Recognized as a strategic leader and legal expert driving new trends in the virtual asset and digital securities industries, Alice Chen is actively involved in building digital asset-based infrastructure and expanding the blockchain ecosystem as the Co-founder of InvestaX and IX Swap. As a key partner of InvestaX?Asia’s leading Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization SaaS platform?she leads the operation of a digital securities exchange licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and contributes extensively to corporate strategy, investment attraction, and government policy response. Notably, Alice co-founded IX Swap, the world’s first Automated Market Maker (AMM) dedicated to RWA tokens, successfully resolving secondary market liquidity issues for tokenized assets and completing the infrastructure that connects TradFi (Traditional Finance) and DeFi (Decentralized Finance). Alice Chen earned her Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Southern California (USC) and mastered the practice of traditional asset securitization while serving as an international corporate and real estate attorney in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Leveraging this expertise, she is currently emerging as a private-sector leader spearheading the institutionalization and global market expansion of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries, presenting a practical vision for future-oriented, blockchain-based financial systems.

Furthermore, Alice Chen is a respected expert in the fields of FinTech and law, and a highly sought-after speaker who frequently serves as a keynote panelist at major global FinTech and Web3 conferences. She has served as the Chair of the Digital Financing Subcommittee of the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), leading policy and industrial discussions to advance the digital asset industry through partnerships with regulatory authorities. In recognition of these contributions, she was named a ‘Top 10 Fintech Leader’ at the Singapore FinTech Festival and has been consecutively recognized as one of the ‘Top 100 Global Women in Fintech’ by Fintech Magazine in 2023 and 2024. Currently, Alice Chen serves as a guest lecturer at SMU Academy (Singapore Management University), teaching digital assets and blockchain to the next generation of leaders, and acts as a mentor for TZ APAC, dedicated to nurturing Web3 founders across the APAC region. Through these activities, Alice Chen advocates for digital assets as democratic financial tools and actively champions transformative technologies such as real-world asset tokenization.