Agenda | TOKEN2049 | 7-8 October 2026

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Day 1, Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026

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12:00 am

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Day 1

7:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast, Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026

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7:30 am

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9:00 am

1 h 30 min

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Intro

9:00 am

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9:10 am

10 min

OKX Main Stage

Welcome to TOKEN2049 Singapore

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9:10 am

Keynote

9:10 am

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9:30 am

20 min

OKX Main Stage

The Open Source Network State

Balaji Srinivasan

Founder | The Network State

9:15 am

Panel

9:15 am

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9:50 am

35 min

MEXC Stage

The Next Cycle: Investing in a Changed Market

Arthur Cheong

CEO and CIO | DeFiance Capital

Jason Kam

Founder | Folius Ventures

Zaheer Ebtikar

CSO | Plasma

Avi Felman

CEO | 1000x Media

Moderator

9:30 am

Fireside

9:30 am

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10:00 am

30 min

OKX Main Stage

Polymarket Fireside Chat

Shayne Coplan

Founder and CEO | Polymarket

Balaji Srinivasan

Founder | The Network State

Moderator

9:50 am

Fireside

9:50 am

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10:10 am

20 min

MEXC Stage

Market Wizards

Dim Selk

Investments | Selini Capital

Jordi Alexander

Founder | Selini Capital

Moderator

10:00 am

Keynote

10:00 am

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10:20 am

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Crypto Spring Turning Into Full Blown Bull Market

Tom Lee

CIO and Portfolio Manager / Chairman | Fundstrat / BitMine

10:00 am

Keynote

10:00 am

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10:20 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Zcash

Zooko

CPO | Shielded Labs / Zcash

10:00 am

Pitch

10:00 am

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10:10 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Locus

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10:10 am

Fireside

10:10 am

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10:30 am

20 min

MEXC Stage

Building the Neobrokerage

Armani Ferrante

Founder and CEO | Backpack Exchange

Kyle Samani

Chairman | Forward Industries

Moderator

10:15 am

Keynote

10:15 am

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10:30 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Crypto-Agility in the Age of Quantum: Introducing Strongpoint

Alex Pruden

Co-Founder and CEO | Project Eleven

10:15 am

Pitch

10:15 am

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10:25 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

EarnPark

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10:20 am

Panel

10:20 am

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11:00 am

40 min

OKX Main Stage

DeFi’s Institutional Breakthrough

Stani Kulechov

Founder and CEO | Aave Labs

Guy Young

CEO | Ethena Labs

Kain Warwick

Founder | Infinex / Synthetix

Robbie Petersen

Investment Partner | a16z crypto

Moderator

10:20 am

Keynote

10:20 am

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10:40 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Crypto x AI: Funding the Next Industrial Revolution

Alex Pack

Managing Partner | Hack VC

10:30 am

Keynote

10:30 am

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10:45 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

Wall St. 2049: Everything Trades, Nobody Sleeps

Akshay BD

Non-CMO | Solana Foundation

10:30 am

Keynote

10:30 am

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10:45 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Programmable Economy Will Be Built on Layer-2

Steven Goldfeder

Co-Founder and CEO | Offchain Labs

10:30 am

Pitch

10:30 am

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10:40 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Cropr Digital

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10:40 am

Keynote

10:40 am

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11:00 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

DeFi 2.0: Assets Catching up To Primitives

Spencer Applebaum

GP and Co-Head of Venture | Multicoin Capital

10:45 am

Keynote

10:45 am

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11:00 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

The New Trilemma: Confidential, Compliant, Composable.

Keone Hon

Co-Founder | Monad Foundation

10:45 am

Keynote

10:45 am

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11:00 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Tokenized Stocks: The Missing Infrastructure

Yoshi Yokokawa

Co-Founder and CEO | Alpaca

10:45 am

Pitch

10:45 am

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10:55 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Liquida

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11:00 am

Fireside

11:00 am

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11:35 am

35 min

OKX Main Stage

Hyperliquid: Rebuilding Finance from First Principles

Jeff Yan

CEO | Hyperliquid Labs

Hart Lambur

Co-Founder | Risk Labs

Moderator

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:20 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

AI Agents Trading on the Blockchain

Alexander Good

CEO | Post Fiat

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:15 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Agentic Trading: Will AI Outperform Human Traders?

