On the afternoon of September 22, 2025 in Da Nang, the Digital Economic Development Conference 2025 gathered hundreds of experts, businesses and organizations at home and abroad. The event took place at the right time when the city had just successfully organized the 1st City Party Congress, term 2025-2030, affirming the determination to make the digital economy a strategic driving force to build a smart, creative, livable and sustainable city.
New policy framework and digital growth targets
The Da Nang City Party Committee has issued Plan 21-KH/TU (September 10, 2025) to implement Resolution 57-NQ/TW on scientific and technological breakthroughs, innovation and digital transformation. The city has set ambitious targets by 2030, such as a digital economy reaching 35-40% GRDP, opening more submarine fiber optic cables, concentrated IT zones, international data transfer stations (digital hubs), international data centers, attracting businesses with billion-dollar revenue and piloting - moving towards digital asset trading using NFTs.
In the national picture, Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP allows a pilot of the crypto asset market for 5 years; combined with the orientation of the International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, the city possesses both infrastructure and legal status to take the lead in digital finance.
Partner ecosystem: academic and private perspectives
The presentations at the workshop painted a panoramic picture of Da Nang's digital economy. Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Minh Tuan (Ministry of Science and Technology) suggested a "formula" for development linking the pillars of tourism, logistics, and cultural industry. Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Quang Binh (Da Nang University of Economics) proposed a digital testing space, positioning Da Nang as "ASEAN's digital financial - innovation space". The private sector played a leading role in implementation, typically the presentation on Grab's journey to promote the digital economy in transportation, tourism, e-commerce, and cooperation agreements between the People's Committee of Da Nang - Grab and FUNDGO - Da Nang University of Economics on digital technology application, training and human resource development.
HVA Group's key role in the Financial Center: infrastructure architect - operations - compliance
At the workshop, HVA Investment Joint Stock Company (HVA Group) presented a paper “HVA & Da Nang: Accompanying the development of the crypto asset market”, emphasizing three core competencies that the International Finance Center needs to have:
First, digital asset infrastructure architecture. HVA proposes a platform model that connects multiple types of assets (public, corporate, IP, data, etc.), allowing tokenization, issuance, custody, and trading on a secure, high-performance architecture that is interconnected with the urban management system. The goal is to form a verifiable digital financial infrastructure layer that is ready to scale regionally.
Second, operate a controlled market. The trading platform jointly deployed by HVA supports centralized markets (orderbook) and controlled OTC, ensuring tracking - reconciliation - auditing of the entire transaction lifecycle; at the same time providing a real-time monitoring dashboard for management agencies, serving proactive risk management.
Third, compliance guarantee and risk management. HVA integrates KYC/KYB, AML/CFT, eID, digital signature, transaction log in VND in accordance with licensing and supervision requirements. HVA's operating philosophy is compliance first - expansion later, no use of state budget, all results are independently verified before publication.
With these three layers of capabilities, HVA is not only a technology solution provider, but also an institutional co-creator, helping the Da Nang International Financial Center have a transparent, standardized and scalable digital asset market.
“Crypto Asset Sandbox” for Da Nang: Fast but Sure Steps
To turn the vision into reality, HVA proposes a controlled testing space right in Da Nang. The focus is on a group of assets that create value early, clearly measure and easily control risks; data is linked to the city’s management systems; and a multi-layered authentication process ensures safety. This approach allows for short cycles of test-learn-scale, bringing both public financial transparency and diversifying capital mobilization channels, while improving data-driven decision-making capacity.
Commitment to companionship and open cooperation mechanism
According to Vice Chairman Ho Quang Buu, the city is committed to creating a favorable environment, transparent policies, and full support for initiatives to be implemented in practice. HVA responds to this commitment with corporate resources, the role of co-architecting - co-operating - co-verifying, and an ecosystem of domestic and foreign partners, to share risks, optimize costs, and speed up time to market.
Conclusion: Da Nang – a bright spot of digital finance; HVA – an institutional and technological catalyst
Da Nang has clear goals, a complete infrastructure and a favorable policy framework to lead Vietnam's digital finance. HVA Group brings infrastructure architecture - operating mechanism - compliance guarantee to the digital asset market, in line with the requirements of a modern International Financial Center. When all parties work together in the spirit of compliance - transparency - efficiency, Da Nang's pilot model will soon create a new standard for the market, spreading from the locality to the country and the region.
