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The Enclave
InnovateMiami
October 27, 2026 - TWO STAGES
2026 Agenda
Mainstage 1
Mainstage 2
Mainstage 1
Sponsored by LMAX Group
8:30 am
Doors Open, Breakfast, Networking
9:25 am
–
9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
–
10:00 am
If Crypto Is So Efficient, Why Are There So Many Middlemen?
Nicola White
Robinhood
Vice President, Institutional Crypto, General Manager, Bitstamp
Moderator
Reed Werbitt
Flowdesk
U.S CEO and Global CRO
Kathleen Wrynn
Invesco
Global Head of Digital Assets
Eric Rose
StoneX Digital
Global Head
Hassan Bassiri
FalconX
Head of Trading Strategy
10:00 am
–
10:30 am
Public Blockchains vs. Wall Street Rails: Where Does $10 Trillion Actually Settle?
Christopher Perkins
Franklin Templeton
Head of Franklin Crypto
Moderator
Devin Errico
Volt Capital
Head of Trading & Infrastructure
Alex Gluchowski
Matter Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
Ryan Trinkle
Obsidian Systems
Founder
Nauman Sheikh
G20 Group
Head of Asset Management
10:30 am
–
11:00 am
Did Crypto Reinvent Gambling or Reinvent Markets?
Dan Held
Perception
Founder
Moderator
Rok Kopp
ether.fi
Co-Founder
Genna Garver
Troutman Pepper Locke
Partner
Karan Sharma
Liberty City Ventures
Managing Director
Jeremy Wallis
Gate Ventures
Partner
11:00 am
–
11:30 am
Does the Future Dollar Live in a Bank Account or a Wallet?
Parth Gargava
BBH
Head of Digital Asset Strategy | Managing Director
Moderator
Austin Campbell
Aleo Network Foundation
President
Charles Michallet
Societe Generale
Director Digital Assets
Sam ten Cate
State Street Investment Management
Managing Director
Pete Najarian
Raptor Digital
Managing Partner
11:30 am
–
12:00 pm
Are Tokenized Assets Better Investments, or Just Better Infrastructure?
Steven McClurg
Canary Capital
CEO & Founder
Moderator
Joseph Chalom
Sharplink
CEO
Bhaji Illuminati
Centrifuge Labs
CEO
William Peck
WisdomTree
Head of Digital Assets
Thomas Sy
New York Life Investment Management
Head of Multi-Asset & Digital Asset Solutions
12:00 pm
–
12:25 pm
Lunch
12:25 pm
–
1:00 pm
Is Wall Street Adopting Crypto or Absorbing It?
Paul Yablon
Room40 Capital
Founder and CIO
Moderator
Deborah Querub
Citi
Head of Digital Assets, Citi Wealth
Matthew Hougan
Bitwise Asset Management
Chief Investment Officer
Scott Lawin
Pantera Capital
President
Dennis Lee
NYSE
Head of Digital Issuance
Thomas Chen
BNB Chain
Chief Business Officer
1:00 pm
–
1:30 pm
Where Does Crypto Actually Fit in the AI Stack?
Louisa Bai
Mysten Labs / Sui
Head of Stablecoins & Payments
Moderator
Johnny Garcia
VeChain Foundation
Head of Institutional Growth
Sarah Schroeder
Coinbase Asset Management
Co-CIO
Philipp Suarez
NEAR
Head of Finance
Christian Crowley
a16z Frontier
Partner, GTM
1:30 pm
–
2:00 pm
Can Crypto Succeed without Consumers?
Maxime Bucaille
Draper VC
Principal
Moderator
Mike Dudas
6th Man Ventures
Managing Partner
Blue Macellari
T. Rowe Price
Head of Digital Assets Strategy
Thomas Bailey
Road Capital
Founding General Partner
Kevin Kelly
Delphi Digital
Co-Founder & President
2:00 pm
–
2:30 pm
Would You Rather Own the Token or the Equity?
Andy Cavanaugh
The Rollup
Co-Founder
Moderator
Randy Little
50T Funds
Partner
Christian Lopez
Cohen & Company Capital Markets
Managing Director, Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets
Brett Tejpaul
Coinbase
Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional
Jordi Visser
Visser-Labs, LLC
Founder
2:30 pm
–
3:00 pm
If Institutions Only Want Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Tokenized Assets, What Happens to Crypto?
Michael Ashe
Galaxy Digital
Chief Strategy Officer
Moderator
Ivan Miskovic
Quantum
CEO & Co-Founder
Vanessa Grellet
Arche Capital
Managing Partner
Raghav Chopra
Tephra Digital
Managing Partner
Joshua Hecht
Intrinsic Capital
Managing Partner
3:00 pm
–
3:30 pm
Who Wins the Stablecoin Race: Banks, Fintechs or Crypto Natives?
