Blockchain Life 2026 Dubai

Blockchain Life is a crypto industry forum that has run since 2017, and the Dubai event on 1 and 2 December 2026 is its 17th edition. It takes place at Festival Arena in Dubai and shares its venue and dates with AI Future Forum, a conference on AI, Web3 and emerging technology from the same organiser. One ticket covers both events. Blockchain Life Week adds more than 100 side events from 27 November to 6 December. The organiser cites more than 15,000 attendees from over 130 countries, 200+ speakers and 200+ sponsors. Its survey of ticket buyers, where several answers were allowed, puts investors and funds at 65%, crypto traders at 32%, entrepreneurs at 29%, developers at 28% and miners at 27%. About 68% say they are founders or C-level. The programme mixes keynotes, panels and live interviews across several stages, with topic tracks on trading, mining, AI, blockchain, finance, institutional investment, Web3 and startups. There is also an expo of more than 200 booths, a Startup Pitch competition, the Blockchain Life Awards and an afterparty. A networking app handles meeting requests. The agenda published so far is preliminary and covers day one: founder Sergei Khitrov opens the Space Stage, followed by sessions with Bybit chief executive Ben Zhou and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, and panels on stablecoin cards, cross-border payments and AI-driven trading. Three ticket tiers are on sale at early-bird prices. Standard costs $189 and covers the expo, both conference halls and the app. Business, at $329, adds lunch on both days and a year of access to stage recordings. VIP, at $999, adds the VIP lounge and the official afterparty on 2 December. Prices rise in steps toward last-chance levels of $399, $729 and $2,099; checkout is in UAE dirhams, so the final charge can vary slightly. The organiser says tickets sold out before the event in each of the last two years. For crypto affiliates, exchange partner managers and media buyers running trading offers, the fit is direct: exchanges and payment companies such as Bybit, Mastercard and Ripple are on the agenda, and much of the audience is investors and traders, the people those campaigns aim at. Gambling is not one of the tracks, so crypto-casino affiliates should see it as a place to meet exchanges and payment providers rather than operators.