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Carra Wu is a Partner, Crypto Investments at Andreessen Horowitz, where she has been based in New York since March 2021. Her investment mandate covers gaming, metaverse, media, consumer, infrastructure, and DAO investments across crypto.

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Wu worked in product management at Apple, focused on search systems and developer-facing products for the App Store, with particular engagement with game developers. Before that, she consulted for Kessel Run at the United States Air Force. She began her career in software engineering at Microsoft, where she built AR/VR applications and games for the HoloLens. She first engaged with crypto in 2017 while working at a data analytics startup. Wu studied Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics at Harvard University, where she was also a board member and dancer with the Harvard Ballet Company. Outside of work, she writes and builds cars.

Cassie Craddock is VP, Managing Director – UK and Europe at Ripple, a role she has held since March 2025, having joined the company in 2017. She is also Board Director of Ripple Markets UK, a position she has held since November 2023, and Advisory Board Member of The Payments Association since December 2024. Based in London, she leads Ripple's European operations across payments, custody, and digital asset infrastructure. She was the named spokesperson for Ripple's January 2026 receipt of an Electronic Money Institution licence and Cryptoasset Registration from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, and for Ripple's full EMI licence granted by Luxembourg's CSSF in February 2026. In April 2026 she stated publicly that digital asset adoption in Europe has moved from pilot to production, citing custody infrastructure as the enabling layer, and pointed to integrations with institutions including Intesa Sanpaolo, BBVA, and DZ Bank as evidence of operational maturity on the XRP Ledger.

Prior to her current title, Craddock held the role of Director of Sales, EMEA at Ripple from October 2019 to October 2021, leading Payment Service Provider sales for RippleNet across the region. She previously worked at fintech startups including Mangopay, where she launched UK operations before the business was acquired by Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, and at payments companies Ixaris and Veridu. She began her career as a professional footballer, playing for Ipswich Town in the FA Women's Premier League. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield.

Cathie Wood is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer at ARK Investment Management LLC, which she founded in January 2014 after registering it as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As CIO and Portfolio Manager, she holds ultimate responsibility for investment decisions and led the development of ARK's philosophy and investment approach, focusing on disruptive innovation across areas including multiomic sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology.

Wood has been an active proponent of Bitcoin as an asset class, with ARK's first investment in Bitcoin dating back approximately ten years. She has publicly commented on Bitcoin's role during regional banking instability, the significance of the January 2024 launch of Bitcoin Spot ETFs, and the outlook for crypto markets in the context of Federal Reserve rate policy. Prior to founding ARK, she spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as CIO of Global Thematic Strategies, where she managed over $5 billion. Before that, she co-founded Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund that managed approximately $800 million in global thematic strategies in 2000. She spent the preceding eighteen years at Jennison Associates LLC, where she held roles as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager, and Director. She began her career at The Capital Group in Los Angeles as an Assistant Economist. Wood received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Cédric Lion is an Analyst at Animoca Brands, where he supports projects seeking to apply blockchain technology. He works to translate nascent ideas into concrete solutions within the Web3 space.

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Cédric O is Co-founder & CEO at Mallow, a technology and internet company he co-founded in 2024, with presence in France and the United States. He also serves as a board member at Solocal, as a co-founding advisor at Mistral AI, and as a member of the strategic committee at La Plateforme_, a nonprofit based in Marseille.

From March 2019 to May 2022, O served as Secretary of State for the Digital Economy in the French government under Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex, reporting to minister Bruno Le Maire. In that role, he worked on France's 5G network rollout, oversaw the TousAntiCovid contact-tracing application, and engaged with technology companies on digital regulation and the French Tech initiative. He was also a political advisor to President Emmanuel Macron from November 2017, and prior to that served as treasurer of the La République En Marche! party during Macron's 2016–17 presidential campaign. Earlier in his career, he worked as a project manager at Safran between 2014 and 2017, and as communications manager at Operationelle from 2007. Between 2022 and 2023, he served on the European Space Agency's High-Level Advisory Group on Human and Robotic Space Exploration. He was also a member of the French government's committee on generative artificial intelligence under the Prime Minister in 2023–2024. O graduated from HEC Paris in 2006, having previously attended Lycée du Parc. He is the brother of Delphine O, former member of the National Assembly.

Chad is Vice President of Technology at Morgan Stanley, specializing in driving tech innovation and solutions within the financial services sector.

Chadi El Adnani is Portfolio Manager at Re7 Capital, where he manages a $1 billion crypto fund focused on delta-neutral and directional DeFi strategies. Prior to this role, he served as Head of Research and Business at SUN ZU Lab, where his work included producing structured analysis of the Web3 space, including category mapping across blockchain infrastructure, blockchain applications, digital currencies, on-chain assets, and institutional financial services.

El Adnani holds degrees from HEC Paris and Telecom Paris.

Charles Aubert-Couturier is Senior Manager Blockchain Cryptoactifs at Blockchain Partner by KPMG, a position he has held since April 2021. In this role, he leads the blockchain and cryptoasset team, with responsibilities spanning strategic studies, scoping, training, and technical and functional recommendations. He operates within the General Management department at senior level.

Alongside his KPMG role, Aubert-Couturier holds several concurrent positions in the French digital assets space. Since September 2023, he has served as Co-Administrator at Adan, the association representing web3 actors in France and Europe. He has also been involved with Bitstack, a Bitcoin savings application, since December 2021; with Swaap Labs, a Paris-based decentralised finance company, since February 2022; and with Tilvest, a cryptocurrency platform targeting wealth management intermediaries, since August 2022. His total professional experience spans eight years. The existing biography references a degree from ESCP Europe and fluency in French, Italian, and English, but these details do not appear in the retrieved source content and are therefore excluded here.

Charles d'Haussy is the CEO of the dYdX Foundation, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, focused on decentralised governance, developer enablement, and operations supporting the dYdX on-chain perpetual trading protocol. He has held the role since September 2022. His responsibilities at the Foundation include overseeing the protocol's migration from a Starkware layer 2 on Ethereum to a sovereign blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, a move designed to fully decentralise the order book and eliminate dependence on third-party infrastructure such as AWS. Under this architecture, DYDX token staking secures the chain and validators are compensated in USDC. He also serves as an advisor to Bit Digital (NASDAQ: BTBT) and CIGP, an independent financial advisory group.

Prior to dYdX, d'Haussy held several roles at ConsenSys: Director of Strategic Initiatives (2019–2021), Managing Director for APAC (2021–2022), and Global Head of Business Development (2022). At ConsenSys, he led central bank digital currency projects with institutions in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Dubai, China, and South Korea, and set up the firm's Hong Kong office. Before ConsenSys, he served as Head of FinTech at InvestHK, the Hong Kong government's investment promotion department, where he co-founded Hong Kong FinTech Week. He also held executive roles in Hong Kong's private sector, including co-founding an electronics company and a role at 8 Securities, where he helped launch the first robo-advisor in Asia. He is the co-author of two books: Block Kong (2021), on Hong Kong's blockchain leaders, and Arabian Crypto (2025), on the crypto industry in Arab countries. He studied at ESC Rennes and also studied in Canada and China. He holds SFC licences 1 and 4, a Certified Bitcoin Professional designation, and completed a blockchain business strategy programme at Be9 London.

Charles Guillemet is Chief Technology Officer at Ledger, a position he has held since July 2019. In this role, he oversees software engineering, security research, product security, infrastructure, architecture, and innovation. He joined Ledger in December 2017 as Chief Security Officer, where he founded the company's internal security research team, the Ledger Donjon, oversaw security assessments of Ledger's products, and procured independent security certifications for the Ledger Nano S and Ledger Nano X. He has led the development of open source hardware and software security tools and has overseen security assessments of competitor devices, disclosing vulnerabilities under responsible disclosure practices.

Under his technical leadership, Ledger launched two hardware wallet devices featuring secure touchscreens — the Ledger Flex and the Ledger Stax — and introduced the Ledger Recover service, which uses Shamir's cryptographic algorithm to split a user's seed phrase into three encrypted fragments distributed across three independent backup providers. He has also developed the Ledger Key Ring Protocol, a confidentiality-focused cryptographic protocol for the blockchain environment. Guillemet has spoken publicly on the quantum computing threat to elliptic curve cryptography and its implications for blockchain security. Before joining Ledger, he spent approximately ten years in cryptography and hardware security, including a role as Cryptosystems Design Expert at Tiempo S.A.S. and a position as Technical Manager at CEA-LETI ITSEF, a Common Criteria-accredited security evaluation laboratory. He also served as a lecturer at ENSIMAG. He holds a Master of Science in Cryptography and Security from ENSIMAG, where he graduated as valedictorian, and a Master 2 in Security, Cryptology and Coding of Information Systems from Université Joseph Fourier.

