Officially Kick Off in Hong Kong, Marking the Arrival of the Compute-Fi Era

On November 8, 2025, the “Pop Chain Global Ecosystem Conference & Luma Protocol Launch Ceremony,” co-hosted by PopChain and Luma Protocol, concluded successfully in Hong Kong. The event brought together global leaders from blockchain, AI, digital finance, investment institutions, developer communities and creator economies to explore the next growth curve of AI × Web3. Over the past year, PopChain has rapidly evolved from a single sovereign Layer-1 into a multi-engine ecosystem spanning compute finance, intelligent trading, entertainment content, Meme culture, and system-level capital infrastructure. This conference showcased the full structure of the ConnectFi ecosystem and signaled the beginning of PopChain’s accelerated global expansion phase.

The conference opened with a keynote speech by Magnus, CEO of PopChain, titled “A New Era Begins: The Power of Connection.” Magnus emphasized that connection is the core driving force of the Web3 world—connection between technology and value, between culture and consensus, and between ecosystems and the future. While the early blockchain era competed on TPS, architecture design and gas efficiency, the mission of PopChain is to build a “sovereign-grade connection layer” where assets, users, applications, liquidity and compute can all circulate freely. “When technology connects value, when culture connects people, and when ecosystems connect the future, a new era begins,” he stated. He further highlighted that PopChain is not merely building a chain, but an entire ConnectFi energy network capable of driving sustained global ecosystem growth.

One of the most anticipated sessions was delivered by Ben, Vice Dean of Luma Academy, who presented the keynote “Compute is the New Yield.” Ben explained that while the past five years of DeFi were defined by liquidity, the next five years will be shaped by compute. As AI models scale exponentially and inference workloads grow globally, compute has become the world’s most scarce and highest-growth production resource. Yet no unified system exists to standardize, financialize or collateralize compute power. Luma Protocol fills this structural gap by transforming compute from a cost center into a verifiable, tradable and yield-generating on-chain asset. Ben stated, “Compute will be the new Liquidity—and Luma will be the new Engine.” Within the PopChain ecosystem, Luma functions as the economic heart, powering the entire chain economy through a new Compute-Fi standard.

Nivex CEO Simon followed with “The Intelligent Trading and Web3 Ecosystem Hub,” outlining Nivex’s role as the intelligent financial gateway for a billion users. With AI-powered spot and derivatives systems, a global compliance framework and a multi-chain wallet infrastructure, Nivex integrates Web2 and Web3 asset worlds into a unified trading experience. As PopChain expands globally, Nivex is becoming the financial gateway that connects users to on-chain liquidity, powers Luma’s compute-based yield system, enables Pop Game and BETV content monetization, and supports Meme Launchpad asset issuance. Simon concluded, “Our mission is clear: every user, every asset, every chain must find the most intelligent, safest and simplest growth path through Nivex.”

During the capital infrastructure segment, PopX representative Mr. SennD delivered the keynote “PopX Capital System—Driven by BTC.VC.” He emphasized that BTC.VC and PopX are not building a fund—they are building a self-growing capital system. Through a dual-layer structure of a global mother fund paired with ecosystem-specific sub-funds, BTC.VC orchestrates global capital coordination, while PopX drives on-chain industrialization and application growth. This forms a reinforcing loop of capital inflow, ecosystem deployment, value return and reinvestment. Unlike traditional investment frameworks, PopX synthesizes the strengths of leading global institutions—research depth from a16z, ecosystem velocity from Binance Labs, cultural capital from Animoca Brands and compliance discipline from HashKey—into a unified model called System Capital, designed to fuel AI × Web3 for the next decade. “The next era of Web3 will not be narrative-driven but structure-driven,” SennD noted. “BTC.VC × PopX is building that structure.”

In the DeFi infrastructure segment, PFDEX representative Mr. Mi presented “PFDEX: The High-Performance Future of Decentralized Finance.” He highlighted that derivatives DEXs remain a vast blue ocean and that PFDEX—powered by PopChain’s financial-grade architecture—can achieve CEX-level performance with full DeFi transparency. With sub-200ms matching latency, 60%+ capital efficiency and support for spot, perpetuals, futures and binary options, PFDEX is positioning itself as the institutional-grade derivatives engine for the PopChain financial ecosystem.