Jacqueline Kwok (JK)
DCG
Head of Platform
Moderator
Jean-Marc Stenger
Societe Generale Forge
Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Homer
The Venture Dept.
General Partner
Frederick Pye
Stablecorp
Vice Chairman and Founder
Chris Knight
LMAX Group
Managing Director LMAX Digital
3:30 pm
–
4:00 pm
Can Decentralized Networks Actually Beat Centralized Companies at Anything?
Aryan Sheikhalian
CMT Digital
Investor & Head of Research
Moderator
Austin Federa
DoubleZero
Co-Founder
Steven Venino
Strobe Ventures
General Partner
George Varghese
0G.ai
Head of Investments
Alejandra Martinez
Foundation Capital
Partner
4:00 pm
–
4:30 pm
Can a Protocol Be Successful While Its Token Fails?
Sean Lippel
FinTech Collective
General Partner & Head of Digital Assets
Moderator
Jay Pollak
VerifiedX
Head of Strategy
William Herkelrath
Algorand
Chief Executive Officer
Joshua Lim
FalconX
Global Head of Markets
James Evans
Reciprocal Ventures
Investor
4:30 pm
–
5:05 pm
Are Institutions Ready for Markets That Never Close?
Bill Gulya
SGX Group
Managing Director, Head of Americas
Moderator
Rajeev Sambyal
BNY
Managing Director, Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure
Charley Cooper
Ava Labs
Chief Operating Officer
John Zecca
Nasdaq
EVP, Global Chief Legal, Risk and Regulatory Officer
Thomas Sullivan
DTCC Digital Assets
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Solutions (DAS)
Steve Kurz
Galaxy
Global Co-Head, Digital Assets
5:00 pm
–
7:00 pm
Happy Hour Reception sponsored by Algorand
Mainstage 2
Sponsored by Willkie
8:30 am
Doors Open, Breakfast, Networking
9:25 am
–
9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
–
10:00 am
True or False: Most token holders would have been better off if protocols had issued equity instead.
Matt Immerso
Blockchange Ventures
General Partner
Moderator
Kevin March
JPEG Trading
Co-Founder
Matt Zhang
Hivemind Capital Partners
Founder and Managing Partner
Michael Zajko
Lattice
Co-Founder
Tom Dunleavy
Varys Capital
Venture Partner
10:00 am
–
10:30 am
What Actually Drives Crypto Today: Liquidity, ETFs, the Dollar, or Fundamentals?
Ryan Silva, CFA
ParaFi Capital
Head of Trading
Moderator
Mike De Melo
RAAC
Chief Strategy Officer
Thomas Uhm
Qube Research & Technologies
Quant Research Director
Matthew Sigel
VanEck
Head of Digital Assets Research
Jim Ferraioli
Charles Schwab - Schwab Center for Financial Research
Head of Crypto Research
10:30 am
–
11:00 am
Will AI Agents Become Crypto’s Biggest Users?
Kate Laurence
Bloccelerate VC
CEO
Moderator
Sal Ternullo
SVRN
CEO
Sebastian Blum
Greenfield Capital
Founding Partner
Sachin Jaitly
Morgan Creek Digital
General Partner
Jake Boaz
Crypto Yield Capital
Fund Manager
11:00 am
–
11:30 am
What Macro Regime Is Actually Best for Crypto?
John Darsie
SkyBridge Capital; SALT
Partner; CEO
Moderator
Chris Kuiper
Fidelity Digital Assets
Vice President of Research
Melvin Deng
QCP
CEO
CK Zheng
ZX Squared Capital
Co-Founder & CIO
John Vincent
Wakem Capital Mgmt.
CEO
11:30 am
–
12:00 pm
Tokenization and Stablecoins are Here, Will the Blockchains Accrue Any Value?
Daniel Phillips
Anchorage Digital
Head of Tokenization, Stablecoin Solutions
Moderator
Nadine Teychenne
Citibank
Global Head of Tokenized Securities and Crypto Assets
Haley Huang
YZi Labs
Investment Director
Alice Li
Foresight Ventures / Bitget
Partner / Head of RWA
Kari Larsen
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Partner and Co-Chair of the Willkie Digital Works Practice
12:00 pm
–
1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
–
2:00 pm
Can Crypto Hedge Funds Still Beat Bitcoin?
