Singapore Blockchain Week 2026 runs 13–17 November across the Republic of Singapore and the Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone in South Malaysia – a five-day, two-country rally for anyone who has ever filled out a customs form and thought: what if capital moved this fast too? Organizers bill it as the future of Web4, and with 70+ speakers, 5,000 expected attendees and 100+ institutional partners on the guest list, the brochure is not exactly whispering.
The official site puts it plainly: the first cross-border blockchain week organized across Singapore and Malaysia, Southeast Asia’s next major financial corridor. singaporeblockchainweek.org
What to expect: AI × DeFi × DLT × RWA
The programming matrix covers Artificial Intelligence, Decentralized Finance, Distributed Ledger Technology and Real-World Assets, wrapped together with institutional digital finance, a venture capital assembly and cross-border innovation sessions. In plain terms: the people who move the money, the people who write the rules and the people who write the code will all be in the same week – roughly a 45-minute drive apart.
The week is organized into six expectation tracks:
- Government & Policy – MAS, SEC, MDEC and their regional counterparts in the room all week.
- Institutional Capital – sovereign funds, asset managers and the banks deciding what gets funded next year.
- Protocol & Infrastructure – custody, settlement, identity and the chains themselves.
- Enterprise & RWA Issuers – corporates tokenizing treasuries, funds and bonds.
- Founders & Builders – Southeast Asia teams raising, hiring and shipping during SBW.
- Media & Research – the analysts and reporters chasing the next era of finance stories.
Featuring speakers and sponsors: SAP, IBM, Visa, JP Morgan, Maybank, Sui, Ethereum
The speaker roster reads like a directory of the people whose signatures end up in press releases: Stellar Development Foundation president Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Justin Sun of TRON, Nischint Sanghavi of Visa (Head of Digital Currencies, Asia Pacific), Kinexys by JP Morgan’s Advait Jasoria, Paxos’ Wee Siang Lee, Tether expansion lead Eddy Christian Ng, Circle APAC compliance director Sugandhi Govil, DCS Group executive chairman Hang Jia, Startale by Sony and SBI co-founder Shun Ishikawa, Ethereum institutional co-founder Matthew Dawson, plus leaders from SAP, Maybank, Sui, Figment, Chainalysis, Money20/20, StraitsX and DCS Group among the sponsors and partners.
Even the ambassador list has a familiar face: Vaibhavv Ali, Growth Lead at Minds by Animoca Brands, is representing SBW as a community ambassador.
The agenda: Johor immersion to Singapore summit
The five-day arc moves from south to north:
- 13 Nov – South Malaysia: Johor Web3 SEZ Immersion on growth and capital strategies for SMEs and startups with MDEC, plus the ETH Johor Happy Hour.
- 14 Nov – Singapore: Tech-Enabled Sports, starting with the Sui Run.
- 15 Nov – Singapore: ETH Co-Working with ETHGlobal and the Emerging Tech Learnathon with a Startup Village by BlackStorm, ASEAN Foundation and LinkedIn.
- 16 Nov – Singapore: Contour Network and SAP host the Unlocking Velocity roundtable on trade and payments, followed by the VIP and Speaker Reception.
- 17 Nov – Singapore: the summit closes with three stages – DeFi × RWA, Open Mic and Booths, and AI × DLT – plus the Capital Assembly by VNTR and DarkNight Capital.
A community-driven, government-supported flagship
SBW describes itself as a community-driven, government-supported flagship event shaping the next phase of ASEAN’s digital economy. Partners back that up on both sides of the strait: Singapore Tourism Board, EDB Singapore, Singapore Airlines, Changi Airport Group, IMDA and Invest Johor on one bank; Sui Foundation, Contour by XDC, SAP, ASEAN Foundation, Google.org, the Asian Development Bank and Chainalysis across the ecosystem.
Themes run from RWA tokenisation and stablecoins to CBDCs, Shariah-compliant digital assets, enterprise blockchain, AI and ESG – with more than 80 global investors from over 70 countries expected in the room.
Five days, two countries, one pass
Tickets cover the cross-border week with tiered access across days and venues; checkout even runs through Luma with USDC settlement on Base, so an AI assistant can technically buy your pass while you sleep. Build the calendar, book the 45-minute crossing, and come connect with the building blocks of Web4.
Singapore Blockchain Week 2026 – 13–17 November 2026, South Malaysia and Singapore.
Programme, speakers and tickets: https://singaporeblockchainweek.org/
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