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The crypto gathering 2021

The Real Vision Crypto Gathering took place 24-26 March.

The most electrifying online event in crypto. Bigger, better, and bolder than ever, with a line-up of rock stars like no other on the planet.

Crypto Gathering 2021

the future of everything.

The Real Vision Crypto Gathering unites crypto tribes, the crypto curious, and rock star speakers.

Over 3 immersive days, you’ll go on a mind-altering journey of discovery into the digital assets revolution as it changes the world.

Thousands of attendees enjoyed dynamite interviews, how-to sessions, panel discussions, event Slack channels, Happy Hour, and much more.

As the traditional financial system frays, the future of everything is here. It’s a revolution no one can afford to sidestep.

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March 24-16, 2021

CRYPTO GATHERING 2021

*Seriously – it doesn’t get any better than this. Save your spot now.

Here's How to Get Access

Real Vision Essential, Plus, Pro and Blacklist members get access to Crypto Gathering 2021 as part of your membership. Hit “Save Your Seat” below and enter your promo code. (If you’re logged in… it should already be in there).

Not a member? You could get 1 year of Real Vision Essential for the normal price of $239.

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$169

Sessions Include:

  • Full Access to 3 Days of Sessions
  • Live networking in Crypto Gathering 2021 Slack channels
  • Live Q&A

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All access Crypto Gathering 2021 tickets, networking, Q&A, and more, plus:

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  • Real Vision Crypto – Daily programming covering the entire digital assets space
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  • Access to the thriving Exchange community, with special forums for bitcoin, digital assets, macro and more
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Your Rock Star Speakers

Nowhere else on the planet will you find this mix of digital assets A-listers, macro key thinkers, and investing heavy hitters.

Jack Mallers

Founder & CEO

Strike

Joe Lubin

Founder

ConsenSys

Raoul Pal

Co-Founder & CEO

Real Vision

Elizabeth Stark

Co-Founder & CEO

Lightning Labs

Lyn Alden

Founder

Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

Isaiah Jackson

Best-selling Author & Host of Community Crypto

Greg Tusar

VP of Institutional Product

Coinbase

Peter Brandt

CEO

Factor, LLC

Alex Mashinsky

Founder & CEO

Celsius

Micah Johnson

Artist & Creator

Caitlin Long

Founder & CEO

Avanti Financial Group

Summer Watson

Co-Founder & CEO

Heir

Laura Shin

Crypto Journalist

Unchained & Unconfirmed Podcasts

Erikan Obotetukudo

Founder / KIN

President / Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment

Willy Woo

Writer, The Bitcoin Forecast

On-Chain Analyst

Michael Saylor

Co-Founder

MicroStrategy

PlanB

Jeff Horowitz

Chief Compliance Officer

BitGo

Anthony Scaramucci

Founder & Co-Managing Partner

SkyBridge Capital

Jeff Dorman

CIO & Partner

Arca

Gavin Wood

Inventor/ Polkadot

Co- Founder/ Ethereum

Dan Held

Growth Lead

Kraken

Kevin Chou

Founder & CEO

Rally

Piers Kicks

Gaming / Delphi Digital

Investment Team / BITKRAFT

Wiliam Peets

Founder & CIO

100 Acre Ventures

Robby Gutmann

Co-Founder & CEO

NYDIG

Meltem Demirors

Chief Strategy Officer

CoinShares

Mark Yusko

Co-Founder, CEO, & CIO

Morgan Creek Capital Management

Hunter Horsley

CEO

Bitwise Asset Management

Peter McCormack

Journalist

What Bitcoin Did

Kevin Kelly

Co-Founder

Delphi Digital

Luke Gromen

Founder & President

Forest For The Trees

Dan Morehead

CEO & Co-Chief Investment Officer

Pantera

Travis Kling

Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Ikigai Asset Management

André Allen Anjos RAC

Artist

Jason Buck

CIO

Mutiny Fund

Matt Milsom

Director

Qantex Singapore

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Founder & CIO

Polychain Capital

Sam Bankman-Fried

CEO

FTX

Michael Moro

CEO

Genesis

Chris Sullivan

Co-Portfolio Manager & Co-Founder

Hyperion Decimus

Alan Lane

President & CEO

Silvergate

James Putra

Sr. Director of Product Strategy

TradeStation Crypto, Inc.

Steven McClurg

CIO

Valkyrie Investments

Dan Matuszewski

Principal and Co-Founder

CMS Holdings

Robert Breedlove

Founder

Parallax Digital

Andrew Tam

SVP of Marketing

BlockFi

Nic Carter

General Partner / Castle Island Ventures

Co- Founder / CoinMetrics

Christian Catalini

Co-Creator & Chief Economist

Diem

Ash Bennington

Senior Crypto Editor

Real Vision

Ben Radclyffe

Commercial Director

100x

Christine Sandler

Head of Sales and Marketing

Fidelity Digital Assets

Sebastian Moonjava

Crypto Editor

Real Vision

Peter Hans

Managing Director

Arca

Scott Melker

Host

Wolf of All Streets

Neda Whitney

SVP of Marketing

Christie's

Erik Voorhees

CEO

ShapeShift

Matt Hougan

CIO

Bitwise Asset Management

Nick Grossman

Partner

Union Square Ventures

Whit Gibbs

CEO

Compass Mining, Inc.

Ben Forman

Managing Partner

ParaFi Capital

Caroline Cochran

Co-Founder & COO

Oklo Inc.

