Crypto Expo Europe Announces First Speakers for Bucharest 2026 Event (26 Jan)
Bucharest, Romania, January 26th, 2026, Chainwire
Crypto Expo Europe, Eastern Europe’s largest crypto and blockchain conference, has confirmed the first cohort of speakers for its 2026 edition. Set to return to Bucharest, Romania on March 1-2, the event brings together institutions, enterprises, regulators, and developers to discuss key themes that will define the industry in 2026.
Ticket sales have now opened for this year’s Crypto Expo Europe, with strong demand projected for Eastern Europe’s preeminent blockchain gathering. More than 3,000 delegates are expected to attend the Radisson Blu Hotel Bucharest in early March, where 5,000 square meters of expo space has been allocated for two days of talks, panel discussions, and workshops.
The first cohort of speakers announced for Crypto Expo Europe 2026 features numerous founders, investors, regulators, legal experts, and fintech leaders. These include Tron founder Justin Sun and The Sandbox Co-Founder Sebastien Borget.
The first list of speakers is completed by:
Ilie (Elijah) Puscas, Regional Manager for CEE, Binance
Victor Negrescu, Vice-President of the European Parliament
Alisa Komarova, Head of Europe, Bitpay
Giovanni Cunti, CEO, Gate.mt
Vivien Lin, CPO, BingX
Anthony Karakai, Global Head of Brand, Partnerships & Events, KuCoin
Caner Sevinc, Senior Corporate Counsel, Gemini
Ignacio Aguirre Franco, CMO, Bitget
Sebastian Borget, Co-Founder & Ambassador, The Sandbox
Justin Sun, Founder, Tron
Over the course of two days, dozens of speakers from across Web3 and TradFi will deliver insights on key opportunities, challenges, and emerging industry trends.
Sponsorship opportunities are now available for the Bucharest event, whose lead and gold sponsors are Bitget and BingX respectively. Gold sponsors confirmed so far include Coinzilla, Bazoom, and eToro. Many of the partners and speakers announced for Crypto Expo Europe 2026 are returning as longstanding supporters.
Ruxandra Tataru, Co-founder and CEO of Crypto Expo Europe, said: “Across four editions, Crypto Expo Europe has grown into one of the leading and largest crypto events in Europe. It’s a space where industry leaders, representatives of the European Parliament, regulators, and major companies meet in Bucharest to shape the future of digital finance. In the era of MiCA, the event plays a crucial role in bridging policy, business, and innovation that advance the entire blockchain ecosystem.”
Crypto Expo Europe 2026 comes at a moment when the European crypto market is entering a more structured phase, shaped by regulation, institutional interest, and renewed retail participation. The event will unite professionals spanning business, technology, compliance, and crypto markets, not just to exchange ideas but to forge significant deals and partnerships.
As one of the fastest-growing tech and crypto hubs in Eastern Europe, Bucharest will prove the perfect setting for the 2026 conference, bringing together attendees from more than 60 countries. On March 1-2, the event will highlight the innovations that are driving crypto adoption across the region while advancing blockchain understanding and adoption.
Tickets for the event are on sale now at https://cryptoexpoeurope.com/checkout
About Crypto Expo Europe
Crypto Expo Europe is Eastern Europe’s largest crypto and blockchain conference, serving as a gateway for institutions, enterprises, regulators, and developers shaping the future of digital finance. Hosted annually in Bucharest, the event attracts over 3,000 delegates from more than 60 countries, providing a platform for networking, workshops, and high-level panel discussions.
With a focus on bridging the gap between Web3 innovation and the evolving regulatory landscape of the MiCA era, Crypto Expo Europe unites the industry’s most influential leaders to foster partnerships and drive blockchain adoption across the continent.
Learn more: https://cryptoexpoeurope.com/
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Marketing Manager Alina Neagu Crypto Expo Europe marketing@cryptoexpoeurope.com Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.
20th Tezos Protocol Upgrade, Tallinn, Slashes Block Time to 6 Seconds, Cuts App Storage Costs By ...
Paris, France, January 26th, 2026, Chainwire
The Tezos protocol has been successfully upgraded, following an on-chain governance process with broad participation from bakers (validators) and community members.
Developed by Nomadic Labs, Trilitech, and Functori, Tallinn is the 20th protocol upgrade, marking 20 evolutions of the Tezos blockchain, proposed, adopted, and seamlessly activated by the protocol itself.
“Adapting to market demand 20 times over 7 years without network disruptions, and in a fully decentralized way, is undeniable proof of Tezos’ reliability and future-proof design,” said Yann Régis-Gianas, Head of Engineering at Nomadic Labs. ”
The Tallinn upgrade shortens Tezos Layer-1 block time to 6 seconds, reducing latency and speeding up finality on the network’s censorship-resistant settlement layer. This pairs naturally with Etherlink, Tezos’ EVM-compatible Layer-2, which already confirms transactions in under 50 milliseconds, now backed by Layer-1 finality in two blocks, or 12 seconds.
Tallinn also enables all bakers (network validators) to attest to every block, instead of a subset of bakers, which brings stronger security and more predictable staking rewards. This is achieved through the use of BLS cryptographic signatures, which aggregate hundreds of signatures into just one per block. By lightening the load on nodes, it also opens the door to further block time reductions.
Finally, Tallinn introduces an ‘Address Indexing Registry’ that can improve storage efficiency by up to 100x for apps using the Michelson runtime. It is done by eliminating redundant address data, and apps adopting this feature will benefit from lower costs and higher potential throughput.
“Based on inputs from Tezos builders, our development team is excited to be able to offer such drastic improvements for enterprise-scale apps, large NFT ledgers, and other setups storing many addresses,” said Yann Régis-Gianas, Head of Engineering at Nomadic Labs.
Since launching in 2018, the Tezos blockchain has continued to evolve seamlessly through protocol upgrades, with each activation introducing a series of features designed to improve the overall experience of using and building on the network. Tallinn is another forkless step forward in making Tezos faster, more secure, and optimized for enterprise use, with no compromise on decentralization, and further proof of the network’s ability to quickly adapt to user needs and ensure longevity through continuous innovation and optimization.
About Tezos
Tezos is an open-source and energy-efficient blockchain designed to empower institutions, developers, and businesses and facilitate value transfer in a digital environment. It is designed for the scalable deployment of decentralized applications. As one of the first Proof of Stake blockchains, Tezos is globally supported and valued for its strong governance, long-term upgradability, and smart contract capabilities. For more information about Tezos, visit http://www.tezos.com.
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Head of PR Eoin McGinley Trilitech eoin.mcginley@trili.tech Disclaimer. This is a paid press release.
NEXSTがKISS of LIFEを実現:究極のWeb3エンターテインメントプラットフォームでのデビューVRコンサート ...
ドバイ、UAE、2026年1月16日、Chainwire
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