Blockchain Life 2026 in Dubai: Speakers, Venue, Programme and Tickets
Partner announcement. This material is published in partnership with the organisers of Blockchain Life. The figures and programme details below come from them.
Blockchain Life, one of the longest-running crypto forums, holds its 17th edition on December 1–2, 2026 at Festival Arena in Dubai. The organisers expect 15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ speakers and 200+ sponsors, plus 30,000+ guests across the side events of the week. Here is what is known so far about the line-up, the programme, the venue and the tickets.
Who is speaking
Among the speakers confirmed by the organisers:
- Eli Ben-Sasson – Co-Founder and CEO, StarkWare
- Arthur Hayes – CIO, Maelstrom
- Ben Zhou – Co-Founder and CEO, Bybit
- Garrett “Bullish” Jin – crypto whale
- Sandeep Nailwal – Co-Founder, Polygon
- Mert Mumtaz – CEO, Helius
- Yat Siu – Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Animoca Brands
- Kelvin Koh – Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Spartan Group
- Jamie King – Co-Founder, Rockstar Games
- Tony Ashraf – Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Asset Transformation, BlackRock
- Luke Judges – Partner Director, Ripple
- Marius Smith – Co-Founder, Ethereum Institutional
- Sunny Lu – Co-Founder and CEO, VeChain
- Felix Fan – CEO, Trust Wallet
- Andrei Grachev – Managing Partner, DWF Labs
- Vugar Usi Zade – CEO, MEXC
- Saeeda Jaffar – Managing Director International, Circle
- Rajat Sakhuja – Director, Blockchain and Digital Assets, Mastercard
- Daniil and David Liberman – creators of Gonka AI and Humanism
What is on the agenda
The programme is split into tracks, each built around questions the audience asks most, according to the organisers:
- Trading: whether to buy Bitcoin now or wait, the next altseason, what whales are buying, avoiding liquidation and taking profits
- Mining: profitability, start-up costs, which rigs are worth it, where power is cheapest and whether mining sites can also power AI
- AI Future: AI agents, which jobs AI changes next, building a business with AI, tools worth paying for and robots at work
- Blockchain: which chains win, speed and security, privacy, quantum risk and interoperability
- Finance: stablecoins, living on crypto, DeFi returns, tokenised stocks and how crypto changes banks
- Investments and institutions: where big money is going, ETFs, how funds pick projects and portfolio building
- Web3 and startups: crypto apps, wallet safety, creators, prediction markets and the Startup Pitch
Formats
Beyond keynotes, panel discussions and live interviews, the two days include a global expo of crypto companies, a Startup Pitch, networking areas and an official app for smart networking, the Blockchain Life Awards 2026 and a closing afterparty. The forum is co-located with AI Future Forum, and the whole Blockchain Life and AI Future Week brings 300+ side events: meetings, closed-door sessions, business dinners and parties.
Venue: Festival Arena, Dubai
The forum takes place at Festival Arena in Dubai Festival City. The organisers call Dubai the world crypto capital and point to its regulation, near-zero taxes for business, 0% personal income tax, access to venture capital and a large local crypto community.
Tickets
Every ticket also grants access to AI Future Forum. Early-bird prices at the time of writing, according to the organisers’ site:
- Standard – $189 (next price $229): expo and conference halls, the networking app, drinks
- Business – $329 (next $449): Standard plus a gourmet lunch and video recordings of the talks
- VIP – $999 (next $1,379): Business plus VIP registration, the VIP and speaker lounge and the official afterparty at Privilege Club on December 2, 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
Tickets are on the organisers’ site: blockchain-life.com. CryptoJazz readers get 10% off with promo code jazz. See you at the Forum!