Charles Hoskinson is CEO and Founder of Input Output Group (IOG, also known as IOHK), the engineering and research company behind the Cardano blockchain. He co-founded Ethereum in late 2013 alongside Vitalik Buterin as one of five original founders, holding the position of chief executive before being removed in 2014 following a dispute over whether the project should operate as a commercial or nonprofit entity. In late 2014, he formed IOHK with former Ethereum colleague Jeremy Wood to build cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Cardano, IOHK's primary project, is a public blockchain and smart contract platform hosting the ADA cryptocurrency. Hoskinson chose not to pursue venture capital for Cardano, citing concerns about blockchain principles and the risk of outsized project control. IOHK has sponsored blockchain research at the University of Edinburgh, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Wyoming.

Prior to Ethereum, Hoskinson founded the Bitcoin Education Project in 2013, served as founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's education committee, and helped establish the Cryptocurrency Research Group. He also co-founded Invictus Innovations, a Bitcoin-related start-up. In September 2021, he donated $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University's philosophy department to establish the Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. He contributed $1.5 million to fund a 2023 Galileo Project expedition led by Avi Loeb to recover debris from meteorite CNEOS 2014-01-08 near Papua New Guinea. Outside of crypto, he operates an 11,000-acre bison ranch, owns a construction company, and runs an anti-aging healthcare clinic in rural Wyoming. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder to study mathematics.

Charles Jansen is Managing Director, Digital Assets, DeFi & Tokenization at S&P Global, currently serving as Head of DeFi Transformation within S&P Global Ratings, a position he has held since June 2024. In March 2026, he represented S&P Global at a breakfast event during EthCC in Cannes, organised by The Big Whale in partnership with DFNS, Bitwise, Zama, Apollo, and Native, focused on how institutions are approaching on-chain finance.

Jansen has been at S&P Global since April 2012, accumulating over 14 years at the firm across a series of progressively senior roles. Prior to his current position, he served as Senior Director and Head of DeFi Transformation from April 2022 to June 2024. Before moving into DeFi, he led Cognitive Automation within S&P Global's Chief Data Office and later within S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he built and managed a global team of 58 automation specialists, data scientists, machine learning engineers, cloud engineers, and project managers across India, the Philippines, Pakistan, the US, and Latin America. That team delivered automation of the Ownership, Estimates, Financial, Transaction, and Translation groups at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He also evaluated and selected data extraction machine learning vendors for partnerships and acquisitions during that period. Earlier roles at the firm focused on research and automation within Capital IQ. Before joining S&P Global, he worked independently as a developer from 2009 to 2012, working in C, PHP, Python, SQL, and HTML5/CSS3.

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.

Chris Chazin is Managing Director and Head of Transaction Banking Product at TD Securities, part of TD Bank Group. In that role, Chazin has presented TD's embedded banking integration with Workday for U.S. business clients and has spoken at Nacha's Payments 2026 conference on embedded banking. Chazin also serves as a Director on the 2026 Board of Directors of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), the payments industry trade association. Chazin was previously a Director in Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citi.

Chris Cox is Head of Investor Services at Citi, responsible for custody, fund services and execution services within the Services division. Appointed in 2025, he previously led Citi's Trade and Working Capital Solutions and held senior securities services roles. Over three decades in financial services.

Chris Dixon is Founder and Managing Partner of a16z crypto, the dedicated crypto and blockchain investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz, which he founded in 2018. He has been a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz since 2013. Through five dedicated funds, a16z crypto has raised more than $9.8 billion to invest in crypto and blockchain companies. Dixon ranked first on the 2022 Forbes Midas List.

Prior to his current role, Dixon co-founded Founder Collective in 2009, a seed-stage venture capital fund. He also founded two startups: SiteAdvisor, an internet security company acquired by McAfee in 2006, and Hunch, a recommendation technology company acquired by eBay in 2011. Earlier in his career, he worked as a professional programmer at the high-speed options trading firm Arbitrade, and joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2003. He has made personal angel investments in companies including Uber, Venmo, Pinterest, Kickstarter, BuzzFeed, and Makerbot. In January 2024, he published Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House), which became a New York Times bestseller. Dixon holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Chris Old is Global VP of Organic Growth at Crypto.com, a role he assumed in May 2025. He leads global strategy and execution across SEO, AIO, ASO and full-funnel organic content, with a mandate to scale growth across all products and markets. He manages teams across multiple regions.

Old joined Crypto.com from IG Group, where he served as Head of Organic Growth from May 2024 to May 2025, and prior to that as SEO Lead from October 2019 to April 2024, and SEO Manager from July 2018 to October 2019. At IG Group he oversaw SEO, web content, ASO, market analysts, social media, influencer, YouTube and podcasts, scaled the international SEO team across 27 countries, and grew organic traffic by 10x and organic revenue by 9x. He also developed the Club Sandwich Model, a generative AI content production process that reduced production time by 50% and doubled output. Before IG Group, he held SEO-related roles at Cancer Research UK and Truly Experiences. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies from the University of Nottingham.

Christian Leger is Head of Distribution – Switzerland at Franklin Templeton, based in Zurich, where he is responsible for business development and the distribution of the firm's investment strategies to wholesale and institutional clients. He leads a team of distribution professionals in Switzerland and works in coordination with Franklin Templeton's regional distribution teams and its alternatives distribution specialists. At the Web3 Banking Symposium in Zurich, Leger argued that payment rail infrastructure, the emergence of wallet-native models, and Franklin Templeton's own blockchain-related developments represent areas banks and asset managers can no longer ignore. He has stated that in a wallet-native world, clients would no longer operate inside bank platforms, reversing the traditional client–bank relationship and forcing institutions to define their value proposition. His recommended response for institutions facing deposit outflows to stablecoins and tokenized yield-bearing assets is to own infrastructure, build on blockchain, and position as wallet service providers.

Prior to Franklin Templeton, Leger was Managing Director and Head of Switzerland at Nuveen, with a focus on institutional clients and private wealth investors. Before that, he held the roles of Swiss Country Head and Head of European Banks at Allianz Global Investors. He began his career at Capital Group, where he held various senior positions over 17 years. He holds a BA (Honours) from SOAS University of London, where he studied Politics and Arabic.

Christian Rau is Senior Vice President Crypto and Fintech Enablement at Mastercard Europe, a position he has held since April 2022. In this role, he works with European and global account and product teams, customers, and partners to design and deploy digital payment propositions. He leads Mastercard Europe's Web3 business and serves as the primary voice on the company's crypto strategy across the region.

Rau's mandate covers both on-ramp and off-ramp services, enabling users to buy digital assets via Mastercard and convert them back to fiat. He is directly involved in partnerships with blockchain networks including Solana, Avalanche, and Polygon, and in the rollout of Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program, which counts Binance and Bybit among its participants. He has publicly addressed stablecoin adoption in the EU, including participation in an XRPL roundtable panel discussion on that topic. Prior to his current role, Rau served as General Manager of the Mastercard Vienna office, responsible for the Austrian market. Before that, between 2015 and 2019, he headed the Central European Product Team, during which he oversaw the introduction of Debit Mastercard in Germany and Switzerland. He joined Mastercard in 2012, having previously held positions in the telecommunications and banking sectors. No educational background is stated in the available source material.

Christine Moy is a Partner, Head of Digital Assets, Data & AI Strategy at Apollo Global Management, a position she has held since April 2022. In this role, she leads efforts to apply blockchain and data technologies to Apollo's businesses and plays a central role in Apollo's strategy to invest in digital asset companies focused on transforming the financial services sector. A concrete expression of this mandate was Apollo's investment in Morpho, a DeFi lending protocol, under which Apollo agreed to acquire up to 90 million MORPHO tokens — approximately 9% of total supply — over four years. Moy has described DeFi as a "paradigm shift" for traditional finance. She also participated as a speaker at a March 2026 institutional finance event during EthCC in Cannes, where her listed title was Head of Digital Assets, Data & AI Strategy.

Prior to joining Apollo, Moy spent approximately 18.5 years at J.P. Morgan, where she held a series of progressively senior roles. She co-led the 2020 launch of Onyx, J.P. Morgan's blockchain unit, and served as Global Head of Blockchain & Crypto from February 2016 to February 2022. She also held the titles of Global Head of Liink and Global Head of Metaverse within the Onyx team, the latter being her final role before departing in early 2022. Earlier in her J.P. Morgan career, she worked across syndicated loan trading, asset-backed securities origination and syndication, global commodities sales and marketing, and private bank product and platform development. Moy is a graduate of Brown University.

Christophe Barraud is Head of Discretionary Management and Research at LIOR Global Partners, a global macro discretionary asset manager based in Monaco, a position he has held since October 2025. In this role he oversees research and discretionary portfolio management, applying a top-down macroeconomic framework that integrates sustainability into the investment process.

