Agenda | TOKEN2049 | 6-7 October 2027

5:10 pm

Startup Competition

5:10 pm

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5:15 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Helix

Jitendra Singh Jaitawat

Co-Founder and CEO | Helix

5:15 pm

Keynote

5:15 pm

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5:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Distribution Problem: Tokenization's Next Bottleneck

Jim Hiltner

Co-Founder | Superstate

5:15 pm

Startup Competition

5:15 pm

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5:20 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Crebit Pay

Jensen Coonradt

CEO | Crebit Pay

5:15 pm

Pitch

5:15 pm

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5:25 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Alt Research

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5:20 pm

Startup Competition

5:20 pm

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5:25 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - The Risk Protocol

Karamvir Gosal

CEO | The Risk Protocol

5:25 pm

Startup Competition

5:25 pm

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5:30 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - CRSHMARKET

Evan Rama

Co-Founder and CEO | CRSHMARKET

5:30 pm

Fireside

5:30 pm

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5:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Fireside Chat with Arkham CEO Miguel Morel

Miguel Morel

CEO | Arkham

Nic Puckrin

CEO | Coin Bureau

Moderator

5:30 pm

Startup Competition

5:30 pm

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5:35 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Liquida

Dewi Perrin

Co-Founder | Liquida

5:30 pm

Panel

5:30 pm

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6:00 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Past, Present and Future of Robinhood Chain

DeFi Dave

CEO | UFG

Carl

COO | Pons

Grayson Alto

Growth | Uniswap Labs

CryptoKaleo

Ogle

Moderator

5:30 pm

Pitch

5:30 pm

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5:40 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

RISE

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5:35 pm

Startup Competition

5:35 pm

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5:40 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Gyld Finance

Ruchir Gupta

Co-Founder | Gyld Finance

5:40 pm

Fireside

5:40 pm

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6:00 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

One Gate, Everything Money: For a World That Never Stops

Max Verstappen

4 x Formula One World Champion | Oracle Red Bull Racing

Lin Han

Founder and CEO | Gate

5:40 pm

Startup Competition

5:40 pm

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5:45 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - human.tech

Shady El Damaty

CEO | human.tech

5:45 pm

Startup Competition

5:45 pm

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5:50 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Surge Credit

Michael Borglin

CEO | Surge Credit

5:45 pm

Pitch

5:45 pm

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5:55 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Treasures Finance

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5:50 pm

Startup Competition

5:50 pm

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5:55 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Startup Competition Pitch - Ask Gina

Sid Shekhar

CEO | Ask Gina

5:55 pm

Startup Competition

5:55 pm

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6:00 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS First Round Summary

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6:00 pm

Networking Drinks, Wednesday, Oct 7, 2026

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6:00 pm

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7:30 pm

1 h 30 min

Networking Drinks

12:00 am

Day 2, Thursday, Oct 8, 2026

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12:00 am

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Day 2

7:30 am

Continental Breakfast, Thursday, Oct 8, 2026

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7:30 am

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9:00 am

1 h 30 min

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

Intro

9:00 am

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9:10 am

10 min

OKX Main Stage

TOKEN2049 Day 2

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9:10 am

Panel

9:10 am

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9:40 am

30 min

OKX Main Stage

The New Institutional Market: Tokenized Assets. Global Liquidity. Onchain Settlement

Jenny Johnson

CEO | Franklin Templeton

Richard Teng

Co-CEO | Binance

Yuval Rooz

Co-Founder and CEO | Canton

Michael Ippolito

Co-Founder | Blockworks

Moderator

9:15 am

Panel

9:15 am

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9:45 am

30 min

MEXC Stage

The $2T Question: How To Make Tokenized Assets Productive?

