Name: Permissionless II
Start: 2023-09-11T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-13T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Austin, Texas

Permissionless II is the world&#8217;s largest DeFi event. 



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First of the Ethereum Co-Founders, Staker of Chains, Submitter of EIPs, Public Goods Enjoyer, Ponderer of Polynomials, Learner of Languages, and Sorcerer of Scalability, Vitalik is a Futurist Techno-Optimist, known for his blog vitalik.eth.limo where he writes about travel, math, cryptography, and Ethereum.

Vitalik Buterin

Erik Voorhees

Anatoly Yakovenko is the co-founder of Solana and CEO of Solana Labs. He has almost two decades of experience building high-performance operating systems, including leading OS development at Qualcomm and holding engineering roles at Dropbox and Mesosphere. Anatoly Yakovenko has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Mary-Catherine (MC) Lader is the Chief Operating Officer of Uniswap Labs, a developer of foundational web3-based products and applications. In this role, she oversees the company’s growth efforts, strategic initiatives, and operations. Previously, she held various leadership roles at BlackRock, including as the Global Head of the firm’s digital sustainability business, Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s digital wealth business, and leader of the firm’s strategic fintech investments and blockchain activities. MC began her career as an investor in Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group. She received her J.D. and M.B.A. degrees at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, respectively, and her B.A. at Brown University.

Mary-Catherine Lader

Congressman Tom Emmer joined the U.S. House of Representatives on January 6, 2015 and currently represents (MN-06). Tom was recently elected by his fellow Republican colleagues to serve as Majority Whip entering the 118th Congress. Prior to that he served as Chairman of the NRCC during the 116th Congress and 117th Congress. House Republicans picked up seats in back-to-back cycles and reclaimed the House majority for just the third time since 1954. Tom also sits on the House Financial Services Committee and is a member of the House Republican Steering Committee. Born in 1961, Tom grew up in Minnesota and attended St. Thomas Academy. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and his JD from William Mitchell College of Law. After practicing law for several years, he opened his own law firm. The next 20 years were spent balancing family, business, coaching hockey, and serving on the city councils in Independence and Delano. Before coming to Congress, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2004-2008. He and his wife Jacquie have been married for over 30 years and have seven children. They reside in Delano, MN.

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)

Raj Gokal is the co-founder of Solana and president of Solana Labs. He also serves on the board of the Solana Foundation. He was previously focused on startups in behavioral health. He was Director of Product at Omada Health; EIR at Rock Health; Co-Founder of Sano, building consumer glucose sensors; and an investor at General Catalyst Partners. He started his career in hedge funds at companies like Meridian Capital Partners. Raj studied Finance at the Wharton School of UPenn.

Raj Gokal

Hester M. Peirce was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on January 11, 2018.



Prior to joining the SEC, Commissioner Peirce conducted research on the regulation of financial markets at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She was a Senior Counsel on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, where she advised Ranking Member Richard Shelby and other members of the Committee on securities issues. Commissioner Peirce served as counsel to SEC Commissioner Paul S. Atkins. She also worked as a Staff Attorney in the SEC’s Division of Investment Management. Commissioner Peirce was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler &amp; Pickering (now WilmerHale) and clerked for Judge Roger Andewelt on the Court of Federal Claims.



Commissioner Peirce earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Case Western Reserve University and her JD from Yale Law School.

Hon. Hester M. Peirce

Hong is the President of OKX, a leading Web3 technology company and the world's second largest crypto exchange by trading volume.



Prior to joining the Web3 industry in 2019, Hong worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs for eight years and later participated in growth equity investments. She had her first exposure to Bitcoin in 2016 and has since become a strong advocate of Bitcoin and building a trustless financial and social network.

Hong Fang

Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base and is the Head of Protocols at Coinbase, where he works on Ethereum L1, L2, and new onchain efforts. Prior to Base, Jesse led all of Coinbase’s consumer-facing engineering from early 2017 to middle 2021, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. Jesse joined Coinbase through the acquisition of Clef, a company he founded and ran for five years that built passwordless identity solutions for crypto companies.

Jesse Pollak

Stani Kulechov is a pioneer in decentralized finance and web3 social, a strong believer in decentralized solutions, and an advocate for a more open and fair internet. He is the Founder and CEO of Avara, the software development company behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave, stablecoin GHO, web3 social protocol – Lens, and mobile crypto wallet, Family. Avara’s vision is a people-powered internet that benefits all.

Stani Kulechov

Shaun Musuka serves as the Chief Legal Officer at Steakhouse Financial, which provides a range of services to DAOs. Shaun is also a member of the Strategic Finance Core Unit at MakerDAO, where he actively contributes to the management of MakerDAO’s real world assets program. Previously, Shaun served as Head of Research at African Crypto Research and specialized in capital markets and crypto at Latham &amp; Watkins.

