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According to ChainCatcher, at the recent "Integration, Growth, and New Cycle" themed forum hosted by RootData in Dubai, Klickl Group founder Michael Zhao and Klickl International CEO Dermot Mayes delivered keynote speeches. They systematically elaborated Klickl's in-depth perspective on the evolution of the future global financial system and proposed their overall vision of an "Operating System for Future Money," providing a framework for the next stage of digital financial infrastructure development. Michael Zhao pointed out that the core contradiction of today's global financial system has evolved from localized efficiency issues to structural imbalances. Traditional financial infrastructure, designed based on a centralized banking system, is unable to support the increasingly digitalized, real-time, and cross-border economic activities of today. It also cannot natively support new asset forms such as programmable money, stablecoins, and RWA (Real World Assets), making the "disconnect" between the digital asset economy and the traditional financial system increasingly pronounced. He emphasized: "The future upgrade of finance is no longer about partial optimization or isolated innovation, but about moving towards unified, regulated, and programmable integrated infrastructure. Only in this way can traditional finance and Web3 truly achieve integration." Klickl International CEO Dermot Mayes further pointed out, based on Middle Eastern business practices, that the core competitiveness of digital finance is shifting from technological advantages to the maturity of regulatory systems. "Regulation-Native" will become the basic standard for future financial infrastructure—the architecture needs to be inherently compatible with the regulatory logic of different jurisdictions, rather than being supplemented afterwards. Dermot stated that as a licensed institution regulated by ADGM/FSRA, Klickl is building a cross-regional "compliance connectivity layer" based on UAE regulatory standards, ensuring that digital assets can circulate globally with the same level of transparency, security, and auditability as traditional finance.

ChainCatcher reports, Lily Liu, Chair of the Solana Foundation, stated at a certain exchange's Blockchain Week event that the recent market correction is entirely a cyclical adjustment inherent to the crypto industry and there is no need to overreact. At the same time, the Solana ETF remains the only product currently maintaining net inflows on a daily basis, reflecting the ecosystem's solid foundation. She noted that whether it is a certain exchange, Ripple, or Solana, the entire industry is still working together to bring in the "next batch of users" to crypto. Among these, stablecoins are one of the most crucial gateways for the future. Therefore, she looks forward to seeing more platforms develop, rather than zero-sum competition. Institutions are rapidly realizing the benefits of on-chain asset issuance, transparent settlement, and significantly reduced technical costs. These tangible advantages are far more effective in driving cooperation than verbal criticism. Regarding the next phase of mainstream crypto adoption, Lily emphasized that "speed and low cost are only basic requirements and are not enough to trigger true explosive growth." She believes that apart from bitcoin's positioning as digital gold, the core competition among all other public chains lies in whether they can become the world's native financial infrastructure—enabling 5.5 billion people to transfer assets, share liquidity, and use financial applications within the same system. True "inclusive finance" not only means allowing unbanked users to participate, but more importantly, enabling global asset issuers to directly access global capital markets without complex cross-border structures and high costs. Therefore, Solana has always adhered to a single-layer architecture, does not do L2, and does not implement sharding, precisely to allow speed, cost, liquidity, and application value to naturally converge on the same chain, forming a unified and open global financial foundation. Lily concluded by pointing out that Solana's goal remains the original vision of bitcoin: to build a truly peer-to-peer, universally accessible, and globally interoperable value network, allowing assets to flow freely around the world just like information.