Keith A. Grossman is a global leader at the intersection of media and technology. As President of MoonPay, he leads the company’s mission to bring digital assets and blockchain technology mainstream. Prior to joining MoonPay, Keith served as President of TIME, where he spearheaded the company’s transformation and its groundbreaking entry into Web3. Under his leadership, TIME’s Web3 strategy modernized the iconic brand, generating eight figures in profit and expanding from community-building initiatives to B2B partnerships. His vision also empowered numerous creators to evolve their unique IP into animated television series through TIME Studios.  Before TIME, Keith was the Global Chief Revenue Officer at Bloomberg Media, overseeing growth across the company’s diverse media platforms. He played an instrumental role in launching QuickTake by Bloomberg, a 24/7 social and mobile news network designed for the next generation of global audiences.  Earlier in his career, Keith was the Associate Publisher of WIRED and Ars Technica, where he earned two Project Isaac Awards for Best Digital Inventions for his pioneering work on the WIRED Tablet Edition and the Ars Accelerator program.  Beyond his executive achievements, Keith is deeply committed to community impact. He serves on the Board of Directors of New York Cares, New York City’s largest volunteer network, and has chaired Stand With Students, the city’s leading initiative supporting Title I schools, since its inception in 2019. In 2025, he launched Crypto for Good, a first-of-its-kind initiative uniting the NYC crypto community to support Stand With Students.  Keith has also shared his expertise in academia, previously serving as an Adjunct Professor at NYU and guest lecturing at MIT, Yale, and Cornell, where he has taught about the evolving crypto and blockchain landscape.  He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a degree in Government.

Giovanni Sanna is Co-Founder of Kleos, a next-generation neobank that integrates regulated banking infrastructure with non-custodial digital asset architecture. His background spans investment banking, venture capital, and regulated fintech, with experience across FCA-regulated institutions in the UK, as well as startup and digital asset ventures across Europe. He has been involved in building and scaling companies across payments, asset management, and blockchain. He also attended the entrepreneurship Institute at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is currently focused on one idea: capital markets are moving on-chain, and the next generation of financial products will be programmable, non-custodial, globally accessible, and seamlessly connected to real-world spending.

Product Manager at Trezor, leading Connect and firmware. Responsible for the software stack across all TREZOR products: from cryptography and core features to UI. Focus is on building and evolving the most trusted hardware wallet in the world.

Francesco Fabracci is Head of Tokenization Expansion at Tether, leading strategic partnerships and institutional growth across global tokenization initiatives. He works with financial institutions, governments, and enterprises to bridge traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure. Prior to Tether, he built several years of experience in traditional finance and international business development, and holds an MBA from INSEAD. His work focuses on accelerating institutional adoption of blockchain technology worldwide.

Chiara El Rikabi is a finance professional with over a decade of experience. She currently holds the position of Director – Head of Italy & Ticino at 21Shares, a leading company in cryptocurrency Exchange-Traded Products (ETPs).  In her role, she focuses on managing client relationships in the Southern European region, particularly in Italy and Switzerland's Canton Ticino, to meet the growing demand for cryptocurrencies and related products. Prior to joining 21Shares, Chiara gained significant experience in financial information and sales.

Kean Gilbert is the Head of Institutional Relations at the Lido Ecosystem Foundation, where he works with custodians, liquid funds, asset managers, ETF and ETP issuers, and ETH treasury holders to expand institutional access to decentralised staking. He secured a $50m anchor investment to launch the WisdomTree Physical Lido Staked Ether ETP (LIST / LSTE), the first European ETP to hold only stETH. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, a member-led organisation focused on education, standards, and collaboration across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Experienced across credit factoring, and NPL investments, with a particular focus on real estate-backed distressed assets. Lived and worked in the United States, where he contributed to the Nasdaq listing of a micromobility company. Also developed solid expertise in structured products, including certificates, AMCs, and related investment solutions.

