TOKEN2049 Dubai 2025
as the organisers put it
TOKEN2049 Dubai brings together the global Web3 industry, uniting entrepreneurs, investors, developers, industry insiders and global media - and creates unparalleled networking opportunities. This is the community that will define what’s next in the space.
who it's for
crypto founders, institutional investors, blockchain developers, web3 product managers, compliance officers, game studios, crypto exchange operators
topics
tokenized uranium and commodities; stablecoin rails and adoption; onchain identity systems; L2 rollups and sequencer finality; validator economics and staking; real world asset tokenization; zk-SNARKs for finance; AI integration with Web3; web3 gaming economy design; crypto custody and CEX transparency; cross-chain liquidity and interoperability; Solana liquidity acceleration (DLMM)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Learnings from Axie Infinity | Aleksander Larsen | 14m |
Axie Infinity builds its own Ronin sidechain and ships a breeding-driven token model that generates real economy results: $1.3B revenue, $4.2B in NFT trading… | ||
| Uranium On-Chain: Enabling Access to New Markets | Arthur Breitman | 12m |
Argues that tokenizing uranium solves a real market gap by turning an opaque, low‑liquidity wholesale market into a 24/7 tradable commodity via uranium.io on… | ||
| What The Hell Are People Doing Onchain in 2025? | Alex Svanevik | 15m |
Onchain activity in 2025 centers on dollars and trades not NFTs: stablecoins top $200 billion with about two thirds held in Tether, while tokenized treasuries… | ||
| More Chains, More Problems: Fixing Interop and Reorgs? | Charles Lu | 15m |
Thousands of new rollups create a rising chance that a single sequencer compromise drains value, so Espresso builds a confirmation layer that claims 5 seconds… | ||
| From Football Legend to AI & Web3 Entrepreneur | Patrice Evra | 15m |
Announces an AI digital twin and celebrity Web3 project with a token launch planned soon, pairing an AI “Pman” travel companion, multilingual… | ||
| The Next Waves of Stablecoin Adoption | Nick van Eck | 16m |
Claims that stablecoins become a dominant global dollar rail, projecting $230 billion circulating supply today and a long‑term market of 10–15 trillion… | ||
| Bringing Real-World Use Cases Onchain | Alex Gluchowski, Diana Biggs | 17m |
ZKSync-era claims real deployments: Cork ID ~1M users issues state-backed identity NFTs in Buenos Aires with hashes on chain and off‑chain data control; Lens… | ||
| WOW!? Validator Nodes & Token Ecosystem | Rick Latona | 16m |
Claims ownership of ICQ.com with 450 million backlinks and plans a rebuilt instant messaging app monetized by premium handles, sponsor messages (10% to nodes… | ||
| Gateway to Growth | Carney Mak | 06m |
Tokenize Xchange claims a top‑100 token on CoinMarketCap, more than 3 billion token supply and over 300,000 users, with a Series A backed by an investment bank… | ||
| Transforming Your Business with Crypto-as-a-Service | Sergii Bulgakov | 10m |
WhiteBIT offers a turnkey Crypto-as-a-Service: white‑label wallets, on/off ramps, AML/KYB and outsourced liquidity from a centralized exchange that reports 2.7… | ||
| Changing the Crypto World Order | Andrei Grachev | 15m |
DWF Labs starts deploying a $250M fund, invested $76M in three weeks and signs another $35–36M in deals, buying tokens on spot in secondary markets and… | ||
| MetaEarth: Where Technology Meets Humanity | Sevi Shehu | 09m |
Meta Earth builds a Swiss-regulated digital society with a modular blockchain that separates execution, settlement and data availability to avoid congestion… | ||
| The Onboarding Revolution – Networkers into Web3 | Jonas Werner | 20m |
C1 claims a simple, localized onboarding system that already reached large scale via a play‑to‑earn game (over 10M NFTs minted, 100M transfers) and a stated… | ||
| lstBTC: Yield-Bearing Bitcoin Collateral | Rich Rines | 14m |
Core runs a Bitcoin DeFi stack with 500 million TVL and about 1 million weekly users, and launches LSTBTC with Maple to mint a liquid, yield-bearing Bitcoin… | ||
