The Digital Asset Summit is the year's institutional-crypto anchor, and DAS New York 2026 runs March 24-26 at Javits Center North with a US SEC Chairman on the headline slot. FORKOFF runs the allocator intro-engineering and private-dinner activation for crypto founders whose milestone is a fund ticket, an ETF conversation, or an RWA distribution deal. Pre-event institutional narrative, on-site access, post-event qualified-meeting proof. One operator, one record, audit-tracked outcomes.
Most teams badge in + hand out cards. Some book one dinner + hope a fund shows. FORKOFF runs the DAS week as a 14-day allocator-access cycle.
DAS is the one US week where allocators, ETF desks, and regulated funds concentrate in a single three-day window. If your milestone needs institutional capital or a regulated distribution partner, this is the room.
Fund partners, LPs, and family-office allocators who take weeks to reach cold sit in one building for three days. The private-dinner layer compresses a quarter of outreach into a single week of face-to-face access.
DAS is where the ETF issuer and tokenization desks gather. Teams positioning an RWA product or a regulated-exposure narrative land it with the exact buyers who distribute those products.
With policy leadership headlining, the room rewards clean regulatory positioning. A team with a clear registration or custody story converts credibility into meetings faster than any growth metric would.
Institutional press and the finance-side KOL set cover DAS closely. A well-placed founder moment here carries into TradFi-adjacent channels that never see a builder-conference clip.
The summit runs three days on the Javits North main stage, but the business runs in the private-dinner and side-meeting layer around it. This is an allocator room, so the activation is about access and credibility, not foot traffic. Pick the allocator segment you are built for and go deep, not wide.
Mar 24-26, 2026
Main stage at Javits Center North, New York. Private dinners and allocator meetings concentrated around Hudson Yards and Midtown. Policy and ETF conversations anchor the agenda.
Institutional and allocator-heavy. The mix is what makes DAS the capital week rather than the builder week, with a strong regulated-finance and ETF presence.
Where the buyer-relevant rooms live. Pick the one that matches your capital milestone.
The numbers that govern a DAS activation. The headline metric here is meeting quality, not clip volume.
T-30 to T-7 days: frame the team as institutional-grade ahead of DAS, map 30 allocators, LPs, and ETF-desk contacts attending, engineer touchpoints on their pre-event activity, and set up qualified allocator meetings for the summit week..
Deliverables (3)
The three DAS days: founder posts framed for the finance timeline, a FORKOFF-produced private dinner near Hudson Yards or Midtown (allocator table, policy roundtable, or founder-and-LP dinner), curated meeting routing, and real-time capture from on-site moments..
Deliverables (3)
Finance-side and institutional KOLs activated through bot-screened placements.
Deliverables (3)
T+1 to T+30: allocator and LP meetings convert to second conversations, dinner attendees get sequenced follow-ups, partnership discussions move forward, and the verified proof reports the qualified pipeline sourced from DAS..
Deliverables (3)
Allocator mapping 12 weeks out. Dinner production 4 weeks out. Execution across the three-day summit. Compounding 30 days post. Each phase closes with a verified entry.
Sample schedule for a Standard-tier engagement. Tier-specific deliverables shown in the next section.
| Day | Date | Motion | FORKOFF owns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Mar 23, 2026 | Pre-summit allocator 1:1 meetings set up · intro-engineered handoffs | Meeting calendar + qualified-intro routing |
| Tue | Mar 24 | DAS Day 1 · founder posts framed for the finance timeline | Daily post + on-site capture |
| Wed | Mar 25 | FORKOFF private dinner (allocator table or policy roundtable) | Venue + curated invite list + follow-up sequence |
| Thu | Mar 26 | DAS Day 3 · on-site podcast recording · institutional-KOL placement live | Studio + KOL proof + per-post tracking |
| Fri | Mar 27 | Founder recap for the finance timeline · dinner follow-ups sequenced | Thread craft + follow-up routing |
| Mon | Mar 30 | Second-conversation scheduling · qualified-meeting record opens | Pipeline record + verified proof setup |
Two weeks of pre-summit institutional narrative plus a 30-account allocator-cluster activation plus New York intro engineering. You leave with a verified record of qualified allocator meetings surfaced before you walk into Javits. Lite scopes a single track: narrative drop, or one allocator dinner, or one side-meeting sequence. Selective on ICP, capped per quarter.
All tiers carry the qualified-meeting ledger. Tier scales scope, not philosophy.
$10,000-$15,000
By application
By application
Feb 2026 · Denver · Standard tier by application
May 2026 · New York · Standard tier by application
Jun 2026 · Brooklyn · Standard tier by application
Oct 2026 · Singapore · Standard tier by application
Nov 2026 · Location TBD · Standard tier by application
The Digital Asset Summit (DAS) is Blockworks' institutional-crypto conference, the year's highest-stakes gathering of TradFi allocators, ETF issuers, regulated funds, and policy leadership. DAS New York 2026 runs March 24-26 at Javits Center North, and the 2026 edition carries a US SEC Chairman headline slot. It is a suit-and-badge room, not a hackathon: the currency is institutional credibility, and most of the real business happens in the private dinners and side meetings orbiting the main stage.
