May 19–23 / New York City

Tech, Finance, and Policy are Changing

Accelerate is an event where business, policy, and crypto leaders collaborate to write the next chapter of blockchain in America.

Scale. Ship.

Accelerate.

Choose your path. Accelerate is a week packed with two conferences and dozens of summits, workshops, dinners, and more.

MAY 22-23 / NYC

SHIP OR DIE

$400

Ship or Die will host leaders from tech, finance, and policy to accelerate the future of crypto in the United States.

MAY 19-20 / NYC

SCALE OR DIE

$200

Scale or Die is a developer-only conference to dig into the deep tech behind scaling the global demand for blockspace.

Who's attending?

3000+

Builders, Executives, and Attendees

100+

Fintech and Tech Companies

20+

Policymakers

50+

Disruptive Crypto Startups

Speakers

Meet the visionaries behind transformative ideas redefining the future of innovation. These are the architects of tomorrow.

SUMMER MERSINGER

Ship or die

SUMMERMERSINGER

CFTC

Commissioner

LUCA NETZ

Ship or die

LUCANETZ

Pudgy Penguins

CEO

KASH DHANDA

Ship or die

KASHDHANDA

Jupiter

Cat-Herder

BRANDON MILLMAN

Ship or die

BRANDONMILLMAN

Phantom

CEO

SHIP OR DIE Speakers

MARY GOONERATNE

Loopscale

Co-Founder

ROBERT LESHNER

Superstate

CEO & Co-founder

AUSTIN HURWITZ

Doodles

Head of Business Development and Strategy

KRISTIN SMITH

Solana Policy Institute

President

DAVID PAKMAN

CoinFund

Managing Partner & Head of Venture Investments

EMMETT HOLLYER

Solana Mobile

General Manager

PAUL KOHLHAAS

Bio Protocol & Molecule

Co-founder

MIKE CAGNEY

Figure Markets

CEO & Co-founder

TAYLOR JOHNSON

Exo Technologies

Founder

AUSTIN FEDERA

DoubleZero Foundation

Co-founder

NIC CABANA

Claynosaurz

Creative Director & Co-founder

CHRISTOPHER GIANCARLO

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Senior Counsel

AMIR HALEEM

Nova Labs

Co-founder

ALI YAHYA

a16z crypto

General Partner

SANTIAGO ROEL SANTOS

Inversion

Founder

ARMANI FERRANTE

Backpack

CEO

LILY LIU

Solana Foundation

President

KEITH A. GROSSMAN

MoonPay

President, Enterprise

0XDESIGNER

0xDesigner

Designer

DAVID RHODUS

Pipe Network

Founder & CEO of Permissionless Labs

KAWZ

Time.fun

Founder

WALTER HESSERT

Paxos

Head of Strategy

CHRISTIAN MONTOYA

MetaMask

Product Lead

BRENNAN WATT

Anza

VP of Core Engineering

CHRIS OSBORN

Dialect

Founder & CEO

DAN ALBERT

Solana Foundation

Executive Director

NICO CARY

PassEntry

Co-Founder

STIJN PAUMAN

Helio (acq. MoonPay)

Founder & CEO

TZVI WEISEL

BAXUS

CEO

SCALE OR DIE Speakers

JORRIT PALFNER

Light Protocol

Co-founder

CHRIS CHANG

Ghost

Co-founder

VANISHREE RAO

Fermah

Founder & CEO

ROGER WATTENHOFER

Anza

Head of Research

DOCTORBLOCKS

Switchboard

CTO

THEO DIAMANDIS

Bain Capital Crypto

Researcher

PATRICK O’GRADY

Commonware

Founder

ANDREW MCCONNELL

Malbec Labs

Co-Founder & CTO

DEFIPANCAKES

Titan Meta Aggregator

CTO

TARUN CHITRA

Gauntlet

CEO & Co-Founder

JEFF

Turbin3

CEO & Co-Founder

GABRIELE PICCO

MagicBlock Labs

Co-Founder & CTO

JARRY XIAO

Ellipsis Labs

Co-Founder

CARLOS NORIEGA

Squads Labs

API Lead

BRENNAN WATT

Anza

VP of Core Engineering

LUDO GALABRU

Txtx

Co-Founder

JONATHAN CLAUDIUS

Asymmetric Research

CEO

Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

Stories

FAQ

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