Name: Digital Asset Summit 2026
Start: 2026-03-24T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-03-26T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Javits Center North | 445 11th Ave

Meet with VCs, hedge funds, private equity firms, global investment firms, and others as they manage crypto strategies across their portfolios.

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Join top protocols, DeFi infrastructure providers, stablecoin and RWA issuers, risk managers, vault curators, trading front-ends, staking services, and other crypto service providers.

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Engage with banks, brokerages, market makers, payment processors, fintechs, and professional service providers as they develop internal digital asset strategies.

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Join global sovereign wealth funds, endowments, pensions, foundations, and family offices as they explore this emerging asset class.

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Connect with the industry's top teams in research, auditing, accounting, legal, tax, compliance, data, and analytics.

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Engage with the leading policy makers and regulators in the nation. 2025 was a seminal year for crypto policy, but the job's not finished.

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Paul S. Atkins was sworn into office as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025.



Prior to returning to the SEC, Chairman Atkins was most recently chief executive of Patomak Global Partners, a company he founded in 2009. Chairman Atkins helped lead efforts to develop best practices for the digital asset sector. He served as an independent director and non-executive chairman of the board of BATS Global Markets, Inc. from 2012 to 2015.



Chairman Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a Commissioner of the SEC from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure, he advocated for transparency, consistency, and the use of cost-benefit analysis at the agency. Chairman Atkins also represented the SEC at meetings of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council. From 2009 to 2010, he was appointed a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.



Before serving as an SEC Commissioner, Chairman Atkins was a consultant on securities and investment management industry matters, especially regarding issues of strategy, regulatory compliance, risk management, new product development, and organizational control.



From 1990 to 1994, Chairman Atkins served on the staff of two chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt, ultimately as chief of staff and counselor, respectively. He received the SEC’s 1992 Law and Policy Award for work regarding corporate governance matters.



Chairman Atkins began his career as a lawyer in New York, focusing on a wide range of corporate transactions for U.S. and foreign clients, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He was resident for 2½ years in his firm's Paris office and admitted as conseil juridique in France.



A member of the New York and Florida bars, Chairman Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1983 and was Senior Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received his A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Wofford College in 1980.



Originally from Lillington, North Carolina, Chairman Atkins grew up in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife Sarah have three sons.

Paul S. Atkins

Stephen I. Miran took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on September 16, 2025, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2026.



Prior to his appointment to the Board, Dr. Miran served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Donald J. Trump. He previously worked as a senior strategist at Hudson Bay Capital Management and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.



From 2020 to 2021, Dr. Miran served as senior adviser for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He worked in financial markets for a decade before joining the Treasury.



Dr. Miran received a BA in economics, philosophy, and mathematics from Boston University. He earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Stephen I. Miran

Samara Cohen, Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of ETF and Index Investments and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee (GEC).



As CIO for ETF and Index Investments, Samara leads the teams delivering the market quality and investment integrity of roughly $6.6 trillion of BlackRock’s index funds and iShares ETFs. Encompassing portfolio managers, risk managers, platform architects, and market structure developers, her teams continuously pursue better ways for clients to access expanding investment opportunities and seek to lead in the modernization of the indexing industry and ETF markets.



Samara is a member of the GEC Investment Subcommittee and the GEC Talent Subcommittee. She is also the GEC sponsor for BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative &amp; Allies Network (WIN) and Co-Head of the Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee.



Prior to rejoining BlackRock in 2015, Samara was a Managing Director in the Securities Division of Goldman Sachs, where she built and led the Global Market Transition team to develop and deliver solutions to clients in the evolving market structure and regulatory environment following the 2008 global financial crisis. Samara first joined BlackRock in 1993 as an analyst in the Institutional Client Business.



Samara has been recognized for her leadership in the financial services industry. In 2023, she was named one of American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Finance and she has been honored as one of Barron’s Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She is a member of the Board of the Directors for the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), and a member of the Board of the BlackRock Foundation.



She earned a BS Econ in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Theatre Arts from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Samara Cohen

Michael S. Selig was sworn into office as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on December 22, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump on October 27, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 18, 2025.



Chairman Selig most recently served as chief counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force and senior advisor to SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins. In this role, Chairman Selig helped to develop a clear regulatory framework for digital asset securities markets, harmonize the SEC and CFTC regulatory regimes, modernize the agency’s rules to reflect new and emerging technologies, and put an end to regulation by enforcement. He also participated in the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets and contributed to its report on “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology.”



Prior to government service, Chairman Selig was a partner at an international law firm, focusing on derivatives and securities regulatory matters. During his years in private practice, he represented a broad range of clients subject to regulation by the CFTC, including commercial end users, futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, swap dealers, designated contract markets, derivatives clearing organizations, and digital asset firms.



Chairman Selig earned his law degree from The George Washington University Law School and was articles editor of The George Washington Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University.

