W3MUC: Munich's web3 hub
W3MUC calls itself "Munich's Web3 Hub" and works under the line "Web3. Build. Together." It brings people in Munich who build with blockchain, decentralized finance and smart contracts to the same events, from conferences and forums to meetups and festival stages.
W3MUC is a network partner of Finance Loop. The two announced their partnership on September 2, 2024, to hold finance and web3 events in Munich for finance professionals and for people who are new to web3.
What W3MUC does in Munich
W3MUC puts on events about web3 and other new technologies in Munich. Its website lists an NFT exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in May 2022, a Web3 Innovation Forum in November 2022 and stages at the Festival der Zukunft in 2023 and 2024. It also staged "FORTITUDE", a premiere on the space economy. Venues include the Munich Urban Colab.
Dr. Daniel Kliche coordinates W3MUC. According to his profile on this site, he co-founded the MUC.xyz initiative in 2022 and the W3MUC initiative in 2024, with the aim of bringing together the blockchain and web3 builders in Munich. That work led to conferences and meetups in the city. W3MUC's own description on the Finance Loop partnership post reads: a Munich-based initiative for web3 technologies such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contracts, which wants to make web3 accessible to everyone through events, workshops and educational content.
Blockchain in Munich: the field W3MUC works in
Munich has a blockchain scene of its own, separate from the banking center in Frankfurt. Students at the Technical University of Munich run the TUM Blockchain Club, which by its own account is the biggest student-run blockchain club in Germany and holds the TUM Blockchain Conference every year, a blockchain conference in Munich for students, developers, founders and industry. The events of W3MUC and Finance Loop address finance professionals as well as builders, so fintech in Munich and the web3 scene meet in the same rooms.
The rules are the same in Munich as in the rest of Germany. A company that offers crypto services, such as custody or a trading platform, needs a license under MiCA, and in Germany BaFin grants it under the Kryptomärkteaufsichtsgesetz. Securities issued on a blockchain fall under the German law on electronic securities (eWpG), explained on the page on tokenized securities. For DeFi, the knowledge hub answer on decentralized finance sets out what counts as decentralized and what the supervisors look at.
W3MUC and Finance Loop
Finance Loop started its Munich chapter with a launch event on May 6, 2024. Four months later, on September 2, 2024, Finance Loop and W3MUC announced their partnership. The post names workshops, panel discussions and networking sessions as the formats, and topics from the basics of blockchain and crypto to DeFi, smart contracts and the effect of web3 on global finance. Both partners describe their Munich events as open to finance professionals and to newcomers.
On September 30, 2024, Finance Loop also agreed a network partnership with DLT Germany, a second initiative for distributed ledger technology in Munich. Finance Loop lists W3MUC on its About page among its event and network partners.
Where can I find W3MUC meetups and conferences?
W3MUC lists its events on w3muc.de, and it posts them on its LinkedIn company page. Past formats range from exhibitions and forums to festival stages. Web3 events in Munich run by Finance Loop together with its partners appear on the Finance Loop events page.
What is the Festival der Zukunft?
The Festival der Zukunft is a festival on new technology in Munich, run by the Deutsches Museum together with the tech community 1E9. It opens with a conference for professionals on several stages, followed by open days for everyone at the museum. Topics include AI, robotics, medicine and quantum technology. W3MUC lists its participation in the 2023 and 2024 editions on its website.
Is W3MUC a web3 hub?
Yes, by its own description. W3MUC calls itself Munich's web3 hub. It is an initiative that runs events and brings people together; its website names no office space or accelerator program. Anyone who wants to meet the Munich blockchain scene in person can start with its events and with the TUM Blockchain Club.
W3MUC and Finance Loop
W3MUC is a network partner of Finance Loop since September 2, 2024, and Finance Loop holds finance and web3 events in Munich with it. Web3 and DeFi belong to Finance Loop's Investment & Digital Assets track.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, and Risk & Compliance.