Alex Svanevik

Co-Founder and CEO | Nansen

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:15 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

Onchain Options, Derivatives and the US Market

Trevor King

Head of Investor Relations | Lighter

11:00 am

Pitch

11:00 am

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11:10 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Crebit Pay

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11:15 am

Keynote

11:15 am

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11:35 am

20 min

MEXC Stage

The Memecoin Supercycle: Two Years Later

Murad Mahmudov

Investor

11:15 am

Pitch

11:15 am

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11:25 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

CRSHMARKET

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11:20 am

Keynote

11:20 am

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11:40 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Making AI and Finance Private by Default

Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder | NEAR Protocol

11:30 am

Keynote

11:30 am

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11:45 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Trasia Scout Mode: Defining Perp-trading Paradigm

Mable Jiang

Co-Founder | Trasia

11:30 am

Panel

11:30 am

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12:00 pm

30 min

Startup Village Stage

How the Best Founders Navigate the Hard Parts

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11:35 am

Keynote

11:35 am

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12:00 pm

25 min

OKX Main Stage

FLOP Bigger Than Bitcoin

Arthur Hayes

CIO | Maelstrom

11:35 am

Keynote

11:35 am

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11:55 am

20 min

MEXC Stage

How Onchain Goes Mainstream

Paul Erlanger

CEO | fomo

11:40 am

Fireside

11:40 am

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12:10 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Future of Crypto vs The Future of AI

Santiago Roel Santos

Founder and CEO | Inversion

Logan Jastremski

Managing Partner | Frictionless Capital

Moderator

11:45 am

Keynote

11:45 am

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12:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Privacy for All

Fahmi Syed

President | Midnight

11:55 am

Keynote

11:55 am

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12:15 pm

20 min

MEXC Stage

The Base Case for Moving Money Onchain

Jesse Pollak

Head of Base | Base

12:00 pm

Keynote

12:00 pm

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12:30 pm

30 min

OKX Main Stage

The Exponential Age

Raoul Pal

Co-Founder and CEO | Real Vision

12:00 pm

Keynote

12:00 pm

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12:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Power Of Vision

Andrei Grachev

Managing Partner | DWF Labs

12:00 pm

Fireside

12:00 pm

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1:00 pm

1 h

Startup Village Stage

Ship on Solana: Builders Hour

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12:10 pm

Fireside

12:10 pm

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12:30 pm

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Robinhood Chain

Johann Kerbrat

GM and VP | Robinhood Crypto

Ran Neuner

Founder | Crypto Banter

Moderator

12:15 pm

Keynote

12:15 pm

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12:30 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

The New Money Stack: Where Fiat Meets Crypto

Henri Stern

Co-Founder and CEO | Privy

12:15 pm

Fireside

12:15 pm

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12:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

How Avalanche Is Moving Institutions Onchain

John Nahas

CBO | Ava Labs

Rob Hadick

General Partner | Dragonfly

Moderator

12:30 pm

Panel

12:30 pm

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1:00 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

The Future of Finance: Infinite Opportunities

Vugar Usi

CEO | MEXC

Arjun Sethi

Co-CEO | Payward / Kraken

Kelvin Sparks Jr.

Senior Media Personality | The Block

Moderator

12:30 pm

Keynote

12:30 pm

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12:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Next Billion Users Should Never Touch Blockchain

Pauline Shangett

CSO | ChangeNOW

12:30 pm

Fireside

12:30 pm

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12:45 pm

15 min

BingX Labs Stage

Welcome to the Trillion-Dollar Agentic Economy

Michael Heinrich

Co-Founder and CEO | 0G Labs

Nikita Sachdev

Founder and CEO | Luna PR

Moderator

12:30 pm

Panel

12:30 pm

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12:50 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Building Markets for the Intelligence Age

Star Xu

Founder and CEO | OKX

Andrew Cuomo

Former Governor / Board Member | New York / OKX

Henri Arslanian

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Nine Blocks Capital Management

Moderator

12:45 pm

Panel

12:45 pm

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1:15 pm

30 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Next Generation of ETH

Sam Tabar

CEO | Bit Digital

Matthew Dawson

Co-Founder | Ethereum Institutional

Kevin Lepsoe

Founder | ETHgas

Amanda Cassatt

Founder and CEO | Serotonin

Moderator

12:50 pm

Panel

12:50 pm

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1:05 pm

15 min

OKX Main Stage

The Next Era of Stablecoin Payments

Zach Witkoff

CEO | World Liberty Financial

Zak Folkman

Co-Founder and COO | World Liberty Financial

Bam Azizi

Co-Founder and CEO | Mesh

Moderator

1:00 pm

Lunch, Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026

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2:00 pm

1 h

Lunch

2:00 pm

Keynote

2:00 pm

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2:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Bitcoin-Backed Tokens: The EverValue Case

Rafael Castaneda

Head of Ecosystem | EVA

2:00 pm

Panel

2:00 pm

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2:40 pm

40 min

OKX Main Stage

The Future of Finance, Built in America

Eric Trump

Co-Founder | World Liberty Financial

Zach Witkoff

CEO | World Liberty Financial

David Wachsman

CEO | Wachsman

Moderator

2:00 pm

Panel

2:00 pm

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2:30 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