Michael Bucella

General Partner

BlockTower Capital

Sasha Fleyshman

Jr. Portfolio Manager

Arca

Michael Anderson

Co-Founder

Framework Ventures

Our Partners

Platinum Partners

Gold Partners

Silver Partners

Reaction to Crypto Gathering 2020

“I’ve found more educational value in the Crypto Gathering and Festival of Learning than I did in entire college semesters…”
Jake
“If you’re into crypto and how the space might develop you have to be listening to the amazing Crypto Gathering happening now on Real Vision. It’s like a window into institutional thinking on crypto, the economy, and how this might all play out…”
Emma T
“Raoul and team! Absolutely terrific 2 days. Amazing content and incredible guests, no way anyone could have brought so many stars together other than you! Way to go Real Vision.”
Javier F.
“This conference could be one of those seminal landmarks in the history of finance.”
Daniel A.
“Take a bow Raoul and Team Real Vision. What an extraordinary Crypto Gathering, felt like a fanboy at a comic con. This has been by far the most edutaining conference I’ve attended, virtual or otherwise.”
Bhavya V.
“Forget drinking from a firehose, this is drinking from Niagara Falls... Love it – thanks Real Vision"
Johnny
"Real Vision, Raoul, I’m supposed to be working but I spent the entire day listening in to this amazing set of speakers… Bravo to you sirs"
Christian
“What you guys are accomplishing today is incredible. So efficient and enjoyable, and you’ll have archives for what we miss unlike a real conference.”
RP
“Given the worldwide standing ovation (all night from Tokyo here) to Real Vision, [it] clearly goes without saying an awesome Crypto Gathering event. Just wanna say you’ve also just put the nail in the coffin for the whole conference/seminar biz and model.”
@acrossthespread
“Thanks for doing this. It’s definitely one of the best crypto / macro events / gathering / collective of speakers and ideas I have ever attended. Fantabulous...”
Manish G.
“We need 4 brains: 2 to follow Niall-Raoul deep talks, 1 to follow Slack, 1 to pretend to be working in office…”
Wen
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About The Crypto Gathering

In June 2020, Real Vision dreamed up and put on a two-day online event: The Crypto Gathering.

It took us just 15 days to put together – the result?

More than 8,500 people joined us to learn from rock stars like Niall Ferguson, PlanB, Marty Bent, and Caitlin Long…

Close to 2,000 people joined the conversation in Slack…

And its success led to the birth of the Real Vision Crypto channel, the world’s premier cryptocurrency and digital assets video channel.

In 2021, The Crypto Gathering was back. Bigger, better, and bolder than ever, with more than 12,000 people gathering.

“I’m already excited for Crypto Gathering 2022 and it’s not even over.”  – Nathan

“These events are 100% better than any professional training experience.” – Nik D.

“Blown away. Head exploding, TMI! My face is actually aching from holding excited expressions for the last 3 days!” – Caroline

“Great work, this has been the best $99 ever spent.” – Bobby C.

CRYPTO GATHERING 2021

Faq

Right now, you can get your 3-day event ticket along with a 3-month Real Vision Essential membership for $99, through March 23 at 11.59pm ET.

Thousands of people have become new Real Vision members in the last few days… and we’re thrilled to welcome so many new members to the revolution.

After 11.59pm ET on March 23, standalone walk-up tickets will cost $169, or you can join Real Vision Essential for the full one-year price of $239.

We will be shutting down free codes at midnight on March 23. So please do ensure you register before then. We sent the code and registration instructions by email – please search your inbox for “Crypto Gathering.”

If you did not receive the email, please drop us a line at events@realvision.com.

Your access code is only for you. Multiple uses of each code won’t work, I’m afraid.

We’re currently putting the final touches on an extraordinary agenda and line-up. We have a couple of speaker surprises still to come, as well as an agenda that is about as far away as you can get from the usual online event…

We’ll send your invite to join the Crypto Gathering Slack channels a couple of days before the event.

We get it – crypto can feel a bit walled off to some. You’re either a card-carrying member of the revolution or you’re on the outside looking in. But the Crypto Gathering will be quite literally that – a gathering. 

Whether you’re a crypto novice or a veteran, we will widen your understanding of this revolution. We’re going to help you get to grips with the basics, as well as hear in depth discussions on the cutting edge of future projects, along with where the industry is now and how we can all profit from it.

No problem. Once you have a ticket, you’ll be able to watch absolutely everything whenever you want, wherever you want. This is also an important addition for those who can attend live, as we’re fitting a LOT in over three days…)

One of the reasons we set up Real Vision was because we knew the financial system faced existential problems. People got left behind by governments and central banks, with the gross over-financialization of the economy. The crypto world is changing that, giving everyone a chance to get in on the ground floor of the 21st century revolution.

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Joe Lubin

ConsenSys, Founder

Joseph Lubin is a Co-Founder of Ethereum and the Founder of ConsenSys, a full-stack, global blockchain company.

Lubin has established himself as a guiding force in the fast-growing blockchain industry and a powerful advocate of decentralized technology.

Raoul Pal

Real Vision, Co-Founder & CEO

Raoul Pal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Real Vision, the world’s pre-eminent financial media platform, which helps members understand the complex world of finance, business, and the global economy. Real Vision members also have access to Real Vision Crypto, a cryptocurrency and digital assets video channel watched by over 235,000 people. 

In addition, Raoul has been publishing Global Macro Investor since January 2005 to provide original, high quality, quantifiable and easily readable research for the global macro investment community hedge funds, family offices, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. It draws on his considerable 31 years of experience in advising hedge funds and managing a global macro hedge fund. Global Macro Investor has one of the very best, proven track records of any newsletter in the industry, producing extremely positive returns in eight out of the last twelve years.

He retired from managing client money at the age of 36 in 2004 and now lives in the tiny Caribbean island of Little Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Previously he co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund in London for GLG Partners, one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world. Raoul moved to GLG from Goldman Sachs where he co-managed the hedge fund sales business in Equities and Equity Derivatives in Europe. In this role, Raoul established strong relationships with many of the world’s pre-eminent hedge funds, learning from their styles and experiences. Other stop-off points on the way were NatWest Markets and HSBC, although he began his career by training traders in technical analysis.

Elizabeth Stark

Lightning Labs, Co-Founder & CEO

Elizabeth Stark is CEO and Co-Founder of Lightning Labs, where she is building a programmable financial layer for the internet with fast, scalable bitcoin transactions. She is a fellow at Coin Center, the leading digital currency policy organization, and an advisor to numerous cryptocurrency companies and initiatives. Stark previously taught at Stanford and Yale University about the internet’s impact on society, the economy, and the law, and was a visiting fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project. She has worked with startups in areas ranging from decentralized technology to AI and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Stanford StartX. Stark holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lyn Alden

Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, Founder

An engineer by training, Lyn runs an investment research service for both retail and institutional investors, and her focus is on fundamental investing with a global macro overlay, with a specialization in currency differentials and equity valuations.

