Tech Events by Blockchain Scotland

with Prof. Aggelos Kiayias (Chair in Cyber Security & Privacy; Chief Scientist, IOHK, University of Edinburgh) · Aleks Tomczyk (Chief Executive, FinTech Scotland) · Matthew Fisher (CEO, Katana) + 2 more

Blockchain Scotland's second flagship DeFi summit returns to Edinburgh's New Town for a full day on decentralised protocols, tokenisation, risk management, regulation and autonomous finance. Building on the 2025 edition (18 speakers, backed by the Ethereum Foundation, Gnosis, Linea and Nexus Mutual), the 2026 programme is a curated line-up of around 25 speakers across keynotes, panels, fireside chats and lightning talks, spanning institutional DeFi, stablecoins and on-chain banking, tokenised real-world assets, Layer 2 / zkEVM scaling, agentic finance and AI agents, and policy and digital-asset clearing. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Aggelos Kiayias (Chair in Cyber Security & Privacy, University of Edinburgh; Chief Scientist, IOHK), Aleks Tomczyk (Chief Executive, FinTech Scotland), Matthew Fisher (CEO, Katana) and Dominic Marley (Institutional Relations, Lido Finance). Held in a 300-seat auditorium five minutes from Waverley; ticket includes talks, lunch, refreshments and a drinks reception. FinTech Scotland is a community partner.

Edinburgh's most consistent Web3 room returns to the Bayes Centre for an evening of talks, demos and networking on tokenisation, on-chain finance and blockchain infrastructure. Convened by Blockchain Scotland, it draws a genuine mix of developers, founders, researchers and finance professionals. Free admission for developers and students (approval required); general admission is pay-what-you-want. Includes dinner and drinks.

Blockchain Scotland — convened by Maciej Zurawski (Redeem Technologies) — returns to the Bayes Centre for an evening of talks and demos on tokenisation, Web3 infrastructure and on-chain finance. Edinburgh's most consistent Web3 room, drawing a mix of founders, engineers and finance professionals. Suggested £20 contribution covers refreshments.

A full-day summit bringing together leaders from financial services, asset management, law and technology to discuss the tokenisation of real-world assets. Organised by Blockchain Scotland at the University of Edinburgh's Informatics Forum — one of the most substantive fintech events Edinburgh has hosted this year.

The monthly Blockchain Scotland Meetup returns to the Bayes Centre for an evening of talks, demos and networking around blockchain, Web3 and digital assets. Hosted in the ground-floor Bayes Theorem room — a credible venue for one of Edinburgh's most active distributed-tech communities.