
Larry Wade
Global Head of Compliance,
PayPal Blockchain,
Crypto & Digital Currencies

Kun Peng
GP, Blockchain Builders;
Founder, Blockchain Entrepreneurship
MS&E447 @Stanford University

Hong Kim
Co-Founder & CTO,
Bitwise

Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos
General Counsel,
StarkWare

Gil Rosen
GP, Blockchain Builders;
President,
Stanford Blockchain Accelerator

Teddy Pornprinya
Co-Founder,
Plume Network

TuongVy Le
General Counsel,
Veda

Nick Krakoff
Crypto Products & Business,
Stripe

Michael Lee
Financial Research Economist,
Federal Reserve
Bank of New York

Michael Sonnenshein
President,
Securitize

Sandy Kaul
Executive Vice President &
Head of Innovation,
Franklin Templeton

Paul Bances
Head of Global
Enterprise Growth,
Paxos

Biser Dimitrov
Head of Digital Assets Technology,
Citi

Maria Shen
General Partner,
Electric Capital

Steven Willinger
GP, Blockchain Builders;
Former Lead of Coinbase Ventures

Lia Muller Peña
Chief Strategy Officer and
Founding Partner,
BitGPT

YQ Jia
Founder,
AltLayer

Ramine Bigdeliazari
VP of Product Strategy, Fidelity Digital Assets®

Reza van Roosmalen
Principal, Leader Financial Services &
Digital Assets CMT/AAS,
Deloitte

J. Christopher Giancarlo
Former Chairman,
CFTC

Neil DeSilva
EIR of IC3;
Former CFO of PayPal
Digital Currencies

Tim Roughgarden
Head of Research, a16z;
Professor,
Columbia University

Chris Perkins
President & Managing Partner,
CoinFund

Vivek Raman
CEO & Cofounder,
Etherealize

Jillian Friedman
COO,
Symbiotic

Austin Campbell
Managing Partner
& Founder,
Zero Knowledge Consulting

Channi Greenwall
Co-Founder and CEO,
Olympix

Chris Maurice
CEO,
Yellow Card

Michal Zajac
Head of Research,
Nethermind

Arjun Sethi
Co-CEO, Kraken

Tomasz Stanczak
Executive Director,
Ethereum Foundation

Adrienne A. Harris
Superintendent,
New York Department
of Financial Services

Rebecca Carvatt
Partner,
EY

Tom Lee
Co-Founder and Head of Research, Fundstrat

Roy Ben-Hur
Advisory Blockchain &
Digital Assets Lead,
Deloitte

David Kinitsky
CEO,
Everstake

Joao Reginatto
Chief Strategy Officer, MO;
Former VP of Product, Circle

Ari Juels
Co-Director of IC3;
Chief Scientist at Chainlink;
Professor at Cornell Tech

A.J. Warner
Chief Strategy Officer,
Offchain Labs
NextFin NYC
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
ABOUT ETH NYC
Ethereum NYC is a curated event week (August 11–17, 2025) with a mission to bridge key pillars of the Ethereum ecosystem with global institutions in finance, academia, and art.
We will take a Devconnect-style approach to encourage highly focused conversations to demonstrate that Ethereum is here and is ready for adoption.
ETH NYC EVENTS
Ethereum NYC is a curated event week (August 11–17, 2025) with a mission to bridge key pillars of the Ethereum ecosystem with global institutions in finance, academia, and art.
We will take a Devconnect-style approach to encourage highly focused conversations to demonstrate that Ethereum is here and is ready for adoption.
Check out the full event week here.

