Crypto

European Blockchain Convention 2026 returns to Barcelona on 16 and 17 September, at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya. It is the largest blockchain gathering in southern Europe and one of the few on the continent where policy, institutional finance and protocol engineering share the same floor.Organisers expect more than 6,000 attendees and over 300 speakers, alongside hundreds of exhibiting companies. The programme historically leans toward European regulatory reality rather than pure protocol talk, which makes it useful for anyone tracking how MiCA and successor frameworks translate into operating constraints for exchanges and custodians.For readers following the custody question specifically, […]

Future Blockchain Summit 2026 runs from 8 to 11 October in Dubai, co-located with Fintech Surge. The two events share a floor deliberately: the audience for digital asset infrastructure and the audience for payments infrastructure now overlap almost completely.Dubai's position matters here. The emirate has built a regulatory framework specifically to attract digital asset businesses, and the summit is where that policy meets the companies operating under it. For anyone assessing where Gulf capital is being deployed in Web3 and AI infrastructure, this is the calendar's most concentrated week.Gulf sovereign money is increasingly visible in the sector's largest rounds, including […]