Andri leads Business Development in Europe at Ledger Enterprise, helping financial institutions deploy secure digital asset infrastructure. Previously, as Digital Asset Custody Lead at Zürcher Kantonalbank, he helped build and launch the bank's digital asset offering. Andri is a regular speaker at industry events and a guest lecturer at Swiss universities, focusing on the institutional "how" of digital asset adoption.

Integrations Lead at LI.FI. prev. at Blockchain.com. Currently focused on scaling the solver network behind an intent-based execution marketplace built on the Open Intents Framework with the EF.

Strategic Investments Lead within Group M&A and Corporate Development department of UniCredit

Carlo De Luca Gabrielli is Senior Director of Partnerships at MoonPay, where he leads strategic partnership initiatives to expand global access to digital assets. Key focus areas include building and scaling enterprise relationships across crypto, fintech, and traditional financial institutions, helping partners integrate compliant, scalable fiat-to-crypto and stablecoin infrastructure.  Carlo brings nearly a decade of experience spanning traditional finance and crypto-native payments. Prior to MoonPay, he held leadership roles at Transak, where he spearheaded international sales strategy and enterprise expansion.  Carlo built his foundation in financial markets at Bloomberg LP in London, where he partnered with asset managers, banks, and institutional investors to deploy portfolio analytics and index solutions. There, he developed a deep understanding of institutional workflows, capital markets infrastructure, and data-driven decision making.  Carlo began his career in consulting at KPMG. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics & Strategy for Business from Imperial College London and a First-Class Honours BSc in Economics & Management from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Previously founded one of the largest crypto communities in Italy, which it was acquired in 2023, and then started working in DeFi. After three years I now represent xStocks at international events, lead new product launches and manage most of the onchain partnership efforts of xStocks

Maria Magenes is a seasoned Web3 strategist and community builder, active in the DeFi and Ethereum ecosystem since 2018. She currently serves as VP of Strategy at Hype. Her Web3 journey began as Head of Marketing at ETHLend (now Aave), followed by impactful roles at MakerDAO, Balancer, and other top DeFi protocols. Prior to crypto, Maria worked in strategy at McKinsey & Co and Sky TV in Italy. In 2021, she co-founded SpaghettETH, Italy’s Ethereum community, to drive grassroots education and connection. She also mentors early-stage Web3 projects and remains deeply engaged in growing the DeFi and Ethereum ecosystem. She was part of Italy’s Forbes Under30 in 2022

Daniel Lumi is a Senior Product Manager for Arbitrum Core Protocol at Offchain Labs, where he works on L2 chain architecture and enterprise infrastructure. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager of ZKsync Stack. Daniel has a deep understanding of the challenges facing the blockchain industry and has worked on solutions spanning zero knowledge proofs, Layer 2 scaling, and privacy.

Lorenzo Rigatti is Co-founder and CEO of BlockInvest, a technology platform that enables banks and financial institutions to issue and manage real-world assets and tokenized financial instruments on blockchain. With a background in Management Engineering, he has been working since 2016 on applying blockchain technology to financial markets. He has led international projects at Fincantieri and developed initiatives for technology and financial startups in Switzerland.

Huf is the Founder of Pear Protocol. Pear Protocol is the home of long/short trading.  He has 10+ years experience working on the trading floor at various investment banks in London. He has also managed a crypto hedge fund specialising in vol and pair trading.

Crypto since 2017, now working at Binance focusing on Italy.

In addition to his marketing, BD, event planning, and comms responsibilities at Tplus, Charco's extensive onchain experience and frontend design researcher contribute to thoughtful product design optimizations necessary to build Perfect Market for any asset.

Miray is currently leading MENA at OpenFX, an institutional FX and stablecoin liquidity provider for cross-border payments. Previously, she spent over a decade advising banks and financial institutions as a strategy consultant in BCG Milan and Mastercard, before working with international, high-growth startups. She specializes in cross-border payments, treasury and liquidity, and regulated market expansion. She is an experienced operator across Europe and the Middle East.