Shaun Musuka

Hasu

Haider Rafique is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at OKX, one of the largest global crypto exchanges by trading volume. He oversees the company’s growth and brand strategy as OKX enters a new phase of hyper growth in user registration and trading volume. Haider previously served at the US exchange Okcoin as Chief Marketing Officer. He rebranded the company in 2021 and it recorded a growth of retail user sign-ups by 20x year-on-year, onboarding more than a million customers to the platform. Haider is a seasoned growth and marketing leader at global crypto firms, previously serving as head of growth at <a href="http://blockchain.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">blockchain.com</a> and as a growth adviser to several web3 firms and startups. He is one of the few in the industry with experience from traditional Madison Avenue ad firms and multinational tech giants like Microsoft.

Haider Rafique

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

After finishing his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, Dankrad Feist worked in Technology since 2013 and co-founded the e-health startup Cara Care in 2016. After more casual contacts with crypto since 2013 he joined the Ethereum Foundation full time in 2019 as a Core Researcher. He has made contributions to Ethereum statelessness, sharding, and especially data availability, with the development of an MPC-friendly proof of custody protocol as well as the new sharding construction "Danksharding" bearing his name.

Dankrad Feist

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office. Mr. Yusko has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. The Endowment Model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko is again at the forefront of institutional investing through Morgan Creek Digital Assets, which was formed in 2018. Morgan Creek Digital is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency and digital assets. Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

Mark Yusko

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

Trevor McFedries is the founder of Friends With Benefits, Web3’s premier Social DAO, as well as the Founder and former CEO of Dapper Collectives, an organization dedicated to decentralizing media and social via DAOs. McFedries is the creator of virtual pop star Lil Miquela and founded technology startup Brud, which was acquired by Dapper Labs. Since its inception in 2017, Brud has raised funds from Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and SV Angel amongst others. Friends With Benefits pioneered social tokens and counts Andreesen Horowitz, Spark, Pace Capital, and Kindred Ventures as investors.



Before creating Brud and FWB, Trevor was known professionally as Yung Skeeter and worked as a DJ, producer, and director for acts including Ke$ha, Azealia Banks, and Katy Perry. McFedries has performed at music festivals Lollapalooza and Coachella, served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bad Robot, and was an early employee at Spotify. He currently serves on the board at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and Rhizome (New Museum, NYC).

Trevor McFedries

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

Jason leads OKX's innovation efforts, and is responsible for identifying new business opportunities, developing new products and services, and exploring new markets in the rapidly-evolving crypto industry. Prior to joining the Web3 industry in 2016, Jason worked at Barclays Capital and cfX Incorporated. He holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Jason Lau

Michael Anderson is the co-founder of<a href="https://framework.ventures/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Framework Ventures,</a> one of the largest VC firms in the blockchain industry. Under the leadership of Michael and his co-founder Vance, Framework was arguably the first VC firm to <a href="https://decrypt.co/16943/why-framework-ventures-is-going-all-in-on-defi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“go all in”</a> on the emerging Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) ecosystem, notching up major early investments in several multi-billion dollar apps and networks like Chainlink, Aave, Synthetix, The Graph, and more. Over the last year, the firm has raised $400M for its third fund, and has also expanded into additional maturing verticals like web3 gaming, real world assets, and social crypto. Before Framework, Michael and his co-founder Vance launched and sold Hashletes, a digital collectible startup with official licensing from the NFL. Before entering the crypto space, Michael served as a product manager at both Snapchat and Dropbox, where he helped build out their monetization platforms.

Michael Anderson

Sandy Peng is one of the co-founders of Scroll. Scroll is a community-first native zkEVM Layer 2 solution, and an open source project working at the forefront of zero-knowledge research. She has rich experience in research, business development, and project strategy. Having worked as both a startup founder and blockchain investor, she has unique insights into the development, compliance, and application of blockchain technology and open source technology.

Sandy Peng

Kyle Samani is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests in tokens and companies reshaping entire sectors of the global economy. Prior to Multicoin Capital, he co-founded Pristine (Upskill, 2017), an enterprise software company that enables deskless workers with solutions for smart glasses. Based in Austin, Texas, Samani is widely recognized as a thought leader on blockchain and cryptoeconomics. He holds degrees in Finance and Management from NYU Stern and has been programming since he was 10 years old. 



Follow him on Twitter @KyleSamani.

Kyle Samani

Colleen Sullivan is Co-Head of Ventures at Brevan Howard Digital. Prior to joining Brevan Howard Digital, Colleen co-founded and served as CEO of CMT Digital, where she was also a partner with the broader CMT Group and commenced activities in the crypto industry in 2013. Prior to starting CMT Digital, Colleen co-founded Sullivan Wolf Kailus, a boutique law firm that specializes in hedge fund, private equity, venture capital, digital assets, and other alternative investment products. Colleen also previously practiced law in the Investment Funds and Derivatives group at Sidley Austin LLP and, at age 25, co-founded a company called iOptions Group LLC, which developed hedging and monetization strategies for holders of employee stock options. Ms. Sullivan currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

Colleen Sullivan

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

Sunny Aggarwal is the Co-Founder of Osmosis, the core team responsible for developing Osmosis, an appchain that serves as the DeFi hub for the Cosmos ecosystem. Sunny dropped out of UC Berkeley to join Tendermint, where he served as a Core Developer of the Cosmos SDK and Gaia blockchain, and contributed to the development and launch of Cosmos and IBC. Sunny then decided to build on top of the core infrastructure he had developed at Tendermint, and co-founded Osmosis with the goal of developing a DEX appchain that rivals even the most robust centralized exchanges.

