Finoverse
Co-building the online event platform for Asia's FinTech and Web3 community
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Finoverse is the Hong Kong-based hub at the intersection of FinTech, Green Finance, AI, and Web3. The community runs to 35, 000+ members and over 60 events organised since the original Finnovasia operation in 2015. Anthony Sar runs it as co-founder and CEO. The pivot from in-person to online happened during COVID-19 lockdowns, when the team moved its event business to digital infrastructure that didn't yet exist.
Holdex built that infrastructure.
The challenge
Finnovasia was a primary organizer of FinTech events in Asia before it merged into the Web3 space and rebranded as Finoverse, gathering one of the most extensive networks of FinTech and Web3 professionals and investors. When offline events were forbidden during COVID-19, the team decided to pivot toward online events. The Web3 community was already running small community spaces with voice-only meetings, but there was no solution on the market that let full-fledged events happen online the way they did offline. Anthony Sar wanted speakers and the audience to interact with each other online, and Holdex joined the team to solve it.
Because Finoverse was still at the ideation stage, Holdex had open ground for technology direction, design, user experience, frameworks, and tools. We proposed a back-end infrastructure running on Go, a streaming solution on Agora, and a flexible front-end on Svelte.
What we shipped
The deliverable was an online event platform purpose-built for Finoverse's hybrid format. Holdex shipped the MVP in two months, with backend in Go, video streaming via Agora.io, and a Svelte frontend. The capabilities cover the parts that matter for a serious virtual conference: multi-stream simultaneous broadcasting, real-time chat, and speaker Q&A integrated into the same surface. Attendees could chat in real time and ask questions to the speakers across multiple streams running at once.
The pace of the build mattered. Finoverse needed to keep its event cadence running without a six-month custom-platform development cycle. The two-month MVP let the calendar continue uninterrupted.
The story
The Genesis Festival ran 25-26 March 2026 at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, and Hong Kong FinTech Week × StartmeupHK is scheduled for 2 to 6 November 2026. The platform work sits inside that larger event-community story: Finoverse needed a digital layer during the COVID-era move to hybrid events, and Holdex shipped the MVP fast enough for the calendar to keep moving.
The relationship between Holdex and Finoverse runs both ways, extending beyond the platform build into co-organised events and shared community surface.
Links
- Site: finoverse.com