Lily Liu, Chair of the Solana Foundation, delivered a keynote at Shanghai Blockchain Week, reflecting on her initial encounter with Bitcoin in Shanghai a decade ago. Liu outlined Solana's vision and current ecosystem, emphasizing blockchain's evolution from an "electronic cash system" to the foundational infrastructure of a global financial internet. She highlighted Solana's core advantages of high performance, low latency, and cost-effectiveness, aiming to surpass traditional financial systems and become the technological base for open finance. Liu noted the rapid growth of Solana's global ecosystem, with developer and application activity leading the industry, and expressed optimism about the strategic potential in the Chinese-speaking regions for payments, AI, and DePIN sectors.