Rabia Iqbal
Nural Capital
Managing Partner
Moderator
David Grider
Stealth Digital Asset Fund
Portfolio Manager
Thejas Nalval
Parataxis Capital
CIO
Tom Costello
Bedrock Digital Asset Management
CEO/CIO
Samuel Isaacson
BlockArrow
COO
2:00 pm
–
2:30 pm
Everyone Wants a Stablecoin. Who Actually Needs One?
Nisa Amoils
A100x
Managing Partner
Moderator
Matt Walsh
Castle Island Ventures
Founding Partner
Marius Barnett
Karatage
Co-Founder
Patrick Elyas
Pharsalus Capital
President, Partner
Andy Kangpan
Metalayer
Co-Founder and General Partner
2:30 pm
–
3:00 pm
It's 2026, Do We Know How to Value Tokens Yet?
Max Williams
Runa Digital Assets
President & Portfolio Manager
Moderator
Andrew Moss
Jefferies LLC
Head of Digital Assets Research
Leigh Drogen
Starkiller Capital
GP and CIO
Evan Fisher
Portal Ventures
Managing Partner
Bart Smith
AVAT
CEO
3:00 pm
–
3:30 pm
Is Crypto Venture Capital Still a Good Business?
Thomas Chladek
Forteus
Managing Director
Moderator
Marcos Veremis
Accolade Partners
Partner
Marc de Kloe
Theta Capital Management
Managing Partner
Danish Chaudhry
Paper Ventures
General Partner | Co-Founder
Michael Steinberg
Reciprocal Ventures
Managing Partner
3:30 pm
–
4:00 pm
As AI Advances Can Blockchains and Protocols Build Moats?
Patrick Chang
Dispersion Capital
Founder, Managing Partner
Moderator
Stephen Novenstern
Kintsu
Founder
Sunny Parikh
Reflexive Ventures
Partner
Zach Pandl
Grayscale
Head of Research
Dan Simerman
Temple Digital Group
Co-Founder
4:00 pm
–
4:30 pm
Markets on Everything: Prediction Markets and the Future of Digital Assets
Joshua Frank
The Tie
Co-Founder & CEO
Moderator
Lisa Mantil
Polymarket
Head of Institutional
Nick Volbi
Susquehanna International Group
Head of Institutional Prediction Markets
Hunter Merghart
Millennium
COO, Digital Assets
5:00 pm
–
7:00 pm
Happy Hour Reception sponsored by Algorand
Mainstage 1
Sponsored by LMAX Group
8:30 am
Doors Open, Breakfast, Networking
9:25 am
–
9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
–
10:00 am
If Crypto Is So Efficient, Why Are There So Many Middlemen?
Nicola White
Robinhood
Vice President, Institutional Crypto, General Manager, Bitstamp
Moderator
Reed Werbitt
Flowdesk
U.S CEO and Global CRO
Kathleen Wrynn
Invesco
Global Head of Digital Assets
Eric Rose
StoneX Digital
Global Head
Hassan Bassiri
FalconX
Head of Trading Strategy
10:00 am
–
10:30 am
Public Blockchains vs. Wall Street Rails: Where Does $10 Trillion Actually Settle?
Christopher Perkins
Franklin Templeton
Head of Franklin Crypto
Moderator
Devin Errico
Volt Capital
Head of Trading & Infrastructure
Alex Gluchowski
Matter Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
Ryan Trinkle
Obsidian Systems
Founder
Nauman Sheikh
G20 Group
Head of Asset Management
10:30 am
–
11:00 am
Did Crypto Reinvent Gambling or Reinvent Markets?
Dan Held
Perception
Founder
Moderator
Rok Kopp
ether.fi
Co-Founder
Genna Garver
Troutman Pepper Locke
Partner
Karan Sharma
Liberty City Ventures
Managing Director
Jeremy Wallis
Gate Ventures
Partner
11:00 am
–
11:30 am
Does the Future Dollar Live in a Bank Account or a Wallet?
Parth Gargava
BBH
Head of Digital Asset Strategy | Managing Director
Moderator
Austin Campbell
Aleo Network Foundation
President
Charles Michallet
Societe Generale
Director Digital Assets
Sam ten Cate
State Street Investment Management
Managing Director
Pete Najarian
Raptor Digital
Managing Partner
11:30 am
–
12:00 pm
Are Tokenized Assets Better Investments, or Just Better Infrastructure?
Steven McClurg
Canary Capital
CEO & Founder
Moderator
Joseph Chalom
Sharplink
CEO
Bhaji Illuminati
Centrifuge Labs
CEO
William Peck
WisdomTree
Head of Digital Assets
Thomas Sy
New York Life Investment Management
Head of Multi-Asset & Digital Asset Solutions
12:00 pm
–
12:25 pm
Lunch
12:25 pm
–
1:00 pm
Is Wall Street Adopting Crypto or Absorbing It?
