RWAiFi Summit 2025, hosted by GAIB, Plume and StakeStone, concluded successfully on April 30 during Token2049 in Dubai.
The summit attracted more than 1,900 registrants and more than 400 participants, bringing together 17 top projects, including OpenLedger, Sahara AI, Aethir, Solv, Kite AI, Lagrange, Symbiotic, OpenEden, Maple Finance, Mind Network, ICN Protocol, Tranchess, Balloon and other projects, as well as many top investment institutions such as Hack VC, Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, MH Ventures, Bullish, CMCC Global, and L2 Iterative Ventures, as well as many global AI experts and financial innovators to discuss the future of AI, RWA and DeFi.
Event Highlights:
This summit set up 4 core round tables to conduct in-depth discussions on cutting-edge industry topics. The following are some of the guests’ wonderful views and insights:
Roundtable Discussion 1: AiFi: On-chain Finance and Real Returns
Moderator: Keira (MH Venture Portfolio Manager)
Guests:
- Kony (GAIB CEO) pointed out that in the AI era, the real benefits mainly flow to the underlying computing power assets, such as cloud service providers and data centers. It is difficult for ordinary investors to participate directly, and they can only get involved indirectly by purchasing stocks of companies such as Nvidia. GAIB is promoting the financialization and tokenization of such computing assets, so that investors can directly participate and share the benefits.
- Kartik (Aethir Strategy Lead) said that Aethir is a computing power market based on computing resources as collateral. The actual income generated by users renting GPUs will be distributed to participants in proportion. This mechanism is based on real customers and transactions, and naturally has the attribute of "real income", providing sustainable and low-cost support for projects that require economic security.
- Felix (Symbiotic Head of Ecosystem) emphasized that "composability" is the key to crypto systems surpassing traditional centralized models. Through modular financial and incentive components, Symbiotic facilitates the free combination of new assets and protocols, helping RWA and computing resources to efficiently collaborate and accelerate implementation in the Web3 ecosystem.
- Seb (Impossible Cloud Network Managing Director) pointed out that ICN is a key bridge connecting Web2 and Web3. It has built a "pay-per-use" mechanism to ensure that every party in the ecosystem participates based on real needs, thus forming a sustainable computing power network driven by corporate customers and with an on-chain revenue closed loop.
Roundtable Discussion 2: Unleashing the Value of RWA: The Road to Innovation of On-Chain Assets
Moderator: Johanna (IDG Capital Web3 Investment)
Guests:
- Jeremy (OpenEden CEO) proposed that OpenEden has launched stable assets backed by U.S. Treasury bond yields, and plans to further expand to users in emerging markets in the future and open up access to high-quality U.S. dollar assets for crypto wallets.
- Jing (Solv CBO) pointed out that now is the best time to do RWA. Global regulation is in the process of forming a key framework. The industry should actively participate in shaping the financial rules for the next five to ten years. Products and market demand are fully mature. A product recently launched by Solv even obtained Saudi Sharia compliance certification, demonstrating the localization and real user appeal of RWA products in the regional market.
- Jack (Plume Ecosystem) emphasized that now is the golden age to bring all kinds of new assets to the chain. As the position of the crypto market in the global financial system becomes more and more solid, more and more "non-technical" financial professionals hope to use crypto technology to promote asset innovation. He hopes that the future of the crypto market can be transformed into a "democratic capital market", promote the integration of public and private markets, and break down investment barriers.
Roundtable Discussion 3: DeFi Liquidity and RWA Value: New Opportunities for On-chain Finance
Moderator: Lionel Pek (Spartan Group Executive Director)
Guests:
- Ivan (Stakestone CMO ) pointed out that compared with the traditional market, DeFi's "capital use cost" is more flexible. From the perspective of ETH, users can obtain additional income through staking; from the perspective of the US dollar, it is necessary to consider the capital volatility caused by the volatility of ETH itself. For this reason, Stakestone supports stablecoins as pre-deposited assets to help users hedge against ETH volatility risks, thereby reducing overall capital costs.
- Martin (Maple Head of Growth) called on the industry to promote a unified risk control and asset pricing system, and called for support for cross-asset and cross-chain combined mortgage and liquidity mechanisms (cross-margining) to promote the capital release and scale of RWA.
- Omar (Lagrange CSO) emphasized that DeFi liquidity can essentially be regarded as a "new type of venture capital" that can activate underlying assets with high potential but 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 storage leasing, while reducing the overall capital volatility of the industry.
Roundtable Discussion 4: AI Ecosystem: Building the Real Foundation for the Future
Moderator: Mackenzie (Animoca Brands Portfolio Manager)
Guests:
- Katerina (Sahara Operations Lead) said that Sahara focuses on solving the current problem of the AI industry being dominated by large centralized companies and lack of rewards for data contributors. They aim to break the status quo of "silent contribution" and allow developers, small teams and individual users to fairly participate in the value distribution of the AI life cycle, promoting a more open and fair AI economy.
- Lei Lei (VP of KiteAI) pointed out that blockchain and smart contracts can introduce governance and auditable mechanisms for AI systems, such as service level agreements (SLAs), scoring mechanisms, dispute resolution processes, and even explore "insurance and penalty mechanisms" based on behavioral performance. These mechanisms will make the behavior of AI agents more controllable, traceable, and verifiable, but emphasize the importance of privacy protection, and the need to find a balance between the verifiability of model training data and user privacy.
- Christian (CEO of Mind Network) 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 the economic dividends brought by technological growth. Unlike traditional AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, Web3 projects have achieved fairer investment opportunities through on-chain issuance.
As global discussions around RWA, AI and DeFi continue to heat up, RWAiFi Summit 2025 has become an important platform for promoting AI innovation. This event once again demonstrates GAIB’s commitment to combining cutting-edge technologies to unlock the future of decentralized finance.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates from GAIB and the AiFi ecosystem!
Organizer:
GAIB is the first economic layer of AI computing power, transforming GPU assets into a new type of interest-bearing asset. GAIB has launched AI synthetic assets AID, enabling investors to seamlessly participate in the AI economy while obtaining real returns from AI computing power gains. Investors can pledge AID (sAID) to obtain rewards while maintaining liquidity and further participate in AI-driven financial markets. GAIB also provides capital solutions for cloud service providers and data centers to optimize their computing resources and promote the development of AI infrastructure. With a wide range of DeFi protocol integrations, including lending, derivatives and structured products, GAIB has built a bridge between AI and blockchain finance, unlocking new opportunities for technology and investment.
Plume is the first complete RWA chain and ecosystem designed specifically for RWAfi, accelerating the on-chain integration of real-world assets. The Plume network has more than 200 projects settled in, providing a composable environment compatible with EVM, supporting the management and introduction of diversified assets. Plume's end-to-end tokenization engine and financial partner network simplify the asset on-chain process, promote the deep integration of RWA and DeFi, and enable assets to be tokenized and distributed globally.
StakeStone is a decentralized full-chain liquidity infrastructure protocol that innovates the liquidity distribution method of blockchain networks. Based on the full-chain architecture, StakeStone supports efficient income generation, liquidity supply and flexible asset management, providing sustainable liquidity solutions for the on-chain ecosystem.
