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2025 Agenda
November 12, 2025
Institutional Stage
Doors Open & Breakfast Sponsored by Haruko
8:15 am
Opening Remarks
8:55 - 9:00 am
Event-Driven Macro in a Digital Asset World
9:00 -9:30 am
Joris Delanoue
Fairmint
CEO & Co-Founder
Moderator
Jeff Park
ProCap BTC
CIO
Jean-Marie Mognetti
CoinShares
CEO
Blue Macellari
T. Rowe Price
Head of Digital Assets Strategy
Ilya Khazens
LMAX Digital
Director, Institutional Sales
Lessons from the Last Cycle: What Survives the Shakeout?
9:30 - 10:00 am
Jordan Knecht
GlobalStake
Global Head of Institutional Strategy & Partnerships
Moderator
Francesco Filia
Fasanara Capital
Founder & CEO
Randy Little
50T Funds
Partner
Chris Zuehlke
DRW / Cumberland
Partner / Global Head
Benjamin Tsai
Wave Digital Assets
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Co-Founder & President
Tokenization Reality Check: Separating Use Cases from Marketing
10:00 - 10:30 am
Jorgen Ouaknine
Euroclear
Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets
Moderator
Rajeev Bamra
Moody's Ratings
Global Head of Strategy, Digital Economy
Ben Forman
Parafi Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
Lior Lamesh
GK8 by Galaxy
CEO
Justin Cohen
JPMorganChase
Managing Director
The Valuation Problem: How Do You Price a Protocol?
10:30 - 11:00 am
Arnav Pagidyala
Bankless Ventures
Partner
Moderator
Andrew Moss
Jefferies LLC
Head of Digital Assets Research
David Sedacca
Polkadot Capital Group & Parity Technologies
Lead & Director of Finance at Parity
Jascha Samadi
Greenfield Capital
Founding Partner
Jan-Philip Grabs
Areta
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Founding Partner
DATs vs. ETFs: Competing Gateways for Institutional Capital
11:00 - 11:30 am
Cactus Raazi
B2C2
CEO
Moderator
Jaime Leverton
Reserve One
CEO
Brian Rudick
UPEXI, INC.
Chief Strategy Officer
Scott Gralnick
Marinade
Head of Institutional growth (Americas) for Marinade Labs
Matthew Hougan
Bitwise Asset Management
|
Chief Investment Officer
Fireside Chat with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
11:30-12:00 PM
Kristy Littman
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP
Partner
Moderator
Hester Peirce
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commissioner
Exit Liquidity in Crypto: IPOs, Tokens, or Bust?
12:00 -12:30 pm
Quynh Ho
GSR
Head of Venture Investments
Moderator
Andrew Durgee
Republic
Co-CEO
Paul McCaffrey
KBW - A Stifel Company
Co-Head of Digital Assets
Minh Do
Animoca Brands
COO
Sachin Jaitly
Morgan Creek Digital
General Partner
Building Moats: How Altcoin DATs Differentiate Beyond Access
12:30 - 1:00 PM
TBA
Moderator
Mark Wendland
Tharimmune
CEO
Guy Hirsch
Kraken
VP & Global Managing Director
Scott Lawin
Pantera Capital
President
Sal Ternullo
SovereignAI
CEO
Lunch sponsored by Cantina
12:00-1:30 pm
The Next Wave of Crypto Unicorns: Where Do They Come From?
1:00 - 1:30 PM
Mike Giampapa
Galaxy Ventures
Partner
Moderator
Uma Roy
Succinct
Co-Founder & CEO
Travis Scher
North Island Ventures
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Richard Shorten
Silvermine Capital Advisors
Founder & General Partner
Beyond Spot and Futures: What Products Do Institutions Really Want?