DeFi: The Race to Power Global Finance

Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo

Chief Strategy and Business Officer | Aave Labs

TN Lee

CEO | Pendle

Cheryl Chan

Head of Strategy and Growth | Kamino

Seraphim

Special Situations | Solana Foundation

Moderator

2:00 pm

Fireside

2:00 pm

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2:30 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

The New Rules of Markets

Kevin Lee

CSO | BingX

Ciaran Lyons

Head of Multimedia | Cointelegraph

Moderator

2:00 pm

Pitch

2:00 pm

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2:10 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

TBS Stella Pet

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2:15 pm

Keynote

2:15 pm

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2:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Compliant Privacy in Public Blockchains: The Missing Primitive

Mehow

CEO and CTO | AmericanFortress

2:15 pm

Pitch

2:15 pm

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2:25 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Uxuy

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2:30 pm

Keynote

2:30 pm

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2:45 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

The Half-Life of Ideas: Why We Back Founders, Not Narratives

Will Robinson

Partner | Alliance

2:30 pm

Fireside

2:30 pm

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2:50 pm

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Privacy Imperative: Zcash and the Future of Digital Money

Zooko

CPO | Shielded Labs / Zcash

Zach Pandl

Head of Research | Grayscale

Moderator

2:30 pm

Keynote

2:30 pm

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2:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Personal Data Asset Network for the AI Era

Junny Ho

Research Lead | Datadance

2:30 pm

Pitch

2:30 pm

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2:40 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

RocX

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2:40 pm

Keynote

2:40 pm

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3:00 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Agents + Crypto: What's Real & What's Cope

Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner | Dragonfly

2:45 pm

Keynote

2:45 pm

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3:00 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Stablecoin Powered Neobanks: Ethena and Etherfi

Guy Young

CEO | Ethena Labs

Mike Silagadze

Founder and CEO | ether.fi

2:45 pm

Pitch

2:45 pm

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2:55 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Alphio.ai

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2:45 pm

Fireside

2:45 pm

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3:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Dubai’s Blueprint for the Digital Economy

Marwan Alzarouni

Chief AI Officer and Strategic Advisor / CEO | DET / DBCC

Amanda Cassatt

Founder and CEO | Serotonin

Moderator

2:50 pm

Panel

2:50 pm

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3:20 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

From the White House to Wall Street: What’s Next for Crypto?

Jake Chervinsky

CEO | Hyperliquid Policy Center

Arjun Sethi

Co-CEO | Kraken

Charles Cascarilla

Co-Founder and CEO | Paxos

Scott Lawin

President | Pantera Capital

Jacquelyn Melinek

Founder and CEO | Stratamedia

Moderator

3:00 pm

Keynote

3:00 pm

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3:15 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Payback Era: Capital Discipline Meets Demand Inflection

Jamie Coutts

Chief Crypto Analyst | Real Vision

3:00 pm

Panel

3:00 pm

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3:35 pm

35 min

OKX Main Stage

The Zcash Moment

Balaji Srinivasan

Founder | The Network State

Tyler Winklevoss

Co-Founder and CEO | Gemini

Cameron Winklevoss

Co-Founder and President | Gemini

Mert

CEO | Helius

Moderator

3:00 pm

Pitch

3:00 pm

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3:10 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Synergetics.ai

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3:00 pm

Keynote

3:00 pm

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3:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Global South Isn't the Edge Case. It's the Blueprint.

Adeola Adedewe

Founder and CEO | Kredete

3:15 pm

Keynote

3:15 pm

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3:30 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Crypto’s First Real Bull Market: Here’s How High We Go

Ran Neuner

Founder | Crypto Banter

3:15 pm

Pitch

3:15 pm

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3:25 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

FinTax

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3:20 pm

Panel

3:20 pm

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3:50 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Great Reallocation: Where Crypto Capital Goes Next

Richard Galvin

Executive Chairman and CIO | DACM

Dan Tapiero

Founder, CEO, and CIO | 50T Funds

Shiliang Tang

CEO | Monarq Asset Management

Chris Rayner-Cook

CIO | Brevan Howard

Jessica Walker

Global Media and Content Lead | Binance

Moderator

3:30 pm

Panel

3:30 pm

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4:00 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

Crypto’s Identity Crisis: What Are We Actually Betting On?

