Web3 Leaders Forum

« #Web3 Leaders Forum 2024 : une Europe qui regarde vers l'avenir » http://xfru.it/RGTebh Adan Faustine Fleuret Mathieu MICHEL Christophe De Beukelaer Cristiano Ventricelli Sylvain Prigent Nicolas Bacca Patrick Hansen BORGET Sebastien Claire Wells Clarisse Hagège Thaïs Drozdowski Dr Lisa C. Olivier Fliche Peter Kerstens

We were at the must-attend WEB3 event: Web3 Leaders Forum in Brussels, organized by Adan during the ETHCC week. Karen Jouve and Guillaume Moret-Bailly were present to speak and meet partners, and they gave you their analysis 🎤👇 This event highlighted the changes that Web3 will bring to data, particularly for consumers and products, and all the evolution of the regulatory. We're entering a new era on the Web, and it's high time that the corporate and organizations took action and took part in this digital revolution. Doors3 is ready to advise you on how to make the right choices and stay ahead of the game 🚀 Thanks to Faustine Fleuret and the Adan team, the sponsors, and all the partners present to give ambitious vision and concrete examples. Let’s continue to push the boundaries! Tarek Kamoun, Jules Dubourg, Bilal EL ALAMY, Laszlo S., Akli Le Coq, Mélodie AMBROISE, Clarisse Hagège Julien Furlanetto Robin Quinones Florence Mouillard Guillaume Fischer Ludovic Dietrich Romane Colliot Adrien P. Arthur Pesquié Ulysse Chailley Michaël S. Pierre Malard William Meunier

The #W3LF 2024 comes to a close with an excellent speech by Christophe De Beukelaer, Member of Parliament and President of Brussels, who was one of the first politicians to believe in #crypto and to express this publicly. Thank you very much, Mr De Beukelaer, for honouring us with your presence and, as you said: "#Blockchain and crypto are profoundly changing the landscape of finance. Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, says that Bitcoin is digital gold and will become a safe haven for citizens. It is even a hot topic in the US election campaign. It's time to move beyond the usual clichés (money laundering, terrorist financing, etc.) and focus on the real issues. But if the political world does not open its eyes, they will leave Belgium and develop elsewhere!"

Following on from the day's events, we have just witnessed an afternoon of rich debate at the Sparks conference center in Brussels. Maud Tezenas du Montcel (Synaps), Eugenio Reggianini (EBA) and Nicolas Bacca(co-fonfer of Ledger) shared their views on how cryptography and Web3 solutions - particularly decentralised identity solutions - enable users to regain control over their online data. They reminded us that this major problem, which the internet has never been able to solve until now, has now become simple with #Web3. Similarly, financing is a major challenge for companies to grow internationally and for the industry to structure properly. Brian Breslow (Dorahacks), Erik Ashdown (Covalent), Ethan Buchman (Informal Systems) and William Luedtke  (Intuition) explored, under the watchful eye of their audience, how to envisage sustainable funding mechanism in the crypto ecosystem. Finally, a very hot topic as the first part of the regulation on Markets in crypto-assets (#MiCA) has just come into force for stablecoin issuers: Patrick Hansen (Circle), Martin Bruncko (Schuman Financial) and Sylvain Prigent (SG Forge) asked themselves How stablecoins are coping with the New Regulatory Landscape. Thank you all once again for your enlightening views on the wide range of subjects of interest to the development of the sector, and to Kais Haj Taieb (Groupe Crédit Agricole), to Jordan Andrews (Atom Accelerator DAO / Cosmos Hub) and to Louis Tellier (The Big Whale) for their wise leadership of this afternoon's debates.

The #Web3 already represents 5000 startups in Europe! This is the conclusion of the Truffle Capital and Bpifrance report for Adan presented this afternoon at the Web 3 Leaders Forum. As we pointed out in our manifesto for Europe in May 2024, Europe is now a world leader when it comes to business start-ups, but it is still struggling to produce world-class unicorns and is being dominated by other powers when it comes to Web3 unicorns on its territory. Two months ago, Adan recommended in its Manifesto that Europe take concrete actions to guarantee start-ups access to finance throughout their development cycle. Reading the report on investment in Web 3, which will be published soon (we will keep you posted!), shows that this is a necessity.