Isaiah Jackson

Best-selling Author Bitcoin and Black America // Host of Community Crypto, CoinDesk TV

Isaiah Jackson is the best-selling author of, ​Bitcoin and Black America​ and host of “Community Crypto” on Coindesk TV. He is an award-winning speaker and educator that ​travels the world teaching investors and financial groups about Bitcoin and blockchain technology. ​His work has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Vogue, and Black Enterprise.

He is a native of Charlotte, NC, and a NC State University alumnus.

Bitcoin and Black America is a dynamic new book that explores the synergy between black economics, Bitcoin, and blockchain technology. The global financial system is changing and the digital revolution will not be televised.

We explore how to incorporate cryptocurrency in your business, job, and educational institution. This book also outlines the need for separation from the racist banking system and a comprehensive list of black professionals actively working in the Blockchain industry.

Community Crypto is a new show on Coindesk TV that empowers a global community with local crypto meetup groups. We explore groups in the U.S. and abroad to show creative ways cryptocurrency can be beneficial. The initial air date is February 2021.

Greg Tusar

Coinbase, VP of Institutional Products

Peter Brandt

Factor LLC, CEO

Peter L. Brandt entered the commodity trading business in 1976 with ContiCommodity Services, a division of Continental Grain Company. From his start in the commodity industry, Peter’s goal was to trade proprietary funds. But, he first needed to learn the business. From 1976 through 1979, Peter handled large institutional accounts for Conti, including Campbell Soup Company, Oro Wheat, Godiva Chocolate, Swanson Foods, Homestake Mining and others. In 1980, Peter founded Factor Trading Co., Inc. In his capacity as CEO, Peter was primarily engaged in trading proprietary capital. Factor Trading also produced market research and managed the trading activities of several large institutional clients. Among Peter’s institutional trading clients was Commodities  Corporation (“CC”) of Princeton, NJ, at the time one of the world’s largest trading houses. In 1990, Peter published his first book, titled Trading Commodity Futures with Classical Chart Patterns. In 2011, John Wiley and Sons published Peter’s 2nd book, Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader. The book became Amazon’s #1 ranked book on trading for 27 weeks. His first book, Trading Commodity Futures with Classical Chart Patterns, was published in 1990, is considered a classic by many traders.

Alex Mashinsky

Celsius, Founder & CEO

Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology. Over 35 patents have been issued to Alex, relating to exchanges, VOIP protocols, messaging and communication.

Alex is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion. Alex founded two of New York City’s top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: Arbinet, with a 2004 IPO that had a market capitalization of over $750 million; and Transit Wireless, valued at $1.2 billion.

Alex has received numerous awards for innovation, including being nominated twice by E&Y as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’, in 2002 & 2011; Crain’s 2010 Top Entrepreneur; the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal; and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99).

As one of the pioneers of web-based exchanges, Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, ad exchanges, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other popular web companies. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a case study in 2001 by Harvard Business School.

Micah Johnson

Artist & Creator

Micah is an artist and creator. His most recent creation, Aku, is an animated character that stands to empower kids to dream without limitations. Aku, along with Micah’s paintings are important parts of Micah’s mission to answer his nephews question,

“Mom, can astronauts be black?”

Although Micah spent 7 years as a professional baseball player, you rarely see reference to his career in any of his works. He sees art as an independent journey with the opportunity to inspire a broader demographic around the subjects of racial equality, chasing your dreams without limitations, and the empowerment of young people.

Caitlin Long

Custodia Bank, Founder & CEO

Caitlin Long is Founder & CEO of Custodia Bank. A 22-year Wall Street veteran, Ms. Long became involved with Bitcoin in 2012. She was a managing director who ran Morgan Stanley’s pension solutions business (2007-16), held senior roles at Credit Suisse (1997-2007) and began her career at Salomon Brothers (1994-97).

From 2016-18 she jointly spearheaded a blockchain project for delivering market index data to Vanguard as chairman and president of Symbiont, an enterprise blockchain start-up. In 2017, after a flaw in a Wyoming law blocked her from donating appreciated bitcoin to endow a scholarship for female engineers at the University of Wyoming, she volunteered to help fix the statute. That led to her helping spearhead a multi-year initiative to make Wyoming, her native state, an oasis for blockchain companies in the US, where Wyoming has enacted 24 blockchain-enabling laws since 2018. Two Wyoming governors have appointed her to serve on the Wyoming Legislature’s Blockchain Task Force/Blockchain Select Committee.

She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, 1994), the Kennedy School of Government (MPP, 1994) and the University of Wyoming (BA, 1990).

Summer Watson

Heir, Co-Founder & CEO

Took care of business at TuneIn, Pocket Gems and Playdom (sold to Disney for $763M) – i.e. product, content and marketing at top consumer tech startups. But first, she was a DJ, artist manager and early employee at a leading indie hip hop label out of Oakland.

Laura Shin

Crypto Journalist // Host of Unchained and Unconfirmed Podcasts

Laura is a crypto/blockchain journalist and host of the Unchained and Unconfirmed podcasts. She is working on a book about the history of the crypto space to be published by PublicAffairs/Hachette. As a former senior editor of Forbes, she was the first mainstream reporter to cover crypto assets full-time.

Laura graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and have a Master of Arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

Erikan Obotetukudo

KIN, Founder // Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment, President

Erikan Obotetukudo is the Founder of both KIN, a tech and media advisory firm that expands financial institutions and fintech startups across cultures and generations globally. Trusted partners include IKEA, NowThis, Entrepreneur Media, Conde Nast, Elliott Management, Singapore’s Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Africa Development Bank, and venture capital firms across the US, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She’s also an Executive Producer and Writer at PaperTrail Media, a production company that merges money and culture in TV and Film. Erikan is a TED speaker, serves on several boards including the Henry Kravis Leadership Institute, and is the President of Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment – a global movement of black/African cryptocurrency and blockchain leaders moving culture, tech, art, and finance.  

Willy Woo

The Bitcoin Forecast, Writer // On-chain Analyst

Willy Woo is an on-chain analyst, a new field that extracts market intelligence signals from Bitcoin’s blcokchain. He writes The Bitcoin Forecast, which is the top ranked paid letter in the crypto industry.

