Blockchain startup ecosystem
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EthCC 9 (Ethereum Community Conference) 2026
Europe's largest annual Ethereum conference, organized by the non-profit Ethereum France team and rotating between Paris and Brussels. The 9th edition draws 6,000+ developers, protocol researchers, DeFi founders, and L2 engineers for four days of deep-technical talks, core-dev working groups, and a packed satellite-event calendar of side meetups and hackathons. EthCC is the default summer checkpoint for the European crypto ecosystem — if you're building on Ethereum, this is where the conversations happen. Tickets EUR 600-1,500.
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EthCC[10] (Ethereum Community Conference) 2027
EthCC, the largest and longest-running annual European Ethereum event, returns to the Palais des Festivals in Cannes for its 10th edition, 12-15 April 2027. Organised by Ethereum France, the four-day event covers topics from core protocol and Layer 2s to DeFi, applied cryptography and regulation. Past speakers have included Vitalik Buterin and Stani Kulechov.
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ETHGlobal
ETHGlobal is the leading organiser of Ethereum and Web3 hackathons and summits worldwide, running flagship in-person events and online hackathons that bring together developers, founders and protocol teams to ship onchain applications. Its Lisbon editions anchor Portugal's recurring Onchain Lisbon ecosystem week.
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ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026
ETHGlobal's flagship Ethereum hackathon returns to Lisbon. 36 hours of building with hundreds of Web3 developers, sponsor bounties, workshops & mentorship from leading protocols, closing with judged demos and prizes for the best on-chain projects.
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ETHMilan 2026
Italy's largest Ethereum and Web3 conference, with 2,000+ attendees and 100+ speakers at the Leonardo da Vinci museum. A useful wedge event for web3 and crypto founders targeting the Italian and Southern-European builder community.
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European Blockchain Convention 2026
Leading European blockchain and Web3 conference in Barcelona, bringing together 3,000+ crypto founders, investors, and enterprise blockchain leaders. Features startup pitching, regulation panels, and fintech innovation talks. Covers DeFi, tokenization, and institutional digital assets. Particularly relevant for Web3 startups seeking European market visibility.
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GAIMIN
GAIMIN is a Web3 distributed cloud infrastructure platform that uses gamers' unused computing power, including GPUs, for HPC and AI workloads. The company reported more than USD 1.79M in funding, launched the GMRX token, partnered with ecosystems such as Movement Labs and BNB Chain, and secured cloud-compute support from Aethir's ecosystem fund. In decentralized resource and staking markets, it competes with larger platforms such as Lido, Kiln, and Ubitus.
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Humanode
Blockchain infrastructure startup operating from Tbilisi since 2020, building a crypto-biometric network where one human equals one node. Humanode uses Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence protocols based on biometric face scanning to establish Sybil resistance without revealing identity. The network is built on Polkadot infrastructure and in 2024 recorded a Nakamoto Coefficient of 236 — the highest decentralisation score ever measured for a blockchain. The project has raised approximately $23 million.
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Incrypted Conference 2026
Ukraine's largest crypto and Web3 gathering, returning for its fourth edition at Parkovy with 3,000+ attendees and 50+ speakers across a main stage and workshop track. 2026 emphasis is on AI integration in Web3, with BingX, OKX, and MEXC headlining.
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Istanbul Blockchain Week 2026
Fifth edition of Türkiye's flagship Web3 conference at Hilton Bomonti, gathering founders, developers, investors, and policymakers across DeFi, AI agents, real-world asset tokenization, stablecoins, and layer-2 scaling.
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Istanbul Fintech Week 2026
Sixth edition under the theme 'Smart, Embedded, and Tokenized', hosting the Web3 Summit, Digital Finance Summit, plus dedicated tracks on AI in Finance, TradeTech, Fintech for Businesses, and Women in Fintech.
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Kasia Pieniądz
Angel investor and board member at COBIN Angels, Kasia is based in Switzerland and helps connect Swiss and Polish startup ecosystems. She is vice-president of the Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association and brings specialization in health economics. Her portfolio and advisory focus include Bitfold and early-stage teams using blockchain in healthcare data management and security.
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Leslie Motta
Web3 advocate and public speaker known for the 'Crypto at the Border' initiative, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Speaks internationally on crypto adoption, financial inclusion, and the social impact of blockchain.
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Malta Blockchain Summit 2026
A major Web3 and blockchain conference leveraging Malta's pioneering Virtual Financial Assets Act and progressive crypto regulation. Attracts 4,000+ attendees including DeFi founders, token issuers, and regulators. Features a startup pitch competition, hackathon, and expo floor. Tickets from EUR 200-500.
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Mark B. Richardson
Project Lead at Bancor Protocol, a decentralized liquidity and DeFi protocol, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Works on automated market-making and on-chain liquidity infrastructure.
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Matthias Mende
Founder and CEO of Bonuz, a Web3 social and identity platform, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Builds decentralized social and reputation infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem.
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MiddleGame Ventures
MiddleGame Ventures is a Luxembourg-headquartered fintech-focused venture capital firm co-founded in 2016 by Michael Meyer and Patrick Pinschmidt, with Pascal Bouvier as Managing Partner. The firm has deployed over €300 million across 50+ companies and raised a €150 million third fund with an initial close, backed by the Luxembourg Future Fund successor (SNCI). It focuses on open finance, embedded fintech, blockchain/crypto infrastructure, and automated financial data across Europe and North America. Portfolio includes Bitpanda, Carta, Keyrock, and Minna Technologies, with four unicorns and one IPO among its exits.
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Monerium
Monerium is an Icelandic fintech company founded in 2015 that issues regulated stablecoins — most notably EURe, an onchain euro — on public blockchains. In 2019 it became the world's first entity to receive an e-money license for blockchain-based token issuance under EU regulations, granted by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland. Monerium is authorised as both an Electronic Money Institution and a Virtual Asset Service Provider and enables Web3-native IBAN payments across Ethereum, Polygon, and Gnosis Chain.
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MultiversX (formerly Elrond)
MultiversX, formerly known as Elrond, is a Romanian-founded Layer 1 blockchain platform designed for high throughput, low latency, and low transaction costs through an adaptive state sharding architecture. The network can process over 15,000 transactions per second and supports smart contracts, DeFi applications, NFTs, and the metaverse ecosystem. Founded in 2017 by brothers Beniamin and Lucian Mincu along with Lucian Todea, the company rebranded to MultiversX to reflect its broader vision beyond blockchain infrastructure into metaverse and Web3 applications. MultiversX has built one of the most technically ambitious blockchain platforms to emerge from Europe and anchors Romania's position in the global Web3 ecosystem.
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NFC Summit 2026
A Web3 and creative-economy summit bundling eight sub-events — including the Non Fungible Conference, Stablecoin Day, an agents-vs-agents hackathon, and Longevity Day — at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory. Useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
