Chapter 02 / Southeast Asia·Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · 2026
Where97 MillionMeet the World.
BlockConfex Chapter Southeast Asia. Vietnam is not a blockchain emerging market — it is a blockchain inflection point. 750 curated practitioners. Two days. One city. The moment when SEA's applied blockchain economy finds its room.
Date
Q4 2026 — TBA
Location
Ho Chi Minh City
Expected Delegates
750 Curated
Chapter
02 / Southeast Asia
Vietnam SBV pilots blockchain cross-border settlement on UAE-VN corridor
BlockConfex Vietnam — Chapter Southeast Asia 2026
Chainalysis: Vietnam top-3 globally for crypto adoption per capita — 2025
Vietnam Ministry of Science approves three land registry blockchain pilots
BlockConfex Applied Blockchain Adoption Index · Vietnam: 57/100 · Rising fast
Vietnam is not a market that might adopt blockchain. It is a country actively deploying it — in land registry, in cross-border settlement, in government supply chains. The State Bank is running live pilots. The tech quarter in Ho Chi Minh City has more blockchain-adjacent companies than Berlin. The question is not whether Vietnam becomes a blockchain economy. The question is who builds the infrastructure.
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World's #3 Crypto Adoption — By Population
Chainalysis ranks Vietnam third globally for crypto adoption as a share of population. This is not speculative demand — it is practiced, daily use of digital value transfer in a country where traditional banking still does not reach 40% of adults.
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State Bank Running Live Blockchain Pilots
The SBV has approved three cross-border blockchain settlement pilots targeting the UAE-Vietnam and Singapore-Vietnam trade lanes. This is government infrastructure investment, not whitepaper planning.
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The UAE Corridor: $8.4B Annual Trade
Vietnam is one of the UAE's most significant trade partners in Southeast Asia. Remittance flows, manufacturing supply chains, and commodity trading between the two countries represent an enormous surface area for blockchain settlement infrastructure.
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3,400 Blockchain Companies. One Underserved Room.
Ho Chi Minh City's tech quarter has an extraordinary concentration of blockchain-adjacent companies — and no serious institutional platform for them to meet the capital and regulatory relationships they need to scale. That is the gap BlockConfex fills.
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Regulatory Clarity Arriving — Faster Than Anyone Expected
The Vietnamese government issued a national blockchain strategy in 2022. Draft virtual asset regulation is in active parliamentary review. The window between "policy in formation" and "policy in force" is the best time to build relationships with regulators.
Who Attends
Practitioners, Not Spectators.
BlockConfex Vietnam is not a crypto festival. It is a curated room of people who are building, funding, regulating, and deploying blockchain infrastructure in Southeast Asia and the corridors connecting it to the world. Every delegate is vetted. Every seat earns its place.
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Banks & Fintech
Regional banks, neobanks, payment infrastructure
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Regulators & Gov
SBV, ministries, digital economy agencies
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Institutional Capital
Family offices, VCs, sovereign funds
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Protocol Builders
Founders deploying live blockchain infrastructure
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Legal & Compliance
Regulatory counsel for blockchain and digital assets
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Trade & Supply Chain
Corporates tokenizing trade finance & logistics
Who Qualifies
The BlockConfex Standard
Every delegate application is reviewed against six criteria. BlockConfex is not selective to be exclusive — it is selective to protect the quality of the room that every delegate paid to be in.
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Active deployment role
Building, funding, or regulating live blockchain infrastructure — not speculating.
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Decision-making authority
Founder, CXO, investment partner, senior regulator, or department head.
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Regional relevance
Operating in Southeast Asia, the UAE-SEA corridor, or an Index-tracked economy.
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No pure retail play
NFT marketplaces, consumer token projects, and trading platforms do not qualify.
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Willingness to share openly
BlockConfex works on Chatham House principles. Real conversations require real transparency.
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Productive deployment, not hype
What has shipped? What is live? What problem does it solve? These are the questions that matter.
Industry Tracks
Five Tracks. One Economy.
Five applied blockchain tracks focused exclusively on real deployment in Southeast Asia — remittance corridors, trade finance, government infrastructure, DeFi at institutional scale, and the regulatory frameworks being written right now. No speculation. No theory. Only what is being built.
