Stablecoin Day at Berlin Blockchain Week
Overview
Stablecoins have emerged as a significant innovation in the financial sector in recent years. While traditional cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are known for their volatility, Stablecoins offer a more stable store of value as they are pegged to traditional currencies or other assets. This makes them suitable for payments as well as for new use cases in decentralized finance (DeFi).
In Europe and the EU, the MiCAR regulation came fully into effect at the beginning of the year and also has implications for stablecoins. In the U.S., a crypto-friendly president, Trump, is in office. Has the golden era of stablecoins now begun?
Stablecoin Day is a community-driven event taking place during Berlin Blockchain Week, designed to bring together all players of the digital currency space for engaging discussions and networking.
Stablecoins offer a variety of use cases starting from payments, remittance, treasury up to settlement of digital asset swaps. The event will explore the hot topics from today and what will come tomorrow. Also it will explore technical boundaries of today’s ecosystem like confidentiality and scalability. As Stablecoins can be useful for almost anyone in the world, they have the potential to bridge crypto to the masses.
We're co-organising the event with w3.hub, a well-known Berlin-based crypto community space that provides the ideal setting for thoughtful, panel-style sessions. Together, we aim to create an open and lively environment for meaningful exchange.
We're inviting other Stablecoin and digital currency projects and protocols to join us as co-hosts, too. This is an opportunity to help shape the event, share your perspective with a relevant audience, and gain brand visibility among fellow builders, researchers, and users in the space.
Stablecoin Day is about welcoming our partners, colleagues, and friends to Berlin—and sparking the kinds of conversations that move the ecosystem forward.
Partners
Links
Allunity, Stripe, Superteam Germany / Solana, Liquity, CrossLend - M0 Ecosystem, Wildcat, Leondrino, Ivy, Peanut Protocol, Iron, idOS, Bluerails, Blockchain Bundesverband, Blockstories, w3.group
Program
15:00 - 15:30 - Doors Open / "Breaking the Ice"
15:30 - 15:45 - Opening Speech - Setting the Stage (Moderator of the whole day: Peter Grosskopf / AllUnity)
15:45 - 16:00 - Stablecoins under the hood. Zero costs, instant settlement, Web2 UX meets Web3 Automation & Security (Christoph Jentzsch / Tokenize.it)
16:00 - 16:15 - A better identity system for stablecoin neobanks is possible (Julian Leitloff / idOS)
16:15 - 16:30 - Treasury 2.0 - Why stablecoins will revolutionise how companies move money (Jens Mannanal / Bluerails)
16:30 - 17:00 - Break
17:00 - 17:15 - Stablecoins should be as easy as texting - Learnings from Argentina (Konrad Urban / Peanut Protocol)
17:15 - 17:30 - Ethena vs. Bafin (Alireza Siadat / Blockchain Bundesverband)
17:30 - 17:45 - From Wild West Bankers to Modern Blockchains: The Evolution of Unsecured Credit (Andreas Fletcher / Wildcat)
17:45 - 18:00 - Next Generation Stablecoins (Peter Reuschel / Leondrino)
18:00 - 18:30 - Break
18:30 - 19:15 - Panel 1 - Stablecoin Wars - a battle of concepts (Peter Grosskopf AllUnity, Michael Svoboda Liquidity, Marco Hinz Crosslend - m^zero ecosystem, Patrick Hansen / Circle; Moderation: TBD)
19:15 - 20:00 - Panel 2 - What services and infrastructure does it take to increase mass adoption of Stablecoins? (Maximilian von Wallenberg Iron, Simon Wimmer Ivy, Klaas Flechsig / Stripe; Moderation: Maximilian Vargas / Blockstories)
20:00 - 20:45 - Pizza & Networking (part 1)
20:45 - 21:00 - Fireside Chat: Solana x Stablecoins = <3 (Tamar Menteshashvili / Superteam Germany / Solana, Peter Grosskopf / AllUnity)
21:00 - 22:00 - Outro + Pizza & Networking (part 2)