Where Does Influence Begin? Tree Finance 2026 China Campus Tour · Shanghai | April 18 at Fudan University

A Different Kind of Energy by the Huangpu River

By mid-April, Shanghai has settled into a real spring.

Shanghai has a character that is difficult to replicate. It has witnessed the rise and fall of too many narratives, seen too many “world-changing” projects take the stage here and quietly disappear. Precisely because it has seen so much, this city applies its own filter to anything new — not hostile, but not easily persuaded either. You have to bring something real before it will look at you seriously.

Fudan University is, in many ways, a reflection of that same sensibility. Its deep roots in the humanities and social sciences have produced a particular kind of intellectual habit — one that approaches questions of “influence,” “identity,” and “value” without relying on industry jargon. Bringing the second stop of the Campus Tour here is not about prestige. It is because this is a place where genuinely worthwhile conversations can happen.

After Hangzhou: Where Does This Stand Now?

On March 28th, the Tree Finance 2026 China Campus Tour completed its first stop at Zhejiang University. The density of that afternoon and the quality of discussion set a clearer expectation for the cities ahead — not replication, but extension.

At the Hangzhou event, ATM — the main sponsor of this Campus Tour series — presented a full picture of its ecosystem logic. From the bilateral-lock consensus contract to ATMRank’s quantification of influence, through to the LUCA burn mechanism behind its travel consumption scenario — the logic generated real discussion on the ground. Most people who stayed to listen left with new questions rather than settled answers. That is a signal worth following.

Choosing Shanghai and Fudan for the second stop is about taking this conversation somewhere with a higher density of critical thinking — to see what different kinds of friction it produces.
 
A Question Worth Taking Seriously

After all these years, Web3 has left one foundational question unanswered: why is on-chain consensus so fragile?

This is not a question about any individual project’s execution. It is a structural question about the architecture of DeFi itself. Every token holder is isolated — they can exit at any moment without notice, without affecting anyone else, without any constraint on that decision. What gets called “community consensus” is, at its core, a temporary gathering of sentiment: loud when conditions are good, gone the moment the wind shifts.

ATM is attempting to respond to this problem from the ground up. Its bilateral-lock consensus contract turns the cost of exit from an individual decision into a bilateral negotiation. Its ATMRank algorithm — derived from Google’s PageRank — makes influence, rather than capital scale, the determinant of a user’s weight and rewards within the network. Together, these two designs point toward something beyond a better staking product: a relative consensus network grounded in real social connections. Whether this logic holds in practice is a question that takes time and scale to answer — and one that Tree Finance will continue to track.

What to Expect on April 18th

This is not a roadshow. It is not a product launch.

Doors open in the afternoon. The event begins with a full walkthrough of the ATM ecosystem — from video introduction to live demonstration to hands-on experience — so you can build a complete picture of the project’s logic in one sitting. If you missed Hangzhou, or have been curious about ATM but never taken the time to look closely, this is the opportunity to get every question answered on the spot.

The presentation segment brings together speakers from entirely different backgrounds — AI strategy, the OPC entrepreneurship model, quantitative trading — each approaching the same core proposition from a different angle: in an era where AI is reshaping everything, what do connection, influence, and value actually mean? People with different starting points rarely reach the same conclusions. That is exactly why it is worth being there.

The event closes with a roundtable discussion on the theme “Where Does Influence Begin — Individual Rise and On-Chain Identity Reconstruction in the Age of AI.” Several guests with entirely different backgrounds will sit together and open the floor to questions from the audience. The roundtable has consistently been the highest-density segment of every Tree Finance offline event — the place where real disagreements surface. The fact that views may not align is precisely what makes it worth attending.

Come With Questions

If you plan to attend, it is worth thinking through a few questions before you walk in.

When AI can build connections and maintain your entire relationship network on-chain on your behalf, does that PR value still represent you as a person? The binding between influence and the individual is the foundational assumption of ATM’s system — will that assumption grow more stable in the age of AI, or will it face new kinds of pressure? And for the travel consumption track in the data-physical integration narrative — where will its first real inflection point in the Chinese market appear?

You may not find definitive answers on the day. But arriving with questions almost always yields more than arriving with a blank mind.

Hangzhou was the first stop. Shanghai is the second. The Tree Finance 2026 China Campus Tour will continue. At every city, the goal is the same: find the people who are genuinely willing to sit down and think this through — and put them in the same room.

April 18th. Fudan. See you there.

Date: April 18, 2026 | 13:00

Venue: Fudan University (scan QR code to join group for exact location)

Organizer: Tree Finance  |  Main Sponsor: ATM

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