Michael S. Selig

Johann Kerbrat is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Robinhood Crypto. He oversees and leads strategy for the crypto business. Johann joined Robinhood to support the company in its mission to democratize finance for all and open up access to crypto to everyday investors. Prior to joining Robinhood, he held engineering roles at Airbnb, privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, and founded an e-commerce and payments platform company. Johann grew up in Nice, France and holds an MSc in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.

Johann Kerbrat

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether.

Paolo Ardoino

Tom Zschach is a senior technology and innovation executive with more than threr decades of experience building and operating mission critical infrastructure for global financial markets. As Chief Innovation Officer at SWIFT, he leads initiatives shaping the future of cross border payment and digital finance, working closely with the global financial community. Previously, he served as Chief Information Officer at CLS Group and LCH.Clearnet, where he sat on executive management teams and defined enterprise technology strategy. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital across rates, currencies, equities, and prime brokerage. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Finance from California State University and an Executive MBA from TRIUM.

Tom Zschach

With 7 years of experience across investment banking, hedge funds, and private equity, Guy has built a strong foundation in the financial sector. Prior to founding Ethena, he spent 6 years at Cerberus Management, a firm with $60 billion in assets under management, where he focused on investing in financial services businesses across the capital structure.

Guy Young

Kristin Smith is President of Solana Policy Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to advocating for public policies that allow networks like Solana to flourish. She serves as a liaison between policymakers and the Solana ecosystem to assist in the creation of legislation and regulation that promotes the growth of the industry in the U.S. Prior to SPI, Kristin was CEO of Blockchain Association, the Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing the crypto industry’s leading companies.



Kristin has been a renowned voice for the industry, having been featured on Fortune’s 40 under 40 list, Washingtonian’s Most Influential People and Tech Titans, CoinDesk’s 50 people who defined the year in crypto, The Hill’s Top Lobbyists, and CoinTelegraph’s top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. Prior to leading Blockchain Association, Kristin helped blockchain and technology companies achieve their public policy objectives in Washington. She served as a Senate and congressional aide on Capitol Hill for nearly 10 years, much of which was spent focusing on technology policy.

Kristin Smith

Eric Balchunas is Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, where he leads the ETF and fund research and contributes to Bloomberg Opinion. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, as well as the co-creator of the Bloomberg podcast Trillions and Bloomberg TV’s ETF IQ. Eric is author of The Bogle Effect (2022) and The Institutional ETF Toolbox (2016). Eric holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Environmental Economics from Rutgers University.

Eric Balchunas

Robbie Mitchnick serves as the Head of Digital Assets for BlackRock. He is a member of the Corp Exec-COO Executive team. Robbie is responsible for driving BlackRock's digital assets strategy, including working with internal business units to develop and execute on strategic initiatives around digital assets.



Prior to joining BlackRock, Robbie spent time at CPP Investment Board in Public Markets and Private Investments, and at Ripple. During his time at Ripple, Robbie co-authored 'A Fundamental Valuation Framework for Cryptoassets' along with John Bates Clark medal winner Susan Athey.



Robbie has BA &amp; BCOM degrees from Queen's University and an MBA from Stanford, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar and the Robichek Award winner in Finance. He holds a Blockchain Technologies Certification from MIT Sloan and is a CFA Charterholder.

Robbie Mitchnick

Rebecca Rettig is the Chief Legal Officer at Jito Labs, where she leads legal, compliance, and policy strategy. She previously held the same role at the Aave Companies, a DeFi software developer, and Polygon Labs, a blockchain technology company; at both, she built the policy function and managed all legal and compliance matters. Ms. Rettig is a pioneer in shaping legal and regulatory frameworks for blockchain systems and applications, advising on matters including decentralization, token launches, and mechanisms. DeFi, structuring, and decentralized governance. She has liaised with policymakers and regulators globally on how DeFi systems operate and the appropriate intersection of law with this novel technology. Ms. Rettig began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine &amp; Moore LLP, litigating complex financial disputes, as well as a landmark peer-to-peer file-sharing case and one of the largest airline mergersin history. She was a partner at Manatt, Phelps &amp; Phillips and currently is Of Counsel at Arktouros pllc, a boutique law firm specializing in cutting-edge technology companies. She has been recognized as one of Crain’s Top Women Lawyers in New York City.

Rebecca Rettig

Dan Tapiero is the Managing Partner, CEO &amp; CIO of 50T. Dan brings 30 years of experience in macro and commodity investing and trading, research and economics, as well as entrepreneurship. Dan has an extensive set of relationships in the institutional investment management space and is a thought leader that regularly speaks and contributes on macroeconomic topics. Before founding 50T, Dan was the managing partner of DTAP Capital Advisors, a global macro investment fund, that he founded in 2003. He is the co-founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a physical precious metals platform for the wealth management industry that also expanded into the cryptocurrency universe in 2014. He is a co-founder of the Agricultural Company of America (AGCoA), one of the largest farmland REITs in the U.S. at the time of its sale in 2013. Previously, from 1992-2012, Dan was a macro-focused portfolio manager and analyst at Tiger Management, Duquesne Capital Management, Steinhardt Management Co., and SAC Capital Advisors. Dan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where he also earned his B.A.’90 and M.A.’91 in European History. Dan has been on the Board of Trustees of the Lawrenceville School for the past twelve years and currently leads the Investment Committee for its endowment.

