Crypto Goes Davos: Ripple And Hedera Step Into WEF Week
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is slated to look on a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel on tokenization throughout Davos 2026, whereas Hedera says it’s going to sponsor and take part in a slate of senior-level occasions working alongside the annual gathering. The WEF Annual Meeting 2026 is scheduled for Jan. 19–23 in Davos-Klosters.
Ripple Joins WEF Davos Tokenization Panel
Garlinghouse is once again listed among the many public audio system for a WEF session titled “Is Tokenization the Future?” set for Jan. 21 (10:15–11:00 CET). The panel additionally lists Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters, ECB Governor François Villeroy de Galhau, Eurazeo CEO Valérie Urbain, and moderator Karen Tso.
The session framing is explicitly market-structure oriented, positioning tokenization as one thing transferring past pilots and into mainstream monetary rails. In the WEF description, organizers write: “Asset tokenization is accelerating rapidly, transferring from early experiments to full deployment throughout main asset courses. As adoption expands, it guarantees new methods for people to speculate whereas presenting conventional companies and rising innovators with complicated new dynamics.”
A separate thread of Ripple’s Davos presence could run by way of “USA House,” a privately organized venue that sometimes operates in parallel with the official WEF perimeter. Venue supplies listing Ripple amongst sponsors of USA House for Davos 2026.
Hedera Brings EcoGuard Global To Davos
Hedera, for its half, is leaning into Davos week as a convening calendar reasonably than a single stage look. In a press release through X, Hedera introduced: “Hedera is proud to be an official sponsor of the USA House throughout the WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, and can contribute to senior-level discussions on digital belongings, AI, central banking, and G20 coordination.”
Hedera can also be sponsoring Global Blockchain Business Council’s “Blockchain Central Davos,” which runs Jan. 19–22 alongside the WEF assembly, in keeping with Hedera and GBBC supplies.
Separately, a Hedera-built carbon-market initiative referred to as EcoGuard Global is scheduled to formally launch in Davos on Jan. 20 at Turmhotel Victoria (3:00–6:00 PM), per EcoGuard’s announcement.
The EcoGuard description pitches an end-to-end infrastructure mess around integrity and lifecycle accounting:
“EcoGuard Global is a full carbon lifecycle firm constructing and working digital infrastructure and managed marketplaces—whereas actively taking part in carbon markets as a developer, investor, and market enabler for high-integrity local weather tasks… Built on the Hedera community by The Hashgraph Group, EcoGuard Global combines trusted digital infrastructure with market operations, capital, and partnerships to assist credible, investable, and scalable carbon markets.”
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