Paris Blockchain Week

Paris Blockchain Week is one of Europe's largest institutional Web3 and digital-assets events, gathering policymakers, financial-services leadership, founders, builders and investors from across the global blockchain ecosystem. It sits alongside Ethereum Community Conference, NRF: Retail's Big Show Europe and Money in Transition: Digitalisation and Innovation in Payments as calendar anchors for the same audiences.

What happens

A multi-day programme combines main-stage keynotes from senior regulators and industry leadership with parallel tracks covering institutional adoption, decentralised finance, infrastructure, Web3 consumer applications and policy. Dedicated programming addresses Bitcoin treasury strategies and the rapid acceleration of tokenised real-world assets in European capital markets. A startup competition runs alongside the main agenda with substantial prize value attached to winning the pitch competition. Closed VIP and invite-only dinners gather senior leadership across the institutional Web3 ecosystem for off-record dialogue, while a substantial side-event programme spreads across central Paris for the duration of the week.

Who attends

The audience reflects Paris Blockchain Week's deliberate institutional positioning: senior leadership and policy representatives from European regulators including European Securities and Markets Authority and AMF, executives from major European banks and asset managers actively engaged in crypto and tokenisation programmes, founders and C-suite from European and global Web3 companies across infrastructure, DeFi, consumer applications and emerging categories, investors from crypto-native funds and traditional VCs with active Web3 books, and a substantial international contingent from US, Asian and Middle Eastern Web3 ecosystems for whom Paris is the closest major European venue for institutional crypto dialogue.

Dominant themes

The agenda emphasises the practical implementation of MiCA across the EU — stablecoin issuer requirements, crypto-asset service provider authorisation, market-abuse rules — and the regulatory environment for tokenised real-world assets including the European DLT Pilot Regime. Bitcoin treasury strategies for corporates and the institutional infrastructure required to support them receive substantial coverage. Decentralised finance maturity under tightening regulatory environments, the role of stablecoins in cross-border B2B payments, AI agents transacting on-chain, and the institutional integration of Web3 with traditional financial infrastructure each get dedicated content tracks. Crypto-specific aspects of the Markets in Financial Instruments framework round out the programme.

Planning to attend

Paris hotel pricing during conference week is among the highest of any European city; book early and consider neighbourhoods near the venue to reduce daily transit. The conference language is English with significant French representation. The institutional positioning makes the side-event programme — particularly the smaller invite-only dinners — substantially more valuable than at typical Web3 conferences; attendees who can access these report disproportionate value relative to the main-stage content. The conference accepts crypto for ticket purchases, which is a notable signal of the audience profile.

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