Pantera Blockchain Summit 2023

Schedule

Monday, April 3, 2023

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Registration Opens, Gallery I & II, Level I

6:00 PM

NCAA Championship Game Viewing Party, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration and Breakfast, Gallery I & II, Level I
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Welcome & Pantera Roadmap, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Fireside Chat with Chris Giancarlo, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelist:
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Chris Giancarlo: Former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM
DeFi Works Great, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
0x Labs: Amir Bandeali, Co-CEO / Co-Founder
Cega: Arisa Toyosaki, CEO / Co-Founder
Ondo Finance: Nathan Allman, CEO / Founder
Injective Labs: Eric Chen, CEO / Co-Founder
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Chia Jeng Yang, Principal
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM
Open Networking / Coffee Break, Gallery I & II, Level I
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Real World Use Cases in Action, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
Audius: Roneil Rumburg, CEO / Co-Founder
Unstoppable Domains: Bradley Kam, Co-Founder
Definitive: Sunny Madra, Co-Founder
InfiniGods: Damon Gura, Co-Founder & CEO
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Ryan Barney, Principal
11:40 AM – 12:15 PM
Wall Street Meets Crypto, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
Goldman Sachs: Oli Harris, Head of North American Digital Assets & Managing Director
Apollo Global: Christine Moy, Partner and Head of Digital Asset Strategy
S&P Global: Chuck Mounts, Chief DeFi Officer
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Franklin Bi, Partner
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch, Terrace Courtyard and Terrace Room, Level II
1:30 PM – 1:55 PM
Fireside Chat with Emilie Choi, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelist:
Coinbase: Emilie Choi, President / COO
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Paul Veradittakit, Managing Partner
1:55 PM – 2:30 PM
Institutional Investor Perspectives, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
Mubadala Ventures: Fred Lardieg, Partner
Citi Strategic: Siris Singh, Director
Sony Ventures: Ludovic Copere, Senior Investment Director
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Jeff Lewis, Director of Capital Formation
2:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Fireside Chat with CFTC Commissioner Pham, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelist:
CFTC: Caroline D. Pham, Commissioner
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Katrina Paglia, General Counsel / Chief Compliance Officer
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM
Open Networking / Coffee Break, Gallery I & II, Level I
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Global Crypto Adoption, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
BitOasis: Ola Doudin, CEO / Co-Founder
Brine: Shaaran Lakshminarayanan, Founder
BCB Group: Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, CEO / Founder
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Lauren Stephanian, Partner
3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
The State of Web3 Development, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelist:
Alchemy: Nikil Viswanathan, CEO / Co-Founder
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Paul Veradittakit, Managing Partner
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM
Crypto in 2033, The Ritz-Carlton Ballroom, Level I
Panelists:
Eco: Andy Bromberg, CEO
Quantstamp: Don Ho, Managing Director
Braintrust: Adam Jackson, CEO / Founder
Moderator:
Pantera Capital: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Reception, Terrace Courtyard, Level II

7:00 PM

Poker Tournament, Terrace Room, Level II

Thursday, April 6, 2023
2:00 PM
Pantera Bocce Tournament, Embarcadero Plaza Bocce Courts
  • Speaker
    Nikil Viswanathan
    Co-founder & CEO, Alchemy
    Nikil Viswanathan is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world’s leading blockchain developer platform worth $10 billion dollars. Alchemy powers over $100 billion in transactions globally including the entire NFT industry and majority of top blockchain companies. Alchemy is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Stanford University, Coinbase, the Google Chairman, founders & execs of Charles Schwab, LinkedIn, NYSE, and many more.

    Nikil was honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, received his BS & MS in Computer Science at Stanford, and formerly did product management at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. A serial entrepreneur, he co-created the #1 social app in the world, Down To Lunch, which was featured in international press such as a New York Times business cover story. He’s been featured in numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, Fortune, and TechCrunch.