Sunny Aggarwal

A crypto enthusiast since 2013, Ansgar joined Ethereum core research after finishing university in 2019. With a background in maths, economics, and computer science, he has been contributing to a diverse set of research topics. His past work has been on execution environments, account abstraction, state expiry, multi-dimensional fee markets, and EIP-4844. Currently, he is focused on future data availability sampling techniques, EVM standardization and improvements, and staking economics / Ethereum monetary policy.

Ansgar Dietrichs

Guy Hirsch is the Global Managing Director at Kraken digital asset exchange. Prior to joining Kraken, Guy spent 5 years at eToro, a global investment platform with more than $10B in crypto and traditional assets under management. Guy led eToro’s expansion into the US market, serving as US Managing Director, and then promoted to lead eToro’s expansion into Web3 as Managing Director of eToro Art. Guy also served as the Director of Innovation Strategy at Samsung, where he led the company's efforts to develop and implement new technologies and business models. Guy founded two VC-backed startups, one was acquired by a private equity firm, and holds a dual Law and business degrees from Reichman University.



Guy's expertise in innovation, technology, and finance has made him a highly sought-after speaker and advisor. He has been a guest speaker at various industry conferences and events, and has been featured in numerous publications, including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and TechCrunch.

Guy Hirsch

Kain Warwick

Phil Quist is a Music and Web3 Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Quist represents many of the world’s leading musicians, including Tate McRae, The Chainsmokers, Dimitri Vegas &amp; Like Mike, 3LAU, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Charli XCX, Mark Tuan, and Maggie Lindemann, among others. His clients in the burgeoning Web3 space include Daniel Allan, Dave Krugman, LandVault, HUME, Micah Johnson, Nyla Hayes, and Cool Cats, among others.&nbsp;



He is an active member of the music community serving as the head of MusiCares Foundation’s Young Ambassadors Board, where he organizes fundraising events geared towards raising awareness of MusiCares, which has distributed more than $100 million dollars since its inception in 1989. He also served as a board member for the Forbes Under 30 community, and serves on the Music Industry Advisory Board for Save The Music Foundation, which helps provide music instruments and education to schools in underrepresented areas.&nbsp;



Additionally, he serves as an investor at Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between CAA and global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with a focus on early-stage consumer-focused businesses.&nbsp;



Quist was named to Variety’s “Assistants to Watch” list in 2015, and to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in the Music category in 2018. In 2019, he was honored on Billboard’s Dance Power Players list, and was a Pollstar Impact 50 honoree in 2021.&nbsp;&nbsp;



Quist graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Finance.

Phil Quist

Kevin Owocki is a blockchain expert, computer scientist, co-founder of <a href="https://gitcoin.co/">Gitcoin</a> and podcast host at <a href="http://greenpill.network/">Greenpill.network</a>, a network-society of thousands of hackers, dreamers, and doers focused on using crypto to bring positive digital systems to the world. After completing his BS in Computer Science, Kevin spent 15 years in the world of web2, working in engineering leadership serving as a CTO and founder for open source software and web startups. Kevin co-founded Gitcoin in 2017 where his vision of a positive-sum ecosystem supported by public goods helped raise and distribute over<a href="https://impact.gitcoin.co/"> $50 million to projects in the ecosystem</a>.   Gitcoin has grown into a pillar of the Ethereum ecosystem, upon which hundreds of projects rely on for financial support + for marketing.  In 2021, Gitcoin DAO launched and Gitcoin Grants relaunched as a suite of modular + decentralized protocols.   As of 2023, web3 projects can use Gitcoin Grants in their ecosystem with <a href="https://www.gitcoin.co/grants-stack">Grants Stack</a> or <a href="https://allo.gitcoin.co/">Allo Protocol</a>, <a href="https://passport.gitcoin.co/">Gitcoin Passport</a> or <a href="https://publicgoods.network/">PublicGoods.Network</a>

Kevin Owocki

Preston Van Loon co-founded Prysmatic Labs (acquired by Offchain Labs in 2022) and is core developer focused on building mission critical client software for Ethereum and L2 scaling efforts.

Preston Van Loon

Vance Spencer is the co-founder of<a href="https://framework.ventures/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Framework Ventures,</a> one of the largest VC firms in the blockchain industry. Under the leadership of Vance and his co-founder Michael, Framework was arguably the first VC firm to <a href="https://decrypt.co/16943/why-framework-ventures-is-going-all-in-on-defi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“go all in”</a> on the emerging Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) ecosystem, notching up major early investments in several multi-billion dollar apps and networks like Chainlink, Aave, Synthetix, The Graph, and more. Over the last year, the firm has raised $400M for its third fund, and has also expanded into additional maturing verticals like web3 gaming, real world assets, and social crypto. Before Framework, Vance and his co-founder Michael launched and sold Hashletes, a digital collectible startup with official licensing from the NFL. Prior to entering the crypto space, Vance worked at Netflix in Los Angeles and Tokyo, where he was part of the team responsible for the relaunch of the Japan business, eventually joining the team leading corporate development for most of northern Asia.

