Speakers
Meet the visionaries behind transformative ideas redefining the future of innovation. These are the architects of tomorrow.
Ship or die
RITCHIETORRES
U.S. House of Representative
Ship or die
SUMMERMERSINGER
CFTC
Ship or die
LUCANETZ
Pudgy Penguins
SHIP OR DIE Speakers
MARY GOONERATNE
Loopscale
Co-Founder
ROBERT LESHNER
Superstate
CEO & Co-founder
AUSTIN HURWITZ
Doodles
Head of Business Development and Strategy
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
CHRISTOPHER GIANCARLO
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Senior Counsel
ALI YAHYA
a16z crypto
General Partner
SANTIAGO ROEL SANTOS
Inversion
Founder
LILY LIU
Solana Foundation
President
0XDESIGNER
0xDesigner
Designer
DAVID RHODUS
Pipe Network
Founder & CEO of Permissionless Labs
KAWZ
Time.fun
Founder
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 WIESEL
BAXUS
CEO
JOAO REGINATTO
M0
Chief Strategy Officer
TOM ROWBOTHAM
PassEntry
Software Engineer
ZHEN HOE YONG
Meteora
Co-Founder & Lead
AHMED NIMALE
KYD Labs
Co-Founder
MATTHEW SIGEL
VanEck
Head of Digital Assets Research
KAIN WARWICK
Infinex
Founder
MILLER WHITEHOUSE-LEVINE
Solana Policy Institute
CEO
MERT MUMTAZ
Helius
CEO
RAAGULAN PATHY
KAST
Co-Founder
REBECCA RETTIG
Jito Labs
Chief Legal Officer
OMID ALADINI
Iron (acq. MoonPay)
Co-Founder & CTO
HENRI STERN
Privvy
CEO
SIMON AMOR
Sling Money
Co-Founder
MICHAEL SAUNDERS
XP
CEO
AMIRA VALLIANI
Solana Foundation
Head of DePIN
MICHAEL REPETNY
Marinade Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
GUY YOUNG
Ethena Labs
Founder & Director
DAN CALLAWAY
Lofted Spirits
Master Blender & Vice President, Product Development
JASON URBAN
Galaxy
Global Head of Trading
LEAH WINBERG
Chipped / Tapstack
Founder
KULEEN NIMKAR
Solana Foundation
Head of Games
YANNIK SCHRADE
Arcium
Co-Founder & CEO
NATHAN ALLMAN
Ondo Finance
CEO
PARKER WHITE
DeFi Dev Corp | Janover
COO & CIO
VIKTOR FISHER
RockawayX
CEO
DAN SMITH
Artist House
Head of Marketing
JUSTIN WALDRON
OPEN GAME PROTOCOL
Founding Contributor
SERGIO MELLO
Anchorage Digital
Head of Stablecoins
HADLEY STERN
Marinade Labs
CCO
RAY JACOBSON
Audius
CTO
RAJ GOKAL
Solana Labs
President
DJ GABEAU
Tapestry
Founder
ROBINSON BURKEY
Wormhole Foundation
Co-Founder
SAM ANDREW
North Island Ventures
Portfolio Manager
AHMED ZIFZAF
Worldpay
Head of Crypto Partnerships
GENTRY BEACH JR.
