Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge Returns to Power the Next Era of Digital Assets

Dubai, UAE – 02 October 2025: As the global digital finance evolution accelerates, Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge returns to Dubai Harbour from 12-15 October 2025, convening international innovators, startups, regulators, investors, and tech leaders during Expand North Star, the world’s largest startup and investor connector event powered by GITEX ￰0￱ by Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy and organised by Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), Expand North Star celebrates its 10 th anniversary in 2025 and welcomes the entire global tech community throughout its four-day ￰1￱ presents participants with a unified platform to explore funding, scaling, and deal flow opportunities while showcasing industry best practices and driving inclusive digital growth across emerging and established markets.

A key feature of the 2025 programme is Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge , the region’s premier blockchain and fintech gathering, established as the single destination where blockchain, fintech, and Web3 unite with the wider innovation ￰2￱ embedded payments and Web3 banking to open finance, AI-driven platforms, and beyond, the summit aims to redefine finance through blockchain and inspire the creation of next-generation financial ￰3￱ year’s centrepiece is the Digital Assets Forum , sponsored by YPAY, convening regulators, banks, investors, and innovators to examine the new market structure of ￰4￱ will gain exclusive access to a one-day deep dive into CBDCs and stablecoins, tokenised capital markets, cross-border regulation, inclusive payment systems, and AI’s pivotal role in risk and ￰5￱ the exhibition and conference stages, participants can expect exclusive insights on policy, regulation, and enterprise adoption alongside product showcases and live demos that connect corporate innovation teams with disruptive ￰6￱ matchmaking will facilitate one-to-one meetings between founders and global capital, while a curated demo program spotlights the newest market deployment ￰7￱ exhibiting at Expand North Star will be automatically enrolled in the Supernova Challenge, the world’s largest startup pitch competition and a launchpad propelling high-growth ￰8￱ will pitch live before global judges, tech media, and leading investors, competing for their share of a US$214,000 equity-free prize pool.

Additionally, Headline, Gold, and Bronze Sponsors anchor this year’s agenda: Ruya as Headline Sponsor, OKX as Gold Sponsor, and DKK Partners as Bronze Sponsor, with YPAY supporting the Digital Assets ￰9￱ Koster, CEO of Ruya, said: “We’re excited to take part in Fintech Surge and the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai this ￰10￱ events provide an ideal platform to highlight how ethical Islamic Finance, fintech, and blockchain technologies come together to deliver integrated solutions.” Reinforcing Dubai’s position as a global meeting point for digital assets, visionary leaders from exchanges, foundations, and enterprise Web3 will appear on ￰11￱ include Jimmy Su, Chief Security Officer – Binance, Eric Piscini, CEO – Hashgraph, Oliver Stauber, CEO – KuCoin, Lily Liu, President – Solana Foundation, and Kevin Lee, Chief Business Officer – ￰12￱ Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge invites founders, corporates, regulators, and investors to join a programme designed to move the market forward, with sessions, showcases, and structured connections that translate ideas into ￰13￱ event registration and information, please visit the official ￰14￱ Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge is the MENA region’s most immersive large-scale blockchain event and leading fintech ￰15￱ on Dubai’s status as a global Web3 hub, the event will unite the entire blockchain and finance ecosystem and provide a leading platform to foster ￰16￱ by GITEX GLOBAL, the eighth edition of Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge will bring together more than 1,000 investors, 150 exhibitors, and 120 speakers from across the world at the iconic Dubai Harbour, from 12-17 October ￰17￱ will take place alongside Expand North Star, GITEX Impact, Fintech Surge, and Marketing ￰18￱ Expand North Star Expand North Star 2025, the world’s largest startup and investor connector event, convenes leading founders, VCs, tech innovators, and ecosystem enablers at Dubai Harbour from 12-15 October ￰19￱ by the Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy and organised by Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), Expand North Star features four co-located events: Future Blockchain Summit x Fintech Surge, GITEX IMPACT, and Marketing ￰20￱ year’s 10th edition welcomes over 1,800 global startup exhibitors, 1,000 investors, and 350 speakers from 100 ￰21￱ show is inspired by the world largest tech show, GITEX GLOBAL, which takes place at DWTC from 13-17 October 2025.