Vance Spencer

Ron represents the association on Capitol Hill as Director of Government Relations. Ron’s background in crafting a bipartisan crypto regulatory framework via legislation dates back to 2016 when he served as the Financial Services Policy Lead for Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-8). During Ron’s five years on Capitol Hill, he authored several pieces of legislation including the Token Taxonomy Act, Federal Reserve Regulatory Oversight Act, and the Derivatives Fairness Act. Before coming to Capitol Hill, he was the campaign manager for three successful Texas State Senate races. Ron received his B.A. from Georgetown University.

Ron Hammond

Rich Widmann is the Global Head of Strategy for Web3 at Google Cloud and a founding member of Google’s Web3 business. Since the launch of Google Cloud’s Web3 efforts, the team has launched a robust suite of developer products and tools leveraged by Web3 developers across a number of the largest protocols in the ecosystem. In addition, Rich has led several Alphabet-wide initiatives aimed at broadening Google’s exposure to Web3, including efforts which enabled Google to custody cryptocurrency.  More recently, he led the effort to execute the first-ever stablecoin payment for services at Google. Prior to Google, Rich was a litigator and member of the firm’s regulatory and white-collar investigations team, where he helped investigate and recover millions of dollars stolen in connection with the FIFA World Cup bribery schemes. Rich’s experience in handling federal regulatory investigations led him to the world of cryptocurrency, where he began representing founders in the Ethereum ecosystem in high-stakes regulatory engagements and litigation. Rich has held director-level roles at two regulated institutions, including a cryptocurrency custodian and a nationally chartered bank. Rich is an adjunct professor at Northwestern Pritzker University School of Law where he teaches a JD/MBA course on cryptocurrency technology and regulations. Richard holds a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University School of Law, a Master's from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in History from the College of New Jersey. Before he practiced law, he was a middle school English teacher in Philadelphia with Teach for America.

Rich Widmann

Vy is a Partner&nbsp;and Head of Regulatory &amp; Policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where she advises an infrastructure-focused portfolio of projects and leads regulatory diligence and policy efforts. At the SEC, she served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement and Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. Prior to that, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law at the firm WilmerHale.

Tuongvy Le

Jim Bianco is President and Index Manager at Bianco Research Advisors. He is also the President of Bianco Research LLC. Since 1990, Jim’s commentaries have offered a unique perspective on the global economy and financial markets. Unencumbered by the biases of traditional Wall Street research, Jim has built a decades long reputation for objective, incisive commentary that challenges consensus thinking. Jim appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business, and is often featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Grants Interest Rate Observer, and MarketWatch. Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Marquette University (1984) and an MBA from Fordham University (1989).

Jim Bianco

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

Vanessa Grellet

David Hoffman is co-founder of Bankless and is a steward of crypto culture. David focuses on writing fundamental investment theses for Ether&nbsp;and Ethereum, while also making deep connections to impacting culture and the psyche of those who adopt a crypto lifestyle. David&nbsp;holds 99% of&nbsp;his wealth outside of Banks and inside of Ethereum, and is focused on leading the way for others to do the same.&nbsp;

David Hoffman

Sreeram Kannan is Founder of EigenLayer and CEO of Eigen Labs, a Seattle-based technology company pioneering protocols for verifiable applications and services. Previously, he was a tenured associate professor at the University of Washington, where he directed the UW Blockchain Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley. Kannan left academia in 2018, recognizing blockchain's potential to accelerate human coordination. At Eigen Labs, his team is building the tools to extend crypto's trustless verification to any developer building any application. Today, hundreds of applications and rollups are building on EigenLayer's verifiable services (AVS) backstopped by billions of dollars in staked Ethereum and EIGEN.

Sreeram Kannan

Ryan 'Raz' Zarick

Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs, is a key blockchain innovator who developed Arbitrum—the largest and most advanced Ethereum tech stack—authored "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies," and pioneered multi-party computation, shaping the future of blockchain interaction for consumers and institutions alike.

Steven Goldfeder

Qiao is a founding partner of AllianceDAO. Previously he was the founding head of product at Messari.

Qiao Wang

Matt Cutler is CEO &amp; Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.blocknative.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blocknative</a>, the Ethereum block builder &amp; leading real-time infrastructure for monitoring pre-chain data, optimizing gas spend, and predicting transaction settlement. Matt has founded multiple technology startups, including Web analytics pioneer NetGenesis, which went public in 2000 at the height of the Web 1.0 boom. His most recent startup, mobile collaboration platform <a href="http://collaborate.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collaborate.com</a>, was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Along the way, Matt has consistently made meaningful contributions to emerging technology ecosystems, including serving as chair of the first-ever Webmasters Guild, co-authoring the award winning E-Metrics Whitepaper, championing AdWeek’s Viral Video Awards, establishing Cisco’s global Design Thinking initiative, and more.