  • Speaker
    Emilie Choi
    President & COO, Coinbase
    Coming Soon…
  • Speaker
    Jasper Lewitton
    General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Pantera Capital
    As a Managing Partner at Pantera, Jasper drives and oversees the strategic vision, direction, and operational management of the firm. He brings over twenty years of leadership experience across Global Investment Management firms. For close to a decade, he served as Business Unit Head and Senior Leader at Bridgewater Associates, where he oversaw management and transformation across the Investment, Client, and Operational areas of the firm. Prior to Bridgewater, Jasper held a number of senior strategy and operating roles, including Global Head of Strategy at UBS, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at Citigroup, and COO of Citigroup’s Real Estate private equity business. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has worked extensively in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jasper holds a LLM from the University of Cambridge and Finance, Economics, and Law degrees from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa where he grew up.
  • Speaker
    Katrina Paglia
    General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Pantera Capital
    As General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer of Pantera, Katrina oversees the legal, regulatory and compliance functions of the firm. Katrina brings complementary experiences across asset management and crypto roles. She was most recently with Coinbase where she was Director & Associate General Counsel responsible for the team supporting the digital asset and exchange Product teams. She was previously GC & CCO of Capstone Investment Advisors and, prior to that, General Counsel, Corporate and Governance, and Corporate Secretary at Och-Ziff Capital Management. She began her career at Venable LLP, was later Compliance Manager at American Express, and Legal and Compliance Counsel at M.D. Sass. Katrina also sits on the advisory committee of Invest In Girls. Katrina holds a BA in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland and a JD with a Certificate in Business Law from Brooklyn Law School.
  • Speaker
    Jeff Lewis
    Director of Capital Formation, Pantera Capital
    Jeff joined Pantera in 2022 as Director of Capital Formation. Jeff has an extensive background in the investment management space as an entrepreneur, investor, and trader. He was a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners and held senior roles at York Capital Management and DLJ. He has broad experience across asset classes, having traded equities, fixed income and derivatives on the sell side and for world-class hedge funds. Jeff created The American Flag Football League. In this endeavor, he established a partnership with the NFL, built a community of over 200,000 social media followers, and produced over 700 games and 30 telecasts on CBS, NFL Networks and other media outlets. Jeff received his B.A. and MBA from Cornell University.
  • Speaker
    Jeng Yang Chia
    Principal, Pantera Capital
    Chia joined Pantera in 2022 to focus on the firm’s venture and growth investments, with an interest in DeFi, and Web3 infrastructure. Prior to this role, he was a fintech and crypto investor at Saison Capital, a global fintech fund (a top 10 Fintech VC by CBInsights). Chia previously worked at Bessemer Venture Partners, Rocket Internet, Antler, Allen & Overy. Chia graduated with a law degree from the University of Cambridge and an unfinished MBA from Harvard Business School.
  • Speaker
    Ryan Barney
    Principal, Pantera Capital
    Ryan joined Pantera in 2022 to focus on the firm’s venture and growth investments. Ryan previously was an investor at Emergence Capital, a B2B focused venture firm in the Bay Area. Ryan started his career at Boston Consulting Group where he spent time in their technology and due diligence practices. Ryan graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Management and also competed for four years on their NCAA Division I alpine ski team.
  • Speaker
    Lauren Stephanian
    Partner, Pantera Capital
    Lauren is a partner Pantera Capital, one of the earliest institutional crypto funds, where she’s used her background in software engineering and finance to make investment decisions for over four years. Prior to joining Pantera, she worked in trading at Bank of America and before that, she started her career in software engineering, working at a trading platform. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. In her spare time she enjoys coding in solidity and writing about data in the crypto space.
  • Speaker
    Franklin Bi
    Partner, Pantera Capital
    Franklin serves as Pantera’s Director of Portfolio Development, focused on supporting and accelerating the firm’s portfolio companies. He was previously Vice President and Blockchain / Crypto Strategy Lead at J.P. Morgan, as a founding member of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in 2015. He previously launched a blockchain-focused strategy consulting firm, as Founding Partner at Scale8 Partners and Associate Director at Wachsman. Franklin’s previous experience includes corporate strategy and development at J.P. Morgan, early-stage investing at ff Venture Capital, and advising founders at Techstars. Franklin graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and concentrations in Finance, Management, and Entrepreneurship.
  • Speaker
    Paul Veradittakit
    Managing Partner, Pantera Capital
    Paul joined as a partner at Pantera in 2014, where he focuses on the firm’s venture capital and early-stage token fund investments. He has helped launch Pantera Venture Funds and the firm’s token funds, executing over 100 investments. Paul also sits on the board of Alchemy, Blockfolio, and Staked, is a mentor at The House Fund, Boost VC, and Creative Destruction Labs, and is an advisor to Audius, Ampleforth, and Set Labs. Paul’s prior experience includes working as an associate at Strive Capital, where he focused on investments in the mobile space, including an early stage investment in App Annie. He also performed partnerships and growth for Urban Spoils, a daily-deal aggregation startup, and worked with LECG and Hatch Consulting. Paul graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Speaker
    Dan Morehead
    CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital
    Dan founded Pantera Capital Management in 2003, managing over $1 billion of institutional investor assets in its global macro strategy. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as their first Asset-Backed Securities Trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.
  • Speaker
    Adam Jackson
    Co-Founder, Braintrust
    Adam is co-founder of Braintrust, the largest and fastest-growing web3 talent network that matches enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. Braintrust’s unique network model allows talent to retain 100% of their market rate while enabling organizations to spin up flexible teams and make their budgets go 2-3x further by cutting out the middlemen. Braintrust has allowed talent to earn over $130m since inception: more at https://info.braintrust.com. Adam is also co-founder of Cambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company.

    Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the popular video telemedicine provider, with daytime talk show personality Dr. Phil. Other notable ventures include DriverSide, a marketplace that connects car owners with mechanics, which was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011 and MarketSquare, the first online local shopping destination on the Internet which was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006. Adam is a passionate Angel investor in 120+ companies including LTSE, SuperHuman, Filecoin, Binance, Compound, Automatic, Apero Health, Zenefits, and more.

  • Speaker
    Damon Gura
    Co-Founder & CEO, InfiniGods
    Damon is the co-founder and CEO of InfiniGods, a blockchain game studio who raised a Seed Round in 2022 led by Pantera Capital. InfiniGods is pioneering how blockchain technology works within the gaming industry. Damon has spent the last 10 months building a team of 30+ industry veterans focused on developing three (3) Free-to-Play cross platform games embedded with asset interoperability and asset ownership. He is a 25-year gaming industry veteran who is also a named inventor on over 100 gaming patents.

    Prior to his experience of founding InfiniGods, Damon was the founder and CEO of DGN Games, a successful casual/mobile gaming company. He grew DGN Games to be a $30+M top line revenue business which was acquired by Crown Resorts in 2015 and still exists today with offices in US, Australia, Tel Aviv, and Ukraine. Damon holds a Bachelors & Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio University and a MBA in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management. He currently lives in Lakeway, TX, with his wife and three daughters. 

  • Speaker
    Chuck Mounts
    Chief DeFi Officer S&P Global Ratings
    Chuck Mounts is the Chief DeFi Officer in S&P Global Ratings and leading the newly formed DeFi strategy team. In this role Chuck will help advance S&P Global Ratings’ approach and capabilities in the fast-moving decentralized market environment. The team will focus on bringing S&P Global’s robust analytic and risk assessment capabilities forth to support both traditional institutional (TradFi) clients and the growing universe of crypto-native DeFi clients. With 30 years of experience in global financial markets, Chuck has led global businesses comprised of research teams, strategists, and product specialists that integrate market knowledge, product expertise and analytic capabilities across asset classes.

    Chuck began his career as a bank regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and spent the majority of the following two decades as a global credit analyst and a manager of research teams, including stints at Goldman Sachs and UBS, where he was the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Research for UBS investment bank.

    He has served as the Chairman of the Bond Market Association’s Committee on Research Conflicts and has been recognized by global institutional investors for his understanding and insights in global financial markets. During his career Charles has presented at numerous conferences, has been cited in international publications and has appeared in the media.

    Chuck holds B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.

  • Speaker
    Ludovic Copere
    Senior Investment Director, Sony Ventures
    Ludovic brings 17 years of experience in venture capital, new business creation and strategic partnerships at Sony. Based in Silicon Valley as a core member of Sony Innovation Fund (SIF) since its inception, Ludovic leads startup scouting, due diligence, venture investment execution as well as portfolio management in many core SIF focus areas such as FinTech, InsurTech, web3, Mobility, Drones, FoodTech, AgTech and Environment.

    Ludovic was previously at Sony’s global headquarters in Tokyo, where he ran strategic assessments, mid & long-term technology perspectives and financial valuations to foster Sony’s Intellectual Property. Before that, he spent several years as Corporate Strategist in London, New York and Paris, spanning the entire spectrum of Sony’s Electronics, Gaming, Content, Financial Services, Telecommunications & B2B activities.

    A French native, Ludovic holds a MSc in Information & Communication Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, and a MSc in Industrial Engineering & Management from the ƒcole Centrale in France.

  • Speaker
    Lauren Stephanian
    Partner
    Lauren is a partner Pantera Capital, one of the earliest institutional crypto funds, where she’s used her background in software engineering and finance to make investment decisions for over four years. Prior to joining Pantera, she worked in trading at Bank of America and before that, she started her career in software engineering, working at a trading platform. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. In her spare time she enjoys coding in solidity and writing about data in the crypto space.
  • Speaker
    Franklin Bi
    Director of Portfolio Development
    Franklin serves as Pantera’s Director of Portfolio Development, focused on supporting and accelerating the firm’s portfolio companies. He was previously Vice President and Blockchain / Crypto Strategy Lead at J.P. Morgan, as a founding member of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in 2015. He previously launched a blockchain-focused strategy consulting firm, as Founding Partner at Scale8 Partners and Associate Director at Wachsman. Franklin’s previous experience includes corporate strategy and development at J.P. Morgan, early-stage investing at ff Venture Capital, and advising founders at Techstars. Franklin graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and concentrations in Finance, Management, and Entrepreneurship.
  • Speaker
    Paul Veradittakit
    General Partner
    Paul joined as a partner at Pantera in 2014, where he focuses on the firm’s venture capital and early-stage token fund investments. He has helped launch Pantera Venture Funds and the firm’s token funds, executing over 100 investments. Paul also sits on the board of Alchemy, Blockfolio, and Staked, is a mentor at The House Fund, Boost VC, and Creative Destruction Labs, and is an advisor to Audius, Ampleforth, and Set Labs. Paul’s prior experience includes working as an associate at Strive Capital, where he focused on investments in the mobile space, including an early stage investment in App Annie. He also performed partnerships and growth for Urban Spoils, a daily-deal aggregation startup, and worked with LECG and Hatch Consulting. Paul graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Speaker
    Dan Morehead
    CEO & Co-Chief Investment Officer
    Dan founded Pantera Capital Management in 2003, managing over $1 billion of institutional investor assets in its global macro strategy. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as their first Asset-Backed Securities Trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.
  • Speaker
    Sunny Madra
    Co-Founder and CEO, Definitive Intelligence
    Coming Soon…
  • Speaker
    Sunayna Tuteja
    Federal Reserve, Chief Innovation Officer
    Sunayna joined the Federal Reserve System in 2021 as its first Chief Innovation Officer. With a bias for action, she leads the Fed’s innovation agenda, in collaboration with business and technology partners to strengthen innovation culture across the 12 Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors, and to ship meaningful outcomes that deliver value to the constituents and communities that we serve.

