Operators, Allocators, And Infrastructure Builders: The Participants Making HSC Conference Ho Chi Minh 2026 The Region’s Most Consequential Digital Asset Gathering
In Brief
HSC Conference Ho Chi Minh City 2026 unites crypto and finance leaders to explore digital asset adoption across Southeast Asia on August 15.
The upcoming HSC Conference in Ho Chi Minh City is set to bring together an exceptional roster of participants, uniting leaders from crypto, institutional finance, and emerging technology to explore the trends and opportunities defining the next phase of digital asset adoption in Southeast Asia and beyond.
Taking place on August 15, 2026, the conference will convene founders, executives, policymakers, and investors at the intersection of blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, and on-chain financial markets — with a dedicated focus on Vietnam’s growing role in the regional digital economy.
Among the notable participating companies in the Ho Chi Minh City edition are HashKey Group, Tether, Nuvei, Ondo Finance, Bitstamp, Ledger Enterprise, OpenEden, Dragon Capital, Hashgraph, Birdeye, Republic Advisory, Kanga Global, Orderly, and SCVentures, alongside other organisations shaping the future of institutional and digital finance.
Here is a look at some of the conference’s top participants.
HashKey Group
Across Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, and Bermuda, HashKey Group has built Asia’s most comprehensive licensed digital asset operation — spanning trading platforms, asset management, tokenisation, and infrastructure services. Its 2026 momentum has been considerable: its Dubai subsidiary received VARA approval to offer regulated cryptocurrency perpetual futures, its exchange platforms were merged into a unified multi-jurisdictional app, and institutional staking services launched in partnership with BitGo. For attendees, HashKey offers a firsthand look at what regulated, multi-jurisdictional digital asset operations look like in practice across Asia’s most active markets.
Nuvei
Few fintech companies have moved as decisively into both stablecoin infrastructure and AI-driven payments as Nuvei. It received its MiCAR Crypto-Asset Service Provider license in December 2025 and was an early pilot for Visa’s stablecoin merchant settlement program. In July 2026, Nuvei completed a live agentic payment proof of concept with Visa, targeting launch of its protocol-agnostic execution layer in H2 2026. Those looking to understand where payments infrastructure is heading — from stablecoin rails to AI-driven commerce — will find Nuvei’s APAC perspective directly relevant.
Tether
No single company has done more to make stablecoins a global monetary reality than Tether. USDT reached approximately $187–190 billion in market capitalisation in 2026, controlling around 58% of total stablecoin liquidity. In Southeast Asia, Tether has been central to the GOE Alliance — bringing together Tether, Ava Labs, Sky Mavis, Republic, and Onchain Academy — to build stablecoin infrastructure across Vietnam following the country’s formal recognition of digital assets as property. For everyone focused on payments and financial access, Tether offers ground-level insight into how stablecoins are becoming real monetary infrastructure in the region.
Birdeye
Built for the speed and complexity of on-chain markets, Birdeye gives traders, developers, and enterprises real-time intelligence on token activity, liquidity, and wallet behaviour across decentralised ecosystems. The platform aggregates data from over 400 decentralised exchanges and serves more than 4,000 enterprise data clients, establishing itself as the leading crypto trading data provider on Solana while expanding into institutional market intelligence. As a Vietnam-founded company with a global footprint, Birdeye brings to the conference a builder’s perspective on what data infrastructure the on-chain economy actually needs at scale.
Republic Advisory
Where institutions and Web3 projects need to move from concept to market, Republic Advisory steps in as the strategic and tokenisation arm of Republic, one of the world’s largest alternative investment platforms. The firm designs sustainable token economies and deploys digital assets in partnership with ambitious Web3 ventures, working across token design, governance, and corporate treasury strategy. In Vietnam specifically, Republic has been actively building the country’s Web3 foundation through policy and legal advisory, including its role in the GOE Alliance alongside Tether and Ava Labs. For those navigating market entry, regulatory positioning, or tokenisation strategy in Southeast Asia, Republic Advisory is a direct resource.
SCVentures
Standard Chartered’s innovation and venture arm, SCVentures, has become one of TradFi’s most consequential actors in the digital asset space — not through announcements, but through capital deployment. In May 2026, it made a strategic investment in GSR, becoming the firm’s first external strategic shareholder since its founding in 2013. In July, SC Ventures joined a $355 million round for Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton blockchain network, alongside a16z crypto and Shinhan Financial Group. For attendees asking what institutional blockchain adoption looks like beyond pilots, SCVentures is among the clearest answers currently operating in the market.
A Comprehensive Cross-Section Of Capital, Infrastructure, And Institutional Expertise
The HSC Conference Ho Chi Minh City 2026 will bring together a wide-ranging cast of operators, builders, and capital allocators — each representing a distinct layer of the digital asset economy as it matures across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Capital allocation and investment perspectives will be delivered by Dragon Capital, Onigiri Capital, FXHB Asset Management, and The Spartan Group, alongside HSC Asset Group itself — offering a direct insight into how professional capital is being positioned across digital assets, tokenised instruments, and emerging market opportunities in the current cycle. The AI investment outlook will be represented by GenAI Fund, grounding the conference’s technology discussion in real deployment decisions rather than speculation.
Institutional finance and regulated infrastructure will be front and centre through Nuvei and SC Ventures, whose speakers lead digital asset strategy and fintech investment respectively across APAC — bringing the perspective of global financial institutions that are actively integrating blockchain rails and stablecoin settlement into operational workflows. Bitstamp by Robinhood, represented at the liquidity panel, adds an established exchange lens on how institutional-grade trading venues are adapting to a fragmented, multi-venue market landscape.
Blockchain infrastructure, protocol development, and ecosystem expansion are covered by a notably diverse set of participants. Hashgraph, Monad, Metis, Orderly, and Solana Superteam Vietnam each bring distinct views on scalability, developer adoption, and the technical conditions required for Web3 infrastructure to move beyond pilots. Varmeta and DCP Co., Ltd. contribute real-world enterprise blockchain deployment experience, grounding the discussion in what adoption actually requires at the business level.
The tokenisation and RWA segment draws on some of the sector’s most active operators: Centrifuge, Ondo Finance, and OpenEden each approach on-chain asset infrastructure from different angles — from credit markets and yield-bearing instruments to regulated tokenised funds — making their combined presence on the Tokenization Era panel one of the day’s most substantive conversations. Custody infrastructure will be addressed by Cactus Custody and Ledger Enterprise, representing both institutional-grade custody architecture and the hardware security layer underpinning self-sovereign asset management.
Stablecoin and payments dynamics will be explored through Tether and IDRX, alongside 1inch’s DeFi liquidity perspective and CoinTracking’s compliance and analytics view — collectively mapping what comes after stablecoins’ rise to payments dominance. Rounding out the programme, SotaTek and OpenMax will lead the Vietnam-focused AI discussion alongside GenAI Fund, while policy and advisory depth is provided by TOTM Labs, Republic Advisory, APAC DAO, and RMIT University Vietnam — ensuring regulatory frameworks, market-entry strategy, and academic rigour all have a seat at the table.
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Alisa, a dedicated journalist at the MPost, specializes in crypto, AI, investments, and the expansive realm of Web3. With a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, she delivers comprehensive coverage to inform and engage readers in the ever-evolving landscape of digital finance.
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