Michael Saylor

MicroStrategy, Co-Founder

Mr. Saylor is a technologist, entrepreneur, business executive, philanthropist, and best-selling author. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Office of MicroStrategy, Inc. (MSTR). Since co-founding the company at the age of 24, Mr. Saylor has built MicroStrategy into a global leader in business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. In 2012, he authored The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything, which earned a spot on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

Mr. Saylor attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving an S.B. in Aeronautics and Astronautics and an S.B. in Science, Technology, and Society.

Jeff Horowitz

BitGo, Chief Compliance Officer

Jeff Horowitz is the Chief Compliance Officer of BitGo where he’s responsible for the company’s global compliance program. Jeff will oversee BitGo’s Compliance and AML programs across the entire enterprise to meet the highest standards of compliance and regulatory requirements.

Prior to joining BitGo, Jeff was the CCO for Coinbase, where he led the firm’s global compliance program, managed regulatory and bank partner relationships and helped to shape Crypto, AML and FATF regulation with both foreign and domestic regulators. Prior to joining Coinbase, Jeff spent over 12 years with Pershing in various leadership roles including as Managing Director and Global Head of Compliance; CCO, as well as the Firm’s Chief Anti-Money Laundering and OFAC Officer, responsible for the development and implementation of the firm’s Global AML Program.

Jeff was also a past co-chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Anti-Money Laundering Committee, member of FINRA’s Large Firm Advisory Committee and the U.S Treasury’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG), representing both the Securities and Crypto industries as well as an active participant in FATF’s private sector consultative initiatives.

Prior to joining Pershing, Jeff held leadership roles for compliance and AML programs for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers. He began his career as a regulator with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the Division of Resolutions. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Trenton State College and holds the FINRA Series 7, 14, and 24 registrations.

Anthony Scaramucci

SkyBridge Capital, Founder & Co-Managing Partner

Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman, LLC in 2001. Earlier, he was a vice president in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co. In 2016, Scaramucci was ranked #85 in Worth Magazine’sPower 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year –New York” Award in the Financial Services category. Anthony is amember of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), vice chair of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board, a board member of both The Brain Tumor Foundation and Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and a Trustee of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He was a member of the New York City Financial Services Advisory Committee from 2007 to 2012. In November 2016, he was named to President-Elect Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. In June 2017, he wasnamed the Chief Strategy Officer of the EXIM Bank. He served as the White House Communications Director for a period in July 2017. Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Gavin Wood

Polkadot, Inventor / Ethereum, Co-Founder

Free-Trust Technologist currently focused on building the Polkadot Protocol.

President and founder of Web3 Foundation, founder of Parity Technologies, inventor of Polkadot.

Co-founder Ethereum and former CTO of Ethereum Foundation. During his role as CTO, he coded the first functional implementation of the platform released as “POC-1” and authored “Yellow Paper”, the first formal specification of any blockchain protocol. Inventor of the Solidity language. 

Dan Held

Kraken, Growth Lead

Dan is currently Growth Lead at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data.

Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised with the founders of Kraken, Coinbase, Litecoin, and others.

Kevin Chou

Rally, Co- Founder & CEO

Kevin Chou is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rally, a crypto platform that allows creators and artists to launch their own digital currency and to build sustainable, independent economies with their fan communities.

Kevin currently serves as the Chairman of Forte, a new blockchain whose mission is to build a more collaborative future in gaming by realigning the economic relationship between players and developers. He is also Chairman of Gen.G, a new esports enterprise bridging Asia and North America. 

Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, a top developer of mobile games. Kevin led the company from business plan founding to over $400M in annual revenue serving over 500 million players. Kabam developed leading partnerships with Marvel, Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Lord of the Rings, and Hunger Games. Kabam was profitable from 2012 until the sale of the company’s studios to Netmarble, 21st Century Fox, and GAEA, which in total generated nearly $1 billion in value.

He’s been honored by Fortune in 40 under 40, CNN in Smartest People in Tech, and Business Insider’s Silicon Valley Top 100. Kevin Chou graduated magna cum laude from the UC Berkeley undergraduate Haas School of Business program. He serves on the Board of Trustees at UC Berkeley.

William Peets

100 Acre Ventures, Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Will is the Chief Investment Officer and Founder of 100 Acre Ventures.

Prior to 100 Acre Ventures, Will spent six years at Passport Capital serving as the Chief Investment Officer of Passport Digital Holdings and Chief Risk Officer for Passport Capital. While at Passport, Will informed the portfolio construction process and provided guidance on position sizing, hedging, and risk management for the fund’s $4.5B in assets. Previously, Will was a Vice President at MSCI where he consulted with hedge funds on their portfolio construction process and their use of Barra and Risk Metrics.

He is a CFA charter holder and has a BS in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, with concentrations in Accounting and Finance. He currently sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the college of business.

Robby Gutmann

NYDIG, Co-Founder & CEO

Robby Gutmann is Co-Founder and CEO of NYDIG. He is also Co-Founder of Stone Ridge, where he is a member of the firm’s management committee and investment committee. Prior to his role as CEO of NYDIG, Robby served as Head of Product Development and Execution at Stone Ridge, overseeing investment strategy formulation and serving as a portfolio manager on all Stone Ridge funds. Robby received his BA in Mathematics and Music from Columbia University. 

Meltem Demirors

CoinShares, Chief Strategy Officer

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages billions in assets on behalf of a global investor base, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office and leads corporate development.

Previously, she was part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. As a veteran investor in the digital currency space, she has invested in over 250 companies in the ecosystem.

Meltem is passionate about education and advocacy, and teaches the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme and co-chairs the WEF Cryptocurrency Council.

Mark Yusko

Morgan Creek Capital Management, CEO & CIO

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management and the Managing Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1998 to 2004.

Throughout his tenure, he directly oversaw strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations to the Investment Fund Board, investment manager selection, manager performance evaluation, spending policy management and performance reporting. Total assets under management were $1.5 billion ($1.2 billion in endowment assets and $300 million in working capital).

Until 1998, Mr. Yusko was the Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office where he joined as the Assistant Investment Officer in October of 1993. He worked with the Chief Investment Officer in all aspects of Endowment Management.

Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago. Mr. Yusko is an Advisory Board member of a number of private capital partnerships and alternative investment programs and has served as a consultant on alternative investments to a select group of institutions. Mr. Yusko is an Investment Committee member of the MCNC Endowment, President and Chairman of the Investment Committee of The Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Foundation at the University of Notre Dame, and President and Head of the Investment Committee of the Morgan Creek Foundation.

Hunter Horsley

Bitwise Asset Management, CEO

Hunter Horsley is Chief Executive Officer of Bitwise Asset Management. Prior to Bitwise, he was a product manager at Facebook, working on advertiser products including the multibillion-dollar sponsored content ecosystem and ad breaks in videos. Before Facebook, Horlsey was a product manager at Instagram, responsible for multiple advertising products generating several hundred million dollars of revenue. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in economics. Recently, Horsley was named a member of Forbes’ 2019 “30 Under 30” list.

Peter McCormack

What Bitcoin Did, Journalist

Peter McCormack is a full time journalist/podcaster covering topics such as Freedom, Human Rights, Censorship and Bitcoin. Peter created and hosts the What Bitcoin Did Podcast, a twice-weekly Bitcoin podcast where he interviews experts in the world of Bitcoin development, privacy, investment and adoption. Launched in November of 2017, the podcast has grown to over 100 episodes with a guest list that is a testament to the diversity of knowledge and opinions that represent the broader Bitcoin community. Expanding his growing list of human interest recordings, documentaries and films Peter has recently launched the Defiance podcast and DefianceTV.

Kevin Kelly

Delphi Digital, Co-Founder

Kevin Kelly is a Co-Ffounder and Head of Global Macro Strategy for Delphi Digital, a research & consulting firm dedicated to the digital asset market, where he provides key insight on the salient trends impacting both traditional and digital asset markets, helping bridge the gap between conventional market analysis and blockchain-specific applications.

In his prior role as a U.S. Equity Strategist, Kevin provided insight on global equity markets for a vast array of institutional clients. He is often cited in financial journalism or can be found discussing markets across various financial media outlets (TV, radio, etc.). Kevin is a CFA charterholder and co-host of The Delphi Podcast.

Luke Gromen

Forest For The Trees, Founder & President

Luke Gromen has 25 years of experience in equity research, equity research sales, and as a macro/thematic analyst. He is the founder and president of macro/thematic research firm FFTT, LLC, which he founded in early 2014 to address and leverage the opportunity he saw created by applying what clients and former colleagues consistently described as a “unique ability to connect the dots” during a time when he saw an increasing “silo-ing” of perspectives occurring on Wall Street and in corporate America.

FFTT caters to institutions and sophisticated individuals by aggregating a wide variety of macroeconomic, thematic and sector trends in an unconventional manner to identify investable developing economic bottlenecks for his clients. Prior to founding FFTT, Luke was a founding partner of Cleveland Research Company, where he worked from 2006-14. At CRC, Luke worked in sales and edited CRC’s flagship weekly thematic research summary piece (“Straight from the Source”) for the firm’s clients. Prior to that, Luke was a partner at Midwest Research, where he worked in equity research and sales from 1996-2006. While in sales, Luke was a founding editor of Midwest’s widely-read weekly thematic summary (“Heard in the Midwest”) for the firm’s clients, in which he aggregated and combined proprietary research from Midwest with inputs from other sources.

Luke Gromen holds a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University. He earned the CFA designation in 2003.

Dan Morehead

Pantera, CEO & Co-Chief Investment Officer

Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Pantera Capital is the first institutional investment firm focused exclusively on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem. Pantera launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States when bitcoin was at $65/BTC in 2013. The firm subsequently launched the first exclusively-blockchain venture fund and recently concluded raising its third venture fund. In 2017 Pantera was the first firm to offer a pre-auction ICO fund. Pantera Bitcoin Fund has returned over 16,000% in seven years and has returned billions to its investors. Pantera manages $3.2bn across three strategies – passive, hedge, and venture — exclusively focused on bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the blockchain tech ecosystem.

Travis Kling

Ikigai Asset Management, Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Prior to founding Ikigai Asset Management in 2018, Travis spent 10 years in traditional finance. From 2008-2010, he was an investment banker at Simmons & Company in Houston, focusing on energy M&A. From 2011- 2015, he was a senior analyst at Magnetar Capital in Chicago, investing in long/short energy equities and non-control private equity and debt. From 2015-2017, Travis was a Portfolio Manager at Point72 in New York, where he managed a L/S portfolio of energy and materials equities. Travis has a BS in Accounting and a MS in Finance from Texas A&M University.

André Allen Anjos RAC

Artist

RAC’s melody-driven indie-electronica washes over you like faint memories. The songs are soft, light, warm, and comforting, as though revisiting old photo albums and recalling years gone by without any of the day-to-day struggles. It’s at peace with the past, while lodged in the present.

Anjos had an unusual upbringing. He was raised overseas to parents who both worked as missionaries. His mother is American, and he always felt torn between worlds in terms of nationality, first language, even the concept of home itself. “I didn’t feel a part of any specific world, it was a bit alienating,” he recalls.

‘BOY’ pulls from these nascent years; ones in which words weren’t doing the talking, but more esoteric languages – little melodic phrases that would be stuck in his head, or plain pangs of the heart. Back in his youth, Anjos had to do it all from scratch with no knowledge of how to create. He was his own teacher and guide. 

In the years since, he’s released three LPs, worked on Linkin Park’s final album, TV and film soundtracks, scored a ballet and remixed everyone from Lana del Rey to Odesza to Bob Marley. His songs have been streamed over half a billion times, he’s won a Grammy and his live performances have taken him to festivals the world over. He feels at ease with his success, and in a place of liberation to do and make as he pleases. The process of ‘BOY’ has changed him in a way that is now guiding his next moves.

Jason Buck

Mutiny Fund, CIO

Jason Buck is an entrepreneur and trader specializing in volatility, options hedging, and portfolio construction.

After living through 2008 as a commercial real estate developer, Jason became focused on how investors could better manage their risk. He spent the following decade consulting on portfolio construction and building bespoke long volatility strategies for family offices and high net worth individuals.

This experience in cross asset class trading spotlighted the need to create a diversified long volatility and tail risk fund designed to hedge the risks associated with economic downturns.