    Sunayna brings 10+ years of global experience leading change and innovation at the nexus of finance, technology and policy. Prior to the Fed she led digital transformation as a builder, operator and venture investor within the fintech and crypto ecosystem, in North America and Asia. She is a proud alumna of the University of Alberta and Stanford University.

    When she’s not nerding out on all things innovation, you can find Sunayna adventuring the skies in her Cessna.

  • Speaker
    Sumit Gupta
    Co-Founder & CEO, CoinDCX
    Sumit Gupta is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CoinDCX, India’s first crypto unicorn, and the safest cryptocurrency exchange. As a pioneer in India’s crypto industry, Sumit has been instrumental in bringing the emerging asset class to the consciousness of India’s mainstream. In his role, Sumit is responsible for the overall strategy and growth of CoinDCX and is the driving force behind the company’s vision to onboard 50 million Indians into crypto. Sumit is an influential industry figure who advocates actively for a better understanding and adoption of crypto. When Bitcoin began gaining traction in 2014, Sumit saw the potential of leveraging blockchain technology to enable financial inclusion and saw crypto’s potential to supercharge India’s growing innovation economy. Together with his team at CoinDCX, Sumit is committed to democratizing access to crypto for India, empowering Indians to manage their digital wealth in an increasingly digital and decentralized future.

    Sumit holds an Undergraduate and Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

  • Speaker
    Roneil Rumburg
    Co-Founder, Audius
    Roneil Rumburg is co-founder of Audius, a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. Audius is fully decentralized, owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and developers all around the world. Founded in early 2018, Audius serves millions of users every month, making it one of the largest crypto applications ever built. Prior to Audius, Roneil most recently co-founded Kleiner Perkins’ early-stage seed fund, KPCB Edge. At KP, he was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies, including Lightning Labs. Roneil attended Stanford University and previously co-founded a Bitcoin peer to peer payment company called Backslash.
  • Speaker
    Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie
    CEO, BCB Group
    Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology. After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.
  • Speaker
    Oli Harris
    Managing Director, Head of Americas Digital Assets
    Oli is a Managing Director and Head of Americas Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs. In this role, he is responsible for strategy, the firm’s digital asset investments, partnerships, and building new businesses to reimagine and transform financial services.

    Before joining Goldman Sachs, Oli was Head of Crypto Assets Strategy and Quorum at J.P. Morgan. He oversaw strategy and investments for digital assets firmwide and rebooted Quorum into a leading-class blockchain and smart contracts platform for enterprises.

    Earlier in his career at J.P. Morgan, Oli held several other leadership roles, including Head of Strategy for International Consumer and Head of FinTech. In the latter role, he also created InResidence, an incubator to co-create value with startups, universities, and intrapreneurial employees.

    Before J.P. Morgan, he was seconded to the Office of Tony Blair, led the New Energy Architecture Initiative at the World Economic Forum, and was a Strategy Consultant at Accenture.

    Oli is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and was named in Business Insider’s 35 under 35 for FinTech. He serves on the Boards of Anchorage, Blockdaemon, and TRM Labs, and is a founding member of Allen & Overy’s Fuse innovation program.