Prior to joining LIOR Global Partners, Barraud spent nearly fourteen years as Chief Economist and Strategist at Market Securities Group, where he also served as CEO of Market Securities Monaco S.A.M. from November 2023 through the end of 2025. Over that period, Bloomberg ranked him Top Forecaster of the U.S. Economy in 2012–2020 and 2022–2024, Top Forecaster of the Eurozone Economy in 2015–2019 and 2022–2024, and Top Forecaster of the Chinese Economy in 2017–2020 and 2024. In January 2026, Bloomberg recognised him simultaneously across all three regions, covering the 2025 ranking cycle. MarketWatch named him Forecaster of the Year in 2020. His research is addressed to institutional investors including banks, insurers, asset managers, and pension funds, as well as public bodies; he is regularly consulted by the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance and by the Elysée. Since 2021, he has been Adjunct Lecturer in the MSc Finance programme at ESCP Business School. On the academic side, he holds a Master II in Finance and wrote a thesis in Financial Economics at Paris-Dauphine University focused on parallels between the sports betting market and stock markets. In 2021, he was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit, a distinction conferred by Bruno Le Maire on 10 November 2021.

Christopher Goforth is Director, Digital Assets Deputy BSA/AML Officer at Charles Schwab, a position he has held since December 2025 and is based in Southlake, Texas. His mandate sits within Finance and Accounting at the Director level, with a focus on digital assets alongside BSA/AML compliance responsibilities.

Goforth has seventeen years of experience in financial services. The nine years prior to his current role were concentrated on AML surveillance, model development, and digital assets. Before joining Charles Schwab, he spent over thirteen years at Fidelity Investments across a range of progressively senior roles. His most recent position there was Director, Digital Assets, Financial Crimes Analytics, held from January 2024 to November 2025. Prior to that he served as Senior Manager, Digital Assets, Financial Crimes Analytics from July 2022 to December 2023, and Lead Analyst, AML Surveillance from October 2021 to July 2022. Earlier Fidelity roles included Sr. Analyst and Analyst in AML Fraud Surveillance, a Managing Director position in General Management, and customer service functions dating back to 2008.

Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines is Co-CEO and Co-founder at Dfns, a Wallets-as-a-Service platform providing web3 wallet infrastructure for digital asset operations. He has held the Co-CEO role since November 2023. At Dfns, he co-founded the company in 2020, initially serving as Chief Operations Officer before transitioning to Co-CEO. The company is a Techstars alumnus.

Beyond Dfns, he serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Super Capital, a venture capital entity that brings together entrepreneurs, angel investors, and consultants to support startups. He is also an angel investor at WAGMI Ventures, a web3-focused investor syndicate. Since November 2024, he has chaired the Cybersecurity Committee at the Ligue pour la sécurité du web3 (LSW3), a public-private association focused on security for cryptocurrency and blockchain infrastructures. Earlier in his career, he founded and led Jollyclick from 2014 to 2019, and prior to that founded Aion from 2010 to 2015. He was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Le Village by CA in 2020 and at Techstars in 2021. He also served as a board member at Super Capital from 2022 and as Marketing Chair for Security Applications at the MPC Alliance. His background spans HR Tech, sports, food, and social media sectors. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Université de Bordeaux and a Master's degree in Management and Organizational Behavior Studies from Université Paris Dauphine. He is a laureate of the Institut de l'Engagement.

Christopher Jensen is Portfolio Manager and Director of Digital Asset Research at Franklin Templeton, where he holds two concurrent roles. As Portfolio Manager, effective November 2024, he co-manages an actively managed digital asset token fund for qualified investors. As Director of Digital Asset Research, a position he has held since February 2024, he leads a team of fundamental analysts covering digital asset token analysis, including market and competitive analysis, tokenomic design, financial modeling, valuation, key personnel diligence, technical due diligence, and risk management frameworks. He also co-leads the Digital Asset Investment Strategies Group's Investment Committee.

Jensen joined Franklin Templeton in 2015 as a Vice President and Senior Research Analyst in the Fixed Income group. In 2019, he became Head of Credit Data Science and Digital Lending Strategies, a team that combines machine learning, big data analytics, and fundamental credit analysis to invest in marketplace loans and other digital asset classes. Prior to Franklin Templeton, he was a Principal at SLR Capital Partners, an alternative asset manager in New York focused on cash flow, asset-based lending, and specialty finance, where he worked from April 2011 to May 2015. He also previously served as an Assistant Vice President at CIT Group, now a division of First Citizens Bank. His career spans approximately 22 years across venture capital, private equity, and private credit with a focus on technology investing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Princeton University, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Certificate in Data Science from Stanford University. He is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Christopher Perkins is Head of Franklin Crypto, the active digital asset management division Franklin Templeton launched in June 2026 following its acquisition of 250 Digital Asset Management, which he led as CEO. Before 250 Digital, he was Managing Partner and President of CoinFund. Earlier, he was Global Co-Head of Futures, Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage at Citi and US Head of Derivatives Intermediation at Lehman Brothers. He co-invented the Composite Ether Staking Rate (CESR) benchmark and sits on the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee. A former US Marine Corps captain, he holds degrees from the US Naval Academy and Georgetown University.

Chris Zuehlke is a Partner at DRW and Global Head of Cumberland, DRW's crypto trading subsidiary, providing institutional digital-asset liquidity. Nearly two decades at DRW; serves on the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Claire Balva is General Manager at Adan, the French nonprofit representing Web3 actors in France and Europe, a position she has held since September 2025. Prior to this, she served as VP Strategy at Deblock from January 2024 to September 2025. Deblock is a fintech combining a current account with a self-custody crypto wallet, founded by former Revolut and Ledger employees, licensed by the Bank of France and the AMF, and having raised $26 million. She also serves as a consultant at BFM Business, where she covers economic and financial news, a role she has held since June 2021.

Balva has worked in the blockchain and crypto sector since 2015, when she co-founded Blockchain Partner, a French blockchain consulting firm that worked with clients including the Banque de France, BNP Paribas, L'Oréal, and Aéroports de Paris. Blockchain Partner was acquired by KPMG in 2021, at which point Balva joined KPMG France as Blockchain and Crypto Director, a role she held until September 2022. She subsequently worked as an independent consultant in crypto advisory, conferences, and expertise from October 2022 to January 2024. She is co-author of Bitcoin et cryptomonnaies faciles, published in 2022, and is a board member of Le Cercle du Coin. She launched the podcast Unhosted in April 2024. She holds a degree from ESCP Business School, where she studied from 2011 to 2015 with a specialisation in entrepreneurship and strategic consulting, including study periods in Madrid and Berlin.

Claire Calmejane is a former Group Chief Innovation Officer at Société Générale, appointed to that role in September 2018 reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer and serving as a member of the Group Management Committee. Her mandate at Société Générale covered fostering innovation culture, driving venturing efforts in internal and external startups, identifying market trends, and developing partnerships across the external fintech and technology landscape. She led the AI team contributing to €500 million in projected value by 2025, scaled the digital business from 3% to 30% direct sales, created SG Ventures — the corporate venture arm steering €400 million in startup investment — and initiated two business lines covering digital assets and banking as a service. She also served as a non-executive director of Boursorama, including as Chairwoman of its audit committee.

Prior to Société Générale, Calmejane held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, where she served as Risk Transformation Director and previously as Innovation Director, establishing the Innovation Labs and the Digital Academy. Before that, she worked at Capgemini Consulting from 2006, focusing on technology transformation for financial institutions, and contributed to a digital transformation study conducted in partnership with MIT in 2011. She has lectured on the fintech landscape and digital transformation at MIT, CFTE, Oxford, and HEC. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Future of AI and Financial Services group. She holds an engineering degree from EPITA, where she graduated first in her class in Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science, and a Master's degree from HEC. She was also a visiting researcher at MIT.

Clara Chappaz is Ambassador for Digital Affairs and Artificial Intelligence at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a position she has held since December 2025. Prior to this appointment, she served in the French government as Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies from December 2024 to October 2025, having first entered government as Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies in September 2024, making her France's first AI minister. During her ministerial tenure, she unveiled the National Institute for AI Evaluation and Safety (INESIA), launched Dare AI — a plan for integrating artificial intelligence across France's economy by 2030 — and led the creation of a 91-partner coalition to address AI's environmental impact at the Paris AI Action Summit in February 2025. The French government also announced a $400 million investment in public interest AI at that summit. She was named to TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2025.

Before entering government, Chappaz served as Director of La French Tech from October 2021 to September 2024, where she led the mission supporting the growth of the French startup sector in France and internationally. Prior to that, she held C-level positions at Vestiaire Collective, serving as Chief Growth Officer from January 2019 and Chief Business Officer from October 2020 to October 2021. Earlier in her career, she served as director general of Zalora, starting in 2015. Chappaz holds a Master of Science from ESSEC Business School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Clara Shi is CEO of WorldFirst, the cross-border payments and financial services provider for SMEs that is a subsidiary of Ant International, and holds the rank of Vice President in Ant Group's International Business Group. Shi joined Ant in October 2017. Before that, Shi was Head of International Subsidiary Banking for Commercial Banking at HSBC Bank (China) from 2015 to 2017, following around twelve years at Citibank (China) in Global Corporate & Investment Banking, ultimately as North China Head of the Global Subsidiary Group.

