Web3 Event Unchained Summit Launches First India Edition in Mumbai

The two-day event, hosted by Aeternum, marks the third edition of the summit after Dubai and Vietnam. Organizers said the Mumbai gathering will center on the intersection of traditional finance, digital assets, blockchain infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

A key theme is India's rapid ascent in global cryptocurrency adoption. The country ranked first in Chainalysis' 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, yet its regulatory approach remains more cautious than many other major markets. The summit aims to bring international perspectives into discussions on regulation, adoption, and the future of digital-asset markets.

Tokenization and enterprise blockchain are also expected to feature prominently. The announcement cited the Reserve Bank of India's exploration of asset tokenization through its central bank digital currency sandbox and the National Blockchain Framework as examples of growing government and enterprise interest in blockchain infrastructure.

Scheduled speakers include S.B. Seker, head of APAC at Binance; Ashish Singhal, co-founder of CoinSwitch; Praneeth Srikanti, partner at Ethereal Ventures; Eva Wong, general counsel at Parity Technologies; Prabal Banerjee, co-founder of Avail; and Dilip Chenoy, chairperson of the Bharat Web3 Association. Representatives from Coinbase, Ondo Finance, Base, Sigma Capital, Monarq Asset Management, and Trilegal will also attend.

Day one will cover markets, finance, and digital assets, with sessions on regulation, trading, tokenization, real-world assets, stablecoins, payments, wealth management, capital markets, custody, and liquidity. Day two shifts to Web3 infrastructure and emerging technology, addressing blockchain infrastructure, artificial intelligence, decentralized finance, scaling, interoperability, security, digital trust, and consumer applications.

The event also highlights India's developer talent pool. Organizers noted that India had 21.9 million developers on GitHub in 2025, the platform's second-largest developer community globally, with over 5.2 million developers added that year. Sharath Kumar, founder and CEO of Aeternum, said the summit is designed to connect the capital, policy, and technology sides of India's digital-asset ecosystem and bring international perspectives into the conversation.