  • Speaker
    Ola Doudin
    Co-Founder & CEO, BitOasis
    Ola Doudin is the co-founder & CEO of BitOasis, the first and largest digital asset platform in the Middle East. She has an engineering background and has worked in tech consulting in a Big4 firm in London and engineering research prior to her move back to the region where she got involved in tech entrepreneurship and later started BitOasis in 2015. Most recently, Forbes Middle East featured Ola among the ‘Top 10 Women Behind Middle Eastern Tech Brands 2021’. She has also been selected as a ‘Young Global Leader 2022’ – An initiative by the World
    Economic Forum.
  • Speaker
    Nathan Allman
    Founder & CEO, Ondo Finance, Pantera Capital
    Coming Soon…
  • Speaker
    Mike Belshe
    Co-founder and CEO, BitGo, Pantera Capital
    Mike Belshe is the driving force behind BitGo’s product and business strategy for delivering security, compliance, and custodial solutions for blockchain-based currencies.
  • Speaker
    Eric Chen
    Co-Founder & CEO, Injective Labs
    Eric Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Injective Labs. As a part of the Cosmos universe, and utilizing the power of IBC, Injective looks to shape the future as the blockchain built for finance.
  • Speaker
    Don Ho
    Managing DIrector, Quantstamp
    Don is an investor and entrepreneur with global perspectives and cross-functional experiences supporting investments, product, and growth. He is currently Managing Director of Quantstamp, a blockchain security and auditing firm. Don previously worked at IDG Ventures and PNP Ventures where he helped launch Nexla, Ayasdi, and the Los Angeles Football Club.
  • Speaker
    Christine Moy
    Partner and Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Apollo
    Christine Moy Christine is a Partner and Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Apollo Global Management, Inc. In this newly created position, Christine leads digital asset strategy across the firm, exploring more ways to apply blockchain technologies to Apollo’s business. She also plays a key role in Apollo’s strategy to invest in some of the most innovative digital asset companies and founders, with a specific focus on those transforming the financial services sector where Apollo can serve as a validator and enabler of new technologies. Previously, she was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and led its Blockchain/Crypto/Metaverse program through initiatives in digital assets, tokenized payments, internet-of-things, decentralized identity, NFTs, and virtual worlds. She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.”
  • Speaker
    Chris J. Giancarlo
    ex-CFTC Commisioner
    Coming Soon…
  • Speaker
    Caroline Pham
    CFTC Commissioner
    The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is a recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key international issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of global regulatory reforms, and addressing the impact of major disruptions like the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Pham is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

    Previously, Commissioner Pham was a Managing Director at Citigroup where she held various senior roles, including Global Head of Swap Dealer and Volcker Compliance; Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs; Head of Capital Markets Regulatory Strategy and Engagement; and Head of Market Structure for Strategic Initiatives on the Institutional Clients Group Business Development team. She was a member of firmwide governance forums and has held leadership roles in many industry organizations.

    Commissioner Pham is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has received various awards. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Business and Finance Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance.

