CoinGape has officially announced the winners of the Global Onchain Awards 2026 following a ceremony at Pullman Singapore Hill Street during the closing stage of the Global Onchain Summit Singapore 2026.
The awards program, which featured over 100 nominations across more than 20 categories, aimed to celebrate companies, institutions, and leaders building for crypto's institutional era. Winners were selected based on institutional readiness and ability to handle institutional-level volumes within the regulatory crypto ecosystem.
Selection Process and Jury
The selection process combined community voting on CoinGape's platform with final decisions made by a jury of executives from traditional finance and onchain infrastructure. Jury members included Chetan Karkhanis, Senior Vice President at Franklin Templeton; Andy Ross, Head of Institutional at Kalshi; Hürcan Polat, Growth Lead, API & CLI at Nansen; and Marcin Kaźmierczak, Co-Founder at RedStone.
Notable Winners
Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, received the Onchain Leadership Award for leading Bitget's growth from nearly 20 million to over 120 million users. The citation highlighted her strategic move to evolve Bitget into a Universal Exchange and initiatives such as Blockchain4her.
Binance was awarded Best Crypto Exchange for Institutions, with institutional users on the exchange growing 9 percent in the first half of 2026. Binance's institutional triparty banking framework, which allows institutional clients to avoid self-custody requirements or parking capital on the exchange, was noted as significant.
Tokeny won Best Tokenized Real-World Asset Platform for its role in creating ERC-3643 and engaging in multiple partnerships to advance its RWA agenda.
Award Categories
Award categories spanned the institutional crypto stack, including tokenized equities trading, prediction markets, institutional exchanges, real-world asset tokenization, staking, stablecoin payments, remittances, on and off-ramps, and compliance infrastructure.
