Feng Xiao, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and CEO of HashKey Group, emphasized the transformative potential of integrating blockchain and AI during his keynote at the 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Digital Wealth Management Summit. He described this integration as a significant advancement in economic civilization, likening it to the atomization of information and value. Xiao explained that AI breaks down unstructured data into semantic units, while blockchain uses tokens as programmable units of value. This synergy allows for deterministic execution of outcomes and addresses AI limitations through token economies. Xiao further noted that this technological convergence enables machines to better understand and reconstruct the physical world, marking a leap from binary programming to AI's semantic atoms and blockchain's value atoms. He concluded that this evolution represents a profound shift in how humanity interacts with technology, facilitating a new era of economic development.