FactBlock’s Institutional Shift Takes Shape at KBW2026

“I think we will have a lot less retail, and it’ll be more of the institution and more of the business meeting environment,” FactBlock CEO Andrew Park told Bitcoin.com News ahead of KBW2026 . By the time the conference closed in Seoul on Oct. 1, there was evidence supporting that prediction. Of the 290 speakers at the main conference, 115, or 39.7%, represented finance, policy, digital asset investment and related services, according to figures released by FactBlock. A newly introduced institutional summit had also brought U.S. policy officials, Asian regulators and financial-sector executives together before the wider conference began.