{"id":7518,"date":"2025-09-18T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jack-ma-backed-yunfeng-names-ex-ant-group-executive-as-top-web3-architect\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:34:52","slug":"jack-ma-backed-yunfeng-names-ex-ant-group-executive-as-top-web3-architect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jack-ma-backed-yunfeng-names-ex-ant-group-executive-as-top-web3-architect\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Ma-backed Yunfeng names ex-Ant Group executive as top Web3 architect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Geoff Jiang Guofei – former president at Ant Digital Technology Business Group, responsible for leading the fintech giant’s blockchain<\/span> project – now serves as the “chairman of the Web3 Development Committee” at Hong Kong<\/span>-listed Yunfeng, according to a fact sheet for investors published on the firm’s website. Ant is an affiliate of Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post.<\/div>\n
The Yunfeng document described Jiang as one of three key figures representing the company’s “powerful Web3 genes and talent pool”. The two other figures are Xiao Feng<\/span>, chairman and CEO at HashKey Group<\/span>, and Fosun International<\/span> co-founder Liang Xinjun<\/span>, who both serve as independent non-executive directors at Yunfeng.<\/div>\n
After joining Ant in 2017, Jiang became a key figure behind the company’s launch of Trusple<\/span>, a blockchain-backed smart contract platform for cross-border trade. Jiang, who also served as head of Damo Academy’s Fintech Labs, left Ant in 2024 to work as the chief scientist at state-owned China Electronics.<\/div>\n
His appointment at Yunfeng reflects the company’s push into what it called “frontier areas”<\/span>, such as Web3, that would “solve many pain points” in traditional finance including cost, efficiency, geography and security. Web3 is a term used loosely to refer to applications based on decentralised technologies such as blockchain.<\/div>\n
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Geoff Jiang Guofei, chairman of the Web3 Development Committee at Yunfeng Financial Group. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Yunfeng had spent US$44 million to acquire 10,000 ether<\/span> for its “strategic reserve”, which the company said will provide “key infrastructure support” for tokenised real-world asset (RWA) projects. Yunfeng this month also entered into a partnership with Ant Digital Technologies<\/span>, an affiliate of Ant.<\/div>\n
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Advertisement Geoff Jiang Guofei – former president at Ant Digital Technology Business Group, responsible for leading the fintech giant’s blockchain project – now serves as the “chairman of the Web3 Development Committee” at Hong Kong-listed Yunfeng, according to a fact sheet for investors published on the firm’s website. Ant is an affiliate of Alibaba, owner…<\/p>\n

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