BCVC Founder Summit 2025

​Bloccelerate VC pleased to host our fourth annual BCVC Founder Summit. This event is a forum for builders in the digital asset, web3, and crypto to come together and discuss the most existential problems in our space.

We are bringing together an exclusive, intimate group of 100 leading founders and c-level leaders. Join us at the historic Harvard Club of New York City for this day of high-quality discussions and connections.

​We have an exciting line-up of speakers joining us for this year’s event including:

​- Stephen Miran, Federal Reserve Governor
- Phong Le, CEO of Microstrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR)
- Paul Atkins, SEC Chair (Special Guest for the CEO Roundtable)
- Chris Giancarlo, 13th Chairman of CFTC
- Michael Shaulov, CEO & Cofounder of Fireblocks
- David McClure, Founder of 500 Startups (previously Founders Fund, Paypal, and Facebook)
- Michael Loeb, Co-founder of Priceline.com ( Loeb.nyc)
- Teddy Fusaro, President of Bitwise
- Sergey Nazarov, CEO & Founder of Chainlink
- Robert Leshner, Superstate
- Cynthia Lo Bassett, Head of Digital Assets at Fidelity
- Sandeep Nailwal, Co-founder of Polygon Labs
- Sreeram Kannan, Founder of Eigenlayer
- Will Peck, Head of Digital Assets at Wisdom Tree
- Anton Katz, Founder of Talos
- Kathleen Wrynn, Head of Digital Assets at Invesco
- Luca Netz, Founder of Pudgy Penguins
- Laurie Katz, Chief Revenue Officer at Figure Markets
- Ben Fielding, Gensyn AI
- Shuyao Kong, Founder of MegaETH
- Coleen Sullivan, Co-Head of Venture at Brevan Howard Digital
- Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal Officer of Jito
- Howard Wu, Founder of Provable (Aleo)
- Erica Khalili, Cofounder & Chief Legal Risk Officer of Lead Bank
- Azeem Khan, Co-founder of Miden
- David Namdar, CEO of CEA Industries (Nasdaq: BNC)
- James Zhang, CEO of Sol Markets (Solana DATCO)
- Suzanne Dannheim, COO at Inversion
- Marcos Veremis, Partner at Accolade
- Nicole Valentine, Fintech Director at Milken Institute
- Vik Sasi, Managing Director at Manhattan West
- Jonathan Levin, CEO & Co-Founder of Chainalysis
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We will make every effort to accommodate requests, but please note that attendance is not guaranteed.

***Given the high demand for this event, we ask all the confirmed attendees to let us know as soon as possible, if you are no longer able to make it. For 'no shows' we will be implementing a strict black list policy, where you will not be invited to join future events.***


2024 AGENDA

Capital Markets:

• ​​​Jack Selby (Co-Founder of Paypal, Managing Director, Thiel Capital)

• ​​Michael Loeb (Co-Founder of Priceline.com and Synapse Group)

• ​​Cynthia Lo Bessett (Head of Digital Asset Management at Fidelity)

• ​​Teddy Fusaro (President at Bitwise Asset Management)

• ​​Keith Grossman (President of MoonPay, fmr President of TIME)

• ​​Michael Sonnenshein (fmr. CEO at Grayscale Investments)

• ​​Steve Kurz (Global Head of Asset Management at Galaxy)

• ​​Manoj Vasudevan (Director Digital Assets, KAUST Investment Management)

• ​​Abi Subramanian ( Founding Partner, GGA Capital)

​​Founders/CEOs:

• ​​Sreeram Kannan (Founder & CEO, Eigenlayer - virtual)

• ​​David Tse (Co-Founder at BabylonChain)

• ​​Steven Goldfeder (Co-Founder and CEO at Offchain Labs / Arbitrum)

• ​​Robert Leshner (Co-Founder & CEO at Superstate, Compound)

• ​​Muneeb Ali (Co-Creator & CEO at Stacks)

• ​​Jay Jog (Co-Founder, Sei Labs)

• ​​Homme (Co-Founder, Berachain)

• ​​Willem Schroe (Founder & CEO, Botanix Labs)

• ​​Azeem Khan (Co-Founder, Morph L2)

• ​​Nass Eddequiouaq (Founder & CEO, Bastion)

• ​​Ala Shaabana (Co-Founder, Bittensor)

• ​​Chi Zheng (Co-Founder & CEO, ZettaBlock)

• ​​Foobar (Founder, Delegate / Clusters)

• ​​Dariya Khojasteh (Co-Founder & CEO at Layer3)

• ​​Simon Baksys (Co-Founder & Vice President of Global Business, LayerZero)

• ​​Sishir Varghese (CEO & Co-Founder, Spectral)

• ​​Jonathan Perkins ( Founder, SuperRare Labs)

• ​​David Feinstein (Founder, BOGUS)

​​Others:

• ​​Jon Lenzner (Chief of Staff at FBI)

• ​​Faryar Shirzad (Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase)

• ​​John D'Agostino (Head of Strategy at Coinbase)

• ​​Ari Juels (Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director at IC3, and Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs)

• ​​Elad Roisman (fmr. SEC Commissioner; Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP)

• ​​David Packman (Managing Partner, Coinfund)

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

• ​​Nicole Valentine (Fintech Director at Milken Institute)

• ​​Ben Forman (Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi)

• ​​Jonathan Edwards (Partner at Fenwick & West)

• ​​Brad Meliska (US Team Lead, Institutional Coverage, FalconX)

• ​​Gary Wachtel (General Council, Offchain Labs)

• ​​Greg Xethalis (General Council, Multicoin Capital)

• ​​Stephan Dalal (General Council, OpenWorld)

• ​​David Alderman ( Digital Assets Research, Franklin Templeton)

• ​Special Guest: Scottie Pippen & The $BALL Team (American former professional basketball player, 6x NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls and seven-time NBA All-Star)