EthCC, the Ethereum Community Conference

Ethereum France organizes the conference. It is a French non-profit that works on Ethereum and blockchain in French-speaking countries, and it has run EthCC since the first edition in 2018, as its president Jérôme de Tychey and EthCC lead Bettina Boon Falleur describe in an interview with DL News.

The organizer's own site calls EthCC "the industry's longest-running European conference" and names builders, investors, policymakers, institutions and users as its audience. Ethereum France keeps the ticket price low by design so that developers attend alongside institutional delegations.

EthCC starts from capital markets and payments as much as from protocol work. Real-world asset tokenization, stablecoins and global payments, and regulation and compliance each have their own track, which is why compliance and treasury teams travel to it. The engineering half of the program covers core protocol development, layer 2 networks, applied cryptography, privacy, security and AI agents.

The organizer's site states 500+ speakers and 200+ side events for EthCC[10]. The side events are run by other teams around the main program, so the week in Cannes is larger than the conference itself: the site expects 15,000+ people in the city while 8,000+ attend EthCC.

Banks and asset managers that issue on public chains need the roadmap of the network they settle on, and EthCC is where that roadmap is discussed by the people writing it. A fund that plans a tokenized share class, a bank building custody, and a payment firm testing settlement in tokenized deposits all depend on decisions about data availability, fees and finality that are made in this part of the industry.

The regulation track matters for European institutions in particular, because MiCA now sets the rules under which a European bank touches a public network at all. Ethereum remains the base layer for most European tokenization pilots, so its development schedule reaches the product plans of institutions that never call themselves crypto companies.

EthCC[10] takes place from April 12 to 15, 2027. The venue is the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, 1 Boulevard de la Croisette in Cannes, as the organizer's website states. The conference moved to Cannes after its earlier editions in Paris, and the editions are numbered in brackets rather than by year, so EthCC[10] is the tenth.

The organizer's site expects more than 8,000 attendees at EthCC[10], with 500+ speakers and 150+ sponsors and partners. That makes it one of the largest Ethereum gatherings in Europe by the organizer's own count. The figure for the city as a whole is higher, because the 200+ side events draw people who hold no conference ticket.

Several European conferences cover the same ground from a different angle, and the overview of crypto conferences in Europe sets out how the year is structured. In Germany the Crypto Assets Conference at Frankfurt School puts banks and supervisors on the same stage, and Frankfurt Digital Finance covers the wider digital finance agenda. Finance Loop runs its own meetups and webinars between these dates.