08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Check-in
09:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Opening
Qing Ze Hum, Partner, Ethereum Ecosystem Fund;
Gil Rosen, GP, Blockchain Builders; President, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator;
Kun Peng, GP, Blockchain Builders; Founder, Blockchain Entrepreneurship MS&E447@ Stanford University;
09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Keynote: Ethereum and the Institutional Buildout
Tomasz Stanczak, Co-Executive Director, EF
09:15 AM - 09:35 AM
Fireside Chat: Regulating Innovation
Superintendent Adrienne Harris, NYDFS
Moderator: Neil DeSilva, EIR of IC3; Former CFO of PayPal Digital Currencies
09:35 AM - 09:55 AM
Fireside Chat: Retail Crypto: From Trading to Wallets
Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO, Kraken
Moderator: Steven Willinger, GP, Blockchain Builders; Former Lead of Coinbase Ventures
09:55 AM - 10:20 AM
Panel: How Institutions Approach Digital Assets
Sandy Kaul, EVP and Head of Innovation, Franklin Templeton;
Artem Korenyuk, Managing Director & Enterprise Head of Digital Assets, Citi
Moderator: Roy Ben-Hur, Advisory Blockchain & Digital Assets Lead, Deloitte
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Panel: Stablecoin Innovation
Michael Lee, Financial Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
Joao Reginatto, Chief Strategy Officer, M0, Former VP of Product, Circle;
Kristen Keyes, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Paxos
Moderator: Rebecca Carvatt, Partner, EY
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
BREAK
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
Panel: Today and Tomorrow’s Investment Environment
Ramine Bigdeliazari, VP of Product Strategy, Fidelity Digital Assets;
Matt Kunke, Lead Digital Assets Product Strategist, BlackRock;
Hong Kim, Co-founder & CTO, Bitwise
Moderator: Seth Ginns, Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments, CoinFund
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Panel: Digital Asset Treasuries
Tom Lee, Co-Founder & Head of Research, Fundstrat;
Marco Santori, Partner, Pantera;
Joseph Chalom, Co-CEO of Sharplink;
Andrew Keys, Chairman, Ether Machine
Moderator: David Grider, Head of Liquidity Investments, Finality Capital
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Fireside Chat: Tokenizing TradFi
Michael Sonnenshein, President, Securitize
Moderator: Joshua Rivera, General Counsel, Blockchain Capital
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Fireside: The Future of Global Fintech
Chris Maurice, Co-founder, Yellowcard;
Larry Wade, Global Head of Compliance, PayPal Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Currencies
Moderator: Leo Schwartz, Fortune
12:35 PM - 01:20 PM
Lunch
01:20 PM - 01:35 PM
Keynote Speaker
Sergey Nazarov, Founder & CEO, Chainlink
01:35 PM - 01:55 PM
Fireside Chat: Commercializing the Ethereum Ecosystem
Vivek Raman, CEO & Cofounder, Etherealize;
Artem Kotelskiy, Head of Crypto Research, cyber•Fund;
Moderator: Maria Shen, General Partner, Electric Capital
01:55 PM - 02:25 PM
Panel: Real World Assets and Retail Users
Matthew Blumberg, Head of DeFi, Ondo Finance;
Omar Azhar, VP of BD, ZKsync;
AJ Warner, Chief Strategy Officer, OffChain Labs;
Teddy Pornprinya, Cofounder, Plume
Moderator: Terry Culver, President, DFG
02:25 PM - 02:50 PM
Panel: Crypto and Evolution of the Capital Markets
ToungVy Le, General Counsel, Veda;
Austin Campbell, Zero Knowledge Consulting;
Channi Greenwall, Co-Founder and CEO, Olympix
Moderator: Reza Van Roosmalen, Principal Financial Services & Digital Assets, Deloitte
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM
Fireside Chat: An Era of Regulatory Clarity
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Former Chairman, CFTC
Moderator: Chris Perkins, President & Managing Partner, CoinFund
03:10 PM - 03:40 PM
Panel: Asset Management in an Era of Staking and DeFi
David Kinitsky, CEO, Everstake;
Jillian Friedman, COO, Symbiotic;
Patrick McNab, Co-Founder & CEO, Pier Two;
Ben Ward, Co-Founder & COO, Rocksolid
Moderator: Ash Morgan, Ethereum Foundation Enterprise
03:30 PM - 03:50 PM
BREAK
03:50 PM - 04:15 PM
Verifiability & Compliance
Martin Derka, Co-Founder of Zircuit;
Eric Nakagawa, CEO and Co-Founder of Self;
Michal Zajac, Head of Research, Nethermind
Moderator: Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, General Counsel, StarkWare
04:15 PM - 04:40 PM
Panel: Next Gen Agentic Payments
Nick Krakoff, Crypto Product Lead, Stripe;
Griffin Dunaif, Founder & CEO, Halliday;
Lia Pena, Chief Strategy Officer, Bitgpt;
Moderator: Guy Wuollet, Partner a16z
04:40 PM - 05:00 PM
Agentic Finance
Sam Green, Co-Founder & CEO, Cambrian;
Ram Kumar, Co-Founder, Openledger;
Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder & CEO, 0G
Moderator: Will Nuelle, General Partner, Galaxy, Ventures
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM
Unifying Liquidity
YQ Jia, Cofounder, Altlayer;
Robinson Burkey, Co-Founder, Wormhole
Moderator: Tim Khoury, Partner, Lightspeed Faction
05:20 PM - 05:45 PM
Institutional Infrastructure
Ben Jones, Co-Founder, Optimism;
Steven Goldfeder, Co-Founder & CEO, Offchain Labs;
Nikil Viswanathan, Co-Founder & CEO, Alchemy
Moderator: Gil Rosen, General Partner, Blockchain Builders
AGENDA
NextFin NYC | Tuesday 12 August 2025

