Friends, last week was quite productive for Vertrauen Protocol as our founders Moritz and Sebastian explored Token2049 summit and of course the side events that took place during the week.
We have established many meaningful connections across all ecosystems and we will take time to communicate with everyone we met properly.
IRL connnections
Aside from meeting builders, investors and creators in Web3, we connected with prominent KOLs and projects that immediately clicked with us. We are actively exploring future partnerships and collaboration opportunities as we speak.
It was also truly magical to meet people IRL - especially all the people we follow on X and other social media. The face and personality behind the X handle and PFP is alway so much more different and interesting.
Tuesday Solana Summit
We did our best to visit as many side events as humanly possible.
The Solana Summit on Tuesday was especially magical. Being in such informal atmosphere allowed us to hear truly objective feedback about Vertrauen Protocol - people are excited about our ecosystem and they acknowledge the real, tangible issues that we’re solving for Web3 and Crypto.
Armed with new feedback from interested stakeholders, we continue to build and deliver you weekly updates that you and us can be proud of.
Token2049 is home to people who focus on investments, market making, neo-banking, traditional banking, legal and compliance. Every day we took the time to meet with these specialists and promote Vertrauen Protocol. It will take several days for us to follow up and explore every single connection we made during this week. This task is on the top of our list of priorities for next week onwards.
What we built this week
2026 has been full of live events in Web3. Naturally it’s our mission to visit as many events as we can and become a native part of the crypto ecosystem (starting on Solana).
The most notable events are the TUM Blockchain Club conference in Munich, Bitcoin Amsterdam 2026 and of course the Solana Breakpoint in London.
Even as we are waited for our flight at the Singapore airport, we were still picking up early insights into new events that are being planned for 2027. Many of these events are not officially announced yet - and of course we will be there!
#Token2049 is truly wild. It seems that everyone is trying to 1up each other when it comes to the creativity (and sheer amount) of swag. Every booth was something special and unique during the conference.
That being said, we can fully confirm that all the most important action took place during the side events. We were fortunate to have been invited to several private events that allowed us to connect with new people, exchange insights and ideas and of course promote Vertrauen Protocol.
Compared to other crypto events, Token2049 truly stands out as something remarkable and unique that’s worth visiting every single year. Many doors have opened for us and many new handshakes signalled the beginning of something amazing and productive for Vertrauen Protocol.
Meet the team series
Join us during our Meet the Team series this week.
We expect to record Episode 5 early in the week, focusing on our experiences at the Solana Summit in Berlin and much more! We are happy to see you with us!
Market insights from Lorenzo
Traders have witnessed a bloody week full of leverage liquidation.
Hodlers remained largely calm and calculated - quietly accumulating the fear and panic. Macro and Crypto are converging thanks to larger institutional interested in RWA and DeFi.
Hope and disbelief is “the flavour or the month” as Fear and Greed sentiment changes almost daily, based solely on trading liquidations.
Overall trend is still clear: early stage of a beginning bull market. There is no substantial interest from new retail investors and mainstream media while prominent Altcoins are slowly recovering from the September lows.
Thank you for being here with us. See you next week, hopefully from Singapore!
Stay kredible.
Your Vertrauen Protocol team