Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027

The Hong Kong Web3 Festival is an annual crypto and blockchain gathering that started in 2023 and has taken place in Hong Kong every April since. Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group act as co-hosts, while W3ME runs the event. The fifth edition is set for 19 to 21 April 2027 at HKCEC, the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. For 2027 the organisers project more than 50,000 visitors on site, over 300 speakers and at least 150 exhibitors, a mix of Web3 projects, communities and media outlets. These are forecasts, not results. Across the first four editions combined, the festival reports more than 500 exhibitors, 1,600 speakers, 150,000 attendees and over 600 side events. The audience spans developers, project teams, investors and regulators; entry is limited to people aged 18 or older. Three themes have been announced so far: taking tokenization from pilot projects to scale, stablecoin payments and on-chain settlement, and the overlap between AI and blockchain. The organisers also point to progress in Hong Kong regulation, with compliant stablecoins getting closer to commercial use. A full agenda and the 2027 speaker list have not been published. Earlier stages hosted Financial Secretary Paul Chan, Vitalik Buterin, Cathie Wood, CZ, Sergey Nazarov, Hong Fang of OKX and Yat Siu of Animoca Brands, but none of them is confirmed for this year. Speaker, sponsor, partner and side-event applications open in stages. Tickets are sold through Luma, which currently lists $299; an early-bird price of $169 was announced in August 2026. Each purchase covers one ticket linked to one email address, and meals and drinks are not included. Buyers who want to pay in USDT or USDC are asked to email the organisers. Refunds carry a 10% fee and must be requested before noon Hong Kong time on 18 April 2027, and a ticket already exchanged for a badge cannot be refunded. For crypto affiliates, exchange partner managers and media buyers focused on Asia, the festival is mainly a networking opportunity with the Web3 projects, communities and media that exhibit there. The fit is indirect: the announced themes centre on infrastructure, payments, regulation and AI rather than marketing, so little performance-marketing content should be expected on stage. The side-event programme, which ran to hundreds of meetups in past years, offers more informal settings for partner talks.