Matt Cutler

Keith Grossman is the President of Enterprise at MoonPay and a global leader in Web3. He was previously President of TIME, where he pioneered TIMEPieces, the brand’s innovative NFT collectibles. TIME’s Web3 strategy helped modernize the brand and produce millions in new revenue for the company. Prior to TIME, Keith served as the Global Chief Revenue Officer for Bloomberg Media and the Associate Publisher of both WIRED and Ars Technica.

Keith Grossman

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

Ben is a co-founder of Optimism, a leading Ethereum L2 ecosystem. He served as Chief Scientist before becoming a director at the Optimism Foundation. In his free time, he makes Ethereum-based parody songs under his stage name, Weird ETH Yankovic.

Ben Jones

Dan Marzec

Avichal is a successful entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook, which acquired his previous company. As an angel investor, Avichal has invested in 15 unicorns and 5 decacorns including Airtable, Boom Supersonic, Color Genomics, Cruise, Deel, Figma, Newfront Insurance, Notion, Nova Credit, Pulley, and others. He co-founded Electric Capital in 2018 and has grown it to one of the largest crypto venture firms globally. Electric is an investor in many of the leading web3 protocols and companies such as Bitwise, Bitnomial, dYdX, Frax, Kraken, Magic Eden, NEAR, and Solana.

Avichal Garg

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

adcv is a co-founder and Chef at Steakhouse Financial, which provides a range of services to DAOs and companies in the crypto industry. Previous experience including M&amp;A advisory and investment banking, turnaround manager for a small business, various corporate finance roles. Studied engineering and in general a bit too much.

adcv

Neel Somani is Founder and CEO of Eclipse. Prior to working as a quantitative researcher at Citadel, Neel worked as a software developer at Airbnb. While building web3 protocols, Neel identified the performance gap in L1s, leading him to build effective rollup solutions. Neel's prior research has focused on type systems and differential privacy.

Neel Somani

Li Jin

Nate is the Head of Web3 Product at OKX,a leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company. He oversees the company’s Web3 product line global growth and strategy as OKX is going full speed in Web3 space.



Before joining OKX, Nate spent over 10 years in the FinTech industry. He previously served as the Head of Product at Paypal China BU leading the company’s expansion in the country. Before joining Paypal, he was Product Lead at Ant Financial, leading the FinTech giants’ growth in North America. He is one of the few in the crypto industry with experience in FinTech and an in-depth understanding of Web3 technology.

Nate Zou

Ethan is the co-founder of the Cosmos network and serves as the CEO of Informal Systems. Informal Systems is a member-driven worker’s cooperative building software that enables trustworthy relationships between protocols and people to flourish. Ethan also serves as the President of the Interchain Foundation which funds and coordinates development of public goods in the Cosmos ecosystem. Ethan sees local money systems as the basis for self-sufficient local economies to prosper. With a background in cell biology, neuroscience, mathematics, machine learning, and distributed systems, his goal is to build systems that encourage humans to work cooperatively through methods of self-organization. He is currently focused on blockchain technology as a means to bring greater political and economic sovereignty to local communities around the globe. Prior to Informal Systems, Ethan co-founded the Tendermint and Cosmos projects, and served as CTO of Tendermint Inc. Today, dozens of projects are adopting technology conceived in the original Cosmos whitepaper, including the Inter-Blockchain (IBC) Communication protocol – an industry-standard for permissionless communication between sovereign blockchains. Today, the Cosmos ecosystem continues to pioneer technological paradigms for building interoperable application-specific blockchains.

Ethan Buchman

Tyrone is the Head of Onyx Digital Assets, a multi-asset tokenization platform that enables the exchange of value for various types of digital assets. Tyrone also leads J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain team where he is responsible for creating innovative Web3-focused products &amp; solutions for J.P. Morgan’s businesses and clients, and for engaging with the industry at large in order to provide a holistic blockchain strategy for the firm. Tyrone was previously a Senior Blockchain Product Manager in J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center of Excellence and was also the Head of Product for Quorum, an open-sourced Ethereum-based blockchain platform built for Enterprise use. Prior to moving into the blockchain industry in 2015, Tyrone was a software engineer within J.P. Morgan's Credit Markets business, and before that he spent several years in Product transformation, managing and delivering large strategic programs across various businesses within J.P. Morgan, across Front, Middle and Back Office risk and trading systems. Tyrone sits on the Board of Directors of The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

Tyrone Lobban

Jelena is CEO and Co-Founder at Noble, a purpose built native asset issuance chain for the IBC ecosystem. She is also Co-Founder of the Canadian Web3 Council, a national advocacy organization for the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem

Jelena Djuric

Deana Burke is the Co-Founder of Boys Club. She is a mission-driven marketing and operations generalist, passionate about financial inclusion. In 2018 she founded a Bitcoin wallet startup aimed at onboarding teenage girls to crypto. She started her career in marketing agencies before founding her own, which was <a href="https://www.adweek.com/agencies/indiegogo-acquires-an-agency-to-expand-its-enterprise-business/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">acquired by Indiegogo</a> in 2017. Previously she worked as head of market at <a href="https://celo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Celo</a>.

