More Breakpoint 2026 Speakers Confirmed for London

Leaders from Backpack, Sunrise, Zelle, Bitwise, Y Combinator, Jupiter and Helius join the lineup at Olympia London, 15-17 November.

Breakpoint 2026 comes to Olympia London from 15 to 17 November. Twelve more speakers join the lineup today. They range from founders listing stocks and collectibles on Solana to the bank-owned payment network behind Zelle, plus the investors deciding where capital goes next.

Bringing every asset onchain

Armani Ferrante, Founder and CEO, Backpack. Armani wrote Anchor, a framework for building Solana programs, and co-created Mad Lads before founding Backpack. Its brokerage now issues tokenized stocks on Solana, each backed one-to-one by a real share.

Saeed Badreg, Co-Founder and CEO, Sunrise. Sunrise, built by Wormhole Labs, lists assets from other markets on Solana with liquid trading from day one. "Sunrise gives any asset from any chain a liquid on-ramp to trade on Solana at TGE," Saeed told The Block. In September, Sunrise-listed tokens passed $1B in weekly trading volume on Solana.

Andrea Miele, CEO and Founder, Beezie. Beezie started with graded trading cards and has grown into luxury goods. Every item is vaulted, owned onchain and can be sold back instantly. “Collecting should feel fun again, ownership should be real, and liquidity should be instant,” Andrea said when Beezie came to Solana in May. The platform has since passed $200M in total volume. Her focus now is bringing a new wave of shoppers onchain.

Payments and capital

Alexandra Lang, VP of Digital Assets Partnerships and Strategy, Zelle. Zelle moved $1.2T in 2025 across more than 2,400 banks and credit unions. In June it announced ZelleUSD, a stablecoin for sending dollars abroad, starting with India. Alexandra is leading that work.

Kyle Samani, Chairman, Forward Industries. Kyle co-founded Multicoin Capital in 2017 and now chairs Forward Industries, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company. "Solana is becoming the settlement layer for Internet capital markets," he said on Forward's August earnings call.

Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer, Bitwise. Matt ran ETF.com before joining Bitwise. In August, Bitwise's Solana staking ETF became the first Solana ETF to pass $1B in assets under management.

Nemil Dalal, Visiting Partner, Y Combinator. Nemil spent seven years at Coinbase, where he led developer products and stablecoin work and launched the Coinbase Developer Platform. "All of finance is going to run onchain. We want to back the founders making this reality," he told The Block in May.

The network

Brennan Watt, CEO, Anza. Brennan became Anza's CEO in January after running its core engineering team. Anza builds Agave, a Solana validator client, and is shipping Alpenglow, a new consensus protocol for the network.

Mert Mumtaz, Co-Founder and CEO, Helius. “Solana is the Amazon of markets, you can trade anything you want on your phone, 24/7 around the world,” Mert said on the Breakpoint stage last year. Helius gives developers the RPC and data infrastructure they use to build on Solana. In June, Helius also acquired Light Protocol to build a privacy layer for the network.

Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer, Solana Foundation. Vibhu founded DRiP before joining the Foundation. He puts the token supercycle in one line: "Tokenization is standardization: every financial product will just be a Solana token."

Trading

Kash Dhanda, COO, Jupiter. People use Jupiter to swap, trade perps, lend, borrow and hold the JupUSD stablecoin on Solana. Jupiter Lend reached a record $2.41B in deposits in September.

Se Yong Park, Co-Founder, fomo. fomo is a phone app for trading crypto across chains. It launched in May 2025 and raised a $75M Series B led by Index Ventures in June. Se Yong has argued that attention is the real market, and he’s coming to Breakpoint with a view on where retail trading goes next.

Join us

They join previously announced speakers Anatoly Yakovenko, Lily Liu, Balaji Srinivasan, Raoul Pal, Anthony Soohoo, Annabel Spring, Tad Smith, Peter Moore and Zach Abrams. More speakers and the full agenda will be announced ahead of November.

For more information and to buy tickets, visit solana.com/breakpoint.