Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) is an annual event that gathers blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts, experts, and professionals from around the world. It serves as a platform for networking, learning, and discussing the latest trends and developments, positioning itself as a bridge between traditional finance (TradFi) and digital assets. The event has grown to host over 10,000 attendees from more than 100 countries, with past events seeing over 70% of attendees at the C-suite level. It focuses on institutional adoption of digital assets, regulatory frameworks, and market structure, and is promoted as "Europe’s power forum for the future of digital finance." The week typically features keynote speeches, workshops, panel discussions, and exhibitions. ^[5]

2026 Edition

The 7th edition of Paris Blockchain Week is scheduled to take place on April 15th and 16th, 2026, at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. The theme for the event is "The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets," with a stated focus on institutional adoption, regulatory frameworks, institutional custody, and market structure. ^[5]

Event components planned for 2026 include:

• Institutional Days: A segment focused on institutional finance topics such as Bitcoin treasury strategies, stablecoin payments, and tokenized assets.
• Start in Block: A startup competition for founders, with prizes valued at over $10 million.
• The VIP Dinner: An invitation-only dinner for leaders in finance and policy held at the Château de Versailles.
• Hackathon: A hybrid hackathon with online and onsite challenges, organized with BizThon. ^[5]

Notable Speakers

Over the years, PBW has featured a legacy of distinguished speakers from across the blockchain, finance, and technology industries. This list includes: ^[5]​

• Adam Back, Co-Founder & CEO, Blockstream
• Eric Anziani, President & COO, Crypto.com
• David Ripley, Co-CEO, Kraken
• Eric Piscini, CEO, Hashgraph
• Robby Yung, CEO of Investments, Animoca Brands
• Tim Draper, Founder & Managing Partner, Draper Associates
• Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Circle
• Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO, Aave Labs
• Charles Hoskinson, Co-Founder, IOHK, Ethereum, Cardano
• Clara Chappaz, Ex-Minister of State, Digital Affairs of France
• Monica Long, President, Ripple
• Silvio Micali, Blockchain Founder, Turing Award Winner

2024 Edition

The 2024 edition of Paris Blockchain Week took place from April 9th to April 11th. ^[1]

The event featured program tracks on Open Finance, Tech Builders, Corporate Web3, and Public Policy. Topics included custody, decentralized finance, AI, scalability, web3 in luxury, NFT gaming, and European regulations like MiCA, CBDCs, and AML. ^[1]

2023 Edition

The 2023 Paris Blockchain Week hosted over 8,500 attendees, including 400 speakers and 61.3% from C-suite positions. Topics included Web3's impact on business, with LVMH and OTB Group discussing their blockchain consortium. Ebay shared its Web3 transition from Web1 and Web2, focusing on digital item collections. ^[1]

The event covered digital finance, tokenization, and ethics. Speakers came from companies like Nasdaq, Google, Circle, Deutsche Bank, UNICEF, and the World Economic Forum. ^[1]

Executive discussions highlighted institutional interest in digital assets, payment innovations, and regulatory updates. Circle chose France for its European regulatory base, and F1 driver Pierre Gasly talked about his NFT launch. Joe Lubin from ConsenSys discussed decentralized networks, and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman addressed blockchain's growth. ^[1]

2022 Edition

Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2022 received around 3,000 attendees, 70 sponsors, 250 speakers, and 100 media partners. The two-day summit covered topics like traceability, digital governance, and regulatory cooperation. ^[2]

Speakers included Tim Draper from Draper Associates, Changpeng Zhao of Binance, Ryan Selkis from Messari, Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX, and Nicholas Cary from Blockchain.com. Other participants were from companies like The Sandbox, Bitfinex, Celsius Network, Deutsche Bank, Digital Finance Group, MyEtherWallet, Hedera, Blockdaemon, Stellar Development Foundation, Copper.co, Quantstamp, and On-X Blockchain & PBWSummit. ^[2]

2020 Edition

Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2020 was held virtually on the Hopin platform, from December 9th to 10th, 2020. ^[3]

Changpeng Zhao (CZ) of Binance headlined with a fireside chat. The event focused on four tracks: Tech Builders, Open Finance, Enterprise Blockchain, and Public Policy, covering topics like decentralized finance, stablecoins, and governance. ^[3]

Other speakers included Ryan Selkis from Messari, Arthur Breitman of Tezos, Ben Livshits from Brave Software, Ryan Zurrer from Dialectic, Kathleen Breitman from Tezos, Emin Gün Sirer from Ava Labs, and Cédric O, French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs. ^[3]

2019 Edition

The Paris Blockchain Week, held from April 15th to April 19th, 2019, comprised a series of events under the joint High Patronage of the Ministry for the Economy and Finance and the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs. Over a dozen international events were organized, attracting thousands of attendees to discuss blockchain and crypto-assets. ^[6]

The 2019 Paris Blockchain Week Summit hosted over 100 speakers discussing the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry's latest trends and challenges. Key speakers included Cedric O, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs; David Chaum, CEO of Elixxir; QJ Wang from the Ethereum Community Fund; and leaders from companies like Currency.com, Tezos, Binance, CNN, and Ripple. ^[4]

The summit covered three main tracks: Technology, Regulation, and Investment. The Technology track explored topics like governance, consensus mechanisms, AI in distributed algorithms, decentralized data storage, interoperability, scalability, zero-knowledge proofs, and sharding. Regulation discussions focused on French crypto regulation, Security Token Offerings (STOs), self-regulation, investor protection, digital currency evolution, international cooperation, and compliance solutions. ^[4]

In the Investment track, the summit addressed European digital asset infrastructure, exchanges' role in crypto democratization, OTC markets, decentralized organizations, decentralized exchanges (DEX), on-chain funds, and stablecoins. ^[4]