Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026

Agenda

FULL EVENT SCHEDULE

All events will be held onsite unless otherwise noted

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8:00 am

3:00 pm

Offsite

Day 1

Float the Snake River

Attendees will have the option to float the Snake River on Monday at 8 AM or 12 PM, before the 6 PM welcome reception.

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3:00 pm

9:00 pm

Mountain Lounge

Day 1

Registration

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6:00 pm

11:00 pm

Rendezvous Lodge

Day 1

Welcome Reception

Speakers:

Moderator:

9:00 am

9:15 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Welcome to Wyoming

Speakers:

John Darsie

Chief Executive Officer

SALT

Moderator:

9:15 am

9:30 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Building a Better Financial System

Speakers:

Arjun Sethi

co-CEO Kraken and Payward

Kraken and Payward

Moderator:

Eleanor Terrett

Host

Crypto in America

9:30 am

10:00 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

All Things Markets: The State of Digital Assets

Speakers:

Michael Novogratz

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Galaxy

Denelle Dixon

Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director

Stellar Development Foundation

Moderator:

Anthony Scaramucci

Chairman

SALT

10:00 am

10:15 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Inside America's Regulatory Restructuring

Speakers:

Chairman Paul S. Atkins

34th Chairman

Securities and Exchange Commission

Moderator:

10:15 am

10:35 am

Day 2

Cementing America's Financial Leadership

Speakers:

Tim Scott

United States Senator, South Carolina

Cynthia Lummis

United States Senator, Wyoming

Moderator:

John Darsie

Chief Executive Officer

SALT

10:35 am

10:55 am

Day 2

Networking Break

Speakers:

Moderator:

10:55 am

11:35 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Scaling the Digital Finance Ecosystem

Speakers:

Mike Belshe

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

BitGo

Farooq Malik

Co-founder and CEO

Rain

Carlos Domingo

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Securitize

Moderator:

Bart Stephens

Founder & Managing Partner

Blockchain Capital

11:35 am

11:50 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Technology Built for Business: The Evolution of Blockchain Utility

Speakers:

John Nahas

Chief Business Officer

Ava Labs

Moderator:

Jeff John Roberts

Finance and Crypto Editor

Fortune Magazine

11:50 am

12:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Unified Asset Management: Building the New Infrastructure Stack

Speakers:

Bob Rutherford

CEO Clear Street Digital

Clear Street Digital

Mustafa Al Niama

Managing Director - Head of Capital Markets

Mysten Labs

Nathan McCauley

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Anchorage Digital

Moderator:

Betsabe Botaitis

Chief Financial Officer

P2P.org

12:30 pm

1:30 pm

Day 2

Lunch

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1:30 pm

2:10 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Investing in Digital Transformation: Venture, Energy and Infrastucture

Speakers:

Erin Friez

Chief Executive Officer

Digital Ascension Group

Bill Tai

Co-Founder & Chairman

MetaGood

Colleen Sullivan

Co-Head Venture / Brevan Howard Digital

Brevan Howard

Moderator:

Andy Martinez

CEO & Founder

Crypto Insights Group

2:10 pm

2:25 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Digital Alpha: A Conversation with Multicoin's Tushar Jain

Speakers:

Tushar Jain

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Multicoin

Moderator:

Jeff John Roberts

Finance and Crypto Editor

Fortune Magazine

2:25 pm

3:05 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

24/7 Trading: Making New Normal Markets

Speakers:

Yuval Rooz

Co-Founder & CEO

Digital Asset/Canton Network

Chris Bruner

Chief Product Officer

Tradeweb

Kevin Kennedy

Executive Vice President, North American Markets

Nasdaq

Sam Sidhu

President & CEO

Customers Bank

Moderator:

Jacquelyn Melinek

Founder & CEO

Stratamedia (Token Relations)

3:05 pm

3:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Networking Break

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Moderator:

3:30 pm

3:45 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

The Dawn of Agentic Finance

Speakers:

Charles Hoskinson

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Input Output Group

Moderator:

3:45 pm

4:25 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Powering Digital-Native Markets with Trusted Infrastructure

Speakers:

David Ripley

Co-CEO

Kraken/Payward

Carolyn Weinberg

Chief Product & Innovation Officer

BNY

Paul Frost-Smith

Group Managing Director

Komainu

Maxime Seiler

CEO & Co-Founder

STS Digital Ltd

Moderator:

Kate Laurence

CEO, Founder & General Partner

Bloccelerate

4:25 pm

4:40 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Exchange Convergence: A Conversation with Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Speakers:

Andrew Cuomo

Former Governor of New York, Co Chair of the joint venture between OKX and ICE/NYSE, and Member of the OKX Board of Directors

Moderator:

Anthony Scaramucci

Chairman

SALT

4:45 pm

5:00 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Frontier Finance: Inside Wyoming's Digital Leadership

Speakers:

Mark Gordon

33rd Governor of Wyoming

Moderator:

Joel Revill

Chief Executive Officer

Two Ocean Trust

5:30 pm

11:30 pm

The Mangy Moose Restaurant & Saloon

Day 2

Cowboy Jamboree

After Day 1 content, attendees will make the short walk to the iconic Mangy Moose for a drinks, dinner and Western DJ show.

