Tom Lee, Mastermind & 14,000 Pals: WebX 2026 Is Back, and Tokyo's Calling 🎌

WebX 2026 will return to The Prince Park Tower Tokyo on July 13-14, organizer CoinPost confirmed, adding a roster of speakers and sponsors that includes Bitmine chairman Tom Lee as a keynote presenter. The Web3 conference expects to build on last year's edition, which drew more than 14,000 attendees from over 90 countries and hosted more than 170 side events across Tokyo.

Newly announced sponsors include title sponsor Advasa, joining Bitbank, bitFlyer, BitLending, eole Inc., SBI Holdings, Simplex and UPCX, with Canton, Sun Sun House, Fireblocks, Gonka, MetaPlanet and TRON listed as platinum sponsors. The two-day program will examine stablecoins, AI, tokenization and regulatory frameworks, with sessions including "Asia as a Crypto Powerhouse: Policy, Liquidity and Trust for Robust Growth" and "Stablecoins in Action: Reimagining Retail Payments Across Asia Pacific."

Newly confirmed speakers include Franklin Bi, general partner at Pantera Capital; Yoshitaka Kitao, representative director, chairman, president and CEO of SBI Holdings; Giselle Lai, director of digital assets strategy APAC at Fidelity International; Christian Rau, senior vice president of digital assets and blockchain at Mastercard; Carole House, former White House advisor and CEO of Penumbra Strategies; Chetan Karkhanis, senior vice president at Franklin Templeton; Fiona Murray, vice president and managing director APAC at Ripple; David Walsh, head of enterprise at Ethereum Foundation; Avalon Ingram, digital assets business lead at Swift; Sunayana Tuteja, former chief innovation officer at the Federal Reserve System; and Takafumi Horie.

The conference comes as Japan advances its digital asset regulatory framework, including proposals to classify crypto assets as financial instruments under the same rules as traditional securities. "The pace of change across digital assets continues to accelerate, driven by growing institutional participation, advances in payments infrastructure and greater regulatory clarity across key markets," said Makoto Aoki, chairman of WebX.

WebX 2026 is planned and operated by CoinPost, Japan's largest crypto media outlet, and the full agenda plus the speaker and sponsor list are available on the event's website.