The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets

​The Cornell Blockchain Conference returns to New York City on April 24, 2026 with a timely strategic focus: “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets.”

​🎫 Limited Early Bird tickets are live! Register now!

​Last year in NYC, we welcomed 800+ leaders and builders across finance, tech, AI, crypto, and academia. This year, we’re expanding the conversation around what matters most to institutions now: how frontier technologies get built, deployed, and scaled.

​💡 Why AI + blockchain in one day? AI is transforming how work and decisions happen; blockchain is transforming how value moves and gets verified. Together, they are creating new infrastructure for a new economy, and NYC is where these technologies meet real use cases, real deployment environments, and real market opportunities.

​Expect to hear from founders and global executives on the topics that will drive the next decade, including tokenization, agentic AI and agentic commerce, stablecoins, AI-driven operational transformation, crypto in wealth management, blockchain safeguards for AI data, digital content attestation & verification, and the next chapter for finance.

​📣 Stay tuned for big speaker and agenda announcements ahead! See you on April 24th!

​Cornell Blockchain is excited to be partnering with Blockchain at Cornell Tech and Blockchain Builders Fund to co-host this convening.