Name: Digital Asset Summit 2025
Start: 2025-10-13T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-10-15T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Old Billingsgate

Welcome to DAS: London 2025

Michael Ippolito

Co-Founder

Blockworks

Zoom Out: Crypto's Long-Term Opportunity

Jenna Wright is the Managing Director of LMAX Digital, part of LMAX Group, and has recently been named as one of the top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology of Europe by The Financial Technology Report. Jenna has been instrumental in driving growth of LMAX Digital and building it into the leading institutional spot crypto currency exchange globally. &nbsp;Jenna joined LMAX Group in January 2009 and has held multiple senior managerial roles at LMAX Group, including Head of Broker Operations and Head of Client Services. Prior to LMAX Group, Jenna worked at Cantor and UBS. Jenna holds BA in Economics &amp; Politics from the University of Manchester.

Jenna Wright

Managing Director - Digital Assets

How a Global Multi-Strat Firm Got Comfortable With Crypto (Chatham House Rules)

Felix Jauvin

Head of Content

Chris Rayner-Cook, CIO, leads Brevan Howard’s Digital investment team. Over a 20+ career, Chris has held senior roles including at Coinbase, where he was Global Head of Trading and Financing, managed capital at large hedge funds including Brevan Howard, Citadel and Millennium, and founded and successfully sold a tokenisation business. Chris started his career at Merrill Lynch in 2000. He obtained his BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Bristol in June 2000.

Chris Rayner-Cook

Chief Investment Officer

DATs: Onboarding the Next Wave of Capital to Crypto

Tim has over 15 years of experience across Wall Street, Web2 and crypto. He was previously a Partner at MSA, a multi-billion investment group backed by Middle-Eastern sovereigns that have invested in global consumer plays like Klarna, Nubank, and more. He currently leads Global Strategy at Mantle, helping the ecosystem blend DeFi with TradFi go-to-market via partnerships and new products.

Timothy Chen

Global Head of Strategy 

Mantle

Shaping Up: MiCA 2.0, US Policy, and Crypto's Regulatory Picture

Rebecca Rettig is the Chief Legal Officer at Jito Labs, where she leads legal, compliance, and policy strategy. She previously held the same role at the Aave Companies, a DeFi software developer, and Polygon Labs, a blockchain technology company; at both, she built the policy function and managed all legal and compliance matters. Ms. Rettig is a pioneer in shaping legal and regulatory frameworks for blockchain systems and applications, advising on matters including decentralization, token launches, and mechanisms. DeFi, structuring, and decentralized governance. She has liaised with policymakers and regulators globally on how DeFi systems operate and the appropriate intersection of law with this novel technology. Ms. Rettig began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine &amp; Moore LLP, litigating complex financial disputes, as well as a landmark peer-to-peer file-sharing case and one of the largest airline mergersin history. She was a partner at Manatt, Phelps &amp; Phillips and currently is Of Counsel at Arktouros pllc, a boutique law firm specializing in cutting-edge technology companies. She has been recognized as one of Crain’s Top Women Lawyers in New York City.

Rebecca Rettig

Chief Legal Officer

Ian brings over 20 years of experience in capital markets and fintech and is widely regarded as one of the UK’s foremost experts in blockchain and digital assets. He most recently led KPMG’s UK Crypto &amp; Digital Assets practice, and previously served as Executive Director and Board Advisor to CryptoUK, the UK’s digital asset trade association.

Ian Taylor

Chief Operating Officer

Chris is a passionate advocate for the potential of technology and the benefits of diversity and inclusion. His core policy focus is on digital technology for the public good with a particular interest in technologies such as AI and blockchain.



In Parliament, he specializes in legislation that deals with technology. He is a member of the House of Lord’s Digital and Communications Select Committee and was appointed to the Special Bill Committee considering Digital Asset legislation. He introduced a private members’ bill that proposed the regulation of artificial intelligence and was integral to the passing of the ground-breaking Electronic Trade Documents Bill.



On technology, he has previously co-authored House of Lords Select Committee Reports on: Democracy and Digital Technologies [2020], Artificial Intelligence [2018], and Digital Skills [2015] and under his own auspices published an influential report encouraging government testing of blockchain solutions for policy delivery, DLT for Public Good: leadership, collaboration and innovation [2017] He is also adviser to several tech and fintech companies.



