Recently, the fundamentals in Europe and the United States have been a headache for people.
It's either about fighting wars or dealing with endless lawsuits.
But if you shift your focus back to Asia, you'll find that the script beneath the surface is completely different.
I just took a glance at next month's Hong Kong Web3 Carnival.
Big players like BlackRock and Solana are about to land in Victoria Harbour.
Do you think they traveled halfway across the world to teach everyone how to trade meme coins?
The topics they are going to discuss are extremely hardcore: AI-driven asset tokenization (RWA).
This is actually a very strong signal of narrative decoupling.
While the old financial system in the West is running in circles due to geopolitical infighting, capital here in Asia is trying to flip the table directly.
They want to bypass all the red tape and let AI Agents take over the on-chain execution of real-world assets.
Large institutions are laying the groundwork for RWA, and savvy retail investors are already using AI agents to run volumes on these tracks.
This is a clear financial comeback.
No matter how much can actually be executed in the end, at least by 2026, the ambition of Asia to seize the next generation of financial discourse rights with AI + Web3 can no longer be hidden.
Next month, I'll be on-site to keep an eye on things, to see how much of their bottom line this old money from Wall Street can reveal when they sit at the dining table in Hong Kong.