The modern era of business is one that’s rapidly growing to understand and embrace the potential of cutting edge fintech and blockchain technology. Financial institutions are taking interest in blockchain infrastructure, digital asset products, and on-chain use cases outside of short-term price movements of trading volume. Internal systems and discipline are being built to facilitate the adoption of these technologies, with compliance frameworks and operating policies being built to support future tokenized products, including real-world asset use cases, in a structured and scalable way. It’s clear that the market is interested and ready for these new technologies; what’s needed is the leadership to build and scale the community behind it all.
This has been Henry Chen’s goal for the last several years of his career. Henry Chen’s extensive career experience incorporates strategic and leadership positions at KU Holdings (HoldCo of KuCoin), Summer Capital, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, while he continues to contribute to the global ecosystem of digital finance through community-building initiatives across Hong Kong and beyond. His fifteen years of experience across investment banking, private capital management, and digital asset markets have established him as a leader and a builder in the space, focusing on expanding real-world use cases, structuring tokenized products, and connecting digital asset platforms with financial institutions. Today, he’s taking that experience and going from building companies, to building communities.
“Online discussions are useful for speed, reach, and visibility, but in-person events provide a much clearer read on conviction, seriousness, and intent,” Chen explains. “Face-to-face conversations reveal whether people are genuinely building, whether an institution is truly committed, and whether a market theme has real depth behind it or is simply benefiting from temporary online momentum. In a fast-moving market, that difference matters enormously.”
Fostering The ETH Community
Henry Chen and SNZ team recently took the next step on his leadership path by connecting developers, institutions, and innovators from around the world both in groundbreaking community events, and as part of Asia’s first Ethereum community hub.
In February 2026, Henry Chen led the SNZ team to plan, hosted, and organized the full-day Ethereum Meetup at Hong Kong Community Hub. With over 1000 attendees, and 20 guests speaking over three panels, one fireside chat, one workshop, and two keynote speeches, the event was a runaway success. Chen gave the event’s opening address, followed by speeches by Hsiao-Wei Wang (Co-Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation) and Prof. Allen AU (Professor and Associate Head Of Department Of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Director of the Research Center for Blockchain Technology). Afterwards were a series of panels on topics ranging from Institutional Grade Blockchain Adoption to Infrastructure For Institutional and Mass Adoption in DeFi, with panelists representing companies including, but not limited to SNZ Holding, Ether.fi, WisdomTree, and Lido.
“In-person gatherings are where many of the most meaningful insights emerge unexpectedly,” Chen says. “Informal conversations often reveal where capital is moving, where founders are adjusting their strategies, and where institutions are becoming more engaged. Those interactions often lead to the kind of trust, alignment, and follow-up that cannot be replicated through online commentary alone.”
More recently, in April 2026, Chen helped officially launch ETH Hong Kong Hub, the first permanent, open, and self-sustaining community space for the Ethereum ecosystem in Asia. Based in Asia’s global financial gateway, the Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub connects East and West, Web2 and Web3, through daily co-working, events, workshops, and community gatherings. The Grand Opening event drew over 1500 registrants from around the world, featuring 16 founders/CEOs and 10 business leads as keynote and panel speakers, and became one of the most anticipated events of Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026. The opening was also supported by Spark, Lido, Galaxy Digital, and Zand Bank as co-sponsors, representing significant institutional support for the growth and exchange of the Ethereum ecosystem across Asia.
“Hong Kong is Asia’s financial and innovation hub, and one of the world’s most active and institutionally sound Web3 environments,” says Henry Chen. “ETH Hong Kong Hub sits at the heart of West Kowloon, connecting all corners of the world. With ten months’ efforts from planning to launch, we built this space from the ground up alongside the Ethereum Foundation. The launch today gives birth to a community by builders and for builders.”
A Home Base To Build From
The creation and running of ETH Hong Kong Hub represents an important evolution in Asia’s Ethereum ecosystem and community. As the first and only physical ETH community hub in Asia, the Hub provides a persistent and stable physical locus for real human connection—a crucial aspect of any developing technology ecosystem. The permanent physical platform gives builders, developers, founders, investors, researchers, and institutions a place to meet, exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and continue conversations over time. Continuity and community grow in tandem, which are both essential for meaningful collaboration.
“It creates an environment where discussions can be more focused, more thoughtful, and more oriented toward long-term outcomes rather than short-term signals,” Henry Chen explains. “In an industry that has often been crowded by speculation, having a trusted physical venue in Asia dedicated to Ethereum community building is a powerful advantage for creating real follow-up, real partnerships, and real momentum.”
The position of ETH Hong Kong Hub is itself important; Asia is being viewed less as a growth market and more of a region defining the future direction of digital assets. This is largely because the region blends institutional depth, entrepreneurial energy, strong technology talent, and cross-border connectivity. Instead of adopting the ideas developed elsewhere in the world, Asia is leading the charge in determining what real-world blockchain adoption will look like in actual practice.
Hong Kong in particular is a nexus of possibility. This is due to a combination of clear regulatory guidance, a deep and connected technology and crypto talent pool, a stable and secure policy environment, and a crypto ecosystem sitting at the intersection of APAC capital, entrepreneurship, and traditional finance participation. Put simply, people want to invest, build, and invent in Hong Kong, because the city’s ecosystems support their aims. It’s also a city that is convenient and accessible for international travelers, which makes it unusually open to global talent mobility. For Henry Chen, who has steered his career toward the development and evolution of blockchain technologies, their communities, and their ecosystems, there’s simply no better place to establish a permanent Hub.
“The strongest projects are rarely confined to a single geography or stakeholder base,” Chen says. “They need access to international capital, technical talent, market distribution, regulatory insight, and ecosystem relationships that often sit across different regions. In today’s market, the ability to connect these resources is often what separates a local project from a globally relevant one.”
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