Institutional and Policy Forum - Europe's Next Financial Layer
The financial system is going through one of its biggest transformations in decades.
At the iconic Funkhaus Berlin, this one-day conference brings together the people shaping what comes next.
Presented by the European Ethereum Institute, Oak Security, and Bermuda, we are diving into the three defining challenges of the next decade.
Regulation, infrastructure built to last, and liquidity models that can scale an on-chain industry.
The agenda covers a lot of ground in a short time, from MiCA, DORA, and the Travel Rule to quantum resilience, operational security, and DLT standards on the infrastructure side.
We will talk about institutional adoption, market unification, CBDCs, tokenised 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.
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.
The event has a limited capacity.
Alongside Ethereum Day
Ethereum Day 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.
Sponsors
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.