DeFiConnect 🦫

Thank you, Buenos Aires. And thank you to everyone who made DeFiConnect what it was. 2 days, 5 summits, 180+ speakers, 4000+ registrations, workshops, meetups, co-work, debates, and a venue full of people who actually care about building DeFi. Huge appreciation to everyone involved across Stable Summit | @stable_summit, Vault Summit | @vault__summit, Oracle Summit | @OracleSummit, Universal Staking Day, and the Privacy & Compliance Summit. The feedback we heard again and again: having every core piece of DeFi in one place just works. Different tracks, different speeds, but the same community, and it showed. Thank you to every speaker, partner, and team who helped shape the content. Thank you to the builders, researchers, founders, auditors, investors, operators, and students who showed up, asked questions, and showed up ready to engage all the way through. And thank you to everyone who told us this format finally felt “harmonious” - that means a lot. We’ll share more soon. For now, here’s the recap ❤️‍🔥

Stable Summit Steps Up The 2026 program reflects where stablecoins are today: at the intersection of payments, policy, capital markets and onchain infrastructure. Across keynotes, panels and firesides, the agenda covers FX, tokenized cash, RWAs, liquidity, credit, privacy, regulation and institutional deployment. The people building and allocating are all in the room. Be there. Cannes · 27-28 March

What if every stablecoin payment you made was publicly visible? On most blockchains, it is. Our latest Stable School article explores the shift from pseudonymity to confidential payments. • Why tools like Tornado Cash tried to break traceability • Why pseudonymity isn’t real privacy • Why institutions need confidential settlement • How selective disclosure could enable privacy with auditability Privacy may be the missing piece for stablecoins 👇

See you on March 27

Last call for $0TVL Hour applications. A 1-hour live pitch session on the Stable Summit main stage for early-stage DeFi teams building toward TVL. Present your protocol design, economics, and risk assumptions directly to LPs, investors, auditors, and researchers. 28 March · Cannes Apply now ↓

Road to Cannes Stable Summit IV will take place at the JW Marriott Cannes, right on the Croisette. The venue sits directly on the Cannes waterfront, steps from the Palais des Festivals and the centre of the city’s conference district. Inside, the theatre-style auditorium and event spaces allow us to run the program at a larger scale while keeping discussions focused and accessible. Outside, everything Cannes is known for: the Mediterranean, the Croisette, and the compact setting that makes it easy for the entire ecosystem to stay in one place. A serious venue for an epic moment in stablecoin space. See you there soon! 27-28 March · Cannes

Institutional Use Cases and Adoption Limits of Non-USD Stablecoins Our speakers will explore how these assets are used across treasury, balance sheet and settlement workflows, and where liquidity, infrastructure and compliance become constraints. On stage: • Peter Grosskopf (@peterlih), @AllUnityStable • Sylvain Prigent, @SG_Forge • Sylve Chevet (@sylvechv), @hyli_org • Johannes Kern (@jonk93), @frankencoinzchf Moderator: Benjamin Levit (@levitben), @bluechip_org

Stablecoins. Cannes. Accountable. We'll be joining @stable_summit on March 27–28 as a Platinum Sponsor during ETHcc week. And if you're still getting your ticket: use ACCOUNTABLE20 for 20% off.

If you're building within the stablecoins ecosystem, the conference you should be attending (and probably also sponsor), is @stable_summit . Attended my first one thankfully in November in Buenos Aires, which was called @Defi_connect_ , which was a mix of several of their summits other than the main Stable Summit flagship one, such as @Vault__Summit , Oracle Summit and others, and let me tell you - felt like everyone building in the industry was there. All signal. One summit. Join the best of the best, by @partyactionppl

In 2023, Stable Summit launched in Paris. The focus was mainly technical: stablecoin design, collateral mechanics, liquidity incentives and governance trade-offs. It brought together builders who were navigating algorithmic failures, regulatory uncertainty and market stress in real time. In 2026, the context is different. Across our recurring editions, Stable Summit and its sister events have welcomed over 9,200 attendees, with more than 780 speakers and 166 sponsors. What began as a side event has evolved into a sold-out platform connecting onchain infrastructure builders with capital, institutions and policymakers. The topic hasn't changed. The scale has. This is how it looked like back then ↓

General Admission tickets are live. Stablecoins are accelerating ubiquity across payments, FX, liquidity, regulation and capital markets. What began as an experiment is becoming core financial infrastructure. Cannes · 27-28 March Join the people building it.

What are reviewers looking for at $0TVL Hour? Not traction. Not growth charts or token price. They’re interested in: • Clear mechanism design • Explicit risk assumptions • Thoughtful liquidity formation plans • Awareness of attack surfaces and failure modes $0TVL Hour is built for protocols that are early, but technically and economically serious. 28 March · Cannes Apply to participate ↓

While Cannes talks about institutional adoption and stablecoin scale, another interesting conversation is happening in the shadows. Rekt has spent yearsss documenting what actually breaks in crypto. Billions lost. Exploits dissected. Post-mortems written without mercy. That newsroom is stepping onto a stage on March 27.

Only 1 day left for Early Bird tickets. Privacy vs surveillance, cross-border payments, liquidity, yield-bearing assets, non-USD growth. The design decisions happening now will define the next decade. Don't miss that, secure your spot. Stable Summit IV Cannes · 27-28 March

Our CoFounder @VarounVlogs talks FX failures what Onchain FX needs to become a global financial standard.

Cannes 2025 looked like this: packed rooms, hot conversations, and the right people in one place. The discussions clearly reflected where stablecoins were heading and gave us all direction for the next year. In 2026, we’re raising the bar. Expect more builders, more institutional voices, more spicy topics covering adoption and regulation, and yes, even better air conditioning. Stable Summit IV returns to Cannes on 27-28 March. See you soon!

Secondary liquidity will decide whether tokenized RWAs scale or stall. We’ll examine how onchain secondary markets support pricing, composability and sustained demand, and what constraints shape their design. Catch it live in Cannes, 27-28 March.

1 April 2026 · Cannes · Vault Summit Institutional capital allocation is coming onchain vault by vault. Vault Summit provides the front-row seat to this tectonic shift. Save the date.

Early Bird tickets are now available. Stablecoins are scaling. Institutions and regulators are here, and Stable Summit isn't slowing down. 2 days focused entirely on accelerating stablecoin ubiquity. Lock in your ticket 👇

Why Vault Summit? Because vaults are becoming core infrastructure for asset management. After launching at DeFiConnect, Vault Summit is going standalone in 2026 with editions in Cannes, NYC, and more. In Cannes, we bring together protocol teams, asset managers and financial institutions to explore real vault implementations, risk, compliance and capital deployment frameworks. From our first edition to what’s next ↓