Paris Blockchain Week wrapped its 2026 edition last week with a consistent message from the institutional side of crypto: treasuries, payment companies, and fintechs have settled the question of whether to use digital assets, and the focus has moved on to how to use them well. 

Native, a payments and liquidity infrastructure company serving institutions, fintechs, and enterprises, spent the week meeting exactly that part of the market.

Over two days at the Carrousel du Louvre, the conference saw more than 10,000 attendees from banks, asset managers, infrastructure providers, startups, and policymakers. Most of the main-stage sessions circled the year’s theme, “The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets.

Native used the week to hold meetings with enterprise clients, fintechs, and ecosystem partners across Europe, and capped the visit with a closed-door gathering on April 15.

That gathering, called The Limestone Hour, took place inside an 18th-century wine cellar beneath the Louvre, co-hosted with Paris Blockchain Week. Thirty guests attended, all working in stablecoin infrastructure, OTC and market-making, or crypto card programmes. Native picked guests across its three business lines, and the room gave the team a direct view of the European institutional crypto market it plans to grow into over the coming year.

Native operates three business lines that match what the Paris conversations kept returning to. Stablecoin infrastructure forms the foundation, with payment rails that route value for fintechs, payment firms, and enterprise treasury desks. 

Above that layer, a market-making operation covers institutional clients who need deep liquidity and programmatic execution on stablecoin pairs and major crypto assets. 

A crypto card product completes the stack, issued directly and through white-label partnerships for brands that want to offer crypto spend without building the backend.

Most of the near-term work happens in Europe. The plan is to win new business from fintechs, payment companies, and enterprise clients across the region, with local partners helping shorten the runway between a first conversation and a live integration. 

Alongside that, the stablecoin-backed crypto card continues to grow. Native offers the product directly to users and also on a white-label basis for brands that want to give their customers crypto spend without building the backend themselves. 

Next comes the market-making desk. Most firms in the industry would describe what the desk does as OTC, but Native set it up as a full market-making business, which gives clients tighter pricing, better depth on large trades, and programmatic execution across stablecoin pairs and major crypto assets. 

The team is now preparing to broaden the desk’s client base across treasury, payments, and settlement, with a focus on firms that use crypto in ongoing operations rather than as a periodic allocation.

The Hong Kong license closes out the 2026 roadmap. Native is waiting on approval from the Securities and Futures Commission, and once the license is in place, the company will have the regulatory footing to expand across Asia. 

“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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