  • Speaker
    Bradley Kam
    Co-Founder, Unstoppable Domains
    Bradley Kam is a co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, a company building user owned digital identity. Prior to Unstoppable Domains, he co-founded Talkable, a marketing tech company backed by Y Combinator.
  • Speaker
    Arisa Toyosaki
    Co-founder and CEO, Cega
    Arisa is the co-founder and CEO of Cega. Cega is building exotic options structured products for investors that generate superior yield and offer built-in protection against market downturns. Cega is developing new capabilities in tech, token contracts, and data modeling that will enable the next evolution of DeFi derivatives. Her path to founder includes time as a derivatives trader at UBS and a product marketing manager at Google. Arisa holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics from Northwestern University. She is an advisor to the Japan Blockchain
    Association.
  • Speaker
    Andy Bromberg
    CEO, Eco
    Andy Bromberg serves as CEO of Eco, a consumer financial app creating a single place for your entire financial life — giving you market-leading rewards on saving, spending, and more, all alongside an experimental new open rewards currency. Eco has raised more than $90 million from an array of leading investors, including L Catterton, Activant Capital, a16z Crypto, Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and others. Prior to Eco, Andy was Co-founder and President of CoinList, a leading platform for token sales, trading, and other financial services for the best digital asset projects. Andy is also a founding board member at FreeWorld, a non-profit seeking to end institutionalized poverty in the United States by providing access to living-wage jobs for people with criminal histories. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founded the Stanford Bitcoin Group.
  • Speaker
    Amir Bandeali
    Co-CEO of 0x Labs
    Coming Soon…
  • Speaker
    Alvin Xu
    Co-Founder, Maverick Protocol
    Alvin Xu is Co-Founder of Maverick Protocol, a permissionless derivatives DEX that created a new proprietary Automated Liquidity Placement (ALP) AMM that effectively shifts the liquidity to the market price. Prior to Maverick Protocol, Alvin worked in product roles at MetaMask, Abra, BitTorrent, and TRON.
  • Speaker
    Robert Masiello
    Co-Founder, Arcade
    Robert Masiello is Co-Founder of Arcade, a decentralized lending platform leading the financialization of NFTs. Prior to founding Arcade, he was Strategic Advisor for digital infrastructure and crypto assets at Industry Capital. He previously founded Aludra, and held roles at EY and Accenture.
  • Speaker
    Won Soh
    Co-Founder / CEO, Space Runners
    Won Soh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Space Runners, a metaverse fashion brand focused on creating NFTs and other digital wearables. Prior to Space Runners, he was founder of social metaverse platform Onara and was Senior Engagement Manager at MicKinsey & Co.
  • Speaker
    Lily Liu
    President, Solana Foundation
    Lily Liu is the President of the Solana Foundation, which aims to advance the Solana protocol and ecosystem with initiatives around the world. She was Co-Founder and CEO of Earn.com which was acquired by Coinbase. She is an investor at Volar Capital and was a Venture Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Co-author of The Little Bitcoin Book.
  • Speaker
    Ritchie Torres
    Rep. NY-D Congress
    Ritchie Torres is a member of the Democratic Party and is the U.S. representative for New York’s 15th congressional district. He served as the New York City Councilmember for the 15th district from 2013 to 2020. Ritchie Torres chaired the Committee on Public Housing and was a deputy majority leader. As chair of the Oversight and Investigations Committee, he focused on taxi medallion predatory loans and the city’s Third Party Transfer Program. He won the November 2020 general election and assumed office on January 3, 2021.
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    Illia Polosukhin
    Co-Founder, NEAR
    Illia Polosukhin is Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a decentralized developer platform powered by a sharded smart contract blockchain. NEAR’s vision of a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain began in 2018 when they couldn’t find a protocol that met the needs of builders. NEAR Protocol launched its main net in 2020 and is focused on supporting the creator economy. Illia has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and manager of the team building question-answering capabilities for the core Google search, as well as an author of several notable research papers.
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    Bill Miller
    Founder / CIO, Miller Value Partners
    Bill Miller is the founder of Miller Value Partners, and currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, and co-Portfolio Manager for Opportunity Equity and Income Strategy. Prior to Miller Value Partners, Bill and his partner, Ernie Kiehne, founded Legg Mason Capital Management and served as portfolio managers of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust from its inception in 1982. Bill took over as sole manager in December 1990 and served in this role for the next 20 years.
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    Scott Ryan
    Director of Investments, Indiana University Foundation
    Scott Ryan, CFA, CAIA is Director of Investments at Indiana University Foundation where he oversees the investment portfolio of Indiana University’s $3.5 billion endowment. He has expertise in alternative and private investments and all areas of institutional portfolio management. Prior to Indiana University Foundation he was a portfolio manager at Charles Schwab.
  • Speaker
    Dan Sullivan
    Sen. AK-R, Congress
    Dan Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska’s eighth United States Senator on January 6, 2015. Sullivan serves on four Senate committees vital to Alaska: the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; the Armed Services Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; and the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Sullivan has a distinguished record of military and national security service. He is currently a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Sullivan earned a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987 and a joint law and Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1993.
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    Sam Bankman-Fried
    Founder / CEO, FTX
    Sam Bankman-Fried is an MIT graduate with a degree in physics who started his career in financial markets with Jane Street. He traded a variety of ETFs, futures, currencies, and equities, and designed their automated OTC trading system. After Jane Street, he founded the quantitative trading firm Alameda Research. During his time at Alameda, he and his colleagues noticed that the technology from cryptocurrency exchanges for institutional investors could be better. As a result, he created FTX in 2019, which is now the largest crypto trading exchange outside China. Beginning during his time at MIT and continuing throughout his professional career, Sam has been a believer in effective altruism in which he has dedicated his time to maximizing his earnings in order to affect as much positive change in the world as possible. Over the past decade, Sam has donated to initiatives that focus on animal rights, climate change and more.
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    Raj Gokal
    Co-founder / COO, Solana
    Raj Gokal is Co-Founder and COO of Solana. Solana is a high-performance blockchain supporting builders around the world creating crypto apps that scale today. Prior to Solana, he spent 8 years investing at General Catalyst, built Sano as Co-Founder and scaled Omada Health as Director of Product. He held advisory roles with Platejoy, Sibly, ZenFit, and Path.
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    Marieke Flament
    CEO, NEAR
    Marieke is a French-born computer engineer who has worked across the globe in a diverse range of companies from the luxury giant LVMH of Louis Vuitton fame to Boston Consulting Group and Expedia’s Hotels.com and crypto giant Circle. At Hotels.com she was in charge of Europe, Middle East and Africa Region, a $2bn P&L. In her last role she was Managing Director of Europe and Global CMO for Circle, one of the largest crypto companies. At Circle she pioneered the consumer application of blockchain taking to market several products, building from scratch a user base of over 2M users in less than 2 years. She also helped move the blockchain agenda forward working with key decision makers, including governments and financial policy makers across Europe.
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    Tracy Fong
    Partner, Albourne
    Tracy is an alternative investment professional with over 20 years of experience across startups, public technology companies, investment banking, alternatives endowment management, fixed income, and strategic equities management. She was previously a Managing Director at SVB Capital’s VC fund-of-funds and direct VC fund. Tracy also spent four years at the Harvard University endowment, Harvard Management Company, where she was Vice President of Alternative Assets and worked on HMC’s $20bn+ alternatives portfolio construction, investment manager selection, and direct natural resources transactions (including timber and agriculture).
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    Amir Bandeali
    Co-CEO, 0x
    Amir Bandeali is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of 0x. 0x is an open-source, decentralized exchange infrastructure that enables the exchange of tokenized assets on multiple blockchains. Prior to founding 0x, Amir Bandeali was a trader at DRW and Chopper Trading.
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    Joe Marenda
    Partner, Blockchain Research Head, Cambridge Associates
    Joe Marenda is a Partner at Cambridge Associates and Head of Blockchain Research. Cambridge Associates is a global investment firm that works with premier institutional investors and family offices to manage custom investment portfolios that aim to generate outperformance so they can maximize their impact on the world.
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    Rob Schwartz
    General Counsel, CFTC
    Rob Schwartz is the General Counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In that role, Mr. Schwartz leads the agency’s Legal Division and serves as the Commission’s chief legal advisor. He was appointed General Counsel in January 2022 after serving for a year as Acting General Counsel.

