Bengaluru, India, December eighth, 2025, Chainwire
India Blockchain Week (IBW) Convention, the 2-day headline convention anchoring the India Blockchain Week sequence of 100+ Web3 occasions in Bengaluru, is delighted to share that its 2025 version has been a roaring success, underscoring India’s ascent as a world Web3 innovation hub. Regardless of excessive taxation and no clear authorized framework, India has been the primary nation for crypto adoption for 3 years in a row with 115 million customers.
Happening on the Sheraton Grand Bengaluru Whitefield Resort & Conference Middle from December 2-3, the IBW2025 Convention welcomed 3500+ attendees from over 40 nations. It attracted Web3 builders, traders, authorized professionals, and different stakeholders, enabling them to discover the way forward for blockchain, AI, RWAs, and regulatory developments.
All through the week, there have been 80+ aspect occasions, workshops, events and many others hosted by Indian & international blockchain {industry} gamers, providing attendees the chance to community, share concepts, forge partnerships, check out new merchandise, and interact with group members.
India Web3 Panorama Report
Hashed Emergent, the organizers of the flagship IBW2025 Convention, launched the 4th annual India Web3 Panorama Report on the most important stage. Ready in collaboration with data companions CoinSwitch, DevFolio, Pi42, Jetking, Progress Protocol, and TriLegal, the report sheds gentle on startups, funding, adoption, developer ecosystem, and coverage and rules. A few of the key highlights embody:
Indian Web3 startups secured $653 million in funding within the first ten months of 2025, up 16% from $564 million for the total yr 2024.
India is house to 1250+ Web3 startups throughout finance, infrastructure and leisure. They’ve collectively raised $3.5 billion thus far, underscoring the depth of builders throughout a number of sub sectors.
India strengthened its function as a Web3 hub in 2025 rating #1 in blockchain adoption for the third straight yr and the 2nd-largest developer market. Builders are pushing the frontiers in AI, DePIN, L1/L2s, RWAs and stablecoins.
In 2025, centralized exchanges noticed a pointy acceleration in exercise. Spot volumes in blue-chip crypto tokens rose 114%, alongside a 27% improve in new merchants.
Younger traders (18–35) now make up ~75% of energetic customers and half of complete buying and selling volumes. Metros nonetheless dominate with 64% of invested worth with Delhi alone contributing almost one-fifth whereas rising entry is steadily pulling tier-2 cities deeper into the market.
In 2025, ladies merchants grew almost twice as quick as males throughout Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, signaling a broader, extra inclusive investor base.
World Web3 traders proceed to indicate sturdy conviction in India’s potential supported by ecosystem funds despite the fact that home funds stay cautious.
Tak Lee, CEO of Hashed Emergent, stated, “India’s market has already demonstrated extraordinary readiness for the subsequent section of Web3. What we should now deal with, collectively, is creating the correct setting for this innovation to scale responsibly. Builders are shifting quick, international traders are doubling down, and India’s digital public infrastructure has created a basis few nations possess. By working collaboratively throughout {industry} and coverage, we will design frameworks that shield customers whereas enabling India to engineer the open, AI-enabled monetary techniques that can form the subsequent period of worldwide commerce. When expertise, capital, and regulation transfer with shared intent, India has the momentum and functionality to outline the longer term.”
Different Key Highlights
COINS Act: Hashed Emergent revealed a mannequin regulation referred to as the COINS Act (Crypto-Techniques Oversight, Innovation, and Technique Act 2025) that goals to ship authorized certainty, client safety and innovation acceleration, remodeling India into a world hub for rights-grounded, decentralized finance moderately than an afterthought in international jurisdictions.
Cardano Hackathon Asia 2025: The IBW Version of the Cardano Hackathon Asia 2025 gave startup groups a chance to show their concepts into impactful, ready-to-launch initiatives. About 400 builders joined in-person. The hackathon not solely supplied a complete prize pool of $65K but in addition introduced skilled builders from throughout the Cardano ecosystem to information startup groups from begin to end.
IBW Demo Day: Sponsored by Aptos, Avalanche, Polygon, 0G, Coinswitch and NS.com, the IBW Demo Day occurred on Day 2 of the convention, with 10 startups showcasing their innovation to traders, entrepreneurs, and the media for an funding of $530K by Hashed Emergent. Pandora Alternate, a one-stop buying and selling hub for all DeFi wants, emerged the winner. Individually, 0G Labs supplied a $6k grant to Kodeus and a $4k grant to Grovio.ai through the Demo Day.
The IBW2025 Convention organizers are grateful to all of the attendees who traveled to Bengaluru to take part in essentially the most vital Web3 occasion in India. In addition they specific their honest gratitude to the 100+ audio system who took half in giving keynotes or panels on the convention.
The IBW organizers wish to thank the sponsors who made all of it attainable. This yr, the occasion was backed by Aptos Basis, Binance, Cardano, Polygon, Coinbase, Tether, Bitget, Ledger, 0G, Bybit, Coinswitch, Bullbit, A7A5, NS.com, BitGo, XDC, Countless Domains, XYO, Coinscope.gg, KGen, Limocoin, Scribble, MINA, Liminal, USDT Market, NPCI, Weilliptic, RNS, Metaspace, Pi42, and The dependable jobs.
About India Blockchain Week (IBW)
India Blockchain Week (IBW) is a motion unifying the Indian web3 ecosystem and a platform to attach with the worldwide group. It’s India’s greatest pan-industry sequence of blockchain and web3 occasions, spanning from December 1-7 2025 throughout Bangalore, India. IBW is a week-long array of 100+ web3 occasions, together with flagship occasions such because the headline IBW Convention, Demo Day and plenty of different side-events, networking occasions, workshops, events and many others hosted by Indian & international blockchain {industry} stakeholders.
The IBW Convention is the two-day headline occasion anchoring India Blockchain Week (IBW) on December 2-3, 2025 on the Sheraton Grand, Bangalore and hosted by Hashed Emergent – a web3 enterprise capital agency devoted to accelerating the mass adoption of web3 in India.
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About Hashed Emergent
Hashed Emergent is the enterprise capital arm of Hashed, backing builders from India and rising markets shaping the on-chain frontier. It invests on the earliest phases of a web3 startup’s journey, utilizing its experience, expertise, and community to amplify their progress and success. The crew is rooted within the cultural hubspots of web3 in rising markets, spanning throughout Bangalore, Seoul, Singapore, Lagos and Dubai. Hashed Emergent drives web3 targeted ecosystem and group enlargement in these markets via its purpose-built initiatives.
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