European Blockchain Convention @EBlockchainCon

Christopher Heymann, Founding Partner at 1kx (@1kxnetwork) — co-founded 2018, 150+ early-stage crypto investments, backed by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and endowments. Ex-CTO turned token-network builder. He joins EBC. Europe's Deal Floor for Digital Assets. Apply for your ticket. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

From 14 years managing investment bank relationships at the London Stock Exchange to leading KuCoin's newly MiCAR-licensed EU business — Sabina Liu joins the EBC speaker lineup this September. Meet the market in Barcelona. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Rani Jabban, Managing Director & ExCo member at Arab Bank Switzerland, has spearheaded the bank's digital assets build since 2019 — custody, crypto, DeFi, NFTs, now expanding into ADGM. 30 years in private banking. He joins EBC. Europe's Deal Floor for Digital Assets. Apply for your ticket. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Tokenization has plenty of advocates outside asset management. It has far fewer people building it from inside a $480 billion firm. Patrik Björklund, CFA, is one of them. As Innovation Strategist at Janus Henderson Investors, he's part of the team constructing the firm's blockchain venture strategy, having spent nearly a decade at Janus Henderson across its Global Distribution and Strategic Account Program before moving into innovation. His recent published work examines what it will actually take for tokenized fund structures to reach a tipping point with institutional investors — the cold-start problem, liquidity depth, and adoption timing. Perspectives like his are why EBC positions itself as a deal floor: real asset managers, working through real product decisions, not spectators to the conversation. Meet the market in Barcelona. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block… #EBC12

As crypto matures, the conversation is shifting from speculation to real use, and Bitcoin is at the center of it. Access, ownership, everyday payments, earning and spending on-chain: none of it is theoretical anymore, and all of it is worth talking about in the same room. GoMining is one of the largest Bitcoin miners in the world, but mining is just the foundation. They've built a full Bitcoin ecosystem on top of it: tokenised hashrate that anyone can own, plus the tools to earn, hold, spend, and pay in Bitcoin every day. Their presence at EBC12 brings a practical layer to the discussion: what it takes to make Bitcoin genuinely usable, from the infrastructure that mines it to the products that let people actually put it to work. Join us September 16–17, Barcelona. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Settlement risk is one of the oldest problems in finance. Fnality was built by a consortium of global banks to solve it with distributed ledger technology — and it's now live, not theoretical. Myles Wright, CEO of Fnality Services, leads the operational backbone of the Sterling Fnality Payment System, the world's first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system, recognized by the Bank of England for settlement finality. Fnality's shareholder base reads like a who's who of global banking — and the company raised $136 million in a Series C round last year led by WisdomTree, Bank of America, Citi, and Temasek. Wright brings over 25 years of capital markets and treasury experience to the role, having managed capital, liquidity, and funding at Tier 1 bank scale before Fnality existed. Speakers like this are why EBC reads as a deal floor, not a stage — the institutions are already in. Join the people shaping Europe's digital asset market. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Most blockchain leaders came up inside crypto. Frederik Gregaard didn't — and that's part of why the Cardano Foundation looks the way it does. Before becoming CEO of the Cardano Foundation in 2020, Gregaard spent two decades in banking and consulting across Switzerland and Scandinavia, including leading PwC's digital financial services advisory practice and heading institutional business at Saxo Bank Switzerland. He's carried that operator discipline into the Cardano Foundation's partnerships — from working with NASA on satellite data provenance to Ethiopia's government-scale digital identity rollout — and regularly engages regulators across the U.S. Senate, European Parliament, and central banks. Cardano was also one of five assets named in the U.S. Strategic Crypto Reserve. Governance, real deployments, regulatory access — that's the register EBC operates in. Join us in Barcelona this September. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block… #EBC12