Clarisse Hagège is Co-founder & CEO of Dfns, a cybersecurity company specialised in wallet infrastructure for web3, which she founded in 2020. Dfns provides wallet infrastructure that helps organisations manage digital asset operations and onboard users into crypto. The company has raised $30.6M across two funding rounds and has been accelerated by Techstars, Station F, and Crédit Agricole. Alongside her role at Dfns, Hagège serves on the board of the MPC Alliance, where she focuses on raising industry awareness and adoption of multiparty computation technology. She also mentors for the Techstars Web3 Launchpad and advises crypto startups at Station F.

Before founding Dfns, Hagège spent ten years in investment banking, holding roles at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Crédit Agricole CIB. At Crédit Agricole CIB, she became the youngest person to serve as Chief of Staff to the CEO, and also held roles spanning research analysis, wealth management, and global coverage. She initiated the bank's first hydrogen financing project. Her academic background includes a BSc in Geopolitics and History from Sorbonne, an MSc in Finance from Sciences Po, and an MSc in Applied Economics from Dauphine University. She splits her time between New York and Paris.

Clément Garcia is a graduate of ESSEC Business School and holds a certificate in technological entrepreneurship from edX. He is currently working at Stealth.

Clément Moutier is Head of Prime Sales Hedge Funds, Continental Europe, at Société Générale CIB. A graduate of INSEEC, he is also a volunteer with the French Red Cross.

Clément Peace is an analyst at The Big Whale, specializing in digital assets and DeFi.

Colas Gabriac is a Consultant at Sia Partners, where he has focused on crypto and blockchain since December 2018. His areas of coverage include public blockchains, decentralised finance (DeFi), automated market makers (AMMs), MEV, high-frequency trading, stablecoins, and tokenisation. In November 2024, he was interviewed by The Big Whale on the subject of blockchain-based AI agents, discussing the mechanics of LLM-based autonomous agents, the Truth Terminal case study, and the emergence of AI-managed investment vehicles such as AI16z. He explained how AI agents trained on open-source large language models can develop distinct behaviours and interact autonomously on-chain, including executing financial strategies on DeFi protocols such as Aave or Morpho.

Prior to joining Sia Partners, Gabriac worked as a Blockchain Developer at Lombard Odier Group from February to August 2018, based between Grenoble and Geneva, and as a Blockchain Analyst at Allianz France from March to August 2017 in Paris. He holds an Engineer's degree with a specialisation in Quantitative Finance from ECE Paris, where he studied from 2015 to 2018, and completed preparatory classes in Mathematics at Lycée Berthollet in Annecy. He holds the AMF certification, issued by the French financial markets regulator in October 2018.

Colborn Bell is Co-Founder and Director at zeroone, a cultural distribution platform enabling individuals to create, collect, and connect, and simultaneously serves as Founder and Director of the Museum of Crypto Art (MoCA), a nonprofit digital museum he established in April 2020. At MoCA, he oversees a metaverse-based institution that exhibits work from hundreds of digital artists. He co-founded zeroone in October 2022, with the platform formally headquartered in New York.

Bell's entry into digital assets began in 2016, with his first ether purchase in February 2017. His interest in smart contracts and early-stage crypto projects, including participation in multiple ICOs, preceded his pivot toward NFTs, which accelerated following his attendance at the Satoshi conference in January 2020. That year he was also engaged to conduct a compliance review of the NFT marketplace SuperRare. Prior to his work in digital art and crypto, Bell spent approximately six years as a Private Wealth Manager at a family office, from May 2014 to May 2020, and held an earlier position as Trader and Portfolio Analyst at Abacus Wealth Partners from August 2012 to April 2014. Between 2017 and 2020, he founded and directed Frontier Technology at 5th Element Group, PBC, and separately founded Finite Square Well. From August 2021 to June 2023, he served as Artistic Director at DMINTI. Bell studied finance and psychology in New York and holds a degree from Columbia University.

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.

Coty de Monteverde is Global Head of Crypto & Blockchain at Banco Santander, leading the group's Blockchain Center of Excellence and its DLT initiatives since 2016. A telecom engineer (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and former Deloitte consultant with 16+ years at Santander, she is also Vice-Chairwoman of the Alastria blockchain association.

Cristiano Ventricelli is Vice President – Senior Analyst, Digital Economy at Moody's Ratings, where his work focuses on the analysis of digital assets, tokenisation, and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. He has contributed analysis on digital bond ratings, including Moody's assessments of digitally native notes issued by the Government of Hong Kong SAR and Bank of Communications HK Branch, participating as a speaker in Moody's analyst briefings on both transactions.

Ventricelli has written on topics including real-world asset tokenisation, the role of Ethereum as infrastructure for tokenised assets, stablecoin risk following the USDC depeg during the 2023 banking crisis, and the risks associated with private asset tokenisation. He has argued publicly that blockchain technology is undergoing a structural shift from retail and cryptocurrency use toward institutional adoption, with applications spanning digital bonds, central bank digital currencies, and asset digitisation across sectors including finance and luxury goods. He has also addressed the intersection of cyber risk and digital finance, contributing to Moody's 2025 outlook on the digital economy. His published commentary spans outlets including CoinDesk and The Big Whale, and he has participated in Moody's Focus on Finance podcast series.

Cyrus Fazel is the Founder and CEO of SwissBorg, a crypto wealth management platform he co-founded with Anthony Lesoismier-Geniaux in 2017 and has led since June 2016. His role encompasses overall strategic direction of the platform, which offers cryptocurrency buying and selling, yield strategies, and investment tools across multiple fiat currencies. Under his tenure, SwissBorg launched a Meta-Exchange (MEX), an aggregator combining access to both centralised and decentralised exchanges, designed to give retail users access to competitive pricing across more than sixty tokens. He has also overseen the development of self-learning algorithms for investment mandates, the SwissBorg Earn product, a Launchpad, and a gamified Bitcoin prediction app. The company raised 50 million CHF in its ICO and subsequently obtained French PSAN registration as a Digital Asset Service Provider. In a 2022 letter to the SwissBorg community, Fazel reported 680,000 users, 38,433 Premium users, and 285 employees, up from 85 in March 2021.

Prior to founding SwissBorg, Fazel served as Head of Investment Management Platform and Senior Hedge Fund Advisor at SEQUOIA Asset Management SA from 2014 to 2016, where he built an institutional investment platform. From 2010 to 2014, he was Vice President at Aramis Capital SA and FORT LP, conducting hedge fund selection analysis. Earlier roles include Portfolio Advisor at Julius Baer from 2007 to 2009, Junior Investment Manager at FINEP SAS in 2006, and an internship with the UNDP in 2005. Between 2016 and 2017, he co-organised Startup Weekend FinTech and Blockchain in Geneva. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Business Management from EDHEC Business School and a BS in Finance and Management from the International Business School.

Daniel Bringle is Director of Crypto Operations at Charles Schwab, a position he has held since October 2025. His role sits within the Operations department at the director level, based out of Westlake, Texas.

Bringle brings approximately 19 years of experience in back and middle office operations and trading desk functions. Before joining Schwab, he held a series of roles at Robinhood spanning September 2022 to October 2025, progressing from Crypto Operations Senior Specialist through Crypto Operations Lead for Settlements, Manager of Crypto Operations for Wallet Ops, Manager of Crypto Operations covering Money Movements (including settlements, wallet operations, and trading operations), and ultimately Senior Manager of Crypto Operations for Money Movements. Earlier in his career he worked in portfolio accounting and performance reporting using Fiserv Security APL and Advent Axys, including composite maintenance and GIPS verification. He also held trading responsibilities managing six investment models across 15 WRAP platforms, handling best execution for institutional and non-directed SMA accounts and the settlement of those trades. At Advisory Research he managed reconciliation of domestic and international strategies, cost basis reconciliation, corporate actions processing, and trade settlement via Omgeo TradeSuite, Advent DTCC, and Omgeo CTM. His earlier career began at Hillman Capital. No educational details are present in the available source content.

Daniel Coheur is Global Head of Digital Assets and Fund Distribution at Apex Group, a role he assumed following Apex's acquisition of Tokeny, the tokenisation and compliance infrastructure provider he co-founded and led as Chief Commercial Officer for eight years. At Apex, he drives the group's global digital asset strategy, integrating tokenisation, on-chain compliance, and fund distribution solutions across its network of fund managers.

Coheur co-founded Tokeny in November 2018 and also co-founded T-REX Network, a protocol built on the ERC-3643 standard that ties compliance to investor identity at the smart contract level, enabling regulatory requirements to be layered through the identity and attestation layer without modifying the underlying asset. Prior to founding Tokeny, he held roles scaling transaction-based enterprises in capital markets at Clearstream Banking, part of Deutsche Börse, and in telecommunications at Syniverse, owned by The Carlyle Group. Throughout his career he has mentored and funded several start-ups and founded his own investment boutique. He is based in Walferdange, Luxembourg.

