Cosmoverse is an annual conference focusing on the Cosmos ecosystem and interoperability. It rotates to different cities each year: Lisbon in 2021, Medellin in 2022, Istanbul in 2023, Dubai in 2024, Split in 2025, and Hong Kong in 2026. ^{[6] [7]} The event gathers influential figures from the Cosmos community and related fields. Through keynote speeches and panel discussions, Cosmoverse aims to provide education and information on the latest advancements and applications. ^[1]​

Team

The team behind Cosmoverse is composed by the following members: ^[1]​

• Cryptocito: Co-Founder and Strategy Lead
• Basil Nasereldeen: Co-Founder and Operations Lead
• Fabian Klauder: Co-Founder and Finance LEad
• Juri Maibaum: Co-Founder and Marketing Lead
• Zafercan Çakir: Turkey Lead
• Julio C. Farias: Community Manager Spain and LATAM
• Honora: Community Manager Turkey

2026 Edition

The 2026 edition of Cosmoverse will be held in Hong Kong in November 2026. This edition marks a strategic shift for the event, positioning it as a "global finance and web3 summit." The conference's official tagline is "The premier global platform where sovereign blockchain infrastructure meets institutional capital." It aims to connect Web3 leaders with global financial entities and policymakers. ^[7]

Theme and Focus

The two-day summit is designed to foster high-level dialogue at the intersection of digital infrastructure and institutional adoption. The focus will be on tangible applications and regulated markets, with key discussion topics including:

• Real-world deployment of blockchain technology
• Regulatory frameworks for digital assets
• Market infrastructure development
• Tokenization
• Payments
• Custody
• Settlement networks
• Capital markets ^[7]

Scale and Venue

The event is projected to host over 1,500 attendees from more than 60 countries, including builders, founders, and investors. It also anticipates the participation of over 80 financial institutions and more than 100 speakers. The conference will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong, a venue chosen for its capacity and location on Victoria Harbour, providing a setting for conversations between technology and finance leaders. ^[7]

2025 Edition

The 2025 edition of Cosmoverse was held in Split, Croatia, from October 30 to November 1, 2025. The event celebrated the capability of the Cosmos Stack to connect ecosystems, power sovereign modular blockchains, and enable app chains to scale efficiently.

Focus and Themes

The conference's agenda combined a wide range of Web3 topics, including:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• Zero-Knowledge (ZK) technology
• Bitcoin
• Real-World Assets (RWAs)
• Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)

A key feature of the event was its track structure, which allowed attendees to follow curated discussions and presentations specific to their areas of interest.

Key Features

The event featured a pitching competition that gave early-stage projects the opportunity to present their ideas to high-profile investors and industry leaders. It also included the Cosmos Ventures initiative, which brought together venture capitalists, family offices, and promising projects to facilitate investment and partnership opportunities.

Notable Speakers

The speaker lineup for the 2025 edition included:

• Charles d'Haussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation
• Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder of Polygon ^[6]

2024 Edition

The 2024 edition of Cosmoverse was held in Dubai from October 21st to 23rd. Tracks included modularity (appchains, rollups, abstraction, composability), tokenization (RWAs, compliance, DeFi, enterprise, stablecoins), restaking (liquid staking, shared security, oracles), EVM (interoperability, shared sequencing, scalability), and AI (agents, marketplaces, data, GPUs, storage, depin). ^[2]

2023 Edition

Cosmoverse 2023, the 3rd edition of the Cosmoverse conference, took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from October 2nd to 4th. This event delved into blockchain interoperability, with a focus on addressing scalability, interoperability, and privacy issues within the crypto space. ^[3]

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2022 Edition

Cosmoverse 2022 took place in Medellin, Colombia, during the summer of 2022. The event aimed to increase awareness about the Cosmos ecosystem within the South American crypto community and to facilitate discussions on recent advancements in interchain security, the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, and related topics. ^[4]

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2021 Edition

Cosmoverse 2021 took place in Lisbon, Portugal. At the onset of the two-day event, Zaki Manian, co-founder of the decentralized finance (DeFi) project Sommel and former lead developer at Cosmos and Tendermint (core contributors to the Cosmos network), presented various technologies in progress within the Cosmos ecosystem. ^[5]

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