ME Group CEO Jessica and DigiFT Founder and Group CEO Henry engaged in an in-depth conversation. This dialogue not only reviewed DigiFT's path over the past four years but also revealed the strategic blueprint for the RWA sector's leap from '0 to 1' to '10 to 100'.

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Recently, during Hong Kong Fintech Week, Hong Kong, as a global hub for RWA and digital asset regulatory innovation, is attracting top 'players' from North America, Singapore, and the Asia-Pacific region. ME Group CEO Jessica and DigiFT Founder and Group CEO Henry held an in-depth conversation here. This dialogue not only reviewed DigiFT's path over the past four years but also revealed the strategic blueprint for the RWA sector's leap from '0 to 1' to '10 to 100'.

Singapore's Maiden Voyage: The world's first licensed decentralized exchange for real-world assets (RWA On-Chain Exchange)

In 2020, the DeFi Summer swept the globe, and Henry, who has over 20 years of traditional financial background, keenly captured the potential of Web3 to reshape financial infrastructure, founding DigiFT. Notably, it is currently the only decentralized digital asset exchange (RWA On-Chain Exchange) operating in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Technology Regulatory Sandbox.

Henry emphasized: 'We are the world's first licensed decentralized exchange for real-world assets (RWA On-Chain Exchange) and currently the only one.' This license is not only an official endorsement of the 'self-custody + smart contract-driven + micro-branch deployment' technical architecture but also makes DigiFT a compliant bridgehead for institutional asset tokenization.

From fixed income to equity: The steady expansion of the product matrix

After four years of deep cultivation, DigiFT has completed several milestones of 'from 0 to 1' and is currently accelerating the scaling replication from '1 to 2' and even '10 to 100'. The product line starts with the most easily accepted fixed-income products—U.S. Treasuries and Money Market Funds (MMF)—and gradually expands to equity assets such as Hong Kong stocks and U.S. stocks. Henry revealed: 'Last week, we announced the tokenization of shares in Ocean Group Holdings Limited.'

Meanwhile, collaborations with leading institutions such as UBS Asset Management, Invesco, DBS, and CMBI have also been launched. He joked: 'Just as Amazon initially only sold books and later expanded to a diverse range of products, RWA tokenization also follows an evolutionary path from simple to complex and from singular to diverse.'

Full-stack infrastructure: One-stop empowerment for asset tokenization

DigiFT has built a full-stack modular infrastructure covering asset tokenization, distribution, trading, and secondary market applications, providing partners with end-to-end or point services. Henry stated: 'The core we provide is a complete full-stack technical architecture, mainly including tokenization, distribution, trading, and application.'

With dual licenses as a broker and exchange, the DigiFT platform is continuously deepening the breadth of asset categories and the depth of individual categories while adding liquidity solutions, smart routing, and other advanced features, truly achieving that on-chain assets 'run faster and turn more agile.'

Borderless technology, global customers

It is said that blockchain is inherently 'borderless', so DigiFT is targeted at global asset issuers and investors, operating only within a compliant framework. Henry pointed out: 'From a licensing perspective, Hong Kong and Singapore, as global financial centers, along with the U.S. and Japan, are themselves crossroads for global assets and funds, so we are aimed at the global market.' Currently, several listed companies in Hong Kong and the U.S. are actively seeking to cooperate on stock tokenization, and the demand for on-chain 24/7 real-time settlement and global liquidity is exploding.

The historic migration from 'funds on the internet' to 'assets on the blockchain'

Henry's assessment of the RWA sector is incisive: this is not only an incremental market but also a complete transformation of existing finance. The core of Web3 is 'value transfer'; tokens can represent both native crypto assets and encapsulate shares of traditional funds, stocks, or physical assets, bringing unprecedented combinability and settlement efficiency. He predicts: 'The volume of RWA may only be a few hundred million now, but later everyone will estimate it in trillions, and this process has a conversion phase.'

Never before, the real tipping point lies in 'money on-chain'. Henry emphasized: 'Once people have stablecoins, they will ask two questions: how to pay? how to invest? I can use stablecoins to invest.' Once all funds are fully tokenized, whether stablecoins or central bank digital currencies, users will naturally push for all assets to be on-chain. He compared it to the wave of 'money on the internet' 25 years ago, today it has opened up a new era of 'assets on-chain'.

Conclusion

As the unquestionable early leader and standard setter in the RWA sector, Henry and DigiFT have proven over four years that compliance and innovation are not opposites, and that the on-chain world can fully meet the rigorous requirements of institutional finance. Jessica stated at the end of the interview that she looks forward to DigiFT, under Henry's leadership, continuing to set new benchmarks for global asset tokenization and advancing the industry's segmented tracks from 'booming' to 'natural progression'.