A Kaupr virtual event with FirstBlock-athon Stockholm · Wednesday 4 November · 11:00–12:30 CET · Live online

In September, eight teams spent five days building in Stockholm. Then everyone went home.

This event is about what happens next. Not a look back at the hackathon, but a look at what it actually takes to turn five days of building into a project that survives contact with the real world — funding, partners, pilots, and the people who have to say yes.

It is also about blockchain beyond finance more broadly. The question is not limited to the eight challenge areas from September, and neither are the people we are bringing in.

Speakers and programme announced in the coming weeks. Free, live on Kaupr.io and YouTube, with the recording available afterwards.

Registration opens here first, before anywhere else. Register for Impact Onchain →

OIW Opening Party at Mesh — Mesh Youngstorget, Oslo, 19 October, from 19:30. The official opening of Oslo Innovation Week, with the Mesh Hall of Fame induction at 20:15 and a ping pong tournament after. More than a thousand guests last year. Register

VNTR Investor Roundtable — Oslo, during Oslo Innovation Week, 13:15–16:45. A curated gathering for investors, family offices and angels, with spotlight sessions on AI, bitcoin, psychedelics and peptides. Hosts include Torbjørn Bull Jenssen. Free, approval only, venue given after registration. Request to join

e-Crime & Cybersecurity Congress Nordics — Copenhagen, 20 October. The twentieth edition. Marcus Mølleskov of Januar joins Jan Jans of the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority on turning risk appetite and regulatory expectations into practical resilience. Programme and registration

The future of financial services — Stortingsgata 6, Oslo, 21 October, 08:30–10:30. A breakfast session from Itera and Bits on what Nordic and Ukrainian banks can teach each other about resilience. Volodymyr Ponomarov of Ukrgasbank opens online, then Eivind Gjemdal and Arne Mjøs on what DORA is doing to priorities. itera.com

Capital Sessions at Arkade Day — LAC Lugano, 21 October, 10:00–12:30. The morning programme of Ark Labs' Arkade Day, co-hosted by the Swedish-listed H100. Sander Andersen opens on growing bitcoin per share in Europe. CHF 50 including lunch and the afternoon Builder Lab. Tickets

Where Bitcoin Meets Credit — Online, 21 October. Bitcoin-backed credit as a product category: preferred shares, convertibles and structured yield, with pricing data and case studies of companies that have raised capital against their bitcoin. Free, pay what you like. Register

Plan ₿ Forum — Lugano, 23–24 October. The core of Plan ₿ Week. Paolo Ardoino, Adam Back, Elizabeth Stark and Samson Mow head the programme — but underneath sit the names that matter here: Bitcoin Suisse, Sygnum and Luzerner Kantonalbank on the bank side, Twenty One Capital and Capital B on treasury, and Debifi on bitcoin-backed lending. Peer pass CHF 249 early bird. planb.lugano.ch

MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking — Bella Center, Copenhagen, 27–28 October. The region's largest banking and payments conference, with more than 800 senior attendees from the Nordics and Baltics. AI in payments, digital wallets, cross-border payments, CBDCs and SME lending. moneylive-insights.com

Oslo Blockchain Meetup: Nexa — Oslo, 28 October, 17:00. jQrgen of Bitcoin Unlimited presents what makes the Nexa chain different, with a live tech demo. Kaupr is a partner of Oslo Blockchain Meetup. RSVP through Meetup

The Cantillon effect and money — Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 29 October, 19:00–20:00. A Satoshi talk from Bitcoinpolitisk institutt on Richard Cantillon, whose monetary theory is cited ever more often in bitcoin circles nearly three hundred years after his death. Free, in Norwegian, released as a podcast afterwards. Programme and seats

Impact Onchain — Online, 4 November, 11:00–12:30 CET. Our own event, with FirstBlock-athon Stockholm: what it takes to turn five days of building in Stockholm into a project that lasts, and what blockchain beyond finance needs more broadly. Speakers announced in the coming weeks. Free. Register

Bitcoin Amsterdam — SugarFactory, Amsterdam, 5–6 November. Fifth year, presented by Treasury, with a closed-door symposium on capital allocation and bitcoin treasury strategies the day before. Jack Mallers, David Bailey and Keith Grose on stage — and three banks with digital-asset desks: Rabobank, Luzerner Kantonalbank and Maerki Baumann. bitcoin.amsterdam

Stablecoins going institutional — Online, 10 November, 10:00–10:50 CET. A coffee chat from Januar. Simon Ousager with Patrick Hansen, senior director of EU strategy and policy at Circle: what has to change for euro stablecoins to grow, and the custody, liquidity and compliance plumbing underneath. Free. Register

Slush — Helsinki, 18–19 November. Twelve thousand attendees, two hundred speakers and six hundred side events. Not an onchain event, but the week most of the Nordic ecosystem is in one city. Watch out via Kaupr Events for upcoming side events in the digital asset space. slush.org

Stablecoins og digital assets — Online, 19 November, 08:30–09:30 CET. Nordic Blockchain Association with Finansforbundet. Jakob Mikkel Hansen on the use cases taking shape in payments and banking, what MiCA changed for the European market, and the geopolitics of dollar dominance. In Danish, free, with live Q&A. Sign up

Investing in social solutions — Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo, 25 November, 12:00–16:00. NorNAB with Ferd Sosiale Entreprenører on what private capital can solve and which solutions are worth backing. Johan H. Andresen, Michele Giddens of Bridges Fund Management, Maja Engholm Pedersen of Novo Holdings, Paarul Dudeja, André Støylen and Silje Veen. Register interest

Oslo Blockchain Meetup: Krypto-skatt — Universitetsgata 2, Oslo, 25 November, 17:00–19:00. Reese Legal on the tax rules for crypto: gains and losses, DeFi transactions, loans and gifts, and what happens when it is reported wrong — with examples from Skatteetaten's practice. In Norwegian. Kaupr is a partner of Oslo Blockchain Meetup. RSVP through Meetup

Nordic Banking Forum — Helsinki, 25–26 November. "Who writes the rules. Nordic banking rewritten." A strategy day on the 25th, then the conference on the 26th with more than forty speakers. Early bird until 31 October: €895 for financial institutions. nordicbankingforum.com

A joint event by Kaupr and Virtune · 7 October

Christopher Kock and Andreas Severin of Virtune on the tokenization trend, the platforms behind it, and how investors reach them through regulated ETPs. Ninety minutes, moderated by Morten Myrstad.

Watch the recording →

We also wrote it up: what tokenisation actually runs on, in Onchain Finance.

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