On inclusion, and again under his own auspices, he has published influential reports on accessibility in the public realm and support for disabled students as well as Lords reports on Financial Exclusion [2017], Social Mobility [2016] and, for the Cabinet Office, The Lord Holmes Review on opening up public appointments to disabled people. He continues to advise the government on diversity and inclusion.



An ex-Paralympic swimmer, Chris won nine gold, five silvers and one bronze medal across four Games, including a record haul of six golds at Barcelona 1992.

Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE

Member of Parliament

Laura is a digital assets policy expert, and serves as the UK Policy Lead for Crypto Council For Innovation (CCI). CCI is the premier global alliance for advancing innovation, which believes in leading with a global view, advocating for inclusive regulation, and developing evidence-based insights to support government and business leaders. She is also a Director at bespoke fintech consultancy Gattaca Horizons, supporting a broad range of US and UK based fintech clients and leveraging her experience to provide policy, regulatory and strategy advice.



Previously, Laura worked at the UK Financial Conduct Authority for 7 years where she ultimately served as the Head of the FCA’s Innovate function, which included all aspects of cryptoasset policy and fintech (sandbox, firm support, international engagement and strategy).

Laura Navaratnam

UK Policy Lead

Why AI’s Trust Problem is Ethereum’s Next Growth Flywheel

CGO at Eigen Labs

JT Rose

Chief Growth Officer

Eigenlayer

DeFi & TradFi: Can They Coexist Forever?

Hadley is the Chief Commercial Officer at Marinade Labs, the web3 software development team behind Solana liquid and native staking protocol Marinade. He previously founded and led Fidelity’s digital assets division, after serving as SVP of Fidelity Labs where he led several divisions to research and pilot several emerging technologies, including wearable computing, VR/AR, mobile applications (including the company’s first-ever app and app brokerage), AI, and others. He also led global digital asset custody for the Bank of New York Mellon, where he launched the industry’s first bank-grade platform for digital asset custody on bitcoin and Ethereum. He also served as COO at blockchain infrastructure company Bloq, and previously led Amazon Web Services’ AWS Innovation Lab.

Hadley Stern

Chief Commercial Officer

Joseph Onorati is CEO of Defi Development Corp (NASDAQ: DFDV), the first US listed Solana treasury company. From 2016 through 2024, Mr. Onorati worked at Kraken, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he was interim CEO of CaVirtEx, the first Bitcoin exchange in Canada, from 2013 until its acquisition by Coinsetter in 2015 (Coinsetter was subsequently acquired by Kraken). Mr. Onorati holds a master’s degree in economics with a focus on monetary theory. He has worked in public policy, think tanks, and as an advisor to cryptocurrency companies.

Joseph Onorati

Marinade

The Investment Case for Hyperliquid

Carolina is the Lead Advisory analyst at Blockworks Research

Carolina

Lead Analyst & Advisory

Debate: Will Synthetic Dollars Cause The Next Luna-type Collapse?

Haseeb is a Managing Partner at Dragonfly. He was previously a partner at Metastable Capital, and has a background in software engineering at Airbnb and Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase).

Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner

Jordi Alexander is the Founder of Selini Capital, a leading firm within Digital Assets trading and investing. Selini has its roots in traditional markets and High-Frequency Trading, but is currently one of the most active firms in onchain DeFi as well as early stage venture investing. Jordi is an advisor to projects innovating in the space including Mantle, and is cohost of the weekly Steady Lads podcast.

Jordi Alexander

Founder

Stablecoins, Psychedelics, and Crypto's Next Decade

Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur and investor who builds and invests in companies that are shaping the Next Human Agenda: a future in which technology empowers people to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. He is the world’s leading advocate for human enhancement and believes in advancing scientific progress to usher in an era of physical and mental potential, improving life for all.



Apeiron Investment Group, Christian’s family office and private investment firm, has more than USD 2.5 billion under management and 50 people in London, New York City, Abu Dhabi and Berlin. Apeiron focuses on Life Sciences, FinTech &amp; Crypto, Future Tech, Natural Resources &amp; Clean Energy, and Experiences, Hospitality &amp; Happiness. Over the past 20 years, Christian has founded three unicorns and has been the lead investor in four unicorns and two decacorns.