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9:00 am

9:40 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Synchronizing Digital Finance Regulation

Speakers:

Michael Passalacqua

Senior Advisor to the Chairman

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Aaron Hedlund

Member

White House Council of Economic Advisers

Sunayna Tuteja

Former Chief Innovation Officer

Federal Reserve System

Moderator:

Summer Mersinger

Chief Executive Officer

Blockchain Association

9:40 am

9:55 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

View from the OCC: Unleashing FInancial Innovation

Speakers:

Jonathan V. Gould

Comptroller of the Currency

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Moderator:

Cody Carbone

Chief Executive Officer

The Digital Chamber

9:55 am

10:35 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

CLARITY and Beyond: The Next Regulatory Push

Speakers:

Kristin Smith

President

Solana Policy Institute

Miles Jennings

Head of Policy & General Counsel

a16z crypto

Kara Calvert

Coinbase

Linda Lacewell

Chief Legal Officer

OKX

Moderator:

Allie Page

Executive Director

American Innovation Project

10:35 am

11:00 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Networking Break

Speakers:

Moderator:

11:00 am

11:40 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

On-Chain Financial Products: Building Trust and Driving Adoption

Speakers:

Lorien Gabel

CEO & Co-Founder

Figment

John Hoffman

Managing Director, Head of Product Portfolios

Ondo Finance

Bhaji Illuminati

CEO

Centrifuge Labs

Brian Esposito

Chief Executive Officer

DiamondLake

Moderator:

Rebecca Rettig

Chief Legal Officer

Jito Labs

11:40 am

11:55 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Modernizing Financial Infrastructure

Speakers:

Brad Garlinghouse

Ripple

Moderator:

Tanaya Macheel

Markets & Crypto Investing Reporter

CNBC

11:55 am

12:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Next-Generation Capital Markets: Novel Products and Platforms

Speakers:

David Schamis

Chief Executive Officer

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc

Ash Tahbazian

Head of Business Development, North America

3iQ Corp

Tony Acuña-Rohter

Chief Executive Officer

EDX Markets

Catherine Chen

MD, Head of VIP & Institutional

Binance

Moderator:

TuongVy Le

General Counsel

Veda

12:30 pm

1:30 pm

Lunch

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1:30 pm

2:10 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Quantum, Banking and Bitcoin: Building New Paradigms

Speakers:

Caitlin Long

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Custodia Bank

Jeffrey Wallis

CEO & Founder

N3XT

Moderator:

Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar

Co-Lead of Digital Assets, Blockchain & Custody

Ashurst Perkins Coie

2:10 pm

2:40 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Bitcoin and AI for Freedom and Human Rights

Speakers:

Alex Gladstein

Chief Strategy Officer

Human Rights Foundation

Álvaro Salas Castro

President

The Reynolds Foundation

Ramez Naam

Climate Tech and Clean Tech Investor, Speaker, and Author

Anaïse Kanimba

Director, Rwandan Human Rights Activist

Africa Bitcoin Institute

Carine Kanimba

Rwandan Human Rights Activist

Moderator:

2:40 pm

2:55 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Banking Digital Assets

Speakers:

Brandon Lutnick

Chairman

Cantor Fitzgerald

Moderator:

Jennifer Prosek

Founder and Managing Partner

Prosek Partners

2:55 pm

3:35 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Agentic Economics: Compute, Freedom and Privacy

Speakers:

Brittany Kaiser

CEO

Alpha Compute Corp.

Patrick Horsman

Chief Investment Officer

BNBX

Fahmi Syed

President

Midnight Foundation

Bill Laboon

Vice President, Technical Operations

Web3 Foundation

Moderator:

Steve Chung

Chief Executive Officer

The Block

3:35 pm

4:00 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Networking Break

Speakers:

Moderator:

4:00 pm

4:15 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Inside the Push for Clarity

Speakers:

Patrick Witt

Executive Director

President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets

Moderator:

Tyler Williams

Counselor to the Secretary, Digital Assets

U.S. Department of the Treasury

4:15 pm

4:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Bipartisanship on Digital Innovation

Speakers:

Majority Whip Tom Emmer

House Majority Whip

R-MN

Moderator:

Jonathan Jachym

Global Head of Policy & Government Relations

Kraken

4:30 pm

4:45 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Bipartisanship on Digital Innovation

Speakers:

Senator Ruben Gallego

U.S. Senate

D-AZ

Moderator:

Jonathan Jachym

Global Head of Policy & Government Relations

Kraken

4:45 pm

5:00 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

View from the CFTC: Principles-Based Regulation

Speakers:

Moderator:

Eleanor Terrett

Host

Crypto in America

4:55 pm

5:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

TBA Keynote

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7:30 pm

11:45 pm

Million Dollar Cowboy Bar

Day 3

Concert

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9:00 am

3:00 pm

Day 4

Excursions & Roundtables

Choose from a menu of world-class excursions like e-bike tours through the Grand Teton National Park, guided hikes, whitewater rafting/floats and guided horseback rides