Filippo is Research Lead at Dune, where he builds original on-chain datasets and translates blockchain data into research and insights for institutional and enterprise audiences.

At Trust Wallet, Nick leads strategic initiatives and ecosystem partnerships that are central to the platform’s growth and user experience. His work spans key areas such as DeFi integrations, fiat on/off-ramps, MEV mitigation, and core infrastructure partnerships — all aimed at making crypto more accessible, secure, and scalable for millions of users globally. He collaborates cross-functionally with product, security, engineering, and marketing teams to drive innovation at the intersection of user experience and blockchain technology. With a focus on turning code into real-world utility, Nick is helping shape the future of self-custody wallets as financial powerhouses.

Exchange class of 11, L1 class of 17, DeFi class of 2020

Joseph, the founder and managing partner of Axis Group, is a lawyer specialising in regulatory and legal advisory, with a particular emphasis on Axis Group's Decentralised Finance (DeFi) client portfolio. With nearly five years of experience, he provides strategic, client-focused solutions for clients operating in Malta and globally.  His clients span DeFi Protocols, Blockchain Infrastructure Providers, Layer-1 solutions, crypto-asset service providers, issuers, and offerors under MiCA; payment and e-money institutions under PSD2 and EMD2 and investment firms under MiFID II. Joseph is a leading advisor for DeFi projects, guiding clients through complex regulatory frameworks onshore and offshore, with clarity and precision.  Beyond regulatory advisory, Joseph advises Axis Group's client portfolio on matters relating to offshore structuring. He also spearheads client fundraises and financing initiatives, leveraging his deep industry knowledge to secure successful outcomes. As managing partner, he drives Axis Group's vision of delivering innovative, practical, and results-oriented solutions.

Self-taught Rust developer and founder of NØNOS Systems, working on building an operating system from scratch with a focus on privacy, security and decentralization.  I would describe my work as driven by a simple belief: if the foundation isn’t right, nothing built on top can truly be trusted.  Over the past year, we have been deep in low-level systems (.inc) from bootloaders to memory management, process execution and microkernel architecture and learning by doing and pushing through the kind of challenges most people avoid.  My interest is in getting a new generation involved in deeper layers of technology, beyond apps and frameworks and into the systems that actually define how computing works.

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I've spent over 20 years in banking, with a strong focus on institutional and transaction banking, working with major banks in Switzerland and internationally — most recently with the Bank for Banks team at UBS. Tokenized equity and digital assets have fascinated me for a long time, and three years ago I made the move to be part of it by joining Aktionariat. As Chief Business Officer, I drive business development and growth, and work closely with our clients and partners. We enable companies to go onchain, leveraging Switzerland's legal framework and blockchain technology — and I'm proud to be part of shaping what comes next.

Co-Founder of NØNOS, a zero-trust operating system written in Rust that redefines the foundations of digital security and self-custody. At NØNOS, he leads business strategy, capital formation, ecosystem development, and go-to-market. He brings over a decade of experience across institutional finance and emerging technology. Previously, Andrea worked as an illiquids trader at Barclays Investment Bank and as a sales/trader at Crédit Agricole Investment Bank, operating between London's financial hub and Milan. He continues to advise clients as a Wealth Advisor, with a focus on the intersection of traditional capital markets and blockchain-based assets. Andrea holds a double degree in Economics and Finance from Fordham University in New York and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and is a Certified Blockchain Expert from the European Tech School. A former professional footballer, Andrea draws on years in elite sport for the perseverance, discipline, and resilience that define his approach to building. He is driven by a deep enthusiasm for technological innovation, travel, and sport.

Katia is the CEO of Bebop, trading infrastructure for onchain OTC. Her thesis is simple - the future of global finance is onchain. Tokenisation of everything will supercharge capital velocity and composability will empower structural innovations. Katia has background in product and business roles in traditional finance, most recently at the London Stock Exchange Group, and then in crypto at Wintermute, before founding Bebop.

