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.
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.
Ship or die
SUMMERMERSINGER
CFTC
Ship or die
LUCANETZ
Pudgy Penguins
Ship or die
KASHDHANDA
Jupiter
Ship or die
BRANDONMILLMAN
Phantom
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
Stories
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