600 of you now get this on a Friday. Thank you for being here this early — half of you open it, which is not something a young list can take for granted.
This issue carries 18 events through the end of November: seven countries and five online. Most are onchain and digital assets — bitcoin, stablecoins, tokenisation, ETPs. The rest are the rooms where that meets payments, banking, capital markets and policy. Week 45 alone has six, four of them on the same two days: Stockholm, Riga, Tallinn, Fornebu and Amsterdam at once.
Two of them are ours: Impact Onchain with FirstBlock-athon Stockholm on 4 November, in English, and tomorrow's studio conversation with Bitcoinpolitisk Institutt Norge, in Norwegian.
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
Hvem lytter til Bitcoin i Norge?
BPI in the Kaupr studio
A Kaupr virtual event with Bitcoinpolitisk Institutt Norge · Saturday 31 October · 15:00–16:30 CET · Live online · In Norwegian
Who in Norway is actually listening to bitcoin — the banks, the central bank, the politicians? Who listens to BPI itself? And where does bitcoin sit next to stablecoins, tokenisation and the rest of the digital asset wave? Secretary general Morten Søberg and others from the organisation, in the studio.
The date is not an accident: 31 October is the day Satoshi Nakamoto published the bitcoin white paper in 2008. Towards the end of the broadcast we run an open, verifiable draw based on a bitcoin block hash, and bring the winner of BPI's recruitment campaign on live. Free, and it is a webinar, so you can take part in the chat rather than only watch.
Impact Onchain
From hackathon to real projects
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 shortly. Free, live on Kaupr.io and YouTube, with the recording available afterwards.
Registration opens here first, before anywhere else. Register for Impact Onchain →
OSLO BLOCKCHAIN MEETUP
Kaupr is a partner of Oslo Blockchain Meetup, which meets monthly in Oslo and is free to attend. The next one is in this issue: crypto tax on 25 November.
THE FULL CALENDAR
Week 44 · 26 October – 1 November
Hvem lytter til Bitcoin i Norge? — Online, 31 October, 15:00–16:30 CET. That is tomorrow. Our own event, with Bitcoinpolitisk Institutt Norge: who in Norway is listening to bitcoin, and where BPI goes next. On the anniversary of the white paper, with a live draw for a trip to El Salvador. In Norwegian. Free. Register
Week 45 · 2–8 November
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 shortly. Free. Register
Nasdaq Nordic Crypto ETP Forum — Nasdaq Stockholm Studio, 4 November, 14:30–19:30. Nasdaq brings together BlackRock, Nordnet, Bitwise, 21Shares, WisdomTree, CoinShares, HANetf, Virtune and Safello on crypto ETPs, institutional adoption and tokenisation, with a keynote by Haytham Mousa of iShares. Few seats left, and Nasdaq is handling them directly — contact Sylvester Andersen or Håkon Holm Østvedt. Programme
Baltic Capital Markets Conference — ATTA Centre, Riga, 5 November. Fifth edition, from Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns, SEB, Signet Bank, BDO and COBALT with Nasdaq Baltic behind it. Mostly a traditional capital markets programme, but one session goes at the future of securities settlement: distributed ledger technology, tokenised securities and post-trade infrastructure, with Nasdaq CSD, Clearstream, Latvijas Banka and Mintos. balticcapmarkconference.com
Tallinn Digital Summit — Tallinn, 5–6 November. "How to Thrive in the Agentic Era?" from ICDS with the Estonian government: AI applied to governance and competitiveness, digital resilience, and new democratic formats. Prime minister Kristen Michal, EU commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallinn and OECD secretary-general Mathias Cormann. Not onchain, but the Baltic room where agentic AI meets policy. Delegate pass by application. tds.icds.ee
Betaling- og digitaliseringskonferansen — Quality Hotel Expo, Fornebu, 5–6 November. Finans Norge's annual payments conference. AI in payments is the headline theme, but the session that matters here is digital money: stablecoins, the digital euro and Norges Bank's strategic projects. Torbjørn Hægeland (Norges Bank), Rune Garborg (Vipps MobilePay), Lars Erik Tellmann (Nets), Ole Morten Sunde (DNB) and Wenche Fagereng (Finanstilsynet). In Norwegian. Registration formally closed on 28 October. finansnorge.no
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
Week 46 · 9–15 November
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
Digital Asset Summit London — Hilton Park Lane, London, 10–11 November. Blockworks' institutional event: stablecoins and payments, tokenised assets and onchain finance, policy and DeFi risk, for asset managers, banks, allocators and regulators. George Osborne (OpenAI), Nikhil Sharma (BlackRock), Emma Landriault (JPMorganChase), Faryar Shirzad (Coinbase) and Dan Morehead (Pantera). General admission from $1,299. blockworks.com
Board & Exec level: What's next in Tokenisation — Online, 11 November, 12:00–13:00 CET. A 60-minute public webinar from The Investment Association, aimed at boards and executive committees at asset managers: which changes in issuance, collateral and settlement warrant attention now, and what evidence a board should require before acting. theia.org
Stable Summit and Capital Summit — London, 13 November. Stable Summit calls itself the global conference on stablecoins and capital allocation onchain, running alongside Capital Summit. Three days after Digital Asset Summit in the same city, so one trip covers both. stablesummit.xyz
Week 47 · 16–22 November
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
Bitcoin Suisse Europe launches in the Nordics — La Voûte, Bank Hotel, Stockholm, 19 November, doors 17:30 CET. The Swiss crypto bank opening for Nordic institutional clients, which is the news here as much as the evening itself. CEO Roman Przibylla and head of research Dominic Weibel on the market outlook, then Pernilla van der Capellen of Aspia on Swedish tax treatment of digital assets. Ammy Edberg and Kristoffer Nystrom are the Nordic general managers. Limited capacity, invitation personal. Register
Exklusiv kväll med Bitwise — Sturegatan 15, Stockholm, 19 November, 18:00–19:15. Unga Aktiesparare Stockholm with Bitwise. Marco Poblete, Bitwise's Nordic head, on bitcoin and the largest crypto assets: how they work, the role they play in today's market, and where he sees it going. Questions from the floor. In Swedish, limited places.
Week 48 · 23–29 November
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
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