Entrepreneur & Startup Builder | Passionate about Technology, venture building, and innovation ecosystems.   10+ years bridging founders, corporates, and investors to turn ideas into companies.

Blockchain and AI passionate. Ex-consultant, now entrepreneur. Obsessed with efficiency.

DeFi class of 2020. Previously building Idle/Pareto. Currently at KPK. Co-founded SpaghettETH

Ubair Javaid is the Founder and CEO of Nomyx, a tokenization infrastructure company built for institutions. Nomyx provides the core on-chain fund administration and asset tokenization layer that enables financial institutions, asset managers, and fund administrators to structure, issue, and manage real-world assets on-chain — compliantly and at scale. Nomyx's platform has been selected as the preferred tokenization engine by multiple Layer 1 blockchains focused on RWAs, and integrates with SEC/FINRA-regulated infrastructure through its partnership with tZERO and Ownera. The company is a Mastercard Start Path portfolio company and operates across Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Stellar, TSC and XDC. Before founding Nomyx, Ubair led systems integration and data intelligence initiatives in the aerospace and IoT sectors, building scalable platforms that bridged legacy enterprise infrastructure with emerging technology. He brings an engineering-first approach to the hardest problems in digital asset infrastructure: on-chain identity, programmable compliance, and institutional-grade tokenization that meets real regulatory requirements. Ubair speaks frequently on regulated digital assets, compliance-aware smart contract architecture, and how tokenization is restructuring capital markets from the plumbing up.

Antonio is a computer scientist and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience in energy and climate innovation. He previously founded an energy analytics company serving clients in over 50 countries, which was successfully acquired. He later established Ecolyptus to address the lack of fully integrated energy and sustainability decision-making tools.  Callum Miller is a sustainability technology entrepreneur with experience building and scaling a SaaS business supporting organisations with ESG reporting and net zero goals. He co-founded Ecolyptus with Antonio Ruzzelli to bridge the gap between energy management and sustainability in a single, integrated platform.

Guillermo Alda is co-founder and CEO of TokenWay, the company building DLTBridge — the EU-regulated middleware that connects banks to every ESMA-licensed digital securities venue in Europe through a single API. Pre-launch, TokenWay already runs the two largest DLT bond pilots in the EU and has built a €1B+ institutional pipeline.

I am currently working at Obligate AG, a Swiss company specificizing on on-chain corporate bonds. Previously I have worked as a product manager at Crypto Finance, now part of the German Stock Exchange Group. I'm a product and strategy leader with 10+ years of experience at the intersection of finance, law, and blockchain — including with Crypto Finance (Deutsche Börse Group), IT Gazprombank, and ALFI in Brussels. With a dual background in financial law (LL.M) and blockchain tech (MSc), I specialize in turning complex regulatory, legal, and technical contexts into real-world digital asset products.

I co-founded & lead Altitude ($14M AUM), a DeFi borrowing platform where your BTC and ETH earns yield that automatically repays your loan. We aggregate rates from proven protocols like Aave and Morpho, making it simple for long-term BTC and ETH holders to access liquidity without selling.  My hands-on experience managing complex positions across DeFi protocols gives me clear insight into where borrowers struggle and where real yield comes from. I use that perspective to guide Altitude's product direction, ensuring it addresses real user pain points while remaining simple to operate.  Beyond Altitude, I deploy digital assets (stablecoins, BTC, ETH) to generate yield for capital allocators. I evaluate protocols and projects where capital can go to work, drawing on more than 6 years of active DeFi capital allocation.  Investing has been a constant thread in my life. Over the last 20 years I've allocated capital across public equities, bonds, real estate loans, crowdfunding, early-stage startups, and crypto.

Marco is a tech lawyer, jurist, and author of several go-to handbooks on blockchain and smart contract law. He is partner at 42LF, an innovation law firm, and co-founder of LT42, a legal tech company. A longtime contributor to the Italian Ethereum scene since the ICO days — before it was cool — Marco has closely followed the evolution of crypto regulation, from CEX frameworks to MiCA compliance.