Daniel Seifert is VP Regional Managing Director, EMEA at Coinbase, a position he has held since October 2022. Based in Dublin, Ireland, he leads Coinbase's operations across the EMEA region, with responsibility for the company's market-by-market expansion strategy in Europe. He co-authored Coinbase's November 2022 announcement of five EMEA business leadership appointments and has been a public signatory of key European regulatory milestones, including the company's VASP registration in France, obtained from the AMF in December 2023. He has also represented Coinbase publicly on European regulatory matters, including the company's selection of Ireland as its MiCA entity location and its BaFin licence obtained in Germany in 2021.

Prior to joining Coinbase, Seifert served as COO at Solaris from February 2020 to October 2022. He holds a PhD from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, completed between 2007 and 2010, and a business degree from ESCP Business School, completed between 2003 and 2005.

Daniel Ung is Head of Quantitative Research & Analysis for EMEA and APAC within SPDR ETF Model Portfolio Solutions at State Street Global Advisors, now State Street Investment Management. He holds the CFA, CAIA and FRM designations. He has authored SPDR research on asset allocation, including a 2020 paper on investing amid political risk around the US elections.

Dan Maggs is Senior Innovation Manager, Digital Assets at ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a position he has held since October 2024, based in Amsterdam. His role sits within the Product function at the bank's Digital Assets unit.

Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Maggs spent nearly nine years at Lloyds Banking Group across a series of progressively senior roles. From January 2022 to October 2024 he held the position of Senior Manager, Blockchain & Digital Currencies in Commercial Banking, where he worked on the application of digital currencies and distributed ledger technology within financial services. In that capacity he was involved in Lloyds' participation in Fnality International's Sterling Fnality Payment System, which in December 2023 completed what was described as the first blockchain-based payments using central bank funds held at the Bank of England's RTGS system. Earlier at Lloyds, he held roles in strategy for Business Banking, loan product management in Commercial Banking, and completed the Commercial Banking Graduate Programme between 2015 and 2017, covering pricing and capital allocation, SME relationship banking, capital markets, and business development. In 2023, he completed a course in Blockchain Innovation and Application at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dan Ross is Co-Founder and CTO at Native, a digital assets insurance company headquartered in London, founded in 2024. Native focuses on insurance products for digital assets businesses, with $2.6M in total funding. Ross co-founded the company in June 2024 and has spoken publicly on institutional adoption of on-chain finance, including at a breakfast event organised by The Big Whale during EthCC in Cannes on 31 March 2026, in partnership with DFNS, Bitwise, Zama, Apollo, and S&P Global.

Before co-founding Native, Ross spent nearly four years at Superscript as a Web3, Crypto and Blockchain Underwriter, a period that included a role as Digital Assets Underwriting Innovation Manager from September 2023 until his departure in June 2024. Prior to Superscript, he held a three-month position as Insurance Solution Designer at Cover Genius in Sydney, and before that spent two and a half years as a Cyber Underwriting Assistant at MS Amlin in London. His professional focus throughout has been on blockchain and cryptocurrency risk, distributed consensus protocols, and the application of technology in the decentralised space.

Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, the company that issues the USDC stablecoin. In his role, he leads Circle's strategic and policy positioning, including the company's expansion into European markets. He has been central to Circle's decision to establish its European headquarters in Paris, citing the French regulatory environment and political engagement with digital assets as determining factors. Circle has submitted applications to the AMF to obtain PSAN (service provider for digital assets) status and to become an electronic money institution in France, with an stated objective of issuing a digital euro in Europe.

Disparte has publicly positioned USDC as distinct from algorithmic stablecoins such as Terra Luna's UST, framing it instead as a competitor to Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum.

Daren Matsuoka is a partner on the crypto investment team at a16z crypto, where he supports deal flow and portfolio companies by extracting data from public blockchains. His LinkedIn profile lists his title as Head of Data and Fund Strategy, with his current role at Andreessen Horowitz beginning in February 2021.

Prior to a16z, Matsuoka was a Senior Manager on the Data Science team at SVB Capital, where he worked from November 2014 to February 2021. In that role, he created a relational database from unstructured data to house proprietary investment information, built an analytics platform to support the firm's venture capital investment strategy, and managed data operations including oversight of a ten-person team in India. Before SVB Capital, he completed financial training programs at Morgan Stanley and State Street. Matsuoka holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

David Calabaza is Digital Assets Specialist at BNP Paribas Securities Services, based in Madrid, where he drives the integration of distributed ledger technology and digital assets in securities services.

David Crawford is Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at Pay.UK, the operator of the UK's Faster Payment System, and is based in Edinburgh. He joined Pay.UK from NatWest, where he most recently led payments for the retail bank, overseeing the digitisation of the customer experience and the re-platforming of the debit card and pay now platform. Before that, he led the current account and savings businesses at NatWest. He has more than 30 years of experience in financial services, with expertise in product management, business transformation and large-scale programme delivery.

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.

David Durouchoux is Deputy CEO of Société Générale - FORGE, holding responsibility for client relationship, business development, regulator relations, market infrastructures, and coverage of central banks and CBDCs. He has held this role since the entity's creation in March 2018. Within FORGE, his mandate spans primary markets, client-facing activity, and engagement with regulators and market infrastructures. He has represented FORGE at institutional forums addressing stablecoins, DeFi lending, and tokenisation, including a panel at ODDO BHF in Paris in February 2026 focused on the integration of stablecoins into institutional strategies.

Before joining FORGE, Durouchoux was Chief Operating Officer at Société Générale's Corporate and Investment Banking division in France, where he oversaw the IT service for SG Securities Services with a budget of 150 million euros under management, covering operational risk, HR and sourcing, and advisory responsibilities to the CIO. Prior to Société Générale, he held a Financial and Legal Project Manager role at LVMH Group and was involved in co-founding financial projects. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector. He holds an engineering and project management degree from ISEN and a qualification in mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and corporate finance from Arts et Métiers (ENSAM). He is a native French speaker with full professional proficiency in English.

David Prinçay is Président (France) at Binance, where he leads the company's French operations. He has spoken publicly on blockchain and cryptocurrency topics, including at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023 and the Paris Finance Forum.

His professional skills span project management, business strategy, business development, cryptocurrency, and blockchain, among others. He holds a Specialized Master's Degree in Management de grands projets.

Declan Fox is Director of Product Management at Consensys, where he serves as Product Lead for Linea, the company's Layer 2 network built on zkEVM technology. He has held the Director of Product Management title since July 2024, while his role as Product Lead for Linea dates to February 2023. In his capacity leading Linea, Fox has overseen the development of the network's token launch, including its tokenomic architecture, a native ETH yield mechanism via Lido V3 for bridged ETH deposits, an ETH burn mechanism designed to align Linea with Ethereum's Layer 1, and a consortium-led governance model. The native yield generated from staked bridged ETH is directed into a fund used to reward users who deploy liquidity on the network, including on Etherex, Linea's primary DEX.

Prior to his current role, Fox was Senior Product Manager at Consensys for Consensys Rollups from May 2022 to September 2023. Before joining Consensys, he spent nearly three years at Luther Systems in London, progressing from Product Manager to Lead Product Manager in blockchain. Earlier in his career, he co-founded What's Wellbeing, a wellness consultancy, and before that spent two years at Jaguar Land Rover as a Product Programme Manager, working on autonomous driving systems and battery electric vehicles. Fox holds a degree from Cardiff University.

Deep Shah is Lead, Gnosis App at Gnosis, based in London, where he leads the consumer business. He was part of the founding team at Gnosis Pay, where he led distribution from inception. In Gnosis Pay's first year of operation, the product crossed $50 million in payment volume. He previously held the title of Head of Growth at Gnosis from September 2024 to September 2025, before moving into his current role leading the Gnosis App in September 2025.

Gnosis Pay is a decentralised payments product designed to function as a blockchain-based bank account, offering users an IBAN, stablecoin spending via a Visa debit card, and peer-to-peer bank transfers. Shah has described the product's objective as delivering a neobanking experience without requiring users to engage with technical Web3 concepts. As of the period covered by the source interviews, Gnosis Pay had over 6,000 active cardholders and approximately 20,000 people on a waiting list across around 35 countries, with France representing roughly 20% of the active user base. Shah is also currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of Ziya, a role he has held since March 2025. Prior to Gnosis, he worked in the founder's office at Catapult, a software development company, from August 2022 to June 2023. He was a founding member of the London Business School Blockchain Society and attended London Business School.

Dharmesh Sethi is a Managing Director at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, based in New York. He joined SMBC's Americas Division in December 2025 as Head of Cash Management Product & Technology, working with the Head of Cash Management Americas and the COO leadership team on the division's transformation agenda. SMFG's 2026 integrated report presents Sethi as Transaction Banking Chief Product & Operation Officer and Global Chief Information Officer for Transaction Banking. He has more than two decades of experience in technology-enabled business transformation at global financial institutions including Bank of America and Wells Fargo, spanning cash management, payments infrastructure, treasury products and capital markets operations.