On the entertainment front, Pop Game advisor Mr. Yu delivered “POPGame × The New Era of Web3 Entertainment.” He introduced the Play-to-Mine economic model, where every game action directly contributes to on-chain compute weight and feeds into PopChain’s daily rewards system. Through a dual-mechanism of individual and team earnings, Pop Game is transforming entertainment from a consumption activity into a productivity activity,establishing Web3 gaming as a long-term value layer for the PopChain ecosystem.

In the creator economy segment, BETV advisor Aaron presented “Reconstructing the Value Sovereignty of Short Videos.” He argued that traditional short-video platforms have long suffered from unfair revenue distribution and data monopoly. BETV enables content ownership, NFT-based assetization and DAO governance to ensure that creative value flows back to creators. As a key member of the PopChain ecosystem, BETV will integrate deeply with Nivex, PopX, BeFlow and other ecosystem projects to build the decentralized content and attention economy infrastructure for Web3.

PopMe.Fun also shared its vision of elevating Meme culture into a standardized, assetized, globally relevant category of digital expression—marking the cultural layer of PopChain’s global expansion.

The conference marked the full formation of PopChain’s six-engine ConnectFi ecosystem:

a sovereign public chain, compute-powered DeFi, intelligent trading infrastructure, system-level capital architecture, entertainment and creator economy, and high-performance decentralized finance.

More importantly, these engines no longer exist as isolated components—but as an integrated, self-reinforcing value network.

Compute generates yield, yield drives liquidity, liquidity activates applications, applications generate content, content creates assets, assets return to capital, and capital fuels the next cycle of compute.

From technology to economics, from culture to capital, PopChain has now moved from “building a chain” to “building a world.”

With Luma’s launch, Nivex’s global expansion, PopX’s capital system, and the entry of PFDEX, Pop Game, BETV and PopMe.Fun, the ConnectFi ecosystem enters a new era of industrial-scale growth.

A new global value network—powered by AI × Web3—is truly taking shape.

Officially Kick Off in Hong Kong, Marking the Arrival of the Compute-Fi Era

On November 8, 2025, the “Pop Chain Global Ecosystem Conference & Luma Protocol Launch Ceremony,” co-hosted by PopChain and Luma Protocol, concluded successfully in Hong Kong. The event brought together global leaders from blockchain, AI, digital finance, investment institutions, developer communities and creator economies to explore the next growth curve of AI × Web3. Over the past year, PopChain has rapidly evolved from a single sovereign Layer-1 into a multi-engine ecosystem spanning compute finance, intelligent trading, entertainment content, Meme culture, and system-level capital infrastructure. This conference showcased the full structure of the ConnectFi ecosystem and signaled the beginning of PopChain’s accelerated global expansion phase.

The conference opened with a keynote speech by Magnus, CEO of PopChain, titled “A New Era Begins: The Power of Connection.” Magnus emphasized that connection is the core driving force of the Web3 world—connection between technology and value, between culture and consensus, and between ecosystems and the future. While the early blockchain era competed on TPS, architecture design and gas efficiency, the mission of PopChain is to build a “sovereign-grade connection layer” where assets, users, applications, liquidity and compute can all circulate freely. “When technology connects value, when culture connects people, and when ecosystems connect the future, a new era begins,” he stated. He further highlighted that PopChain is not merely building a chain, but an entire ConnectFi energy network capable of driving sustained global ecosystem growth.

One of the most anticipated sessions was delivered by Ben, Vice Dean of Luma Academy, who presented the keynote “Compute is the New Yield.” Ben explained that while the past five years of DeFi were defined by liquidity, the next five years will be shaped by compute. As AI models scale exponentially and inference workloads grow globally, compute has become the world’s most scarce and highest-growth production resource. Yet no unified system exists to standardize, financialize or collateralize compute power. Luma Protocol fills this structural gap by transforming compute from a cost center into a verifiable, tradable and yield-generating on-chain asset. Ben stated, “Compute will be the new Liquidity—and Luma will be the new Engine.” Within the PopChain ecosystem, Luma functions as the economic heart, powering the entire chain economy through a new Compute-Fi standard.

