WebX 2026 Tokyo concluded its fourth edition with 13,641 participants from more than 90 countries and over 70 side events. Discussions across three stages covered yen stablecoins, megabank tokenization and rising institutional confidence. WebX returns on 25 to 26 August 2027 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Deal Day, the Bitcoin for Corporations Symposium and Enterprise focus experience give companies, investors, and operators a dedicated business environment at Asia's largest Bitcoin conference — August 27–28 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Tokyo Stock Exchange–listed Green Monster will work with Capital Layer to support the development of regional institutional stablecoin settlement infrastructure as the two companies build a regional institutional settlement network — starting with the Japan–Taiwan corridor — alongside co-created digital-asset education for financial institutions.
EBC12 brings together speakers from J.P. Morgan, the Financial Conduct Authority, Invesco, Coinbase, Fidelity International, and more than 300 leaders from the banks, regulators, and asset managers shaping Europe's digital asset market.
The Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2026 comes to Bangkok's Samyan Mitrtown on November 28-29, spotlighting Lightning payments, privacy and financial sovereignty.
Newly confirmed speakers from leading financial institutions, digital asset firms and global payment networks join discussions on stablecoins, AI, regulation and the future of digital finance in Tokyo.
Social trading platform Fomo has raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures at a $550 million valuation. Union Square Ventures and Benchmark joined, alongside angels Mark Pincus, Humam Sakhnini, and Kevin Hartz. Fomo reports 625,000 users and $4 billion in trading volume.
Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026 returned to Bangkok on May 20 and 21, organized by ShardLab. Stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, and AI-agent commerce led the agenda as industry leaders mapped Asia's shift from speculation to settlement and institutional adoption.
OKX has made the Pi (PI) token available to compliant US users for the first time, the Pi Core Team said on May 21. The move follows Kraken's March listing and adds a second US access point, even as token unlocks and weak demand keep PI pinned near $0.15.
WebX 2026 returns to Tokyo as Japan enters a new phase of regulated digital asset growth and institutional participation. The conference is expected to draw more than 15000 attendees and feature speakers from leading global organizations across finance, technology, and government.
PBW 2026 reflects the country’s transition from understanding blockchain to actively implementing it. What was once experimental is now being deployed—with growing relevance in transparency, accountability, and economic participation.
LayerZero issued a public apology on Friday for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, admitting its single-verifier setup should never have secured high-value cross-chain transactions. The reversal follows three weeks of blame-shifting and comes as Kelp migrates rsETH to Chainlink's CCIP.
Dogecoin was built as a joke. Jordan Jefferson is betting it becomes the most accessible financial platform in crypto. The CEO of DogeOS spoke to us at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 about building real utility on the world's favourite meme coin, and why the punchline was always the point.
The three companies join previously announced node operators, including Google Cloud, Blockdaemon, Shielded Technologies, and AlphaTON Capital, which is running a node on behalf of Telegram.
The additions bring Midnight's network of federated node operators to four as institutions look to privacy-enhancing technology to unlock regulated, real-world markets.
HONG KONG – Feb 13, 2026 – Consensus Hong Kong 2026, held from February 10–12 at the Hong Kong Convention and…
Finternet Labs is co-created by Pramod Varma (Chief Architect of Aadhaar) and Siddharth Shetty (CEO of Finternet Labs). It is backed by the vision and leadership of Nandan Nilekani, one of India’s most influential architects of digital public infrastructure.
Solana Accelerate's debut at Consensus Hong Kong will bring together the full spectrum of the crypto ecosystem - founders, developers, institutions, protocols, policymakers, and innovators - uniting them under one roof to shape the future of digital assets in the Asia-Pacific region.
The lack of specificity drew sharp criticism from users, with some arguing that years of delays, vague timelines, and limited accountability had eroded confidence. One community member described the project as the slowest in history, predicting a steep decline in token value by mid 2026.
Ethereum is heading into 2026 at a rare intersection of deep protocol change and market tension. As zero knowledge proofs and cross chain interoperability move closer to production, traders face short term volatility from a multi billion dollar options expiry.
“Post-quantum crypto oftentimes it’s about 10 times slower, 10 times larger proof sizes, and 10 times more inefficient,” Hoskinson said. “If you adopt it, what you’re basically doing is taking the throughput of your blockchain and reducing it by cutting off a zero.”
CoinSwitch said the handbook will be distributed across police stations and cybersecurity units to offer practical clarity on asset tracing, crime typologies, and compliance frameworks.
This expansion builds on Ripple’s initial MPI approval in 2023 and positions the company among a small group of digital-asset firms operating under a comprehensive, regulator-supervised framework in one of the world’s most established financial centers.
“This is a historic milestone with Aramco,” Pasqal CEO Loïc Henriet said. “The deployment of our most powerful quantum computer yet is a piece of history and a landmark for the Middle East’s quantum future. Pasqal continues its expansion, delivering practical quantum power to industry.”
