November 12–14, 2025 · Singapore EXPO There were no Lamborghinis in the car park. That, more than any keynote, is how you measure the distance crypto has travelled. The Singapore FinTech Festival is where the people who actually run the money system gather — central bankers, the heads of the world’s largest asset managers, regulators […]
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September 22–27, 2025 · Seoul, South Korea At most crypto conferences, the nearest thing to a celebrity is a founder in an expensive hoodie. At Korea Blockchain Week, actual pop stars turned up — along with, by several accounts, the directors of a wildly popular film about K-pop demon hunters. That single detail tells you
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October 13, 2025 · Old Billingsgate, London There is a joke buried in the venue, and I refuse to believe anyone planned it. Europe’s most senior gathering of traditional finance and crypto took place at Old Billingsgate, which for the better part of a thousand years was London’s fish market. Bankers from Goldman Sachs, Citi
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December 2025 · Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi Somewhere between the tokenised uranium and the artificially intelligent whiskey appraiser, I began to suspect that Solana’s annual conference had rather lost its inhibitions. Breakpoint 2025 brought us a small Himalayan kingdom proposing to put its national gold reserves onto a blockchain, an investment bank arranging commercial paper
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May 27–29, 2025 · The Venetian, Las Vegas Let me tell you my favourite fact in all of finance, and I promise you need to know absolutely nothing about computers to enjoy it. When Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor switched the thing on in January 2009, he tucked a little message into its very first entry —
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Spring 2025 · Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai I want you to picture the scene, because I do not think I could invent it. Fifteen thousand people, seventy per cent of them chief-something-or-others, gathered on the Dubai coastline to discuss the future of global finance — and the official programme offered them ziplines, a climbing wall, cold
April 8–10, 2025 · Carrousel du Louvre, Paris Consider the geography for a moment, because nobody involved seems to have noticed how funny it is. Some ten thousand people gathered to debate the future of money in the Carrousel du Louvre — which is, to be precise about it, a shopping centre in a basement,
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February 18–21, 2026 · National Western Centre, Denver The mascot is a buffalo crossed with a unicorn. It is called the Bufficorn, and nobody involved appears remotely embarrassed about this. Tickets to the world’s largest Ethereum gathering are free; there is an official event called the Finality Party, and among the speakers you will find
Let me make the case for the least thrilling thing in crypto. Most stories in this industry arrive dressed as revolutions. Tear down the banks, storm the citadel, replace the whole rotten edifice with something pure and mathematical. XRP’s story is not that story. XRP’s story is a plumber. It has no interest whatsoever in
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This is the question everybody is actually asking, usually somewhere around the second glass of wine, and it deserves a proper answer rather than a hedge dressed up as balance. Can I tell you what it cost me to learn this? For years, I wanted somebody — anybody, ideally somebody clever and expensive to tell
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