Deana Burke

Greg Tusar serves as Head of Institutional Product for Coinbase, leading the development of the firm’s efforts in areas such as Prime Brokerage and Custody, Financing, and its Exchange. Greg joined from Tagomi Systems, where he was co-founder and CTO. Coinbase acquired Tagomi in August, 2020 to expand its Institutional offerings. Prior to founding Tagomi in 2017, Greg was Head of Global Execution Services and Platforms at KCG Holdings, responsible for its Retail Market Making and Institutional efforts. Mr. Tusar joined KCG in August 2013 from Goldman Sachs, where he spent 13 years, most recently as a Partner and global head of the firm’s equities electronic trading business. Mr. Tusar helped Goldman Sachs expand its electronic trading franchise working closely with Institutions to help improve their execution costs, and also helping the firm invest in and shape industry infrastructure including several exchanges and technology providers. Greg was previously a limited partner at Spear, Leeds and Kellogg (“SLK”), when Goldman Sachs acquired the firm in 2000. He also worked for seven years at TLW Securities, most recently as its Chief Executive Officer, before it was acquired by SLK in 1999. He began his career at Mentor Graphics, an electronic design automation firm. Greg is a Managing Trustee of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City NJ, and a Trustee and Treasurer of the Raptor Trust in Stirling, NJ.

Greg Tusar

Eugene is a cofounder at Ellipsis Labs, which designs and builds sustainable DeFi protocols from first principles. Ellipsis Labs is a core contributor to Phoenix, a limit order book DEX on Solana. Prior to co-founding Ellipsis Labs, Eugene worked on DeFi protocol design, MEV, and HFT. He is also a contributor at Umbra Research.

Eugene Chen

Protocol Specialist @Obol Labs. Former Strategy Consultant @Accenture. Focused on web3 infrastructure and protocol research.

Juan Gadea

Andrew Peel is CEO and Co-Founder of TVL Capital and a board member of SIX Digital Exchange. A CFA charterholder with 20 years in global finance, he spent much of his career as a trader, risk-managing structured derivatives and building market-making businesses.



He was one of the first and longest-standing dedicated digital asset hires at a Tier 1 bank, serving as Head of Digital Assets at Morgan Stanley for seven years. Active in digital assets since 2013, including seed investing in multiple early-stage projects, he brings deep experience across structured products, digital assets, and DeFi.



TVL Capital is a Swiss investment and technology firm positioned at the intersection of TradFi and DeFi, focused on bridging the two worlds through asset management and technology.

Andrew Peel

Anthony Rose leads the technology team behind zkSync at Matter Labs, and has a background in software and machine learning. Prior to joining Matter Labs, Anthony spent a number of years in industry building teams at SpaceX and Uber, and in academia at CERN, where he worked on searches for new physics and the Higgs boson discovery.

Anthony Rose

Brian Quintenz is the Head of Policy for a16z crypto, where he helps to translate between the crypto and policy communities. Brian has long stood out as an innovative thinker in crypto and DeFi and was one of the earliest leaders in Washington to recognize the value of crypto. Brian initially joined a16z crypto as a senior advisor. In December 2022, he moved to the full-time role leading its policy team. Prior to joining a16z, he was nominated by both Presidents Obama and Trump to serve as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and, in August 2017, was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He also led the agency’s Technology Advisory Committee, which hosted the most comprehensive set of public crypto-related policy discussions and briefings of any federal financial regulator. During his service, the CFTC oversaw the listing of the first U.S. regulated Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts on derivatives exchanges, and the rapid expansion of DeFi. All the while, he was a champion for tailored, risk-calibrated regulation. Prior to his appointment to the CFTC, Brian was the Founder and Managing Principal of Saeculum Capital Management, LLC where he developed and implemented Saeculum’s long term, momentum-based investment process for both traditional discretionary accounts as well as a managed-futures, commodity pool hedge fund. Brian began his career on Capitol Hill, where he worked for 6.5 years and served as senior policy aid to a Member of Congress. He received his B.S. from Duke University and M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

Brian Quintenz

Roger Bayston leads digital asset efforts at Franklin Templeton. His team is responsible for creating new generations of products and services focused on the rapidly expanding opportunities within digital assets and their supporting infrastructure. This includes services dedicated to mature cryptocurrency powered blockchain networks and newer incubator projects committed to companies in the distributed ledger space. Roger's team also builds infrastructure that bridges traditional financial market products and services into the digital asset ecosystem. Roger has over 36 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is a member of the firm's Management Committee and currently serves on the Board for Fiduciary Trust Company, a wealth management subsidiary of Franklin Templeton. Roger joined Franklin Templeton in 1991 as a research analyst and served as a portfolio manager and business leader for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income for many years. Roger holds a bachelor of science from University of Virginia, and an MBA from University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to getting his MBA he was previously with Bankers Trust Company. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Roger Bayston, CFA

Claire is the Head of Institutional at Gemini, where she’s responsible for leading a global team of business development professionals and driving institutional client adoption of digital assets. Prior to joining Gemini in 2021, Ms Ching was a Director in the Global Fixed Income division of Deutsche Bank, managing key institutional client relationships with a focus on foreign exchange spot and derivatives trading. She started her career as an Investor Relations and Business Development Associate at Avenue Capital, a global distressed credit hedge fund which had 20 billion in AUM. Ms. Ching received her B.A from University of Pennsylvania (2006) and her MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2013).