Christian Angermayer

Founder & Chairman

Zaheer Ebtikar

The Future of Digital Assets in the UK

Nigel Farage is the Reform UK MP for Clacton, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024.

Nigel Farage MP

Leader of Reform UK & Member of Parliament

Lunch

The Future of Crypto Trading Environments

As President of Bullish Exchange, Chris provides strategic leadership to broaden Bullish’s institutional customer base, expand its regulatory footprint, and drive the platform’s next phase of growth. Prior to this role, Chris served as Vice President, Head of Institutional, where he led strategic initiatives that fueled growth and innovation between the exchange and exchange-related products.Chris joined Bullish after nearly five years at Fidelity, where he was instrumental in their rapid growth, serving in various leadership roles including Head of Institutional, Head of Europe, and President of Fidelity Digital Asset Management. Prior to Fidelity, he was a Managing Director at Barclays Investment Bank, where he led commodities trading and digital assets.Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chris Tyrer 

President

Chris Lawn is the Chief Executive Officer of Elwood Technologies, a leading fintech firm providing institutional-grade digital asset trading, portfolio, and risk management software. With over 30 years in global macro trading and portfolio management, he has held front-office roles at Graham Capital, Woodbine Capital, and Caxton Associates. Transitioning to digital assets, Chris advised firms like Edgewater Markets, One River Digital, and Coinbase, and subsequently joined Brevan Howard’s Principal Investments team as Crypto Strategic Advisor. Since joining Elwood in 2023, he has driven the company’s growth, positioning it as a key player in institutional digital asset infrastructure.

Chris Lawn

Mark Jennings

CEO - Europe

Founder &amp; CEO of The Crypto Collective, the world’s first strategic consultancy dedicated exclusively to institutional digital assets. Under her leadership, the firm delivers cutting-edge strategy, growth, and communications solutions to clients spanning the TradFi and DeFi ecosystems. Following her career in traditional financial services, Stephanie quickly became a pioneer in institutional digital assets, firstly, as a founding member and Chief Commercial Officer of Greengage in 2018, before joining Gemini in 2021. There, she led institutional business development, later serving as Head of the UK, where she drove institutional adoption, regulatory engagement, and product expansion across the region. A highly sought-after thought leader and speaker, Stephanie continues to shape the future of fintech, payments, blockchain, and digital assets; bridging traditional finance with digital innovation.

Stephanie Ramezan

Founder & CEO

Bart Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of Avalanche Treasury Co., a position he has held since September 2025. He oversees the firm’s strategy and capital deployment, guiding its mission to integrate blockchain technology into institutional treasury management. Before joining Avalanche Treasury Co., Mr. Smith served as Chief Executive Officer of Susquehanna Crypto, one of the world’s largest crypto market makers, DeFi liquidity providers, and early-stage digital-asset investors. Under his leadership, the firm scaled global trading operations and deepened relationships across leading digital-asset venues. Earlier, Mr. Smith was Global Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Susquehanna International Group of Companies (SIG). In that role he directed all of SIG’s digital-asset initiatives—including proprietary trading, direct investments, market making, and counterparty development. He previously led SIG’s FICC, ETF, and Portfolio Trading Groups, overseeing ETF lead market making and exchange relationships, ETF issuer partnerships, institutional counterparty trading in ETFs and fixed income (through Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP), and global equity and fixed income portfolio trading. Prior to his tenure at SIG, Mr. Smith helped Emerging Global Advisors launch its pioneering EGShares family of emerging-market ETFs. He began his career in institutional sales and consulting with AllianceBernstein and UBS. Mr. Smith holds a degree from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of The Haverford School.

Bart Smith

The Stablecoin Revolution & What Comes Next for Global Payments

Rob Hadick is a General Partner at Dragonfly, a ~$4bn crypto focused investment firm. Previously, he helped lead multi-stage investments into crypto companies and protocols at GoldenTree Asset Management ("GTAM"), a ~$50bn multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to GTAM, Rob invested in and advised fintech, technology, and crypto companies while at Heritage Partners, Goldman Sachs, and PJT Partners. He holds a MBA from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelors in Economics and Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Rob Hadick

General Partner

Katherine Ross

News Editor

Diogo is the co-founder of Anchorage Digital, where he served as President prior to joining Haun Ventures and where he currently serves as Executive Chairman. Anchorage Digital is the first federally chartered crypto-native bank in the US. Prior to founding Anchorage Digital, Diogo served as Platform Security Lead at Square (now known as Block). At Square, Diogo worked on the infrastructure security platform (including identity, access management, and responses systems) that is now used to move over $200B in annualized gross payments volume. Diogo also served as Security Lead at Docker, where he and his team wrote code that helps secure one of the core underpinnings of modern computing infrastructure: containers. Diogo serves as the Chairman of the NEAR Foundation. He previously served as an advisor to Airtable and StackRox.

