Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2025

Agenda

FULL EVENT SCHEDULE

All events will be held onsite unless otherwise noted

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4:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Cottonwood Ballroom
Day 1

Registration

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5:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Rendezvous Lodge
Day 1

Welcome Reception

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8:00 am
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10:00 am
Cottonwood Lawn
Day 2

Breakfast

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8:00 am
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5:00 pm
Cottonwood Ballroom
Day 2

Registration

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9:00 am
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9:25 am
Main Stage
Day 2

State of Digital Assets Industry

Speakers:
Arjun Sethi
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Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Kraken
Anthony Scaramucci
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Chairman
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SALT
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9:25 am
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9:40 am
Main Stage
Day 2

View from Senate Banking: A Conversation with Sen. Tim Scott

Speakers:
Tim Scott
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United States Senator, South Carolina
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Moderator:
Austin Reid
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Global Head of Revenue & Business
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FalconX
9:40 am
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10:15 am
Main Stage
Day 2

The Future of Bitcoin Mining in America

Speakers:
Zach Bradford
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Chief Executive Officer & President
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CleanSpark
Patrick Fleury
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Chief Financial Officer
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TeraWulf
Kent Draper
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Chief Commercial Officer
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IREN
Salman Khan
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Chief Financial Officer
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Marathon Digital Holdings
Moderator:
Mike Alfred
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Founder & Managing Partner
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Alpine Fox LP
10:15 am
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10:30 am
Main Stage
Day 2

Why A Legacy Asset Manager is Embracing Blockchain: A Conversation with Jenny Johnson

Speakers:
Jenny Johnson
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Chief Executive Officer
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Franklin Templeton
Moderator:
John Bowman
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Chief Executive Officer
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CAIA
10:30 am
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11:05 am
Main Stage
Day 2

Financial Systems Upgrade: Stablecoins, Banking and Custody

Speakers:
Nathan McCauley
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Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Anchorage Digital
Walter Hessert
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Head of Strategy
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Paxos
Mike Belshe
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Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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BitGo
Gregg Bell
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Chief Business Officer
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Hedera
Carolyn Weinberg
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Chief Product & Innovation Officer
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BNY
Moderator:
W. Sean Ford
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Chief Executive Officer
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XSY
11:05 am
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11:25 am
Main Stage
Day 2

View from the SEC: A Conversation with Chairman Paul Atkins

Speakers:
Paul S. Atkins
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34th Chairman
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Moderator:
Teresa Goody Guillén
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Partner
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Baker Hostetler
11:25 am
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12:00 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Blockchain Onramps: Tokenization and Payments

Speakers:
John Nahas
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Chief Business Officer
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Ava Labs
Farooq Malik
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Co-founder and CEO
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Rain
Gregg Bell
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Chief Business Officer
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Hedera
Moderator:
Rob Hadick
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General Partner
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Dragonfly
12:00 pm
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12:30 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Banking Supervision: A Conversation with Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Miki Bowman

Speakers:
Michelle W. Bowman
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Member and Vice Chair for Supervision, Board of Governors
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The Federal Reserve
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12:30 pm
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1:30 pm
Cottonwood Lawn
Day 2

Networking & Lunch

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1:30 pm
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2:05 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Multichain Future: Unique Use Cases

Speakers:
Staci Warden
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Chief Executive Officer
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Algorand Foundation
Michael Steuer
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President & CTO
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Casper Association
Sunny Lu
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Co-Founder & CEO
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VeChain
Denelle Dixon
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Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
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Stellar Development Foundation
Dan Singleman
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Chief Investment Officer
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Hoskinson Family Office
Moderator:
Jacquelyn Melinek
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Founder & CEO
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Token Relations
2:05 pm
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2:20 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Bringing Rational Privacy to Blockchain

Speakers:
Charles Hoskinson
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Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Input Output
Moderator:
Steven Lupien
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Director, Center for Blockchain & Digital Innovation
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University of Wyoming
2:20 pm
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2:50 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

AI and Blockchain: The Future of Energy Infrastructure and Data Ownership

Speakers:
Illia Polosukhin
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Co-Founder
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NEAR Protocol
Teana Baker-Taylor
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Cofounder and COO
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Venice.ai
Bill Tai
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Co-Founder & Chairman
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MetaGood
Moderator:
Michael Casey
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Chairman
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DAIS
2:50 pm
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3:25 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Public Company Crypto Treasury Strategies — and Beyond

