Ant Group CEO Rejects Crypto Issuance, Emphasizes Real-World Token Utility

Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi has unequivocally ruled out cryptocurrency issuance, stressing compliance and practical economic applications as non-negotiable priorities. Speaking at the 2025 Inclusion·Bund Summit, Han framed tokenization as a tool for solving tangible business challenges—not speculation—while revealing Ant's ongoing RWA sandbox experiments.

The $3.8 trillion Web3 asset market remains disproportionately focused on trading rather than physical economy integration, Han noted. Ant's tokenization research targets industrial pain points: enhancing trust architectures, reducing operational costs, and enabling asset interoperability through blockchain infrastructure now achieving enterprise-grade scalability.

Emerging technologies like AI-generated digital assets and zero-knowledge proofs are expanding tokenization's reach while preserving privacy. This positions asset tokenization and token-based payments as critical bridges between digital and physical value flows—a vision ANT is actively testing through its sandbox initiatives.