TOKEN2049 announces US expansion, bringing the world's largest crypto conference to New York. * Announced today at TOKEN2049 Singapore, TOKEN2049 New York will take place on 16-17 June 2027, with 15,000 attendees expected * New York joins Singapore and Dubai as TOKEN2049's third flagship and a permanent fixture on its annual event circuit * New York will host the full TOKEN2049 experience, with TOKEN2049 Week set for a citywide takeover SINGAPORE, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - TOKEN2049, the world's largest crypto conference, today announced its expansion into the United States with the launch of TOKEN2049 New York. The inaugural US edition will take place on 16-17 June 2027, with 15,000 attendees expected from around the world. The announcement was made at TOKEN2049 Singapore ahead of Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff's highly anticipated main stage session. The launch establishes New York as TOKEN2049's third flagship and a permanent fixture on its annual event circuit alongside Singapore and Dubai, extending its presence across Asia, the Middle East and North America. It brings the world's largest crypto conference to the heart of global capital markets and creates a major new US meeting point for the international digital asset industry. Alex Fiskum, Co-Founder of TOKEN2049 said: "Bringing TOKEN2049 to the US has been a long time coming. Our attendees and partners have been asking us to make it happen, and we've been waiting for the right moment and the right setting. Everything has now come together in New York. We're incredibly excited to bring the full TOKEN2049 experience our community knows and loves to the US. New York will be a permanent part of our annual calendar alongside Dubai and Singapore. We have an exciting year ahead." Beyond the two-day conference, TOKEN2049 Week will take over New York with a citywide programme of events and experiences. Tickets for TOKEN2049 New York are now on sale for US$599. PR Newswire is a Community Partner of TOKEN2049 Singapore. Alex Fiskum, Co-Founder of TOKEN2049, is available for interview. ABOUT TOKEN2049 TOKEN2049 is a global crypto event series with flagship editions in Singapore, Dubai and New York. It brings together entrepreneurs, institutions, investors and builders from across the global crypto ecosystem. SOURCE TOKEN2049

Telegram game Notcoin kick-started last year's tap-to-earn revolution that amassed hundreds of millions of players on the messaging app, but enthusiasm for the model has since dwindled following underwhelming token launches tied to increasingly overcomplicated schemes.Now, a year after Notcoin’s NOT token launch sparked the frenzy, the game’s founders believe that reinventing classic video games via its recently launched Not Games platform will prompt the next Telegram gaming boom.Sasha Plotvinov, co-founder of Notcoin, told Decrypt that he believes that demand for tap-to-earn games did not significantly increase after Notcoin’s release, even though the number of games on offer grew exponentially. This oversaturation of the market, he said, is the main reason why he believes the tap-to-earn genre died out so rapidly.On top of saturation, tap-to-earn games had monotonous gameplay loops consisting of mindlessly tapping your screen to earn in-game points. This was all done in the pursuit of a future airdrop, which increasingly disappointed participants more often than not.As such, Sasha and his brother and fellow Notcoin co-founder Vladimir Plotvinov believe that the future of Telegram gaming will be focusing on the gameplay above token reward schemes.“We are looking at 10, 15, 20 years back… for examples of games that were popular because people just wanted to play them,” Sasha told Decrypt at Token2049 in Dubai this week. “And we just take these mechanics and try to replicate this in a new format, and also introduce the second layer of [a crypto] economy.”Learning from the tap-to-earn wave, the co-founders believe that creating a sustainable economy via its Not Games platform is crucial this time around—due to the fact that most tap-to-earn token prices plummeted after their respective launches.These economies will utilize The Open Network (TON) to allow players to trade skins and other cosmetics on an open marketplace. Sasha stressed that they want to avoid “pay-to-win” mechanics at all costs.Sasha looks at the Counter-Strike skin economy, which is estimated to be worth $4.2 billion, and thinks that Telegram gaming needs this too. He points to the huge success of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans, and believes that a sustainable economy is the obvious next step for the industry.Sasha Plotvinov, Uliana Salo, and Vladimir Plotvinov (from left) of Not Games at Token2049 Dubai 2025

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