BASS Denver 2026
We are excited to share with you that we will host another Blockchain Application Stanford Summit on February 17th in Denver during ETHDenver.
Here is the event agenda:
9:00 AM Check-in
9:20 AM Opening
9:25 AM Panel: Koh, CEO, Aleo; Ian Miers, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland & Co-Inventor, Zcash; Matthew Green, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins & Co-Inventor, Zcash
Moderator: Wei Dai, Investor, 1kx
9:50 AM Fireside Chat: Justin Brill, Head of Revenue, Anchorage Digital
Moderator: Brent Matterson, Investments, Bankless Ventures
10:05 AM Fireside Chat: Caroline D. Pham, ex-Acting Chairman CFTC & Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer, Moonpay
Moderator: Steven Willinger, Founding Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund
10:20 AM Keynote: Tomasz Stanczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation
10:35 AM Keynote: Daniel Marin, Founder & CEO, Nexus
10:45 AM Panel: Ellie Davidson, Head of Research, Espresso Systems; Matt Pearring, Senior Director Product, Offchain Labs
Moderator: Jay Yu, Junior Partner, Pantera
11:05 AM Keynote: Daniel Albert, Member of Board of Directors, Solana Foundation
11:20 AM Panel: Michal "Mehow" Pospieszalski, CEO, American Fortress; Charles Guillemet, CTO, Ledger; Max Segall, COO, Privy
Moderator: Dinghan Luo, Partner, JSquare
11:45 AM Panel: Steven Pack, Co-Founder & CEO, Rocksolid; Weso, CTO, Cap; Ash Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Axal
Moderator: Nemil Dalal, Crypto Partner, YC
12:10 PM Panel: Helena Zhang, Co-Founder, ICME; Devlord, Co-Founder, dev.fun; Evgeniy Medvedev, Commander of Operations, Legion
Moderator: Joshua Rivera, Operating Partner & General Counsel, Blockchain Capital
12:35 PM Lunch Break
1:35 PM Keynote: Keone Hon, Co-founder & GM, Monad Foundation
1:50 PM Fireside Chat: Christian Rau, Head of Crypto, Mastercard; Jerome Faury, Founder & CEO, Immersve
Moderator: Steven Willinger, Founding Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund
2:10 PM Keynote: Juan Bruce, Founder and CEO, Supernet
2:20 PM Panel: Guillaume Poncin, CTO, Alchemy; Griffin Dunaif, Co-Founder & CEO, Halliday
Moderator: Baek Kim, General Partner, Hashed
2:40 PM Panel: Alex Shevchenko, Co-founder & CEO, Near Intents; Salman Avestimehr, Co-Founder, ChainOpera AI & Dean's Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, USC
Moderator: Brian Breslow, Investor, No Limit Holdings
3:00 PM Fireside Chat: Melvis Langyintuo, Head of Foundation, Canton Network Foundation
Moderator: Gil Rosen, General Partner, Blockchain Builders
3:20 PM Panel: Jameson Pickett, Chief Product Officer, Theoriq; Tanner Moore, Head of Developer Relations, 1inch Labs; Nathan Liang, Co-Founder & CEO, Vishwa
Moderator: Anthony Avedissian, Partner, Canonical
3:45 PM Keynote: Gordon Liao, Head of Research & Chief Economist, Circle
3:55 PM Panel: Lei Lei, VP & Head of BD, Kite AI; Mike Massari, VP of Research and Partnership, AEON; Chris Kim, Developer Relations Engineer, Aptos
Moderator: Bobby Beniers, Principal, Coinfund
4:20 PM Panel: Ben Fielding, Co-Founder & CEO, Gensyn; Mark Fidelman, Chief Marketing Officer, Exabits; Bayley Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Prismax
Moderator: Jonathan King, Investor, Coinbase Ventures
4:45 PM Fireside Chat: Jake Salerno, VP of GTM, 0G Foundation
Moderator: Harrison Dahme, CTO & Partner, Hack VC
5:05 PM Panel: Celeste Ang, Product Lead, Virtuals Protocol; Keccak, Founder & CEO, Nectar; Austin Cai, Chief Growth Officer, Xtrace
Moderator: Carl Vogel, General Partner, 6th Man Ventures
5:30 PM Panel: Davide Crapis, Head of AI, Ethereum Foundation; Matt White, Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation; Francesco Piccoli, Co-Founder & CEO, Almanax
Moderator: Jake Brukhman, Founder & CEO, CoinFund
And of course a HUGE thanks to our sponsors:
Aptos, 1inch, Halliday, 0g, ChainOpera, Supernet,
American Fortress, JSquare, ICME, PrismaX
Aeon, Vishwa, Theoriq & RockSolid
BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem and an event series gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders; to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth. BASS Denver 2026 is the ninth edition after the SBC Stanford 2023 edition, the Devconnect Istanbul 2023 edition, the Denver 2024 edition, the ETHCC Brussels 2024 edition, the SBC NYC 2024 edition, the Devcon Bangkok 2024 edition, the Denver 2025 edition, the SBC Berkeley 2025 edition, where we will explore cutting edge innovations in Blockchain Infra, Digital Finance, AI, Policy and other topics.
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