TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026

The numbers

Every figure links to where it came from. Attendance for an event that has not happened is a projection, and each row says so rather than presenting it as a count.

• Expected attendees25,000

  Organiser's projection for the 2026 edition, not an audited count. Coingabbar

• Countries represented160+

  Organiser's figure for the 2026 edition. Coingabbar

• Speakers300

  Across the main stages and side programming, organiser's figure. Coingabbar

• Exhibitor booths500

  Across all five floors of Marina Bay Sands. Coingabbar

• Companies attending7,000+

  Organiser's figure, with roughly 60 per cent of attendees stated as C-level. Coingabbar

What it is

TOKEN2049 Singapore is the anchor of Asia's crypto calendar. The conference itself runs two days at Marina Bay Sands, but the reason people fly in is the week built around it: several hundred side events, dinners and parties across the island, most of them free to attend and most of them announced late. Treating the two days as the whole thing is the most common way to waste the trip.

Who goes

Founders raising, funds deploying, exchanges and infrastructure companies selling, and a large contingent who come purely for the side programme. The organiser puts C-level participation around 60 per cent, which is unusually high for a conference of this size and is the honest reason the ticket prices hold. If you are looking for developers rather than decision makers, the builder-heavy events are a better use of the budget.

Tickets and costs

Tickets are tiered and rise as the event approaches, so the cost of deciding late is real and measurable. Marina Bay Sands hotel inventory goes early and prices roughly double across the week, so accommodation is usually the larger line item. Booking outside the Marina Bay area and using the MRT is the standard way to halve that, and Singapore is one of the few cities where doing so costs you almost nothing in travel time.

Worth knowing before you book

The conference floor is not where the week is won. Most meaningful conversations happen at side events, and the good ones fill days in advance through Luma links passed around privately rather than through any central listing. Line those up before you land. The second thing first-timers get wrong is scheduling back-to-back meetings inside the venue: Marina Bay Sands spans five floors and moving between them at peak takes longer than anyone budgets for.