BUIDL Asia 2025 Heads to Seoul to Highlight Crypto Builders and Innovation
BUIDL Asia 2025, one of Asia’s leading crypto conferences, will return for its sixth edition on April 15–16, 2025, at the Koreana Hotel in Seoul, South Korea.
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Organized by KryptoPlanet, the event will focus on technical and business developments in crypto, bringing together developers, founders, investors, and builders from across blockchain ecosystems.
The conference is part of Korea BUIDL Week 2025, a broader lineup of blockchain-focused events set to take place across Seoul, making mid-April a landmark week for Web3 in Asia.
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Context and Background
Launched in 2018 under the name KryptoSeoul, KryptoPlanet has built a reputation as a grassroots community that supports Web3 founders and developers through technical workshops, events, and ecosystem connections. BUIDL Asia, its flagship event, has grown into a must-attend conference for anyone building in crypto, offering a serious stage for promising projects and insightful technical discussions.
The sixth edition of BUIDL Asia will again center around open collaboration between ecosystems.
With sessions covering real use cases in DeFi, e-commerce, education, and entertainment, the event will appeal to a wide audience of Web3 professionals. The conference also places a strong emphasis on showcasing technical depth, real-world applications, and community-driven innovation.
Current State of the Event
With less than a week to go, preparations for BUIDL Asia 2025 are in full swing.
The event will feature:
- technical talks,
- live demos,
- cross-ecosystem discussions,
- exclusive presentations from emerging projects.
Attendees can expect a combination of high-impact content and open networking opportunities.
Some of the key speakers announced include:
- Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and contributor to the foundational transformer paper “Attention is All You Need”
- Pedro Gomes, Founder of WalletConnect, the leading wallet-dApp connection protocol
- Zaki Manian, Co-Founder of Sommelier and former contributor to Cosmos and Tendermint
- Makoto Inoue, Protocol Developer at ENS Labs, working on Ethereum Name Service
- Anurag Arjun, Co-Founder of Avail and former Co-Founder of Polygon
The lineup also features executives and engineers from Aztec Labs, Celestia, Monad, Keplr, Drift Labs, CryptoQuant, and many others who represent infrastructure and application layers across the crypto stack.
Each speaker brings technical expertise and a track record of contributing to open-source protocols, zero-knowledge tooling, and blockchain scalability solutions.
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A Week of Blockchain Momentum in Seoul
BUIDL Asia will be the centerpiece of Korea BUIDL Week 2025, a series of blockchain events taking place across April 11–16.
- The week kicks off with the BUIDL AI Hackathon on April 11–13, hosted at Sky31 Convention in the iconic Lotte Tower. The hackathon invites developers to build autonomous onchain agents, encouraging the creation of functional prototypes that solve real-world challenges. Teams will form onsite and compete for recognition through live demos and judged presentations.
- On April 14, the focus will shift to ETH Seoul, a one-day summit also held at Sky31 Convention, dedicated to Ethereum ecosystem development. Now in its fourth year, ETH Seoul continues to bring together core developers, L2 builders, and infrastructure teams for a full day of talks and workshops.
- Another standout event during the week is the SheFi Seoul Summit, which aims to make blockchain learning accessible and inspiring. This summit features hands-on tutorials, panel sessions, and networking, with a strong emphasis on onboarding new users and expanding diversity in the space.
It appeals to both experts and beginners looking to better understand Web3.
Implications and What Comes Next
As Korea continues to emerge as a strategic hub for Web3 growth, BUIDL Asia 2025 reinforces Seoul’s reputation as a center for developer talent and cross-chain collaboration. The event is expected to attract both regional and global attention, with builders and investors flying in to discover what’s next in crypto infrastructure and applications.
By hosting leaders from projects like NEAR, Celestia, Aztec, ENS, and WalletConnect, the event reflects broader industry themes—such as the rise of zero-knowledge technology, modular blockchain design, and multichain interoperability.
With technical workshops, open networking, and a mix of early-stage and established projects, BUIDL Asia offers attendees a practical window into where the industry is headed in 2025.
As the final sessions close on April 16, BUIDL Asia will leave behind more than talks and panels. It will create a snapshot of how far the crypto ecosystem has come—and where its builders want to take it next.
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