Monday, May 16

Attendee Registration

Join us at the luxurious Palm Beach Croquet Club for an exclusive event for Permie VIP NFT holders and featured Permissionless Speakers.

 You'll spend the evening networking, playing croquet, and enjoying passed apps and drinks, followed by dinner at 7:30.

VIP "Gatsby Whites" Event

Tuesday, May 17

Registration & Expo Hall Open

Greeting & Welcome

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

Justin Drake

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

Mariano Conti was Head of Smart Contracts at the Maker Foundation and is currently an angel investor in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Mariano Conti

Evin McMullen is CEO and Co-founder of Disco.xyz, your identity for the Metaverse. Disco enables your personal data backpack, making data and reputation portable across web2 apps and web3 blockchain ecosystems. She is also cofounder of DAO Jones and inkDAO and an advisor to Web3 projects including Boys Club, Engage Raise and NFT3. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Evin McMullen

Why Are We Here?

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

Chris Dixon founded and leads a16z crypto, which invests in web3 technologies through four dedicated funds with more than $7 billion under management. He has been a general partner at Andreeseen&nbsp;Horowitz since 2013.



Chris is the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://readwriteown.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Read Write Own</a>:&nbsp;Building the Next Era of the Internet&nbsp;(Random House).



Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011.



Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies.



Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

Chris Dixon

The State of Crypto in 2022

Surojit is Chief Product Officer at Coinbase where he is responsible for Product Management, Product Design, User Research, and Program Management. Before Coinbase, Surojit was Vice President and Head of Product for Google Shopping. Before that he worked as Senior Vice President and Head of Product &amp; Design at Flipkart, India from 2015-2017. Previously, Surojit was a founding member of Google's mobile search ads product and helped make mobile search ads a growth engine for Google, growing it into a multi-billion dollar business. 



Surojit has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur and an MS in Computer Science from SUNY at Buffalo. Surojit has 33 US patents to his name in distributed computing, payments, mobile advertising, and location based technologies. Surojit is an active angel investor in many technology companies in Silicon Valley and India.

Surojit Chatterjee

Building for Web3

Coffee Break 

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

Josh began his career in traditional finance — working on the legal side of the commodities and derivatives markets. While at a commodities fintech company in 2017, he encountered blockchain for the first time and was blown away by its potential to fix the fragmentation and antiquated processes found in legacy finance.



His first role in crypto was at the cryptocurrency exchange Huobi where he joined as Global General Counsel, later moving on to lead their Institutional Business. His most recent role before joining Qredo was at Binance, where he led and scaled the EMEA organization, helping it to become one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges by trading volume.

Josh Goodbody

Joe Hoffend is Foundry’s VP of Product Development. He started his career co-founding an eSports media company, and prior to joining Foundry, was at Fastly, helping improve the user experience of their Edge applications and partner offerings. Joe first became interested in blockchain in 2012 as he saw Bitcoin as the intersection of sound money and technology. Since then, he’s spent a good deal of time learning about blockchain technology and what problems it can help solve in the world and believes every asset will eventually be digitized. Joe has led Foundry’s Staking business as well as productizing other areas of the business.

Joe Hoffend

Blockdaemon founder &amp; CEO, Konstantin Richter has been active in the blockchain ecosystem since 2015. He created Blockdaemon in 2017. It has grown to become the world’s largest institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure provider for node management and staking.

Konstantin Richter

Jason Yanowitz

DeFi: The Financial Backbone of the New Economy

Anne is the VP of Special Projects at OpenSea. She oversees platform development for community and creator-centric initiatives while managing the teams focused on the intersection of OpenSea and its creators. Prior to OpenSea, Anne was COO of Oasis Labs, the core contributors to the Oasis Network — a privacy-first Layer 1 blockchain network — and led their Mainnet development and token launch (ROSE). Before this Anne held roles as Product Manager / Product Marketing Manager for the iPhone at Apple, Director of Special Projects / Product Marketing at eero, and worked for former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright helping companies with regulatory issues abroad. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and went to Georgetown for undergrad.

Anne Favre-Willis

Li Jin

Morgan is a General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage venture capital fund.    Most recently, Morgan was at Facebook where she originally joined as part of the Corporate Development team in May 2017. Her main project was trying to answer the question "how should Facebook be thinking about blockchain?" This evolved into the creation of the dedicated blockchain team which later became Diem and Novi. Morgan was Head of Strategy for Facebook's Novi.    Morgan graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in Statistics and Information Science.

