TLDR
- •Kaia Summit 2025 features over 20 top blockchain speakers.
- •$10 million allocated for Web3 developer support.
- •83% of institutions plan crypto adoption by 2025.
Block of Fame is now on display at Kaia Labs' Singapore headquarters during the Kaia Summit 2025. This cultural integration aligns with TOKEN2049 Singapore, Asia's premier Web3 event highlighting stablecoins, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), and on-chain identity. The feature underscores blockchain's growing influence and its role in shaping decentralized identities.
Kaia Foundation and Kaia Labs are at the forefront of this initiative. They are facilitating the summit as a result of the merging of Klaytn (Kakao, Korea) and Finschia (LINE, Japan). This merger positions Kaia as one of Asia’s largest Web3 ecosystems, with potential access to over 250 million users according to updates and news from PANews.
Kaia Summit’s Key Participants and Contributions
Sam Seo, Chairman of the Kaia Foundation, is pivotal to the Kaia Summit 2025. Seo has been integral to the blockchain industry since 2017 with roles like Chief Knowledge Officer at KrustUniverse and CTO at GroundX. Over 20 top speakers from leading Asian protocols, along with representatives from more than 50 dApps and 30+ venture capital firms, are expected to participate.
Kaia Labs' leadership includes key figures from Asia’s blockchain sector, namely from the Klaytn and Finschia layers, both fundamental blockchain initiatives. Notable investments come from firms like Hashed and IDG Capital, crucial players in the crypto venture capital sphere.
Funding and Institutional Crypto Adoption Trends
The Kaia Wave initiative has dedicated $10 million to support developers and integrate Web3 functionalities through Web2 solutions such as LINE MiniApps. This comes amidst a growing institutional penchant for crypto adoption, with 83% of surveyed institutions planning further integration by 2025.
The Kaia ecosystem utilizes the KAIA token for governance and execution of transactions across its platform. Additional assets, including ETH, BTC, and MATIC, are notably involved, especially with MATIC's alignment with on-chain identity solutions.
Impact on Total Value Locked and On-Chain Data
Kaia’s developments are projected to enhance Total Value Locked (TVL) in the platform, particularly as prominent protocols like Avalon Labs engage with its ecosystem. Polygon's TVL, for instance, emphasizes heightened DeFi activities, driving further interest and liquidity inflow towards Layer 1 infrastructures.
Past summits, including TOKEN2049 2024, have historically catalyzed spikes in decentralized exchange volumes and protocol launches. Such events indicate possible significant shifts for governance tokens based on previous trends observed in on-chain analytics.
Major Tokens Linked to the Summit
The summit prominently features tokens central to the Kaia, Polygon, and identity application ecosystems. These include KAIA, KLAY, and FNSA for the Kaia chain, ETH for decentralized finance, BTC linked through identity standards, and MATIC due to its pivotal ID solutions.
Additional protocol tokens, particularly those linked to dApps presented at the summit, may further experience market activity. Historically, tokens such as blue-chip DeFi governance coins have fluctuated based on summit-related engagements and presentations.