The first and largest summit in Monaco — WAIB Summit — will take place on June 27-28, 2025, dedicated to Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI), bringing together world leaders, investors, and innovators, according to a press release shared by the organizers with Incrypted.

Dutch Blockchain Week 2025 conference will be held in Amsterdam from May 19 to 25, 2025. It will bring together the industry’s biggest players, leading startups and regulators from around the world, organizers said.

In the first quarter of 2025, losses from hacker attacks in the Web3 sector reached $1.98 billion — this is 96% more than in the same period last year. This is according to a report by Hacken experts, which they shared with Incrypted.

In March 2025, 125 Web3 and blockchain projects attracted investments, with $3.33 billion going to 96 companies. The Incrypted editorial team analyzed these funding rounds in detail.

Ukrainian civil servants filed 2113 declarations with mentions of cryptocurrencies for 2024. This is 2,2 times more than before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, follows from the data of Opendatbot.

The cp0x team has launched the Permissionless Interfaces website, which allows you to bypass the restrictions embedded in the interface of popular DeFi solutions. This is a non-commercial project that aims to make such products more accessible.

Paris Blockchain Week conference will be held from April 8 to 10, 2025. As part of this event, a startup competition Crypto: Start in Block with a prize fund of $10 million will be held.

Cryptocurrency exchange Backpack announced the start of a two-stage refund process for customers of the European division of the bankrupt FTX platform. This was reported to Incrypted by the company.

The TOKEN2049 Dubai Global Conference will be held in the United Arab Emirates between April 30 and May 1, 2025. Organizers say tickets are almost sold out and will increase in price from April 3.

On April 5-6, 2025, the Bahamut project team will hold a hackathon with a $10 000 prize fund as part of Paris Blockchain Week 2025, which will take place from April 8-10.

The Arcium project, which bills itself as a high-performance “encrypted supercomputer,” has announced the launch of the Encrypted Ecosystem, a network of projects exploring its technology to accelerate encrypted computing and empower the data-driven world.

On March 26, 2025, another incident of manipulation with the HLP Vault mechanism occurred on Hyperliquid. An anonymous trader triggered the liquidation of a margin short position on the Jelly-My-Jelly (JELLYJELLY) token, forcing the platform to assume loss-making obligations.

Ethereum Ukraine team announced a one-day hackathon ETHKyiv Impulse: Farcaster Frames Edition. The event is dedicated to the development of Frames — innovative interactive mini-applications for the decentralized social network Farcaster.

On April 16-17, 2025, the FastBull Finance Summit event will be held in Dubai for the first time, bringing together leading industry leaders, investors, and financial experts. They will discuss new trends, share unique knowledge, and create opportunities for cooperation, the organizers said.

The Bitcoin 2025 conference, which will take place between May 27 and 29 in Las Vegas, will see the return of the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program. The organizers of the event, in a conversation with Incrypted, stated that CLE is aimed at lawyers, CFOs, auditors, startup founders and top management.

Messaging service YoPhone in collaboration with Bahamut Grants program has announced a new contest aimed at developers and IT professionals. The total prize pool is 20 000 FTN and three winners will be awarded in these tokens.