The Blockworks Digital Asset Summit (DAS) 2026 is scheduled for March 24–26, 2026, at the Javits Center North in New York City. This three-day conference serves as a primary hub for institutional finance, bringing together over 2,500 attendees and 750 institutions that collectively manage more than $4.2 trillion in assets. The summit is designed specifically for financial market professionals, focusing on the integration of traditional market infrastructure—such as trading, liquidity, and derivatives—with distributed ledger technology and decentralized finance.
The 2026 agenda features more than 45 curated sessions and 150 expert speakerscovering a broad range of critical industry themes. Key topics include the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) by major players like BlackRock and JPMorgan, the impact of institutional capital inflows through crypto-linked ETFs, and the evolving role of stablecoins in global payments. Additionally, the summit will address global digital asset policy following landmark US regulatory shifts, exploring the implications of new legal frameworks for maturing ecosystems.
The speaker lineup includes high-profile regulators and industry executives, such as Paul S. Atkins (Chairman of the SEC), Stephen I. Miran (Governor of the US Federal Reserve), Samara Cohen (Global Head of Market Development at BlackRock), and Richard Teng (CEO of Binance). Other confirmed participants include leaders from Western Union, Swift, Robinhood, and the Ethereum Foundation. Beyond the formal sessions, the event emphasizes elite networking opportunities, offering dedicated mobile apps to facilitate connections and various informal gatherings or closed-door sessions for allocators, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