Morgan Beller

Carly Reilly is the chief of staff at block::block, an early-stage blockchain startup. She is the host of Overpriced JPEGs, a Bankless HQ podcast about NFTs and the metaverse. She spent two years as national finance director for Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign; has worked at a hedge fund, a VC fund, and a production company, but has found her true passion in Web3. She is a Washington Post contributor, former co-host of the Yang Speaks podcast, and has been <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-12-19/behind-the-candidate-carly-reilly-video" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">featured by Bloomberg News.</a>

Carly Reilly

The Creator Economy Emerges

Hasu

Stephane Gosselin

Why You Can't Afford To Ignore MEV

Networking & Lunch

Vlad Tenev is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Robinhood Markets. In 2013, Vlad co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt to democratize investing. Before Robinhood, Vlad started two finance companies in New York City and earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University and M.S. in Mathematics at UCLA. Vlad has been recognized on the Forbes 30 under 30, Inc 30 under 30, and Fortune 40 under 40 lists. He was born in Bulgaria and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area.

Vlad Tenev

Baiju Bhatt is the Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Robinhood Markets. In 2013, Baiju co-founded Robinhood with Vlad Tenev to democratize investing. Before Robinhood, Baiju started two finance companies in NewYork City and earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University. Baiju has been recognized on the Fortune 40 under 40 list. He is the son of Indian immigrants and grew up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

Baiju Bhatt

Keynote: Robinhood

As the CEO of&nbsp;Nansen, Alex drives the growth and adoption of the blockchain data analytics firm to provide crypto traders, hedge funds, institutional investors and VCs with insights into the crypto markets. Alex has over 10 years of experience in data science, management consulting, and cryptocurrencies. His academic background is in artificial intelligence and machine learning.&nbsp;

Alex Svanevik

Building the Information Super-App of Web3

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wang-5166575/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">James Wang</a> is Head of Tokens for Amun. He is focused on building the future of crypto investing. Previously he was an analyst for ARK Invest for six years. He began his career as a tech columnist before moving up to work as editor-in-chief at Nvidia. He resides in New York City and attended UNSW in Australia.

James Wang

Haseeb is a Managing Partner at Dragonfly. He was previously a partner at Metastable Capital, and has a background in software engineering at Airbnb and Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase).

Haseeb Qureshi

Evgeny has 15+ years of experience growing fintech businesses. He has consistently grown market share in Europe’s top fiat exchanges, developed and executed ambitious expansion projects and led agile cross-functional teams. Prior to founding Wintermute, Evgeny built and ran the Optiver’s European ETF business (HFT and OTC) – one of the largest in the EU. Evgeny holds MSc in Finance and EMBA from London Business School.

Evgeny Gaevoy

Michael Ippolito is a co-founder at Blockworks in charge of content and finance.&nbsp; Previously to co-founding Blockworks, Michael was a consultant where he advised mid-market manufacturing-focused companies on operational and capital efficiency as well as M&amp;A strategy.

Michael Ippolito

John Calabrese leads Product at Nansen, and has over 10 years of experience in product management. Previously, he worked at large companies in the finance technology space such as FIS, Fidelity and startups such as Cinch and Monit.



John has roots in traditional finance, earning his CFA and FRM designations, but is most passionate about the future of finance where products are more decentralized, transparent, and efficient through blockchain technology. When not working or trading crypto, John can be found at home spending time with his Shiba Inu, Nutmeg.

John Calabrese

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

Investing in an On-Chain World

Charles is the VP of Product at Ledger, the world leader in digital assets security and self-custody applications, where he is defining the firm’s Web3 strategy and product offering. Prior to this, he was the Head of Crypto at Opera and pioneered the company’s entry into Web3.He holds a degree in Software Engineering from Laval University.

Charles Hamel

Keynote: Ledger

Josh Rosenthal, Ph.D., a former Late Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation historian turned crypto-first investor. A Fulbright Recipient to the Sorbonne’s interdisciplinary think tank (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Josh founded multiple successful startups before starting a crypto-first founders’ fund, the 6ixth Event, and crypto-first family office, Narwhal Ventures. A guest lecturer at Harvard, Hopkins, and MIT, Josh explores how communities are using decentralized technology to reshape our world in what has become known as a Crypto Renaissance.

