yam Ki Chan, Vice President of Strategy and Policy, […]
Visualizing AI in Crypto: Mindmaps and Key Insights from 2024
In mid-2024, HashKey Capital released AI into Crypto, highlighting the growing prominence of AI Agents. By the second half of 2024, this trend had surged, prompting the HashKey Capital research team to create a comprehensive brain map of AI Agents to better understand the current landscape.