This morning's #W3LF has already paved the way for a number of discussions that will need to be pursued to build Europe's future in digital innovation. In the field of finance, and at a time when Europe has been looking for ways to deepen the union of capital markets, Cristiano Ventricelli (Moody's), Erwin Voloder, MES (The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra) and Thaïs Drozdowski (Inuk) gave us a first-hand look at how tokenisation could help build the finance of tomorrow. Mélodie Lamarque (Keyring Network), Peter Kerstens (European Commission), Olivier Fliche (French banking supervisor, ACPR) and Claire Wells (Kiln) discussed the possibility and necessity of regulating decentralised finance, at a time when the sector is impatiently awaiting the European Commission's report, due by the end of the year, on the development of the #crypto market. Europe also sees metaverse as a market of the future. The latest Altindex study predicts a global metaverse market of 25 billion dollars by 2030, in education alone. Joachim Schwerin (European Commission) and Jordi Mompart (FC Barcelona) therefore highlighted the key role of #NFTs in the successful adoption of #VirtualWorlds in Europe. Finally, Dr Lisa C. (Crypto and Digital Assets All Party Parliamentary Group, APPG), Dimitrios Psarrakis (GBBC) and Matthieu Lucchesi (Gide Loyrette Nouel) gave us a clearer picture of the global regulatory landscape for Web 3 and provided key tools for companies looking to address new markets in the coming years. Thank you, to all the speakers, for making this morning a success by answering questions from Mark Kepeneghian (Kriptown), Inbar Preiss (DL News),  Raphaël Rossignol (Economic Warfare School) and Denys Malengreau (Consultant).

Inspiring opening speech from Mathieu MICHEL at the #W3LF organised by Adan. "Web 3 is not just an evolution of the internet but a revolution of how we connect and interact. Decentralization opens a new era for security, efficiency and transparency in the industries. That is what the Europeum project, which was a priority of the Belgian presidency, aimed at getting benefits from. Blockchain is one of the keys for tomorrow's world, and let's remember that if you are not ahead, you are always behind." Thanks Mister minister for these words ! Together, Belgium, France and all Member States can embrace this innovation and build a great ecosystem of #Web3 champions that will bring Europe to another level in terms of digital sovereignty.

Happy to kick off the 2024 edition of the #Web3 Leaders Forum and to welcome you all in Brussels for a full day of exchanges of views and of use cases demonstrations. On the 3 stages of the Sparks conference center, we will try to answers the hot topic questions you may have: 👉 What are the  business trends and dynamics ?  👉 What happened in the past few months regarding the market regulation ?  👉 What is Web 3 useful for ?  👉 What are the opportunities and challenges around financing Web 3 actors? "In the last few years, Adan has been conducting a lot of discussions on Web 3 regulations at the French level, but now more than ever, Brussels plays a key role in the future that is being built for this innovative industry." All day long, come and take part in discussions on how to tackle this joint challenge! And of course, many thanks to the partners of the event : Groupe Caisse des Dépôts, Société Générale, Cube3, ProCapital and Tezos.

NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCED! 🗣️ We are delighted to announce that Martin Bruncko will be at Adan’s #Web3 Leaders Forum on Wednesday 10 July in Brussels! ⭐ MiCA in action: How stablecoins are coping with the New Regulatory Landscape  🏛 Main Stage Don't miss this opportunity to meet him on site. For more details on #W3LF and to register, visit https://www.w3lf.eu/

NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCED! 🗣️ We are delighted to announce that Sylvain Prigent will be at Adan’s #Web3 Leaders Forum on Wednesday 10 July in Brussels! ⭐  MiCA in action: How stablecoins are coping with the New Regulatory Landscape 🏛 Main Stage Don't miss this opportunity to meet him on site. For more details on #W3LF and to register, visit https://www.w3lf.eu/