Josh Rosenthal, Ph.D.

The Crypto Renaissance

Mike Taormina

Lorien is a wannabe polymath who was born in Malaysia while his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego, India…before settling into the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada.



In 1994, at the age of 24, when Lorien’s younger brother Matt asked him to run his burgeoning internet company, Lorien did what any self-respecting lawyer of 6 months would do--he quit. He moved the company from their parent’s basement and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada’s first commercial ISP’s, to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and profitability. The company was then acquired by a large multinational telecommunications provider.



Determined not to be one hit wonders. Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks - a managed web hosting and data-center provider which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was acquired by AT&amp;T Canada. Their third start-up, <a href="http://pingg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">pingg.com</a>, based in New York City, was acquired by 1800-Flowers.



Lorien has also been known to run divisions of Fortune 500 companies (Micron), spearhead the exponential U.S. growth of a UK based tech company (MessageLabs) as Global VP Business Development, serve on the advisory board of a number of start-ups and whip up a mean breakfast of Spanish eggs.

Lorien Gabel

Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and University of Chicago with a Master’s in Computer Science.



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Matt Leisinger

Mara Schmiedt, CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial, oversees business, operations, and strategy. She previously worked at Coinbase as Head of Sales for Coinbase Cloud, managed Business Development at Bison Trails, and served as Strategy Manager at ConsenSys, focusing on Codefi. Mara is a board member at Obol Labs, a leading DVT provider, and a strategic angel investor in over 15 projects. Passionate about open-source technology, she has published research on liquid staking and led a working group with the Ethereum Foundation that developed the Ethereum Launchpad and the first DVT proof of concepts.

Mara Schmiedt

Alison Mangiero is the Acting Executive Director of the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA), an industry alliance advocating for innovation-friendly regulation of the growing proof-of-stake industry. Alison previously founded Tocqueville Group (TQ), which worked with various ecosystem partners around the world to incubate new ventures and build products, open source software, and other public goods for the Tezos ecosystem. Prior to founding TQ she spent a decade in public policy, and has broad experience fundraising and growing membership associations.



A recovering political scientist now focused on the ways blockchain technology will drive social, political, and economic innovation, Alison also currently teaches courses on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy at College of the Holy Cross and is on the Board of Advisors for the University of Richmond's Jepson School of Leadership Studies.&nbsp;

Alison Mangiero

STEALTH STAKING PROJECT UNVEILED

VIP NFT Happy Hour with Dez Bryant

Welcome Happy Hour in the Expo Hall

Grandview Market - Hosted by Avalanche 
Steam Horse Brewing - Hosted by UniX Gaming 
Steel Tie Spirits Co. - Hosted by Bankless DAO

Warehouse District Takeover @ Grandview

General Session

Wednesday, May 18

Robert&nbsp;Leshner&nbsp;is the CEO and Co-founder of Superstate, an asset management firm modernizing investing through tokenized financial products. Prior to founding Superstate,&nbsp;Leshner&nbsp;co-founded Compound Labs in 2017, which developed one of the first DeFi applications.&nbsp;Robert is a venture investor at Robot Ventures and co-hosts&nbsp;The Chopping Block,&nbsp;a crypto-native podcast. He is directly responsible for designing smart contracts such as Governor Bravo and the ERC-7246 token standard, Encumber.&nbsp;



 He has a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Additionally,&nbsp;Robert is the former chair of the San Francisco Revenue Bond Oversight Committee and a CFA charter holder.

Robert Leshner

Stani Kulechov is a thought leader in blockchain technology, smart contracts, decentralized finance and web3 social. From an early age, he became fascinated with using technology as a tool to solve problems, empower people, increase access and enable stronger human connection.&nbsp;



Stani is a pioneer in decentralized finance. While still in college, he created one of the first decentralized, peer-to-peer protocols on Ethereum. He then went on to found Aave Companies, a technology company that develops decentralized protocols, developer tools and consumer applications powered by blockchain, smart contracts and token-based economies.&nbsp;



The Company is best known for creating the Aave Protocol – one of the largest and most popular, fully decentralized liquidity markets in the world. Users of the Aave Protocol supply and borrow cryptocurrencies while earning yield. In 2022, the Company introduced Lens Protocol – the social layer for web3.&nbsp;

Stani Kulechov

Kain Warwick

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

DeFi State of the Union

Taylor Monahan is the founder and CEO of MyCrypto, a security-first Ethereum interface that recently joined the MetaMask family. She has been focused on building awesome products that put the power in people's hands since 2015 and strives to provide a safe and secure experience for both new and veteran inhabitants in the space.