Tokenization talk is everywhere. Tokenization infrastructure that a $2.57 trillion custody bank actually stands behind is rarer — and that's the work Nadine Teychenne leads at Citi. As Global Head of Digital Assets, Investor and Issuer Services, Teychenne oversees how Citi's Securities Services business builds for digital assets — custody, settlement, and tokenized markets. Before this role, she spent over twelve years in Citi's custody product development, and before Citi, eleven years at KPMG. Under her leadership, Citi has partnered with SDX to tokenize access to private pre-IPO shares and expanded its custody model to cover assets issued on permissioned blockchain networks. This is the kind of operator EBC is built around: someone whose work moves real institutional capital, not just conversation. Partner with EBC. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block… #EBC12

Some speakers you invite once. Others keep coming back — and that's a signal worth paying attention to. Mark Zalan, CEO of @GoMining , returns to the EBC stage. Under his leadership, GoMining has scaled to more than 5 million users and 15 million+ TH/s of Bitcoin mining power, built on a model that tokenizes hashrate so institutions and individuals can access mining infrastructure without owning the hardware. He's also driving GoBTC, GoMining's answer to instant, native Bitcoin payments at the base layer. At a floor built for real market participants, a repeat appearance from someone operating at this scale is exactly the kind of signal EBC is designed to produce. Meet the market in Barcelona. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block… #EBC12

Karl Naim, Group Chief Commercial Officer at XBTO — an institutional digital asset platform running since 2015, now licensed by ADGM in Abu Dhabi — joins the EBC speaker lineup. Ex-UBS, Goldman Sachs, Mubadala. Europe's Deal Floor for Digital Assets. Apply for your ticket. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Germany's exchange infrastructure and its crypto market rarely sit in the same sentence — until Boerse Stuttgart built both. Dr. Ulli Spankowski is Chief Digital & Product Officer at @boersedigital, the regulated infrastructure arm that has become the largest digital and crypto business among Europe's exchange groups. He's also Co-Founder and CEO of BISON, the retail crypto platform that helped bring digital assets to mainstream German investors, and he advises the Bundestag and the Federal Ministry of Finance's Digital Finance Forum on digital finance policy. Few people move as fluidly between exchange infrastructure, retail access, and regulatory dialogue. That's the level of the room at EBC — Europe's Deal Floor for Digital Assets, where the people building market structure and the people shaping its rules are in the same conversation. Apply for your ticket: eblockchainconvention.com/european-block… #EBC12

There’s one problem with the EBC12 agenda. You can’t be everywhere at once. The agenda for 16–17 September is officially live — and two days in Barcelona are looking very full. Institutional capital. Tokenisation. Stablecoins and payments. Market infrastructure. Regulation. The next wave of on-chain finance. Across the stages, the people actually building, investing in and shaping these markets will tackle the questions that matter now — not five years from now. And what happens on stage is only half the story. EBC12 will bring together 5,000+ attendees, 500+ buy-side participants and 81% decision-makers across the EBC Village, Deal Floor, exhibition, meeting spaces and everything happening in between. The EBC12 agenda is live. Explore the sessions, find the ones you don’t want to miss and start planning your two days in Barcelona 👇 🔗 Explore the agenda: eblockchainconvention.com/agenda-ebc12/ 📍 Barcelona 📅 16–17 September 2026 hashtag#EBC12 hashtag#DigitalAssets hashtag#Tokenisation hashtag#Stablecoins hashtag#Blockchain hashtag#InstitutionalCr

When a systemic European bank takes a stake in a tokenization platform, that's not a headline — it's a signal about where the market is going. In April, UniCredit invested €4M for a 16% stake in @blockinvest , the Italian tokenization infrastructure provider co-founded and led by Lorenzo Rigatti. It followed earlier backing from Credit Agricole Italia and infrastructure work behind Italy's first tokenized minibond, structured with UniCredit, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, and SACE. A blockchain early adopter since 2016, Rigatti has spent the years since building the rails that let major banks move real financial instruments on-chain — not pilots, live transactions. That's the calibre of operator EBC brings together: people building the infrastructure institutional capital is actually using. Join the people shaping Europe's digital asset market. eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

