Atul Sharma

Tangem (@Tangem) joins IBW2026 as Silver Sponsor. The Swiss self-custody company builds hardware wallets as NFC cards and rings that tap against your phone. No cables, no seed phrase required. Its 2025 revenue doubled to $61.3 million, with monthly active users up 50% as holders moved from just storing crypto to transacting in the app. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

More than 10,000 people in Mumbai for a week. IBW Connect is how you find the ten that matter. Every IBW attendee, every session, every side event in one place. Work out who you want to meet before you land. - Personalise your profile with tags, get pointed at people worth meeting - Find people by company, role or what they're building, then lock a meeting - Entry pass lives in the app, one scanner handles every code at the venue. - Entire IBW agenda and side event list in one place. Nothing to download. Opens in the browser, runs on any phone.

1/ Last year, we launched the IBW Creator Program and were overwhelmed by the response. So we’re bringing it back for IBW2026 to give you a chance to be part of how this year’s IBW gets captured. Here’s what’s up for grabs:

Keone Hon joins IBW2026 as a Keynote Speaker. Keone Hon co-founded Monad (@monad) in 2022 and today serves as co-founder and GM of the Monad Foundation. Prior to Monad, Keone spent eight years at Jump Trading as a quant and trading team lead. At Jump Trading, he built and led a high-frequency trading team responsible for tens of billions of dollars in daily notional volume across major futures markets. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Introducing Offstage: A weekly series of interviews with top voices from the web3 ecosystem in India. For us at IBW, it’s always been about bringing the biggest Web3 ecosystem and companies into one room and giving them a space to show people what they have got for them. With Offstage, we bring the same value add plus a cheeky personal side to all the guests.

Our first IBW2026 keynote speaker is hidden somewhere in this photo. Two things to do: guess the speaker, then zoom in, pick any scene and caption it. Get the speaker right and we'll pick up to 5 captions we love, with a special surprise for the winners. Drop your answers in the replies.

Eli Ben-Sasson (@EliBenSasson) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Co-founder and CEO of StarkWare (@StarkWareLtd) and co-founder of Zcash (@Zcash), co-inventor of ZK-STARK proofs, FRI, and Zerocash protocols. Transforming cryptography and “moon math” into real-world technology, delivering scale, privacy, and post-quantum security for blockchain. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

You found him. The hidden IBW2026 Keynote Speaker was Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare. The winners are: @Sam_Murphy1111 @MuskaanSyed4 @Drmetavers We will send each of you a signed copy of Eli's book, Zero Knowledge, Infinite Trust.

Aishwary Gupta (@0xAishwary) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Global Head of Business at Polygon (@0xPolygon), a role he stepped into this year to lead Polygon's push into regulated stablecoin payments and global money movement. A Chartered Accountant by training, he previously built Polygon's institutional and enterprise partnerships worldwide. 1-2 November. Mumbai.