Bangkok’s SEABW 2026 Concludes, Signaling Southeast Asia’s Shift to Institutional Web3 Adoption

Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026, or SEABW 2026, co-hosted by blockchain venture capital firm Hashed and ShardLab, concluded in Bangkok, the organizers said on May 26.

The event was held on May 20 and May 21 at ICONSIAM. It brought together government officials from Thailand and Indonesia, as well as digital-asset and financial firms including SCBX, Bitkub, Ascend Bit, Circle, Tether and the Solana Foundation.

The agenda focused on regulatory frontiers, institution-led digital finance integration, real-world asset tokenization, the agentic economy and base-layer infrastructure. Hashed and ShardLab said the event underscored that Southeast Asia is moving beyond Web3 experimentation and into a phase of institutional adoption.

Policy sessions included officials from Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission, the Thai Digital Asset Association and Indonesia’s Ministry of Creative Economy. They discussed digital-asset policy and regulatory direction. In Thailand’s financial sector, Kaweewut Temphuwapat, chief innovation officer at SCBX and chief executive of SCB 10X, and Bitkub co-founder Atthakrit Chimplapibul outlined their digital-finance transformation strategies.

Company sessions also featured Ripple, BitGo, Anchorage Digital, Avalanche and AWS. Speakers covered stablecoin payments, institutional custody and AI-blockchain infrastructure.

The SEABW AI Hackathon, held alongside the event, drew 92 teams from around the world. The grand prize went to RWANDA, a project by BEBRIDGE proposing an AI-based valuation system for real-world assets.

A program combining K-pop and Web3 also drew attention at the event. tripleS, the girl group under Modhaus, took the stage to showcase NFT-based fan participation through an on-chain fan-governance structure.

“Southeast Asia’s digital-asset market has entered a new phase, where infrastructure, regulation and real-world use cases are converging,” said Ruam Siratanapanta, head of digital-asset business at SCBX. Together with Hashed and ShardLab, SCBX is helping build SEABW at the center of that shift, he added.

He said SEABW has established itself as a key platform where builders, institutions and policymakers come together.

“Bangkok is where regulatory clarity and institutional momentum are maturing at the same time,” ShardLab Chief Executive Kim Ho-jin said. “As digital assets and AI converge into the agentic economy, SEABW’s biggest role is creating a space where regulators, institutions and builders can communicate without barriers.”