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Anthony Bassili, CAIA, is President of Coinbase Asset Management, driving strategic vision, global distribution and Web3 investment products for institutional clients. He previously spent over a decade at BlackRock, including as Head of Pensions for iShares.

Brian Armstrong is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, brokerage, and custody platform serving over 100 million verified users across more than 100 countries, which he co-founded with Fred Ehrsam in 2012 and took public on NASDAQ under the ticker COIN in 2021. He also serves as Chairman of the Board. Armstrong has been steering Coinbase's strategic expansion into institutional clients, including a partnership with BlackRock that took three years to conclude, and the 2025 acquisition of Deribit for $2.9 billion, which established Coinbase's international hub for derivatives in the UAE. He has publicly engaged in US regulatory debates, opposing provisions in the Clarity Act that would restrict stablecoin yield mechanisms, stating that "better no law than a bad law." Armstrong has prioritised markets with clear regulatory frameworks, citing the UAE's Abu Dhabi Global Market and Dubai regulators, as well as Europe's MiCA framework, as factors driving Coinbase's regional investment decisions.

Prior to founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a software engineer at Airbnb from May 2011 to June 2012, where he was exposed to cross-border payment systems. Earlier in his career he worked as a consultant at Deloitte and as a developer for IBM. He founded UniversityTutor.com in 2003, running it until 2012; it was acquired in 2014. In 2020, he co-founded ResearchHub, a platform modelled on GitHub designed to make scientific research publicly accessible. In 2022, he co-founded NewLimit, a company working on extending human healthspan through epigenetic reprogramming. Armstrong holds a Bachelor's degree in economics, a Bachelor's degree in computer science, and a Master's degree in computer science, all from Rice University.

Chintan Turakhia is Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, where he leads engineering for the Base App (formerly Coinbase Wallet) across iOS, Android, web, and browser extension, with a stated mandate to bring a billion users onchain. He has held the Senior Director role since August 2023, having previously served as Director of Engineering at Coinbase from July 2021, with responsibility for the self-custody wallet product. He also leads AI adoption efforts across Coinbase's engineering organisation. Under his tenure, the wallet grew from one million to over 20 million users, and annualised revenue attributed to the product grew from $5 million to a peak of over $75 million. Specific technical initiatives he has led include the migration of Coinbase Wallet's mobile apps to React Native, the buildout of the Coinbase Wallet browser extension, and the launch of the Base App. His AI adoption work at Coinbase included implementing a "PR speed run" methodology that reduced pull request review cycle times from 150 hours to 15 hours, and building internal Slack-based agent tooling that chains Linear, MCPs, and multiple codebases to automate workflows from user feedback to shipped code.

Prior to Coinbase, Turakhia held engineering roles at Uber and Qualcomm. He holds a degree from UCLA. He is also an advisor to Workgrounds and previously advised Arize AI.

Côme Prost-Boucle is Country Manager at Coinbase France, a position he has held since February 2024. In this role, he leads product, growth and regulatory expansion in the French market. Coinbase obtained its PSAN registration from the AMF prior to his appointment, and the stated objective for the French operation is to become the market leader in France. Prost-Boucle is, as of the time of reporting, Coinbase's only direct employee in the French market, working in coordination with Coinbase teams based in Ireland, the UK and Germany.

Before joining Coinbase, Prost-Boucle co-founded NFT Paris in 2021, serving as General Director until February 2024. The conference grew from approximately 700 attendees to over 18,000 visitors and became Europe's largest event focused on web3 technologies, held at the Grand Palais in Paris. Prior to NFT Paris, he served as Chief of Staff at Mon Petit Placement, a fintech focused on democratising access to investment, where he worked on fundraising, strategy, B2B and B2C partnerships, and recruitment. He has also held positions in venture capital and innovation consulting. He studied at HEC Paris, completing a joint master's degree in entrepreneurship with École Polytechnique. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

David Duong is Global Head of Research at Coinbase, where he leads cryptocurrency research for institutional clients. His output includes weekly market commentaries, monthly outlooks, and market intelligence covering macro trends, tokenomics, digital asset performance, blockchain protocols, and systematic trading strategies for digital assets. He holds the CFA designation.