Anna Wroblewska

CBO | Dinari

Kristen Mierzwa

Head of Digital Assets | FTSE Russell

Vinh Tran

Associate Director, Digital Assets | WisdomTree

Marcin Kazmierczak

Co-Founder and COO | RedStone / Credora

Moderator

9:40 am

Keynote

9:40 am

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10:00 am

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Midnight City

Charles Hoskinson

Founder and CEO | Input Output Group

9:45 am

Keynote

9:45 am

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10:00 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

The Path to Scaling Zcash

Dev Ojha

Founder | Valargroup / Zcash

10:00 am

Keynote

10:00 am

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10:15 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

No Banks: Why AI Makes Zcash Inevitable

Josh Swihart

Founder and CEO | ZODL

10:00 am

Keynote

10:00 am

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10:15 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Bring Agents On Chain

YQ Jia

Founder | AltLayer

10:00 am

Panel

10:00 am

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10:40 am

40 min

OKX Main Stage

Regulation: Finding Clarity Across Borders

Brian Quintenz

Director | SUI Group Holdings

Jake Chervinsky

CEO | Hyperliquid Policy Center

Deepa Raja Carbon

Vice Chair and Managing Director | VARA

Arjun Sethi

Co-CEO | Payward / Kraken

Henri Arslanian

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Nine Blocks Capital Management

Moderator

10:00 am

Panel

10:00 am

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10:40 am

40 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Machine Native Economy: Do Digital Assets Benefit from AI?

Dovey Wan

Founder | Primitive Ventures

Alexander Good

Founder | Post Fiat

David Choi

Co-Founder | USD.AI

Jordi Alexander

Founder | Selini Capital

Moderator

10:00 am

Fireside

10:00 am

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10:30 am

30 min

Institutional Stage

The New Macro Order: Liquidity, Capital and Digital Assets

Zoltan Pozsar

Founder and CEO | Ex Uno Plures

Timothy Moe

Chief Asia Pacific Equity Strategist | Goldman Sachs

Moderator

10:00 am

Pitch

10:00 am

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10:10 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Meowlet

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10:15 am

Keynote

10:15 am

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10:30 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

Will Quantum End "Your Keys, Your Coins"?

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder and CEO | StarkWare

10:15 am

Keynote

10:15 am

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10:30 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Bitcoin's Quantum Readiness: From Exposure to Upgrade

Ren CF

General Partner | Electric Capital

10:15 am

Pitch

10:15 am

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10:25 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Brickken

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10:30 am

Keynote

10:30 am

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10:45 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

The Great Unbundling of Finance

Sam Kazemian

Founder and CEO | Frax

10:30 am

Panel

10:30 am

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11:00 am

30 min

Institutional Stage

The Next Wave of Institutional Capital

Tom Lee

CIO and Portfolio Manager / Chairman | Fundstrat / BitMine

Jenny Johnson

CEO | Franklin Templeton

Chris Perkins

EVP, Head of Crypto | Franklin Templeton

Moderator

10:30 am

Keynote

10:30 am

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11:00 am

30 min

Startup Village Stage

From Zero to One: Building and Scaling Web3 Startups on AWS

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10:40 am

Keynote

10:40 am

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11:00 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

The Machine Economy Won't Wait

Adeniyi Abiodun

Co-Founder and CPO | Mysten Labs

10:40 am

Panel

10:40 am

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11:10 am

30 min

OKX Main Stage

Crypto: The End of the Beginning

Kyle Samani

Chairman | Forward Industries

Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner | Dragonfly

Santiago Roel Santos

Founder and CEO | Inversion

Moderator

10:45 am

Keynote

10:45 am

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11:00 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

No More Impermanent Loss: Research Turned Into Real Strategy

Michael Egorov

Founder | Curve Finance / Yield Basis

10:45 am

Fireside

10:45 am

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11:00 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Fireside Chat: Tristan Thompson

Tristan Thompson

NBA Champion

Amanda Cassatt

Founder and CEO | Serotonin

Moderator

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:15 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

The Crowdsourced ML Challenge Behind a Stat Arb Vault

Leigh Drogen

GP and CIO | Starkiller Capital

11:00 am

Fireside

11:00 am

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11:20 am

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Leading the Convergence of TradFi and DeFi

Stani Kulechov

Founder and CEO | Aave Labs

Andy Cavanaugh

Co-Founder | The Rollup

Moderator

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:15 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Asia’s Next Export: Its Capital Markets

Saeed Badreg

CEO | Sunrise

11:00 am

Panel

11:00 am

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11:30 am

30 min

Institutional Stage

Crypto Without Clarity: What Happens Next?

