What Was NearAPAC 2023?
NearAPAC 2023 was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 8 to 12 September 2023. NEAR Protocol's Asia-Pacific community conference and hackathon, it brought together NEAR developers, ecosystem partners, and Web3 builders from across Southeast Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific region for five days of technical workshops, ecosystem talks, and hackathon building. The official page sat on the NearAPAC site. Choosing Ho Chi Minh City reflected NEAR's genuine Southeast Asian ecosystem strength: Vietnam had developed one of Asia's most active blockchain developer communities, with Axie Infinity's play-to-earn heritage creating a blockchain-literate population and a large software development sector providing protocol-building talent. Check the crypto events calendar and our crypto summits.
Key Themes at NearAPAC 2023
The five-day NEAR ecosystem conference and hackathon covered: NEAR Protocol's technical development including Aurora EVM and sharding; NEAR's Southeast Asian ecosystem growth across Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines; State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and Vietnam's cautious crypto stance for NEAR developers; and Web3 gaming and DeFi applications on NEAR across APAC markets. NEAR's specific technical approach — high throughput through sharding, user-friendly account model — gave developer sessions particular architectural substance. Many guests tracked broader blockchain events through CoinGabbar.
How Ho Chi Minh City's Blockchain Ecosystem Made It NEAR's APAC Hub
Ho Chi Minh City's blockchain ecosystem had grown significantly by September 2023, with a large software development outsourcing sector providing NEAR developer talent, Axie Infinity's play-to-earn heritage making blockchain concepts familiar across the population, and Vietnam's State Bank's cautious-but-not-prohibitive stance allowing developer activity to flourish. NEAR Protocol had established genuine Southeast Asian ecosystem momentum, with Vietnamese and broader APAC developers building on NEAR's sharding architecture for gaming, DeFi, and social applications. See CoinGabbar's crypto conferences page for more shows.
Impact of NearAPAC 2023 on NEAR's Asia-Pacific Ecosystem
NEAR Protocol's Asia-Pacific community conference in Ho Chi Minh City advanced NEAR's Southeast Asian ecosystem through protocol-specific, regionally-grounded community building. It connected NEAR developers from across APAC within Vietnam's most blockchain-capable city. It surfaced Web3 gaming and DeFi on NEAR as the most commercially-active APAC building categories. And it reinforced Ho Chi Minh City as NEAR's preferred Asia-Pacific community hub. Each session reflected that NEAR-protocol-specific, APAC-community-building character.
Why Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners Should Join
Strong fits include: NEAR ecosystem infrastructure and tooling vendors; Web3 gaming and DeFi protocols building on NEAR for APAC markets; NEAR developer education and grants programmes reaching Southeast Asian talent; NEAR-compatible DeFi yield and financial service platforms; and Web3 employer sponsors recruiting from Ho Chi Minh City's technically-sophisticated developer community. To get involved, list your event with CoinGabbar.
Why KOLs, Media and Influencers Attend
NEAR Protocol's Asia-Pacific conference in Ho Chi Minh City — where Vietnam's blockchain-literate developer ecosystem from Axie Infinity's heritage meets NEAR's specific sharding architecture — offers the most protocol-specifically-grounded APAC blockchain community story. Coverage can spread through the press release network.
Why Builders and Participants Join
For NEAR ecosystem developers and APAC Web3 builders, NearAPAC 2023 offered the region's most NEAR-protocol-specifically-focused annual gathering. You engaged with NEAR's Aurora EVM, sharding architecture, and APAC ecosystem development within Ho Chi Minh City's blockchain-literate developer environment, connected with NEAR's Southeast Asian ecosystem partners across Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines, and participated in the five-day hackathon format's project-founding collaborative building. Many left with NEAR-specific technical foundations and APAC ecosystem relationships spanning the region's most active NEAR developer communities.
Tickets and PR Offers With CoinGabbar
Building on NEAR Protocol for Asian markets or seeking APAC blockchain developer talent? CoinGabbar offers ticket discounts and free or discounted press release publishing for projects booked through us. To sponsor or add your event to our digital asset events list, email event@coingabbar.io.
How the Event Concluded and What Came Next
NearAPAC 2023 concluded with NEAR Protocol's Asia-Pacific community carrying ecosystem development momentum and hackathon project foundations forward. Vietnam's State Bank maintained its cautious crypto stance in subsequent months. NearAPAC continued as an annual anchor for NEAR's Asia-Pacific ecosystem. To follow what came next, see CoinGabbar's Web3 tech events page and our crypto hackathons list.
Glossary of Key Terms
- State Bank of Vietnam: State Bank of Vietnam, maintaining a cautious stance on crypto as legal payment without prohibiting developer activity.
- NEAR Protocol: a high-throughput Layer 1 blockchain using sharding to achieve scalability while maintaining developer accessibility.
- Aurora: an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) compatible environment on NEAR enabling Ethereum developers to deploy on NEAR's infrastructure.
- Sharding: a blockchain scaling technique dividing the network into smaller parallel processing segments to increase throughput.
- APAC: Asia-Pacific, the geographic region encompassing Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania.
Disclaimer
This page is for general information only. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice. This conference took place in September 2023; Vietnam's crypto regulatory environment has evolved since then. Please confirm current details with official sources and do your own research. Crypto assets are volatile and can lose value.
