Co-Founder
Certik
USA
Ronghui is a technology consultant for the Monetary Authority of Singapore and a member of the Hong Kong Web 3.0 Development Task Force. He developed CertiKOS and SeKVM, pioneering verified OS systems. Gu’s awards include the OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, Amazon Research Awards, and SOSP Best Paper Award.
Co-Founder
Certik
USA
Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Assets
Franklin Templeton
USA
Roger Bayston leads digital asset initiatives at Franklin Templeton, focusing on innovative products and services within the expanding digital assets space. His team develops infrastructure bridging traditional financial products with digital ecosystems, supports mature crypto-powered blockchain networks, and incubates projects for distributed ledger companies.
Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Assets
Franklin Templeton
USA
Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer
Mysten Labs & Sui
UAE
Kostas Chalkias, Chief Cryptographer and Co-Founder of Mysten Labs, leads cryptography innovation, research, and development of new product features. Prior to Mysten Labs, Kostas was the Lead Cryptographer in several leading tech companies, including Meta and R3. Founder of the largest Big Data Meetup group in Athens, Greece, with a healthy and growing community of 2000+ members. Received a Best Paper award for 3 times, filed 8 US patents, ranked 1st in Computer Science MSc studies, received one of the most appreciated national scholarship programs (4 years in a row) and ranked on the Top3 in National IT Innovation Contests twice.
Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer
Mysten Labs & Sui
UAE
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Animoca Brands
Hong Kong
A veteran technology entrepreneur/investor based in Hong Kong, Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in blockchain and gaming with the mission to deliver digital property rights to the world's gamers and Internet users, thereby creating a new asset class, play-and-earn economies, and a more equitable digital framework contributing to the building of the open metaverse.
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Animoca Brands
Hong Kong
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Bitwise Asset Management
USA
Katherine Dowling is on the Executive Management team and is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Bitwise Asset Management. She previously served in General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at several financial and private equity firms, and was a co-founder, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law School graduate, Ms. Dowling spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute insider trading, fraud, and money laundering cases, among others. She serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Bitwise Asset Management
USA
Co-Founder
Hypersphere Ventures
USA
Jack Platts is the co-founder of the Hypersphere Group. Previously Jack spent three years leading business development for the Polkadot project in Zug, Switzerland, and one year as an analyst at Bain Capital. Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest. We are not traditional venture capitalists. We dive deep into protocols and currencies, and participate heavily in community building and ecosystem growth. Hypersphere is an integral part of core development teams, and we aim to be a trusted partner to the projects building Web 3.0.
Co-Founder
Hypersphere Ventures
USA
Co-Founder and Lead Architect
Movement Labs
USA
Rushi Manche is the co-founder and lead architect at Movement Labs, where he's pioneering the integration of Move technology with Ethereum. Previously a core contributor to Aptos' DeFi ecosystem and DEX development, Rushi has extensive experience across Ethereum DeFi and Cosmos protocols. His expertise in smart contract engineering and cross-chain development drives Movement Labs' mission to revolutionize blockchain development and accessibility.
Co-Founder and Lead Architect
Movement Labs
USA
Co-Founder
MegaETH
USA
Shuyao Kong is a Co-Founder of MegaETH, an EVM-compatible blockchain project aiming for high transaction speeds that dubs itself the “first real-time blockchain” and boasts of early financial backing from Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin and others. Before Co-Founding MegaETH, Shuyao worked in key positions at several blockchain and financial technology companies, including a six-year stint as the global head of business development at Consensys.
Co-Founder
MegaETH
USA
Co-Founder & CSO
Aethir
Singapore
Mark has led Aethir’s rapid growth from 5 to 157 employees, achieving a $3 billion FDV in 2 years. He revolutionized DePIN with scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure for gaming and AI, supported by NVIDIA, Super Micro, and Foxconn. Mark also advises on blockchain, mining, and investments at Flux Capital and Gas Global.