| Two Strategies Bitget Adopted to Thrive in a Volatile Market | Gracy Chen | 13m |
Bitget adapts with concrete moves: monthly proof of reserve and an open‑wallet transparency report, a protection fund that grows from $200M to $600M for user… | ||
| How JuCoin Designs Peak Moments in Crypto | Sammi Li | 16m |
Claims that experience, not tech, blocks adoption and cites Daniel Kahneman’s peak–end rule; JuCoin builds a unified exchange where users access on‑chain… | ||
| From $500M to $5B: What Sets WEEX Apart? | Andrew Weiner | 09m |
WEEX claims 7 million traders and $5B daily volume, lists ~1,500–1,700 spot and futures pairs with up to 400x leverage, and runs 800 instant-execution pairs… | ||
| When zk-SNARKs Meets Financial Innovation | Athena Shen | 11m |
Dinarmaker builds a privacy-oriented stablecoin lending protocol using ZK-SNARKs and a mixed on‑chain/off‑chain collateral model; it launches on Dec 16, 2024… | ||
| Your Attention Please – Why Some Tokens Succeed and Others Fail | Ran Neu-ner | 22m |
Crypto markets show 42 million tokens and roughly one token per 14 users, so success depends on attention not tech alone. Networks follow Metco's and… | ||
| The Future of Consumer Applications on Ethereum | Mike Silagadze | 13m |
Company reports $5 billion TVL and says last year generated $26M revenue with a forecast of $50–$100M this year while expanding from liquid staking into a full… | ||
| Breaking Out of the Web3 Marketing Nightmare | Jack Collier | 15m |
Claims that marketing is the main barrier to mainstream crypto adoption with less than 1% have wallets, pinpoints three failures: cult over craft, vanity over… | ||
| Dream of Transparent and Secure CEX | Dyma Budorin | 13m |
Claims that centralized exchanges lack global financial audits and routinely touch user deposits, with only 20–40 exchanges actually holding the liquidity they… | ||
| The Exceptional Case of Olive Industry Tokenization | Vladislav Martynov | 12m |
Claims a plan to tokenize 100 million olive trees using sensors, satellite imagery, AI and blockchain with smart contracts; company already owns 200,000… | ||
| From Play to Pay | Shiti Rastogi Manghani | 10m |
FSL/STEPN ecosystem presents concrete infrastructure: games with 5 million users, a marketplace called More, a DEX Door, FSL ID wallet and GMT Pay lets… | ||
| How Gunzilla is Onboarding Mainstream to Web3 | Theodore Agranat | 14m |
Gunzilla builds a custodial + noncustodial stack and a native L1 so Off the Grid auto-creates wallets, mints item-NFTs, and runs a peer-to-peer marketplace… | ||
| Victim to Vigilant: Fighting Crypto Scams | Navin Gupta | 12m |
Claims a $12 billion reported loss with much more unreported and shows that many scams target thousands of victims through repeated messages. It launches… | ||
| Revolutionizing Web3 | Lei Kong | 14m |
Claims that top exchanges run core infrastructure on AWS and adopt GenAI at scale, citing "top 20" exchanges and a ~30-person solutions team; AWS reports a… | ||
| Crypto is Not a Product. It’s a Choice. | Andrej Majcen | 15m |
Argument frames Bitcoin as a choice to opt out of traditional finance, claiming reserve-asset adoption accelerates after US ETF approvals and that Bitcoin is… | ||
| Who Owns You? It's Time to Control Your Identity | Terence Kwok | 15m |
Humanity Protocol claims a verification blockchain that proves real people using palm print and palm veins turned into an encrypted biometric signature, built… | ||
| How Utility Will Shape The Meme Coin Revolution | Pedro Vidal | 21m |
Claims a 600,000-strong community and positions FLOKI as a third-generation memecoin built around real products: a $50 million treasury funding an MMO RPG with… | ||
| The Future of AI Won’t Be Centralized | Gaurav Sharma | 28m |
io.net argues centralized clouds can’t meet AI demand: compute supply lags adoption by ~2.5x and recent scaling estimates push needs ~100x higher. Forecasted… | ||
| The AI Compute Crisis & Web3 Opportunity | Kenso Trabing | 06m |
Claims that 65–90% of AI opex ties to electricity and an Intel-cited survey where 56% of practitioners name cost as the top barrier set the problem. The stack… | ||