Ten years ago, "institutional digital assets" was barely a category. Today it's a boardroom conversation. @KarlNaim83 has been on the commercial side of that shift for years. As Group Chief Commercial Officer at @xbtogroup — a digital asset platform serving institutions and family offices since 2015, regulated in Bermuda and now licensed by ADGM in Abu Dhabi — he leads the commercial mandate behind custody, trading, OTC and hedge fund strategies built for allocators, not retail. Before XBTO, he spent a decade in banking and private equity at UBS, Goldman Sachs and Mubadala. That's the profile that belongs on Europe's Deal Floor for Digital Assets: someone whose job is turning institutional interest into executed mandates, not just talking about adoption. Karl Naim joins the EBC speaker lineup this September. Join the people shaping Europe's digital asset market eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

EBC12 Speaker: Stanislas de Maistre (@standemaistre) | Founder & CEO | Belem Capital Stanislas de Maistre began his career as a computer science engineer at Capgemini before transitioning into strategic consulting and operational management in infrastructure. In 2015, he joined La Financière des Vosges Investments as Managing Director, leading investments across private equity, real estate, corporate debt, public markets, and digital assets. He now serves as CEO of Belem Capital, focused on high-conviction opportunities in the digital assets ecosystem, combining technical grounding in blockchain, smart contracts, and protocol mechanics with rigorous financial analysis and asset allocation. Join the leaders shaping digital assets in Barcelona on September 16 - 17: eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

EBC12 Speaker: Jean-Jacques Barbéris | Deputy CEO, Coverage & Digital Assets | @CACEIS Jean-Jacques Barbéris is Deputy CEO of CACEIS, the European leader in asset servicing, where he leads Coverage and Digital Assets. He joined CACEIS in May 2026 from @Amundi, where he served on the General Management and Executive Boards and headed Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage. Since taking on his new role, he has been at the centre of some major developments in institutional digital assets. In June, CACEIS worked with Amundi and Ant International on the launch of tokenised share classes for a euro and US dollar money market fund, with CACEIS acting as transfer agent and tokenisation agent. Then in July, CACEIS launched EURXT — Crédit Agricole Group’s euro-denominated stablecoin — with its first use case already live: settling a subscription into a tokenised Amundi money market fund, a European first. From tokenised funds to on-chain settlement, the infrastructure connecting traditional finance with digital assets is moving from concept to deployment. Join Jean-Jacques and the leaders building that infrastructure in Barcelona on September 16–17:

Signicat joins EBC12 as Bronze Sponsor. Digital identity, eKYC and trust infrastructure are critical to institutional digital asset adoption. Signicat brings that expertise to Barcelona. September 16–17 · Barcelona. 🔗:eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

EBC12 Speaker: John Hallahan | Head of Business Solutions, EMEA | @FireblocksHQ John Hallahan has spent his career at the forefront of blockchain and digital asset adoption in financial services. He was a founding member of Deloitte's EMEA Blockchain Lab, where he led early blockchain projects for major institutions including Det Norske Veritas and Bank of Ireland, before moving to Consensys where he played a pivotal role in launching Komgo, a trade finance consortium. He then led the blockchain vertical at EY in Ireland before joining Fireblocks in 2022. At Fireblocks, he heads Business Solutions for EMEA, managing complex client engagements with banks and large corporates across the region. Fireblocks is the enterprise platform for digital asset operations, securing more than $5 trillion in digital asset transfers annually and serving more than 80 banks globally. Join the leaders shaping digital assets in Barcelona on September 16 - 17: eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…

EBC12 Speaker: Marine Krasovska | Head of FinTech Supervision Department | @LatvijasBanka Marine leads FinTech supervision at Latvijas Banka, Latvia's central bank and national competent authority, where she has been shaping the regulatory framework for financial innovation since the Financial and Capital Market Commission was integrated into Latvijas Banka in 2023. Before that, she served as Director of the Financial Innovation Department at the FCMC from 2020, and built her professional career in managerial roles at SEB Bank, DNB Bank, and Luminor Bank. She participates in supervisory working groups and committees at the EBA, ESMA, and ECB, and has been recognised for her contribution to Latvia's development as a European FinTech hub. Join the leaders shaping digital assets in Barcelona on September 16 - 17: eblockchainconvention.com/european-block…