RWAiFi Summit 2025 Dubai Forum Successfully Concluded, Discussing the Future Development of AI, RWA, and Decentralized Finance

The RWAiFi Summit 2025 was successfully held on April 30 during Token2049 in Dubai. The summit attracted over 1,900 registrants and more than 400 attendees, gathering 17 top projects, including OpenLedger, Sahara AI, Aethir, and others. Many well-known investment institutions such as Hack VC, Spartan Group, and Animoca Brands also attended the conference. Global AI experts and financial innovators came together to discuss the future development directions of AI, RWA, and Decentralized Finance.

Event Highlights

The summit has set up 4 core roundtable discussions to conduct in-depth discussions on cutting-edge industry topics. Here are some精彩观点与洞察 from certain guests:

Roundtable Discussion 1: AiFi: On-chain Finance and Real Returns

Host: Keira (MH Venture Portfolio Manager)

Guest Opinion:

• Kony pointed out that the real benefits of the AI era mainly flow to underlying computing power assets. They are promoting the financialization and tokenization of such computing assets, allowing investors to participate directly and share in the profits.

• Kartik stated that they are developing a computing power market based on computing resources as collateral, where the actual revenue generated from renting GPUs will be proportionally distributed to participants, providing sustainable and low-cost support for projects that require economic security.

• Felix emphasizes that "composability" is the key for crypto systems to surpass traditional centralized models. By using modular financial and incentive components, they facilitate the free combination of new types of assets and protocols, aiding the efficient collaboration and accelerated implementation of RWA and computational resources in the Web3 ecosystem.

• Seb pointed out that they have built a "pay-per-use" mechanism to ensure that every party in the ecosystem participates based on real demand, thereby forming a sustainable computing power network driven by enterprise customers with an on-chain revenue closed loop.

Roundtable Discussion 2: Unlocking RWA Value: The Innovative Path of On-Chain Assets

Host: Johanna (IDG Capital Web3 Investment)

Guest's Viewpoint:

• Jeremy proposed that they have launched a stable asset backed by U.S. Treasury yields, with plans to further expand to emerging market users in the future, and to provide access to high-quality dollar assets through cryptocurrency wallets.

• Jing pointed out that now is the best time to engage in RWA, as global regulations are forming a critical framework, and the industry should actively participate in shaping future financial rules. A product they recently launched even received Sharia compliance certification from Saudi Arabia, demonstrating the localization capabilities of RWA products in regional markets and their appeal to real users.

• Jack emphasized that now is the golden period for bringing various new assets on-chain. He hopes that the future of the crypto market can transform into a "democratized capital market," promoting the integration of public and private markets and breaking down investment barriers.

Round Table Discussion 3: DeFi Liquidity and RWA Value: New Opportunities in On-chain Finance

Host: Lionel Pek (Spartan Group Executive Director)

Guest Opinions:

• Ivan pointed out that compared to traditional markets, the "cost of capital usage" in Decentralized Finance is more flexible. They support stablecoins as pre-stored assets to help users hedge against ETH volatility risks, thereby reducing overall capital costs.

• Martin calls on the industry to promote a unified risk control and asset pricing system, and to support cross-asset and cross-chain collateral and liquidity mechanisms, in order to drive the capital release and scaling of RWA.

• Omar emphasized that DeFi liquidity can essentially be viewed as a "new form of venture capital" that can activate underlying assets with high potential that have yet to be fully discovered and financed. Through DeFi, small amounts of capital can be quickly mobilized to activate application scenarios such as market making and warehousing leasing, while also reducing the overall capital volatility in the industry.

Roundtable Discussion 4: AI Ecosystem: Building a Truly Future Foundation

Host: Mackenzie (Animoca Brands Portfolio Manager)

Guest Opinions:

• Katerina stated that they focus on addressing the issue of large centralized companies dominating the current AI industry and the lack of rewards for data contributors, aiming to break the status quo of "silent contributions" so that developers, small teams, and individual users can also fairly participate in the value distribution of the AI lifecycle, promoting a more open and equitable AI economy.

• Lei Lei pointed out that blockchain and smart contracts can introduce governance and audit mechanisms for AI systems, such as service level agreements, scoring mechanisms, dispute resolution processes, and even explore "insurance and penalty mechanisms" based on behavioral performance. These mechanisms will make the behavior of AI agents more controllable, traceable, and verifiable, but it is necessary to find a balance between the verifiability of model training data and user privacy.

• Christian emphasized that blockchain inherently has the advantages of "open participation" and "economic accessibility," allowing individual users or non-institutional investors to participate in AI-related protocols and projects earlier and share in the economic benefits brought by technological growth. Unlike traditional AI giants, Web3 projects have achieved fairer investment opportunities through on-chain issuance.

As global discussions around RWA, AI, and Decentralized Finance heat up, the RWAiFi Summit 2025 has become an important platform for driving AI innovation. This event once again highlights the industry's commitment to integrating cutting-edge technologies to unlock the future of decentralized finance.