Taylor Monahan

The Infrastructure that Gets us to the Endgame

Mihailo Bjelic received his MSc in CS from the University of Belgrade. Prior to entering Web3/blockchain industry, he co-founded an AI/ML-powered platform for automotive industry and several other smaller startups and side projects. In 2017, he decided to join the Web3 movement full-time, primarily as a researcher interested in Ethereum scaling and multi-chain paradigms. In parallel with his work, he became one of the prominent Ethereum proponents and community members. In 2019, he started working on Polygon and conceptualized its architecture, vision and brand. In 2020, he joined hands with the Matic Network team and they have been working together on Polygon since then.

Mihailo Bjelic

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

Illia Polosukhin is Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a decentralized developer platform powered by a sharded smart contract blockchain. NEAR’s vision of a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain began in 2018 when they couldn't find a protocol that met the needs of builders. NEAR Protocol launched its mainnet in 2020 and is focused on scaling to global mainstream adoption. Illia has more than 10 years of industry experience, including 3 years at Google where he was a major TensorFlow contributor and managed the team building question-answering capabilities for the core Google search, as well as an author of several notable research papers. Illia has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, TIME, Wired, New York Magazine, Forbes, and TechCrunch.

Illia Polosukhin

Harry Kalodner is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Offchain Labs where he leads the engineering team. Before the company he attended Princeton as a PhD candidate where his research explored economics, anonymity, and incentive compatibility of cryptocurrencies. When not up at 3:00am writing code, Harry occasionally sleeps.

Harry Kalodner

Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo is the COO at Ava Labs, where he initially led the company’s DeFi and Developer Relations efforts. In his expanded role, Luigi focuses on ensuring the successful execution of Ava Labs’ vision to tokenize the world’s assets. As a recognized thought leader in the crypto space, Luigi is instrumental in shaping the industry's evolution and driving innovative solutions that redefine how value is recognized and exchanged.



Luigi began his career in traditional finance, spending six years as an institutional trader at Citigroup, where he specialized in credit and equity products. Following his time at Citigroup, Luigi transitioned to consulting, dedicating two years to valuation and M&amp;A advisory, helping companies navigate complex financial landscapes. In 2018, Luigi founded a venture-backed decentralized application (dapp), deepening his involvement in the crypto space, where he has been active since 2016. His blend of experience in traditional and decentralized finance equips him to bridge the gap between these sectors.

Luigi D'Onorio Demeo

The Scaling Wars - Where will DeFi Live?

Nic Carter

Sam Kazemian is the founder of Frax Finance, a DeFi stablecoin protocol that bills itself as the decentralized central bank of crypto. Frax Finance also develops the modular rollup, Fraxtal. Before founding Frax, Sam was cofounder of IQ.wiki, a decentralized knowledge base on the blockchain.

Sam Kazemian

Catherine Gu is a Senior Director as Visa’s Global Head of CBDC and Tokenization, leading Visa’s digital currency program, building blockchain tokenization solutions with financial institutions, central banks and global technology companies. She also leads Visa’s crypto protocol team, collaborating with external blockchain partners to drive research and infrastructure exploration. Prior to Visa, Catherine worked at J.P. Morgan and hedge fund asset management company Man Group. She spent 2 years on stablecoin research while studying at Stanford University with Prof. Dan Boneh. She also worked at 2 crypto startups: Anchorage and Gauntlet. Catherine read Engineering at Stanford University, and Economics at the University of Cambridge.

Catherine Gu

Kate Rooney is a technology reporter based out of CNBC’s San Francisco bureau, with a focus on financial technology, payments and venture capital. She also writes and reports for CNBC’s digital platforms.



&nbsp;Rooney joined CNBC in 2015 as a news associate before working as a producer for CNBC’s “Squawk Box” (M-F, 6AM-9AM ET) and was most recently a markets reporter for CNBC.com.



&nbsp;She graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in communication and earned her master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where she received an Eric Lund Global Reporting and Research Grant to film and produce a documentary in the Philippines. She also worked as a multimedia reporter in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2015 with a focus on housing and politics.

