Digital Asset Summit

Pantera’s Jiang thinks that AI is going to become as important to our everyday lives as the internet is today

“Every asset manager and bank doing ‘crypto’ is earning insane fees for putting things ‘onchain,'” read a slide from Meltem Demiror’s DAS talk

Industry leaders at DAS sounded off on the SEC’s approval of solana futures ETFs and how the crypto industry could expand into futures products

DAS panelists shared strong venture capital takeaways, from how big a raise should be to the role VCs play in the industry

At DAS, the US president noted he’s called upon Congress to enact “simple, common-sense rules” for stablecoins and market structure

At DAS, VanEck’s Matthew Sigel weighed in on a market that’s “90% flows and 10% fundamentals”

The first sitting president to address a crypto conference says the US is positioned to “dominate crypto and the next generation of financial technologies”

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse got a standing ovation on the DAS stage when he shared that the SEC plans to drop its appeal against Ripple

Just ahead of the FOMC’s decision, Mohamed El-Erian discussed the Fed’s interest rate narrative on the DAS main stage

The California Democrat discusses partisan divides, upcoming bills and the pro-crypto shift in Washington

Industry experts predict an institutional embrace of crypto, but warn of “stagnation,” bitcoin dominance and innovation slowdown

The third and final day of the conference started off with a bang when SkyBridge’s Anthony Scaramucci bashed his former boss

The comments come as the EU continues to implement its MiCA framework

“The entire US wealth management world is trying to cross this little bridge into the new world,” crypto fund executive says

But Goldman’s Mathew McDermott says the bank wants to see public blockchains “mature” before expanding in that arena

The sustainability of bitcoin mining has come under harsh criticism recently, but experts insist that the industry is on the right track toward sustainability.

With offerings such as yield farming, Vesper’s Matthew Roszak said DeFi could usher in a new era of financial optimization where many people will no longer only use third party intermediaries like retail banks to store their savings

Founders of Morgan Creek Capital Management, 10T criticize hedge fund manager Ray Dalio’s remarks on crypto

Skeptics question why someone would pay a large sum of money for what appears to be a cartoon, but Ikigai Founder Travis Kling described holding the asset similar to “owning a layer of innovation.”

Leader of team behind the Avalanche blockchain says fastest to innovate will win protocol war.

Blockworks is thrilled to be livestreaming all the mainstage content from our sold-out Digital Asset Summit 2021 in New York City.