Over the past week, I’ve been going back and forth between Hangzhou and Shanghai nonstop.

I attended the Next Decade of Payments hosted by @BlockSecTeam and @InterlaceMoney, met many longtime friends from the payments world, and the atmosphere was just as hot as the summer in Hangzhou.
Shanghai’s WAIC was absolutely packed—on the way to @jiayuan_jy’s side event, I ran into a lot of crypto/VC friends…
The crowd of key trend-setters says a lot on its own.