Crypto Berlin
Crypto in Berlin includes developers, startups and communities working on blockchain networks and digital assets. The city's technology scene connects software development with applications such as wallets, decentralized protocols and token-based services.
Berlin has a connection to the early European community around Ethereum and to blockchain associations discussing the sector's development. Firms providing regulated crypto services must assess the permissions required under MiCA. The location of a company does not replace the need to examine its actual activities, governance and customer responsibilities.
Berlin as a crypto and blockchain city
Berlin built its crypto scene from the developer and startup side: the early Ethereum community held some of its first European meetups in the city, and that builder culture stayed. Bundesblock, the Blockchain Bundesverband, was founded in Berlin in 2017 and is now the largest blockchain industry association in the DACH region, with more than 90 member companies and research institutions working from society, business and research angles.
Berlin Blockchain Week has grown into a citywide event with more than 100 individual meetups, talks and hackathons across the week, drawing developers, founders and investors from across Europe.
Rules that apply to a Berlin crypto business
A crypto firm in Berlin follows the same rules as one in Frankfurt or Munich. BaFin authorizes crypto-asset service providers under the EU's MiCA regulation from Bonn and Frankfurt, so a Berlin exchange or wallet provider applies to the same regulator as a Frankfurt custody bank, and the license it receives passports into every other EU member state.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1113, the Transfer of Funds Regulation, extends the anti-money-laundering "travel rule" to crypto-asset transfers, meaning a Berlin exchange must pass on sender and recipient information with each transaction, the same duty a bank already carries for a wire transfer.
Builders, hackathons and the developer side of Berlin crypto
Web3 hubs in the city host teams working on Ethereum tooling, DeFi protocols and blockchain infrastructure, and the membership of Bundesblock spans exchanges, custodians, wallet providers and the research institutions studying them, connecting these different participants.
Bundesblock also curates the Digital Assets Day, held each year alongside the TUM Blockchain Conference, which brings financial institutions, corporate leaders and the public sector together on stablecoins, tokenization and market infrastructure.
Upcoming crypto events in Berlin
Finance Loop and crypto in Berlin
Finance Loop started in Frankfurt and holds events in Berlin as well, where it connects people who work on crypto and digital assets at exchanges, custodians and fintechs with bankers, IT people and AI engineers from the wider finance sector. Finance Loop joined Bundesblock as a member, linking Frankfurt's regulated finance scene with Berlin's blockchain builder community.
Finance Loop is also a founding member of the Bitcoin Bundesverband, formed in Berlin. Finance Loop supported the German Blockchain & AI Week 2025 in Berlin, whose program had a DEX vs CEX panel and a session on crypto payments. Related pages: Bundesblock, bitcoin in Germany, crypto in Frankfurt and crypto in Germany.
What is Bundesblock?
Bundesblock, formally the Blockchain Bundesverband, is a non-profit association founded in Berlin in 2017 to promote blockchain technology. With more than 90 member companies and research institutions, it is the largest blockchain industry association in the DACH region, and Finance Loop is one of its members.
Is there a crypto conference in Berlin?
Berlin Blockchain Week is a citywide program of talks, meetups and hackathons on crypto and blockchain, and Bundesblock curates the Digital Assets Day each year alongside the TUM Blockchain Conference. Current dates are in the events calendar.
Crypto in Berlin and Finance Loop
Finance Loop membership starts with the free Network Member plan on the membership page, and the Berlin dates are on networking events in Berlin. Investors and advisors find the Bitcoin for Investors masterclass on the Bitcoin seminar in Berlin page. Partners can reach this audience by sponsoring a meetup or a webinar, or through the partner program; fintech marketing compares the formats.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.
Finance Loop connects the finance, IT and AI communities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with events in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. If you work on crypto in Berlin, you meet people from the same field at Finance Loop events.