Institutional and Policy Forum - Europe's Next Financial Layer
The European Ethereum Institute and Oak Security present the only event where regulators, Institutions, and Builders meet for a whole day.
Brought to you by Arbitrum, we are diving into the three defining challenges of the next decade. We're building a bridge between DeFi builders and institutions through a dedicated founder-focused gathering.
The financial system is going through one of its biggest transformations in decades - finance is moving on-chain.
We discuss MiCA, DORA, and the Travel Rule to quantum resilience, operational security, and DLT standards on the infrastructure side. On top of that, institutional adoption, market unification, CBDCs, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, DeFi, and the new business models emerging at the intersection of all of it.
If you care about where European finance is heading and want to be in the room when the frameworks, risks, and opportunities get debated openly, this is your event.
Only possible thanks to our strategic partner, Bermuda.
Arbitrum and DeFi Founders Club organize a pitch competition for the Event:
The winner gets a sponsored trip to Arbitrum's Founder House in London, security credits, and much more → Apply here
WHY NOW
Europe is moving from policy framing to live deployment. Wholesale settlement on DLT, tokenised funds, and a maturing MiCA regime are converging in 2026. The decisions taken this year will define who builds, who supervises, and who participates.
Conversations span the live regulatory agenda, Appia and central bank settlement, the Market Integration and Supervision Package, the MICA implementation alongside the technical questions that will define the decade: quantum readiness, identity, privacy, and cybersecurity.
Preliminary Agenda
9:00–9:30
Check-in & Networking, Welcome Speech
9:30–10:00
Quantum Threat by the European Commission and the Ethereum Foundation
Speakers: Fabiana Da Pieve, European Commission; representative of the Ethereum Foundation
10:00–10:15
Regulation Updates
Speakers: Anja Blaj Zajc, EEI; Vyara Savova, EEI
10:15–10:35
Innovation in Payments by the African Union & Pan-African Payment System
Speaker: Lorna Akapame, African Union
10:35–10:55
Break
10:55–11:25
Stablecoin Trends
Speakers: Paolo Di Stefano, Frankencoin; Peter Großkopf, AllUnity; Dr. Jan Fritsche, Oak Security
11:25–11:45
Central Banking in the Age of Digital Currencies
11:45–12:15
AI, Quantum Computing and Nation-State Adversaries: How on Earth Can Institutional Web3 Be Secure?
Speaker: Stefan Beyer, Oak Security
12:15–12:45
Fireside Chat: The Future of Tokenisation, Interoperability, and Privacy by AFME and EEI
Speakers: Coco Chen, AFME; EEI
12:45–13:45
Lunch
13:45–14:40
Institutional Web3 Requirements by Ethereum Foundation, Qivalis, Bermuda
Speakers: Mo Jalil, Ethereum Foundation; Alexander Wilke, Bermuda; Jan Sell, Qivalis; Jan Fritsche, Oak Security
14:40–15:20
MiCA 2 & MISP
Speakers: Stephan Mögelin, BaFin; Christian Zimmermann, Greenfield; Marina Markezic, EEI
15:20–16:00
Tokenisation
Speakers: Ondřej Kovařík, EEI; Martin Quensel, Centrifuge
16:00–17:00
DeFi Founders Club Pitch Competition featuring Arbitrum
17:00–18:00
Prizes and Arbitrum Founders House
Keynote about the Founders House and prizes from the competition
18:15
Goodbye & Final Words
Afterwards
Arbitrum Networking
The event has a limited capacity. Alongside Ethereum Day, which will bring over 400 crypto native people to Funkhaus.
The Institutional and Policy Forum will take place at the same location as the Ethereum Day, which is organised by the Ethereum Everywhere team and members of the local community.
About the organisers
European Ethereum Institute is a non-profit advocacy organisation based in Brussels. It aims to shape EU regulation to favour open, permissionless, decentralised applications leveraging blockchain technology while advocating for an innovative EU environment, supporting Ethereum as a core layer of public infrastructure for institutions across the EU and UK. The
Oak Security is a specialised cybersecurity consulting firm focused on Web3, smart contracts, and third-generation blockchains. It provides comprehensive security services to protect decentralised applications and protocols against complex exploits.
About the Sponsors
Arbitrum
Powering the programmable economy
Arbitrum is the finance-native blockchain platform providing infrastructure for applications, tokenization, and dedicated blockchain environments.
Bermuda
Bermuda is the privacy layer between Enterprises and Ethereum. Enterprises need privacy and compliance to go on-chain. EVM has the largest ecosystem but lacks both. Bermuda adds them — without moving to a new chain.