Kate Rooney

Sam MacPherson, co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs, significantly contributes to Spark, a leading platform in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. His extensive experience with the MakerDAO Protocol Engineering team provided him with a deep understanding of the technical and economic intricacies of the Maker ecosystem. Sam leverages this expertise to drive innovations at Phoenix Labs, influencing the broader DeFi landscape.

Sam MacPherson

Joao Reginatto

Stablecoins! Crypto's Killer App

Nikita Ovchinnik￼￼￼￼￼￼

Jacquelyn Melinek is a senior crypto reporter at TechCrunch based in New York City. She was previously a crypto reporter for Blockworks covering DeFi, DAOs and crypto venture capital funding and prior to that covered energy markets for S&amp;P Global Platts and Bloomberg News.

Jacquelyn Melinek

Vanessa Grellet

M&A in DeFi: To Build or Buy?

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

Mona is Founder and CEO at Avantgarde. She is also President of MAMA (Multichain Asset Managers Association), Board Member KR1 Plc and ex-Board Member at Near Foundation. As a former star-trader at Goldman Sachs, Mona was promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 and made the “Top 30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes Magazine in 2011. She moved to Geneva-based macro fund Jabre Capital in 2011, before deciding in 2014 that the future of finance lay in blockchain technology. She founded Enzyme in 2016, which today is the leading on-chain asset management protocol with $160M+ AUM.

Mona El Isa

Jake is the Head of DeFi at crypto market maker GSR. As the Head of DeFi, Jake leads product development for GSR's DeFi liquidity, trading platform, and blockchain infrastructure. He also leads GSR's venture capital efforts and expansion into new markets. GSR is an active, multi-stage investor in more than 100 leading companies and protocols in the crypto/Web3 industry. Prior to GSR, he spent over four years as a Senior Vice President and GM of Venn at Two Sigma.

Jake Dwyer

Glenn Barber is the Head of Sales &amp; Business Development, Americas at&nbsp;Copper.co. – a pioneering digital assets custody and settlement provider. Prior to joining&nbsp;Copper, Glenn led sales as a consultant at FalconX, an institutional digital asset brokerage, and he was also the Chief Institutional Officer at Voyager Digital, a publicly-traded holding company whose subsidiaries operate a crypto-asset platform to trade crypto assets. Glenn also has over 25 years experience in global capital markets, and was a Managing Director in Equities at Deutsche Bank and Barclays.



Glenn holds a Masters in international Management and Finance from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BSc in Business Administration and Management.

Glenn Barber

Is Wall Street Coming for DeFi?

Expo Hall & Lunch

Happy Hour in Expo Hall

Rocco’s Tacos - Hosted by Nansen 
Clematis Social - Hosted by Galaxy Digital 
Roxy’s - Hosted by Blockworks 
Hilton "Deep Liquidity" Pool Party (no swimming!) - Hosted by Blockworks (6:00 - 11:00 PM)

Clematis Street Bar Crawl

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

Johann is the Product Lead for MetaMask Institutional. Since launching the product in February 2021, Johann has managed the product strategy and roadmap, design and operations, and also crypto custodian integrations. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Johann spent time as a Fintech founder, Director of Product for a Pan-European Robo-advisor, and Global Macro Portfolio Manager, where he helped to start and build the business.

Johann Bornman

Rachel Mayer is VP of Product at Circle, responsible for overseeing product design and user research for the Circle Account, go-to-market and growth strategies teams. Since joining Circle in 2017, her leadership in launching a core suite of APIs and the Circle Account has been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value.



Mayer joined Circle through its acquisition of Trigger Finance, a company she had co-founded. Prior to Trigger Finance, Mayer had extensive experience in digital currency and financial services, including as a trader at JP Morgan where she ran the FX e-commerce platform for emerging market currencies and rates. She is a recent honoree on the “40 Under 40” list from Fortune. 



She earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in computer science from Cornell University. Outside of work, Miami-based Mayer enjoys spending time with her two young children and adopted dog.

Rachel Mayer

Luca leads MakerDAO’s Lending Oversight, focusing on making of MakerDAO the true lender of last resort of the DeFi ecosystem. This means building the bridge between real-world and DeFi, as well as developing any protocol-to-protocol use case. Luca publishes his own research on <a href="http://dirtroads.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dirtroads.substack.com</a> and is an advisor for Cherry Venture’s crypto investments. Prior to joining the DeFi revolution, he has been for 15 years a banker and investor in financial services companies. Luca holds an MBA (with hons) from London Business School, and a MSc and BA in mathematics and economics from Bocconi University.

