French President Emmanuel Macron is set to speak at Paris Blockchain Week

Macron to Make History as First G7 Leader to Address Blockchain Summit

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make history. On April 15th, he'll take the stage at Paris Blockchain Week—becoming the first sitting G7 leader to address a blockchain industry summit.

The speech will go down at the Louvre's Carrousel Hall, with an expected crowd of over 10,000 global decision-makers. Macron is expected to double down on the idea of "European digital sovereignty." His argument? MiCA—the EU's crypto asset regulatory framework—gives European digital asset firms a unified legal edge over the fragmented markets in the US and Asia.

He's also set to unveil a slate of national incentives for "deep tech" startups working on zero-knowledge proofs and post-quantum cryptography. And he'll push for a unified European capital market, tapping distributed ledger tech to cut cross-border investment costs. The move is being seen as a strategic signal that France is baking blockchain into its core industrial policy.