Speakers:
Jeff Park
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Head of Alpha Strategies
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Bitwise Investments
Marco Santori
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General Partner
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Pantera Capital
Brittany Kaiser
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Co-Founder
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TON Strategies; Alpha Transform
Moderator:
J. Dax Hansen
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Partner
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Perkins Coie
3:25 pm
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4:00 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Institutional Yield on Digital Assets

Speakers:
Ryan Zurrer
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Founder
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Dialectic
Lorien Gabel
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CEO & Co-Founder
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Figment
Rebecca Rettig
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Chief Legal Officer
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Jito Labs
Dave Sedacca
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Lead
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Polkadot Capital Group
Moderator:
Michael Bucella
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Neoclassic Capital
4:00 pm
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4:15 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Capturing Alpha in a Mature Crypto Market: A Conversation with Multicoin's Kyle Samani

Speakers:
Kyle Samani
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Multicoin Capital
Moderator:
Ted Breyer
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Partner
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Breyer Capital
4:15 pm
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4:50 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Private Wealth Management of Digital Assets

Speakers:
Pascal St-Jean
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President & CEO
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3iQ
Chase Ergen
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Board of Directors
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DeFi Technologies
Olivier Roussy Newton
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Chief Executive Officer
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BTQ Technologies
Moderator:
Emily Parker
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Senior Strategic Advisor
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Monex Group
4:50 pm
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5:25 pm
Main Stage
Day 2

Institutional Investors Embrace Digital Assets

Speakers:
Dan Morehead
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Founder & Managing Partner
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Pantera Capital
Joe Marenda
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Partner, Head of Hedge Fund Research, Head of Digital Assets Investing
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Cambridge Associates
Michael Ashe
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Head of Strategy and Corporate Development
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Galaxy
Moderator:
Daniel Barile, CFA
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Partner, Senior Portfolio Manager
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SkyBridge
6:00 pm
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10:00 pm
Johnson 40 Ranch
Day 2

Cowboy Cookout

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8:00 am
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10:00 am
Cottonwood Lawn
Day 3

Breakfast

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8:00 am
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5:00 pm
Cottonwood Ballroom
Day 3

Registration

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9:00 am
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9:20 am
Main Stage
Day 3

Federal Reserve Speech

Speakers:
Chris Waller
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Member of the Board of Governors, The Federal Reserve
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The Federal Reserve
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9:20 am
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9:35 am
Main Stage
Day 3

BITCOIN's Next Act: A Conversation with Sen. Cynthia Lummis

Speakers:
Cynthia Lummis
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United States Senator, Wyoming
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9:35 am
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10:10 am
Main Stage
Day 3

U.S. Policy Landscape

Speakers:
Miles Jennings
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General Counsel and Head of Decentralization
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a16z crypto
Summer Mersinger
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Chief Executive Officer
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Blockchain Association
Stuart Alderoty
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Chief Legal Officer
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Ripple
Sylvia Favretto
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General Counsel
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Mysten Labs
Moderator:
Talia Kaplan
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Reporter; Crypto World
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CNBC
10:10 am
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10:25 am
Main Stage
Day 3

The View from Treasury

Speakers:
Tyler Williams
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Counselor to the Secretary, Digital Assets
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U.S. Department of the Treasury
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10:25 am
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11:00 am
Main Stage
Day 3

Bitcoin, Banking and the Future of Financial Infrastructure

Speakers:
Caitlin Long
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Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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Custodia Bank
Joey Garcia
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Executive Director, Chief Strategy, Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Officer
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Xapo Bank
Moderator:
Greg Carson
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Managing Partner
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Humla Ventures
11:00 am
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11:15 am
Main Stage
Day 3

Resisting Tyranny: A Personal Journey

Speakers:
Evan Mawarire
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Zimbabwean Hyperinflation Survivor, Pastor, and Pro-Democracy Advocate
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11:15 am
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11:30 am
Main Stage
Day 3