Diogo Monica

Simon Taylor is the Founder of Fintech Brainfood. Simon has been immersed in the technology of financial services for as long as he’s been working and is consistently voted one of the most influential people in Banking, Insurance and Fintech by banks, his peers and a number of industry bodies. 



Simon runs Fintech Brainfood, the weekly newsletter subscribed to by over 45k people at banks, fintech companies and VCs. A regular speaker, media presenter and podcaster, Simon has spent two decades in financial services in payments, banking, crypto and consulting. 



Simon is now focused on bringing payments onchain at Tempo, the payments-focused Blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.

Simon Taylor

Founder & Advisor

Paul Faecks is the Founder and CEO of Plasma, a high-performance, scalable, and secure blockchain built for stablecoin payments. At Plasma, Paul is leading the team building a blockchain tailored for stablecoin transactions from the ground up. Before founding Plasma, Paul served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Alloy, a platform for institutional digital asset operations, beginning in August 2021.

Paul Faecks

Crypto Beyond Speculation: Enterprise, Payments, and Apps

Bennett Holloway

Head of Events

Jess is the CEO of WalletConnect, the connectivity layer for the financial internet. Previously she led Crypto at Checkout.com, a global fintech company. Jess was also a member of the Bank of England CBDC Engagement Forum and a member of UK Finance New Digital Money Steering Group, Innovate Finance Fintech Strategy Group and Department for International Trade Fintech Group.

Jess Houlgrave

SVP - Blockchain, Digital Assets, and FinTech Enablement

Christian Rau

SVP - Blockchain, Digital Assets, & FinTech Enablement

Building Robust Onchain Financial Markets: Debt, Equity, and Beyond

Sandy Kaul is EVP, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, providing advisory consulting for the firm and thought leadership as part of the Franklin Templeton Institute. She delivers actionable intelligence and insights on the future of the investment and wealth management industry for the firm and its clients. Ms. Kaul has cultivated deeply informed insights and has an extensive background in driving market leading research, thought leadership and predictive models centered on the evolution of the investment and wealth management industry. She identifies and champions opportunities to address industry advancements and drive transformation, with a focus on innovative distribution trends and digital disruption. She delivers strategic insights to inform the firm's decision-making on partnerships and investments, including within Franklin Templeton's growing digital asset business. Ms. Kaul has over 25 years of well-rounded industry experience and is a frequent speaker at industry events and a widely published author. She combines her unique blend of sell-side, buy-side and consulting insights to drive her research and thought leadership around what constitutes best practices and where innovation is occurring. Ms. Kaul joined Franklin Templeton in 2022 from Citi, where she served as Managing Director and Global Head of Business Advisory Services, and launched and built out the Citi's Business Advisory Services practice, a market leading provider of industry thought leadership spanning Citi's Markets and Global Wealth organizations. Ms. Kaul rejoined Citi in 2009, after originally starting her career there in 1985 as a Futures Research Analyst covering the soft commodities markets with Citi's predecessor firm, Shearson Lehman Brothers. She joined Commodities Corporation/Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 1995 as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and Portfolio Manager. After managing money for nearly six years, Ms. Kaul shifted her attention to consulting where she led the strategy practice within the Financial Services division of the renowned dot.com firm, Scient, and then went on to become a Partner at the capital markets niche management consulting firm m.a.partners/Detica. Ms. Kaul holds a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Colgate University.

Sandy Kaul

EVP & Head of Innovation

David Rodriguez

Head of Advisory

Jeremy Ng is the Founder and CEO of OpenEden Group, a leading real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform. He brings over 20 years of experience in institutional finance, fintech, and digital assets, and leads the company's strategic direction and growth as it builds compliant, tokenized RWA products that bridge traditional finance and Web3. Prior to founding OpenEden, Jeremy served as the APAC CEO of Gemini Exchange, establishing it as Singapore's leading fiat on-ramp exchange. He also held senior leadership roles at tier-1 investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Leonteq, and Morgan Stanley.

