From October 18 to October 22, 2025, the Shanghai Blockchain International Week and the 11th Blockchain Global Summit will be held in Shanghai. Lily Liu, the chair of the Solana Foundation, delivered a keynote speech at the event. Lily Liu stated that each generation of internet advancement and innovation will have special hardware and software requirements. The essence of Blockchain is, first, assets, and second, financial infrastructure. Solana hopes to build a technology platform for internet finance, serving as the foundational infrastructure for internet finance.

Regarding the current development of Solana, Lily Liu stated that Solana ranks first in application revenue within the entire industry, ranks first in developer community growth rate, and also ranks first in newly issued assets. She believes that all assets will become digital assets, "everything can be tokenized." Solana's vision is to achieve tokenization of all assets, including blockchain-native assets, traditional financial assets, and emerging assets, turning these asset categories into tradable, usable, and collateralizable assets.

Speaking about the development of Solana in the Chinese-speaking region, Lily Liu stated that Solana has always placed great importance on the Chinese-speaking region, making significant investments over the past two years to support the developer ecosystem there. Solana will continue to support the developer community in the domestic Chinese-speaking region, hoping for more collaboration in the payment, DePIN, and AI sectors.

Lily Liu finally emphasized that the cryptocurrency industry will have two main application scenarios in the future: first is assets, and second is international financial infrastructure. Bitcoin, known as "digital gold", will continue to serve as a major asset, while Solana aims to become the financial infrastructure of the future.