Ripple Swell 2026 takes place Oct 27 - 29, 2026 in New York City, USA. Ripple's annual flagship for institutional crypto and cross-border payments, returning to New York City.
About the event
Ripple Swell 2026 is part of a growing calendar of focused RWA gatherings where the people actually building protocols, writing contracts, and shipping products meet in person. The format is designed around real exchange, not broadcast.
Sessions cover practical ground in RWA: how protocols are architected, where security assumptions break down, how governance actually gets implemented, and what the current generation of tooling makes possible that was not feasible a year ago.
The conversation tends to be specific rather than general. This is not an introduction to blockchain. It is a working gathering for people already in it.
What gets covered
Smart contract development and tooling: Foundry, Hardhat, Anchor, and the frameworks being used in production across RWA, with sessions on testing patterns, deployment workflows, and common failure modes.
Protocol design and architecture: How to reason about state, composability, liquidity, and incentive design when building on a shared global ledger.
Security and auditing: Practical approaches to reviewing code, running fuzzing campaigns, setting up bug bounty programs, and learning from recent exploits.
Governance, DAOs, and treasury: How decentralized organizations make decisions at scale, manage protocol upgrades, and allocate community resources without capturing them.
Talks, demos, and the hallway
Sessions run across multiple stages with breakout rooms for smaller technical discussions. The most useful conversations often happen informally, between sessions, when the people running the protocols are accessible for real questions.
Side events and evening gatherings run around the main schedule in New York City, USA. Check the satellite event calendar alongside the official agenda.
Getting there and registering
The event is in New York City, USA. Register through the official event website. Passes sell out, so do not wait.
Book accommodation early if you are traveling. Conference week hotel prices in most cities spike significantly once the main block of rooms fills.