Solana Accelerate APAC at Consensus
Hong Kong has never waited for permission to reinvent itself. In the 70s and 80s it was the unofficial capital of Asian IPOs. In the 90s it became the dealmaking room for every multinational entering China. Through every boom and crisis, Hong Kong kept its edge - fast markets, hard rules, and a culture that treated finance like a full-contact sport. If London wrote the textbooks and New York wrote the headlines, Hong Kong wrote the term sheets. That history matters now more than ever. Because every era has its wild west.
For years, that frontier was cross-border trade. Then it was pre-WTO China. Then it was the Asian capital markets that global banks didn’t quite understand but desperately wanted in on. Each time, Hong Kong stepped in and did what it does best - take chaos, give it structure; take an unruly frontier and turn it into a functioning, investable market.
Crypto is the newest version of that story. Volatile, ambitious, occasionally messy, but full of real momentum. And once again, Hong Kong is leaning in with the same playbook that made it indispensable to global finance - clear frameworks, competitive licensing, and a culture that knows how to domesticate frontier markets without killing their energy.
This year, Solana Accelerate lands at Consensus Hong Kong. Together, these two anchor events bring founders, institutions, policymakers, and innovators into the same orbit, amplifying the region’s momentum and showcasing the future of internet capital markets.
香港的创新一直走在时代前沿。上世纪七八年代，它是亚洲IPO领域当之无愧的“无冕之王”；到了九十年代，又成为所有跨国企业进军中国内地的“交易枢纽”。无论身处繁荣期还是危机时，香港始终拥有核心优势，那就是高效的市场、严格的规则，以及在金融领域竞技的决心。如果说伦敦编撰了金融教科书，纽约占据了金融新闻头条，那香港便是实打实制定执行了了交易条款。
而这样的历史，在当下尤其重要。因为每个时代都有自己的「前沿阵地」。过去香港的前沿阵地是跨境贸易；后来是加入WTO前中国贸易口岸；再后来，是兵家必争的的亚洲资本市场。每一次，香港都做了它最擅长的事：从混乱里找秩序，把未成型的市场变成可投资、可成长的体系。
加密行业正是这个故事的最新篇章，它野心勃勃，有时略显混乱，却蕴含着强劲的发展势头。香港再一次用它熟悉的方式参与进来，用清晰的监管框架、竞争力十足的监管制度，在合规的框架下引领行业的进步。
这也是 Solana Accelerate 选择在这里举办的原因。今年，Solana Accelerate 与 Consensus Hong Kong 同期举行，这两大核心活动将创业者、金融机构、政策制定者与创新者汇聚一堂，既为该地区的发展势头注入新活力，也向世界展现互联网资本市场的未来图景。