October 2, 2025, Singapore – Roger Wattenhofer, Head of Research at Anza and Professor at ETH Zurich, delivered a keynote speech titled “The Future of Blockchain Infrastructure” at the Global On-chain Asset Summit hosted by HashKey Group.

“We should stop calling blockchain Web3,” he said. “Blockchain is a trust system, not merely a web system.” He noted that the future of infrastructure must strike a new balance between bandwidth, latency, and security, which will determine whether decentralized applications can achieve large-scale adoption. He also emphasized that one of the long-term challenges for the industry is how to design validator incentive mechanisms that discourage speculation while ensuring timely and decentralized participation in consensus.