Event Recap News

Unlike previous years, only a handful of official events at the 2026 version of the iconic Austin festival featured crypto.

From Ross Ulbricht's first significant public appearance to Strategy’s Michael Saylor addressing the crowd, the focus of the Bitcoin conference was often on individual liberty.

John Paller, the founder of ETHDenver, said that organizers were “not probably going to move” the crypto conference to a different US state, given high attendance and interest.

Conversations with key speakers at the Blockchain Expo Europe in Amsterdam suggest that cryptocurrency exchanges and companies see the continent as a key region for growth.

Istanbul Blockchain Week made some necessary modifications this year to reflect the change in the overall crypto market.

Popular entrepreneur and VeeFriends creator, Gary Vaynerchuck, shared his thoughts on NFT tickets, VeeCon 2024, cryptocurrency and blockchain adoption at VeeCon 2023.

Despite negative sentiment toward crypto adoption in the United States, Consensus 2023 attracted thousands of attendees to discuss the potential of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.

It was champagne and optimism for Paris Blockchain Week 2023 despite Parisian protests and economic uncertainty.

The theme of PBW revolved around the evolution of Web3 in the mainstream and the crypto industry’s past, present and future.

Web3 was a major theme at SXSW 2023, yet previous hype around NFTs and building during a bear market may be contributing factors to Web3 adoption.

Students showcased new Web3 solutions focused on enabling better user experience, privacy and security at ETHDenver 2023.

Cointelegraph’s Turner Wright and Rudy Takala discussed the recent events at ETHDenver on the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast.

Token incentive models may become obsolete as layer-2 networks focus on ease of functionality and low fees, but how will this impact decentralization?

What do Bitcoin ecosystem CEOs make of Ordinals, and what does the video game Doom have to do with it?

Here’s a look back on the highly technical conference in London, where ordinals, silent payments and the Lightning Network were studied and discussed.