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 8am or 12pm, before the 6pm welcome reception.

Speakers:

Moderator:

3:00 pm

9:00 pm

Mountain Lounge

Day 1

Registration Check-In

Check-in starts at 3pm in the Mountain. if you're entering the Four Seasons lobby from the front drive, you will walk past the hotel desk on your right and continue a few more paces before reaching the Mountain Lounge on your left. There you will receive your badge/lanyard and wristband.

Speakers:

Moderator:

6:00 pm

11:00 pm

Rendezvous Lodge

Day 1

Welcome Reception

Once you have your landyard/badge and wristband, you may make your way to the Bridger Gondola starting at 5:45pm, where you can pick up a custom drink and board the car for a 12-minute right to the Rendezvous Lodge.

Speakers:

Moderator:

7:00 am

8:00 am

Four Seasons Jackson Hole

Day 2

Guided Trail Hike, Yoga & Meditation

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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

10:05 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

10:05 am

10:30 am

Day 2

Cementing America's Financial Leadership

Speakers:

Tim Scott

United States Senator, South Carolina

Cynthia Lummis

United States Senator, Wyoming

Moderator:

Jonathan Jachym

Global Head of Policy & Government Relations

Kraken

10:30 am

10:40 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Senator Lummis Award Ceremony

Speakers:

Cynthia Lummis

United States Senator, Wyoming

Moderator:

10:40 am

10:55 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

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

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

Charles Cascarilla

CEO & Co-Founder

Paxos

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

Mustafa Al Niama

Managing Director - Head of Capital Markets

Mysten Labs

Nathan McCauley

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Anchorage Digital

Catherine Chen

MD, Head of VIP & Institutional

Binance

Moderator:

Betsabe Botaitis

Chief Financial Officer

P2P.org

12:30 pm

1:30 pm

Cottonwood Terrace

Day 2

Lunch

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Moderator:

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

Chris Perkins

Head of Franklin Crypto

Franklin Templeton

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

3:20 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Modernizing Financial Infrastructure

Speakers:

Brad Garlinghouse

Ripple

Moderator:

Tanaya Macheel

Markets & Crypto Investing Reporter

CNBC

3:20 pm

3:30 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 2

Networking Break & Wyoming Hunger Initiative Interlude

Speakers:

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 & CEO

Komainu

Maxime Seiler

CEO & Co-Founder

STS Digital Ltd

Moderator:

Kate Laurence

CEO, Founder & General Partner

Bloccelerate

4:30 pm

4:45 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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Moderator:

7:00 am

8:00 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Guided Fun Run, Yoga & Meditation

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Moderator:

9:00 am

9:40 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Futureproofing Finance: Digital Banking and Quantum Cybersecurity

Speakers:

Caitlin Long

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Custodia Bank

Jeffrey Wallis

CEO & Founder

N3XT

Michal Pospieszalski

Chief Executive Officer

AmericanFortress

Nic Carter

General Partner

Castle Island Ventures

Moderator:

Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar

Co-Lead of Digital Assets, Blockchain & Custody

Ashurst Perkins Coie

9:40 am

9:55 pm

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

View from the OCC: Embracing Responsible Innovation

Speakers:

Jonathan V. Gould

Comptroller of the Currency

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Moderator:

Tanaya Macheel

Markets & Crypto Investing Reporter

CNBC

9:55 am

10:30 am

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:

10:30 am

10:45 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3

Wyoming’s Blueprint for Data Property Rights

Speakers:

Brittany Kaiser

CEO

Alpha Compute Corp.

Chris Rothfuss

State Senator

State of Wyoming

Moderator:

10:45 am

11:10 am

Cottonwood Ballroom

Day 3