Bitcoin as a Peaceful Protest

Speakers:
Srdja Popovic
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Founder
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CANVAS
Anna Chekhovich
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Bitcoin
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The Anti-Corruption Foundation; Human Rights Foundation
Moderator:
Alex Gladstein
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Chief Strategy Officer
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Human Rights Foundation
11:30 am
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11:45 am
Main Stage
Day 3

Philanthropy’s Freedom Deficit

Speakers:
Álvaro Salas Castro
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President
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The Reynolds Foundation
Noemi Boyer
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CEO
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Democracy Lab
Moderator:
Céline Boustani
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President
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Human Rights Foundation
11:45 am
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12:00 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

The Human Impact of Bitcoin Mining

Speakers:
Erik Hersman
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Co-founder and CEO
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Gridless
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12:00 pm
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12:15 pm
Day 3

Investing in Bitcoin Companies

Speakers:
Jeff Booth
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Founding Partner
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Ego Death Capital
Matt Odell
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Managing Partner; Co-Founder
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Ten31; OpenSats
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12:15 pm
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12:30 pm
Day 3

Building Bitcoin Companies

Speakers:
Jack Mallers
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CEO & Founder
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Strike
Paul Itoi
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Co-founder & CEO
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Stakwork
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12:30 pm
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1:30 pm
Cottonwood Lawn
Day 3

Networking & Lunch

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1:30 pm
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2:05 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

De-Risking Digital Assets: Infrastructure for Compliance, Tax, and Protection

Speakers:
Jon Lerner
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Co-Founder & CEO
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CoinTracker
Henson Orser
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Founder & CEO
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Soter Insure
Michael Lau
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Senior Vice President, Group Head of Business Development
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Bullish
Moderator:
Ian Taylor
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Board Advisor
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CryptoUK
2:05 pm
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2:40 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

Reenvisioning Institutional Capital Markets

Speakers:
Sergey Nazarov
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Co-Founder
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Chainlink
Ian De Bode
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Chief Strategy Officer
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Ondo
Nelli Zaltsman
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Executive Director, Head of Platform Settlement Solutions
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J.P. Morgan
David Ripley
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Chief Executive Officer
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Kraken
Moderator:
Zunera Mazhar
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Vice President of Policy
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The Digital Chamber
2:40 pm
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2:55 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

Bermuda's Approach to Digital Finance

Speakers:
The Honorable E. David Burt, JP MP
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Premier and Minister of Finance
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Bermuda
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2:55 pm
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3:30 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

DeFi Tradfi Convergence: Markets, Payments and Privacy

Speakers:
Mary-Catherine Lader
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Chief Operating Officer
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Uniswap Labs
Robinson Burkey
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Co-Founder
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Wormhole Foundation
Staci Warden
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Chief Executive Officer
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Algorand Foundation
Moderator:
TuongVy Le
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General Counsel
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Veda
3:50 pm
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4:10 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

Seeking CLARITY: A Bipartisan Discussion on Market Structure

Speakers:
Angie Craig
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Representative, Minnesota's 2nd District
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U.S. House of Representatives
Bryan Steil
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Representative, Wisconsin's 1st District
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U.S. House of Representatives
Moderator:
Jonathan Jachym
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Global Head of Policy & Government Relations
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Kraken
4:10 pm
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4:35 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

Solana's Next Wave

Speakers:
Kristin Smith
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President
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Solana Policy Institute
Anatoly Yakovenko
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Co-Founder
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Solana
Moderator:
Anthony Scaramucci
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Chairman
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SALT
4:35 pm
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5:05 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

The Future of Bitcoin in America

Speakers:
Asher Genoot
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CEO
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Hut 8
Eric Trump
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Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
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American Bitcoin
Mike Ho
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Member, Board of Directors
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American Bitcoin
Moderator:
Bill Tai
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Co-Founder & Chairman
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MetaGood
5:05 pm
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5:30 pm
Main Stage
Day 3

Wyoming Stable Token

Speakers:
Mark Gordon
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33rd Governor of Wyoming
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Moderator:
Joel Revill
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Chief Executive Officer
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Two Ocean Trust
8:00 pm
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11:30 pm
Million Dollar Cowboy Bar
Day 3

Concert at Million Dollar Cowboy Bar

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8:00 am
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2:00 pm
Four Seasons Jackson Hole
Day 4

Group Excursions and Bilateral Networking

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