The summit will bring together leaders from digital assets, banking, asset management, regulation, and onchain finance.
• With speaker slots filling quickly and new institutional participants being announced, only a limited number of speaking opportunities remain available.
Global Onchain Summit:- In a major announcement, the Global Onchain Summit Singapore 2026 has confirmed Chetan Karkhanis as a featured speaker for its inaugural edition. Chetan is a Senior Vice President at the leading tradfi giant Franklin Templeton.
The summit will take place in Singapore on October 6-7. It is organized by CoinGape, a trusted pioneer with over a decade of leadership in crypto media.
The Global Onchain Summit will be bringing together leaders from traditional finance, digital assets, policy, and market infrastructure to discuss the future of on-chain finance.
Karkhanis is expected to share Franklin Templeton's perspective on tokenization, digital assets, and institutional adoption. His session will focus on how large financial institutions are approaching blockchain-powered financial products and the evolution of capital markets on-chain.
The announcement comes as the Global Onchain Summit continues to strengthen its institutional speaker lineup. The event is expected to host executives and policymakers from leading organizations. This includes key figures from BlackRock, Standard Chartered, Ondo Finance, MAS, top institutional crypto exchanges and other major players across the financial ecosystem.
At the Global Onchain Summit, leaders are set to deliberate and discuss key narratives shaping the digital assets industry. This will cover tokenized assets, stablecoins, institutional adoption, digital asset infrastructure, treasury management, tradfi, among others.
Based in Singapore, Chetan Karkhanis currently serves as Senior Vice President at Franklin Templeton. In his role, he leads Franklin Innovation Research Strategies and Technologies (FIRST) initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region.
His work focuses heavily on digital assets, tokenization, and next-generation wealth solutions. He also leads commercial efforts related to digital asset products while working closely with regulators, and institutional clients.
Over his 12-year tenure at Franklin Templeton, Karkhanis has held several leadership positions. Before taking on his current role, he also served as Senior Product Management Lead for APAC.