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The CEO of Ant Group stated at the 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund that the Chinese fintech giant will never issue digital currencies or engage in any form of speculative activities.
He emphasized that compliance is essential for innovation, highlighting that the company’s focus remains on serving the real economy through technological advancements. Their goal is to create new value rather than compete for existing interests.
Over the years, Ant has dedicated efforts to exploring the tokenized economy, especially in the past year with the advancement of real-world asset sandbox practices, aiming to leverage technology to facilitate the efficient circulation of physical assets and interconnected value.
He underscored that integrating the tokenized economy deeply with the real economy is crucial to unlocking its full potential. When tokens are confined to virtual circulation, their value remains narrowly limited.
Although digital assets native to Web3 have exceeded $3.8 trillion globally, most are still confined to speculative and store-of-value purposes, lacking meaningful engagement with the tangible economy, he explained.
“Tokens must evolve beyond their roles as speculative tools within virtual spaces to help address trust, efficiency, and cost challenges in the real economy,” he said. “Only then can a sustainable, comprehensive, and meaningful ecosystem be built.”
He sees asset and payment tokenization as vital drivers for integrating Web3 more deeply into the real-world economy. Ultimately, these two aspects will converge, forming a new infrastructure to support the efficient flow of value within the real economy.
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