Diederik van Wersch is Regional Sales Director, ASEAN at Chainalysis, based in Singapore, a position he has held since November 2023. In this role, he oversees the company's commercial activities across the ASEAN region, covering sales and business development in the blockchain analytics space. He has spoken publicly on cryptocurrency adoption trends in Asia, noting that countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines are significant drivers of demand, particularly around DeFi, gaming, and cross-border money transfers via crypto and stablecoins. He has identified the scale of crypto companies headquartered in Asia — including Bybit, Crypto.com, BitGet, Gate.io, and Animoca Brands — as a distinguishing feature of the regional market relative to Europe and the US.

Van Wersch has been at Chainalysis since March 2018. Prior to his current position, he served as Director of Mid-Market Sales from November 2022 to November 2023, Head of Mid-Market Sales EMEA from August 2021 to December 2022, and in a Business Development EMEA role from March 2018 to August 2021, all based in London. Before joining Chainalysis, he was Head of Business Development Canada at POLYAS GmbH from July 2016 to February 2018, where he opened the company's Canadian branch in Vancouver. Earlier, he worked as Senior Sales Manager for the Netherlands and UK at Nestpick, part of Rocket Internet SE, from July 2014 to June 2016. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics with International Relations from the University of York, where he studied from 2011 to 2015, and completed the International Baccalaureate at ABA, An IB World School, between 2008 and 2011.

Diego Del Olmo is Head of Digital Commerce & Marketplaces at BBVA México, with a focus on GMV growth, customer experience, operations excellence, P&L, strategy, and product innovation. He has served as a judge and evaluator of startups at BBVA Open Talent and as a mentor to FinTech startups at Orion Startups Business Accelerator.

Del Olmo holds more than 13 years of professional experience in efficiency and continuous improvement projects within the financial sector, leading projects in process transformation, business model redesign, and the implementation of emerging technologies. His areas of knowledge include digital transformation, digital strategies, the FinTech and blockchain space, investment banking, and fiduciary business. He holds certifications as a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Certified KPI Professional, Black Belt Six Sigma (ITESM), and ScrumMaster (Scrum Alliance). He completed programmes at MIT and Columbia Business School covering FinTech and digital business strategy. His academic background includes an Industrial Engineering degree with a specialisation in Production and a Master's in Innovation for Business Development (MID) from ITESM, awarded with Honorable Mention of Excellence.

Dima Shmeman is Head of Europe at P2P.org, an institutional staking provider, and is based in Barcelona. He has held business development and partner sales roles at P2P.org and previously worked at B2Broker and Yandex.

Dimitri Granger is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at The Big Whale, a Web3-focused media company based in Paris, where he has held his co-founder role since April 2022. He participates directly in editorial and industry events as a speaker, including a May 2026 webinar on MiCA authorizations co-hosted with Homsy Legal, where he appeared alongside The Big Whale's Head of Research to address operational compliance requirements for CASPs ahead of the July 2026 deadline.

Granger has approximately 20 years of experience across corporate communications, brand communication, and growth marketing. Prior to co-founding The Big Whale, he served as Directeur Général, Digital Influence at Publicis Consultants from 2014 to 2017, where he led the public relations department with a focus on digital and social media strategy. He also co-founded .YZ Paris, a creative digital agency, in July 2017, and Blocs, a French-language blockchain accessibility project, in April 2018. His areas of focus include blockchain applications in finance, media and journalism, content marketing, digital PR, and business development.

Dirk Bullmann is Managing Director, Public Policy, Strategy and Innovation in the CEO Office at CLS, which he joined in 2022. He is responsible for CLS's global public policy strategy and engagement with policymakers, coordinates the CEO team's work on corporate strategy and leads research on tokenisation and its relationship with FX, as well as internal innovation efforts including AI. Bullmann previously spent more than 20 years at the European Central Bank, where he led the innovation team and innovation lab in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. At the ECB he was also Adviser to the Chief Services Officer and to the Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments, and Secretary to the Eurosystem Payment and Settlement Systems Committee.

Dirk Kruwinnus is Chief Product Officer at Seturion, a role he has held since February 2025. Seturion is a pan-European platform for the tokenization, registration, and settlement of DLT-based financial instruments, built with an open architecture that supports both public and private blockchains and enables settlement in central bank money as well as on-chain cash. The platform is already operational at BX Digital, Switzerland's FINMA-regulated DLT trading facility, and was tested in the European Central Bank's blockchain trials with leading European banks in 2024. In his role, Kruwinnus leads product strategy and development for the platform.

Kruwinnus has been with Boerse Stuttgart Group since 2007. He first engaged with distributed ledger technology and tokenization in 2018. From December 2020 to December 2021, he served as Tokenization Product Owner Expert at Boerse Stuttgart Digital, working on tokenization services including business model design, token design, and a B2B issuer web application. From January 2022 to January 2025, he worked in the Group Strategy, M&A, and Innovation division of Boerse Stuttgart Group, with a focus on building DLT-based capital market infrastructure in Europe. In parallel, between April 2021 and December 2024, he worked independently on tokenization projects covering token engineering, token flows, and digital assets structuring. Prior to his tenure at Boerse Stuttgart Group, he held positions within the Allianz Group. He holds a degree in business administration and economics (Diplom-Ökonom) from the University of Hohenheim.

Dominic Williams is the Founder and Chief Scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, a non-profit research and development organisation headquartered in Zurich, with additional operations in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He founded DFINITY in 2016 with the mandate to develop the Internet Computer, a decentralised computing infrastructure designed to host applications directly on the internet without reliance on traditional servers or centralised cloud providers such as Amazon or Google. The Internet Computer operates on a global network of physical nodes run by independent providers on sovereign hardware, and integrates an advanced blockchain as both a decentralised consensus layer and a distributed computing platform capable of executing code with low latency and high scalability. Williams has also contributed to the development of concepts including the Threshold Relay and Probabilistic Slot Protocol blockchain consensus mechanisms, the Blockchain Nervous System for algorithmic governance, and cryptographic research spanning Validation Towers and Trees, USCIDs, and the 3 E's of Sybil Resistance. He has been a contributor to CoinDesk, writing on topics including the intersection of AI and blockchain and the potential for AI-driven development of Web3 applications.

Prior to founding DFINITY, Williams served as President and Chief Technology Officer of String Labs, a Palo Alto-based incubator focused on open protocol projects. He founded Fight My Monster, a massively multiplayer online game that reached millions of users, during which he developed distributed computing techniques for scaling semi-decentralised systems. Earlier ventures include System 7, a SaaS platform for commercial web portals founded and sold in 2003, and Airdocs, a remote file sharing product connecting mobile users to corporate file servers over cellular networks, founded in 2001. He transitioned to working full-time in cryptography in 2013. Williams holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with First Class Honours, completed between 1992 and 1995.

Dramane Meite, CFA is Head of US and Europe Product at Hashdex, where he leads product strategy, capital markets, and the development of the firm's ETF and ETP platform. He joined Hashdex in October 2021 and is based in London.

Prior to his current role, Meite held two positions at PIMCO: Vice President, Product Strategist, Client Solutions and Analytics, and Vice President, Business Manager in the Executive Office. Before PIMCO, he was a member of Stanford Venture Studio, where he worked on launching a digital financial services platform for Africa. Earlier career experience includes roles at Standard Chartered in sales, trading, and ALM in Africa, and at the International Finance Corporation in treasury client solutions and structured finance across Latin America and EMEA. He also completed short consulting and product engagements at Exten in Brazil and an early stint at Hashdex in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. Meite holds an MBA and an MS from Stanford University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Duncan Smith is Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at Uphold, a position he has held since January 2023, based in Braga, Portugal. He also serves as Director of Uphold Digital Assets Europe Lda, a directorship he assumed in January 2025. Prior to becoming CRO, he served as Head of Financial Risk at Uphold from October 2022 to January 2023, and before that as Senior Trading System Engineer at the same company from January 2022 to October 2022.

Earlier in his career, Smith worked as a Contract Developer at Credit Suisse from March 2010 to July 2019, where he worked on Mars, the bank's market risk calculation engine. Before that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Barclays Capital from June 2008 to March 2010, where he designed, developed, supported, tested, and released FX and credit components of the FOToolkit, including an Excel plug-in providing quantitative functions for 7,000 Excel users. He also held a directorship at DVS Engineering Ltd from March 2010 to December 2021, and worked as a Developer at StoreTech from October 2019 to November 2021. Smith holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Loughborough University, where he studied from 2004 to 2009, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Leeds, where he studied from 1997 to 2001.

Dylan Dwyer is Vice President, Digital Asset Custody Operations at BNY, a position he assumed in January 2026 within the bank's Product and Innovation Hub. He sits within BNY's Digital Assets Division alongside a team of specialists covering product management, risk, compliance, and technology for the bank's digital asset offerings. Prior to this promotion, he served as Senior Associate in the same Digital Asset Custody Operations function at BNY from November 2024 to January 2026.

Before joining BNY, Dwyer spent approximately two and a half years at Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custody firm, where he held two roles: Analyst in Client Service from March 2021 to July 2022, followed by Associate in Custody Operations from July 2022 to November 2024. His cumulative focus on digital asset custody operations spans both a crypto-native firm and one of the world's oldest financial institutions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Dayton, where he studied from 2016 to 2020, and previously attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York.