Sphere
Senior Partner Whitebridge Global
IQRAM MAGDON-ISMAIL
JellyJelly
Founder
MIKE CAHILL
Pyth
Co-Founder
RAGHAV GULATI
CoinList
CEO
GARRETT HARPER
Squads Labs
Head of Business Development
ARNOLD LEE
Sphere
CEO
SAM LESSIN
Slow Ventures
General Partner
DAN ROBERTS
OnRe
CEO
MACBRENNAN PEET
MRGN & Temporal
Co-Founder
MIKE HORTON
GEODNET
CEO
CHUCK MORTON
Whiskey Advisors
President & Manager
MARK LURIE
USDM1
CEO
AMIR BANDEALI
0x
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
EMON MOTAMEDI
Solana Labs
Head of Solana Incubator
DANIEL GARAY
Lulo
CEO
MICHAEL SONNENSHEIN
Securitize
COO
DAVID BAILEY
B.TC
CEO
J.T. LISS
Exchange Art & Bonk
President of Exchange Art & Director of BONK Art Masters
BRECK STODGHILL
Haun Ventures
Partner
LINDA XIE
Farcaster
Developer Ecosystem Lead
RYNE MILLER
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Partner
THOMAS UHM
Jito Foundation
Chief Commercial Officer
ROGER BAYSTON
Franklin Templeton
EVP & Head of Digital Assets
ARUN KRISHNAKUMAR
Kamino Finance
Head of Institutional Growth
AKSHAY BD
Solana Foundation
nCMO
TAREK MANSOUR
Kalshi
CEO
CINDY LEOW
Drift
CEO & Co-Founder
SOLOMON PONOMAREV
Solana Foundation
Head of Product
CYNTHIA LO BESSETTE
Fidelity
Head of Digital Asset Management
RYAN DUGUID
Third Time Entertainment
Head of Growth
NIGEL ECCLES
BetHog
CEO & Co-Founder
RAMZY ALI
Solana Foundation
DeFi Growth Lead
MICHAEL GREEN
Simplify
CFA, Portfolio Manager, Chief Strategist
ALAN CHANG
Fuse Energy
CEO
ANDREW ALLEN
Coinbase
Protocol Specialist
CHUCK ZHANG
PolyFlow
CFO
ALISON MANGIERO
Crypto Council for Innovation
Head of Staking Policy & Industry Affairs
NOM
BONK
Core Contributor
CLAYTON BLAHA
Material Nonpublic
Founder
CHRIS ZHU
Sonic SVM
Founder & CEO
CALEB ABRAHAM
BONK
Software Engineer
Anatoly Yakovenko
Solana Labs
Co-Founder of Solana, CEO of Solana Labs
Ben Nadareski
Solstice Labs
CEO and Co-Founder
Bhaji Illuminati
Centrifuge
CEO
Carter Feldman
Psy
Founder & CEO
Clement Fournier
Moonwalk Fitness
Founding Engineer
David Lu
Drift Foundation
Executive Director
Dillon Rolnick
Nous Research
COO
Drake Evans
Agora
CTO, cofounder
Jeff Park
Bitwise
Head of Alpha Strategies and Portfolio Manager
Mark Greenberg
Kraken
Global Head of Kraken's Consumer Business
Michael J. Casey
Decentralized AI Society
Chairman
Michael Shaulov
Fireblocks
CEO and Co-founder
Mike Dudas
6th Man Ventures
Managing Partner
Nick Ducoff
Solana Foundation
Head of Institutional Growth
Pedro Gomes
WalletConnect Foundation
Founder and Director
Richard Liu
Huma Finance
Co-Founder
Tim Fan
Facebook AI Research
AI Researcher
Tomicah Tillemann
Project Liberty
President
Trevor Filter
Flexa
Cofounder
Wei Zhou
Coins.ph
CEO
Yash Agarwal
SendAI
Co-founder
Rick Scott
U.S. Senate
Senator
Aadil Mamujee
Bridge
Head of Crypto
Anthony Scaramucci
Skybridge
Founder and Managing Partner
Arjun Sethi
Kraken
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Christine Moy
Apollo
Partner
Colleen Sullivan
Brevan Howard Digital
Co-Head Venture
Colin McLaren
Solana Policy Institute
Engagement Director
Erol Baliyan
Franck Muller
Managing Director at Franck Muller, Middle East, Africa, and India
Filip Dragoslavic
Solflare
Co-founder and Co-CEO
French Hill
U.S. House of Representatives
Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
Imran Khan
AllianceDAO
Founder
Matt Abbott
Newcastle University
Technology Transfer Manager
Matthew Homer
The Venture Dept.
