Web3 Builders' Summit 2026

Lightning Debates

Three high-stakes debates. React live as builders argue Bullish vs. Bearish — your reactions appear on the venue LED screen.

11:00 AM11:15 AMDebate

Stablecoin v. Incumbent Banking: Stablecoins flip SWIFT in SEA cross-border B2B settlement volume by 2030.

🐂 Bull

Vinh Nguyen

1Matrix

v.mod: Christine Erispe

🐻 Bear

Harry Bui

Spartan Group

🐂 BULL

No — national-scale settlement demands near-zero latency, regulatory certainty, and legal recourse that permissionless protocols fundamentally cannot provide. Autonomous AI agents introduce systemic risk that no on-chain governance can reliably contain.

🐻 BEAR

Yes — by 2030, modular blockchain architecture, ZK proofs, and formal verification will reach the reliability bar required for national settlement. AI agents operating within auditable on-chain rails are more transparent and tamper-resistant than legacy systems.

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1:50 PM2:05 PMDebate

The Yield War: RWA yield kills DeFi-native yield by 2030.

🐂 Bull

Stan Nguyen

Aptos

v.mod: BreeAnne Yek

🐻 Bear

Vuong Le (Hanjay)

XomAI

🐂 BULL

No — most current "yield" is recycled token emissions and reflexive leverage, not real economic return. When incentives end, TVL and users will follow. We are watching a coordination failure dressed up as innovation.

🐻 BEAR

Yes — incentive programs are how every successful network bootstraps liquidity. Today's points and yield campaigns are funding real protocol traction, sticky users, and infrastructure that will compound long after rewards taper. The "war" produces winners.

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3:00 PM3:15 PMDebate

AI × Web3 Security: AI defenders outpace AI attackers in Web3 through 2028.

🐂 Bull

Long Nguyen

Speedrun Labs

v.mod: Alexis Low

🐻 Bear

Hieu Bui

Knotwork

🐂 BULL

More secure — AI compresses audit cycles, surfaces vulnerabilities before mainnet, and enables real-time anomaly detection at a scale humans cannot match. Defenders ship faster guardrails, formal verification, and monitoring than attackers can weaponize.

🐻 BEAR

Less secure — AI lowers the cost of attack faster than the cost of defense. Automated exploit discovery, agentic-protocol prompt injection, and AI-generated phishing scale offense disproportionately. Net result: a wider, faster-moving threat surface.

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