NFT Paris and RWA Paris cancel 2026 conferences citing market collapse

Organizers of NFT Paris and RWA Paris said on Monday that the conferences in Paris, initially set for February 2026, have been cancelled with a month’s notice, citing market forces.

In a post on the event's X account the organisers said, “The market collapse hit us hard,” and added that “despite drastic cost cuts and months of trying to make it work, we couldn't pull it off this year.” The message to attendees also signaled they are “clos[ing] this chapter” on conferences.

Some event sponsors reported they would not be receiving a refund, but NFT Paris said it would refund all tickets purchased within 15 days. Cointelegraph reached out to the organizers for details on potential future events but had not received a response at the time of publication.

The cancellation comes amid a broader downturn in the NFT market in 2025, with sales falling to about $320 million in November and reportedly lower in December. CoinGecko data put total NFT market capitalization at about $2.7 billion, a 68% year-over-year drop. Industry moves cited in the same report include OpenSea's October announcement to transform into a platform to “trade everything,” X2Y2's March decision to shut down and pivot to AI, and Rarible's September rollout of a model to redistribute tokens to active traders, saying “previous designs […] were not sustainable.”

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