WebX 2026, Asia's leading Web3 conference, has confirmed an expanded roster of speakers and sponsors ahead of its return to Tokyo on 13–14 July at the Prince Park Tower, with new additions from major financial institutions joining an already wide-ranging programme.
The latest wave of confirmed speakers includes Giselle Lai, director of digital assets strategy APAC at Fidelity International; Christian Rau, senior vice president of digital assets and blockchain at Mastercard; Fiona Murray, vice president and managing director APAC at Ripple; Avalon Ingram, digital assets business lead at Swift; and Sunayana Tuteja, former chief innovation officer at the Federal Reserve System. Tom Lee, chairman of the board at Bitmine, will deliver a special keynote, and Franklin Bi, general partner of Pantera Capital, is also confirmed.
They join a speaker list announced in May that includes Hayden Adams, founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs; Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands; Nishint Sanghavi, head of digital currencies APAC at Visa; and John D'Agostino, senior advisor to Coinbase.
The conference, organised by CoinPost and expecting more than 15,000 attendees, is themed "Connecting the Nodes Beyond the Screen." Programme discussions will cover stablecoins in retail payments, tokenised capital markets, AI and digital assets, and the regulatory frameworks shaping institutional adoption across Asia.
The expanded agenda comes at a significant moment for Japan's crypto industry. Recent proposals to classify crypto assets as financial instruments under the same regulatory framework as traditional securities have signalled a maturing market environment – one that has drawn increased interest from global financial institutions looking at the region.
On the sponsor side, Advasa has joined as a new Title Sponsor alongside existing title sponsors Bitbank, bitFlyer, BitLending, eole Inc., SBI Holdings, Simplex and UPCX. Fireblocks, MetaPlanet and TRON are among the new Platinum Sponsors.
"The pace of change across digital assets continues to accelerate, driven by growing institutional participation, advances in payments infrastructure and greater regulatory clarity across key markets," said Makoto Aoki, Chairman of WebX.
WebX 2026 runs 13–14 July at The Prince Park Tower Tokyo. The full agenda and speaker list are available at webx-asia.com .
Blockhead is a media partner of WebX 2026.