Jeremy Ng

Alexandra Prager

Head of Kinexys Labs

Brett has a broad transactional and advisory practice, advising on the law and regulation applicable to a broad range of energy, commodity, environmental, and digital asset products and markets.  He has well over 20 years’ experience advising energy and commodity traders, banks, exchanges and clearing houses, and trade associations on power and gas trading, carbon trading, listed derivatives, Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs), and other complex products, as well as regulatory and compliance matters. During this time, Brett has advised on a wide range of“market-leading” transactions and matters. In recent years, Brett’s practice has increasingly encompassed blockchain and digital-assets related matters. Brett is a member of On-Chain: Reed Smith’s Crypto &amp;amp; Digital Assets Group and his practice in this area includes tokenisation structures, regulatory structuring and market access issues, digital asset derivatives, and developing and structuring ETNs and investment products based on digital assets.

Brett Hillis

Partner

From Passive to Productive: Enabling Institutional Staking

Casey Wagner is a New York-based business journalist covering digital assets and macro economics. Prior to joining Blockworks, she reported on markets at Bloomberg News. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Media Studies.

Casey Wagner

Senior Reporter

Mara Schmiedt, CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial, oversees business, operations, and strategy. She previously worked at Coinbase as Head of Sales for Coinbase Cloud, managed Business Development at Bison Trails, and served as Strategy Manager at ConsenSys, focusing on Codefi. Mara is a board member at Obol Labs, a leading DVT provider, and a strategic angel investor in over 15 projects. Passionate about open-source technology, she has published research on liquid staking and led a working group with the Ethereum Foundation that developed the Ethereum Launchpad and the first DVT proof of concepts.

Mara Schmiedt

CEO & Co-Founder

Serafin Lion Engel is the Founder and CEO of Yield.xyz (formerly StakeKit), the ultimate Web 3 yield infrastructure Backed by Multicoin Capital, Yield.xyz provides customers access to over 1,000 self-custodial yields across staking, stablecoins, and DeFi. The platform facilitates over $100 million in monthly volume and powers more than 50 of the leading companies in Web3 and Fintech, including wallets like Ledger and neobanks like DeBlock.



 Before Yield.xyz, Serafin founded Omni in 2021, one of the first mobile multichain wallets. Omni was acquired by Paxful via Echo Base in 2024. Serafin entered the crypto space in 2014 through Draper University and began building on Ethereum in 2016, pioneering data sovereignty technologies and early data marketplaces.

Serafin Lion Engel

Cofounder &amp; CEO of Chorus One

Brian Crain

Cofounder & CEO

Networking Area Happy Hour
Sponsored by Eigenlayer 

Debate: Is Crypto Collapsing the Public/Private Market Distinction?

Ran Neuner is the founder of Crypto Banter, one of the world’s largest and most influential crypto media platforms. With over 1.5 million YouTube subscribers, 10M+ monthly views, and one of the most engaged communities in the industry, Crypto Banter is a go-to source for real-time crypto content. Ran personally hosts the largest live crypto show on the internet. He also co-founded Crypto Town Hall, a leading daily X (formerly Twitter) Spaces series, alongside Mario Nawfal and Scott Melker, making it one of the most consistent and widely followed audio platforms in the crypto space. In addition to his media leadership, Ran is the CEO of Onchain Capital, a blockchain investment fund and advisory firm that manages over $250 million in venture and listed crypto assets. Ran gained international recognition as the creator, producer, and host of CNBC’s “Crypto Trader”, the world’s first televised cryptocurrency show, where he interviewed the biggest names in Web3 during their earliest days, building a vast network of early blockchain pioneers in the process. Before entering the crypto industry, Ran was already an award-winning entrepreneur. He co-founded and scaled The Creative Counsel, Africa’s largest marketing agency, which was acquired by Publicis Groupe in 2015 for over $150 million, marking one of the continent’s largest private transactions at the time. Ran’s mission is to build the most profitable and educated crypto community in the world, a vision he pursues through a mix of educational content, community-building, investment, and mentorship.

