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Sean Ballard joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business at @Bybit_Official, overseeing its derivatives and institutional offering alongside trading risk and exchange technology. 25+ years in global markets. Before Bybit, he led high-frequency futures trading across EMEA, the US and LATAM at Jump Trading, then served as Head of Strategic Partnerships at Jump Crypto, where he led 20+ partnerships. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Tajinder Virk (@nattyvirk) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Founder & CEO of @Blockmaze and Co-Founder & Group CEO of @FINVASIA. Blockmaze runs regulated infrastructure for tokenising real-world assets and holds a Guinness World Record for the most financial regulatory licences at a blockchain ecosystem launch. Before this, he was a Wall Street hedge fund strategist managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Saurabh Kumar joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Business Head at Saber Money @Sabermoney, the B2B arm of Mudrex. He drives growth, strategic partnerships and business operations. Before Mudrex, he held senior growth roles at Bizom and GrowthTrek, and ran bootstrapped ventures including Solvify. Diploma in Business Management from the London School of Economics, BBM from Bangalore University. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Meet our media partners for IBW2026. The outlets carrying IBW2026 to their readers, from the first announcement to the last recap. @CoinGabbar, @CoinEdition, @CPOfficialtx, @BitcoinNews, @ItsBitcoinWorld, @TCR_news_, @CoinpediaNews, @ventures_bd, @orbis86_x, @DroomDroom, @tmp_periodical, @Blockwisely, @CryptoTimes_io, @YellowMedia_HQ, @coinscapture, @LiveBTCNews, @CryptokenMedia, @officialforkoff, @the_cryptohype, @CryptoJistHQ, @block24seven, @cryptowaley, @hodl_pr, @The_NewsCrypto, @capviseofficial, @theblockopedia_.

Tak Lee (@taaklee) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. CEO & Managing Partner at @HashedEM, the emerging markets venture arm of Hashed and the host of IBW - backing founders shaping the onchain and machine economy frontier across India and Africa. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Pranjal Agarwal (@agarpranjal94) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. SVP, Business and Strategy at Mudrex (@officialmudrex) and Saber Money (@Sabermoney). He leads the commercial and institutional agenda, from corridor design and economics to sponsor bank relationships and government and regulatory engagement. That includes the commercial case behind Saber’s first India-UAE proof of concept, structured to scale to further bilateral corridors. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Edul Patel (@dul_dul) joins IBW2026 as a Speaker. Co-Founder & CEO of @mudrex and @Sabermoney, with over a decade of experience in finance, entrepreneurship, and building tech-driven applications. Before Mudrex, he co-founded Niffler, acquired by Tapzo, and was Product Head at Tapzo, which Amazon later acquired. IIT Bombay alumnus, with a decade of building in finance and tech. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

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Offstage, Episode 05 is live with Ashish Singhal (@ashish343), Co-founder of @CoinSwitch Here’s what we got into: 01:00 — From Amazon to starting CoinSwitch in 2017 03:09 — What made him leave Amazon and bet on crypto so early? 04:51 — Why CoinSwitch went all-in on India in 2020 06:58 — What the 2021 peak and bear market taught him 08:45 — How CoinSwitch went from growth-at-all-costs to profitability 10:43 — Why CoinSwitch is expanding into futures, options, stocks and mutual funds 12:32 — Why CoinSwitch launched Lemonn to bring stocks and mutual funds to its users, and what they’ve learned building both businesses side by side 16:00 — Who is investing on CoinSwitch today, and how India’s non-metro users are changing the game 18:02 — What needs to change for crypto regulation in India? 19:45 — CoinSwitch’s north star and what comes next 20:52 — What this November means for India’s Web3 ecosystem 22:29 — What CoinSwitch has planned for IBW2026 23:21 — Can crypto become as familiar to Indians as gold and mutual funds? Watch the full conversation.