Unchained Summit Mumbai: Connecting Global Web3 Capital with India’s Regulatory Landscape
According to The American Bazaar, hosted by Aeternum, the two-day gathering will put India's booming crypto adoption and its cautious regulators in the same room as global digital-asset players and…
The Unchained Summit lands in Mumbai on November 5 and 6, bringing together investors, policymakers, and Web3 heavyweights for the event's third stop after Dubai and Vietnam. According to The American Bazaar, hosted by Aeternum, the two-day gathering will put India's booming crypto adoption and its cautious regulators in the same room as global digital-asset players and family offices circling the market. For founders eyeing South Asia, this is the one to actually show up for.
The capital-meets-policy setup
India topped Chainalysis' 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, yet the regulatory tone stays notably tighter than in many peer markets. Day one leans squarely into that tension — regulation and policy, trading, tokenization and real-world assets, stablecoins and payments, wealth management, capital markets, custody, and liquidity. Organizers are pointing to the Reserve Bank of India's exploration of asset tokenization through its central bank digital currency sandbox, plus the National Blockchain Framework, as proof the policy side isn't just spectating from the wings.
The speaker floor
The lineup reads like a who's-who of the region's Web3 layer. S.B. Seker from Binance's APAC desk, CoinSwitch co-founder Ashish Singhal, Ethereal Ventures partner Praneeth Srikanti, Parity Technologies general counsel Eva Wong, Avail co-founder Prabal Banerjee, and Bharat Web3 Association chairperson Dilip Chenoy are all confirmed. Reps from Coinbase, Ondo Finance, Base, Sigma Capital, Monarq Asset Management and Trilegal round out the room. Day two pivots to Web3, Infrastructure & Emerging Tech — blockchain infrastructure, AI, DeFi, scaling, interoperability, security, digital trust, and consumer apps.
What to watch on the ground
Sharath Kumar, founder and CEO of Aeternum, said the summit is designed to "connect the capital, policy and technology sides of India's digital-asset ecosystem and bring international perspectives into the conversation." Organizers also flag India's developer base — 21.9 million GitHub users in 2025, the platform's second-largest community globally, with 5.2 million added in the year alone. That's the talent pool everyone's quietly chasing. If you're flying in, pace yourself: two days of panels plus a relentless hallway track will burn through you, and even the most disciplined founders I know skip meals by day two. Worth bookmarking something practical on sustaining energy through a long summit run before you land. Registration and event details live at the Unchained Summit India site.