A former D1 soccer player and IMG academy graduate, Jason currently resides in Napa Valley, California.

Matt Milsom

Qantex Singapore, Director

Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX, CEO

Before founding Alameda and then FTX, Sam was a trader on Jane Street Capital’s international ETF desk. He traded a variety of ETFs, futures, currencies, and equities, and designed their automated OTC trading system. He graduated from MIT with a degree in physics.

Michael Moro

Genesis, CEO

Michael Moro has been CEO of Genesis since early 2016.  Under his leadership the firm has grown from $115 million to over $40 billion in annual transactions, and has expanded from OTC trading into institutional borrowing, lending, derivatives, custody and prime brokerage services with offices in New York, London and Singapore.  Previously, Moro served as COO of Genesis, responsible for all operations and management at the firm.  

Prior to Genesis, Mr. Moro spent 6 years as Vice President and Director at SecondMarket, which grew to $2.5 billion in transactions and was acquired by NASDAQ.  Before SecondMarket he spent 6 years working in investment banking at Citi, covering financial institutions including JP Morgan, Capital One and Sallie Mae.

Mr. Moro is a graduate of Georgetown University, holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 86/87 licenses, and is an active member of the Oversight Committee for the CME CF Bitcoin Pricing Products.

Chris Sullivan

Hyperion Decimus, Co-Portfolio Manager & Co-Founder

Co-Portfolio Manager and Co-Founder at Hyperion Decimus, LLC-Investment Manager for Libertas Fund, LLC, a quantitative-multi-strategy digital asset fund launched in 2018.

Since 2007, Mr. Sullivan has been in the securities and investment industry with concentrations in systematic strategies and algorithmic portfolio construction, volatility trading, futures and derivatives. Mr. Sullivan holds Series 3, 4, 7, 24, 30,31,66,215, AWMA, CRPC and is an active Chartered Market Technician (CMT).

Mr. Sullivan holds a BA in History and English, with minors in Music and Economics. He’s also completed an executive MBA in Blockchain at MIT SLOAN.

Alan Lane

Silvergate, President & CEO

Mr. Lane has been with Silvergate since December 2008. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Silvergate Capital Corporation and is Chief Executive Officer of Silvergate Bank. With over 35 years of corporate and financial institution leadership experience, he formerly held the positions of Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Southwest Community Bancorp; Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Data Solutions, Inc.; and Director and Chief Executive Officer of Business Bank of California. In addition to his financial institution experience, Mr. Lane has served as President/CEO or Chief Financial Officer of both manufacturing and retail companies. Mr. Lane serves on the Board of Directors of Natural Alternatives International, Inc.

He earned his B.A. in Economics from San Diego State University.

James Putra

TradeStation Crypto, Inc., Sr. Director of Product Strategy

James helped launch TradeStation Crypto’s offering which utilizes a true online brokerage model that self-directed investors and traders have come to expect for equities, futures, and foreign currency markets. He is a reputed crypto asset specialist and blockchain thought leader focused on helping people find innovative ways to participate in this space. He is active in the blockchain community with speaking engagements, TV appearances and mentoring. James has over 15 years of experience in the Fintech industry.

Steven McClurg

Valkyrie Investments, CIO

Steven McClurg is the Chief Investment Officer of Valkyrie Investments. He has considerable traditional finance and Fintech experience, ranging from insurtech and payments to blockchain.

Previously, Mr. McClurg was a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, where he was a portfolio manager and responsible for portfolio construction and strategy for fixed income and private equity. Most recently, Mr. McClurg founded Theseus Capital, a blockchain-powered asset management platform which was acquired by a merchant bank, Galaxy Digital, where he continued as Managing Director, building their asset management and public funds businesses. He also co-founded payments company, Paydrop. He also has experience in leadership roles in technology companies such as Electronic Arts and Crowdfunder.

Mr. McClurg holds a Master of Science and an MBA from Pepperdine University, where he has served as an adjunct professor.

Dan Matuszewski

CMS Holdings, Principal and Co-Founder

Dan Matuszewski is Principal and Co-Founder of CMS Holdings. Formerly, head of trading at Circle

Robert Breedlove

Parallax Digital, Founder

After spending his early years as a finance executive, Robert began personally investing in the digital asset space in 2015 and became an early investor in Ethereum. Shortly after realizing that he discovered a space that combined three of his primary interests: technology, finance and social impact, Robert founded Parallax Digital in early 2017.

​Prior to starting Parallax Digital, Robert served as the Consulting COO/CFO of Carepoynt, a venture funded healthcare software startup. Prior to that, he served as the CFO at Skywire, an international hospitality technology firm and served as the CFO of Xpert Exposition Services.

Roberts holds a B.A. in Accounting and Finance and Masters of Accounting, Finance and Business Administration from the University of Tennessee of Knoxville. Robert is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Tennessee.

Andrew Tam

BlockFi, SVP of Marketing

Andrew Tam is Senior Vice President of Marketing at BlockFi. In his role as a member of the company’s senior leadership team, Mr. Tam is responsible for BlockFi’s marketing strategy, including demand generation, growth initiatives, brand management, and marketing communications. He joined BlockFi from Credit Karma, where he served as Head of Marketing for Personal Loans, overseeing the company’s paid and owned channel marketing, product marketing, creative and brand strategies. He also served as a Senior Director of both Product and Performance Marketing at Credit Karma. Previously, Mr. Tam held the role of Vice President of Growth & Data Science at Apartment List, where he led a team focused on increasing the company’s demand-side value proposition across data science, product, and content initiatives. He also spent a number of his earlier years in the financial industry, working in private equity and investment banking. Mr. Tam is based in San Francisco and holds a BS in Finance and Management from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University.

Nic Carter

Castle Island Ventures, General Partner / CoinMetrics, Co-Founder

Nic is a general partner at Castle Island Ventures, a Cambridge, MA-based venture firm investing in startups in the public blockchain industry, and the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics firm. Previously, he served as Fidelity’s first cryptoasset analyst. Nic holds an Msc Finance from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in philosophy from the University of St Andrews. 

Christian Catalini

Diem (formally Libra), Co-Creator // Diem Association, Chief Economist

Christian Catalini is a Co-Creator of Diem (formerly Libra), and the Chief Economist of the Diem Association. He is currently on leave from his role as Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he founded the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and designed the MIT Digital Currency Research Study.

