​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 (online); Nicolas Cosigny, Ethereum Foundation

​10:00–10:30
Regulation TLDR: All You Need To Know About the Regulation in the EU
Speakers: Anja Blaj Zajc, EEI; Vyara Savova, EEI

​10:30–10:40
Break

​10:40–11:35
Building Unbreakable Protocols: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Resilience
Speakers: Mateusz Rzeszowski, Arbitrum; Jacob Senftinger, SAFE, Stefan Beyer, Oak Security. Moderated by Marina Markezic, EEI.

11:35 Breaking News: Bermuda partners with Linea and works now cross-chain.

​11:40–12:10
AI, Quantum Computing and Nation-State Adversaries: How on Earth Can Institutional Web3 Be Secure?
Speaker: Stefan Beyer, Oak Security

​12:10–13:00
Lunch

​13:00–13:55
Europe's Digital Money Landscape
Speakers: Paolo Di Stefano, Frankencoin; Peter Großkopf, AllUnity; Leona Blehova, Commerzbank. Moderated by Jan Fritsche, Oak Security.

13:55–14:40
Institutional Web3 Requirements by Ethereum Foundation, Qivalis, Bermuda
Speakers: Mo Jalil, Ethereum Foundation; Alexander Wilke, Bermuda; Jan Sell, Qivalis. Moderated by Jan Fritsche, Oak Security.

​14:40–15:20
Deep Dive into MiCA 2 & MISP
Speakers: Stephan Mögelin, BaFin; Christian Zimmermann, Greenfield; Mirian Breuer, Börse Stuttgart Group; Marina Markezic, EEI.

​15:20–16:00
Tokenised Markets and Regulation
Speakers: Ondřej Kovařík, EEI; Martin Quensel, Centrifuge; Coco Chen, AFME; Adriana Ennab, Director, Stand with Crypto International

​16:00–17:00
DeFi Founders Club Pitch Competition featuring Arbitrum

​17:00–18:00
Arbitrum Founders House
Keynote about the Founders House and DeFi Funders Club Pitch Competition

​18:15
Goodbye & Final Remarks

​Afterwards
Arbitrum Networking

​The Institutional and Policy Forum has limited capacity and will take place at the same location as the Ethereum Day. Ethereum Day is organised by the Ethereum Everywhere team and will bring over 400 crypto native people to Funkhaus.

​​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, tokenisation, 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.