Co-Founder & CSO
Aethir
Singapore
Managing Partner
Big Brain Holdings
UK
Sam Kim is a Managing Partner at Big Brain Holdings in London, with a background in engineering, project management, and expertise in instrumentation within the petrochemical and oil & gas industries. With experience at top companies like Shell and Arrington Capital, Sam has demonstrated strong leadership skills and a successful track record in investments and research.
Managing Partner
Big Brain Holdings
UK
Co-Founder & CEO
0G Labs
USA
Michael, founder of two unicorns, now leads 0G Labs (0g.ai), pioneering the first decentralized AI operating system. He’s driven over $200M in revenue, raised $200M in venture capital, and managed 650+ employees through market challenges. With a Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley education, his work has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, and more.
Co-Founder & CEO
0G Labs
USA
VP of Product - Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Currencies
PayPal
USA
May Zabaneh is the Vice President of Product of the Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies at PayPal, responsible for leading the product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and delivering customer experiences to market for Crypto and Remittances. Prior to this role she was VP of PayPal’s Global Professional Services organization, driving business results and growth by providing global solutions, partner implementations, and revenue protection with technical servicing.
VP of Product - Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Currencies
PayPal
USA
Co-Founder
Lumino AI
USA
Co-Founder
Lumino AI
USA
Co-Founder
Hacken
USA
Co-Founder
Hacken
USA
Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Fireblocks
USA
With a background in law and financial supervision, Jason has advised fintech and blockchain startups on key issues since 2018. Previously, he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and practiced law at Linklaters and Davis Polk. A Columbia graduate with a global law certificate, he bridges expertise in financial services with emerging blockchain ecosystems.
Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Fireblocks
USA
Co-founder
Gensyn
UK
Head of Data Science
Ocean Protocol
Romania
Head of Data Science
Ocean Protocol
Romania
CTO
io.net
Thailand
A seasoned technology leader with experience across startups and tech giants, Gaurav has tackled challenges in networking, e-commerce, and fintech. Notably, he led the creation of a scalable KYC platform at Binance, serving millions of users. Now, his focus lies on democratizing access to powerful AI compute resources.
CTO
io.net
Thailand
Head of Ecosystem and Community
Filecoin Foundation
USA
Porter Stowell is a true pioneer when it comes to driving innovation into Web3. Since 2017, he has had involvement with IBM Blockchain while creating enterprise blockchain futures; in this regard, he contributed further to crypto adoption by acting at Coinbase. He's also led ecosystems at Filecoin, interconnecting the key players and striving to grow its network. A Park City outdoorsman, Porter balances tech leadership with fatherhood and adventure.
Head of Ecosystem and Community
Filecoin Foundation
USA
Founder and CEO
OpenEden
Singapore
Jeremy Ng is the Founder and CEO of OpenEden. As a seasoned finance professional with a strong background of over 20 years in investment banking, Jeremy pivoted to the cryptocurrency industry to bridge the gap between TradFi and DeFi. His mission with OpenEden is to bring real-world assets on-chain, starting with U.S. Treasuries. Before that, Jeremy held senior leadership positions in finance, including Managing Director of Gemini APAC, Derivatives Head at Goldman Sachs, and Asia CEO of Leonteq.
Founder and CEO
OpenEden
Singapore
Co-Founder
Avail
UAE
Anurag Arjun, co-founder of Avail, is a seasoned entrepreneur with a diverse background in research, economics, and engineering. After co-founding Matic Network (now Polygon Labs) in 2017, he launched Avail in 2020 to empower scalable blockchain applications. In March 2023, Avail spun off from Polygon to develop a unification layer for modular blockchains, driving innovation and interoperability in the blockchain space.
Co-Founder
Avail
UAE
Founder and CEO
Beincrypto.com
Argentina
Alena Afanaseva, CEO and Founder of BeInCrypto.com, brings over a decade of traditional finance experience to the decentralized economy. Since 2018, she's grown the platform into a leading global crypto news hub with 8M monthly visitors and a 200-member team from 60+ countries. Alena's expertise spans macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial asset analysis. She's also a passionate advocate for women's empowerment in Web 3.0.
Founder and CEO
Beincrypto.com
Argentina