Ran Neuner

Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial technology. He is Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, a pioneer in cryptoasset index funds with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management. He was previously CEO of ETF.com, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference, Inside ETFs. Hougan is co-author of both "A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds" and "Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors" from the CFA Institute’s Research Foundation. He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, and a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable.

Matt Hougan

Santiago Roel Santos (CryptoPunk #9159) is an investor focusing at the intersection of DeFi and the Web3 metaverse (NFTs/gaming). Most recently was a Partner at ParaFi Capital, one of the largest crypto funds specializing in DeFi. Prior to that, he was at Sageview Capital investing in Internet and software and, before that, at JP Morgan investment banking. Santiago began investing in crypto in 2012.

Santiago Roel Santos

Richard Muirhead is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and Chairman of Fabric Ventures, a venture firm backing founders building the Open Economy and Open Web: user control of data, developer access to code, and collective ownership. Fabric Ventures has invested in pioneering projects like Polkadot, NEAR, Ocean Protocol, Sorare, 1inch, and The Graph, supporting builders and businesses from inception through scaling. Richard’s venture career spans over a decade, with a focus on blockchain and decentralised technologies since 2012. His portfolio includes notable investments in Bitstamp, Tray.io, Bitrise, TransferWise, and Citymapper. He has been an active participant in the blockchain revolution, purchasing his first Bitcoin in 2013 and leading one of the first Web3 investments in Bitstamp. With a pedigree in developer-centric products and open-source communities, Richard combines hands-on experience as a former 3x software CEO/entrepreneur, having built and scaled companies like Automic (acquired by CA for $640m), Tideway (acquired by BMC), and Orchestream (acquired by Oracle), reaching a cumulative market cap of over $2.2bn. Richard sits on governance bodies for NEAR Foundation, Ocean Protocol, and is a Senior Advisor for Orchid. He continues to be a leading voice in the intersection of venture capital, blockchain, and the Open Web, driving innovation and transformation in the crypto and digital asset space.



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Richard Muirhead

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

The Digital Asset Treasuries State of the Union

Ben founded ParaFi in 2018 as one of the earliest investment firms focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. Prior to founding ParaFi, Ben spent the first 10 years of his career in institutional investing roles at leading asset managers including KKR and TPG. While at KKR, Ben served as a Director in the credit business, investing across a wide array of industry sectors and parts of the capital structure, including distressed special situations, private credit, and opportunistic and liquid credit. Ben also led KKR's blockchain research as part of the firm's Innovation and Disruption Council beginning in 2016. Prior to KKR, Ben served as a Vice President with TPG’s former credit business, Sixth Street Partners. As one of the first investment professionals to join the platform, Ben helped scale its private credit vehicle, TPG Specialty Lending, which went public in 2014. Earlier in his career, Ben was a member of the private equity team at Littlejohn &amp; Company and investment banking team at Rothschild &amp; Co. Ben has a passion for capital markets, behavioral economics and game theory, all of which drew him to the blockchain space. He grew up playing chess competitively and continues to play actively to this day (peak ELO 1871). He graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ben Forman

Founder & Managing Partner

Jeff Park is a Partner and Chief Investment Officer, responsible for leading its investment and capital markets strategy, portfolio construction and risk management.



Before joining ProCap Financial, Mr. Park was the Head of Alpha Strategies and Portfolio Manager at Bitwise Asset Management, one of the world’s largest crypto-specialist asset managers. Prior to Bitwise, he was a Partner at Corbin Capital Partners, a multi-billion alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing, where he led the firm’s digital asset investing efforts.



He is a graduate of Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations.

Jeff Park

Seth Ginns is a Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments at CoinFund, and a key member of the Venture Investment Committee. He has 20 years of Wall Street experience and has been deeply involved in the crypto community since his angel investment in Coinbase in 2012. He is also an angel in Starkware, Chainalysis, participated in the Ethereum ICO in 2014, and loves traveling globally to developer events as a way to keep a finger on the pulse of the market. His angel portfolio also includes Instacart, BillionToOne and DoorDash, and many earlier stage, high growth startups.



Prior to CoinFund, Seth invested in public growth equities over 18 years at Jennison Associates. He holds a BA in Mathematics and South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the School of Arts and Sciences and served as an Overseer at the School of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Innovation Committee.