Brian Quintenz

Director | SUI Group Holdings

Mike Belshe

Co-Founder and CEO | Bitgo

Jacquelyn Melinek

Founder and CEO | Stratamedia

Moderator

11:00 am

Keynote

11:00 am

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11:30 am

30 min

Startup Village Stage

Fundraising in the AI Era

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11:10 am

Panel

11:10 am

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11:40 am

30 min

OKX Main Stage

Stablecoins: The Payments Industry, Rebuilt

May Zabaneh

SVP | Paypal

Stephen Richardson

CSO and Head of Banking | Fireblocks

Ivan Soto-Wright

Founder and CEO | Moonpay

Farooq Malik

Co-Founder and CEO | Rain

Frank Chaparro

Head of Strategic Communications | GSR

Moderator

11:15 am

Keynote

11:15 am

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11:30 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

The Agentic Era of Finance: Co-Invest and Beyond

Franklyn Wang

CEO | Liquid / CoInvest

11:15 am

Keynote

11:15 am

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11:30 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Social Media: The New Global Trading Floor

Yu Hu

CEO | Kaito AI

11:20 am

Panel

11:20 am

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12:00 pm

40 min

BingX Labs Stage

Chopping Block Live with Balaji Srinivasan & Arthur Hayes

Balaji Srinivasan

Founder, Investor, and Author | The Network State

Arthur Hayes

CIO | Maelstrom

Tarun Chitra

Co-Founder and CEO | Gauntlet

Tom Schmidt

General Partner | Dragonfly

Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner | Dragonfly

Moderator

11:30 am

Keynote

11:30 am

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11:45 am

15 min

MEXC Stage

Performance, Open-Sourced: Wall-Street Speed for All

Austin Federa

Co-Founder and CEO | DoubleZero

11:30 am

Fireside

11:30 am

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11:45 am

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

What’s Next for $TRUMP

Bill Zanker

Co-Founder | $TRUMP

Dim Selk

Investments | Selini Capital

Moderator

11:30 am

Panel

11:30 am

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12:00 pm

30 min

Institutional Stage

Institutional Flows: What’s Changed, What’s Next?

Amy Oldenburg

Head of Digital Asset Strategy | Morgan Stanley

Laurie Katz

Global Head of Distribution | Grayscale

David Rogers

CEO, APAC | B2C2

Michael Ippolito

Co-Founder | Blockworks

Moderator

11:30 am

Pitch

11:30 am

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11:40 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Lavarage

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11:40 am

Keynote

11:40 am

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12:00 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Crypto After the Washout: The Case for Active Management

Arthur Cheong

CEO and CIO | DeFiance Capital

11:45 am

Fireside

11:45 am

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12:00 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Praxis: A New Nation for the Post-AGI Age

Dryden Brown

CEO | Praxis

Zaheer Ebtikar

CSO | Plasma

Moderator

11:45 am

Keynote

11:45 am

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12:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The Parallel AI Blockchain for the Machine Economy

Juan Jose

CEO | Bitroot

11:45 am

Pitch

11:45 am

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11:55 am

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Elfa AI

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12:00 pm

Panel

12:00 pm

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12:30 pm

30 min

OKX Main Stage

Ethereum’s Next Act: From Asset to Economy

Joseph Lubin

Co‑Founder / Chairman and CEO | Ethereum / MetaMask

Paul Frambot

Co-Founder and CEO | Morpho

Sam Tabar

CEO | Bit Digital

Kartik Talwar

Co-Founder | ETHGlobal

Moderator

12:00 pm

Keynote

12:00 pm

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12:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Crypto OGs Are Investing in Transhumanism

Herbert Sim

Founder | TheBitcoinMan.com

12:00 pm

Fireside

12:00 pm

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12:20 pm

20 min

BingX Labs Stage

Why Dubai Wins

Deepa Raja Carbon

Vice Chair and Managing Director | VARA

Henri Arslanian

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Nine Blocks Capital Management

Moderator

12:00 pm

Fireside

12:00 pm

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12:15 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

Beyond the Token – What Do You Actually Own?

