THE TRADING FLOOR — KBW 2026
The Trading Floor is the launch reception for Blackboard, co-hosted with Aster, on the closing night of Korea Blockchain Week.
What's going on?
Blackboard is an onchain trading terminal. Perpetuals, predictions, trading cards, tokenized real-world-assets. Everything that settles onchain, reached from one account. Aster runs the book behind our crypto perpetuals, our integration partner and co-host tonight.
The liquidity is already there. Onchain venues run real books with real depth. What they lack is reach: everyone outside the small group already comfortable opening a DEX, funding a chain-specific deposit, and reading a funding rate before their first trade stays out.
That gap is the business. Blackboard is the front door, an onchain brokerage that takes venue liquidity and puts it in front of everyone else. Sign in, fund the account, take a position. Your assets never leave your wallet. The same account carries you from a first trade to a full book, and it stays open to the agents you run.
Our sponsor Nado runs an orderbook DEX on Ink by Kraken, featuring full portfolio margining for spot and perps trading. Different venues, one premise. The direction we are taking this: any exchange, any trader, one floor.
The night
Doors at 17:00, close at midnight. A keynote and panel block, an open floor with live product demos, and performances through the night.
Program
17:00 Doors and reception
18:00 Opening
18:10 Keynote Session & Panels
20:00 Networking and performances
21:00 After Dark, DJ until midnight
Sessions
A keynote followed by panels, starting 18:10, with AI-translated captions on the main screen.
18:10 · Keynote
🎙 Leonard Leung, CEO of Aster
18:30 · Co-Host & Sponsor Session
『The Great Migration: The Onchain Trading Era』
🎙 Leonard Leung, CEO of Aster
🎙 Tony, Kraken's onchain Head of Product
Moderated by Jeff, DeSpread
19:00 · Japanese Session
『Crypto Native vs Regulated Finance』
🎙 Arata, Founder of CRYPTO TIMES
🎙 Taka, Founder of Boarding Bridge
🎙 Shin, Founder of Slash Vision Labs
🎙 Naoto Nishikawa, co-Founder of JFET
Moderated by Earl, DeSpread
19:30 · Korean Session
『The Loudest Market: Inside Korean Trading』
Lineup to come
Hosts & Sponsor
Blackboard — the onchain trading terminal above. First-time users and full-time desks, same account, same liquidity.
Aster — a privacy-first perpetual futures exchange backed by YZi Labs. Hidden Orders shield your positions from other participants. Perps and spot across crypto, equities and commodities, on its own Layer 1.
Nado — From the team behind Kraken and built on Ink, now running an orderbook DEX on it. Fully portfolio margined for spot and perps trading.
Partners
Hyperliquid : The largest onchain perpetuals venue, and where Blackboard routes its TradFi perps.
DeSpread : AI-driven web3 growth studio. Research, community and go-to-market in Korea.
CRYPTO TIMES : one of Japan's most influential crypto and blockchain media, independent since 2018. News, interviews and first-hand reporting for Japanese readers.
Slash Vision Labs : Brings stablecoins into everyday payments in Japan. In collaboration with Orico, a leading Japanese consumer credit company and BIN sponsor for Slash Card, Slash enables USDC-powered spending at Visa merchants without manual fiat conversion at checkout.
Boarding Bridge : One of Japan's largest crypto communities, run as a DAO since 2022. 30,000+ Discord members and 200+ events, from AMAs to hackathons.
Japan Financial Elan Technologies : Stablecoin and tokenized deposit infrastructure for Japanese financial institutions, from platform selection to licensing.
CoinNess : An integrated platform providing real-time digital asset information and a dedicated investment community. It monitors global media outlets, government announcements, and official corporate channels round-the-clock.
Good to know
Entry is free. We review every registration.
We're serving food and drinks. Capacity is limited, so register early.
Come as you are. No dress code, no seating chart, no guest tiers.