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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

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