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Two days. Over 130 speakers. More than 10,000 attendees. But the most important question about any summit is not who attended – it is what they said, and whether it mattered. At TEAMZ Summit 2026, held April 7-8 at Happo-en in Tokyo, the conversations on stage reflected an industry in transition: past the proof-of-concept phase, working through the harder questions of infrastructure, regulation, institutional integration, and what it actually means to build for the long term.
If one word defined the two-day agenda at TEAMZ Summit 2026, it was trust.
Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, framed it directly in his keynote: digital trust is becoming the new global currency. The observation was not abstract. Across sessions on stablecoins, CBDCs, decentralized identity, RWA tokenization, and self-custody, the same underlying question kept surfacing – how do you build systems that people, institutions, and governments are willing to rely on?
This through line gave the summit a coherence that distinguished it from conferences built around market sentiment. The conversations were not about price. They were about infrastructure, standards, and accountability.