Dan Tapiero

Sid Powell is the CEO &amp; Co-Founder of Maple Finance and with his Co-Founder Joe Flanagan founded Maple in 2019. Sid comes from a background in debt capital markets and institutional banking. During his career in traditional finance, he participated in $3BN+ of corporate bond issuance,and served as Treasurer for a commercial lending company in Australia. Maple has originated more than $5b in institutional lending since inception and currently holds over $550m in assets on the platform. We aim to be the global leader in tokenized private credit and first choice for institutional borrowers.

Sid Powell

Christine Moy is a Partner at Apollo, where she serves as Head of Digital Assets, Data, and AI Strategy. She leads Apollo’s efforts in digital asset innovation, investing in and partnering with companies transforming financial services while integrating blockchain technology into Apollo’s businesses. She also oversees the firm’s Enterprise Data Strategy, driving high-impact data initiatives, commercializing data products, and working across the firm to identify and implement the most promising AI use cases that enhance decision-making and amplify team capabilities. Previously, Christine was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where she led the Blockchain program, focusing on digital assets, tokenized payments, and decentralized identity. Earlier in her career at J.P. Morgan, she worked in Syndicated Loans, Securitized Products, Credit Risk, and Commodities. Christine holds a BA from Brown University.

Christine Moy

Rune Christensen is the Co-Founder of Sky Protocol, a decentralised finance protocol that delivers USDS, the largest yield-generating stablecoin. As co-founder of Sky Protocol, Rune is considered one of the original thought-leaders in DeFi. Sky provides an unmatched track record of security and scale, immediate redemptions, and transparency with real-time backing data.

Rune Christensen

Sandy Kaul is EVP, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, providing advisory consulting for the firm and thought leadership as part of the Franklin Templeton Institute. She delivers actionable intelligence and insights on the future of the investment and wealth management industry for the firm and its clients. Ms. Kaul has cultivated deeply informed insights and has an extensive background in driving market leading research, thought leadership and predictive models centered on the evolution of the investment and wealth management industry. She identifies and champions opportunities to address industry advancements and drive transformation, with a focus on innovative distribution trends and digital disruption. She delivers strategic insights to inform the firm's decision-making on partnerships and investments, including within Franklin Templeton's growing digital asset business. Ms. Kaul has over 25 years of well-rounded industry experience and is a frequent speaker at industry events and a widely published author. She combines her unique blend of sell-side, buy-side and consulting insights to drive her research and thought leadership around what constitutes best practices and where innovation is occurring. Ms. Kaul joined Franklin Templeton in 2022 from Citi, where she served as Managing Director and Global Head of Business Advisory Services, and launched and built out the Citi's Business Advisory Services practice, a market leading provider of industry thought leadership spanning Citi's Markets and Global Wealth organizations. Ms. Kaul rejoined Citi in 2009, after originally starting her career there in 1985 as a Futures Research Analyst covering the soft commodities markets with Citi's predecessor firm, Shearson Lehman Brothers. She joined Commodities Corporation/Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 1995 as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and Portfolio Manager. After managing money for nearly six years, Ms. Kaul shifted her attention to consulting where she led the strategy practice within the Financial Services division of the renowned dot.com firm, Scient, and then went on to become a Partner at the capital markets niche management consulting firm m.a.partners/Detica. Ms. Kaul holds a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Colgate University.

Sandy Kaul

Ray Hindi is the co-founder of L1D and currently acts as the CEO/CIO. Ray has an investment background in venture, hedge funds and interest rate trading. Ray holds a BEng from UCL and an MSc in Finance from Imperial College. He previously acted as the CIO of Bellegarde Capital AG an independent investment group with activities focused in fintech, blockchain and other alternative investments. Also previously at Swiss Capital (StepStone Group) responsible for the firm’s macro outlook, macro hedge funds and event driven coverage. From 2005 to 2011 Ray was part of Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, a USD 6 bn fund of hedge funds firm in Zurich, and responsible for USD 2 bn of investments (rates, macro and distressed). He started his career at Bloomberg LP in London and subsequently left the firm to trade interest rates for a London based proprietary group. Ray holds a BEng from University College London (UCL) and an MSc in Finance from Imperial College.

Ray Hindi

Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO and Co-founder of CoinShares, has been a pivotal figure in the digital asset industry since 2014. Holding a Master’s degree from Sir John Cass Business School in Mathematical Trading and Finance, he boasts extensive experience as a commodity trader specializing in quantitative analysis and risk management. Prior to CoinShares, Jean-Marie honed his expertise at Hermes Commodities Fund Managers, where he managed trading programs with a focus on macroeconomic commodities, including cryptocurrencies. Under his leadership, CoinShares has emerged as a leading force in the alternative digital asset management space in Europe.