Kelvin Koh

Co-Founder and Partner | Spartan Group

Santiago Roel Santos

Founder and CEO | Inversion

Rajiv Patel-O'Connor

General Partner | Framework Ventures

Larry Cermak

Moderator

3:30 pm

Fireside

3:30 pm

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3:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Money Is Becoming a Protocol, Not a Permission

Josiah Senu

Co-Founder and CEO | Zuba

Anna Jang

Chief of Staff | Zuba

Moderator

3:30 pm

Pitch

3:30 pm

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3:40 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Etherfuse

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3:35 pm

Fireside

3:35 pm

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4:00 pm

25 min

OKX Main Stage

Lando Norris × OKX: The Drive to Win

Lando Norris

Driver | McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team

Haider Rafique

Managing Partner and CMO | OKX

Raj Dhamodharan

EVP, Blockchain and Digital Assets | Mastercard

Henri Arslanian

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Nine Blocks Capital Management

Moderator

3:45 pm

Keynote

3:45 pm

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4:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

From Protocols to Chips: Building the Full Stack for Decentralized AI

Daniil Liberman

Co-Creator | Gonka

3:45 pm

Pitch

3:45 pm

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3:55 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Iritech

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3:50 pm

Panel

3:50 pm

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4:20 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

Tokenized Markets: How Institutional Finance Moves Onchain

Andrew McCormick

Head of Institutional and Market Dev | Chainlink

Michael Higgins

International CEO | Ripple Prime

Joshua Lim

Global Head of Markets | FalconX

Roland Chai

EVP and Head of Digital Liquidity Networks | NASDAQ

Moderator

4:00 pm

Fireside

4:00 pm

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4:35 pm

35 min

OKX Main Stage

Raoul Pal & Zoltan Pozsar: The New Money Order (Chatham House Rules)

Zoltan Pozsar

Founder and CEO | Ex Uno Plures

Raoul Pal

Co-Founder and CEO | Real Vision

Moderator

4:00 pm

Keynote

4:00 pm

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4:15 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Master the Trenches: Price Impact, VWAP, and uPnL

Dennis Qian

Co-Founder | Definitive Finance

4:00 pm

Pitch

4:00 pm

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4:10 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

8lends

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4:15 pm

Keynote

4:15 pm

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4:30 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

2026 is the Year that Fundamentals Outperformed

Lasse Clausen

Founding Partner | 1kx

4:15 pm

Keynote

4:15 pm

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4:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Center of Gravity Has Moved: Asia’s AI & Crypto Decade

Magnus Grimeland

Founder and CEO | Antler

4:15 pm

Pitch

4:15 pm

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4:25 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Balcore

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4:20 pm

Panel

4:20 pm

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4:50 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

Quantum: An Existential Threat to Crypto?

Alex Pruden

Co-Founder and CEO | Project Eleven

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder and CEO | StarkWare

Arthur Breitman

Co-Founder | Tezos

Ren CF

General Partner | Electric Capital

Moderator

4:30 pm

Keynote

4:30 pm

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4:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

When Games Become Reality: The Return of the Metaverse

Yat Siu

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman | Animoca Brands

4:30 pm

Keynote

4:30 pm

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4:45 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Everyone Is An Asset Allocator Now

Kash Dhanda

COO | Jupiter

4:30 pm

Pitch

4:30 pm

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4:40 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Moss AI

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4:35 pm

Panel

4:35 pm

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5:10 pm

35 min

OKX Main Stage

The Agent Economy: Why AI Needs Crypto

Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder | NEAR Protocol

Jesse Pollak

Head of Base | Base

Tarun Chitra

Co-Founder and CEO | Gauntlet

Moderator

4:45 pm

Keynote

4:45 pm

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5:00 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Money in Motion: The Second Wave of Tokenization

JF Rochet

EVP Consumer Services | Ledger

4:45 pm

Keynote

4:45 pm

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5:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Bitcoin for the Agentic Economy: The Next Frontier in Payments

Mark Zalan

CEO | GoMining

4:45 pm

Pitch

4:45 pm

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4:55 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Seer

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4:50 pm

Panel

4:50 pm

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5:30 pm

40 min

BingX Labs Stage

Steady Lads Live

Taiki Maeda

Humble Farmer | Humble Farmer Army

Justin Bram

Investor

Dim Selk

Investments | Selini Capital

Jordi Alexander

Founder | Selini Capital

Moderator

5:00 pm

Startup Competition

5:00 pm

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5:05 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

Welcome to the NEXUS Startup Competition First Round

Tom Schmidt

General Partner | Dragonfly

Akshat Vaidya

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Maelstrom

Spencer Applebaum

GP and Co-Head of Venture | Multicoin Capital

5:00 pm

Keynote

5:00 pm

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5:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

What Is Next for Stablecoins

Luca Prosperi

Co-Founder and CEO | M0

5:00 pm

Pitch

5:00 pm

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5:10 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Atlas

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5:05 pm

Startup Competition

5:05 pm

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5:10 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Bermuda Bay

Jan Philipp Fritsche

Co-Founder | Bermuda

5:10 pm

Panel

5:10 pm

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5:40 pm

30 min

OKX Main Stage

Memecoins: Dead or Just Getting Started?

Murad Mahmudov

Investor

Ansem

Co-Founder | Bullpen

Paul Erlanger

CEO | fomo

Ran Neuner

Founder | Crypto Banter

Moderator