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This article is the speech transcript of Xiao Feng, Vice Chairman of Wanxiang Holdings and Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain, at the Shanghai International Blockchain Week on October 23, 2025. In this speech, Xiao Feng titled "Blockchain: The New Financial Infrastructure" systematically reviewed how blockchain has evolved from a peer-to-peer electronic cash system to a new underlying architecture that reconstructs the global financial market since the release of the Bitcoin white paper in 2009. He traced the historical evolution of financial infrastructure starting from the logic of payment, clearing, and settlement, pointing out that the essence of blockchain is a decentralized ledger system capable of achieving "payment equals settlement and transaction equals delivery." The speech deeply analyzed the institutional changes and tokenization competition in the US market, elaborating on the migration process of the financial system from "digital native" to "digital twin," as well as the irreversible trend of asset and currency tokenization. Xiao Feng proposed that,