Jean-Marie Mognetti

Soona Amhaz is founder and managing partner of Volt Capital, a venture firm that backs early-stage crypto startups including many leading protocols and companies like Nansen, Sound, Magic Eden, Squads, Farcaster, LayerZero, and Magic. Prior to starting Volt Capital, Soona co-founded On Deck and operated in the big data/AI space, scaling companies from seed stage to post-Series C.

Soona Amhaz

Hunter Horsley is CEO and co-founder of Bitwise Asset Management, a global crypto asset manager with more than $15 billion in client assets. With offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, Bitwise manages over 30 investment solutions spanning ETFs, separate accounts, alpha strategies, staking solutions, and private funds. In his role, Hunter leads the firm’s executive team and oversees client relationships, product development, and industry stewardship.



Prior to Bitwise, Hunter was a product manager at Facebook and Instagram. A 2019 Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree, Hunter was a 2024 nominee for ETF.com’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named to CoinDesk’s “Most Influential” in crypto list. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Hunter Horsley

Raghav Chopra is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tephra Digital, a digital assets investment firm backed by Jefferies. Previously, he was the Portfolio Manager of a $600 million technology hedge fund portfolio for AllianceBernstein LP, and prior to that, he worked at The Blackstone Group. Mr. Chopra began his career in private equity at The Carlyle Group and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. in 2006. He received his MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a George F. Baker Scholar, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Economics with Distinction from Yale University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Club of New York City Foundation and Argo Blockchain plc.

Raghav Chopra

Ronit Ghose is the Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi’s think tank for the future of money and technology. Ronit’s current areas of focus include Digital Assets, the Metaverse, Web3, the applications of AI to Finance and other frontier topics. Previously, Ronit was Global Head of Banks and Fintech Research for Citi.



Ronit is an Advisor to various Governments, Universities, VC investors and tech firms in the UK, UAE and Africa. Prior to joining Citi, he worked at the British Bankers’ Association and was a research assistant in the UK Parliament for a former Prime Minister. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford &amp; a postgraduate diploma from the University of London.

Ronit Ghose

Vice President of Digital &amp; AI

Sangbu Kim

Jordi Visser heads AI Macro Nexus Research for 22V Research. A product he developed to equip investors with a framework to tackle the intertwined dynamics of AI-driven innovation and economic transformation. He also produces weekly general content on X, Substack, and YouTube and has a weekly podcast with Anthony Pompliano.



Founder and Chief Strategist of Visser-Labs, a consulting firm dedicated to helping asset managers and investors navigate the disruption caused by AI and digital assets. Since launching the firm in 2024, Jordi has focused on advising clients on how to adapt their strategies, portfolios and firms to the evolving financial landscape shaped by emerging technologies.



Prior to launching Visser-Labs, Jordi was the President and Chief Investment Officer of Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, where he spent two decades. He joined the firm with his team as a Portfolio Manager to build out the macro portion of the firm.



Before his time at Weiss, Jordi was the Founding Managing Partner of Anchor Point Asset Management, a global macro hedge fund. Prior to that he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he traded various global equity derivative books and opened the firm’s office in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1997 where he managed the sales and trading effort.



He graduated magna cum laude from Manhattan College.



Jordi also regularly produces general content on X, Substack, and YouTube.

Jordi Visser

Robert Leshner is the CEO and Co-founder of Superstate, an asset management firm modernizing investing through tokenized financial products. Prior to founding Superstate, Leshner co-founded Compound Labs in 2017, which developed one of the first DeFi applications. Robert is a venture investor at Robot Ventures and co-hosts The Chopping Block, a crypto-native podcast. He is directly responsible for designing smart contracts such as Governor Bravo and the ERC-7246 token standard, Encumber. He has a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Additionally, Robert is the former chair of the San Francisco Revenue Bond Oversight Committee and a CFA charter holder.

Robert Leshner

Seth Ginns is a Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments at CoinFund, and a key member of the Venture Investment Committee. He has 20 years of Wall Street experience and has been deeply involved in the crypto community since his angel investment in Coinbase in 2012. He is also an angel in Starkware, Chainalysis, participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2014, and loves traveling globally to developer events as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the market. His angel portfolio also includes Instacart, BillionToOne and DoorDash, and many earlier stage, high growth startups.



Prior to CoinFund, Seth invested in public growth equities over 18 years at Jennison Associates. He holds a BA in Mathematics and South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the School of Arts and Sciences and served as an Overseer at the School of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee.