Alessandro is the co-founder and CEO of unflat, a European DeFi savings product built on non-custodial stablecoin yield. unflat's mission is to make onchain savings as simple and trustworthy as a deposit account  without the bank. Alessandro works at the intersection of DeFi infrastructure, AI-native finance, and European fintech. He's based in Milan.

Serena Sebastiani is the Group Chief Strategy & Venture Officer and Head of Regulatory Affairs at Fuze, where she leads global strategy, new venture development, market expansion, and regulatory engagement for institutional-grade digital assets and payments infrastructure. With 15+ years across financial services, fintech, and digital assets, she has advised regulators, banks, sovereign entities, and virtual asset service providers across the Middle East and beyond. Serena is also the founder of DawnX, a boutique advisory focused on digital assets, tokenization, and the future of finance, and she co-chairs the MENA Fintech Association’s Digital Assets & Web3 Working Group.

Dr. Stefan Beyer has been involved in distributed systems research for 20 years and has specialized in blockchain security since 2018. He is the managing director of Oak Security and has personally audited hundreds of blockchain projects.

Operating institutional tokenization infrastructure for real-world assets. 150+ clients, 30+ countries, $500M+ tokenized. Now building the compliance layer for AI agents operating in regulated markets, as co-author of RAMS (EIP-8226).

I currently work as data product manager at Dune, working on datasets and data ingestions. I have a long career in blockchain data, first on investigation tools and then on Coinbase in the early days of USDC and wallet.

Jessica leads communications at Aragon, a project building access control infrastructure, governance systems, and tokenomics solutions for Ethereum protocols securing over $35B in assets. Trained as a lawyer, she previously worked in tech policy at Meta before moving builder-side to help create onchain systems for navigating an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world.

ex Trader @ Jump Crypto

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Italian citizen, grew up in Switzerland. Started my career at UBS, moved into crypto in 2021. I now help the Frankencoin community onboard high-quality collateral to Frankencoin to grow the protocol sustainably.

Mike Massari is Strategic Advisor at RedStone and Head of Credora, the DeFi-native credit ratings platform acquired by RedStone in 2025. He leads Credora's strategy and partnerships, bringing on-chain credit legibility to institutional DeFi. He also drives RedStone's Atom and Settle products, extending oracle infrastructure into OEV capture and RWA collateral liquidations.

Matteo (CEO): senior smart contract engineer and serial entrepreneur, multiple successful uprounds and one exit. Worked with the sovereign fund ADIA. Longer version: I am a serial entrepreneur in the field of Financial Machine Learning and Portfolio Management Infrastructure for Digital Assets. I have a proven track record in developing successful products and quantitative methodologies in the context of high-dimensional, noisy environments, advancing the state-of-the-art of systematic asset allocation strategies. Currently working with the digital asset team of ABN AMRO, a European commercial bank. Advisor for skfolio labs, business providing financial machine learning tooling to asset management firms

Daniele Tedoldi is Head of GTM and Sales at Dakota, a stablecoin infrastructure company building the orchestration layer for fiat on/off ramps, custody, and embedded finance.

Business Operations at Hercle, Co-Founder & Co-President Blockchain Student Association Italy, Best Crypto Influencer 2025 by Wirex & BeInCrypto, Master in Corporate Finance at SDA Bocconi, Italian Co-Lead European Student Blockchain Coalition

5+ Years in the industry. Marketing and Sales. B2B & B2C. Market Making, Marketing, Community Building, Wealth Management, Entrepreneurship, Management.

Leading whitelable stablecoin partnerships at MoonPay, helping builders issue and scale their stablecoins using our network

A Chemical Engineer by training, I entered the space as a researcher and marketer before building Castle Labs into one of Arbitrum's most prominent service providers, winning research and advisory mandates over firms ten times its size.