    Since joining the CFTC in 2011, Mr. Schwartz has served primarily as the CFTC’s chief litigator, in the position of Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Enforcement and Adjudication.
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    Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie
    CEO, BCB Group
    Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology. After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.
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    Ola Doudin
    CEO, BitOasis
    Ola Doudin is the co-founder and CEO of BitOasis, which offers digital assets to buy, sell and trade against the U.A.E. Dirham. The platform is available to users in the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco. She is also co-founder of Yellow, a bitcoin payment processor.
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    Nikil Viswanathan
    Co-Founder / CEO, Alchemy
    Nikil Viswanathan is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world’s leading blockchain developer platform. He was honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, received his BS & MS in Computer Science at Stanford, and formerly did product management at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. A serial entrepreneur, he co-created the #1 social app in the world, Down To Lunch, which was featured in international media such as a New York Times business cover story. He’s been featured in numerous global media outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, NBC, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.
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    Nathan Allman
    CEO, Ondo Finance
    Nathan Allman is Co-Founder, CEO at Ondo Finance. Formerly, Global Markets Division, Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, focused on cryptocurrency markets; Managing Partner at ChainStreet Capital.
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    Nader Al-Naji
    Founder, DeSo
    Founder of DeSo. Intangible Labs, cofounded by Nader Al-Naji, Josh Chen and Lawrence Diao, raised $133 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Ventures to develop a cryptocurrency that can be used to make payments. A former junior world champion rower and Google software engineer, Al-Naji’s other major project, Basis, is a stable cryptocurrency designed to replace central banks.
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    Matthew Gould
    Co-founder / CEO, Unstoppable Domains
    Matthew is a co-founder of Unstoppable Domains, working to put domain names on the blockchain. Matthew is a serial entrepreneur building among other things the first consumer rating system on Bitcoin (Forum) and Verified News, an ethereum app to validate the truthfulness of news stories on the blockchain. Matthew is also a alumni from YC startupTalkable, helping grow the company from 5 to 50 people. Recently his company was awarded a grant from the Ethereum Foundation to build a batteries included front end library for ethereum development (Browseth). Additionally Matthew is a mentor with the ENS foundation annual hackathon which is building the protocol layer for blockchain based domain names on Ethereum.
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    Matt Halstead
    Director, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
    Matt Halstead is the Director of Real Estate Investments & Digital Assets at Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Texas Teachers is one of the world’s largest investment funds with over $200 billion of AUM. Since 2021, Matt has led the Digital Assets efforts for the firm. They are building the leading institutional investment business focused on early-stage investing in the Digital Asset ecosystem.