Frederik Gregaard

CEO | Cardano Foundation

David Wachsman

CEO | Wachsman

Moderator

12:00 pm

Fireside

12:00 pm

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12:20 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

The Token Supercycle: From Experiment to Infrastructure

Lily Liu

President | Solana Foundation

Jessica Walker

Global Media and Content Lead | Binance

Moderator

12:00 pm

Pitch

12:00 pm

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12:10 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Laguna

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12:15 pm

Keynote

12:15 pm

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12:30 pm

15 min

MEXC Stage

The TikTok Moment of Markets

Leo Zhang

CEO | 42

12:15 pm

Pitch

12:15 pm

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12:25 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Botanika

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12:15 pm

Keynote

12:15 pm

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12:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Where Transaction Flows

Harry

Co-Founder and Head of Ecosystem | TxFlow

12:20 pm

Panel

12:20 pm

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1:00 pm

40 min

BingX Labs Stage

Market Bubble Live with Ansem, Mayne and Avi Felman

Mayne

Founder | Breakout

Avi Felman

CEO | 1000x Media

Ansem

Co-Founder | Bullpen

Moderator

12:20 pm

Panel

12:20 pm

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12:40 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

Hyperliquid: Building the Infrastructure for All Finance

Jeff Yan

CEO | Hyperliquid Labs

Jake Chervinsky

CEO | Hyperliquid Policy Center

David Schamis

President and CEO | Hyperliquid Strategies Inc

Michael Blaugrund

VP, Strategic Initiatives | ICE

Moderator

12:30 pm

Keynote

12:30 pm

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12:45 pm

15 min

OKX Main Stage

The Frontier of Bitcoin

Muneeb Ali

Founder | Stacks

12:30 pm

Panel

12:30 pm

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1:00 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

Growing the Pie: Why New Issuers and Allocators are the Future of DeFi

Luke Truitt

CEO | Orca

Kefei Lin

General Manager | SBI Holdings

Joseph Chee

Chairman and CEO | Solana Company

Heyryung Choi

Chief Digital Officer | Shinhan Asset Management

Eleanor Terrett

Founder and Host | Crypto in America

Moderator

12:30 pm

Keynote

12:30 pm

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12:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Keynote

Todd Ault

Founder and CEO | Ault Markets

12:30 pm

Pitch

12:30 pm

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12:40 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

cherry.fun

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12:40 pm

Fireside

12:40 pm

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1:00 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

Digital Dollars by Default: Bringing USDC to Samsung Wallet

Woncheol Chai

EVP, Head of Samsung Wallet | Samsung Electronics

Liz Martin

CEO | Coinbase Institutional

Moderator

12:45 pm

Fireside

12:45 pm

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1:00 pm

15 min

OKX Main Stage

Fireside Chat with Justin Sun

Justin Sun

Founder | TRON

Kevin Follonier

Founder | When Shift happens

Moderator

12:45 pm

Pitch

12:45 pm

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12:55 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Xhunt

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1:00 pm

Lunch, Thursday, Oct 8, 2026

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1:00 pm

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2:00 pm

1 h

Lunch

2:00 pm

Fireside

2:00 pm

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2:20 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

Fireside Chat with Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman

Adena Friedman

Chair and CEO | Nasdaq

Joanna Ossinger

Managing Editor | CNBC

Moderator

2:00 pm

Panel

2:00 pm

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2:30 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

Crypto Neobanks: The Race to Replace Your Bank

Mike Silagadze

Founder and CEO | ether.fi

Sean Clark

Director of Partnerships | Rain

Zaheer Ebtikar

CSO | Plasma

Bobby Ong

Co-Founder and CEO | Coingecko

Moderator

2:00 pm

Panel

2:00 pm

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2:30 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

Crypto Venture Capital: What’s Getting Funded Now?

Steve Lee

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Neoclassic Capital

Akshat Vaidya

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Maelstrom

Min Teo

Managing Partner | Ethereal Ventures

Doug Hsu

Investor | CMT Digital

Moderator

2:00 pm

Keynote

2:00 pm

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2:15 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

The 2 Quadrillion Dollar Wave

Sandeep Nailwal

CEO | Polygon Foundation

2:00 pm

Panel

2:00 pm

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2:20 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

Digital Assets: Strategic Allocation, Risk and Return

Dan Tapiero

Founder, CEO, and CIO | 50T Funds

Scott Lawin

President | Pantera Capital

Zane Glauber

Global head of distribution | Galaxy

Frank Chaparro

Head of Strategic Communications | GSR

Moderator

2:00 pm

Keynote

2:00 pm

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2:30 pm

30 min

Startup Village Stage

The Adoption Journey: Learn. Build. Deploy. and Scale on Cardano

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2:15 pm

Keynote

2:15 pm

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2:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

GEODNET: The Rails for Physical AI

David Chen

Co-Founder | GEODNET

2:20 pm

Panel

2:20 pm

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2:40 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