Before joining Coinbase in November 2021, Duong was Head of Latin America FX Strategy and Research at HSBC, where he led research coverage across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, publishing macro views and trade ideas for institutional and corporate clients and conducting econometric analyses to forecast investment scenarios. Prior to HSBC, he served as Vice President and Senior Latin America Rates Strategist at Santander from 2011 to 2016, developing quantitative models and macroeconomic outlooks for institutional investors with a focus on Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. He holds a BA in computer science and political science from Colgate University and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Jean-Baptiste Graftieaux is Senior Country Director at Coinbase Luxembourg, appointed on 8 October 2025. In this role, he leads Coinbase's MiCA hub in Luxembourg, which serves as the company's central node for implementing the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation framework across the European Union. Coinbase obtained its MiCA licence in Luxembourg earlier in 2025, and the Luxembourg entity constitutes the American group's primary regulatory and operational base in Europe.

Prior to joining Coinbase, Graftieaux was Global CEO of Bitstamp, one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, which he led through its sale to Robinhood, completed in 2025. During his tenure at Bitstamp, he oversaw the platform's institutional business development and obtained a MiFID licence. He also pursued expansion into derivatives and explored tokenisation. Before Bitstamp, he held senior positions at eBay Europe, where he oversaw regulatory operations and board governance, and at PayPal, where he served as Executive and EMEA Chief Compliance Officer. He is a graduate of HEC Paris. He was born on 26 September 1977 in Charleville-Mézières, France, and holds French nationality.

Jesse Pollak is Head of Base and Coinbase Wallet at Coinbase and a member of the company's executive team, a position he assumed in October 2024. He leads two product lines: Base, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 network designed to provide a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly environment for building on-chain applications, and Coinbase Wallet, a non-custodial wallet product. He also holds the title of Vice President of Engineering at Coinbase.

Pollak created Base in August 2022 and led its mainnet launch in August 2023. In the second quarter of 2024, Base recorded the most transaction fees among Ethereum Layer 2 networks, collecting nearly 12,000 ETH. Pollak has stated that Base does not intend to attract developers through a governance token, citing that model as inefficient. Prior to his current role, he served as Head of Protocols at Coinbase from September 2021, leading protocol strategy and integration across the company's products. Before that, he held consumer and retail engineering leadership roles at Coinbase from 2017 through mid-2021, during which time he managed teams building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet, growing the engineering organization to approximately 200 people. He joined Coinbase in 2017 following the company's acquisition of Clef, a passwordless and two-factor authentication startup he co-founded. Earlier in his career, he held an engineering role at BuzzFeed. Pollak earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Pomona College, where he was involved in varsity soccer, Pomona Ventures, and the Hack! organization. He previously attended Sidwell Friends School.

Paul Grewal is Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary at Coinbase, a position he has held since September 2020. He is responsible for Coinbase's legal, compliance, global intelligence, risk management, and government relations functions. In that capacity, he leads the exchange's engagement with financial services regulators and contributes to the development and rollout of regulated products and services. He also authors public-facing content on consumer protection matters, including Coinbase's work with law enforcement on cases involving digital asset theft.

Prior to Coinbase, Grewal served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook from 2016 to 2020, where he grew the legal team to more than 200 people and oversaw regulatory affairs, litigation, and commercial matters. Before that, he served as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from December 2010 to June 2016. Earlier in his career, he was a partner at Howrey LLP, where his practice concentrated on intellectual property and patent litigation in federal courts. He also held judicial clerkships with Judge Arthur J. Gajarsa of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Judge Sam H. Bell of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He currently serves as an Independent Board Director at Epiq and as a Director on the Nomination and Governance Committee of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. Grewal holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.