On March 11, the co-founder of decentralized login service provider TorusLabs, Zhen Yu Yong (Zen), tweeted that he had been diagnosed with coronavirus COVID-2019.

Zen urged people who may have been in contact with him during the ETHLondon hackathon held from February. 28 until March 1, or the Ethereum Community Conference (ECC) held from March 3 to March five in Paris, to have "extra precautions and/or get tested."

ECC exempt from French ban on large indoor gatherings

The coronavirus threat has impacted several major cryptocurrency conferences in contempo weeks, with the Paris Blockchain Week 2022 recently being postponed until Dec. 9 after France instituted a ban on large indoor gatherings from the end of February. However, the ECC was exempt from the ban every bit it had less than 5,000 attendees.

The coronavirus also impacted the London blockchain week, which saw numerous empty seats, and presentations originally scheduled to take place on stage hastily reorganized as live-streaming webinars.

Public fears surrounding the spread of the illness also significantly impacted the turnout for CryptoCompare's Digital Asset Pinnacle in London yesterday.

Coronavirus disrupts crypto conferences

On March 2, the Hong Kong Blockchain Week 2022 appear that it has rescheduled for Sep. 28 to Sep. thirty, later postponing at the end of January. The announcement came i month after the Hong Kong Token2049 conference was rescheduled for October.

Italy'due south upcoming EDCON was canceled on February. 22, and Republic of korea's Nitron Top 2022 besides postponed at the start of February.