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From the moment you register to the moment the lights go down, this is what Paris Blockchain Week 2026 looked like from the inside. Panels where the industry's most senior voices spoke on the record, a mobile application for meetings that change trajectories, and the kind of introductions that only happen when this concentration of institutional leadership is in one room. As many have noted, this was the most institutional digital asset event ever held, with @jpmorgan, @GoldmanSachs, @BlackRock, @MorganStanley, @DeutscheBank, @BNYglobal, @HSBC, @Citi, @BNPParibas, @BankofAmerica, and hundreds of the world's most powerful financial institutions all in the same room. Thank you to everyone who made PBW 2026 what it was: our sponsors and partners, including @BybitEU, @OKX, @Ripple, @Cardano, @Binance, and the many others whose support brought this event to life, and every institution, fund, and builder who walked through those doors. And next year, the room is getting a new name! Signal Week. Paris. July 2027.

A handful of platforms will become the next JPMorgan. Ben Zhou (@benbybit), Co-Founder and CEO of @Bybit_Official, knows exactly what it takes to be one of them, and he made the case during his conversation with Brian McGleenon (@BMcGleenon), Global Head of News, @beincrypto. The barrier now is distribution, getting tokenized assets to customers in Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkey simultaneously. That is the problem global exchanges are built to solve, and why traditional finance is approaching digital asset platforms for distribution rather than building against them. As Zhou put it: "Decentralized exchanges are in their honeymoon period; the same honeymoon centralized exchanges had in 2018 before KYC became mandatory." Regulators and countries are no longer debating digital assets; they are competing on who builds the infrastructure first. The convergence is already underway.

MiCA is live in Europe. The US is still finding its footing. And somewhere in the middle, institutions are trying to build compliance frameworks, manage liquidity, and onboard clients across both jurisdictions simultaneously. The regulatory gap between the EU and the US isn't just a policy conversation, it's an operational one. Where you incorporate, where you custody assets, where you can onboard institutional clients, and how you manage cross-border liquidity are all decisions being shaped by two very different regulatory trajectories right now. "EU vs. US: The Regulatory Gap" 📅 Thursday, April 16 · 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM 🎤 Master Stage, powered by @BybitEU → Iana Dimitrova: @OpenPayd → Jacques Darcy: @EIF_EU → Stéphanie Cabossioras: @SG_Forge → Mathias Imbach: @sygnumofficial → Ambroise Helaine: @BybitEU Moderated by Emma Joyce: @GBBC_io 6 institutions operating across both frameworks. Expect a practical, comparative breakdown of what diverging regulatory regimes actually mean for compliance teams, liquidity management, and institutional onboarding in 2026.

We're excited to announce that @benbybit, Co-Founder and CEO of @Bybit_Official, is joining Paris Blockchain Week 2026. As CEO of Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume with over 70 million users, Ben has scaled the platform from its founding in 2018 into a global leader, navigating regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions while maintaining the operational performance required to handle billions in daily trading volume. Join @benbybit and other global leaders in Paris on April 15–16, 2026. parisblockchainweek.com/tick…