RWAiFi Summit 2025: The Integration of AI, RWA, and Decentralized Finance Leading Web3 Financial Innovation

The RWAiFi Summit 2025 successfully concluded on April 30 in Dubai. The summit attracted over 1,900 sign ups and more than 400 participants, bringing together numerous top projects, investment institutions, AI experts, and financial innovators to discuss the future development of AI, RWA, and Decentralized Finance.

The summit set up 4 core roundtable discussions to delve into cutting-edge industry topics. Below are summaries of some guests' viewpoints:

AiFi: On-chain Finance and Real Returns

GAIB CEO Kony pointed out that the real gains of the AI era primarily flow to underlying computing power assets. GAIB is promoting the financialization and tokenization of these computing assets, allowing investors to directly participate and share in the profits.

Aethir Strategy Lead Kartik stated that their computing power market is based on computing resources as collateral, and the actual income generated by users renting GPUs will be proportionally distributed to participants, providing sustainable and low-cost support for projects that require economic security.

Symbiotic Head of Ecosystem Felix emphasized that "composability" is the key for crypto systems to surpass traditional centralized models. Symbiotic facilitates the free combination of new assets and protocols through modular financial and incentive components, helping RWA and computational resources to collaborate efficiently in the Web3 ecosystem and accelerate implementation.

Seb, Managing Director of a certain online platform, pointed out that they have built a "pay-per-use" mechanism to ensure that every participant in the ecosystem engages based on genuine demand, forming a sustainable computing power network driven by enterprise clients with an on-chain revenue closed loop.

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

CEO Jeremy of a certain platform stated that they have launched a stable asset supported 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 crypto wallets.

Solv CBO Jing pointed out that now is the best time to engage in RWA, as global regulations are forming a critical framework period. The industry should actively participate in shaping the financial rules for the next five to ten years. A recent product launched by Solv even received Sharia compliance certification from Saudi Arabia, demonstrating the localization capability and real user attractiveness of RWA products in regional markets.

Jack from the Plume Ecosystem emphasized that now is a golden period for bringing various new assets onto the 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.

Decentralized Finance liquidity and RWA value: New opportunities in on-chain finance

Stakestone CMO Ivan pointed out that compared to traditional markets, the "cost of capital usage" in DeFi is more flexible. Stakestone supports stablecoins as pre-stored assets, helping users hedge against ETH volatility risks, thereby reducing overall capital costs.

Martin, Head of Growth at a financial platform, calls on the industry to promote a unified risk control and asset pricing system, and supports cross-asset and cross-chain collateral and liquidity mechanisms to drive the capital release and scaling of RWA.

Lagrange CSO Omar emphasized that DeFi liquidity can essentially be seen as a "new type of risk capital" that can activate underlying assets with high potential that have not yet been 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 of the industry.

AI Ecosystem: Building a True Future Foundation

Sahara Operations Lead Katerina stated that they focus on addressing the issue of the current AI industry being dominated by large centralized companies and the lack of rewards for data contributors. Their aim is to allow developers, small teams, and individual users to fairly participate in the value distribution of the AI lifecycle, promoting a more open and equitable AI economy.

KiteAI VP 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, and dispute resolution processes. 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.

Mind Network CEO Christian emphasized that blockchain naturally possesses 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 dividends brought by technological growth.

As discussions around RWA, AI, and Decentralized Finance heat up globally, the RWAiFi Summit 2025 has become an important platform for driving AI innovation, further highlighting the industry's commitment to combining cutting-edge technology to unlock the future of decentralized finance.