February 10, 2026
By Tsering Namgyal
Coindesk’s flagship crypto conference, Consensus, is expected to be held in Hong Kong this week between February 10 to February 12, drawing nearly 15,000 attendees from over 100 countries including builders, investors and regulators to the city.
The event, dubbed as the “Super Bowl of Blockchain, and World Cup of Web3” by Forbes comes at a time at a time with Bitcoin has lost nearly 50 percent since its peak at end of 2025 but the institutional adoption of cryptocurrency grows apace.
Nevertheless, the city is bullish about the future of cryptocurrency industry with the regulators having announced that they will start granting licenses for stablecoin issuers in the first quarter of 2026.
The event will feature keynote addresses by Hong Kong regulators such as Financial Secretary of Hong Kong Paul Chan, the head of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Julia Leung and Eric Yip, the head of Intermediaries Supervisory and Licensing Division at the SFC.
The chief executive of Hong Kong John Lee will deliver a virtual remark, symbolizing the city’s support for the crypto industry.
The themes of the conference including everything from stablecoins, AI and robotics, crypto treasury services, institutional crypto adoption and regulatory convergence in the region. Regional perspectives will also be presented with the development of crypto in countries such as Pakistan and Korea and the Southeast Asian region.
The summit features such industry heavy-weights as Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, Anthony Saramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, Tom Lee, Chairman of Fundstrat, Joseph Lubin, Founder and CEO of Consensys, Ella Zhang, head of YZi Labs, Peter Mintzberg, CEO of Grayscale Investments, Justin Sun, Founder of Tron, Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands, and Richard Teng, CEO of Binance.
Blockwind will be covering the event for its readers.
About the author
Tsering Namgyal is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Blockwind.news.