Nivex CEO Simon followed with “The Intelligent Trading and Web3 Ecosystem Hub,” outlining Nivex’s role as the intelligent financial gateway for a billion users. With AI-powered spot and derivatives systems, a global compliance framework and a multi-chain wallet infrastructure, Nivex integrates Web2 and Web3 asset worlds into a unified trading experience. As PopChain expands globally, Nivex is becoming the financial gateway that connects users to on-chain liquidity, powers Luma’s compute-based yield system, enables Pop Game and BETV content monetization, and supports Meme Launchpad asset issuance. Simon concluded, “Our mission is clear: every user, every asset, every chain must find the most intelligent, safest and simplest growth path through Nivex.”

During the capital infrastructure segment, PopX representative Mr. SennD delivered the keynote “PopX Capital System—Driven by BTC.VC.” He emphasized that BTC.VC and PopX are not building a fund—they are building a self-growing capital system. Through a dual-layer structure of a global mother fund paired with ecosystem-specific sub-funds, BTC.VC orchestrates global capital coordination, while PopX drives on-chain industrialization and application growth. This forms a reinforcing loop of capital inflow, ecosystem deployment, value return and reinvestment. Unlike traditional investment frameworks, PopX synthesizes the strengths of leading global institutions—research depth from a16z, ecosystem velocity from Binance Labs, cultural capital from Animoca Brands and compliance discipline from HashKey—into a unified model called System Capital, designed to fuel AI × Web3 for the next decade. “The next era of Web3 will not be narrative-driven but structure-driven,” SennD noted. “BTC.VC × PopX is building that structure.”

In the DeFi infrastructure segment, PFDEX representative Mr. Mi presented “PFDEX: The High-Performance Future of Decentralized Finance.” He highlighted that derivatives DEXs remain a vast blue ocean and that PFDEX—powered by PopChain’s financial-grade architecture—can achieve CEX-level performance with full DeFi transparency. With sub-200ms matching latency, 60%+ capital efficiency and support for spot, perpetuals, futures and binary options, PFDEX is positioning itself as the institutional-grade derivatives engine for the PopChain financial ecosystem.

On the entertainment front, Pop Game advisor Mr. Yu delivered “POPGame × The New Era of Web3 Entertainment.” He introduced the Play-to-Mine economic model, where every game action directly contributes to on-chain compute weight and feeds into PopChain’s daily rewards system. Through a dual-mechanism of individual and team earnings, Pop Game is transforming entertainment from a consumption activity into a productivity activity,establishing Web3 gaming as a long-term value layer for the PopChain ecosystem.

In the creator economy segment, BETV advisor Aaron presented “Reconstructing the Value Sovereignty of Short Videos.” He argued that traditional short-video platforms have long suffered from unfair revenue distribution and data monopoly. BETV enables content ownership, NFT-based assetization and DAO governance to ensure that creative value flows back to creators. As a key member of the PopChain ecosystem, BETV will integrate deeply with Nivex, PopX, BeFlow and other ecosystem projects to build the decentralized content and attention economy infrastructure for Web3.

PopMe.Fun also shared its vision of elevating Meme culture into a standardized, assetized, globally relevant category of digital expression—marking the cultural layer of PopChain’s global expansion.

The conference marked the full formation of PopChain’s six-engine ConnectFi ecosystem:

a sovereign public chain, compute-powered DeFi, intelligent trading infrastructure, system-level capital architecture, entertainment and creator economy, and high-performance decentralized finance.

More importantly, these engines no longer exist as isolated components—but as an integrated, self-reinforcing value network.

Compute generates yield, yield drives liquidity, liquidity activates applications, applications generate content, content creates assets, assets return to capital, and capital fuels the next cycle of compute.

From technology to economics, from culture to capital, PopChain has now moved from “building a chain” to “building a world.”

With Luma’s launch, Nivex’s global expansion, PopX’s capital system, and the entry of PFDEX, Pop Game, BETV and PopMe.Fun, the ConnectFi ecosystem enters a new era of industrial-scale growth.

A new global value network—powered by AI × Web3—is truly taking shape.