Track 01
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Cross-Border Payments & Remittance Infrastructure
Vietnam receives $19B in annual remittances. The corridors connecting Vietnamese workers globally to their families at home are being rebuilt on blockchain rails — stablecoin, CBDC, and hybrid. This track covers the live infrastructure and the institutions building it.
Stablecoin · CBDC · Corridor
Track 02
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Trade Finance & Supply Chain Tokenisation
Vietnam is the world's 23rd largest goods exporter. Every letter of credit, warehouse receipt, and bill of lading in that supply chain is a candidate for tokenisation. This track covers the live deployments and the regulatory environment enabling them.
RWA · Trade · Supply Chain
Track 03
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Government & Public Sector Blockchain
Vietnamese ministries are actively piloting blockchain for land registry, customs, national identity, and public procurement. This track features the civil servants, technologists, and legal advisors building the public layer of Vietnam's blockchain economy.
GovTech · Registry · ID
Track 04
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Institutional DeFi & Digital Asset Capital Markets
Southeast Asia's institutional DeFi market grew 340% in 2025. Vietnam-origin protocols, Singapore-structured funds, and UAE-listed digital asset managers are all converging on the same infrastructure question. This track brings them into the same room.
DeFi · Capital Markets
Track 05
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Regulatory Frameworks: Vietnam, ASEAN & the UAE Bridge
Vietnam's virtual asset legislation is in active parliamentary review. The ASEAN Blockchain Council is coordinating regional frameworks. And the UAE-ASEAN regulatory bridge — linking VARA with local frameworks — is the most consequential policy development in the corridor. This track is where it gets built.
Policy · Compliance · Framework
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Track 06
To Be Announced
The sixth track is determined by programme committee review of speaker applications. Apply to speak to influence it.
Programme — Draft
Two Days. No Filler.
The BlockConfex programme is built around a single rule: every session must produce a decision, a connection, or an insight that changes something for the people in the room. No brand presentations. No panel of five people repeating the same point. No keynotes that belong on YouTube from 2021. Session topics are subject to revision based on market developments.
08:00 — 09:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee
Delegates arrive, name badges, welcome pack. Pre-event networking in the exhibition hall.
Registration
09:00 — 09:30
Opening Address: Vietnam at the Inflection Point
BlockConfex Vietnam Programme Chair sets the context: what is actually being deployed in Vietnam and the SEA corridor right now, and why this room matters.
Keynote
09:30 — 10:15
State Bank of Vietnam: The Pilot, the Framework, and What Comes Next
A senior SBV representative presents the live findings from the cross-border blockchain settlement pilots and the regulatory framework timeline for virtual assets in Vietnam.
Keynote — Regulatory
10:15 — 10:45
Networking Break — Track Exhibition Opens
Coffee, sponsor exhibitions, and structured 1:1 networking sessions for pre-registered delegate pairs.
Break
10:45 — 12:00
Track Sessions I — Parallel Programmes (Choose One)
Track 01: Remittance Rails — Live infrastructure from the UAE-Vietnam and Singapore-Vietnam corridors. | Track 03: Government Blockchain — Land registry pilots, procurement chains, national ID.
Parallel Panels
12:00 — 13:15
Lunch — Networking Tables by Sector
Structured lunch: delegates are seated by sector interest (payments, trade, DeFi, policy) to facilitate deeper conversations beyond the sessions.
Networking Lunch
13:15 — 14:30
Track Sessions II — Parallel Programmes
Track 02: Trade Finance Tokenisation — Live case studies from manufacturing supply chains. | Track 05: Regulatory Frameworks — Vietnam's draft legislation, ASEAN coordination, VARA bridge.
Parallel Panels
14:30 — 15:45
Workshop: Building a Compliant Blockchain Settlement Layer in Vietnam
Hands-on working session with legal, technical, and regulatory practitioners. Small groups. Real problems. Outputs are shared with programme committee for publication in the BlockConfex Vietnam Report.
Workshop
15:45 — 16:15
Afternoon Break & Exhibition
Break
16:15 — 17:30
Fireside: The Founders Who Shipped — Live Deployments From Vietnam's Blockchain Builders
Three founders with live products in production. What they built, where they failed, what is working, and what institutional infrastructure they still need. No pitching. Results only.
Fireside
18:30 — 22:00
VIP Dinner — Title & Gold Sponsors + Top 80 Delegates
Invitation-only evening at a curated HCMC venue. The real conversations of the summit happen over dinner. This is where relationships become commitments.
