Ant Digital Technologies - The Intersection of Global Innovation For Blockchain, AI and Sustainable Investing

There’s no question that the past few months have been incredibly volatile for both traditional equity and crypto markets. At the very end of Q2, Bitcoin saw record breaking volatility, experiencing new all-time highs while simultaneously experiencing 30% drawdowns. At the same time, the S&P surged to record highs and pushed nearly 1,000 points below where it started in the beginning of 2025.

Changing risk appetite and investor sentiment over the past several months have highlighted the need for alternative investments. While traditional investors look for more consistent yield among volatility and companies look to expand their business ventures with more efficient financing operations, Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization has established itself as the new opportunity to grow.

With a history of cross-industry digital transformation, Ant Digital Technologies, the tech arm of Ant Group, has positioned itself at the intersection of emerging technology. With a growing presence in key blockchain and AI innovation hubs like Hong Kong and Dubai, Ant Digital Technologies is innovating on green investments and trade finance through RWAs, creating new yield opportunities for investors looking to transition from today’s volatile markets.

Bringing RWAs global through Hong Kong and Dubai

Ant Digital Technologies’ mission is to provide innovative technology that pushes the world to be more inclusive, green and sustainable. In an effort to establish the credibility and inclusivity of decentralized innovations, Ant Digital Technologies has strengthened its efforts in key financial and technological hubs, including Hong Kong and Dubai.

To align with this commitment, Ant Digital Technologies recently established an international headquarters in Hong Kong, setting up new opportunities in one of the fastest growing tech hubs in the world. With the new headquarters, Ant Digital Technologies not only looks to expand its global network of over 300 partners and 10,000 enterprise customers, but also to create joint laboratories with local universities and research institutes alongside Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES) to further drive innovation in both Web3 and AI.

Creating an international headquarters in Hong Kong is an extension of Ant Digital Technologies’ ongoing expansion within the Web3 hub. Last year the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) established the Ensemble Architecture Community, which aims to develop a set of industry standards to support interoperability among wholesale CBDC (wCBDC), tokenized money and assets. Selected as one of seven private sector members of the Ensemble, Ant Digital Technologies has worked directly with financial regulators and industry activists to build a Tokenized Asset Platform based on green and sustainable finance and trade and supply chain finance.

Learn More: Ant Digital Technologies Joins HKMA's Project Ensemble Sandbox and Unveils Its Use Cases in the Sandbox

Ant Digital Technologies’ dedication to going global does not just end with Hong Kong, but instead demonstrates their ongoing development in their commitment toward the international market. Ant Digital Technologies is growing its presence within several different markets that are pushing for both RWA adoption and blockchain innovation. One such area is Dubai, which has pioneered a breakthrough regulatory framework – covering tokenized securities – that has positioned the UAE as a leading blockchain innovation center in the Middle East.

In their most recent step toward the Middle Eastern market, the team hosted its inaugural Web3 event in Dubai: RWA REAL UP Dubai Summit 2025. Ant Digital Technologies’ president of blockchain business Zhuoqun Bian, chief scientist Dr. Ying Yan and head of Jovay (Layer 2) Product Cobe Zhang took to the main stages to exchange insights with over 500 industry leaders, financial institutions, blockchain innovators and regulators.

The Summit focused on the convergence between the digital and physical, and how a global RWA tokenization roadmap demonstrates the next generation of digital finance. Emphasizing the growth and adoption of RWAs from Middle Eastern financial institutions to ambitious Web3 projects, it brought together industry leaders from Solana Foundation, Fosun Wealth and Chainlink, among others.

One of the biggest highlights of the Summit was the unveiling of Ant Digital Technologies’ Jovay: a Layer 2 blockchain solution tailored for RWA fund transactions, seamlessly interoperable with other Layer 1 blockchains. Reaching exceptional performance benchmarks of 100,000 TPS and 100-millisecond on-chain response time, Jovay is set to provide a cutting-edge platform for the next trillion dollars of real, tangible assets on-chain through RWA tokenization.

