Since its debut in 2015, the Blockchain Global Summit has stood alongside the industry for twelve consecutive years.
On September 23, 2026, the 12th Blockchain Global Summit, hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, will be held grandly at the Shangri-La Hotel, The Bund, Shanghai. This year’s summit, themed “The New Blockchain Economy: Intelligent Synergy,” will bring together top experts from finance, technology, investment, and industry to gather along the Huangpu River for an intensive exchange of ideas on the key developments reshaping the industry landscape.
This year, the summit will directly address key issues shaping the future of the industry: the ongoing evolution of global digital asset regulatory frameworks, and the deepening on-chain practices in payments, settlement, and asset transfer; tokenization is rapidly moving from concept to reality, with growing momentum in explorations such as tokenized deposits and listing U.S. stocks on-chain. Meanwhile, AI is advancing rapidly, elevating the importance of privacy, trust, and data security, while developments in quantum computing present new challenges to cryptographic security.
What new signals will global policies release? How will payment and settlement systems evolve? What are the underlying logic and regulatory frameworks for tokenization? As the AI wave sweeps across the industry, what roles will blockchain and privacy technologies play in the future technological landscape?
These questions, which are currently unfolding and still taking shape, will be brought to life at the 12th Blockchain Global Summit this year.
Alongside the growing momentum around cutting-edge topics, the lineup of distinguished speakers continues to expand. From policymakers and financial institutions to asset managers, technology researchers, blockchain entrepreneurs, and industry practitioners, voices from diverse fields and perspectives will converge on the same stage, offering insights and judgments from the frontlines of policy, finance, technology, and real-world application.
The following distinguished guests (in no particular order) have joined the summit lineup: Xiao Feng, Chairman of Wanxiang Blockchain and Chairman & CEO of HashKey Group; Chau Tat-kan, Legislative Council Member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Information Technology); John Riggins, CEO of Moon Inc.; Li Guoquan, Dean of the Global Academy of Financial Technology; Fan Wenzhong, Standing Council Member of the China Society for Finance and former Chairman of Beijing Financial Holdings Group; Ba Qing, Chief Economist and Head of Strategic Planning at HashKey Group; Zhao Yao, Distinguished Senior Researcher at the National Laboratory of Financial Development; Zhao Ying, Partner at King & Wood Mallesons; Chen Long, Secretary-General of the Luo Han Tang; Miguel Palencia, Co-founder of Qtum; Du Yu, Head of Wanxiang Blockchain Lab; Xu Ping, Head of Asia Fintech and Head of Financial Institutions in China at J.P. Morgan; Rita Liu, CEO of Yuanbi Technology; Anna Liu, CEO of HashKey RWA; Min Lin, Global Director of Business Development at Ondo Finance; Thomas Chou, Head of Asia Pacific at the Canton Foundation; Abdelhamid Bizid, Head of Active and Alternative Investment Product Development for Asia Pacific and Head of Product for China at BlackRock Global Product Solutions (GPS); Yu Yu, Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Dean of the School of Cryptology, East China Normal University; Leo Lin, Co-founder of Arkreen; Xia Fubiao, Co-founder of Primus; MOMO, Chief Security Officer at KUN Global; and Zhu Xiaoxiao, Director of R&D for Edge Computing at StarFive Technologies.
More distinguished speakers and the full conference agenda will be revealed soon.
On September 23, the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, we look forward to reuniting with industry peers from around the world in Shanghai, exchanging insights, sparking ideas, and jointly seeking answers amid this period of transformation.
Thank you to our Diamond Sponsor Qtum, Strategic Partner Wanxiang Innovation Energy City, Gold Sponsors Frontier Technology Institute (FTI), RD Technologies, Arkreen, and Bianjie.AI, as well as our Exclusive Dinner Sponsor Sui Foundation, for their outstanding support of the 12th Blockchain Global Summit!