Tak Lee (@taaklee) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. CEO & Managing Partner at @HashedEM, the emerging markets venture arm of Hashed and the host of IBW - backing founders shaping the onchain and machine economy frontier across India and Africa. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

This year we are launching Future Asset Forum at IBW A forward-looking forum, built around one question: what becomes valuable when intelligence becomes abundant? AI makes utility abundant, human desire makes culture scarce, and new ownership rails make that scarcity investable. The forum moves from human desire to assets, ownership and the rails underneath, across entertainment, sports, AI and tokenisation. 2nd November. Mumbai. indiablockchainweek.com/futu…

Medha Srivastava (@medhasrivastava) joins IBW Institutional Forum as a Speaker. General Counsel at @hashed_official, a global venture capital firm focused on emerging technology, with offices across Seoul, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, the US and India. She has managed the firm’s regulatory licensing process, navigating regimes including ADGM/FSRA, and regularly advises on portfolio company transactions globally. She bridges Asian capital with Middle Eastern and global markets, and is passionate about mentoring and championing diversity in law and technology. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Suril Desai (@Desairous) joins IBW Institutional Forum as a Speaker. Leader at Nishith Desai Associates (@ndalaw1989). A lawyer, filmmaker, writer and systems thinker whose work explores Bitcoin, geopolitics, technology and power. His path runs through Menlo College, Government Law College and Columbia Law School. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Nitin Gaur (@nitingaur) joins IBW Institutional Forum as a Speaker. Head of Institutional Growth at @Nethermind. He has designed and built enterprise infrastructure and applications for Fortune 500 companies globally, guided 450+ people worldwide, and led cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed organizations. He has a track record of developing and delivering business strategies and initiatives that drove multimillion-dollar revenue growth. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

1/ Last year, we launched the IBW Creator Program and were overwhelmed by the response. So we’re bringing it back for IBW2026 to give you a chance to be part of how this year’s IBW gets captured. Here’s what’s up for grabs:

48 hours left before IBW2026 prices go up. Get your General Pass for ₹1,749 or Priority + Tangem Bundle for ₹3,749 before 15 Oct. Every IBW ticket right now also unlocks a Devcon ticket at $99. Go get your IBW2026 passes now.

UPI. ULI. Now UMI. UPI launched in 2016 and changed how India pays. Today, nearly 555 million people use it, with over 24.5 billion transactions every month. ULI followed, piloted in 2023, named the Unified Lending Interface in 2024, targeting lending. It brings data from governments, banks and credit bureaus together, designed to cut loan assessment from weeks to minutes. Now comes the least understood, and potentially biggest, piece. In October 2025, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra unveiled the Unified Markets Interface (UMI) at Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai. UMI is designed to tokenise financial assets and settle them using wholesale CBDC, bringing the asset and central bank money onto the same rails. Its first pilot focused on tokenised Certificates of Deposit, with the Governor calling the results encouraging. Put the three together and the direction is clear: India has built the rails for how money moves, how credit reaches people, and now how assets are issued, owned and settled. The IBW Institutional Forum brings the people building this next layer of financial infrastructure into one room. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Binance returns as Title Sponsor for India Blockchain Week Conference 2026. The exchange closed H1 2026 with 300 million registered users globally, close to 43% of everyone holding crypto today, and has processed over $156 trillion in cumulative trading volume since it launched nine years ago. This year, it pushed further into stocks, ETFs, and tokenized securities, building toward what it calls a ‘financial super app’. That scale will be part of IBW Conference for a second year, as @BinanceForIN joins builders, founders, and policymakers shaping the future of India's Web3 ecosystem. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

60 days to IBW2026. Enough time to plan how you land your next big thing this November. Enough time to start reaching out to the people you want to meet in Mumbai. Enough time to show up at India Blockchain Week.

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India Blockchain Week Conference 2026. 1-2 November, Mumbai. For three editions IBW Conference is where India's Web3 ecosystem came together. This year it goes further. IBW2026 launches two new forums. Read the full article to know more : business-standard.com/conten…

Tokenised US Treasuries have crossed $15 billion. Where does India fit in? BlackRock launched BUIDL, its tokenised Treasury fund, in March 2024. It now holds roughly $2.7 billion. The wider tokenised US Treasury market has since passed $15 billion. These are regulated funds holding real government debt, issued on-chain and used for yield and collateral. India's markets run on the same class of instruments that tokenisation has already moved on-chain elsewhere: G-Secs, corporate bonds, mutual fund units. The open question is whether those instruments can be tokenised here, and what has to change in market structure and regulation for that to work. That is what the tokenisation session at the IBW Institutional Forum will test.