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Hong Kong Web3 group issues blueprint for accelerating blockchain development

Web3 Harbour, in collaboration with PwC Hong Kong, will launch five action groups in August on stablecoins, funds and other critical segments

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Visitors attend the Web 3 Festival at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai on April 14, 2023. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Matt Haldane

In a call to action for greater investment to accelerate the development of blockchain infrastructure, industry group Web3 Harbour and accounting firm PwC Hong Kong released the “Hong Kong Web3 Blueprint” on Monday, capitalising on recent momentum in the city.

Highlighting the “transparency, security, and user empowerment” of decentralisation, the blueprint seeks to leverage what it calls “Web3 superpowers” through the development of “five key enablers”: talent, market infrastructure, standards, regulation, and funding and economic contribution. It calls on participants to focus on open finance, trade finance, capital markets, asset management and carbon markets.

The report was put together with input from Web3 Harbour members and other industry stakeholders. Web3 Harbour chairman Gary Liu, formerly CEO of the Post, said greater private-public collaboration was among its goals, but it was primarily a guide for where the private sector should focus its efforts.

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