Seth Ginns

Christian Lopez

Managing Director, Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets

Boomtime: Internet Capital Markets Are Here

Marc Thomas-Arjoon

Stephen Hess is the founder of Metaplex, the leading protocol for digital assets on Solana. As a Director of the Metaplex Foundation, he drives strategy, product and ecosystem growth, supporting thousands of applications and millions of users who rely on the protocol. Metaplex now powers 99% of tokens and NFTs on Solana, and through its Genesis protocol is opening the Internet Capital Markets, giving projects and entrepreneurs the ability to launch onchain and access global capital from day one. Previously, Stephen served as Head of Product at Solana Labs, where he helped scale the application layer of the network and introduced the first liquid staking programs, bridges, stablecoins, games, token standards and ecosystem integrations.

Stephen Hess

Perps & Predictions: How Crypto Will Transform TradFi Derivatives

Min Teo is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ethereal Ventures, a leading crypto venture firm founded by Min and Joseph Lubin. Ethereal has 70+ portfolio companies globally, including Aleo, EigenLayer, Aztec Protocol, and SpruceID. Prior to Ethereal, Min led venture investments at ConsenSys, previously built a fintech company in the UK and started her career in private equity.

Min Teo

Boccaccio

Analyst

Alexia Theodorou is head of derivatives at Kraken, responsible for the development and product strategy of Kraken's full suite of fixed-term and perpetual contracts. Before joining Kraken, Alexia was the Chief Strategy Officer at Trading Point Group and has more than 15 years worth of experience in traditional finance, including at UBS and JPMorgan. Alexia is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds degrees from Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge.

Alexia Theodorou

Head of Derivatives

The Evolution of Digital Asset Hedge Funds (Chatham House Rules)

William joined Marshall Wace in May 2022 to oversee Fintech and Digital Assets investments for MW Digital Finance Fund.



Prior to joining Marshall Wace, William worked at Candy Capital, a family office where he was responsible for various investments across the technology sector. Prior to Candy Capital, William worked for HSBC and Greyspark Partners, were he was heading Fintech Investment Advisory. William is also an active seed investor across digital assets and fintech.

William Benattar

Technology Investor

Nikita is a Managing Partner and Head of Fasanara Digital, the crypto division of Fasanara Capital, a $5 billion hedge fund based in London. He oversees the investment strategies and strategic direction of Fasanara Digital. He originally started The Quant Group from his dorm room, building quant strategies for digital assets. In 2018, the team joined Fasanara Capital and became Fasanara Digital, which has since grown into one of the leading and best-performing digital asset funds in the space.



Additionally, Nikita is the founder of The Digital Asset Conference, an annual event aimed at advancing industry adoption, and hosts the Speaking to Legends podcast. He’s a regular speaker at major crypto conferences and has been recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30 and Financial News’ Rising Stars in Finance. Nikita is also a Young Leader Circle (YLC) at the Milken Institute, and holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of St Andrews.

Nikita Fadeev

Partner & Head of Fasanara Digital 

Matteo Dante Perruccio is Executive Advisor at 3iQ (<a href="https://3iq.io/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://3iq.io/</a>) the global digital asset investment manager founded in 2012. Matteo has spent over 35 years in various strategic and leadership roles across the asset management industry, which includes CEO of Pioneer Investments. He was also a non-executive director and Global Head of Key Clients &amp; Strategic Partners at Jupiter Asset Management, a $80 billion FTSE asset manager based in the UK.



Matteo also founded alternative investment advisory boutique Hermes BPK, a joint venture with the British Telecom Pension Scheme. He has extensive experience in the family office space, having served as Chairman of Secofind Multi-family Office. Most recently he was President International at SEC registered Wave Digital Assets.

Matteo Dante Perruccio

Head of Research at Outerlands Capital

Felix Stratmann

Head of Research

Barnali Biswal

Welcome back to DAS: London - Day 2

Bridging Institutions and Innovation in the Digital Asset Era

Ben Strack is a senior reporter covering the intersection of crypto and traditional finance. He is the author of Blockworks' Forward Guidance newsletter. Prior to joining Blockworks, he covered the asset management industry for Fund Intelligence and was an editor for several local Long Island newspapers. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism.

