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SEABW 2026 Closes in Bangkok as Southeast Asia's Digital Assets Move from Experimentation to Institutional Adoption
The conference brought regulators, banks and global Web3 firms together as 92 hackathon teams competed for the top prize.
- Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026 concluded after two days at ICONSIAM Hall in Bangkok, bringing Thai SEC and Indonesia's EKRAF regulators together with SCBX, Bitkub, Ascend Bit, Circle, Tether, and the Solana Foundation on a single stage.
- The five-theme program—Regulatory Frontier, Institutional Verticalization and the Great Convergence, RWA 2.0 and the Industrialization of Tokenization, the Agentic Economy, and the Base Layer Imperative—positioned Southeast Asia not as a peripheral market but as a region executing global Web3 adoption.
- Circle's David Katz, VP Strategy and Public Policy for Asia Pacific, and Tether regional leads Ploy Boonyavee and Eddy Christian Ng joined Ripple, BitGo, Anchorage Digital, and AWS covering custody, payments, tokenization, and AI alongside local backers SCBX, Bitkub, and Bitazza Thailand.
- The parallel AI Hackathon drew 92 teams competing to solve real-world problems, with BEBRIDGE's RWANDA system—an AI-powered rating tool for RWA trustworthiness—winning the grand prize. K-pop group tripleS performed under Modhaus's on-chain governance where NFT holders vote on group decisions.
- ShardLab CEO Hojin Kim said, "As digital assets and AI converge into a single agentic economy, our job is to bring regulators, institutions, and builders into the same room so the region's next phase of adoption gets shaped through dialogue, not in silos." The event marked Southeast Asia's transition from experimentation to institutional adoption.
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SEABW 2026 Closes in Bangkok as Southeast Asia's Digital Assets Move from Experimentation to Institutional Adoption
Thai SEC and Indonesia's EKRAF brought both countries' regulators onto a single stageSCBX, Bitkub, and Ascend Bit joined Circle, Tether, and the Solana Foundation in BangkokTwo-day program at ICONSIAM Hall, with closed-door roundtables and an AI Hackathon in parallel
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