Shanghai just lit the fuse on the next phase of global finance 🚀 At EFEF-2025 🇷🇺🇨🇳, 300+ power players from across gov, tech, and finance gathered to put digital currency and blockchain front and center. Talks circled around CBDCs + blockchain for international settlements—a major move toward faster, cheaper, stable cross-border payments. The message? Digital unity is the cure to economic fragmentation. Alexander Shokhin says it plain: only joint action in finance, tech, and culture gets us real, long-term growth. Are we entering a new age where digital rails run the world economy?