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

RITCHIE TORRES

Ship or die

RITCHIETORRES

U.S. House of Representative

(D) NY-15

SUMMER MERSINGER

Ship or die

SUMMERMERSINGER

CFTC

Commissioner

LUCA NETZ

Ship or die

LUCANETZ

Pudgy Penguins

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

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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