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
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 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
AMIR HALEEM
Helium
Co-Founder
MATTHEW SIGEL
VanEck
Head of Digital Assets Research
KAIN WARWICK
Infinex
Founder
MILLER WHITEHOUSE-LEVIN
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
YANNICK 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
HOOLIE TEJWANI
Coinbase Ventures
Head of Coinbase Ventures
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
BONK
Core Contributor
CLAYTON BLAHA
Material Nonpublic
Founder
CHRIS ZHU
Sonic SVM
Founder & CEO
CALEB ABRAHAM
BONK
Software Engineer
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
Independent
Researcher
PATRICK OโGRADY
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
NOAH PRINCE
Helium
Protocol Engineer
TRISTAN FRIZZA
Bullet
Founder
DEAN LITTLE
BlueShift
Curator
UMA ROY
Succinct Labs
Co-Founder & CEO
GEORGE DATSKOS
Ghost (SnowGenesis, Inc.)
Co-Founder
GIULIANO FRANCESCANGELI
The Graph
Product Manager
TIM ROUGHGARDEN
a16z Crypto/Columbia Univrsity
Head of Research/Professor
MICHAEL REPETNY
Marinade
Contributor
BJOERN WAGNER
Dialect Labs
Developer Relations Lead
ALESSANDRO DECINA
Anza
Lowly Perf Engineer
EVAN BASTELL
Jito Labs
Protocol Engineer
YIWEN GAO
Nitro Labs
CEO
KRYSTOF KOSINA
RockawayX Labs
Software Developer
DUNCAN TOWNSEND
0x
Principal Engineer & Smart Contract Lead
AMIR BANDEALI
0x
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
VLADO MARCIN
Maya-ZK
Co-Founder
RACHIN KALAKHETI
Twine
Founder & CEO
ALBERT CHEN
Elite Agents
Co-Founder
FEBO
Anza
Software Engineer
DIRAN LI
Messari
CTO
KELLIAN VITRร
SevenLabs
Founder
PHILIP TAFFET
Firedancer
Research and Development Architect
CEM OZER
Sovereign
CEO
ALEXANDER GUY
ABK Labs
Engineer
NYE LIU
Blockdaemon
Chief Engineer
MICHAEL MCGEE
Firedancer
Software Engineer
ยฉ Solana Foundation 2025