Eduardo Morrison is Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Schuman Financial, the issuer of the MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin EURØP, where he leads strategic partnerships. Active in Web3 and fintech since 2017, he was an early team member at IntoTheBlock and later Head of Institutional Clients for Europe and Latin America at Binance.

Elias Kokaly is Head of Strategic Accounts at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company that provides anti-financial crime solutions to crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies. He first joined TRM Labs in 2021 as a Deployment Strategist and later led its deployment strategy, helping clients run risk-based anti-money laundering programmes and crypto investigations. Before TRM Labs, he led the Special Investigations Team at the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Eli Ben-Sasson is CEO and Co-Founder of StarkWare Industries, a role he has held since February 2024, having previously served as President and Chairman of the Board from 2020. StarkWare develops ZK-Rollup technology for blockchain scaling, with its two principal products being StarkEx, a Validium L2 scaling engine on Ethereum, and Starknet, a permissionless Validity-Rollup Layer 2 network. Ben-Sasson co-founded StarkWare in 2018 alongside Uri Kolodny, Michael Riabzev, and Alessandro Chiesa. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Ben-Sasson co-invented the STARK and FRI protocols, which produce a class of zero-knowledge proof offering quantum-resistance, quasi-linear proof time, polylogarithmic verification time, and transparency through the absence of secret keys. He was also a co-inventor of the Zerocash protocol, which formed the basis of Zcash, and remains a Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company. In 2014, the Zerocash research received the IEEE Test of Time Award. StarkWare is currently working to expand Starknet's STARK proof verification to Bitcoin, with a planned three-phase approach involving an indexer-based first step, integration with BitVM, and eventual support for a Bitcoin soft fork such as OPCAT. Ben-Sasson earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2001, under the supervision of Professor Avi Wigderson, and subsequently completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard and MIT. He joined the Technion faculty in 2005 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2015, a position he held until leaving in 2020.

Eliézer Ndinga is Global Head of Research at 21Shares, the world's largest ETP issuer of cryptoassets. He founded and leads the research department at 21.co, the parent company of 21Shares, producing data and analysis used by financial institutions, regulators, and media. His work focuses on thesis-driven insights into crypto markets and patterns associated with the global economy and geopolitics. The research department also develops frameworks and tools to support product innovation. Under his tenure, assets grew from $20 million to over $2 billion.

Ndinga has nearly ten years of experience in crypto. Previous research papers have been featured by organisations including RAND, a global policy think tank. He began his career in venture capital, investing in seed and early-stage companies in New York, including a billion-dollar fintech startup. He is a guest lecturer on blockchain technology. He holds a master's degree in International Business with Honors, for which he wrote a thesis on how the Bitcoin network could improve financial inclusion in developing economies, and has studied at institutions including the Université d'Orléans, INSEEC, Harvard University, and Grenoble École de Management.

Elise Soucie Watts is the Executive Director at Global Digital Finance (GDF), a nonprofit industry body promoting best practices and conduct standards for the digital asset industry, where she also serves as a board member. In her role, she runs GDF's policy and regulatory programme, leading active policy working groups covering EU, UK, APAC, and MENA regions. Her work spans consultation responses, industry working groups, and outreach to policymakers, central bankers, and government departments across multiple jurisdictions, including Washington DC, Westminster, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. Specific policy contributions include co-authoring a Smart Contract Primer used by MAS' Project Guardian, leading on core recommendations from the Digital Finance APPG report adopted by the UK government on Gilts, and contributing to the clarification that staking does not constitute a collective investment scheme under UK FSMA. She also serves as a Policy Advisory Board Member at Mesh and co-hosts The Outside Context podcast.

Prior to GDF, Watts was an Associate Director at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), where she led Digital Assets and Data Strategy work, focusing on the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation and the European Commission's targeted consultation on open finance and data sharing. Before that, she worked at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) across their Technology, Resilience and Cyber Division and International Division, where she pioneered the FCA's International Digital Assets strategy in 2022 and led technical policy dialogue on DLT, consumer risks, CBDCs, and DeFi. She was named Next Generation Leader of the Year at the 2022 Women in Finance Awards UK and was included in the Innovate Finance Standout 45 on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2024 as a Regulatory and Policy Expert.

Emilien Bernard-Alzias is a Partner at Simmons & Simmons LLP in Paris, specialising in financial and insurance regulatory matters. His practice covers asset management, banking, and insurance regulation, with a focus on the offering of financial and insurance products, provision of investment services, and FinTech initiatives. He advises investment service providers, management companies, banks, insurance companies, brokers, payment service providers, and crypto-asset service providers. He is ranked Band 2 in FinTech Legal for France by Chambers and listed as a Next Generation Partner in Banking and Finance: Bank Regulatory by Legal 500, which specifically notes the firm's crypto and MiCA regulation knowledge.

Bernard-Alzias has specific experience in licensing and authorisation processes before the ACPR (including the ECB) and the AMF, and assists clients in the context of supervisory audits. His work in digital assets includes advising on blockchain, crypto-currencies, ICOs, and MiCA regulation, as well as assisting high-profile cryptocurrency businesses with geographical expansion, licensing, and government investigations. He joined Simmons & Simmons in 2011, having previously worked at Edmond de Rothschild's legal department. He holds a Master's degree and a DJCE in business law from Aix-Marseille University, and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2011.

Emily Anger is a Relationship Manager in Startup Banking at Silicon Valley Bank, based in New York.

Emma Landriault is Executive Director, Product – JPM Coin (Global) at JPMorganChase, a position she has held since January 2026. Based in London, she carries a global product remit within Kinexys Digital Payments, the division housing JPM Coin (JPMD). Her work centres on token and instrument-based solution development for institutional digital payments, encompassing product development, technical solutioning, prototyping, go-to-market execution, product team leadership, and product strategy. Key areas of focus include digital currencies, deposit tokens, CBDC, digital assets, and tokenisation.

Landriault joined JPMorganChase in March 2023 as Vice President – Product Manager within the Onyx Coin Systems team, where she served as solutioning lead for token-based deposit solutions and stable digital money before being promoted to Executive Director in January 2026. Prior to JPMorganChase, she served as Product Lead for Blockchain and Digital Currencies at Scotiabank from March 2022 to March 2023, where she defined technical and target use case strategy and built blockchain-based money movement, digital currency, and payment products. She has approximately ten years of experience across technical blockchain and digital asset product management and business consulting for blockchain in banking.

Emma Lovett is Executive Director, Markets DLT – Credit Lead at JPMorgan Chase & Co., a position she has held since February 2022. In this role, she works on developing capabilities to drive the evolution of digital assets using blockchain technology within credit markets, with a focus on complementing existing frameworks and supporting clients' needs. Alongside this, she serves as Co-Chair of the Fintech and Digitalisation Committee at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), where she leads discussion and advancement across digital and AI topics in international capital markets. The ICMA committee's work includes promoting straight-through processing, establishing common standards for data handling, and facilitating dialogue between industry stakeholders and regulators.

Prior to moving into the DLT space, Lovett was Head of EMEA Deal Management for Fixed Income New Issues (Syndicate) at J.P. Morgan, a role she held from September 2014 to February 2022. Her broader areas of expertise cover the lifecycle and operational components of new bond issuances, including technology, regulation, legal and compliance, internal procedures, and settlement on both the issuer and investor side. She became an Executive Director at the firm in January 2015, having previously served as a Fixed Income Syndicate Vice President from 2010 to 2015 and in a syndicate assistant role from 2003. She has been at J.P. Morgan for over 20 years, with 15 years in the primary markets business.

Emma Pecenicic is Head of Digital Assets Distribution at Fidelity International, based in Hong Kong, a role in which she has led global distribution for digital assets since 2023, including the commercialisation of the firm's Bitcoin spot strategy and its tokenised fund capabilities. Pecenicic joined Fidelity International in 2021 as Head of Digital Propositions and Partnerships Asia ex Japan. She previously spent more than a decade at BNP Paribas Asset Management, which she joined in 2011 as an Investment Specialist in European Equities in Paris before moving to Hong Kong in 2012 to cover China RMB capabilities and Indonesian equities. From 2017 she designed and led BNP Paribas Asset Management's Augmented Investments Programme, focused on AI and blockchain adoption, and later led its global digital strategy. Pecenicic holds an MSc in Financial Management and a Diplôme des Grandes Écoles in Financial Analysis from EDHEC Business School, and sits on the board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong.

Erald Ghoos is CEO Europe at OKX, a position he has held since March 2023 and is based in Malta. His mandate has centred on structuring OKX's European entity, obtaining financial licences, and adapting the product to local markets. OKX became the first global platform to receive a MiCA licence, a process Ghoos describes as two years of work. The company subsequently obtained a MiFID licence through the acquisition of an entity already holding that authorisation, enabling OKX to offer derivative products — futures, swaps, and options — to European institutional investors once remaining administrative formalities are complete. He has also overseen the launch of OKX Earn and spot margin trading in Europe, and has publicly stated that institutional participants, including banks, insurance funds, pension funds, and high-net-worth individuals, now represent a significant and growing segment of OKX's European user base.

