Bitroot, the parallel EVM Layer 1 blockchain built for artificial intelligence, made a multi-front appearance at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, pairing a main-stage keynote with an exhibition booth at Marina Bay Sands and two side events co-hosted alongside industry partners during conference week.

This year's TOKEN2049 Singapore, staged on 7 and 8 October, drew more than 25,000 attendees, placing it among the largest gatherings of Web3 founders, investors and builders worldwide. The main conference anchors a wider circuit of side events across the city each October, giving infrastructure teams a compressed window to reach developers, investors and media in a single trip.

Main-Stage Keynote: The Parallel AI Blockchain for the Machine Economy

Speaking on the TOKEN2049 main stage, Bitroot CEO Juan Ortega delivered the keynote “The Parallel AI Blockchain for the Machine Economy.” The presentation laid out why AI agents, autonomous applications and machine-to-machine payments require a base layer able to execute transactions in parallel, verify AI workloads onchain and settle at the speed machines operate. The framing taps into one of the industry's most actively contested themes, as a growing set of Layer 1 platforms position themselves for AI workloads and agent-driven payments.

“AI agents are becoming economic actors in their own right, and they need infrastructure that keeps up with them,” said Juan Ortega, CEO of Bitroot. “TOKEN2049 is where the industry decides what gets built next. Our message this week was simple: the machine economy needs a chain designed for it from day one, and Bitroot is that chain.”

Exhibition Booth at Marina Bay Sands

Across both days of the main conference, the Bitroot team connected with developers, investors, exchanges and ecosystem partners from its booth in the TOKEN2049 exhibition hall, offering live walkthroughs of the Bitroot testnet, the project's official DEX and bridge, and the developer tools available to teams building AI-native applications. For a project still at the testnet stage, those hands-on demonstrations served as the tangible counterpart to the main-stage messaging.

Two Co-Hosted Side Events During TOKEN2049 Week

Beyond the main venue, Bitroot broadened its footprint by co-hosting two events with established industry partners — a common route for teams looking to host deeper, more targeted conversations than the exhibition floor allows:

Web3 x AI In Action (6 October, Tahir Building, Robinson Road): an official TOKEN2049 side event hosted by Microsoft, the Injective Foundation and Web3Labs, with Bitroot as co-host. The evening convened infrastructure builders, AI practitioners, institutional investors and policymakers for a keynote and two panels examining where onchain finance and AI converge, from autonomous agents executing onchain to AI-native financial applications and the regulatory frameworks shaping them across Asia. The presence of policymakers alongside builders and investors underscored that AI and onchain finance is now a policy conversation as much as a technical one in the region.

Ultra Connect Singapore (7 October, Marina Bay Sands): a business networking evening co-hosted with Web3Labs as part of the Ultra Web3 Festival, attended by more than 1,000 investors, financial institutions, funds, family offices, founders and corporate decision-makers.

“Singapore was a milestone week for Bitroot,” said Jerry Yu, Head of Growth at Bitroot, who led the team's TOKEN2049 programme. “Between the main stage, the booth and two side events with partners like Microsoft, Injective and3Labs, we put Bitroot in front of the builders and capital that will shape the machine economy. We are already following up on the conversations that started here.”

The TOKEN2049 showing came one week after Bitroot served as a platinum sponsor of GWDC 2026 in Seoul, part of a sustained push into Asian and global markets during the second half of 2026. For observers tracking whether that push gains traction, the near-term markers will be familiar ones: growth in the testnet's 300,000-plus addresses and any expansion of the project's 90-plus partner ecosystem in the weeks after the conference circuit.

About Bitroot

Bitroot is a parallel EVM Layer 1 blockchain designed for AI and the machine economy. The network employs Pipeline BFT consensus with BLS signature aggregation to deliver high-throughput parallel execution and fast finality, providing AI agents and AI-native applications with a base layer capable of keeping pace with them. The Bitroot testnet is live with more than 300,000 addresses, an official DEX and bridge, and an ecosystem spanning more than 90 partners.

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