Paul Yablon
Room40 Capital
Founder and CIO
Moderator
Deborah Querub
Citi
Head of Digital Assets, Citi Wealth
Matthew Hougan
Bitwise Asset Management
Chief Investment Officer
Scott Lawin
Pantera Capital
President
Dennis Lee
NYSE
Head of Digital Issuance
Thomas Chen
BNB Chain
Chief Business Officer
1:00 pm
–
1:30 pm
Where Does Crypto Actually Fit in the AI Stack?
Louisa Bai
Mysten Labs / Sui
Head of Stablecoins & Payments
Moderator
Johnny Garcia
VeChain Foundation
Head of Institutional Growth
Sarah Schroeder
Coinbase Asset Management
Co-CIO
Philipp Suarez
NEAR
Head of Finance
Christian Crowley
a16z Frontier
Partner, GTM
1:30 pm
–
2:00 pm
Can Crypto Succeed without Consumers?
Maxime Bucaille
Draper VC
Principal
Moderator
Mike Dudas
6th Man Ventures
Managing Partner
Blue Macellari
T. Rowe Price
Head of Digital Assets Strategy
Thomas Bailey
Road Capital
Founding General Partner
Kevin Kelly
Delphi Digital
Co-Founder & President
2:00 pm
–
2:30 pm
Would You Rather Own the Token or the Equity?
Andy Cavanaugh
The Rollup
Co-Founder
Moderator
Randy Little
50T Funds
Partner
Christian Lopez
Cohen & Company Capital Markets
Managing Director, Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets
Brett Tejpaul
Coinbase
Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional
Jordi Visser
Visser-Labs, LLC
Founder
2:30 pm
–
3:00 pm
If Institutions Only Want Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Tokenized Assets, What Happens to Crypto?
Michael Ashe
Galaxy Digital
Chief Strategy Officer
Moderator
Ivan Miskovic
Quantum
CEO & Co-Founder
Vanessa Grellet
Arche Capital
Managing Partner
Raghav Chopra
Tephra Digital
Managing Partner
Joshua Hecht
Intrinsic Capital
Managing Partner
3:00 pm
–
3:30 pm
Who Wins the Stablecoin Race: Banks, Fintechs or Crypto Natives?
Jacqueline Kwok (JK)
DCG
Head of Platform
Moderator
Jean-Marc Stenger
Societe Generale Forge
Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Homer
The Venture Dept.
General Partner
Frederick Pye
Stablecorp
Vice Chairman and Founder
Chris Knight
LMAX Group
Managing Director LMAX Digital
3:30 pm
–
4:00 pm
Can Decentralized Networks Actually Beat Centralized Companies at Anything?
Aryan Sheikhalian
CMT Digital
Investor & Head of Research
Moderator
Austin Federa
DoubleZero
Co-Founder
Steven Venino
Strobe Ventures
General Partner
George Varghese
0G.ai
Head of Investments
Alejandra Martinez
Foundation Capital
Partner
4:00 pm
–
4:30 pm
Can a Protocol Be Successful While Its Token Fails?
Sean Lippel
FinTech Collective
General Partner & Head of Digital Assets
Moderator
Jay Pollak
VerifiedX
Head of Strategy
William Herkelrath
Algorand
Chief Executive Officer
Joshua Lim
FalconX
Global Head of Markets
James Evans
Reciprocal Ventures
Investor
4:30 pm
–
5:05 pm
Are Institutions Ready for Markets That Never Close?
Bill Gulya
SGX Group
Managing Director, Head of Americas
Moderator
Rajeev Sambyal
BNY
Managing Director, Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure
Charley Cooper
Ava Labs
Chief Operating Officer
John Zecca
Nasdaq
EVP, Global Chief Legal, Risk and Regulatory Officer
Thomas Sullivan
DTCC Digital Assets
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Solutions (DAS)
Steve Kurz
Galaxy
Global Co-Head, Digital Assets
5:00 pm
–
7:00 pm
Happy Hour Reception sponsored by Algorand
Mainstage 2
Sponsored by Willkie
8:30 am
Doors Open, Breakfast, Networking
9:25 am
–
9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
–
10:00 am
True or False: Most token holders would have been better off if protocols had issued equity instead.