Luca Prosperi

Joseph Edwards is the Head of Financial Strategy for Solrise Group, a development company building on the Solana blockchain, with products including the Solrise Finance asset management protocol, the Solflare wallet, and the Solrise Pulse ecosystem of permissioned products. Previously, he was Head of Research for London-based brokerage Enigma Securities. Joseph is also an acclaimed professional esports coach and analyst, working with a number of notable organisations including TSM and Team Liquid.

Joseph Edwards

Nuri is Director of Product at BitGo, responsible for onboarding new blockchains, building new capabilities for DeFi and NFTs, and continuing to grow WBTC. Most recently, he led BitGo's MetaMask Institutional Integration. Prior to joining BitGo, Nuri spent time as a product manager in Silicon Valley startups, such as Affirm.

Nuri Chang

Unlocking Institutional DeFi

Recently listed as one of the top-25 crypto executives to watch in 2022, Asaf Meir is Founder and CEO of Solidus Labs. Before founding Solidus in 2018, Meir spent a decade leading complex technological and financial products for various firms, including Microsoft and Goldman Sachs’ equities trading desk.

Asaf Meir

Nisa Amoils is Managing Partner at A100x Ventures and Advisor to Dragonfly Capital where she,invests in early stage Blockchain/Crypto/Web 3 companies.  She has been in VC for 11 years and investing in blockchain since 2016, with multiple unicorns and exits. She  previously worked for Scout Ventures and used to practice securities and corporate law at Anderson Kill. She serves on Boards such as Wharton Entrepreneurship, Global Digital Assets and Crypto Association, Nightfood (NGTF). She has been named Business Insider’s Women VC’s to watch, 2021 systematic leader in asset management, top 100 Women in Fintech, and top 50 global Blockchain thinkers. She is an occasional host and commentator at Defiance Media and Forbes.  She holds a business degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nisa Amoils

Raising the Standard for Security and Integrity in DeFi

Katherine Wu&nbsp;is a Venture Partner at Archetype, a venture capital firm focused on leading early investments in high potential crypto startups. Most recently, Katherine was the Senior Lead on the Coinbase Ventures team, where she led investments on behalf of Coinbase and scaled the investment team. During her tenure at Coinbase, Katherine oversaw a record-breaking year in deal-making, putting Coinbase Ventures among the most active corporate venture funds in operation. Katherine joined the Coinbase Ventures team from Notation Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on software investments. Prior to Notation, Katherine was the first business hire at Messari, a leading provider of crypto market intelligence products.&nbsp;



Over the years, Katherine has also advised and worked with a number of top tier crypto protocols and companies on issues spanning from investment strategies to go-to-market and other operational processes.&nbsp;

Katherine Wu

Georgi Ivanov, CFA, is the VP of Strategy, Risk and Operations of the leading digital assets institution Nexo. In this role, Georgi leads growth initiatives focused on blockchain solutions and capabilities that capitalize on the synergistic touch points with traditional Consumer Finance and Capital Markets products and services. Georgi boasts 20+ years of experience in Corporate Finance, Investment Management and Capital Markets, and has held leadership roles at various financial institutions and hedge funds, including Wells Fargo and Bank of America. He received his MBA from Duke University and holds two B.S.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Georgi Ivanov

Scott Byron is the Head of Venture at AscendEX focused primarily on early-stage token projects. AscendEX Ventures invests in different layer-1 and layer-2 ecosystems, as well as across different narratives emerging in the space.

Scott Byron

David Abner is the Global Head of Business Development at Gemini. In this role, David oversees the expansion of Gemini’s institutional business and leads the relationships with major institutional partners and high-net-worth individuals on a global scale. Prior to joining Gemini, David spent the last 20 years focusing on driving the growth of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) industry. He was instrumental in bringing ETFs from a fringe arbitrage trading tool to an investment product utilized by institutional asset managers, reaching more than 7 trillion in AuM. His most recent book, The ETF Handbook (Wiley Finance) describes the inner workings of ETFs and how to achieve efficient portfolio implementation and execution.

David Abner

Kevin leads initiatives and investments at the intersection of real-world asset lending and DeFi. Prior to joining BlockTower, Kevin was at Harvard Business School (before dropping out to pursue crypto full time), directing operations at Capchase, and leading a structured credit trading desk at Citigroup. Most importantly, he avidly believes that distributed ledger technology can make finance fairer and more just for all.