He is also a Faculty Research Fellow in the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Christian’s research focuses on blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and he previously worked on the economics of equity crowdfunding and startup growth, and the economics of scientific collaboration. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto (Rotman School of Management), and MSc (summa cum laude) in Economics and Management of New Technologies from Bocconi University, Milan.

His research has been featured in Nature, Science, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, WIRED, NPR, Forbes, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, VICE news and the Washington Post among others. Christian has presented his work at a variety of institutions including Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, London Business School, New York University, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the Federal Reserve Bank, the US Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the World Bank, the IMF, the White House OSTP, and a number of central banks and regulators.

Ben Radclyffe

100x Group, Commercial Director

Ben is Commercial Director for 100x Group, the team behind the BitMEXderivatives exchange. Before going full-time Crypto, Ben spent 20 years in electronic trading at Traditional Finance companies, including time at one of the world’s most successful proprietary trading firms and two top-tier investment banks.

Christine Sandler

Fidelity Digital Assets, Head of Sales and Marketing

Christine Sandler is Head of Sales and Marketing for Fidelity Digital Assets℠, which provides enterprise-grade digital asset solutions for institutional investors. She leads all sales, marketing, and business development activity to accelerate business growth.

Prior to joining Fidelity Digital Assets, Christine served as U.S. Head of Sales for Coinbase, Inc. Shehas extensive experience in sales leadership and previously served as Head of Equity Electronic Sales for the Americas at Barclays Investment Bank, where she led cross-selling efforts and new business generation, and as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Sales for NYSE Euronext. Christine also previously served as Head of Electronic Sales at Merrill Lynch and worked as a buy-side trader.

An advocate for women’s leadership and the autistic community, she co-founded the Women’s Leadership Action Network, has chaired the Women in Finance Committee for the Security Trader’s Association, and serves as a Trustee of two public charter schools serving autistic students in New York.

Christine earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and is a graduate of the INSEAD Global Executive Program.

Sebastian Moonjava

Real Vision, Crypto Editor

Sebastian Moonjava is Associate Crypto Editor at Real Vision, where he covers crypto, decentralized finance, and token economics, with an emphasis on newer and more experimental projects in the digital asset space. Prior to joining Real Vision, he worked as a Community Manager for the crypto start up project Status.im. Sebastian has been actively involved in the crypto community since 2013, and full time in the space since 2016. His writings on crypto have been published by Hackernoon, Quartz and Keeping stock. Before joining the crypto space full time, he worked on several startups companies and held the title of Vice President of Investor Relations for Global Senior Housing.

Peter Hans

Arca, Managing Director

Peter Hans is Managing Director at Arca Funds and is responsible for all aspects of strategy and management across IR, distribution and strategic relationships. Peter also serves on the Risk Committee for the Arca Digital Assets Fund.

Prior to joining Arca, Peter was the co-founder and CEO of the popular financial technology company, Harvest Exchange, which he ran from its founding in 2013 through 2019. For the past 20 years, Peter has led teams and been responsible for goal-exceeding organic growth across multiple asset management and capital markets companies.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Colby College and an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University.

Scott Melker

Wolf of All Streets, Host

Scott Melker is a crypto trader and investor, best known for hosting the Wolf Of All Streets podcast. He became a passionate advocate for Bitcoin after retiring from a 20 year career as a globe trotting DJ.

Neda Whitney

Christie's, SVP of Marketing

Neda recently joined Christie’s where she develops marketing strategy for the Americas, while leading Creative, Content, Strategy and Communications teams. She oversees the marketing campaigns for the Specialist Art Portfolios in the Americas, with a focus on innovation, data and best in class creative execution. Prior to Christie’s, Neda spent 2 decades working agency side in NY, SF, London and Paris. Most recently she was SVP, Managing Director of Client Services at R/GA where her client portfolio included Verizon, L’Oreal, Tiffany & Co, Unilever, Uber, Planned Parenthood, Amazon and ESPN.

Erik Voorhees

ShapeShift, CEO

Erik Voorhees is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShapeShift Ag. Erik Voorhees served as the Head of Marketing and Communications at BitInstant LLC. Erik Voorhees is an American and Panamanian startup Founder. Erik Voorhees was co-founder of the bitcoin company Coinapult. Erik Voorhees was the Founder and Partial Owner of SatoshiDICE. He joined BitInstant in February 2012. He has been a Member of Cryptocurrency Advisory Board at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. since June 14, 2016.

Matt Hougan

Bitwise Asset Management, CIO

Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial technology. He is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency index funds. He was previously CEO of ETF.com and Inside ETFs, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference.

Matt is co-author of two publications for the CFA Institute Research Foundation: “A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors.” He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable, a member of the ETFdb’s ETF Hall of Fame, and the eighth person to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from ETF.com for contributions to the ETF industry.

Hougan sits on the board of directors for Equbot, creator of the first AI-driven ETFs (in partnership with IBM Watson), and is a strategic advisor to multiple crypto-and financial advisor-related startups, including Blockworks, Stratifi, Advisor Circle, and Exchange.

Nick Grossman

Union Square Ventures, Partner

Nick Grossman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Previously, he led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans, with a focus on cultivating open sourcecommunities, building open data platforms, and supporting open standards efforts. Nick has a degree in Urban Studies from Stanford University, has held academic affiliations at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, and learned everything he knows about technology from generous people on the internet and by using view:source. He grew up in Brooklyn and now lives outside of Boston with his wife and two children.

Whit Gibbs

Compass Mining, Inc., CEO

Whit became fascinated with bitcoin mining in 2018, and started HASHR8 Podcast to learn from industry leaders. He grew the show to become the #1 bitcoin mining podcast on Spotify and iTunes and in 2020, HASHR8 Podcast was recognized as one of the Top 20 Crypto Podcasts.

In 2020, he founded Compass Mining with Paul Gosker and Thomas Heller, to democratize hashrate by giving everyone the ability to profitably mine bitcoin. Compass is the first bitcoin mining marketplace and has helped hundreds of first-time miners start operations of their own.

