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57Blocks DeFi Panel: Voices from the Ecosystem
Following our exclusive DeFi Founder & Fund Lunch, 57Blocks is hosting a panel discussion featuring key voices from across the DeFi landscape during ETHDenver on February 17th, 2026.
Who should come
DeFi founders and builders
Funds and investors active in DeFi
Ecosystem operators, researchers, and partners shaping the future of decentralized finance
What to expect: A dynamic panel conversation with different actors from the DeFi world sharing insights on the current state of the ecosystem, emerging trends, and what's next. More details on speakers and topics coming soon.
Details:
📅 Date: February 17th, 2026
🕒 Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm 📍
Venue: Register to see the details
🚀 Full agenda & panelists
Kevin Wang (GP @ 57Blocks Capital) - Moderator
Ada Vaughan - Senior Director of DeFi Partnerships, Stellar Development Foundation
Finn Veje - Director, BD & Partnerships, Rain
Chase Merlin - Senior Product Manager, Brale
Momin Ahmad - Co-founder, Credit Coop
57Blocks is a Web3-native strategic engineering partner based in San Francisco. Since 2018, our global team of over 250 engineers, product managers, and designers has helped everyone from Seed-stage startups to established Series X+ & enterprises (Paxos, Rain, Huma) design, build, and scale high-quality Web3 products. With deep expertise in DeFi, L1/L2 infrastructure, AI-integrated agents, and non-EVM chains like Stellar, Solana, and Canton, we are a Trusted Service Provider for the Stellar chain.
Rain is a stablecoin-native payments and card issuance infrastructure platform that helps enterprises, fintechs, and platforms launch compliant global payment programs without relying on legacy rails. As a Visa Principal Member, Rain enables partners to move, store, and spend stablecoins through cards accepted anywhere Visa is used, powering millions of purchases across 150+ countries. Its modular APIs cover core building blocks like card issuing, wallets/digital dollar accounts, on/off-ramps, rewards, and cross-border “money-in/money-out” rails - designed to help teams launch in weeks and scale globally.
Credit Coop is an onchain structured finance private credit protocol that helps businesses finance growth using future cash flows as leverageable assets - unlocking capital without dilution. The platform uses smart contracts to structure credit facilities that can combine traditional collateral with onchain/offchain cash-flow data, aiming to make business credit faster, more transparent, and more programmable. Credit Coop positions itself around “finance growth with future cash flows,” offering a lender/borrower marketplace experience via its app and protocol docs.