Seth Ginns

James Seyffart is a senior research analyst within Bloomberg Intelligence (Bloomberg's Research Department), focusing on the broader asset management industry with specialized expertise in the coverage of Funds like ETFs, Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds. He has assisted in the creation and development of multiple functions and datasets on the terminal and still aids in this process today. He also aids colleagues in digital asset research and their overlap with traditional financial markets. This overlap gives him expertise in the bridges being built between DeFi and TradFi but particularly in the area of Bitcoin and other digital asset funds. Professionally, he's been covering Bitcoin and Crypto since at least 2017.



James is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®), a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA®) and a member of their New York societies/chapters. He has a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from The College Of New Jersey (TCNJ).

James Seyffart

Tarun Chitra is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, the leading model provider in crypto and premier DeFi vault curator. Gauntlet manages risk across custom vault strategies and builds models safeguarding tens of billions of dollars in digital assets across the crypto ecosystem, driving capital efficiency and mitigating risk.



Under Tarun’s leadership, Gauntlet equips investors, builders, and token issuers with data-driven strategies to confidently allocate funds onchain by leveraging the most trusted crypto-economic research and analysis. Tarun’s research collaborations include more than 25 peer-reviewed papers on crypto and DeFi, and he is among the most cited contributors in DeFi economics.



He invests in fintech and blockchain companies through his fund Robot Ventures and is a biweekly contributor to Laura Shin’s investor podcast, “The Chopping Block.” Tarun is an alumnus of D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) and Vatic Labs, and holds a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S. in applied engineering physics from Cornell University.

Tarun Chitra

Ben founded ParaFi in 2018 as one of the earliest investment firms focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. Prior to founding ParaFi, Ben spent the first 10 years of his career in institutional investing roles at leading asset managers including KKR and TPG. While at KKR, Ben served as a Director in the credit business, investing across a wide array of industry sectors and parts of the capital structure, including distressed special situations, private credit, and opportunistic and liquid credit. Ben also led KKR's blockchain research as part of the firm's Innovation and Disruption Council beginning in 2016. Prior to KKR, Ben served as a Vice President with TPG’s former credit business, Sixth Street Partners. As one of the first investment professionals to join the platform, Ben helped scale its private credit vehicle, TPG Specialty Lending, which went public in 2014. Earlier in his career, Ben was a member of the private equity team at Littlejohn &amp; Company and investment banking team at Rothschild &amp; Co. Ben has a passion for capital markets, behavioral economics and game theory, all of which drew him to the blockchain space. He grew up playing chess competitively and continues to play actively to this day (peak ELO 1871). He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ben Forman

Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial technology. He is Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, a pioneer in cryptoasset index funds with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management. He was previously CEO of ETF.com, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference, Inside ETFs. Hougan is co-author of both "A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds" and "Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors" from the CFA Institute’s Research Foundation. He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, and a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable.

Matt Hougan

Kelly Greer is a partner at Crucible Capital, an investment firm that invests in early stage companies in energy, compute and crypto, deploys and finances bare metal compute infrastructure, and trades liquid opportunities across 3 distinct investment vehicles.

Kelly Greer

Yuval co-founded Digital Asset in 2014 to harness the promise of blockchain technology to create an open financial network where value flows as freely as information on the internet.



 As a Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset, Yuval has been instrumental in reshaping global finance by merging traditional systems with the power of decentralized technology. Yuval played a pivotal role in the formation of the Canton Network, the only public layer-one blockchain with privacy. He is also a Board Member and Treasurer of the Global Synchronizer Foundation, which he helped to create with the support of the Linux Foundation, to bring fair and transparent decentralized governance and organizational neutrality to the adoption and evolution of the Canton Network.



 Yuval is a member of the Digital Asset Markets subcommittee of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Global Market Advisory Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Blockchain Business Council, a leading industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem. He has also testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion. Before founding Digital Asset, Yuval gained extensive experience in finance and technology, holding key positions at Citadel and DRW Trading, where he managed an algorithmic trading desk and helped launch DRW Venture Capital.

Yuval Rooz

Luigi Buttiglione is a globally recognized economist, with extensive expertise in monetary policy, public debt management, and complex macro-financial strategies. His career spans academia, central banking, investment banking, and hedge funds.



Before founding LB MACRO in 2018- an international macroeconomic and financial consulting firm- he served as Head of Strategies at Brevan Howard Asset Management (2008–2017) and held senior roles at other leading funds (2003–2008), as well as Chief Economist at Barclays Capital (2001–2003).



Earlier, he worked as an Economist at the Research Department of the Bank of Italy, in the divisions of Monetary Analysis, Real Economy, and Forecasting (1989–2000). During this time, LB provided strategic counsel to the Governor on monetary policy, actively managed the Italian Republic’s public debt, and contributed as a member of both the Bank of Italy’s Forecasting Committee and the European Central Bank’s Working Group on Forecasting.



LB has also held academic positions as a Professor at the Universities of Milan and Bologna, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous academic articles in monetary and international economics. LB holds a degree with highest honors in Monetary Economics from “La Sapienza” University of Rome and an MBA from New York University.