At DAS the buyer is an allocator, a fund LP, or an ETF desk, and those people do not get won at a booth. FORKOFF runs a 14-day operating cycle built for that room: pre-event narrative that frames your team as institutional-grade, intro engineering into the specific allocators attending, a closed-door dinner where the actual conversation happens, and a post-event proof report on the qualified meetings sourced. The play is credibility and access, not reach. Same operator, same record, T+30 proof.
Three tiers. Lite runs a single track (institutional pre-event narrative, or one allocator-focused dinner, or one side-meeting sequence). Standard is the recommended full-summit presence with a FORKOFF-produced private dinner plus allocator intro engineering plus one institutional-KOL placement. Full is board-grade with a multi-touch dinner and meeting sequence, a dedicated on-site operator, and an extended pre-summit allocator-mapping runway. Every tier carries the qualified-meeting ledger.
Yes. Standard and Full tiers include a FORKOFF-produced private dinner near Hudson Yards or Midtown timed to DAS week: an intimate allocator table, a moderated policy roundtable, or a founder-and-LP dinner. At an institutional summit the dinner is the highest-leverage moment because it is the only setting where a fund partner will give you a full uninterrupted hour. We own the venue, the curated invite list, and the follow-up sequence.
Three different rooms. DAS in March is the institutional allocator week: TradFi capital, ETF issuers, and regulated funds. Consensus in May is the broad US industry week with press and regulators. ETHDenver in February is the developer-signal week. If your milestone is a fund ticket, an ETF or RWA distribution conversation, or a regulated-product narrative, DAS is the higher-fit room. If it is developer adoption, you want Denver. Many teams run DAS for capital and Denver for builders in the same year.
DAS is where regulated positioning opens doors that stay shut everywhere else. FORKOFF tunes the founder narrative and the dinner invite list to the compliance-forward cohort: teams with clear registration paths, custody partners, or ETF exposure. With a US SEC Chairman headlining the 2026 summit, the room is watching regulatory signal closely, so we lean the pre-event content into your clearest institutional-credibility proof point rather than growth metrics.
The DAS ledger is meeting-quality, not clip-volume. FORKOFF reports the qualified allocator and LP meetings sourced during the week, the dinner attendee follow-ups converted to second conversations, and the partnership discussions moved forward, each attributed by name and surface. On-site podcast and panel recordings still feed a post-event clip cadence for timeline presence, but the headline metric at an institutional summit is qualified pipeline, closed T+30.
Yes. The Digital Asset Summit is one of many events on the FORKOFF roster. ETHDenver, Consensus, Permissionless, EthCC, Devcon, TOKEN2049 Singapore, and Korea Blockchain Week each carry a dedicated activation page with cadence and tier pricing tuned to that format. Institutional teams often pair DAS in March with a builder or APAC week later in the year to cover both capital and adoption milestones.
Parent service. Multi-event annual roster planning plus cross-event cadence design plus verified proof.
Founder-led institutional narrative from pre-summit allocator mapping through post-event follow-up.
Bot-screened finance-side and institutional KOL placements during DAS week. Qualified-view tracking.
On-site recordings feed a measured clip cadence tuned to the TradFi-adjacent timeline.
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FORKOFF has run activations across 42 events since 2023, per our own operating record, including Korea Blockchain Week, ETHDenver, and Token2049. That count spans institutional weeks and builder weeks on three continents, and the Digital Asset Summit sits squarely in the institutional half. The Blockworks summit lands in New York from March 24 to 26 at Javits Center North, in the early-spring window when allocators, ETF desks, and regulated funds set their year. A summit like this is where a quarter of cold allocator outreach compresses into three concentrated days. Our curated side events run between 100 and 250 attendees each, a size built for the private allocator dinner rather than the trade-show floor. When the buyer is a fund partner who will give you one uninterrupted hour, the room you put them in decides the outcome.
An institutional summit does not reward reach. It rewards credibility that a fund partner can verify before the second meeting. Across 42 events we have learned that the teams who convert at a room like DAS arrive with a clear regulatory story, a named custody or ETF relationship, and a founder who can hold a policy conversation without a deck. The private-dinner format is where that credibility gets tested, because a curated table forces real questions instead of hallway small talk. Our operating record shows the pattern holds whether the capital is allocator money in New York or a strategic ticket abroad.
A DAS week runs on the same operating spine as the rest of our roster. The event management service page owns the venue, the invite list, and the follow-up sequence that turns a dinner into a booked second call. The events hub maps every week we run across crypto, AI, and enterprise calendars, so a team pairing capital and adoption milestones can plan both. For a founder weighing the March institutional week against the September creator week, the NFT NYC 2026 activation sits at the other end of the New York calendar.
Reviewed by the FORKOFF events team, the operators who run these activations on the ground.
Lite activation single-track, by application. Standard tier end-to-end, by application. Full tier board-grade, by application. Qualified-meeting proof across every tier.
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