The stablecoin and crypto payments landscape is maturing fast. In 2026, the calendar is packed with events where traditional finance meets blockchain rails.

This isn't a comprehensive dump of every crypto conference. Instead, we’ve curated the events that matter most if you're building, investing in, or deploying stablecoin infrastructure and payment solutions.

The Stablecoin-Specific Forums

Stablecon EMEA

📍 May 19–20 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stablecon EMEA is the first dedicated stablecoin conference for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. If you're navigating EU MiCA regulations, evaluating euro-backed stablecoins, or just want to understand what “stablecoins in production” means for enterprises, this is a top-tier choice.

Stablecon USA

📍 September 9–11 | Washington, DC, USA

Stablecon USA is the flagship edition of Stablecon. If you want clarity on what rules might look like, how major issuers and infra providers are positioning, and what institutional integration pathways are emerging, this is an anchor event.

The Crypto-Native Anchors

TOKEN2049 Dubai

📍 April 29–30 | Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE

TOKEN2049 is crypto-native, but Dubai has become a serious hub for payments, stablecoins, and regulated market infrastructure. You’ll get a broad spectrum ranging from wallets, exchanges, stablecoin issuers, compliance vendors, infra providers, and a lot of enterprise-adjacent conversations.

The most useful way to approach TOKEN2049 is to treat it as a market map generator. In two days you can learn who’s building, who’s distributing, who’s regulated, and where the capital is flowing in payments infrastructure.

Consensus Miami

📍 May 5–7 | Miami Beach, Florida, USA

CoinDesk's Consensus remains crypto's largest annual pilgrimage with 20,000+ attendees and 500+ speakers across six stages.

While broad, and sometimes noisy, it is still a major convergence point for crypto, policy, payment providers, and infrastructure. Importantly, you’ll see how stablecoins sit inside the wider crypto stack.

TOKEN2049 Singapore

📍 October 7–8 | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Singapore is a regulated hub, and TOKEN2049 there tends to skew more “institutional-friendly” than people expect. You’ll see stablecoins, RWAs, and payments show up through the lens of market infrastructure, licensing, and regional distribution.

The Traditional Finance Crossovers

BAFT International Trade & Payments Conference

📍 February 3–5 | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

The Bankers Association for Finance and Trade represents correspondent banks, trade finance desks, FX providers, and the like. Many attendees of the event would be actively workshopping how stablecoins fit into international settlements.

Digital Assets Forum London

📍 February 5–6 | London, UK

Digital Assets Forum is one of the cleanest “institutional lens” conferences on the list. You can expect sessions that treat stablecoins as regulated settlement instruments. You’ll even hear about how stablecoins are used for liquidity management, treasury operations, cross-border payment design, and what “institutional-grade” actually means in practice (custody, auditability, reporting, risk).

Dubai FinTech Summit (DIFC)

📍 May 11–12 | Dubai, UAE

Dubai FinTech Summit is a mainstream fintech event with a Dubai lens. It is regulation-forward, partnership-heavy, and oriented around practical deployment. If you’re thinking about MENA corridors, corporate treasury, or regulated fintech expansion, it’s a serious room.

Sibos Miami

📍 September 28 – October 1 | Miami Beach, Florida, USA

Sibos is SWIFT’s world. That’s exactly why it matters. This is where you learn how conventional finance players think about cross-border payments, standards (like ISO 20022), compliance, and how new forms of money will be tolerated or integrated.

The Regional Powerhouses

FinTech Americas (Miami)

📍 March 24–26 | Miami Beach, Florida, USA

FinTech Americas is a strong regional bet because stablecoins and crypto payments become extremely practical in Latin America. If your enterprise lens includes emerging markets, this conference gives you the market reality and regulatory nuance of LATAM adoption.

GITEX Africa (Marrakech)

📍 April 7–9 | Marrakech, Morocco

GITEX Africa in Marrakech is a strategic “macro” event. You’re not going for stablecoin deep dives, you’re going for where digital payments and cross-border infrastructure are heading in Africa, including interoperability initiatives and regional rails.

Money20/20 Asia (Bangkok)

📍 April 21–23 | Bangkok, Thailand

Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok is one of the best “deal density” environments in fintech. In Asia, it’s especially relevant because you get exposed to real-time payment networks, wallets, super-app ecosystems, and cross-border commerce patterns. Further, Money20/20 Asia shows how stablecoins integrate with that infrastructure, particularly for ASEAN cross-border commerce and remittances.

Global Fintech Fest (Mumbai)

📍 September 8–10 | Mumbai, India

Global Fintech Fest helps you understand what “payments at population scale” looks like. It’s not stablecoin-only, but it’s crucial because stablecoins often compete with, integrate into, or are judged against real-time payment rails and digital public infrastructure (like UPI-style systems).

India's approach to digital public infrastructure is a blueprint for emerging markets, and GFF 2026 will tackle how stablecoins and tokenization fit alongside CBDCs in that vision.

Money20/20 Middle East (Riyadh)

📍 September 14–16 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Money20/20 Middle East in Riyadh is a new regional edition capitalizing on Gulf states' fintech ambitions (Saudi Vision 2030, UAE crypto licensing). Themes include open banking in MENA, government-driven fintech initiatives, and CBDCs

Money20/20 USA (Las Vegas)

📍 October 18–21 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Money20/20 USA is arguably the largest fintech event globally, and 2026's edition will be shaped by U.S. regulatory developments around stablecoins, FedNow adoption, and the collision of open banking with crypto rails. Use the event as a strategic “who’s who” and deal room for enterprise distribution.

Singapore FinTech Festival

📍 November 18–20 | Singapore

Singapore FinTech Festival is one of the world's largest fintech gatherings. Singapore's government uses it to showcase public-private collaboration on financial innovation. The 2026 agenda explicitly highlights "Digital Assets and Tokenization" and building a "new payment settlement layer" with stablecoins and tokenized deposits.

The Payments Industry Essentials

Pay360 (London)

📍 March 25–26 | London, UK

Pay360 is the UK Payments Association's flagship event. Here, the entire payments ecosystem under one roof. If you want payments people (banks, PSPs, card networks, fraud teams, merchants) talking shop, this is it. Stablecoins won’t dominate every track, but you will see where tokenized money is entering mainstream payments conversations.

CrossTech Fintech Fest

📍 November 18-29 | Miami, Florida, USA

CrossTech Fintech Fest is the remittance industry's gathering. If your stablecoin thesis touches remittances, this is one of the most “real-world practical” rooms.

Money transfer operators (Western Union, MoneyGram), fintech startups (Wave, Remitly), and blockchain firms (Ripple, Stellar) converge here.

Choosing Your Calendar

Here's the reality. You can't attend everything. So, prioritize based on your strategic needs. If you have a medium-to-large team, you can use that to your advantage to attend clashing events and maximize your company’s presence.

These events listed here are where infrastructure gets built through uncomfortable but necessary conversations between legacy institutions and crypto-native innovators.

Pick your spots wisely. The future of money is being negotiated, so make sure you're in the room.