A strong commitment to diversity is shaping crypto in 2026. Kaupr is bringing the Nordics together for “Diversity in Crypto in the Nordics”, while international initiatives such as Women of Bitcoin, Blockchain4Her and Crypto Women Collective show that the topic is being elevated globally.
The Nordic crypto community continues to coalesce around diversity and inclusion. Following last year's good response, Morten Myrstad at Kaupr has once again taken the initiative for “Diversity in Crypto in the Nordics” — a digital live broadcast that brings together community actors, founders, professionals and engaged participants from across the region to discuss how we can create a more representative ecosystem.
Two days before this year's broadcast, the number of enrollees passes last year's level, with 140 registered participants. All or part of last year's broadcast was viewed by over 600 people on LinkedIn, including footage, showing that engagement extends beyond the live timeslot itself.
This year's edition will be broadcast live on 6 March from 15:00 to 17:00, with Zarina Bjørklund Rehn hosting the broadcast, in collaboration with Kaupr as the organizer. She leads the conversations with voices from different parts of the Nordic ecosystem, bringing together experiences from both established players and new environments. Through panels and dialogues, topics such as recruitment, role models, regulation, security and community work are raised, with an emphasis on concrete actions to lower the threshold for new groups entering crypto and web3.
“Diversity in Crypto in the Nordics” is streamed on multiple platforms, allowing as many people as possible to participate where they are. YouTube, LinkedIn and Kaupr are places where you can follow the broadcast live, while Lu.ma is used for registration to receive notifications and up-to-date information about the program.
Internationally, there are a number of initiatives that in different ways point in the same direction. Women of Bitcoin and Women of Bitcoin Summit are meeting places where women in bitcoin and crypto gather to network, share experiences and raise new voices. Entrepreneurs, investors, developers and content creators meet to discuss everything from technology and security to career paths and community work — with the goal of making it easier for more people to take their place in the ecosystem.
Bitget's Blockchain4HER initiative is being marked around Women's Day with the campaign “How can we achieve mass adoption without women?” and a series of activities aimed at increasing inclusion of women in crypto and web3. The initiative combines communication, events and its own initiatives to attract more women to the industry, linking the diversity theme directly to the issue of further adoption and growth.
Crypto Women Collective is another example of how diversity work is organized through community-driven networks. The collective brings together women and allies around learning, experience sharing and support across roles and levels, showing how structured communities can lower the threshold into both crypto, web3 and nearby technology environments.
For Kaupr and “Diversity in Crypto in the Nordics”, such initiatives are relevant reference points, without there being any formal link therein. They illustrate that diversity is now on the agenda in several places around the world — from independent community projects to stock exchanges and other commercial actors — while Nordic communities are developing their own formats and conversations.
Diversity in crypto, however, is about more than gender balance. It is about bringing in more professional backgrounds, ages, languages and experiences, and opening up voices that have not traditionally been part of the finance and technology communities. When multiple perspectives are involved in shaping products, regulation and use cases, both quality and legitimacy increase. A narrower environment, where the same types of people build, finance and promote projects, is more vulnerable to blind zones and bubble trends.
The Nordic region can play an important role here. The region has a tradition of trust, digital infrastructure and a relatively high degree of gender equality, combined with a growing ecosystem of companies and communities in crypto and web3. If this position is coupled with conscious recruitment, inclusive events, open knowledge sharing and clear role models, the Nordic region can become a laboratory for what a more sustainable crypto environment actually looks like in practice.
Last year's edition of “Diversity in Crypto” showed that the commitment is already there: Participants from all over the Nordic countries shared stories about how local associations, student communities, startups and investor communities are working to make space bigger and safer for more people. 2026 is all about building on this — while keeping up with and being inspired by international initiatives such as Women of Bitcoin, Blockchain4Her, Crypto Women Collective and other diversity projects globally.
Kaupr is now inviting industry players, organizations and individuals to join this year's broadcast, share experiences and use March 8 as a natural anchor point to ask the simple but demanding question: Who gets to shape the digital economy of the future — and what do we do specifically to make the answer “more than today”?