Luigi Buttiglione

Jeff Park is the CIO of ProCap. He also serves as an advisor to Bitwise Investments.

Jeff Park

A.J. Warner is the Chief Strategy Officer at Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution. He leads the company’s strategic initiatives, including business development and ecosystem partnerships, driving adoption and long-term growth of the platform. A.J. holds a Juris Doctor and an MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yeshiva University. Prior to joining Offchain Labs, he worked as an associate at Paul Hastings LLP and gained experience in economics research, sales, and freelance sportswriting, bringing a diverse professional background to his role in blockchain strategy.

A.J. Warner

Global Head of Growth at Visa

Rubail Birwadker

A lifelong investor and operator, John Wu serves as President of Ava Labs, a technology company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), developing the blockchain platform Avalanche. In his role at Ava Labs, John leads commercial and product teams focused on creating tools that empower finance, consumer, and gaming sectors to launch innovative applications. With a network market cap of $10+ billion, Avalanche has established itself as a trusted platform for institutions such as JPMorgan, Citigroup, Apollo, and KKR.



John has over 20 years of experience as a fintech executive and technology investor, running Sureview Capital, a global hedge fund backed by the Blackstone Group and managing a global technology portfolio at Kingdon Capital. He began his investment career at Tiger Management.



With a BS from Cornell and MBA from Harvard, John's academic endeavors have translated into a lifelong engagement with these institutions through a commitment to education and mentorship; while also supporting students through his family scholarship trust. He serves as an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and sits on various boards at Cornell University. Deeply committed to community service, John is a board member of his YMCA, a non-profit focused on community development, health, and social responsibility.

John Wu

Austin Campbell is the founder and managing partner of Zero Knowledge Group, a blockchain and fintech advisory boutique and publisher of the Zero In newsletter, and an adjunct professor at NYU Stern. He has previously held trading roles at JP Morgan, Citi, and Stone Ridge, parent of NYDIG, and was the head of portfolio management and chief risk officer at Paxos. He has testified twice in front of Congress on crypto topics.

Austin Campbell

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Mike Dudas

Rob Hadick is a General Partner at Dragonfly, a ~$4bn crypto focused investment firm. Previously, he helped lead multi-stage investments into crypto companies and protocols at GoldenTree Asset Management ("GTAM"), a ~$50bn multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to GTAM, Rob invested in and advised fintech, technology, and crypto companies while at Heritage Partners, Goldman Sachs, and PJT Partners. He holds a MBA from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelors in Economics and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Rob Hadick

Felipe is the Chief Investment Officer at Theia, a liquid token fund focused on fundamentals. Theia invests in companies building out the Internet Financial System.



Prior to co-founding Theia, Felipe was a Vice President and early employee at BayPine, a private equity firm focused on creating value through digital transformation within traditional industries. Felipe was also a Vice President at Declaration Partners, the family office of David Rubenstein. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at JLL Partners, investing in buyout and growth equity transactions across healthcare, business services and industrials. Felipe holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Felipe Montealegre

Russell Barlow is CEO at 21shares, bringing over 25 years of experience in regulated asset management. Previously, he was the Global Head of Multi-Asset and Alternative Investment Solutions at Abrdn plc, where he managed a team of over 110 people across three continents and assets exceeding $250bn, including hedge funds, private credit, private equity, property, infrastructure, real assets, and more. Russell has designed, launched, and managed investment products and served as a Non-Executive Director of Archax, the UK’s only FCA-regulated digital asset exchange.

Russell Barlow

Theo is an investment manager at Baillie Gifford and Chair of the Tokenisation Working Group. Theo is the architect of the firm's tokenisation strategy, and responsible for designing and creating tokenised funds as one of the firm's Digital Asset experts. Theo co-manages the Baillie Gifford Strategic Bond Strategy, and is chair of the Corporate Credit Macro Group. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford in 2021, Theo was a financial journalist from 2019, with roles at various news outlets including Bloomberg and Business Insider. Theo graduated BA (Hons) in Music from Durham University in 2020 and is a CFA Charterholder.

Theo Golden

CEO @ Helius

Mert Mumtaz

Lekker Capital is a global macro hedge fund with a particular focus on the emerging digital asset industry. Prior to founding Lekker, Quinn served as the Head of Capital Markets for two institutional lending businesses in the digital asset ecosystem, most recently at Maple Finance. Quinn spent five years in fixed income and capital markets at Guggenheim Partners in New York before his full-time foray into crypto.

Quinn Thompson

Tyler Neville is a Partner at Corriente Advisors, a macro thematic hedge fund based in Fort Worth, TX that is active in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.  Previously, Tyler traded equities &amp; derivatives at several hedge funds and Franklin Templeton, a trillion-dollar asset manager.  Tyler also served as Editorial Director at both Real Vision and Blockworks in between stints in the investment world.

