Southeast Asia Blockchain Week

SEABW 2026 marked a defining moment for Southeast Asia's digital asset industry.

Co-hosted by @hashed_official and @0xShardLab, the two-day conference at ICONSIAM Hall pulled together Thai and Indonesian regulators, leadership from SCBX, @BitkubOfficial, and Ascend Bit, and global industry leaders including @circle, @tether, and the @SolanaFndn.

The program spanned mainstage sessions, four closed-door roundtables on RWA, tokenization, stablecoins, and AI, and an AI Hackathon with 92 competing teams.

Most markets have some regulatory momentum or institutional appetite. Southeast Asia is one of the few regions where both are maturing at the same time, and SEABW 2026 was where that convergence became visible.

Full press release → apnews.com/press-release/…

Last week, 92 teams showed up with nothing but an idea and an AI tool.

24 hours later, 10 of them pitched live on the SEABW stage. Here's what happened:

🥇 BEBRIDGE · Project RWANDA
🥈 Team Laralab · FeedAI
🥉 Predict Sea · AstroNeko

Grand prize: BEBRIDGE for RWANDA, an AI-powered system that grades RWA token trustworthiness and flags de-pegging risk before it hits retail investors.

130+ builders. 20+ countries. Every single one of them shipped.

Special thanks to our judges: Ryan Kim @0xryankim (@hashed_official), Chanakarn Muangmangkhang (@SCB10X_OFFICIAL), Jun Lee (@0xShardLab), Gun Clawvuthinan @KingBund (@ApeXCrypto22), and Gobind Chawla @gobindchawla07 (@BitkubOfficial).

Thank you for making Play to Build everything we hoped it would be.

See you at the next one. 🙏

#SEABW2026 #AI #Hackathon

Shoutout to our official media partner @Genzio. They ran the podcast booth across both days of #SEABW2026 and capturing conversations with some of the most remarkable voices at the event.

Really grateful for their team and @DavidThaDegen for hosting. 🎙️

Now that SEABW 2026 has officially wrapped, it’s hard not to look back at the past few days and realize how much the industry is evolving in real time.

From institutional conversations around tokenization, stablecoins, and digital asset infrastructure to AI hackathons, creator economies, and community-driven innovation, Bangkok became a meeting point for nearly every major narrative shaping the next phase of Web3.

What made SEABW stand out wasn’t just the scale of the event — it was the mix of builders, founders, regulators, enterprises, creators, and communities all genuinely engaging with where the space is heading next.

A huge thank you to everyone who spoke, built, organized, sponsored, attended, and contributed throughout the week.

Southeast Asia continues to establish itself as one of the most important regions in global crypto and Web3.

Until next year 🇹🇭

Congratulations to the winners of the Play to Build AI Hackathon at SEABW 2026.

Over the past days, builders from across the region turned ideas into working products — from AI-powered local discovery tools and travel coordination platforms to infrastructure for evaluating real-world assets and improving accessibility through automation.

What stood out most wasn’t just the speed of development, but how many teams focused on solving practical, real-world problems with AI and blockchain infrastructure.

Southeast Asia’s builder ecosystem continues to prove why it’s becoming one of the most important innovation hubs in Web3.

Congrats to all the teams, mentors, judges, and organizers who made it happen.