Consensus Hong Kong 2026
2026-02-10..2026-02-12
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
as the organisers put it
Consensus Hong Kong by CoinDesk: Crypto's Most Influential Event to drive business & network in blockchain, Web3, bitcoin, finance, and technology.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hex Trust CEO on Solving the Trillion Dollar Friction in Global Payments | Alessio Quaglini | 08m |
Argues stablecoins can fix a trillion-dollar payments friction by moving settlement off slow banking rails; Hex Trust builds the conduit between blockchain and… | ||
| Do the Best Crypto Deals Happen at After Parties? | TOBIAS BAUER, Brent Fulfer | 08m |
Claims that high-production after-parties become a data-driven pipeline for deal flow, partnering directly with conferences (CoinDesk/Consensus) and… | ||
| What Happens to Crypto if Market Makers Dissapear? | Jason Atkins, Chuan Jin, Jordi Alexander | 24m |
Market makers claim they are the primary defense against catastrophic volatility, running automated books on dozens of CEXs and DEXs, supporting TGEs, OTC… | ||
| GoMining's Vision for Mining and Spending Bitcoin in 2026 | Mark Zalan | 21m |
GoMining presents survey data from over 5,700 users showing 55% rarely spend BTC despite ~80% supporting adoption, and outlines concrete products to fix… | ||
| Inside Midnight's Mainnet Launch | Fahmi Syed | 08m |
Claims a late‑March federated mainnet launch governed by federated mainnet with 10 node operators, backed by announced infrastructure partners Google Cloud and… | ||
| Trump's Impact on Crypto Markets and the Search for a New Crypto Catalyst in 2026 | Le Shi | 09m |
Claims that crypto now moves with global macro forces, with bitcoin tracking S&P and Nasdaq during headline-driven swings. Specific drivers named are Kevin… | ||
| Inside Kyrgyzstan's Gold-Backed Stablecoin Plan | William Campbell | 08m |
Claims a first national ministry-backed gold stablecoin pegged 1:1 by keeping reserves in Kyrgyzstan’s central bank gold and by overcollateralized gold… | ||
| APAC's $10 Trillion Tokenization Opportunity | Raja Chakravorti, Rehan Ahmed | 09m |
APAC claims a commercial shift from experiments to live tokenization with concrete metrics: $10 trillion in assets between Singapore and Hong Kong, projected 7… | ||
| How Institutional Inflows are Breaking the Bitcoin Four Year Cycle | Fakhul Miah | 06m |
Claims that massive institutional ETF flows — led by BlackRock IBIT — create a persistent liquidity base that dampens volatility and has made the canonical… | ||
| Solana’s Vision for Real-World Value in APAC | Lu Yin | 08m |
Solana Foundation pitches on-chain settlement for global assets and payments, claiming an Internet Capital Markets goal that moves Wall Street products into… | ||
| What October 10th Revealed About Market Makers | Jason Atkins | 08m |
Argues that October 10th shows market makers are essential, not evil: exchange APIs broke and liquidity providers became unable to operate, which regulators… | ||
| Is HODLing Killing Bitcoin Adoption? | Mark Zalan | 10m |
Argues that HODLing prevents mass use and that Bitcoin needs working rails to become a spending currency, not just digital gold. Plans a 2026 payment rails… | ||
| How Hex Trust is Bringing Multi-Chain Utility to the XRP Ledger | Giorgia Pellizzari | 08m |
Hex Trust describes issuing 1:1 backed wXRP by holding native XRP in regulated custody and minting representations that live on HyperEVM, Ethereum, Optimism… | ||
| Joe Lubin on Turning MetaMask into a Self-Sovereign Neobank | Joe Lubin | 08m |
MetaMask is becoming a self-sovereign neobank that users run from their devices, adding institutional-grade features like tokenized equities through Ondo… | ||
| Charles Hoskinson and Ding X on Predict.Fun, Privacy and Building in Public | Charles [Music] hoskinson, Ding X | 13m |
Predict.fun turns prediction positions into yield-bearing NFTs that deposit wagered funds into on-chain lending so positions earn yield immediately and can… | ||
| "Sentiments at an all-time low, and that's OK." | Charles [Music] hoskinson | 01m |
Argues the crypto sector is currently unhealthy with no liquidity and widespread gloom, even calling Twitter a "nuclear dumpster fire" as a symptom. Claims low… | ||
| "We're launching single token crypto futures for BNB, Solana, XRP and Bitcoin" | Jennifer Ilkiw | 01m |
ICE launches five single-token futures — BNB, Solana, ETH, XRP and Bitcoin — plus two multi-token contracts that track the CoinDesk 5 and the CoinDesk 20… | ||
| "You’re the taxi cab industry and Uber’s coming into town.” | Anthony Scaramucci | 01m |
Claim that crypto adoption is inevitable and banks must proactively fix legacy frictions or face displacement by crypto platforms, using the taxi cab industry… | ||
| "We may begin to see the early forms of what some call the machine economy." | Hong Kong Financial Secretary | 01m |
Argues that we are seeing early forms of a machine economy where AI agents can hold and transfer digital assets, pay for services, and transact with one… | ||
| Breaking news can wait. The robot is dancing. | 01m | |
Argues that a public robot is instrumented not for news collection but for affect data, explicitly logging captures applause, smiles and gaze via cameras and… | ||
| Hong Kong's Chief Executive: "We are building a trusted and innovative digital asset ecosystem" | 01m | |
Hong Kong frames a concrete regulatory push around Policy Statement 2.0 issued last June that claims to create a trusted and innovative digital asset… | ||
| "It's no offense to Bitcoin, it's just it's 2009 technology." | Charles [Music] hoskinson | 01m |
Claims Bitcoin’s architecture is effectively 2009 technology, arguing that tens of billions of dollars and armies of scientists and engineers have produced… | ||
| The $300M Move: Richard Teng on Tokenizing Wall Street | Richard Teng | 13m |
Binance reports growth from 170 million to 300 million users in a year and a global ADGM license; it partners with Franklin Templeton to issue tokenized money… | ||
| ICE Goes Live With Futures Tied to CoinDesk Indices | Jennifer Ilkiw, Sam Ewen, Dave LaValle | 08m |
ICE launches five single-token futures for Bitcoin Ether Solana XRP and BNB plus CoinDesk 5 and CoinDesk 20 multi-token futures tied to CoinDesk indices… | ||
| Charles Hoskinson on Institutional "Federation" and the Rise of AI Agents | Charles [Music] hoskinson | 19m |
Includes a detailed account of a $3 billion paper loss, replacing an X account with a digital twin on X, and building Logan — an AI agent running in a trusted… | ||
| Anthony Scaramucci Predicts $150K BTC by Year-End | Anthony Scaramucci | 17m |
Predicts Bitcoin at $150,000 by year‑end and cites RSI below 30 and a greed index at 5 as contrarian buy signals, argues the bear market started last January… | ||
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