Mauro Carosso is the Co-Founder of BXT and creator of Penelope, an AI-powered investment intelligence platform focused on predictive market analysis and next-generation wealth technology. With a background spanning finance, technology, and entrepreneurship, Mauro has led the development of proprietary AI models designed to make sophisticated market intelligence accessible to a broader audience. His work combines quantitative research, machine learning, and user-centric product design to rethink how investors interact with financial markets.

Trained in traditional finance but inspired by decentralization, I build bridges between two financial worlds. From auditing in New York to co-founding a startup and exploring crypto ecosystems across the globe, my aim has been clear: integrating strong financial fundamentals into decentralized innovation. With over 5 years of experience in trading and investments, today I operate at the intersection of market strategy and real-world crypto application. I work to close the information gap and limited access to traditional finance, collaborating with global communities and digital asset traders to bring greater structure, strategy, and transparency to digital markets.

Nikhil Vadgama is a expert in web3 and emerging technologies specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. He is a co-founder and director of the Exponential Science Foundation and deputy director of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. He is also an associate professor, programme director, and esteemed lecturer for several of University College London (UCL)’s world-class programmes, including financial technology, emerging digital technologies, and others.  He has pioneered many new emerging digital technology education initiatives, including executive education, online education, accredited education, and education standards. He also has extensive industry experience in financial services, having launched a challenger bank in multiple countries, and previously working for large global investment banks.

Peter Bidewell is a seasoned blockchain product leader and strategic thinker at the forefront of institutional Web3 adoption. As VP of Institutional Product Adoption at Rayls, he spearheads the development of a next-generation blockchain infrastructure designed to unite traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), enabling banks and financial institutions to issue compliant, private, high-performance on-chain financial products at scale.  Under his leadership, Rayls has moved from concept to live production with major institutional partners, launched the $RLS token, and is launching its public Layer-1 blockchain in Q1 2026, delivering real-world finance use cases that bridge traditional finance and global DeFi. Before Rayls, Peter led the 40+ person Corda Apps and SDKs product group at R3, and drove globally scaled blockchain portfolios at Accenture.

Making global markets simpler, clearer, and easier to trade through thoughtful trading UX. At Ostium, my work focuses on trading experiences for real-world assets including commodities, FX, indices, stocks, and crypto, with an emphasis on clear flows, accessible UX, and better onboarding. Previously, I worked at BlackRock and Vega Protocol, building trading applications for stocks and onchain markets, and have spoken at EthCC and ETHMilan 2023 on the psychology of UX in DeFi.

Culture and Community strategist who worked with some of the top communities out there and supported launching some of the best NFTs across the years. Worked at Metav3rse, Unfungible, Final Bosu, My Neighbor Alice, and supported successful collection such as Fugz and others on abs.

Crypto Historian, Trader, Innovator, Idiot, Milady

Chilla handles growth at Polaris, a protocol building onchain yield infrastructure designed to scale decentralized stablecoins.

Hacker and builder. Hosting the Italian Ethereum Community Hub in Rome.

Justus "riptide" is Co-founder and CEO of Grego AI, an AI Deep Scanning Vulnerability Detection System. He is also a top ranked bug bounty hunter and podcast host of BountyHunt3rz: Life On The Blockchain.

Some of the greats technologies are lost because their stories were not told. I tell those stories. also a Degen building the verification layer for tomorrows economy. :)

Membro del progetto INNOV@DIFESA del Ministero della Difesa, analista presso l’agenzia di consulenza geostrategica Wikistrat. In passato ha collaborato con Parabellum e Vision and Global Trends.

Giorgio Giuliani is a fintech/DeFi builder (ex-Backed/xStocks, N26, SumUp; Telos Consilium collaborator) focused on tokenization and financial infrastructure. He founded the Fintech Guild and writes Lombard Notes on stablecoins, on-chain finance, and the future of financial systems.

I’m a Web3 security professional with over six years of experience in blockchain security and smart contract auditing. At CertiK, I focus on securing DeFi, stablecoins, and real-world asset infrastructure for institutions through audits, penetration testing, and monitoring.