VIP Dinner
* Programme is indicative. Session times and topics subject to revision. Final programme published 6 weeks before the event.
08:30 — 09:15
Morning Coffee & Open Networking
Registration
09:15 — 10:00
Keynote: The Southeast Asia Capital Map — Where Institutional Money Is Going
A leading institutional investor presents their real-time view of blockchain capital allocation in Southeast Asia: what is being funded, what is being avoided, and why Vietnam has moved from watchlist to active deployment target.
Keynote — Capital
10:00 — 10:45
Panel: The UAE-Vietnam Corridor — Building the Infrastructure the Trade Needs
Practitioners from both sides of the corridor: payments companies, trade finance banks, and regulatory advisors. What does working infrastructure look like, and what needs to be built in the next 18 months?
Panel
10:45 — 11:15
Networking Break
Break
11:15 — 12:30
Track Sessions III — Parallel Programmes
Track 04: Institutional DeFi — Compliance-grade protocols, permissioned liquidity, ASEAN regulatory sandbox models. | Track 01: CBDC Interoperability — mBridge, Project Nexus, and the Vietnam pilot implications.
Parallel Panels
12:30 — 13:45
Lunch — Investor & Founder Matching Tables
Structured capital matchmaking lunch. Investors at designated tables; founders rotate. Pre-matched by programme committee. 8-minute sessions with 2-minute transitions.
Matchmaking Lunch
13:45 — 15:00
Workshop: Designing for the Vietnamese Regulatory Environment — A Practitioner Guide
Led by Vietnam's leading blockchain legal practitioners. What the draft regulation means in practice, what is permitted now, and how to structure for the frameworks being written.
Workshop
15:00 — 16:15
Track Sessions IV — Final Parallel Programmes
Track 02: Agriculture & Commodities Tokenisation — Vietnam's coffee, rice, and seafood supply chains on-chain. | Track 05: ASEAN Interoperability — Building the regional blockchain standard.
Parallel Panels
16:15 — 17:00
Closing Keynote: The BlockConfex Vietnam Report — What This Room Decided
Programme Chair presents the key outputs from two days of workshops and sessions. This is a live editorial process — the keynote is written from the conference floor. Published within 14 days as the BlockConfex Vietnam Intelligence Report.
Closing Keynote
17:00 — 17:30
Announcement: BlockConfex Chapter 03
BlockConfex announces the third Chapter city from the Vietnam stage. Early-bird registration opens live.
Announcement
17:30 — 19:30
Closing Reception — All Delegates
Cocktail reception for all 750 delegates. Open networking. No structured programme. The conversations that don't fit in 20-minute sessions.
Reception
* Programme is indicative. Session times and topics subject to revision. Final programme published 6 weeks before the event.
Speakers 2026
Who Speaks in the Room.
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Senior SBV Official
Head of Digital Currency Division
State Bank of Vietnam
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Regional VC Partner
Partner, Southeast Asia
MEVP / Regional VC
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Protocol Founder (VN)
CEO & Co-Founder
Live blockchain infrastructure
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Regulatory Counsel
Head of Blockchain Practice
Vietnam Legal Practice
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Applying Now
Speaker confirmations announced rolling from August 2026. Apply now to join the programme.
Sponsorship
The Room Your Clients Are In.
750 curated institutional practitioners. Regulators. Capital. Builders. Two days. One city. BlockConfex Vietnam sponsorship is not brand awareness — it is direct access to the decision-makers who will determine what blockchain infrastructure Southeast Asia runs on for the next decade.
$60,000 – $90,000 USD · Stage naming rights · Opening keynote slot (20 min) · VIP dinner table · 8 delegate passes · Maximum logo placement · The Signal featured report · Index co-branding
All sponsorship enquiries: sponsors@blockconfex.com · BlockConfex Vietnam Sponsorship Deck available on request
Venue
Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's Capital of Momentum.
BlockConfex Vietnam takes place in Ho Chi Minh City — Vietnam's commercial capital and the fastest-growing major city in Southeast Asia. The exact venue is in final selection, with the shortlist focusing on premium conference infrastructure that matches the quality of the delegate experience: a room that says this summit is different.
Venue confirmation and full logistics information will be released to registered delegates 10 weeks before the summit.