Prior to founding Compass Mining, Whit held leadership positions with Hilton Hotels, Aliant Payment Systems, and PuppySpot.com.

Caroline Cochran

Oklo Inc., Co- Founder & COO

Caroline is the co-founder and the COO of Oklo.

She has experience ranging from engineering to entrepreneurship, research, economics, policy, sales and marketing. She specifically worked on technologies including solar vehicles, advanced fission, and oil and natural gas. And also worked with think tanks, engineering standards societies, intellectual property, government agencies, defense (in the pentagon and with military contractors), and marketing. She has been a manager in 16 projects, including 10 start-up projects, and been a founder of several organizations.

Working at the Office of Technology Development in IP and at the beginning of the Business Development office and a technology commercialization program utilized both my engineering and economics degrees, working on isolating valuable IP, building teams around each, and business consulting for each.

At MIT, she did 3 years of research on air ingress in HTGRs.

After MIT, she did very different things- marketing, modeling, consulting, and bootstrapping as Oklo was created.

Caroline has been the first author of several published papers as well as her thesis in safety analysis on HTGRs.

One of the youngest recipients of the University of Oklahoma Regent’s Award for Outstanding Alumni.

She cares deeply about the environment and health, which underlies her dedication to making advanced nuclear energy a reality. 

Michael Bucella

BlockTower Capital, General Partner

Michael Bucella is a Partner at BlockTower Capital, an institutional crypto asset and blockchain technology investment firm.

Prior to BlockTower, Michael spent nearly a decade with Goldman Sachs in New York, most recently in the Securities Division where he was running the Multi-Asset Sales & Trading business for the Canadian region, leading efforts to expand the strategy globally. Previous to this role, he led the Institutional Global Equities franchise, also for the Canadian region. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2008 as part of the Firm’s Asset Management division (GSAM), where he focused on cross-asset, global investment strategies for North American institutions. Michael is a graduate of Fordham University and a member of the Fordham University President’s Council.

Michael is a mentor for the Techstars and Creative Destruction Labs accelerator programs in both New York and Toronto. He is also active in multiple philanthropic organizations, as well as many personal endeavours to directly aid relief missions in disaster-stricken areas.

Blockchain.com is connecting the world to the future of finance. We are the most trusted and fastest growing crypto company, helping millions across the globe – from single individuals to the largest institutions – have an easy and safe way to access cryptocurrency. Through the use of block chain technology, Blockchain is revolutionizing the $14T financial services industry. Blockchain has raised over $70 million in funding from leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Google Ventures.

LedgerX is a place where retail and institutional customers can trade bitcoin and bitcoin options 24×7 on a federally regulated platform. Open to all US residents.

We believe that everyone should be able to do more with bitcoin, so we’ve built LedgerX to make derivative trading friendly, approachable, and informative for newcomers and experts alike.

We’ve set up the platform so customers can trade any time, any where – desktop or mobile.

At BitGo, we believe digital assets will drive the global financial system. Our clients choose BitGo because they need services and solutions they can trust. BitGo’s solution is built on top of the strongest technological foundation in the industry, allowing BitGo to provide clients with an integrated solution for digital assets that mitigates risk and optimizes capital efficiency.

BitGo’s products appeal to all types of clients. From high-net-worth investors to leveraged traders to institutional clients, our clients require the highest levels of security, technology, and compliance. As a regulated, qualified custodian, BitGo is able to provide the true peace of mind that fiduciaries require to work with digital assets. We deliver standards, such as CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) and SOC2, while also working with the most trusted brands in the industry and offering clients the most comprehensive insurance available in the market today.

Celsius helps over a million customers worldwide to find the path towards financial independence through a compounding yield service and instant low-cost loans accessible via a web and mobile app. Built on the belief that financial services should only do what is in the best interest of the customers and community, Celsius is a blockchain-based fee-free platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions.

For additional information please visit www.celsius.network.

As the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm, Pantera Capital is the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Our mission is to act as the catalyst for widespread blockchain adoption and innovation.

Exclusively focused on investing in blockchain technologies, the Pantera team is experienced in both traditional finance and emergent blockchain technology. Having strong relationships with some of the most promising entrepreneurs and other top investors in the space, Pantera is fulfilling its strategic investment philosophy by building a diversified portfolio and bringing industry-specific value-add resources to its portfolio companies.

Within the next several years, we envision blockchains and digital currencies having an established, responsibly managed, and regulated role in the global economy, soon after disintermediating a myriad of industries.

We are building the cryptoeconomy – a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto.

We started in 2012 with the radical idea that anyone, anywhere, should be able to easily and securely send and receive Bitcoin. Today, we offer a trusted and easy-to-use platform for accessing the broader cryptoeconomy.

Approximately 43 million verified users, 7,000 institutions, and 115,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries trust Coinbase to easily and securely invest, spend, save, earn, and use crypto.

Block.one is a software publisher specializing in high performance blockchain technologies. Its first project, EOSIO, an open-source blockchain protocol designed to enable secure data transfer and high-performance decentralized applications, has received global recognition as the first performant blockchain platform for developers, following its introduction in May 2017.

At TradeStation we believe in empowering traders to claim their financial edge.

Whether you are new to trading or a seasoned professional, through a full suite of powerful trading technology, online brokerage services, and trading education, we are committed to empowering you to unlock your trading and investor potential.

Year in, year out, TradeStation has remained committed to providing the best trading experience. Our platforms and brokerage services have received awards and recognition from respected industry reviewers like Barron’s, StockBrokers.com, Investopedia, and Investor’s Business Daily.

Trade stocks, ETFs, futures, options, or crypto with reliable execution on powerful platforms, broad market access, and competitive pricing models. At TradeStation, traders and investors have the tools to compete in numerous markets, the data to test and optimize their strategies, and the community to share their knowledge and learn new skills.

A research-driven firm dedicated to advancing the understanding and development of the growing digital asset market.

Many of the most prominent funds, investors, and financial institutions leverage our team’s research to uncover actionable opportunities within the space. Whether you are new to the industry or a seasoned investor, Delphi has you covered with the most in-depth research platform dedicated to crypto.

Financial institutions and enterprise clients also utilize our consulting services to understand and leverage decentralized networks as they develop their own internal digital asset strategies.

 

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