Prior to OKX, Ghoos served as Head of Europe at Binance, and before that as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Crypto.com, joining that company in 2017 shortly after its founding. Earlier in his career he held a COO role at Payreto GmbH, a financial process sourcing firm based in Berlin, where his focus was operational and compliance workflows for the financial industry. Before moving into crypto, he was involved in the creation of several banks in Europe and held a Head of Global Operations position at an international payments company. He is a graduate of VLEKHO Business School Brussels. His total professional experience spans 24 years across payments, operations, compliance, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Éric Anziani is an executive at Crypto.com, a fintech and blockchain expert, and is involved in several industry associations in Singapore. A graduate of INSEAD, he has recognized international experience.

Erick de Moura is Co-Founder and CEO of Cartesi, a project building an operating system for decentralized applications that enables complex computations to run in a Linux environment outside the blockchain while maintaining decentralization. He has dedicated over 20 years to the software industry, with experience across fintech, healthtech, and e-commerce verticals.

Prior to Cartesi, which he co-founded in January 2018, de Moura worked as a software engineer and tech lead at Arizona Bay from 2008 to 2018. Concurrently, from 2009 to 2015, he served as Engineer and Team Lead at WebRadar, where he acted as software architect, managed development processes, and helped build systems for the telecom and transport markets, including big data and analytics systems used by major South American telecom companies. He has also held roles at M4U, WiNGS Telecom, View Engenharia e Automação Ltda, Tecgraf / PUC-Rio, and K2 Sistemas. He became an Expert at the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. De Moura holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, completed between 1995 and 2000, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UCLA, pursued between 1997 and 1998.

Erik Lenoir is Head of Technology, AssetFoundry at BNP Paribas CIB, a position he has held since September 2022, based in Paris. AssetFoundry is BNP Paribas CIB's tokenization platform, with a mandate to serve issuers and investors by enabling financial instrument tokenization through more granular issuances, embedding asset data such as ESG metrics, and integrating with the bank's systems for distribution and custody. The platform is described as a next-generation originate-to-distribute platform built in close collaboration with business lines, legal, IT, and compliance functions.

Lenoir's technical focus spans application security, cloud infrastructure, blockchain, data and analytics, DevSecOps, FinOps, performance optimization, and regulatory compliance. He holds certifications including AWS Security – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, R3 Corda Developer, Elastic Engineer, DPO, and PRINCE2. Prior to his current role, he worked within BNP Paribas CIB's 021 Exploration Engineering team from January 2020 to November 2022, where he framed and developed MVPs for high-value projects using a lean startup approach. He held earlier roles in the bank's IT Digital Accelerator and Fast IT units between 2018 and 2019. His total professional experience spans approximately 14 years. He writes occasionally for French technology publications including Programmez! and MISC, and gives conferences. His education is from Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.

Erin Armstrong has 13 years of experience in the finance industry, currently working at Longbow Capital. She holds education credentials from the Canadian Securities Institute.

Ethan Teas is Executive General Manager Payments at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, a role already held in September 2022, at the launch of the bank's PayTo capabilities, and under which Teas is still quoted in September 2026 on agentic commerce. The remit covers the bank's payments strategy, including real-time payments and fraud prevention. Teas previously worked in consulting as a Principal in the Chicago office of Novantas, specialising in banking strategy for banking, brokerage, payments and insurance clients across the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

Etienne Bernard is Deputy Global Head of International Trade & Transaction Banking at Crédit Agricole CIB, the title under which he announced the bank's partnership with Ant International in November 2025. He joined Crédit Agricole CIB on 8 June 2015 as Global Head of Transaction Banking. He previously held management positions at RBS, most recently heading Global Transaction Banking in EMEA, led Commercial Coverage at ABN AMRO, and worked for Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale, over a career of more than 25 years in transaction banking at the time of his arrival. He holds an engineering diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Switzerland.

Evan Auyang is Group President at Animoca Brands, a blockchain technology and investment company focused on digital property rights, tokenisation, and AI-driven consumer and institutional ventures, with an investment portfolio of more than 600 companies. In this role he oversees general management across the group and represents the company publicly on Web3 strategy, regulatory developments, and market positioning, including the company's growing focus on the United States following shifts in the US regulatory environment. He also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd. and Asia Financial Holdings Limited, and as a Board Director of the Innovation City Authority of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE.

Beyond Animoca Brands, Auyang chairs Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong public policy think tank, and serves on the board of Voyage, a poverty and youth-focused nonprofit. He holds advisory roles at Our Hong Kong Foundation, the Web3 Development Task Force's Subcommittee on Ecosystem and Infrastructure, the Hong Kong Council of Social Service's Development Fund Committee, and Brown University's Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Prior to joining Animoca Brands, he was Managing Director and Head of GLG International, where he ran the expert insight platform's operations across 15 locations spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Before that, he served as Deputy Managing Director of Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. and as a board director of its parent, Transport International Holdings Limited. Earlier in his career he was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company and worked in Citigroup's Derivatives Structuring and Marketing unit. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Evan M. is VP and Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood, specializing in information security leadership and risk management within the fintech industry.

Fabian Dori is Chief Investment Officer of Sygnum, the digital asset banking group, leading institutional investment strategies and asset management products. He previously held executive positions at Notenstein La Roche Private Bank and 1741 Asset Management. He holds an MA in Quantitative Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen.

Fatih Balyeli is Co-Founder and CEO of Exaion, a subsidiary of the EDF Group founded in January 2020 and specialising in blockchain infrastructure, HPC, 3D cloud, quantum computing, and AI. He leads the company's positioning as an infrastructure provider — not an application layer — serving protocol developers, financial institutions, and enterprises requiring sovereign, decarbonised computing services. Exaion's data centres operate on nuclear and wind energy in northern France, with computing capacity in Canada supplied by hydraulic energy.

On the digital assets side, Balyeli oversees Exaion's operation of RPC nodes, validation nodes, and blockchain archive infrastructure, as well as an internally developed staking activity. Following the company's PSAN registration, he is directing the build-out of an institutional-grade offering — covering digital asset custody, staking, and fiat-crypto, crypto-fiat, and crypto-crypto swaps — targeted at banks and investment funds entering the crypto space, with a planned commercial launch in the second half of 2025. He has stated explicitly that Exaion's positioning is as a technical infrastructure provider, not a financial intermediary. Before founding Exaion, Balyeli served as Investment Director at EDF Pulse Ventures from 2017 to 2019, where he held board positions at portfolio companies including Metroscope. Prior to that, he worked as Project Manager at Enedis from October 2012 to December 2016. Earlier in his career, he worked as a trader at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong and London. He holds an engineering degree from MINES ParisTech.

Faustine Fleuret is Head of Public Affairs at Morpho, a French fintech company developing open blockchain infrastructure for lending and borrowing. In this role, she focuses on fostering dialogue between DeFi builders and regulators, ensuring that policy discussions are grounded in how decentralised lending protocols function and in their potential contribution to more open financial markets. She joined Morpho as a Public Affairs Advisor in February 2025 before being appointed to her current position in August 2025.

Prior to joining Morpho, Fleuret co-founded Adan, the Association for the Development of Digital Assets, and served as its President and Managing Director from 2021. During her tenure, she grew the association from approximately fifty member companies to over 200, spanning crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and video games, and welcomed major players including Visa and Mastercard. She was re-elected as President in 2023 for a two-year term before stepping down at the end of 2024. Her work at Adan centred on crypto-asset regulation at both French and European levels, including engagement around the MiCA framework. She is also the author of four books on financial and crypto regulations, and currently serves as Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board at Dowgo, a company focused on green bonds on the blockchain, and as an Advisor to Cube3. She completed studies at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Filippo Chiricozzi is Stream Manager – Web3 Digital Assets Innovation at Banca Sella, a position he has held since August 2022. In this role, he coordinates the bank's web3, cryptocurrency, and metaverse development activities within the Innovation team. He also teaches on the executive master programme "NFT Creator & Metaverse Design" at w.academy Business School, covering modules on blockchain fundamentals, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and NFT history and use cases.

Chiricozzi entered the crypto space in 2017 and purchased his first NFT in December 2020, subsequently building a network focused on NFT education. Prior to Banca Sella, he worked as Partnership & Marketing Manager at Oval Money, a fintech firm. Earlier in his career, he co-founded two startups in 2014 — Moovenda and OffLunch — both built around a logistics-based approach to food delivery in Italy. Following a merger with another Italian operator in 2019, he transitioned to fintech. In 2022, he was selected for Operation3, a six-week programme run by Jericho designed to develop web3 skills, with involvement from founders of companies including The Sandbox and Ledger. His areas of expertise span finance and banking, marketing strategy, community building, and web3, with specific topic focus on NFTs, blockchain, and retention marketing.