Tyler Neville

Santiago Roel Santos (CryptoPunk #9159) is an investor focusing at the intersection of DeFi and the Web3 metaverse (NFTs/gaming). Most recently was a Partner at ParaFi Capital, one of the largest crypto funds specializing in DeFi. Prior to that, he was at Sageview Capital investing in Internet and software and, before that, at JP Morgan investment banking. Santiago began investing in crypto in 2012.

Santiago Roel Santos

Sonya is Co-Founder of 3F Labs, building an on-chain yield index of leveraged exposure to the world's leading alternative assets.



Previously, she was Chef at Steakhouse Financial, a DeFi builder focused on risk curation, stablecoins, and DAO advisory, where she led business development and grew Morpho’s TVL from zero to $1B.



She holds a BA in Mathematics from NYU and a Master of Finance from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sonya Kim

Michael Bucella is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Neoclassic Capital, a digital asset investment firm with a strong focus on Asia. Prior to Neoclassic, Michael served as General Partner with BlockTower Capital from 2017 to 2022, growing the firm near inception to managing in excess of $1B in AUM across hedge fund, venture, and credit strategies. Previous to BlockTower, Michael spent nearly a decade with Goldman Sachs in New York across both the Asset Management (GSAM) and Securities Division.

Mike Bucella

Sébastien Derivaux is a chef and co-founder of Steakhouse Financial, a boutique consulting business that helps DeFi protocols thrive. Sébastien focuses on Real-World Assets (RWA), having begun leading the RWA efforts at MakerDAO in 2020, and Asset-Liability Management. He holds a PhD in Data Science from Strasbourg University. Read more of his thoughts on the Crypto Banking Network.

Sébastien Derivaux

Joseph is the CIO at Monetary Macro, principal of FedGuy.com, author of the bestselling book "Central Banking 101," and previously a senior trader on the Federal Reserve’s Open Markets Desk. Joseph writes widely on the mechanics of the financial system and his work has been featured in Barrons, Bloomberg, Financial Times and many other media outlets. Earlier in his career, Joseph was a credit analyst and in another life he practiced law. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and an MSc. in Financial Economics from Oxford University.

Joseph Wang

Simon Taylor is the Founder of Fintech Brainfood. Simon has been immersed in the technology of financial services for as long as he’s been working and is consistently voted one of the most influential people in Banking, Insurance and Fintech by banks, his peers and a number of industry bodies. 



Simon runs Fintech Brainfood, the weekly newsletter subscribed to by over 45k people at banks, fintech companies and VCs. A regular speaker, media presenter and podcaster, Simon has spent two decades in financial services in payments, banking, crypto and consulting. 



Simon is now focused on bringing payments onchain at Tempo, the payments-focused Blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.

Simon Taylor

Joris Delanoue is a visionary, highly-respected entrepreneur and business leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling companies from the ground up. As the co-founder and co-CEO of Fairmint, Joris has helped pioneer the use of online capital fundraising to give communities a stake in the companies they support. Before Fairmint, Joris was instrumental in the rapid growth of Neosoft, leading the company to over 500 employees and $30 million in revenue. He also founded Nexteem, one of Europe's first cloud computing companies, sold to Aneo in 2016, and has a successful track record as an angel investor and advisor. Joris is a graduate of Singularity and has a Master's Degree in Business.

Joris Delanoue

Bryan Pellegrino is a co-founder of LayerZero. He is focused on building an interoperability solution that scales to every chain while maintaining the core principles of censorship resistance, permissionlessness, and immutability. Before LayerZero, Bryan worked in AI research and ranked among the best poker players in the world.

Bryan Pellegrino

After 3.5 years at Ava Labs, Patrick left his position as VP of Engineering to start Commonware. Previously, Patrick worked on the Coinbase Crypto Engineering Team where he led the development of Rosetta, the open source specification that Coinbase uses to integrate new blockchains.

Patrick O'Grady

Marcos is currently a Partner at Accolade Partners, a venture capital and growth equity fund of funds in Washington, DC with over $5.7 billion in total assets under management and over $1.2 billion in blockchain venture capital assets. Prior to Accolade, Marcos was a Partner at Evanston Capital Management. Before joining Evanston, Marcos worked at Cambridge Associates. At Cambridge Associates, he worked mainly with endowments and foundations, in the US and Europe, on their investment strategy. He also led the firm’s emerging research in the crypto/blockchain space starting in January of 2018. Marcos holds a BA from Oxford University and an MA and MBA from Columbia University.

Marcos Veremis

Jonah Van Bourg is a professional crude oil and cryptocurrency trader with 18 years of experience managing trading teams and running risk in volatile markets. Most recently, he was Global Head of Crypto and Precious Metals Trading at DRW. Prior to this, Jonah spent 7 years as a partner and oil trader at Vitol. In his early career, he ran the global oil trading desk at Goldman Sachs. Jonah graduated with a BA in Economics and Statistics from Columbia University.