General Partner
Ray Chan
Memecoin (MEME)
Co-founder and CEO
Ray Lee
Daisy
Co-Founder and CEO
Siddharth Shetty
Finternet Labs
Co-Creator
Alex Blania
World
CEO and Co-Founder
Anna Kazlauskas
Open Data Labs / Vana
CEO of Open Data Labs, Creator of Vana
Barrett Williams
Ranger Finance
Co-Founder
David Henderson
Backed
Head of Growth
Eric Balchunas
Bloomberg
Senior ETF Analyst
Eric Kuhn
Gemini
Head of Onchain
FP Lee
Sanctum
Cofounder
Jacquelyn Melinek
Token Relations
Cofounder, CEO
Johann Kerbrat
Robinhood Crypto
Head of Robinhood Crypto
Kyle Samani
Multicoin Capital
Managing Partner
Nathan Davis
Orca
CEO
Nikita Bier
Solana Foundation
Advisor
Pedro Miranda
Solana Foundation
Consumer lead
Rohan JT
Roam/Metablox
BD Lead
Scott Byron
Forgd
Head of Research
Sheldon Smickley
Torque
Co-Founder & CEO
Sheraz Shere
Solana Foundation
GM Payments
Tendies!!!
BONK
CTO (Chief Tendies Officer)
William Reilly
Chainlink Labs
Head of Web3, Sales & Strategy
Abhay Kumar
Helium
Head of protocol
Anna Yuan
Perena
Founder
Bobby Ghoshal
Dupe.com
CEO
Can Sun
Backpack
Co-Founder
Chris Maddern
Rally
Co-Founder & CEO
Dean Little
Zeus Network
Chief Scientist
Dee Goens
Zora
co-founder
Giovanni Vicioso
CME Group
Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products
Grace Guan
Unlonely
Founder
Ian Rogers
Ledger
Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
Ilan Gitter
Solana Foundation
Lead Engineer
Ivan Soto-Wright
MoonPay
Co-Founder, CEO
Jason Lau
OKX
Chief Innovation Officer
Jiani Chen
Solana Foundation
Growth
John Egan
Stripe
Head of Crypto
Josh Fried
Solana Foundation
Head of Commerce & Loyalty
Marc Sedam
New York University
Vice President, Technology Opportunities & Ventures
Michael Hubbard
SOL Strategies
Chief Strategy Officer
Nathan Clapp
Magic Eden
Senior Product Designer
Proph3t His Holiness
MetaDAO
Co-founder
Sergey Nazarov
Chainlink
Co-Founder
SHIP OR DIE Speakers
MARY GOONERATNE
Loopscale
Co-Founder
ROBERT LESHNER
Superstate
CEO & Co-founder
AUSTIN HURWITZ
Doodles
Head of Business Development and Strategy
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
CHRISTOPHER GIANCARLO
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Senior Counsel
ALI YAHYA
a16z crypto
General Partner
SANTIAGO ROEL SANTOS
Inversion
Founder
LILY LIU
Solana Foundation
President
0XDESIGNER
0xDesigner
Designer
DAVID RHODUS
Pipe Network
Founder & CEO of Permissionless Labs
KAWZ
Time.fun
Founder
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 WIESEL
BAXUS
CEO
JOAO REGINATTO
M0
Chief Strategy Officer
TOM ROWBOTHAM
PassEntry
Software Engineer
ZHEN HOE YONG
Meteora
Co-Founder & Lead
AHMED NIMALE
KYD Labs
Co-Founder
MATTHEW SIGEL
VanEck
Head of Digital Assets Research
KAIN WARWICK
Infinex
Founder
MILLER WHITEHOUSE-LEVINE
Solana Policy Institute
CEO
MERT MUMTAZ
Helius
CEO
RAAGULAN PATHY
KAST
Co-Founder
REBECCA RETTIG
Jito Labs
Chief Legal Officer
OMID ALADINI
Iron (acq. MoonPay)
Co-Founder & CTO
HENRI STERN
Privvy
CEO
SIMON AMOR
Sling Money
Co-Founder
MICHAEL SAUNDERS
XP
CEO
AMIRA VALLIANI
Solana Foundation
Head of DePIN
MICHAEL REPETNY
Marinade Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
GUY YOUNG
Ethena Labs
Founder & Director
DAN CALLAWAY
Lofted Spirits
Master Blender & Vice President, Product Development
JASON URBAN
Galaxy
Global Head of Trading
LEAH WINBERG
Chipped / Tapstack
Founder
KULEEN NIMKAR
Solana Foundation
Head of Games
YANNIK SCHRADE
Arcium
Co-Founder & CEO
NATHAN ALLMAN
Ondo Finance
CEO
PARKER WHITE
DeFi Dev Corp | Janover
COO & CIO
VIKTOR FISHER
RockawayX
CEO
DAN SMITH
Artist House
Head of Marketing
JUSTIN WALDRON
OPEN GAME PROTOCOL
Founding Contributor
SERGIO MELLO
Anchorage Digital
Head of Stablecoins
HADLEY STERN
Marinade Labs
CCO
RAY JACOBSON
Audius
CTO
RAJ GOKAL
Solana Labs
President
DJ GABEAU
Tapestry
Founder
ROBINSON BURKEY
Wormhole Foundation
Co-Founder
SAM ANDREW
North Island Ventures
Portfolio Manager
AHMED ZIFZAF
Worldpay
Head of Crypto Partnerships
GENTRY BEACH JR.
