TUM Blockchain Club
The TUM Blockchain Club is a registered nonprofit organization and an accredited student club at the Technical University of Munich. It brings students together with researchers and professionals to learn how blockchain systems work and apply that knowledge in practical projects. Members develop technical skills through shared work on the technology and its uses.
The club's Blockchain Bootcamp introduces members to the basics and to smart contracts, which are applications that execute rules on a blockchain. Industry projects let students work on questions from companies, while hackathons provide a setting for testing ideas with other developers. These activities connect academic learning with practical experience in blockchain development.
TUM Blockchain Conference 2026 in Munich
From 29-31 October 2026, the TUM Blockchain Club holds the TUM Blockchain Conference 26 at the House of Communication Munich. The conference is "born at TUM" and "built for the entire blockchain ecosystem": students, developers, researchers, founders, policymakers, and industry leaders meet there. 29 October is the main conference day, with talks and panels from zero-knowledge cryptography to production systems.
On 30 October, Bundesblock curates the Digital Assets Day for policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, and corporates. On 30 and 31 October, builders of every skill level compete in the TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon for €4,000 in prizes. The TUM Blockchain Conference 2025 drew more than 1,200 attendees and over 125 speakers, with 57 talks and 12 panels. The conference takes place every year; dates for the TUM Blockchain Conference 2027, the TUM Blockchain Conference 27, are not yet published.
Web3 Talents Program
Web3 Talents is a 20-week online education program for people who want to understand blockchain technology better. The program is run by the TUM Blockchain Club and it is free of charge. The program's two courses, Blockchain Fundamentals and Web3 Applications, are peer-led and live, and no prior experience is needed.
The Web3 Talents program combines structured learning, expert input, and practical exchange. Participants can build relevant knowledge, expand their network, and earn a certificate after completion.
How the TUM Blockchain Club works
The TUM Blockchain Club reports 57 active members, organized in eight departments: Marketing, Education, Legal & Finance, Web3 Talents, IT & Development, External Affairs, Industry and Research. New members start with the Blockchain Bootcamp, which goes from the basics to smart contracts. In industry projects each semester, students work on a question from a company, and TUM blockchain research runs in the Research department.
Industry partners include Solana, Polkadot, Filecoin Foundation, 1inch, Staking Facility and Superteam Germany. The club's teams take part in hackathons and have won 16 of them.
Blockchain in Munich
Munich has a blockchain scene of its own, separate from the banking center in Frankfurt. Allianz, Munich Re and Generali Deutschland have their headquarters in the city, and W3MUC runs the city's web3 hub with events on blockchain and digital assets. The fintech in Munich page covers the finance side of the city. The pages on blockchain in Munich and crypto in Munich describe the club and its conference, the largest crypto and blockchain event in the city.
In the German-speaking countries, the TUM Blockchain Conference is one of the large blockchain conferences, next to the Crypto Assets Conference in Frankfurt and Vienna Blockchain Week. The TUM Blockchain Conference's Digital Assets Day, curated by Bundesblock, speaks to banks, regulators and the public sector on digital capital markets, stablecoins and payments, and tokenization.
The TUM Blockchain Club and Finance Loop
The club's Web3 Talents program is part of the Finance Loop academy. Web3 Talents was one of the supporters of TechClub 25/3, the fintech and crypto afterwork party at TechQuartier in Frankfurt in March 2025.
Who can join the TUM Blockchain Club?
TUM Blockchain Club membership is open to all university students in Munich who work in one of its departments for at least two semesters. Applications are submitted through the club's membership form.
Is there a blockchain hackathon in Munich?
Yes. The TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon runs during the TUM Blockchain Conference in the House of Communication, open to builders of every skill level. In the 2026 edition it runs on 30 and 31 October, with €4,000 in prizes.
Is the Web3 Talents program free?
Yes. Web3 Talents by the TUM Blockchain Club is free of charge. Web3 Talents runs online for 20 weeks, and participants who finish get a certificate.
TUM Blockchain Club and Finance Loop
Finance Loop lists the Web3 Talents program of the TUM Blockchain Club in its academy, and Web3 Talents supported TechClub 25/3 in Frankfurt. Blockchain education and the Digital Assets Day belong to the Investment & Digital Assets track, whose people meet at Finance Loop events in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.