Blockworks Digital Asset Summit 2025 - New York | Blockworks | 18 March 2025 | North Javits, 445 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001, USA

Who you can expect to meet at the event:

Allocators:
• Join global sovereigns, endowments, pensions, foundations, and family offices as they explore this new asset class.

Asset Managers:
• Meet with VCs, hedge funds, private equity, global investment firms, and the likes as they build crypto strategies across their portfolios.

Financial Institutions:
• Engage with banks, brokerages, credit unions, payment processors, fintechs, and insurance providers as they develop internal digital asset strategies.

2025 Speakers

Mohamed El-Erian
Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz

Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman, Strategy

Cathie D. Wood
Founder, CEO & CIO, ARK Invest

Richard Teng
CEO, Binance

Mike Novogratz
Founder & CEO, Galaxy Digital

Anatoly Yakovenko
Co-Founder & CEO, Solana; Solana Labs

Caitlin Long
Founder & CEO, Custodia Bank

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)
Majority Whip, Financial Services Committee, US House of Representatives

Shervin Pishevar
Entrepreneur & Investor, Sherpa Capital

Brad Garlinghouse
CEO, Ripple

Dan Tapiero
Founder, CEO & CIO; Chairman, 1Roundtable Partners (1RT) & 10T Holdings (10T); Zenrock

Kristin Smith
CEO, Blockchain Association

Wiley Nickel
United States Representative

Amy Oldenburg
Head of Emerging Markets Equity, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Pascal Gauthier
Chairman & CEO, Ledger

Eric Peters
Founder, CEO & CIO, One River Asset Management & Coinbase Asset Management

Mike Cagney
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Figure Technologies

Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder, Chainlink

Sandy Kaul
Senior Vice President, Digital Asset & Industry Advisory Services, Franklin Templeton

Bill Barhydt
Founder & CEO, Abra

Eric Balchunas
Senior ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

Kyle Samani
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Anthony Scaramucci
Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge

David Mercer
CEO, LMAX Group

Robbie Mitchnick
Head of Digital Assets, BlackRock

Gautam Sharma
CEO & CIO, Brevan Howard Digital

Joseph Lubin
Founder & CEO, Consensys

MacKenzie Sigalos
Tech Reporter, CNBC

Matthew Sigel
Head of Digital Assets Research, VanEck

Steven Goldfeder
CEO, Offchain Labs

William Benattar
Technology Investor, Marshall Wace

Matt Hougan
Chief Investment Officer, Bitwise

Jonah Van Bourg
Co-Host of 1000x

Avi Felman
Trader & Co-Host of 1000x

Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi

Catherine Gu
Global Head of CBDC & Tokenization, Visa

Mike Belshe
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, BitGo

Guy Young
Founder, Ethena Labs

Leah Wald
President & CEO, Sol Strategies

Joseph Wang
CIO, Principal & Author, Monetary Macro; FedGuy.com; "Central Banking 101"

Austin Campbell
CEO & Adjunct Professor, WSPN USA; NYU Stern

Rich Widmann
Global Head of Strategy for Web3, Google Cloud

Blue Macellari
Head of Digital Assets, T. Rowe Price

Ray Hindi
CEO & CIO, L1D

Vance Spencer
Co-Founder, Framework Ventures

Chris Perkins
Managing Partner & President, CoinFund

Michelle Noyes
Managing Director, Head of Americas, AIMA

Sid Powell
CEO & Co-Founder, Maple Finance

Santiago Roel Santos
Web3 Investor, ex-ParaFi Capital

Marco Santori
Chief Legal Officer, Kraken

Sébastien Derivaux
Chef & Co-Founder, Steakhouse Financial

Keerthi Moudgal
Head of Product, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

James Seyffart
Research Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

Michael Anderson
Co-Founder, Framework Ventures

Mike Bucella
Cofounder, Neoclassic Capital

Quinn Thompson
Founder & CIO, Lekker Capital

May Michelson
Director of Sales Americas, GK8

Robert Leshner
CEO & Co-Founder, Superstate

Matt Homer
General Partner, The Department of XYZ

Stani Kulechov
Founder, Aave Labs

Alex Thorn
Head of Firmwide Research, Galaxy Digital

Pranav Kanade
Portfolio Manager, VanEck's Digital Assets Alpha Fund

James Newman
Co-Managing & General Partner, Republic

Ian DeBode
Chief Strategy Officer, Ondo Finance

Jack O'Holleran
CEO & Co-Founder, SKALE Labs

Ryan Watkins
Co-Founder, Syncracy Capital

Rajeev Bamra
Head of Strategy, Digital Economy, Moody's Ratings

Michael Selig
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Diana Biggs
Partner, 1kx

Jeff Park
Head of Alpha Strategies & Portfolio Manager, Bitwise Asset Management

Raghav Chopra
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tephra Digital

Ryan Silva
Head of Trading, Borderless

Ladan Stewart
Partner, White & Case

Tyler Neville
Partner, Corriente Advisors

Greg Genega
Audit Innovation & Manager, KPMG

Solomon Tesfaye
Head of Capital Markets, Aptos Labs

Karl-Martin Ahrend
Founding Partner, Areta

Rob Hadick
General Partner, Dragonfly

Paul Brody
Global Blockchain Leader, EY

Jazzi Cooper
Head of DeFi Product, Ripple

David Kalk
Founder & CIO, Reflexive Capital

Ambre Soubiran
CEO, Kaiko

Jake Chervinsky
Chief Legal Officer, Variant

Meltem Demirors
Founder & General Partner, Crucible

Marshall Beard
Chief Operating Officer, Gemini

Joe Cutler
Partner, Perkins Cole

Chris Tyrer
Vice President, Head of Institutional, Bullish

Staci Warden
CEO, Algorand Foundation

Chris Solarz
CIO, Digital Assets at Amitis Capital

Pete Rizzo
The Bitcoin Historian

Michael Higgins
Global Head of Business Development, Hidden Road

Shyam Nagarajan
COO, Hedera

Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder & CEO, Chainanalysis

John Glover
Chief Investment Officer, Ledn

Yorke Rhodes III
Director of Strategy & Transformation | Traceability & Blockchain, Microsoft