Fueling Blockchain for good

Ant Digital Technologies envisions blockchain as more than just a tool for financial gain; rather, it sees it as a transformative technology empowering diverse industries. The tokenization of RWAs amplifies blockchain's transformative capabilities, enabling the democratization of unique yield opportunities that were once inaccessible or overlooked. This innovation opens doors for individuals to participate in and benefit from real-world advancements, fostering a more inclusive and dynamic economic landscape.

In a way that perfectly highlights the opportunity of RWAs and the innovative opportunities it provides wide industries, Ant Digital Technologies is transforming a massively growing industry in Dubai and Hong Kong: sustainable innovation.

Commitment to sustainable innovation

By providing cutting-edge RWA infrastructure, Ant Digital Technologies is creating new opportunities for liquidity, yield and ownership models within the green and renewable energy space. This is made possible by bringing renewable energy assets, like energy storage equipment, on-chain. In doing so, Ant Digital Technologies has created new financing channels for renewable energy enterprises, reduced the financing threshold to enter the field and attracted additional social capital.

This is not just theoretical: Ant Digital Technologies has already onboarded 14 million green energy devices on-chain, making it the world’s largest tokenized renewable energy platform. Take Ant Digital Technologies’ work with Eagoal, a Chinese-based, HKSE company specializing in lithium battery recycling and regeneration for EV vehicles. Leveraging Ant Digital Technologies’ RWA infrastructure, Eagoal successfully completed a RWA financing initiative – through its product developed with the Ensemble – generating tens of millions of HKD in fresh liquid capital for battery-swapping physical assets.

Ant Digital Technologies’ entrance into Dubai is another example of how it looks to continue to expand upon its green RWA ecosystem. According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), renewables contributed over 90% of the global power expansion in 2024, with a capacity addition of 585 GW. Dubai, alongside other key economies within the UAE and Middle East, is uniquely within the “solar belt,” positioning it to uniquely benefit from the accelerated development of renewable energy projects.

Beyond availability, the growing overlap of green innovation between Dubai and Ant Digital Technologies makes close collaboration between the two inevitable. As Ant Digital Technologies continues to redefine what it means to build in the RWA space, Dubai has agreed to transition away from fossil fuels by 2030 and highlighted its commitment by building the largest single-site solar park in the world ahead of hosting the COP28 conference.

Accelerating Web3 advancements with AI

Not only is Ant Digital Technologies unlocking new investment avenues with blockchain, but it is also leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and specialized AI agents to automate the smart contract lifecycle and accelerate blockchain development with the newly announced DeTerministic Virtual Machine (DTVM) Stack.

DTVM is an AI-powered, open-source VM platform leveraging newly developed technology from Ant Digital Technologies that aims to redefine what smart contract execution looks like in the era of AI. In the DTVM whitepaper, researchers highlight how the WASM-based VM significantly improves on blockchain performance and deterministic execution, while simultaneously maintaining development interoperability through EVM-compatibility and a library of multi-language SDKs.

All together, Ant Digital Technologies’ latest efforts within AI and Web3 have created an automated smart contract environment that’s more efficient and better equipped for solving complex problems on the cutting edge of these two accelerating fields. At the same time, the project makes the DTVM stack available for RWA projects in places where all of their key initiatives converge.

The future of RWA tokenization

The continued volatility in crypto and traditional markets over the past several months has highlighted the need for alternative investments and the massive impact RWA tokenization could have on the entire world.

With a growing presence in key innovation hubs like Hong Kong and Dubai, Ant Digital Technologies is advancing on blockchain and sustainable investing through RWAs, creating new yield opportunities for investors looking to transition from today’s volatile markets. At the same time, the team continues to push forward its commitment to a more interconnected and resilient future – through the transformative power of technology.

WATCH: RWA REAL UP Dubai Summit 2025