| Saros DLMM - Accelerating liquidity layer on Solana | Thanh Le | 12m |
Coin98’s team claims a Solana-native DMM called Saros is live to capture rising DEX volume, backed by 10 million users from Coin98 Wallet and early Solana… | ||
| Staking is Dead, Long Live Staking | Misha Putiatin | 13m |
Claims a permissionless, flexible restaking core that launched 14 networks with 45 more queued and reached live core in early 2025 after research from 2023… | ||
| Babylon: Bitcoin’s Trustless Open Port | Fisher Yu | 12m |
Babylon claims a working protocol that lets BTC be staked without losing custody, already deployed as the Boblo genesis Bitcoin-secured network that pays… | ||
| Beyond Hype: Mawari’s Real-Time Immersive Network | Luis Oscar Ramirez | 15m |
Mawari outlines a deployed spatial streaming stack that offloads rendering and AI to edge GPUs, claiming real-time AR avatars rendered and delivered in 32… | ||
| Europe's Crypto Momentum | Ramin Kader | 15m |
Independent research (KaO) shows Europe accounts for 26% of global spot volume, making it the world’s second largest market, and projects a bull-market peak of… | ||
| Unifying DeFi Liquidity | Sergej Kunz | 15m |
An aggregator called 1inch unites liquidity across chains and adds an intent-based swaps layer that broadcasts signed orders on Salana so market makers… | ||
| Kite AI: The Economic Layer for Agentic AI | Scott Shi | 15m |
Kite AI provides an economic layer that assigns persistent agent IDs and wallets so agents can transact autonomously, with a purpose-built layer‑1 that treats… | ||
| Kava Launching DeAI Attributes Beating Big AI | Scott Stuart | 15m |
Claims a new Kava model update beats OpenAI Anthropic Deep Seek on on‑chain benchmarks and already surpasses 100,000 users. Describes an app at chat.kava.io… | ||
| Building AI’s Infinite Game | Andrew Hill | 14m |
Claims an on-chain agent arena that runs open competitions where agents stake on expected competence, get scored and can be slashed for dishonesty, producing a… | ||
| DeFi & Law: What Regulation Should and Shouldn’t | Vardan Khachatryan | 08m |
Argues regulation should follow functional control not labels, showing specific failure modes: upgradable contracts with admin keys, centralized front ends… | ||
| The Future of RWA: DTVM's Asset-Driven Open Stack | Ying Yan | 14m |
DTVM unveils an open source deterministic virtual machine plus AI toolchain called Smart Cogent that generates audits repairs compiles and deploys contracts… | ||
| The Future of Open Finance: Embracing Blockchain Technology | Wang Hao | 11m |
Claims real numbers and a product roadmap not platitudes: global cyberattacks cost about $6 million per incident and caused roughly $6 billion lost last year… | ||
| Who Needs a Crypto Bank Anyway? | Franz Bergmueller | 10m |
Claims why dedicated crypto banks now matter: institutional‑grade custody with segregation and insurance, bridges for fiat (e‑commerce use below sub-1%… | ||
| OneBalance: ResourceLocks | Stephane Gosselin | 08m |
Claims a practical stack that turns complex cross‑chain flow into a single API integration, offering resource locks as a faster, cheaper, more reliable… | ||
| Why Web3 + Gaming Will Be the Next Billion-User Industry | Robbie Ferguson | 14m |
Argues that gaming already provides the user base and revenue to make Web3 mainstream: 3.3 billion monthly players, $200B annual revenue with two‑thirds from… | ||
| Layer 1 Inflation: Where Should it Go? | Zon | 15m |
Initia launches mainnet and TGE on Binance, does a 5% airdrop with ~95% claimed, and brings ~10 rollups live in week one; 16 rollups on the stack have raised… | ||
| Building Open AGI Loyal to Humanity | Himanshu Tyagi | 15m |
Sentient claims an open AGI built from many cooperating agents rather than a single monolith, and ships a platform called Sentient Chat that routes queries to… | ||
| Hyperbolic | Jeremy Hazan | 16m |
Hyperbolic builds a decentralized GPU cloud with a marketplace connecting on‑prem, data center and soon individual GPUs, claiming ~200k AI developers and up to… | ||
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