A Recalibration Toward Endurance
CV Summit 2025 took place at the Kongresshaus Zurich, uniting more than 3,000 technology leaders, investors, institutions, and innovators . With 190 speakers, the summit underscored its role as a catalyst event for defining the new era of finance and technology BitcoinEthereumNews.com. This year's edition occupied its familiar space as part alpine think-tank, part deal-floor, part Swiss-precision diplomacy — but the shift from spectacle to substance was unmistakable. Conversations moved from "what's next" to "what endures," with founders, investors and policymakers converging around a shared theme: infrastructure.
The agenda spanned four tracks: Blockchain (innovation and infrastructure), Institutions & Digital Assets (banking, capital markets, and compliant adoption), Wealth Managmenet (digital-era investment), and Artificial Intelligence (acceleration of financial evolution). Switzerland's neutrality and governance were repeatedly invoked as stabilizing anchors in an increasingly volatile global environment. Dubai agency presence marked the complete global convergence of blockchain technology. This with traditional institutional groups such as Luzerner Kantonalbank signaled traditional Swiss banking taking the first active steps to integrating blockchain and web3 transactions.
The AI-Blockchain Convergence
Blockchain and AI are reshaping wealth, asset management, banking, and payments . Olaf Hannemann, Co-Founder of CV VC, captured the Summit's spirit: "Innovation has never been as fast as today, but will never be as slow ever again". “CV Summit partnered with GenAI Zürich to feature a dedicated AI Stage showcasing innovations at the intersection of decentralized technologies and generative AI, exploring data sovereignty, on-chain intelligence, ML and decentralized compute “. Panelists explored autonomous financial agents where AI-driven systems are capable of transacting, investing, and paying on behalf of humans. This led to the logical debate on governance and accountability and underscoring blockchain's essential role in the new AI era.
Key Speakers & Institutional Leadership
Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, stated: "We've been building blockchain-integrated solutions since 2017. Our presence at CV Summit reflects our belief that tokenized products, composable infrastructure, and tools like intraday yield are the future of finance" BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Sandy Kaul (Franklin Templeton EVP, Head of Innovation) and Roger Bayston shared how wealth management is shifting from account-based models to wallet-based digital systems .
Oscar Flores, CEO of Unblock, declared: "Stablecoins are at the core of the shift to a more useful, user-friendly financial future. We're not just building new rails, we're making blockchain invisible, but indispensable". Dr. Alexander Thoma (PostFinance) emphasized the role of digital assets in modern portfolios, while Serge Kaulitz (Luzerner Kantonal Bank) showcased how his bank now offers Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for loans. A tech megatrend session co-hosted with Citi examined how traditional banks and VCs are preparing for a decentralized future, including quantum computing.
The Swiss Way Returns
After years of noise and over-funded experimentation, the most interesting ideas emerged from those building slowly, deliberately, with clarity of purpose — a return to fundamentals. The community is recalibrating itself: quieter, sharper, ready for a more disciplined era of innovation.