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — ASEAN's commercial capital
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Date: Q4 2026 — Exact date confirmed with venue (register interest for priority notification)
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750 delegates — Deliberately capped. Quality of room, not quantity of tickets.
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International access: Tan Son Nhat Airport — direct flights from Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney
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Language: English primary. Vietnamese simultaneous interpretation. Mandarin on request.
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Hotel block: Reserved rooms in partner hotels published upon venue confirmation. Register now to access.
Chapter Southeast Asia · 2026
Register Interest. Be First in the Room.
Date confirmation, early-bird pricing, and speaker announcements go to registered delegates first. 750 seats. The room fills. Register your interest now.
750 seats. Date TBA Q4 2026. Registered delegates receive priority notification of date confirmation, early-bird pricing, speaker announcements, and hotel block access.
Early Bird
$299
per delegate · limited seats
Full 2-day access
Welcome dinner included
Physical summit pack
1 year Signal Intelligence subscription
The Network membership (1 year)
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Standard Delegate
$499
per delegate · general admission
Full 2-day access — all tracks
Welcome dinner included
Physical summit pack
1 year Signal Intelligence subscription
The Network membership (1 year)
Post-event Vietnam Intelligence Report
Enterprise (5+)
$399
per person · minimum 5 delegates
All Standard Delegate inclusions
Company profile in summit app
Pre-event delegate matchmaking
Priority seating at track sessions
Contact: sponsors@blockconfex.com
Delegate Registration
Complete the form to register your interest. You will receive an email confirmation and priority notification when the exact date is confirmed.
Registration of interest is non-binding. Pricing and payment instructions will be sent upon date confirmation. Early-bird allocation is first-come first-served.
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Interest Registered
You're on the BlockConfex Vietnam list. Watch your inbox — you'll be among the first to know when the date is confirmed, early-bird pricing opens, and speaker announcements drop.
We'll see you in Ho Chi Minh City.
Why Register Now?
The summit has 750 seats. Date confirmation triggers early-bird pricing which historically sells out within 96 hours at BlockConfex events. Registered delegates get access first.
✓ Priority notification when date confirmed
✓ Early-bird pricing access (limited seats)
✓ Speaker & programme announcements first
✓ Hotel block access at partner rates
✓ Free Signal Intelligence subscription until event
Group Booking
Bringing a team of 5 or more? Enterprise delegate packages are priced at $399/person and include company profiling in the summit app and pre-event delegate matchmaking.
BlockConfex Vietnam speakers are selected by programme committee review, not by purchasing a slot. If you have deployed blockchain infrastructure in Southeast Asia — or are directly shaping the regulatory, capital, or policy environment around it — we want your application.
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Keynote Speaker
20-minute keynote for founders, CXOs, and senior regulators with a significant announcement or data-backed insight to share with the room.
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Panel Participant
40–60 minute moderated panel of 3–4 practitioners. Debate-format with a moderator who cuts dead air. Strong opinions required.
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Workshop Facilitator
90-minute working sessions for practitioners. You bring a real problem. The room builds toward a real output. Strong practitioner credentials required.
Speaker Application
Applications are reviewed by the BlockConfex Vietnam Programme Committee. We read every application. If your work qualifies, you will hear from us within 3 weeks of submission.
Applications are reviewed rolling. First review window closes 90 days before the summit. Apply early for the highest probability of selection.
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Application Received
Your speaker application has been submitted to the BlockConfex Vietnam Programme Committee. We review every application personally and will be in touch within 3 weeks.
If your work qualifies for the room, you'll hear from us.
Thank you for wanting to build with us.
What We're Looking For
✓ You have shipped something live. Not a roadmap. Production code in the wild.
✓ You have a specific thesis, not a topic. "Blockchain in trade finance" is a topic. "Why letter-of-credit tokenisation fails without SWIFT interoperability — and what does work" is a thesis.
✓ You are willing to share real data. Attendees are practitioners — they can smell a marketing presentation in 30 seconds.
✓ You have a position, and you can defend it. Panel sessions are moderated debates. Consensus-seeking answers are cut.
What We Don't Accept
✗ Paid speaking slots — all speakers are selected on merit only
✗ Product pitches or commercial presentations disguised as talks
✗ Speculative or futures-focused content ("blockchain will change X in 5 years")
✗ Applications without a specific proposed topic
Questions about the speaker programme? Contact the programme team directly.