Kevin Miao

Crypto Exchanges: The Banks for the New Economy

Eric Peters is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of One River Asset Management and its subsidiary, One River Digital Asset Management. One River is an innovative investment manager dedicated to delivering high-conviction discretionary and quantitative strategies that help its clients build superior portfolios. One River sees the world in a period of major economic and political transition, with the investment landscape shifting in ways that will make the coming ten years look profoundly different from the past decade. Its strategies are built to profit from this dynamic environment while providing strong diversification benefits to traditional investment portfolios. Prior to founding One River in 2013, Eric served as Chairman of Grant Capital Partners, a $1.25 billion discretionary global macro hedge fund. In that role, Eric focused on thematic investment opportunities and was responsible for all non-investment activities including the direct oversight of the Chief Risk Officer. Over the course of his career, Eric has held various positions that include portfolio manager for Peloton Partners, proprietary trader for both Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of a TH Lee Putnam funded technology firm. Eric travels extensively, exchanging ideas, debating policy, and identifying investment opportunities with many of the world’s top investment managers, economists, strategists, political consultants, academics, scientists, and business leaders. The content of those discussions often finds its way into his weekly investment letter - Weekend Notes - which is read by investment professionals who directly deploy over $1trln in alternative assets.

Eric Peters

As an experienced business builder and innovator in Financial Services, Brett has accelerated revenue growth with institutional clients and mobilized FinTech companies. At Coinbase, Brett is making connections between finance 1.0 and the crypto economy. Coinbase is focused on the continued institutionalization of crypto. This includes continuing to expand the institutional client base, building out the Sales team, introducing new features and services that institutional investors expect, and continuing to educate the institutional community about crypto as an asset class and its role within a diversified portfolio. Previously, as the Global Head of Sales at Barclays, Brett hired and developed large teams while incubating and launching multiple lines of business. Brett pioneered the Digital role across sales &amp; trading adopting new technologies and transforming existing platforms, including the creation of a digital bank prototype.Brett is currently on the Advisory Board of <a href="http://eightfold.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Eightfold.ai</a>. helping them scale their AI based hiring and retention platform for Financial Services.In earlier experience, Brett held leadership roles in sales, trading, and structuring at JP Morgan, innovating credit derivatives and structuring platforms.

Brett Tejpaul

The Collision of Macro and Digital Assets

Miles’ extensive knowledge of digital asset taxation and tax procedure helps TaxBit continuously refine its products to maintain its role as a leading software company in the area of digital asset taxation, accounting, and information reporting.



Miles previously spent over 15 years working as an attorney for the IRS. As an attorney for the IRS, Miles provided the IRS with advice on examination and collection matters, and represented the IRS in court.&nbsp; Miles conducted trials involving a variety of tax issues ranging from financial products and retirement accounts to complex abusive tax schemes. He has extensive experience with tax litigation and tax procedure. &nbsp;



Miles spent his last three years as counsel to the IRS as a leading expert on digital asset tax issues, including the tax treatment of digital assets, examination techniques, information gathering, data interpretation, and tax calculations.

Miles Fuller

Perianne Boring is the founder and CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world's largest trade association representing the blockchain industry. The Chamber’s mission is to promote the acceptance and use of digital assets and blockchain-based technologies. Working with policymakers, regulatory agencies and industry, the Chamber advocates for a pro-growth policy environment that fosters job creation, innovation, and investment.



Perianne was named one of "America’s Top 50 Women in Tech" by Forbes and one of the "10 Most Influential People in Blockchain" by CoinDesk. She appears regularly in the financial media to share insights on digital asset and blockchain innovations and public policy discussions. Prior to forming the Chamber, Perianne served as a television anchor for an international finance program that ran in more than 100 countries and reached over 650 million viewers. She began her career as a legislative analyst in the U.S. House of Representatives, advising on finance, economics, tax, and healthcare policy.

