Lingling Jiang

Jiang’s conference speaker biography states that she has more than a decade of experience in derivatives and global capital markets, with previous roles at OSL, Point72Point72Point72 is an alternative investment manager founded by Steven A. Cohen and headquartered in Stamford, United States, with equities, systematic, macro, private credit and venture capital businesses. It formally adopted the Point72 Asset Management name in 2014.Open the full entry and BNP ParibasBNP ParibasBNP Paribas is a banking and financial services group headquartered in Paris, France. It was formed by the 2000 merger of BNP and Paribas, with predecessor institutions dating to the nineteenth century. The group provides corporate and institutional banking, commercial and personal banking, investment management and insurance, with major commercial banking networks in France, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg.Open the full entry.⁠[1]

By October 2024 Jiang had worked at DWF Labs for two years, serving as regional sales director for Asia and as head of the Hong Kong region.⁠[2]

On October 30, 2024, DWF Labs announced Jiang’s appointment as head of business development strategy, responsible for the company’s strategic initiatives and business development, taking part in corporate decision-making and representing DWF Labs at global industry events.⁠[2][3]

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev said: “I believe that her experience and working style will help us to grow even faster than before.”⁠[3]

In a Finbold interview published in November 2024, Jiang, speaking as a DWF Labs partner, discussed the firm’s partnership with UCLA and said that “investment in the next generation is paramount for the sustainability, innovation, and development of this space.”⁠[4]

In the same interview she said that “regulation will play a pivotal role in shaping Web3’s future” and that “Institutionalization is inevitable,” and argued that DeFi is reimagining traditional financial services and that digital identity solutions are essential.⁠[4]

In a Block Fuel podcast interview recorded at ETHDenver, Jiang said that regulatory changes and rising institutional interest in Hong Kong were encouraging collaboration between traditional finance and Web3, and that she evaluates investments by founder quality, long-term viability and revenue potential.⁠[5]

In commentary for Cointelegraph, she described Fidelity’s spot SOL ETF application as a “regulatory litmus test” and pointed to returning ETF inflows and stablecoin market growth as signs of renewed institutional interest in crypto.⁠[5]

In April 2025, as a partner at DWF Labs and Falcon Finance, Jiang joined the TOKEN2049TOKEN2049TOKEN2049 is a global series of cryptocurrency and Web3 industry conferences that originated in Hong Kong; as of October 2026 it centers on its Singapore and Dubai editions and has announced a New York edition to be added in June 2027. The Singapore edition is held at Marina Bay Sands, coinciding with the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.Open the full entry Dubai panel “Institutional Deployment of Web3 Strategies in the Middle East.” She said the expansion of on-chain infrastructure and the tokenization of traditionally illiquid assets such as hedge funds and real-world assets were becoming a focus across the industry, and pointed to Falcon Finance’s service to both smaller retail depositors and traditional-finance institutions as an example.⁠[6][7]

In May she spoke on the panel “Stablecoin Evolution: Bridging the Gap Between Crypto and Real-World Assets” at Shard Dubai Summit 2025, hosted by Sharding Capital, saying that yield sources, scalability and security are key to assessing a stablecoin’s reliability and that rising regulatory standards would bring stricter transparency requirements and enforced proof of reserves.⁠[8]

DWF Labs: Official website: https://www.dwf-labs.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[5]

X: Public account: https://x.com/Lingersj (opens in a new window).⁠[6]