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  "id": 18495883,
  "title": "Crypto heavyweight Solana eyes Hong Kong expansion to tap growing tokenisation demand",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/crypto-heavyweight-solana-eyes-hong-kong-expansion-to-tap-growing",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T12:03:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SCMP Business",
    "slug": "scmp-business",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/cryptocurrency/article/3373582/crypto-heavyweight-solana-eyes-hong-kong-expansion-tap-growing-tokenisation-demand"
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  "account": "Solana, a leading blockchain network, aims to expand its presence in Hong Kong to capitalize on the city's rising demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. Joseph Chee, Solana's CEO and chairman, believes the Asia-Pacific region holds the biggest opportunity for the company. CoinMarketCap currently values the company's Solana token at approximately US$53 billion, making it the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.\n\nThe Solana Foundation, established in 2020, maintains the blockchain network named after the company, while Nasdaq-listed Solana Company focuses on acquiring and holding its tokens and offering exposure to investors through public markets. In Hong Kong, Solana Company has positioned itself as a digital asset infrastructure and service provider, recently being named a \"strategic enterprise\" by the city government's Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises.\n\nSolana Company plans to use its newly established Hong Kong headquarters to explore how digital asset infrastructure can support the city's financial institutions. Julia Leung Fung-yee, CEO of Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, announced that regulators have authorized 17 tokenized retail products with assets under management totaling US$1.3 billion, a 34% increase from the previous year. However, Chee noted that the US is moving faster in tokenization, but many major financial institutions in Hong Kong are just beginning to consider or initiate tokenization projects. He expects to have a better understanding of the Hong Kong market within six months.\n\nSolana Company intends to expand its Hong Kong team to around 30 employees, up from the current 10, to meet the growing demand for tokenization services from local banks.",
  "summary": "Solana, one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, plans to expand in Hong Kong to tap the city’s growing demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. “I believe that the biggest opportunity for Solana is actually in [the Asia-Pacific region],” Solana Company chairman and CEO Joseph Chee said in an interview in Hong Kong earlier this week. Founded in the US in 2018, the company…",
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