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.

​Confirmed speakers include:

• ​Caroline Pham, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief Legal Officer, MoonPay; ex-Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

• ​Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation

• ​Dan Albert, Executive Director, Solana Foundation

• ​Keone Hon, Co-Founder & GM, Monad Foundation

• ​Oren Katz, COO, Starkware

• ​Koh, CEO, Aleo

• ​Melvis Langyintuo, Executive Director, Canton Network Foundation

• ​Christian Rau, Head of Crypto, Mastercard

• ​Gordon Liao, Head of Research & Chief Economist, Circle

• ​Justin Brill, Head of Revenue, Anchorage

• ​Nemil Dalal, Crypto Partner, Y Combinator (Stanford Alumni)

• ​Ian Miers, Asst. Professor, U of Maryland, Zcash Co-inventor

• ​Matthew Green, Assc Professor, Johns Hopkins U, Zcash Co-inventor

• ​Ellie Davidson, Head of Research, Espresso Systems

• ​Matthew Pearring, Snr Dir Product, Offchain Labs (Arbitrum)

• ​Alex Shevchenko, Co-Founder, Near Intents

• ​Daniel Marin, Founder & CEO, Nexus (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Charles Guillemet, CTO, Ledger

• ​Max Segall, COO, Privy

• ​Guillame Poncin, CTO, Alchemy

• ​Griffin Dunaif, Co-founder & CEO, Halliday

• ​Meow Pospieszalski, CEO, American Fortress

• ​Ev Medvedev, Head of Operations, Legion

• ​Davide Crapis, Head of AI, Ethereum Foundation

• ​Ben Fielding, Co-founder & CEO, Gensyn

• ​Salman Avestimehr, Co-founder at ChainOpera AI & Dean's Professor at USC

• ​Jake Salerno, VP GTM, 0G Foundation (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Chi Zhang, CEO, KiteAI

• ​Pei Chen, COO & Exec Dir, Theoriq
  Celeste Ang, Head of Product, Virtuals

• ​Tanner Moore, Head of Developer Relations, 1inch

• ​Weso, CTO, Cap (Stanford Founders)

• ​Chris Kim, Head of Developer Relations, Aptos

• ​Tanner Moore, Head of Developer Relations, 1inch

• ​Jonathan King, Investor, Coinbase Ventures

• ​Wei Dai, Investor, 1kx

• ​Joshua Rivera, General Counsel & Operating Partner, Blockchain Capital

• ​Harrison Dahme, CTO & Partner, Hack VC

• ​Baek Kim, General Partner, Hashed

• ​Dinghan, Partner, Jsquare

• ​Jay Yu, Investor, Pantera

​Emerging founders

• ​Juan Bruce, Co-founder & CEO, Supernet (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Keccak, Founder & CEO, Nectar  (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Jonathan Jaranilla, CIO, Exabits (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Austin Cai, CGO, Xtrace (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Steve Pack, Co-Founder & CEO, Rocksolid (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Helena Zhang, CEO, ICME (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Leo Li, CTO, Aeon (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Francesco Piccoli, CEO, Almanax (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

• ​Nathan Liang, Co-founder & CEO, Vishwa

• ​Jonathan Jaranilla, CIO, Exabits

• ​Ash Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Axal

• ​Ange Gallego, Cofounder, dev.fun

• ​Jerome Faury, CEO, Immersve

​And of course a HUGE thanks to our sponsors:

Aptos, 1inch, Halliday, 0g, ChainOpera, Supernet,
American Fortress, JSquare, ICME, PrismaX
Aeon, Vishwa, & Theoriq

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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