Bangkok’s SEABW 2026 Ends With Focus on Southeast Asia’s Shift to Institutional Web3 Adoption

Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026, or SEABW 2026, jointly hosted by global blockchain venture capital firm Hashed and ShardLab, wrapped up in Bangkok, the organizers said on May 26.

The event was held on May 20 and 21 at ICONSIAM. Attendees included government officials from Thailand and Indonesia, along with digital-asset and financial companies including SCBX, Bitkub, Ascend Bit, Circle, Tether and the Solana Foundation.

Key topics included regulatory frontiers, institution-led integration of digital finance, real-world asset tokenization, the agentic economy and base-layer infrastructure. Hashed and ShardLab said the event underscored that Southeast Asia is moving beyond the Web3 experimentation stage and entering a phase of institutional adoption.

Policy sessions included officials from Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission, the Thai Digital Asset Association and Indonesia’s Ministry of Creative Economy. They discussed digital-asset policy and the direction of regulation. In the Thai financial sector, SCBX Chief Innovation Officer and SCB 10X Chief Executive Officer Kaweewut Temphuwapat and Bitkub co-founder Atthakrit Chimplapibul presented digital-finance transition strategies.

Corporate sessions also featured Ripple, BitGo, Anchorage Digital, Avalanche and Amazon Web Services. Presentations covered stablecoin payments, institutional custody, and AI and blockchain infrastructure.

The SEABW AI Hackathon, held during the event, drew 92 teams from around the world. The top prize went to RWANDA, a project by BEBRIDGE that proposed an AI-based real-world asset valuation system.

A program combining K-pop and Web3 also drew attention at the venue. tripleS, the girl group under Modhaus, took the stage to showcase NFT-based fan participation through an on-chain fan-governance structure.

“Southeast Asia’s digital-asset market has entered a new phase where infrastructure, regulation and real-world use cases are coming together,” said Ruam Siratanapanta, head of digital-asset business at SCBX. He added that SCBX, together with Hashed and ShardLab, is building SEABW at the center of that shift.

“SEABW has established itself as a key platform where builders, institutions and policymakers come together in one place,” Ruam said.

“Bangkok is the market where regulatory clarity and institutional momentum are maturing at the same time,” said Kim Ho-jin, chief executive officer of ShardLab. “As digital assets and AI converge into an agentic economy, SEABW’s biggest role is creating a space where regulators, institutions and builders can communicate without barriers.”