Claire Ching

Robby Yung, Animoca Brands’s CEO of Investments, partner at Animoca Capital, a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification with a portfolio of products and games including the REVV and SAND tokens, as well as investment and partnerships with companies like Axie Infinity,  OpenSea, Dapper Labs, and Alien Worlds and subsidiaries like The Sandbox, Gamee, Quidd, and Lympo. Robby has been in gaming since 2012 and blockchain gaming since 2018. He served as the first CEO of Animoca Brands after taking the group public in 2015. Prior to that, he cofounded magazine publisher, One Media Group, which he listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He also founded Chinese television and outdoor media concern, Redgate Media Group, which was acquired by  Inno-Tech Holdings . He began his career in technology, building wireless telecom networks in China and Indonesia with Metromedia.

Robby Yung

Michael Shaulov, a renowned cybersecurity entrepreneur, is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, the leading secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, where he was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security.In 2017, the infamous Lazarus Group hacked into four South Korean exchanges and stole $200M of Bitcoin. Working for the cybersecurity leader Check Point at the time, the would-be founders of Fireblocks were part of the task force that investigated the massive cyber breach. It was this assignment that gave Michael and his two co-founders the inspiration to start Fireblocks.Michael is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat, and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in Israel’s elite Unit 8200, where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Michael Shaulov

Papua New Guinean-Australian Paff Evara (they/them) is a marketing director turned creator, speaker and web3 founder. A natural storyteller, Paff went viral during lockdown, building an audience of over 110K people as they empowered people to take up more space as their authentic selves.



In 2022, Paff and their wife Han founded Take Up Space, a web3 community turned media DAO and metalabel for change-makers. Through intersectional media, community and events, their mission is to create culture in motion both on and off-chain.&nbsp;

Paff Evara

CEO @ Helius

Mert Mumtaz

Motty Lavie serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Braavos, a cutting-edge smart contract wallet designed to offer a seamless UX and prime security through true multi-factor authentication. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Motty has established companies within the traditional web2 sector and successfully scaling them into multimillion-dollar global enterprises. Motty holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the prestigious Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Motty Lavie

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

Ryan Sean Adams&nbsp;is a crypto investor &amp; co-founder of Bankless. He’s an open finance maximalist who propagates the message of financial sovereignty. His mission is to help onboard the first billion people to crypto through memes, media, and education.

Ryan Sean Adams

Lucas Vogelsang is the CEO and Co-founder at Centrifuge, focusing on bringing Real World Assets to DeFi since the early days of Ethereum. Before diving into crypto in 2017 Lucas has been working at the intersection of tech and business since dropping out of University. He co-founded the Swiss e-commerce startup DeinDeal as its CTO. After its successful sale, he helped the German startup KaufDA with their international expansion. Lucas spent 6 years in Silicon Valley where he was working at early stage startups including Taulia where he met his Centrifuge co-founders.

Lucas Vogelsang

Sam Auch is Bakkt’s Group Product Manager, Trust. Most recently served as Product Manager for Exodus a premier retail wallet company. He was responsible for defining the product strategy related to token and network additions. He worked with leadership, engineering, and customer support to help support the most desired assets and networks. Prior to Exodus Sam spent almost four years working for the international account firm RSM’s digital asset team. Sam helped develop and grow the digital asset practice at the firm first through audit, tax, and consulting work. Helping clients correctly account for digital assets on their balance sheet, understand the tax consequences associated with decentralized finance activity, and review controls around wallet key management. Sam ended his time at RSM designing, creating, and leading their blockchain and crypto fellowship program which was designed to take employees at all levels from zero to bitcoin. He a former CPA and holds a BBA in Accounting from James Madison University.

Sam Auch

John Rising is the co-founder and CEO of Stackup, a provider of ERC-4337 and smart account infrastructure. He believes that account abstraction is necessary for blockchains to create an equitable, open, and safe financial system. John is also a leading advocate for ERC-4337 and better account experiences in the Ethereum ecosystem.



Prior to founding Stackup John managed missions for SpaceX, led vehicle engineering at Relativity Space, and designed propulsion systems at Virgin Galactic. He has a masters degree in engineering and management from MIT and an undergraduate degree in engineering from USC.

