We are reaching the halfway point of 2024, and it is yet another exciting year in crypto — from BTC all-time highs to the ‘halving‘ to a BTC ETF.
And for real-world excitement, nothing matches being at a crypto event in real life.
From the Bitcoin 2024 Conference to the Ethereum Devcon’s Southeast Asia tour, these crypto events offer unparalleled opportunities to learn, connect, and witness the latest innovations firsthand.
This article compiles a list of the best crypto and blockchain conferences to attend in 2024. Do any catch your eye?
Key Takeaways
- Crypto conferences are amazing opportunities to network, find work, meet the teams behind your favorite cryptocurrencies, and learn about the latest blockchain developments.
- On a good day, you may even see Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin wearing a funky costume.
- Bitcoin 2024 will be held in Nashville, USA in mid-July 2024.
- Other upcoming 2024 crypto events include the Blockchain Summit in Washington and CONF3RENCE in Dortmund.
The Best Crypto Conferences to Attend in 2024
Consensus 2024 – Austin, USA
Consensus is a cryptocurrency and blockchain conference hosted by news agency CoinDesk. The conference features conversations with visionaries within the crypto industry about industry challenges, regulations, a decentralized future, and more.
Consensus 2024 will be held from 29 May to 31 May 2024 in Austin, Texas.
The conference will feature keynotes from the industry’s prominent leaders on market-moving topics, programs focusing on finance and investing, crypto learning, fundraising platforms, and an immersive art gallery.
TOKEN2049 – Dubai and Singapore
TOKEN2049 is a crypto conference held annually in Dubai and Singapore, which hosts founders and executives of leading web3 companies.
Tyler Winklevoss, CEO of Gemini, Arthur Hayes, founder of BitMex, Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, and Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase, were ready to take the stage at TOKEN2049, Dubai.
Unfortunately, TOKEN2049 in Dubai on April 18-19 was marred by unprecedented rainfall in Dubai in the days before — causing severe disruption across roads and flights as well as flooding in the conference hall itself.
It’s extremely bad luck for the city and the organizers, and we wish the TOKEN2049 team all the luck for the Singapore event across September 18-19, 2024.
Devcon – Southeast Asia
Devcon is Ethereum’s most significant annual conference. There is extra excitement ahead of the seventh edition of Devcon as the conference makes a comeback after a one-year gap. Furthermore, 2024 will be the first time that the Ethereum Foundation takes Devcon to Southeast Asia.
The Ethereum Foundation-hosted event sees the crypto industry’s thought leaders come together to teach the community and discuss the industry’s future. Devcon will also host workshop rooms, dedicated co-work areas, bookable meeting spaces, and hacker basements for people to come together to meet and work.
Devcon 7 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 12 November to 15 November 2024.
Bitcoin 2024 – Nashville, USA
Every year, the Bitcoin faithful pilgrimage to the biggest of Bitcoin conferences to bond over their shared love for Bitcoin.
The annual Bitcoin conference hosted by Bitcoin Magazine has been the crypto industry’s largest annual conference over the last decade. In 2023, the conference drew a crowd of over 15,000 as US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy starred as the event’s key speaker.
The upcoming Bitcoin 2024 conference will be held in Nashville, USA, from 25 July to 27 July 2024. There is extra excitement about the 2024 edition as Bitcoin approaches its halving event.
Bitcoin supporters and event organizers hope the halving event can prop up Bitcoin prices to create a buoyant mood at Bitcoin 2024.
Best Crypto Conferences 2024: Honorable Mentions
- Solana Breakpoint 2024: The Solana Foundation will host the highly anticipated crypto conference in Singapore between September 19 and 21, 2024.
- Messari Mainnet: The popular crypto conference hosted by blockchain analytics firm Messari will be held in New York between 30 September and 2 October 2024.
- Cosmoverse 2024: The Cosmos ecosystem’s largest crypto event will be held in Dubai on 21 October and 22 October 2024.
The Best of the (Completed!) Crypto Conferences for 2024
WOW Summit – Hong Kong
WOW Summit was held in Hong Kong on 26 March and 27 March 2024. The 2024 edition of the WOW Summit presented an excellent opportunity to get an inside view of crypto developments in an Asian city that is slowly becoming a major global crypto hub.
The crypto event attracted more than 7,000 attendees, 100 speakers, and investors from across the globe. Among the speakers were Chinese government officials who may give listeners clues about the future of crypto regulation in Hong Kong.
Paris Blockchain Week – Paris, France
Paris Blockchain Week is a five-day annual Web3 and blockchain conference that brings together business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and developers from the blockchain, Web3, and finance industry.
The fifth edition of Paris Blockchain Week was held in Paris, France, from 8 April to 12 April 2024.
Key speakers at the event included Mihailo Bjelic of Polygon, Yat Siu of Animoca Brands, Tadge Dryja of Lightning Network, and Claire Calmejane of Societe Generale.
Paris Blockchain Week discussed decentralized finance adoption trends, artificial intelligence, web3 brands, NFT gaming, enterprise blockchain, crypto regulations, and more.
NFT NYC – New York, USA
NFT NYC is among the biggest non-fungible token (NFT) conferences in the world.
NFT NYC 2024 was held in Times Square and Hudson Yards in New York from April 3 to April 5, 2024. The event covered art, gaming, entertainment, community building, and more.
Techopedia dived into author Anndy Lian’s speech from the conference, discussing the future landscape of NFTs and looking ahead to the key use cases.
ETHDenver – Denver, USA
ETHDenver is the largest web3 hackathon in the world for Ethereum developers. The event was held between 23 February and 3 March 2024 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
The event is considered among the top crypto conferences to connect with fellow Ethereum enthusiasts.
SporkDAO is the community-owned organization behind ETHDenver. It holds a $10 million fund that will be deployed into projects emerging from ETHDenver 2024.
CONF3RENCE – Dortmund, Germany
CONF3RENCE was a cryptocurrency, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI) conference that took place from 15 May to 16 May 2024 in Dortmund, Germany, at Signal Iduna Park, an iconic football stadium.
CONF3RENCE brings together executives from various industries and explores “exciting possibilities that emerge when bridging the gap between the traditional economy and Web3.”
The speakers included Stefan Ebener of Google, Madison Edgar of Activision Blizzard, Christian Rau of Mastercard, Timo Kistner of Nvidia, Thomas Barkias of European Central Bank, and more.
Blockchain Summit 2024 – Washington DC
This is not your standard conference, but worth highlighting. The Blockchain Summit 2024, held in Washington on May 8 and 9, is where lawmakers, brought together by the Chamber of Digital Commerce, work out precisely how to integrate blockchain into the world.
Speakers will include US Representative Mike Flood, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Cynthia Lummis, Anthony J. Apollo, who is working hard to make a Wyoming state stablecoin a reality, Whitney Case from the US Department of Treasury, Confusion Capital’s Nevin Freeman, Scott Melker (The Wolf of All Streets) and many many more.
The Bottom Line
There are many crypto conferences in 2024. If you think the above events are too Bitcoin and Ethereum-oriented, you can participate in the annual conferences of your favorite altcoin project, like Solana Breakpoint 2024 or Cosmosverse 2024.
The best part is that you can attend almost all crypto conferences remotely. These events are live-streamed, allowing you to be part of the community from anywhere in the world.
Source: https://www.techopedia.com/10-best-crypto-conferences-to-attend-in-2024
Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.
Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.