Jonah Van Bourg

Avi Felman

Yannik Schrade is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arcium, a global supercomputer for a hyper-encrypted web. As the lead architect and visionary behind Arcium, Yannik created the project by leveraging his expertise in cryptography with the goal of advancing data security and confidentiality.



A renowned thought leader, Yannik has spoken at several prominent industry conferences, including the 2024 World Economic Forum, where he challenged TradFi leaders on the importance of decentralization, privacy, and trustlessness.



He previously founded ShiftScreen, an iOS app, which attracted over 100,000 paying customers and was a regular top-seller globally. Yannik studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, and he also studied law, adding another dimension to his extensive portfolio.

Yannik Schrade

David Vatchev leads Tokenization at Fasanara Capital, connecting RWA private credit and digital asset management. He drives product, partnerships, and distribution for tokenized offerings. Previously at Credit Suisse/UBS, Family Offices and R3, David blends TradFi and DeFi expertise.

David Vatchev

Alex W.

Kelvin has over 20 years of experience in investment and research across multiple asset classes and geographies.



He was a partner at Indus Capital, a $7 billion Emerging Market hedge fund. Before joining Indus Capital, Kelvin was also a partner and director of research at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 18 years in their Hong Kong, Beijing, and Singapore offices.



Throughout his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Kelvin’s insightful analysis earned him top rankings from Institutional Investor, AsiaMoney, and Greenwich Associates.

Kelvin Koh

Alex Felix is CIO and Co-Founder at CoinFund, leading investments in companies and protocols from pre-seed to Series A. As a former world-class ski racer, Alex has since focused his ambitions on becoming a leading web3 investor driven by a passion for fintech and crypto. Discerning and prescient, he has personally and professionally invested early in over 100 blockchain-focused companies since 2013, spanning many widely recognized names including seed rounds of Ethereum and Blockdaemon.



Prior to CoinFund, Alex spent 10 years across research, investing and structuring. Most recently, he arranged buyouts for American Capital, a private equity firm based in New York. Alex also held roles at BofA Merrill Lynch, RBS and Guggenheim Partners. He is an active technology angel investor and has built ecommerce algorithms. Alex has a degree in Economics and Earth Sciences from Dartmouth College.

Alex Felix

Kevin McCordic (aka @intern) is Director of Growth at the Monad Foundation. He's been responsible for venture, marketing, community, general brand growth and strategy at Monad for 2+ years. Before joining Monad, he was a venture investor in the crypto industry for about 2.5 years at CMS Holdings.

Kevin McCordic | @Intern

5+years of online business experience, self-made entrepreneur. Attended University of FL, dropped out after two years to start online marketing business. Grew it for two years, helped dozens of clients scale to 6-7 figures with email marketing, sales letters, paid ads, funnels and info products. Andy, Co-Founder of the Rollup and The Rollup Ventures is a crypto visionary who believes in the transformative power of AI agents and modular blockchains for the future of finance. He's betting big on 2025 being a breakout year for crypto, especially for those who've been building during the bear market.

Andy

Conrad Young is co-founder of Paragon Strategy, a London based strategic communications firm for the digital assets sector. Before crypto, he spent nearly a decade working for political parties and public affairs campaigns across the world.

Conrad Young

A graduate of UF with a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, he co-founded The Rollup (formerly DeFi Slate) in 2020, building one of the most respected media platforms in crypto. Now, Robbie consults for early-stage blockchain startups, exploring Bitcoin rollups, AI-driven finance, and tokenized governance while pushing the frontiers of knowledge through The Rollup Podcast and The Rollup Ventures.

Robbie

Jason Yanowitz

Michael Ippolito

Felix Jauvin

Dan Smith

Ryan Connor

David Rodriguez

The largest financial institutions, like BlackRock and JPMorgan, are moving onchain to settle treasuries, stocks, and other securities. At DAS, these partnerships and innovations will be at the forefront of conversations.

Onchain Institutional Finance

From IPOs to DATs and ETFs, institutional investors have never had more opportunities to gain exposure to the digital asset ecosystem. DAS will feature the investors and institutions at the heart of this public market activity.

Digital Assets in Public Markets

DAS will delve into the evolving landscape of stablecoins and digital asset payments. Consumers and institutions alike will benefit from insights into these payment innovations.

Stablecoins and Global Payments

Hear from the world’s leading digital asset investors and allocators on how they are managing venture, liquid, hedge, and institutional fund portfolios.

Investor's Perspective

Leading DeFi architects will unpack the evolution of the DeFi space including protocol design, lending and borrowing markets, market structure, risk curation, risk management, trading venues, and other important onchain elements.

DeFi & Risk Management

With landmark bills now passed in the U.S., this year’s programming will explore the implications of regulatory frameworks that policymakers have laid out for the maturing digital asset ecosystem.

US & Global Digital Asset Policy

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Digital Asset Summit 2026 - New York