Sphere
Senior Partner Whitebridge Global
IQRAM MAGDON-ISMAIL
JellyJelly
Founder
MIKE CAHILL
Pyth
Co-Founder
RAGHAV GULATI
CoinList
CEO
GARRETT HARPER
Squads Labs
Head of Business Development
ARNOLD LEE
Sphere
CEO
SAM LESSIN
Slow Ventures
General Partner
DAN ROBERTS
OnRe
CEO
MACBRENNAN PEET
MRGN & Temporal
Co-Founder
MIKE HORTON
GEODNET
CEO
CHUCK MORTON
Whiskey Advisors
President & Manager
MARK LURIE
USDM1
CEO
AMIR BANDEALI
0x
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
EMON MOTAMEDI
Solana Labs
Head of Solana Incubator
DANIEL GARAY
Lulo
CEO
MICHAEL SONNENSHEIN
Securitize
COO
DAVID BAILEY
B.TC
CEO
J.T. LISS
Exchange Art & Bonk
President of Exchange Art & Director of BONK Art Masters
BRECK STODGHILL
Haun Ventures
Partner
LINDA XIE
Farcaster
Developer Ecosystem Lead
RYNE MILLER
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Partner
THOMAS UHM
Jito Foundation
Chief Commercial Officer
ROGER BAYSTON
Franklin Templeton
EVP & Head of Digital Assets
ARUN KRISHNAKUMAR
Kamino Finance
Head of Institutional Growth
AKSHAY BD
Solana Foundation
nCMO
TAREK MANSOUR
Kalshi
CEO
CINDY LEOW
Drift
CEO & Co-Founder
SOLOMON PONOMAREV
Solana Foundation
Head of Product
CYNTHIA LO BESSETTE
Fidelity
Head of Digital Asset Management
RYAN DUGUID
Third Time Entertainment
Head of Growth
NIGEL ECCLES
BetHog
CEO & Co-Founder
RAMZY ALI
Solana Foundation
DeFi Growth Lead
MICHAEL GREEN
Simplify
CFA, Portfolio Manager, Chief Strategist
ALAN CHANG
Fuse Energy
CEO
ANDREW ALLEN
Coinbase
Protocol Specialist
CHUCK ZHANG
PolyFlow
CFO
ALISON MANGIERO
Crypto Council for Innovation
Head of Staking Policy & Industry Affairs
NOM
BONK
Core Contributor
CLAYTON BLAHA
Material Nonpublic
Founder
CHRIS ZHU
Sonic SVM
Founder & CEO
CALEB ABRAHAM
BONK
Software Engineer
Anatoly Yakovenko
Solana Labs
Co-Founder of Solana, CEO of Solana Labs
Ben Nadareski
Solstice Labs
CEO and Co-Founder
Bhaji Illuminati
Centrifuge
CEO
Carter Feldman
Psy
Founder & CEO
Clement Fournier
Moonwalk Fitness
Founding Engineer
David Lu
Drift Foundation
Executive Director
Dillon Rolnick
Nous Research
COO
Drake Evans
Agora
CTO, cofounder
Jeff Park
Bitwise
Head of Alpha Strategies and Portfolio Manager
Mark Greenberg
Kraken
Global Head of Kraken's Consumer Business
Michael J. Casey
Decentralized AI Society
Chairman
Michael Shaulov
Fireblocks
CEO and Co-founder
Mike Dudas
6th Man Ventures
Managing Partner
Nick Ducoff
Solana Foundation
Head of Institutional Growth
Pedro Gomes
WalletConnect Foundation
Founder and Director
Richard Liu
Huma Finance
Co-Founder
Tim Fan
Facebook AI Research
AI Researcher
Tomicah Tillemann
Project Liberty
President
Trevor Filter
Flexa
Cofounder