    Winner – 2021 TRS Excellence in Investing Award (Peer-determined award given to the most outstanding investor at TRS)
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    Lauren Abendschein
    Head of US Institutional Sales, Coinbase
    Lauren Abendschein is a sales and trading executive based out of San Francisco, California. She is currently a Institutional Sales Manger at Coinbase, a leading digital asset exchange company. She was previously a Director at Credit Suisse in their Prime Services department.
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    Joe Lau
    Co-Founder / CTO, Alchemy
    Joe is the cofounder and CTO of Alchemy. A serial entrepreneur, he cofounded the #1 social app in the world and has been featured in international media including a New York Times Business cover story, Forbes, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. He has been honored as Forbes 30 under 30, formerly did engineering at Pinterest, Google, and Linkedin. Joe graduated with both an undergraduate and master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University.
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    Jeff Wu
    Co-founder / CTO, Notional
    Jeff Wu is Co-Founder and CTO at Notional Finance. Formerly, Senior Product Manager at Splunk, Co-Founder at Ohmstead. He has spent over 10 years in software, working at Epic Systems, Atlassian and Splunk where he’s worked on data and analytics projects.
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    Farzam Ehsani
    CEO, VALR
    Farzam is the CEO and Co-Founder of VALR.com, a platform that bridges the gap between our traditional financial system and the new world of cryptocurrencies. He was previously the Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank and the FirstRand Group, and was the inaugural Chairperson of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company in Johannesburg, Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, and the United Nations in Nairobi. He studied economics at the University of California – Berkeley.
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    Edgar Pavlovsky
    Founder, MarginFi
    Edgar Pavlovsky is the founder of MarginFi, a decentralized portfolio margining protocol for trading on Solana. The protocol gives traders a unified account to access margin, compose a portfolio, and improve capital efficiency across underlying trading protocols.
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    Doug Petkanics
    CEO, Livepeer
    Doug Petkanics is an entrepreneur and software engineer. He’s currently Co-founder at Livepeer, where they’re building the world’s open video infrastructure. He previously co-founded Wildcard and Hyperpublic, and served as VP Engineering at both. Hyperpublic was acquired by Groupon in February 2012. Doug is excited about challenges in blockchain and decentralization focused technology, as well as challenges involved in building, leading, and scaling effective engineering organizations.
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    Do Kwon
    CEO, Terra
    Do Kwon cofounded Terra to use blockchain technology to develop a more efficient payment system. Its eponymous price-stable cryptocurrency, or stablecoin, attracted 40 million users to work with the company at launch in January 2018. With the aim of building a blockchain-based payment system, Terra has raised from crypto-giants such as Binance, Arrington XRP and Polychain Capital, as well as assembling an alliance of commerce partners including Korean ticketing giant Ticketmonster and travel service Yanolja.
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    Dannie Chu
    CEO, MakersPlace
    Dannie Chu is a tech entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He’s a YCombinator Alum, founder, early Pinterest leader and now founder of MakersPlace. He is a product and engineering leader with a passion for applying technologies to drive real-world change.
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    Dan Berkovitz
    General Counsel, SEC
    Dan M. Berkovitz serves at the Securities and Exchange Commission as its General Counsel. Prior to joining the SEC’s staff in November 2021, Mr. Berkovitz was a Commissioner for three years at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he previously served as General Counsel from 2009 to 2013. In between those CFTC roles, he was a Partner and Co-Chair of the futures and derivatives practice at the law firm of WilmerHale, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law School, and Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Derivatives and Futures Law Committee.
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    Cactus Raazi
    US CEO, Amber Group
    Cactus Raazi is the CEO of Amber Group US and previously the founder of Elefant Inc., a startup building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing, which was acquired by Exos Financial. In more than three decades in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and now focuses on applying data analytics to personalized pricing.
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    Bette Chen
    Co-founder / CTO, Acala
    Bette Chen is co-founder of Laminar & Acala and is a graduate of Duke University. Acala is the cross-chain decentralized financial hub and stablecoin platform of Polkadot that makes it fast and easy to use or build financial applications, improving trading efficiency and saving time.
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    Andre Portilho
    Head of Digital Assets, BTG Pactual
    Andre Portilho is a trader and intrapreneur from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In his early career, he created multiple trading desks at Banco Pactua, including the Equity Derivatives Trading Desk and the FX Derivatives Trading Desk, and acted as market maker in the local and offshore BRL markets. When UBS acquired Banco Pactual in 2004, Andre became responsible for the Latin America Equity and FX Derivatives trading desks with traders in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Stamford, CT. In 2007, he left Banco UBSPactual to join Paineiras Investimentos, a newly formed hedge fund, as trader and partner focused in Equity and FX Derivatives. In May 2011, Andre left Paineiras Investimentos and returned to BTGPactual, now a Global Emerging Markets Investment Bank formed after Banco UBSPactual’s acquisition by BTG Partners. Here he led the launch of ReitBZ, the first Security Token Offering done by an investment bank in the world.
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    Alex Paley
    CEO, Faraway
    Alex Paley is a Co-Founder at Faraway and Halo Kitchens. Formerly Scopely, Co-Founder of Dairy Free Games (acquired by Glu Mobile). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Faraway is building Mini Royale: Nations, a web3 browser-based battle royale game built on Solana.
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    Albert Chen
    CEO, Genopets
    Albert Chen is Co-Founder and CEO at Genopets, a play-to-earn and move-to-earn blockchain-based game built on Solana. Albert has 10+ years in growth marketing as owner of multiple e-commerce businesses and 10+ years in software development with 4 years focused in blockchain engineering. Winner of EOS Global Hackathon in 2018.
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    Adam Jackson
    CEO, Braintrust
    Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor that has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He’s started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years. He is an angel investor in 45+ companies/projects, including: LTSE, Seated, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.