The RWAiFi Summit 2025, hosted by GAIB, Plume, and StakeStone, successfully concluded on April 30 during Token2049 in Dubai.
This summit attracted over 1,900 registrants and more than 400 participants, gathering 17 top projects, including OpenLedger, Sahara AI, Aethir, Solv, Kite AI, Lagrange, Symbiotic, OpenEden, Maple Finance, Mind Network, ICN Protocol, Tranchess, Balloon, and several leading investment institutions such as Hack VC, Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, MH Ventures, Bullish, CMCC Global, L2 Iterative Ventures, along with many global AI experts and financial innovators, to jointly discuss the future of AI, RWA, and DeFi.
Event Highlights:
This summit featured 4 core roundtables focusing on in-depth discussions of cutting-edge industry topics. Below are some of the guests' insightful views and insights:
Roundtable Discussion 1: AiFi: On-Chain Finance and Real Returns
Host: Keira (MH Venture Portfolio Manager)
Guest:
Kony (GAIB CEO) pointed out that in the AI era, real returns mainly flow to underlying computing power assets, such as cloud service providers and data centers, making it difficult for ordinary investors to participate directly, as they can typically only do so indirectly by purchasing shares of companies like Nvidia. GAIB is pushing for the financialization and tokenization of such computing assets, allowing investors to participate directly and share returns.
Kartik (Aethir Strategy Lead) stated that Aethir's computing power market is based on computing resources as collateral, and the actual revenue generated from users renting GPUs will be proportionally distributed to participants. This mechanism is based on real customers and transactions, inherently possessing the attribute of 'real returns,' providing sustainable, low-cost support for projects that require economic security.
Felix (Symbiotic Head of Ecosystem) emphasized that 'composability' is key for crypto systems to surpass traditional centralized models. Through modular financial and incentive components, Symbiotic facilitates the free combination of new assets and protocols, assisting RWA and computing resources to collaborate efficiently in the Web3 ecosystem and accelerate landing.
Seb (Impossible Cloud Network Managing Director) pointed out that ICN is a key bridge connecting Web2 and Web3, establishing a 'pay-per-use' mechanism that ensures every party in the ecosystem participates based on real demand, thus forming a sustainable computing power network driven by enterprise customers with an on-chain revenue closed loop.
Roundtable Discussion 2: Unlocking RWA Value: The Path to Innovation in On-Chain Assets
Host: Johanna (IDG Capital Web3 Investment)
Guest:
Jeremy (OpenEden CEO) proposed that OpenEden has launched stable assets supported by U.S. Treasury yields, with plans to further expand to emerging market users in the future and facilitate access to high-quality U.S. dollar assets through crypto wallets.
Jing (Solv CBO) pointed out that now is the best time to work on RWA, as global regulations are forming a critical framework period. The industry should actively participate in shaping financial rules for the next five to ten years, as product and market demand has matured sufficiently. A product recently launched by Solv even received Sharia compliance certification from Saudi Arabia, showcasing the localized landing capability and real user appeal of RWA products in regional markets.
Jack (Plume Ecosystem) emphasized that now is the golden period to bring all kinds of new assets on-chain. As the position of the crypto market in the global financial system becomes increasingly stable, more and more 'non-technical' financial professionals hope to use crypto technology to drive asset innovation. He hopes the future of the crypto market can transform into a 'democratized capital market' that promotes the integration of public and private markets, breaking down investment barriers.
Roundtable Discussion 3: DeFi Liquidity and RWA Value: New Opportunities in On-Chain Finance
Host: Lionel Pek (Spartan Group Executive Director)
Guest:
Ivan (Stakestone CMO) pointed out that compared to traditional markets, DeFi's 'capital utilization costs' are more flexible. From an ETH perspective, users earn additional returns through staking; from a USD perspective, they need to consider the capital volatility brought by ETH itself. To this end, Stakestone supports stablecoins as pre-deposited assets to help users hedge against ETH volatility risks, thereby reducing overall capital costs.
Martin (Maple Head of Growth) called on the industry to promote a unified risk control and asset pricing system, and to support cross-asset and cross-chain collateralization and liquidity mechanisms (cross-margining) to promote the capital release and scaling of RWA.
Omar (Lagrange CSO) emphasized that DeFi liquidity can essentially be seen as a 'new type of venture capital' that can activate high-potential underlying assets that have not yet been fully discovered and financed. DeFi allows for the rapid mobilization of small amounts of capital, activating application scenarios such as market making and storage leasing, while reducing the overall capital volatility of the industry.
Roundtable Discussion 4: AI Ecosystem: Building a Truly Future Foundation
Host: Mackenzie (Animoca Brands Portfolio Manager)
Guest:
Katerina (Sahara Operations Lead) stated that Sahara focuses on solving the current issue of large centralized companies dominating the AI industry, where data contributors lack returns. They aim to break the status quo of 'silent contribution' and allow developers, small teams, and individual users to participate fairly in the value distribution of the AI lifecycle, promoting a more open and equitable AI economy.
Lei Lei (KiteAI VP) pointed out that blockchain and smart contracts can introduce governance and audit mechanisms for AI systems, such as service level agreements (SLA), scoring mechanisms, and dispute resolution processes, even exploring behavior-based 'insurance and penalty mechanisms.' These mechanisms will make the behavior of AI agents more controllable, traceable, and verifiable, while emphasizing the importance of privacy protection, requiring a balance between the verifiability of model training data and user privacy.
Christian (Mind Network CEO) emphasized that blockchain inherently possesses the advantages of 'open participation' and 'economic accessibility,' enabling individual users or non-institutional investors to participate in AI-related protocols and projects earlier and share the economic dividends brought by technological growth. Unlike traditional AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, Web3 projects achieve fairer investment opportunities through on-chain issuance.
As global discussions around RWA, AI, and DeFi continue to heat up, the RWAiFi Summit 2025 has become an important platform for driving AI innovation. This event once again highlights GAIB's commitment to combining cutting-edge technology with unlocking the future of decentralized finance.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates from GAIB and the AiFi ecosystem!
Organizer:
GAIB is the first economic layer for AI computing power, transforming GPU assets into a new type of income-generating asset. GAIB has launched AI synthetic asset AID, allowing investors to seamlessly participate in the AI economy while obtaining real returns from AI computing power profits. Investors can stake AID (sAID) to earn rewards while maintaining liquidity, further participating in AI-driven financial markets. GAIB also provides capital solutions for cloud service providers and data centers, optimizing their computing resources and fostering the development of AI infrastructure. With extensive DeFi protocol integration, including lending, derivatives, and structured products, GAIB builds a bridge between AI and blockchain finance, unlocking new opportunities for technology and investment.
Plume is the first complete RWA chain and ecosystem designed for RWAfi, accelerating the on-chain integration of real-world assets. The Plume network has over 200 projects onboard, providing a composable environment compatible with EVM, supporting the management and introduction of diverse assets. Plume's end-to-end tokenization engine and financial partner network simplify the asset on-chain process, promoting deep integration of RWA and DeFi, enabling asset tokenization and global distribution.
StakeStone is a decentralized full-chain liquidity infrastructure protocol that innovates the liquidity distribution method of blockchain networks. StakeStone, based on a full-chain architecture, supports efficient yield generation, liquidity provision, and flexible asset management, providing sustainable liquidity solutions for the on-chain ecosystem.
