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.
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.
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