Expanding the Institutional Trading Universe

Shiliang Tang

CEO | Monarq Asset Management

Andy Ross

Head of Institutional Business | Kalshi

Andrew McCormick

Head of Institutional and Market Dev | Chainlink

Jessica Walker

Global Media and Content Lead | Binance

Moderator

2:20 pm

Panel

2:20 pm

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2:40 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

A New Era for Money

Vibhu Norby

CPO | Solana Foundation

Wonseok Baek

Head of Group, North America, Samsung Wallet | Samsung

Jacquelyn Melinek

Founder and CEO | Stratamedia

Moderator

2:30 pm

Panel

2:30 pm

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3:00 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

Will AI Break Crypto, or Make It Stronger?

Cosmo Jiang

General Partner | Pantera Capital

Drake Evans

Co-Founder and CTO | Agora

Jonathan Levin

Co-Founder and CEO | Chainalysis

Logan Jastremski

Managing Partner | Frictionless Capital

Moderator

2:30 pm

Panel

2:30 pm

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3:00 pm

30 min

MEXC Stage

Crypto’s Comeback: Are You Holding the Wrong Coins?

zeroxkyle

Senior Investment Analyst | DefiLlama

Mayne

Founder | Breakout

Dennis Qian

Co-Founder | Definitive Finance

Andy Cavanaugh

Co-Founder | The Rollup

Moderator

2:30 pm

Keynote

2:30 pm

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2:45 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Building the Trillion-Dollar Agentic Economy

George Varghese

Head of Investments and Partnerships | 0G Labs

2:35 pm

Pitch

2:35 pm

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2:45 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Bermuda

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2:40 pm

Panel

2:40 pm

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3:00 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

The Next 100 Million RWA Holders Are Already Onchain

Joseph Lubin

Co‑Founder / Chairman and CEO | Ethereum / MetaMask

Johann Kerbrat

SVP and GM, Crypto and International | Robinhood

David Hoffman

Owner | Bankless

Moderator

2:40 pm

Panel

2:40 pm

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3:00 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

24/7 Markets: The Future of Global Trading

Adena Friedman

Chair and CEO | Nasdaq

Arjun Sethi

Co-CEO | Payward / Kraken

Joanna Ossinger

Managing Editor | CNBC

Moderator

2:45 pm

Keynote

2:45 pm

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3:00 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Trust in an Era of Programmable Money and Agentic AI

Pei Ling Tin

Co-President | Metacomp

2:50 pm

Pitch

2:50 pm

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3:00 pm

10 min

Startup Village Stage

Helix

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3:00 pm

Keynote

3:00 pm

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3:20 pm

20 min

OKX Main Stage

The Future of Real World Assets - On Chain Equities, Perps, and Beyond

Kyle Samani

Chairman | Forward Industries

3:00 pm

Startup Competition

3:00 pm

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3:05 pm

5 min

MEXC Stage

Welcome to the NEXUS Startup Competition Final Round

Tom Schmidt

General Partner | Dragonfly

Akshat Vaidya

Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Maelstrom

Spencer Applebaum

GP and Co-Head of Venture | Multicoin Capital

3:00 pm

Panel

3:00 pm

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3:30 pm

30 min

BingX Labs Stage

Institutional Crypto Capital Flows

Giovanni Vicioso

Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products | CME Group

Liz Martin

CEO | Coinbase Institutional

Kathleen Wrynn

Global Head of Digital Assets | Invesco

Frank Chaparro

Head of Strategic Communications | GSR

Moderator

3:00 pm

Panel

3:00 pm

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3:20 pm

20 min

Institutional Stage

DeFi as Institutional Infrastructure

TN Lee

CEO | Pendle

Eric Saraniecki

Co-Founder and Head of Network Strategy | Digital Asset

Kain Warwick

Founder | Infinex / Synthetix

Tarun Chitra

Co-Founder and CEO | Gauntlet

Moderator

3:05 pm

Startup Competition

3:05 pm

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3:15 pm

10 min

MEXC Stage

NEXUS Final Round - Crebit Pay

Jensen Coonradt

CEO | Crebit Pay

3:15 pm

Keynote

3:15 pm

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3:30 pm

15 min

Bit Digital Stage

Tokenization: Capital for Humanity

Monty Metzger

Chairman | Toto Finance