Gaming and NFTs
The idea of owning your own digital assets is no doubt appealing. But after a series of scandals, can NFTs bounce back? And will the gaming industry breathe new life into crypto? Industry experts discuss why they believe Web3.
Web3
Web3 brings together the giants and disrupters forging the way to a new world. From cryptocurrency to the metaverse to gaming, Web3 is opening up new possibilities.
Join some of the world’s most impressive developers, investors, startups and experts at Web Summit Rio.
Kathleen Breitman
Co-founder | Tezos
Co-founder | Tezos
What’s happening?
Web3 explores our digital future, diving deep into the important topics influencing this young and growing sector.
Your Web Summit Rio ticket gives you access to all masterclasses and roundtables at the event, as well as to talks on Web3 and 15-plus other tracks.
CeFi and DeFi
To decentralize or not to decentralize, that is one of the original questions of crypto.Is anonymity a valuable trade-off to greater legitimacy within the market? On Web3, the experts from across the industry will explore all the challenges and opportunities of centralization.
Betting on the metaverse
Big business is placing big bets on the metaverse. With leaps forward in AR and VR technology, can the metaverse finally deliver on its promise to revolutionize everything from work to education to socializing? Leading figures from some of the world’s biggest companies discuss.
ETFs and crypto exchanges
From the very beginning, one of the central issues of crypto has been how to get money into and out of it in a legitimate way. With ETFs, treating crypto as any other commodity, has Wall Street finally cracked the code? We’ll hear from some of the biggest names in both crypto exchanges and institutional finance.
Meet the web3 speakers who joined us in 2024
Yat Siu
Co-founder & Executive ChairmanAnimoca Brands
Emily Chiu
Co-founder & COOTBD
Marlyson Silva
CEOTransfero Group
Monica Long
PresidentRipple
Dan Reecer
Co-founder & COOWormhole Foundation
Daniel Vogel
Co-founder & CEOBitso
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation OfficerOKX
Vanessa Lopes Butalla
Chief Legal & Compliance OfficerMercado Bitcoin
Reinaldo Rabelo
CEOMercado BitcoinCompanies that attend
On the crypto crash: “What’s good is that it’s humbled an industry that desperately needed it.”
– Kathleen Breitman, Co-founder, Tezos
“Freedom and trust equals bitcoin.”
– Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates
“Mining for bitcoin has undergone a very rapid evolution.”
– Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist, Bitcoin Foundation
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