Native hosts private gathering beneath the Louvre at Paris Blockchain Week

Native hosts private Paris Blockchain Week gathering for founders, investors, and builders.

Native, a payments and liquidity infrastructure company that works with institutions, fintechs, and enterprises, brought together 30 builders, founders, and investors for a closed-door evening during Paris Blockchain Week on April 15.

The gathering, called The Limestone Hour, ran inside a wine cellar built in the 18th century and tucked beneath the Louvre. The 30 seats went to people working in stablecoin infrastructure, OTC and market-making, and crypto card programs. Over three hours, they moved through an 18-course cocktail program and a curated wine tasting while talking shop about the direction of European institutional crypto.

Paris Blockchain Week partnered with Native on the event. Each invitation matched one of Native’s three business lines, and the room gave the company a focused read on the market it plans to grow into over the next year.

The main conference drew institutional investors, founders, and regulators to the Carrousel du Louvre across two days. This year’s theme, “The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets,” captured the direction of travel across most of the sessions. For Native, the week opened doors to enterprise clients, fintechs, and ecosystem partners that the company wants to bring into its pipeline across Europe.

Native runs stablecoin infrastructure as the foundation of the business, with payment rails that route value between fintechs, payment firms, and enterprise treasury operations. 

A market-making desk operates above that layer and serves institutional clients who need deep liquidity and programmatic execution on stablecoin pairs and major crypto assets. 

Crypto cards complete the offering, available directly and through white-label arrangements for brands that want to add crypto spend without building the backend themselves.

The conversations in Paris sharpened the company’s agenda for the remainder of 2026, with European expansion, crypto card growth, market-making desk expansion, and the Hong Kong license all moving in parallel.

European expansion drives most of the near-term activity. Native will push outbound across the region, targeting fintechs, payment companies, and enterprise clients, and plans to lean on local partnerships to cut down integration timelines. Several of the accounts Native met in Paris already sit inside that pipeline.

Native issues the stablecoin-backed crypto card directly and also operates it on a white-label basis for brands that want the product without the underlying stack. White-label demand has picked up over recent months, particularly from fintechs looking to add crypto spend to their offering.

The market-making desk moves into a new phase of growth alongside the card push. OTC is the label the industry tends to reach for, but Native structures the business as market-making, which brings institutional clients tighter pricing, greater depth on size, and programmatic execution across stablecoin pairs and major crypto assets. 

The next phase of growth will open the desk to new client segments across treasury, payments, and settlement.

Native is waiting on its license from the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, a step that will open up Asian markets and give the company coverage across both regions. That east-west balance already shows up in the client base.

“What we heard in Paris matched what we already see across our client base,” said Tommy Li, Co-Founder of Native. “Digital assets are now part of everyday financial operations, from treasury to payments and settlement. Native was built to serve exactly that, and we are well-positioned between traditional finance and web3.”

About Native

Native is a payments and liquidity infrastructure provider built for institutions, fintech companies, and enterprises that use digital assets in real-world financial operations.

Its suite of services spans market-making, crypto card solutions, and treasury management tools. Through this stack, clients tap deep liquidity, execute large trades efficiently, and spend digital assets through familiar payment rails.

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