• Thailand’s SEC and Indonesia’s EKRAF brought regulators from both nations together on one stage
• SCBX, Bitkub, and Ascend Bit were joined by Circle, Tether, and the Solana Foundation in Bangkok
• The two-day event at ICONSIAM Hall featured closed-door roundtables and a parallel AI Hackathon

(SeaPRwire) –   BANGKOK, May 27, 2026 — Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026 (SEABW 2026), co-hosted by global Web3 venture capital firm Hashed (led by CEO Simon Seojoon Kim) and ShardLab (headed by CEO Hojin Kim), wrapped up its two-day run at ICONSIAM Hall in Bangkok. The gathering brought together regulators from Thailand and Indonesia, top executives from SCBX, Bitkub, and Ascend Bit, as well as global entities like Circle, Tether, and the Solana Foundation — signifying Southeast Asia’s transition from experimental trials to institutional acceptance of digital assets.

The event’s agenda centered on five key themes: the Regulatory Frontier; Institutional Verticalization and the Great Convergence; RWA 2.0 and the Industrialization of Tokenization; the Agentic Economy; and the Base Layer Imperative. This framework cast Southeast Asia not as a marginal emerging market, but as a region where global Web3 adoption is both being piloted and implemented.

The policy segment was led by Butree Vangsirirungruang, Director of the Digital Asset Policy Department at Thailand’s SEC; the Thailand Digital Asset Association (TDA); and Muhammad Neil El Himam, Deputy for Digital and Technology Creativity at Indonesia’s Ministry of Creative Economy (EKRAF). A key achievement of the event was bringing regulators from two of Southeast Asia’s biggest markets together on one platform.

Representing Thailand’s industry, Kaweewut Temphuwapat (CIO of SCBX and CEO of SCB 10X), Atthakrit Chimplapibul (co-founder of Bitkub), and Apinand Dabpetch (MD of Ascend Bit — the blockchain arm of True Money under CP Group) discussed the digital overhaul of Thailand’s financial infrastructure. They were accompanied by Circle’s David Katz, VP of Strategy and Public Policy for Asia Pacific, Tether regional heads Ploy Boonyavee and Eddy Christian Ng, as well as StraitsX, Ripple, BitGo, Anchorage Digital, Canton, Avalanche, the Solana Foundation, Xapo Bank, Token X, and AWS — with topics ranging from custody and payments to tokenization and AI.

Outside the main stage sessions, SEABW 2026 hosted four private roundtables focused on RWA tokenization and settlement, bringing tokenized products to market, institutional applications of AI and Web3, and stablecoin settlement processes. The event also deviated from standard conference norms with a performance by K-pop group tripleS, managed by Modhaus, whose on-chain fan governance system allows NFT holders to vote on group decisions — an example of digital culture and Web3 merging across Asia.

SEABW 2026 also featured the SEABW AI Hackathon, a track designed for builders with the theme “Solve a real-world problem around you with AI”. Ninety-two teams from Southeast Asia and other regions participated, with the top prize going to BEBRIDGE for their project RWANDA. RWANDA is an AI-driven rating tool that evaluates RWA audit reports and scores each token’s reliability, assisting retail investors in pre-assessing de-pegging risks.

Sponsorship covered the entire institutional spectrum. Local support was provided by SCBX, SCB 10X, and InnovestX, along with exchanges Bitkub and Bitazza Thailand and tokenization platform Token X. Global sponsors included Tether, the Solana Foundation, Xapo Bank, AWS, SOOHO.IO, AriqoX, Tiger Research, and StayGold.

Ruam Siratanapanta, Head of Digital Asset Business at SCBX, stated: “SCBX is honored to keep supporting Southeast Asia Blockchain Week in partnership with Hashed and ShardLab. Southeast Asia is entering a new era of digital asset adoption, where infrastructure, regulation, and real-world use cases are starting to come together — and SEABW has emerged as a key platform for the builders, institutions, and policymakers who are shaping this future.”

“Very few markets see regulatory clarity and institutional momentum developing in tandem. Bangkok is right at that crossroads,” noted Hojin Kim, CEO of ShardLab. “As digital assets and AI merge into a unified agentic economy, our role is to bring regulators, institutions, and builders together in one space — ensuring the region’s next stage of adoption is shaped through conversation, not in isolation.”

SOURCE: Southeast Asia Blockchain Week (SEABW)