Wei Zhou
Coins.ph
CEO
Yash Agarwal
SendAI
Co-founder
Rick Scott
U.S. Senate
Senator
Aadil Mamujee
Bridge
Head of Crypto
Anthony Scaramucci
Skybridge
Founder and Managing Partner
Arjun Sethi
Kraken
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Christine Moy
Apollo
Partner
Colleen Sullivan
Brevan Howard Digital
Co-Head Venture
Colin McLaren
Solana Policy Institute
Engagement Director
Erol Baliyan
Franck Muller
Managing Director at Franck Muller, Middle East, Africa, and India
Filip Dragoslavic
Solflare
Co-founder and Co-CEO
French Hill
U.S. House of Representatives
Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
Imran Khan
AllianceDAO
Founder
Matt Abbott
Newcastle University
Technology Transfer Manager
Matthew Homer
The Venture Dept.
General Partner
Ray Chan
Memecoin (MEME)
Co-founder and CEO
Ray Lee
Daisy
Co-Founder and CEO
Siddharth Shetty
Finternet Labs
Co-Creator
Alex Blania
World
CEO and Co-Founder
Anna Kazlauskas
Open Data Labs / Vana
CEO of Open Data Labs, Creator of Vana
Barrett Williams
Ranger Finance
Co-Founder
David Henderson
Backed
Head of Growth
Eric Balchunas
Bloomberg
Senior ETF Analyst
Eric Kuhn
Gemini
Head of Onchain
FP Lee
Sanctum
Cofounder
Jacquelyn Melinek
Token Relations
Cofounder, CEO
Johann Kerbrat
Robinhood Crypto
Head of Robinhood Crypto
Kyle Samani
Multicoin Capital
Managing Partner
Nathan Davis
Orca
CEO
Nikita Bier
Solana Foundation
Advisor
Pedro Miranda
Solana Foundation
Consumer lead
Rohan JT
Roam/Metablox
BD Lead
Scott Byron
Forgd
Head of Research
Sheldon Smickley
Torque
Co-Founder & CEO
Sheraz Shere
Solana Foundation
GM Payments
Tendies!!!
BONK
CTO (Chief Tendies Officer)
William Reilly
Chainlink Labs
Head of Web3, Sales & Strategy
Abhay Kumar
Helium
Head of protocol
Anna Yuan
Perena
Founder
Bobby Ghoshal
Dupe.com
CEO
Can Sun
Backpack
Co-Founder
Chris Maddern
Rally
Co-Founder & CEO
Dean Little
Zeus Network
Chief Scientist
Dee Goens
Zora
co-founder
Giovanni Vicioso
CME Group
Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products
Grace Guan
Unlonely
Founder
Ian Rogers
Ledger
Chief Experience Officer (CXO)
Ilan Gitter
Solana Foundation
Lead Engineer
Ivan Soto-Wright
MoonPay
Co-Founder, CEO
Jason Lau
OKX
Chief Innovation Officer
Jiani Chen
Solana Foundation
Growth
John Egan
Stripe
Head of Crypto
Josh Fried
Solana Foundation
Head of Commerce & Loyalty
Marc Sedam
New York University
Vice President, Technology Opportunities & Ventures
Michael Hubbard
SOL Strategies
Chief Strategy Officer
Nathan Clapp
Magic Eden
Senior Product Designer
Proph3t His Holiness
MetaDAO
Co-founder
Sergey Nazarov
Chainlink
Co-Founder
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