Biser Dimitrov
Head of Digital Asset Technology, Citi

Matt Higginson
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Omar Naeem
Founder & CINO, Lw3

Jonté Harrel
CFO, ZenLedger

Jeremy Fox-Geen
Chief Financial Officer, Circle

Mike Cahill
Co-Founder & CEO, Douro Labs

Rune Christensen
Co-founder, Sky

Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, Zero Hash

Manoj Vasudevan
Director & Portfolio Manager, KAUST Investment Management Company

Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo
Ava Labs

Jon Charbonneau
DBA

Nathan McCauley
CEO & Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital

Tom Armstrong
Head of Compliance Advisory, TRM Labs

Markus Infanger
SVP, RippleX

John Patrick Mullin
CEO & Co-Founder, MANTRA

Eric Chen
CEO, Injective Foundation

Hadley Stern
Chief Commercial Officer, Marinade

Shawn Douglass
Co-founder & CEO, Amberdata

Kevin de Patoul
Co-founder & CEO, Keyrock

Sumit Sharma
Vice President, NAV

Pedro Gomes
Founder & Director, WalletConnect

Alex Cordover
CEO, Tradable

Alex Gluchowski
Co-Founder & Creator, ZKsync

Yves La Rose
Founder & CEO, EOS Network Foundation

Dean Skurka
President & CEO, WonderFi

Lucas Bruder
CEO, Jito Labs

Ubair Javaid
Co-Founder & CEO, Nomyx

Clarisse Hagège
Co-founder & CEO, Dfns

Aidan Larkin
Co-founder & CEO, Asset Reality

David Pakman
Managing Partner & Head of Venture Investments, CoinFund

John Egan
Head of Crypto, Stripe

Diego Fernández
Founder & CEO, Sovra

Arthur Cheong
Founder, CEO & CIO, DeFiance Capital

Amanda Tuminelli
Chief Legal Officer, DeFi Education Fund

Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Digital Asset

Simone Maini
Chief Executive Officer, Elliptic

Chris Lawn
Chief Executive Officer, Elwood Technologies

Konstantin Richter
CEO & Co-Founder, Blockdaemon

Brad Feinstein
Head of Web3/Crypto & Venture Capital, North America, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Charlie You
Co-Founder & CTO, rwa.xyz

Miguel Morel
Co-founder & CEO, Arkham

John Van Marle
Managing Partner, Theta Capital

Camila Russo
Founder, The Defiant

Thomas Chladek
Managing Director, Forteus

Nicholas Carmi
Head of Exchange, Figure Markets

Timothy Chen
Global Head of Strategy, Mantle

Hans Morris
Managing Partner, Nyca Partners

Tim Renew
Deputy CEO, BCB Group

Alan Burt
Chairman, Redbelly Network

Vivek Raman
Founder, Etherealize

Amar Kuchinad
Group Chief Executive Officer, Copper.co

Rich Rines
Contributor, CORE

Shaaran Lakshminarayanan
Founder, Multipli

Serafin Lion Engel
Founder & CEO, StakeKit

Michael Sonnenshein
COO, Securitize

Alisa DiCaprio
Director of Industry Engagement, Swift

Giang Bui
Head of U.S. Equities & Exchange-Traded Products (ETP), Nasdaq

Jason Yanowitz
Co-Founder, Blockworks

Michael Ippolito
Co-Founder, Blockworks

Ben Strack
Senior Reporter, Blockworks

Casey Wagner
Senior Reporter, Blockworks

Dan Smith
Data Analytics Manager, Blockworks

David Rodriguez
Research Services Manager, Blockworks

David Hoffman
Co-Founder, Bankless

Felix Jauvin
Podcast Host, Blockworks

Jack Kubinec
Reporter & Podcast Host, Blockworks

Marc Thomas Arjoon
Research Analyst, Blockworks

Ryan Connor
Research Manager, Blockworks

2025 Sponsors

RUBY SPONSORS:
• Keyrock
• Lmax | Digital
• Marinade
• Skale
• ZKsync

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• 1Roundtable
• Algorand Foundation
• Aptos
• Arkham
• Circle
• Pyth
• Ripple

EMERALD SPONSORS:
• Avalanche
• Chainalysis
• Dfns
• EOS Network
• Globalstake
• Ledn
• RootstockLabs
• ZeroHash

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Amberdata
• Anchorage Digital
• BCBGroup
• Blockdaemon
• BNY
• Bullish
• Core
• Copper.co
• Elliptic
• Elwood
• Galaxy
• Gemini
• GK8
• Hedera
• Injective
• Kaiko
• Kast
• Mantle
• Mantra
• NAV
• Nomyx
• Perkins Coie
• Redbelly
• Stakekit
• TRM
• WalletConnect
• ZenLedger

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Alpha Liquid
• AWS
• BitGo
• Certik
• Chainlink
• Definitive
• Endaoment
• Entendre Finance
• Euler
• Everstake
• Fordefi
• Hachen
• Jito
• Komainu
• KPMG
• Ledgible
• Decentralize Trust
• Lockton
• Monetaforge
• RD TEchnologies
• Sadis
• Securitize
• Stand with Crypto
• Talos
• Vaneek