CoinDesk’s 2026 Hong Kong Consensus is here. Over the next two days, more than 10,000 attendees will hear from more than 350 speakers across five stages, discussing tokenization, stablecoins, artificial intelligence, and more.
The meeting comes after a period of intense volatility in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin The price plummeted from over $95,000 to nearly $60,000 before rebounding to $70,000 in just a few weeks, a swing that will be familiar to long-time industry players but still unsettling.
Against this backdrop, we’ll hear from Hong Kong policymakers including Chief Executive Johnnie Li, Legislator John Ng and Securities and Futures Commission CEO Michelle Leung about their work drafting cryptocurrency-focused policies for the SAR.
Industry leaders such as Animoca’s Yat Siu, Solana Foundation’s Lily Liu, and BitMine’s Tom Lee will describe the current state of the crypto world and lay out the trends they expect to see in the coming months.
The crypto industry may now be integrating more with traditional finance, leaving some of its more esoteric products aside. Consensus spokesperson Armani Ferrante told CoinDesk last month that blockchain looks more like financial infrastructure than a supporting tool for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or other projects.
Even so, the market still needs to mature to truly support institutional demand, Auros’ Jason Atkins told CoinDesk last month.
The firms themselves, such as Robinhood, are also looking deeper into blockchain as a tool to support the financialization of institutional clients, the company’s head of cryptocurrency, Johan Kerbrat, said last month.