1:30-2:00 PM
Christophe de la Celle
Selini
Chief Commercial Officer
Moderator
John D'Agostino
Coinbase Institutional
Head of Strategy
Melvin Deng
QCP
CEO
Christian Davies
Relm Insurance
Global Head of Distribution and Innovation
Nicolas Cary
Blockchain.com
Co-Founder and Chairman
Evgeny Gaevoy
Wintermute
Founder & CEO
The Evolution of Institutional Adoption: Defining the Next Era of Finance
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Elizabeth Napolitano
CNBC
Markets Reporter
Moderator
Samara Cohen
BlackRock
Global Head of Market Development
Jan van Eck
VanEck
CEO
The Future of Stablecoins: Infrastructure vs. Profit Generator
2:30-3:00 PM
Thomas Sullivan
DTCC
Managing Director
Moderator
David Markley
XSY
COO
Anthony Bassili
Coinbase Asset Management
President
Raja Chakravorti
Stellar Development Foundation
Chief Business Officer
Evan Feng
CoinFund
Partner & Director of Research
Decentralization Is Dead: Do Institutions Even Care?
3:00-3:30 PM
John Kikko
Hedera Foundation
Director of BD, Financial Markets
Moderator
Grace Chao
Citi
North America Lead, Markets Digital Assets
Alex Devnew
Road Capital
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Logan Jastremski
Frictionless Capital
Managing Partner
Danny Sursock
Archetype
Partner
Interoperability or Fragmentation: The Tokenization Challenge
3:30-4:00 PM
Kathleen Wrynn
Invesco
Global Head of Digital Assets
Moderator
Christine Moy
Apollo
Partner, Head of Digital Assets, Data & AI Strategy
Andrew Czupek
Northern Trust
Americas Head of Digital Asset Innovation & Advocacy
Charles Michallet
Societe Generale
US Head of Digital Assets
Will Peck
WisdomTree
Head of Digital Assets
Passive Flows, Active Impact: Do ETFs and DATs Distort Crypto Markets?
4:00-4:30 PM
Josh Hecht
Intrinsic Capital
Managing Partner
Moderator
Shiliang Tang
Monarq Asset Management
Managing Partner and CEO
Maxime Seiler
STS Digital
Co-Founder & CEO
Matt Zhang
Hivemind Capital Partners
Founder and Managing Partner
Eric Rose
StoneX Digital
Head of Digital Asset Execution
The Beta Problem: Are Crypto Hedge Funds Just Levered Index Trackers?
4:30-5:00 PM
Vir Anand
Kronos Research
Business Development and Partnerships
Moderator
Matt Shapiro
Multicoin Capital
Partner
Colin Jones
Outerlands Capital
Founder & CIO
Mitchell Ulman
Numeus
Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Max Williams
Runa Digital Assets
Co-Founder, President
Purvi Maniar
Laser Digital
Chief Legal Officer
Moderator
Michael Ashby
AlgoQuant
CEO and CIO
Adam Schlegel
Maelstrom
Partner
Avi Felman
Radhan Road
Partner
Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary
Grayscale
Managing Director, Head of Product and Research
Avi Felman
Radhan Road
Partner
Behavioral Alpha: The Power of Narratives in Crypto
5:00 - 5:30 PM
Purvi Maniar
Laser Digital
Chief Legal Officer
Moderator
Michael Ashby
AlgoQuant
CEO
Adam Schlegel
Maelstrom
Partner
Avi Felman
Radhan Road
Partner
Rayhaneh Sharif-Askary
Grayscale
Managing Director, Head of Product and Research
Happy Hour Reception Sponsored by Willkie Farr & Gallagher
(on-site)
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Official The Bridge After Party Sponsored by Canton
(Off-site at Nebula, near Bryant Park)
9:00 pm - 1:00 am
Innovator Stage
Doors Open & Breakfast Sponsored by Haruko
8:15 am
Opening Remarks
8:55 - 9:00 am
