TOKEN2049 Is No Longer Just About Crypto. What Comes Next for Finance?
Over the past year, I have followed several major crypto conferences, from Miami to Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong, and now TOKEN2049 Singapore. What interests me most has gradually changed. At first, crypto conferences were easy to understand. We watched Bitcoin, regulation, exchanges, new chains, market cycles and, inevitably, price. But the conversations around these events have started to feel broader. AI keeps appearing. Stablecoins are moving deeper into payments. Traditional financial institutions are no longer simply asking whether they should participate in crypto. Increasingly, they are discussing what parts of finance might eventually move onchain. ...