John Rising

John Adler is co-Founder and CRO at Celestia Labs. He is the creator of Optimistic Rollups, previously scalability researcher at ConsenSys

John Adler

Matt&nbsp;McElroy&nbsp;is Vice President, Digital Business Operations &amp; Innovation for Warner Brothers Discovery Sports. In this role, Matt oversees business operations for NBA Digital, live PPV events on Bleacher Report as well as WBD Sport’s growing efforts to put live sports on Max.&nbsp; He also leads a number of emerging Web 3 initiatives for the company including Blocklete Golf and B/R Watch to Earn, among others.



Previously&nbsp;Matt&nbsp;helped launch B/R Live, Turner Sports' premium live sports streaming subscription product, which transitioned into Bleacher Report in 2021.  During his 17-year tenure at Turner/WarnerMedia/Warner Brothers Discovery,&nbsp;McElroy&nbsp;has worked in various roles across the media portfolio including time at Cartoon Network, <a href="http://pgatour.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">PGATOUR.COM</a>, <a href="http://ncaa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NCAA.COM</a>, as well as Corporate Strategy and Emerging Media teams.



McElroy&nbsp;earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and his bachelor’s degree in communications from Florida State University.

Matt McElroy

Tom Shaughnessy

Richard Chen

Adam Sullivan has more than a decade of experience in financial services, with a focus on investment banking in the digital assets and infrastructure space. His expertise spans strategy development, corporate finance and M&amp;A.



Prior to joining&nbsp;Core&nbsp;Scientific&nbsp;as President in 2023, Adam served as a Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets and Infrastructure at XMS Capital Partners. In his role at XMS, Adam established himself as one of the key dealmakers for M&amp;A and capital raises in the crypto mining industry, overseeing more than $5 billion of transactions, including&nbsp;Core&nbsp;Scientific’s business combination with Power &amp; Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. (“XPDI”) (NASDAQ: XPDI) in 2021. He previously served as a buy-side analyst at Indian Wells Capital Management and as a Quantitative Analyst at M&amp;T Bank.



Adam received his Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of Rochester.

Adam Sullivan

Bob is a Core Contributor at Maverick Protocol and is building new AMM primitives that allows LPs to automate liquidity reconcentration natively as part of the AMM smart contract.&nbsp; Maverick AMM launched in March 2023 and has grown to be a top-5 DEX by volume in 3 months after launch.



Previously, Bob was the CTO and Co-Founder of Bastille Networks, a cyber security company that protects large commercial and federal entities from radio frequency based cyber attacks. Bob built out Bastille’s cutting edge sensor technology and grew it from zero revenue to a thriving ARR business.&nbsp; Bob was also formerly a faculty member at Georgia Tech where he researched data science, signal processing, and machine learning algorithms.



Bob is the inventor of more than 25 patents, holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and has won numerous programming competitions, including the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge.

Bob Baxley

John Morrow is the Co-Founder and COO of Gauntlet, a platform for crypto networks helping developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. He was an early employee at Gigster where he managed the freelance marketplace. Before that, he worked at Microsoft as a PM on Windows APIs and HoloLens, and at Goldman Sachs

John Morrow

Tara is a growth-oriented leader who believes blockchain technology will fundamentally alter the way the world works and what is possible. As Cofounder &amp; CEO of Co:Create, she helps innovative brands unlock the power of their community with gamified, self-owned loyalty and reward programs. She began her crypto journey as Chief Revenue Officer of Alto, a leading cryptoIRA and digital asset IRA custodian. There she established partnerships with institutional crypto asset managers and grew company revenue by 25X in 18 months. She previously was Chief Commercial Officer at a consumer lending FinTech firm, where she led an advocacy campaign to change the tax treatment of employer-sponsored student loan repayment programs that was passed into law as part of the CARES Act. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of South Carolina.

Tara Fung

Kevin Galler is the Developer Relations Engineer at Monad Labs. Previously, he was a Core Protocol Engineer at Solana Labs and spent 5 years as an Embedded Audio DSP Engineer at Apple, contributing to Apple and Beats headphone products. Kevin holds a Masters from Purdue University in Signal Processing and Computer Architecture. He specializes in optimized low-level systems and is keen on their application in the Blockchain realm.

Kevin Galler

Alex is a member of the Core Team at Velodrome Finance, the leading DEX on Optimism. Prior to getting involved in DeFi, Alex worked in politics, technology, and consulting.

Alex Cutler

María Paula comes from Argentina, is the co-founder at <a href="http://jpg.space/">jpg.space</a>, and the Department of Decentralization. She has been working in web3 since 2017, when she joined the Web3 Foundation as employee number three. She's worked or consulted for several of the most prominent blockchain projects, and in 2018 she founded a grassroots organisation in Berlin, Department of Decentralization, hosting web3 hackathons, and researching and publishing on art and technology. Her organisation's latest collaboration was a year long project with Hito Steyerl, StrikeDAO, for which they built a quadratic voting app and presented a governance proposal for a German institutionIn early 2021, she started her own company alongside Sam Spike and Trent Elmore, <a href="http://jpg.space/">jpg.space</a>, a protocol that focuses on on-chain NFT curation.

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