Matt Immerso
Blockchange Ventures
General Partner
Moderator
Kevin March
JPEG Trading
Co-Founder
Matt Zhang
Hivemind Capital Partners
Founder and Managing Partner
Michael Zajko
Lattice
Co-Founder
Tom Dunleavy
Varys Capital
Venture Partner
10:00 am
–
10:30 am
What Actually Drives Crypto Today: Liquidity, ETFs, the Dollar, or Fundamentals?
Ryan Silva, CFA
ParaFi Capital
Head of Trading
Moderator
Mike De Melo
RAAC
Chief Strategy Officer
Thomas Uhm
Qube Research & Technologies
Quant Research Director
Matthew Sigel
VanEck
Head of Digital Assets Research
Jim Ferraioli
Charles Schwab - Schwab Center for Financial Research
Head of Crypto Research
10:30 am
–
11:00 am
Will AI Agents Become Crypto’s Biggest Users?
Kate Laurence
Bloccelerate VC
CEO
Moderator
Sal Ternullo
SVRN
CEO
Sebastian Blum
Greenfield Capital
Founding Partner
Sachin Jaitly
Morgan Creek Digital
General Partner
Jake Boaz
Crypto Yield Capital
Fund Manager
11:00 am
–
11:30 am
What Macro Regime Is Actually Best for Crypto?
John Darsie
SkyBridge Capital; SALT
Partner; CEO
Moderator
Chris Kuiper
Fidelity Digital Assets
Vice President of Research
Melvin Deng
QCP
CEO
CK Zheng
ZX Squared Capital
Co-Founder & CIO
John Vincent
Wakem Capital Mgmt.
CEO
11:30 am
–
12:00 pm
Tokenization and Stablecoins are Here, Will the Blockchains Accrue Any Value?
Daniel Phillips
Anchorage Digital
Head of Tokenization, Stablecoin Solutions
Moderator
Nadine Teychenne
Citibank
Global Head of Tokenized Securities and Crypto Assets
Haley Huang
YZi Labs
Investment Director
Alice Li
Foresight Ventures / Bitget
Partner / Head of RWA
Kari Larsen
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Partner and Co-Chair of the Willkie Digital Works Practice
12:00 pm
–
1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
–
2:00 pm
Can Crypto Hedge Funds Still Beat Bitcoin?
Rabia Iqbal
Nural Capital
Managing Partner
Moderator
David Grider
Stealth Digital Asset Fund
Portfolio Manager
Thejas Nalval
Parataxis Capital
CIO
Tom Costello
Bedrock Digital Asset Management
CEO/CIO
Samuel Isaacson
BlockArrow
COO
2:00 pm
–
2:30 pm
Everyone Wants a Stablecoin. Who Actually Needs One?
Nisa Amoils
A100x
Managing Partner
Moderator
Matt Walsh
Castle Island Ventures
Founding Partner
Marius Barnett
Karatage
Co-Founder
Patrick Elyas
Pharsalus Capital
President, Partner
Andy Kangpan
Metalayer
Co-Founder and General Partner
2:30 pm
–
3:00 pm
It's 2026, Do We Know How to Value Tokens Yet?
Max Williams
Runa Digital Assets
President & Portfolio Manager
Moderator
Andrew Moss
Jefferies LLC
Head of Digital Assets Research
Leigh Drogen
Starkiller Capital
GP and CIO
Evan Fisher
Portal Ventures
Managing Partner
Bart Smith
AVAT
CEO
3:00 pm
–
3:30 pm
Is Crypto Venture Capital Still a Good Business?
Thomas Chladek
Forteus
Managing Director
Moderator
Marcos Veremis
Accolade Partners
Partner
Marc de Kloe
Theta Capital Management
Managing Partner
Danish Chaudhry
Paper Ventures
General Partner | Co-Founder
Michael Steinberg
Reciprocal Ventures
Managing Partner
3:30 pm
–
4:00 pm
As AI Advances Can Blockchains and Protocols Build Moats?
Patrick Chang
Dispersion Capital
Founder, Managing Partner
Moderator
Stephen Novenstern
Kintsu
Founder
Sunny Parikh
Reflexive Ventures
Partner
Zach Pandl
Grayscale
Head of Research
Dan Simerman
Temple Digital Group
Co-Founder
4:00 pm
–
4:30 pm
Markets on Everything: Prediction Markets and the Future of Digital Assets
Joshua Frank
The Tie
Co-Founder & CEO
Moderator
Lisa Mantil
Polymarket
Head of Institutional
Nick Volbi
Susquehanna International Group
Head of Institutional Prediction Markets
Hunter Merghart
Millennium
COO, Digital Assets
5:00 pm
–
7:00 pm
Happy Hour Reception sponsored by Algorand