Perianne Boring

Talking Taxes: Answering Some of Crypto’s Biggest Questions

Darius&nbsp;is co-founder and CIO at&nbsp;QCP&nbsp;Capital, a full-suite crypto saset trading firm headquartered in Singapore. Formerly a Macro Trader at&nbsp;Dymon&nbsp;Asia Capital, he spent years trading cross-asset derivatives with a focus on Asian FX/NDFs and model-based strategies before moving on to manage the Asia FX &amp; Bonds book at BNP Paribas in New York.&nbsp;



In addition to institutional trading,&nbsp;Darius&nbsp;has a keen interest in financial modeling. He has created and implemented asset allocation models for sovereign wealth funds and also developed predictive models for Asian currencies, many of which operate under managed float regimes. He brings this and his capital markets experience to crypto-asset trading. He has a particular passion for crypto-economics and has given advice to a number of crypto projects, including Algorand and Terra, on trading structures and strategies.

Darius Sit

As founding partner and COO, Cynthia oversees the business operation and leads global business development and sales. Previously Investment Director at Bitmain Technologies, Cynthia focused on investments in blockchain technology and decentralized applications.



Prior to venturing into crypto, Cynthia was Vice President at Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX), responsible for derivatives product development and institutional sales. She started her career in HK as a commodities trader.

Cynthia Wu

Eric currently spends his time and energy on all things Web3 as a builder and investor.  His current area of focus is digital assets and NFTs ability to unlock new economic structures in the real world as well as digital metaverses.  He spent the past year diving deep into NFTs and was an early investor in TopShot, ZED, Bored Ape Yacht Club and Punks Comic. While the returns have been astronomical, it has also led to a bottoms up approach to make angel investments in Web3 companies based on a deep domain perspective.  Prior to pursuing Web3, Eric was the Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Personal Bond Management (PBM) at Fidelity Investments. In this role, Eric created a new business to manage individual bond portfolios at scale. He founded the business in 2015 and launched to the public in 2017.  By March 2021, PBM grew to $18B in assets, across 23,000 clients and executing 1,500 trades per day with a team of only five people. Prior to assuming this position in January 2015, Mr. Golden held various other roles within the fixed income division, including research analyst, associate research analyst, and research associate. In these positions, he was responsible for covering not-for-profit hospitals, senior living, utilities, transportation, and tobacco credits for bond and money market funds. He has been in the financial industry since joining Fidelity full time in 2004. Mr. Golden earned his Bachelor of Science degree in corporate finance and accounting, with a minor in information technology, from Bentley University. He is also a CFA® charterholder.

Eric Golden

Eric is a trader at CMS, a principal investment firm that operates in the cryptocurrency space. CMS deals in both liquid and illiquid investment strategies.

Eric Qiu

The Market Structure Special: Leverage, Capital Efficiency & Risk Management

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

Jordan Nof is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners L.P. and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. He has led many of the firm’s investments including Lemonade, Bird, Coinbase, Alma, Sunday, and Wheel. He currently serves on the board of directors of Alma, Sunday, and Wheel.



Prior to Tusk Venture Partners, Jordan spent six years as a Director at Blackstone, where he focused on the development of the firm’s corporate venture capital portfolio. During that time, Jordan focused on investing in early-stage technology companies that could accelerate operations across Blackstone and the firm’s underlying portfolio companies.&nbsp;



Before joining Blackstone, Jordan spent four years in the institutional investment management division at AllianceBernstein. During that time, he worked with many of the firm’s largest global institutional sub-advisory relationships.



Jordan received an M.B.A. from Rollins Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of Florida State University where he received a B.S. in Finance. He is based out of the firm’s New York office.

Jordan Nof

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

Regulatory Clouds on the Horizon

Institutional

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

Angela Dalton founded Signum Growth Capital, an M&amp;A Advisory and capital raising firm, which also invests, with a focus on the intersection of video gaming, art, esports, music, blockchain, crypto and the emergence of digital economies in “the Metaverse.” She served as a Managing Director for three investment banking firms - UBS, Evercore and Guggenheim Partners - and has 20 years of experience in Technology, Media and Telecom capital markets. At Evercore, she was an initial investor and Co-Founder of the Equities business in 2010, building out its Research, Sales and Trading teams prior to Evercore’s acquisition of ISI. Signum Growth Capital serves as Lead Advisor to ARK Invest in the US and to the Web3 Foundation in Zug, Switzerland. Angie serves on the Advisory Boards of Mythical Games, a next generation video gaming company in LA, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance in NYC, and Perpetual Altruism in London, UK. She serves as a Venture Partner for Griffin Gaming Partners and a Nexus Partner for Gaingels. Education: BS and a BA from The University of Kansas, MBA from The University of Chicago.

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