The Institutional Bridge to DeFi: How Funds Engage with Yield, Governance, and Risk On-chain
9:00 -9:30 am
Thomas Chen
Function
CEO
Moderator
Charley Cooper
Ava Labs
Chief Operating Officer
Rob Hadick
Dragonfly
General Partner
Pascal St-Jean
3iQ
President & CEO
Roger Zhang
IntChains Group
Head of US
Where Finance Flows: The Era of 24/7 Capital (Presented by Canton)
9:30 - 10:00 am
Joshua Rosenthal
Polychain Capital
General Partner
Moderator
Yuval Rooz
Digital Asset
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Winnike
DTCC
Managing Director, Clearing & Securities Services (CSS) Strategy and Market Solutions
The Next Frontier of Crypto is Entertainment (Presented by Magic Eden)
10:00 - 10:30 am
Matt Szenics
ME Foundation
Director
Maria Shen
Electric Capital
General Partner
Unlocking Blockchain's Full Potential: Privacy, Fairness, Freedom (Presented by Midnight)
10:30 - 11:00 am
Fahmi Syed
Midnight Foundation
President
Keynote
Unlocking Bitcoin DATs: How Layer-2s Empower Yield & Utility (Presented by Stacks)
11:00 - 11:30 am
Rena Shah
Stacks Endowment
COO
MODERATOR
Matt Zhang
Hivemind Capital Partners
Founder and Managing Partner
Muneeb Ali
Stacks
Founder
From ETFs to DTFs: The Evolution of Crypto Index Investing (Presented by Reserve)
11:30 am - 12:00 PM
Sacha Ghebali
The Tie
Chief Strategy Officer
MODERATOR
Griffin Peer
Reserve
Head of Business Development
Sui Chung
CFBenchmarks
CEO
Lunch sponsored by Cantina
12:00-1:30 pm
Presentation by Monad
1:00 - 3:30 PM
Keone Hon
Monad
Co-Founder & CEO
From Collateral to Capital: Scaling RWAs On-Chain (Presented by Function)
1:30 - 2:00 PM
Ivy Kang
Plume Network
Head of Capital Markets
Moderator
Thomas Chen
Function
CEO
Thomas Cowan
Galaxy
Head of Tokenization
Graham Ferguson
Securitize
Head of Ecosystem
Ryan Zega
Aptos Labs
Head of Structured Finance
Improving Existing Solutions with Decentralized AI (Sponsored by 0G)
2:00 - 2:30 PM
Dany Vaiman
ZeroStack
Chief Financial Officer
Lorna Burchell
ZeroStack
VP Investor Relations
Dan Santell
Captis Intelligence
Chief Executive Officer
Amol Sarva
LifeX Ventures
Managing Partner
Real World Assets: Use Cases With Everyday Impact (Presented by VeChain)
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Johnny Garcia
VeChain Foundation
Head of Institutional Growth
Moderator
Robert Valdes-Rodriguez
Keyrock
Chief Commercial Officer
Astin Lau
BitGo
Ecosystem and Institutional Sales
Ric Golubov
Franklin Templeton
Vice President, Digital Assets Business Development & Partnerships
Privacy Gap in Stablecoin Payments (Presented by Aleo)
3:00 - 3:30 PM
Howard Wu
Aleo
Co-Founder & CEO
Christian Crowley
a16z Crypto
Partner
Presentation by zkVerify
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Blockchain's Next Industry: The Big One (Presented by Tezos)
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Johan Lundberg
TG3
CEO
Redefining Yield and Risk in Institutional Crypto Through Secure Rails (Presented by BitcoinOS)
4:30 - 5:00 PM
Marc Hochstein
Galaxy Digital
VP and Editor, Research
Elan Nahari
BitcoinOS
Co-Founder and Head of Institutional Adoption
Happy Hour Reception Sponsored by Willkie Farr & Gallagher
(on-site)
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Official The Bridge After Party Sponsored by Canton
(Off-site at Nebula, near Bryant Park)
9:00 pm - 1:00 am
Location
Convene Brookfield Place
225 Liberty St,
New York, NY 10281,
United States