Ben Strack

Prior to joining the Board of the Algorand Foundation, Staci ran the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on capital market development, crypto/blockchain solutions, and innovative finance to promote the sustainable development goals. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for cryptocurrencies and blockchain to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve inclusion and reduce global poverty. In addition to the Algorand Foundation, she sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, and the Energy for Growth Hub. She also serves on the advisory committees of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee (STOA), the U.S. Financial Technology Association, and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.

Staci Warden

Algorand

 Beyond Public vs Private Chains: Real-Time Incorruptible Finance

Alex is a software architect with over 15 years of experience in engineering and startups. He is the co-inventor of ZKsync and currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Matter Labs. At Matter Labs, he leads a talented team focused on addressing blockchain scalability challenges using zero-knowledge proofs. Alex's passion lies in using technology to advance personal freedom, self-ownership, and decentralization

Alex Gluchowski

Co-Founder & Creator

Zksync

Onchain Capital Formation & The Next Wave of Institutional Crypto Products

Konstantin Richter is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. He has been active in the blockchain ecosystem as an advisor and contributor since 2015, with the likes of Gem, Po.et, and MadHive. In 2017, he created Blockdaemon in order to bring institutional-grade infrastructure to blockchain protocols, crypto native and traditional financial institutions. Subsequently, Konstantin has helmed Blockdaemon through three major funding rounds raising $400M to date. The most recent being a Series C raising $207M at a $3.25B valuation led by Sapphire and Tiger Global with previous backers SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, and Citi Ventures. Blockdaemon is the world’s largest blockchain infrastructure company for node management, MPC tech, and staking.

Konstantin Richter

CEO & Founder

Blockdaemon

Yield: The Missing Link for Bitcoin

Richard Green

Director of Rootstock Institutional

Rootstock

Next Leg Up: Where Crypto Markets Go From Here

Dan founded Pantera Capital Management in 2003, managing over $1 billion of institutional investor assets in its global macro strategy. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as their first Asset-Backed Securities trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Dan Morehead

24/7 Onchain Financing and Liquidity: Can the UK keep up with Global Collateral Mobility?

Peter Left

Head of Digital & Markets Innovation

Serene Murphy is head of corporate development, Europe &amp; Asia at Tradeweb. Serene manages a team focused on identifying trends and opportunities to grow the Tradeweb business, and is responsible for sourcing and executing these opportunities across the firm’s divisions. She also works in partnership with business product heads to drive innovation and design of new products and offerings. After joining Tradeweb in 2011, Serene spearheaded the launch of its wholesale business (Dealerweb) in Europe, and drove the design and implementation of the firm’s link to China’s Northbound Bond Connect initiative. She also led Tradeweb’s acquisition of Australian trading platform Yieldbroker, as well as other strategic investments, including several partnerships in the digital space. In recognition of her contributions to Tradeweb and the industry, Serene won the ‘Excellence in Innovation’ category in the European Women in Finance Awards 2022, and was included in the 2023 FN100 Women in European Finance list. In early 2024, she joined as an independent non-executive director the board of Axiology, a Vilnius-based alternative capital market infrastructure. Prior to Tradeweb, Serene worked in the Principal Strategic Investments group at Goldman Sachs in New York and London. She holds a BA in Economics from Boston College.

Serene Murphy

Head of Corporate Development - Europe & Asia 

Yuval co-founded Digital Asset in 2014 to harness the promise of blockchain technology to create an open financial network where value flows as freely as information on the internet.



 As a Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Asset, Yuval has been instrumental in reshaping global finance by merging traditional systems with the power of decentralized technology. Yuval played a pivotal role in the formation of the Canton Network, the only public layer-one blockchain with privacy. He is also a Board Member and Treasurer of the Global Synchronizer Foundation, which he helped to create with the support of the Linux Foundation, to bring fair and transparent decentralized governance and organizational neutrality to the adoption and evolution of the Canton Network.



 Yuval is a member of the Digital Asset Markets subcommittee of the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Global Market Advisory Committee and serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Blockchain Business Council, a leading industry association for the blockchain technology ecosystem. He has also testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion. Before founding Digital Asset, Yuval gained extensive experience in finance and technology, holding key positions at Citadel and DRW Trading, where he managed an algorithmic trading desk and helped launch DRW Venture Capital.

Digital Asset Summit 2025 - London