What Was SheFi Summit Seoul 2025?
SheFi Summit Seoul was held at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, on 10 April 2025. Organised by SheFi alongside the campus blockchain club Ewha Chain and Seoul Chapter Lead Erica Kang, it brought together female founders, builders, and Web3 leaders for a day of panels, workshops, and hands-on tutorials, marking the second Seoul edition of SheFi's global education initiative. The official page sat on the SheFi Summit Seoul site. Timed during BUIDL Asia week, it connected SheFi's global women-in-crypto community with Korea's distinctively active retail trading culture.
Founded by Maggie Love in 2020 from lockdown, SheFi had grown to thousands of members across dozens of countries by the time it reached Seoul. To follow similar events, check the crypto events calendar and our crypto summits list.
Key Themes at SheFi Summit Seoul
The single-day agenda covered Web3 fundamentals through a women-led lens:
- DeFi protocols and onchain tools.
- Women-led founder panels.
- Hands-on Web3 application tutorials.
- AI and crypto convergence.
The Ewha Womans University venue, one of the world's largest women's universities, gave the summit a genuinely symbolic home within Korea's broader tech and education landscape. Many guests also tracked broader blockchain events through CoinGabbar.
How South Korea's Retail Trading Culture Shapes SheFi's Seoul Chapter
South Korea's Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users (VAUPA), promulgated July 2023, took full effect on 19 July 2024, mandating 80% cold wallet storage, segregated customer deposits at banks, and mandatory hacking insurance for the country's Financial Services Commission (FSC)-regulated exchanges. By the time SheFi Summit Seoul convened in April 2025, this user-protection regime had been operating for roughly nine months, giving South Korea's already famously active retail crypto culture, anchored by major exchanges Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit, and Coinone, a notably more structured regulatory backdrop than in earlier years.
Despite this trading intensity, women remain a minority in Korea's crypto and Web3 builder community, much as globally, making SheFi's Seoul chapter a deliberate effort to grow female participation specifically in building and founding rather than just trading. The event's connection to BUIDL Asia, a developer-focused Seoul conference Erica Kang has run for years, reinforced that builder-first orientation. For more shows, see CoinGabbar's crypto conferences page.
Impact of SheFi Summit Seoul on Women's Web3 Participation in Korea
A dedicated women's Web3 summit at a flagship Korean university advances female founder and builder participation specifically. It connects South Korea's structurally engaged retail crypto culture with a global community focused on women's onchain literacy. It surfaces founder role models within Korea's broader male-dominated builder scene. And it positions Ewha Womans University as a genuine touchpoint for Korean Web3 education. Each edition deepens that local-global bridge.
Why Sponsors, Exhibitors and Partners Should Join
SheFi Summit Seoul reached a globally connected community of women builders and Korean retail crypto culture simultaneously. Strong fits included:
- Women-focused Web3 education platforms: reach a deliberately underserved builder demographic.
- FSC-compliant Korean exchanges: showcase regulated operations to an engaged community.
- DeFi protocols seeking diverse users: connect with SheFi's global, multi-country membership.
- AI-crypto convergence projects: tap a summit explicitly covering AI alongside DeFi.
- University blockchain clubs and accelerators: partner with Ewha Chain's campus network.
To get involved, you can list your event with the CoinGabbar team.
Why KOLs, Media and Influencers Attend
Women-led Web3 education landing at one of the world's most iconic women's universities offers genuinely distinctive coverage within Korea's broader crypto narrative. Creators met founders and builders working to diversify Asia's most retail-trading-intensive crypto market. Coverage can spread through the press release network.
Why Builders and Participants Join
For women and allies in Web3, SheFi Summit Seoul offered a genuinely supportive entry point into Korea's intense crypto culture. You engaged with hands-on DeFi and Web3 application tutorials in a deliberately welcoming format, connected with SheFi's global multi-country community alongside Korea's BUIDL Asia developer network, and explored AI-crypto convergence themes shaping the industry's next chapter. Many left with both technical skills and a genuine peer community rare at conventional crypto conferences.
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How the Event Concluded and What Came Next
SheFi Summit Seoul 2025 closed with attendees carrying both practical Web3 skills and connections within Korea's structurally underrepresented women-builder community. SheFi's Seoul chapter, led by Erica Kang, continued growing toward its third annual edition in subsequent years. By embedding itself within BUIDL Asia week at Ewha Womans University, the summit reinforced a deliberate, sustained approach to diversifying one of the world's most retail-active crypto markets. To follow what came next, see CoinGabbar's Web3 tech events page and our crypto AI events list.
Glossary of Key Terms
- FSC: South Korea's Financial Services Commission, the main crypto regulator.
- VAUPA: the Virtual Asset User Protection Act, South Korea's user-protection law in force since July 2024.
- SheFi: a global DeFi education initiative for women and non-binary people, founded by Maggie Love in 2020.
- BUIDL Asia: a long-running Seoul developer conference connected to SheFi's local chapter programming.
- Cold wallet: offline crypto storage required for the majority of customer assets under VAUPA.
Disclaimer
This page is for general information only. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice. This is a Web3 education summit that took place in April 2025; future dates and details may differ. South Korean crypto rules may change; always check current FSC guidance. Please confirm with the official source and do your own research. Crypto assets are volatile and can lose value.
