Web3 Events

The year starts in spring with conferences for developers and for institutions. EthCC is the conference that Ethereum France organizes for the Ethereum community, and its tenth edition runs from April 12 to 15, 2027 in Cannes. In Frankfurt the Crypto Assets Conference follows on April 7, 2027 on the campus of Frankfurt School, with banks, investment firms and supervisors in the audience.

June brings two weeks with different formats. Berlin Blockchain Week has no single owner, and in 2026 it counted 68 independent events across the city. Vienna Blockchain Week is a two-day conference for banks, asset managers and exchanges, set for June 2 and 3, 2027.

The former Paris Blockchain Week now runs as Signal Week, on July 6 and 7, 2027 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, as described under Paris Blockchain Week. In autumn the TUM Blockchain Club, the student club of the Technical University of Munich, hosts the TUM Blockchain Conference from October 29 to 31, 2026.

Around every large conference, companies host breakfasts, panels, investor dinners and parties in the same week, often within walking distance of the main venue. Many visitors come only for these side events, because they are smaller, free or invitation-only and allow longer conversations than a conference hall.

For a host a side event is cheaper than a sponsor booth and reaches the people who are in town anyway. The risk is the crowded calendar: on the busiest evenings of a blockchain week several events compete for the same guests, so the invitation list and the timing decide more than the venue.

Exchanges and blockchain foundations use their own events to enter a market. The agency Hash Consulting plans investor dinners, product launches and meetups for such clients, including the guest list, the speakers and the sponsors. For the Sui Foundation it supported Sui Connect Paris, which drew more than 400 attendees, and for Bitpanda it organized an event together with FC Bayern Munich.

An event that addresses customers in the EU is a marketing communication under MiCA when it promotes a crypto-asset. The same rules apply as for an advertisement: the promotion must be recognizable as such and must not contradict the white paper of the token.

Germany has three centers for web3 events. Berlin hosts the developer scene and its blockchain week in June, Frankfurt the conferences on tokenized securities, custody and regulation, and Munich the TUM Blockchain Conference and the W3MUC meetups. The guide to web3 in Germany lists the groups that organize these events.

The calendar above shows the next blockchain and digital asset events in Germany from the event database of YARD. Many meetups appear there only a few weeks before they take place, so a calendar or a newsletter finds more of them than a search for a single date.

A crypto event strategy starts with the audience and the market, not with the venue. A protocol that wants developers sponsors hackathons and technical workshops, while an exchange that wants retail customers in a new country needs local creators, a press moment and an event in the local language. Every event needs a follow-up plan, because the contacts made there need a second conversation before anything comes of them.

Hackathons give developers one or two days to build a prototype on a chain or a protocol, usually with prize money from the sponsor. An ideathon is the shorter version for founders, and in Frankfurt Superteam Germany and the Blockchain Founders Group hosted the Web3 Builders Ideathon on March 25, 2025.