Proof Of Talk 2026
Welcome to Proof of Talk
Proof of Talk was built on a single observation: most conferences give you 25,000 people and a lanyard. Proof of Talk gives you the 2,500 people who have built in the space and want to scale their business with you.
Attendance is capped and curated. 85% of attendees are C-level executives or founders with the mandate to deploy capital, ship product, or shape policy in the next 12 months.
Expanding the vision of Davos and rejecting the standard conference format, it brings together the most influential leaders across digital finance, blockchain infrastructure, and institutional capital, under one roof, for 48 hours.
There is no expo floor, no booth maze, no side events to chase, just concentrated conversations in a space where, once again, the future is being negotiated.
The 95% CEO Standard
120 speakers. 95% are active CEOs, founders, or C-level executives. There is no buying a place on this stage. Every speaker is selected by the Content Council on a single criterion: are they operating at the frontier of this industry right now and can impact the next quarters?
Confirmed and previous speakers include Jenny Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton), Tom Lee (Chairman, Fundstrat), Stani Kulechov (Founder & CEO, Aave), Tom Zschach (CIO, Swift), Carlos Domingo (CEO, Securitize), Diogo Monica (Co-Founder, Anchorage Digital), Sandy Kaul (Franklin Templeton), Caroline Pham (CFTC), Barry Silbert, Cathie Wood, Sergey Nazarov, Joseph Lubin, and more than 100 others.
The agenda is built around five themes: Tokenisation of Finance (Stablecoins, RWAs, and DeFi), Investing in Digital Assets, Bitcoin, Privacy, Decentralised AI & Bittensor Track.
World-class Media House
The 2026 agenda was built by six of the most sourced journalists covering 14+ years of digital asset history. Ben Schiller, Christine Lee, Eleanor Terrett, Frank Chaparro, Michael Del Castillo, and Pete Rizzo. Between them, they have covered every market cycle, every regulatory shock, and every institutional breakthrough this industry has produced.
What happens on stage is captured and amplified in real time by the Podcast Power House: Kevin Follonier, Andy C, Amanda Cassatt, Marc Baumann, and Michaël van de Poppe, reaching millions of listeners globally within hours.
The numbers behind the 2025 edition speak for themselves: 600+ unique media stories. 30M+ clicks. 10+ languages covered. Global financial press from FT, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, and TechCrunch has made Proof of Talk an agenda-setting annual event. 100+ journalists on site.
Attend.
Seats are limited to 2,500. There is no waitlist, no second allocation, no exceptions.
If you are an executive, founder, or institutional allocator who needs to be where decisions are made in 2026, this is your room.
Host the Louvre.
Most sponsorships buy you a logo on a banner and a booth nobody visits. A typical industry roadshow takes 6 to 9 months to reach the same calibre of allocators, asset managers, founders, and policymakers that Proof of Talk puts in one building in two days.
The cost per qualified conversation, measured honestly against travel, time, and team bandwidth, is not comparable.
Your competition is also in this room. The question is who owns the conversation.
We limit the number of partners deliberately because the moment the room feels like a sponsor showcase, it stops being the room people come for.
If your goal is to be known, trusted, and in the room where 2026 deals are made, the conversation starts here.
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Proof of Pitch
If you are building one of the most promising startups in Web3, this is the room that can change your trajectory.
Proof of Pitch is the only competition in the industry that puts selected founders on the main stage at the Louvre Palace pitching live in front of a jury of Tier 1 investors including partners and decision-makers from Pantera, Dragonfly, Arrington Capital, CoinFund, Haun, Spartan, Borderless, Big Brain Holdings, Bittensor, and TAO Ventures.
Open to Web3 startups under 5 years old across four tracks: DeFi & Tokenization, DePIN, Decentralised AI, and Bittensor Subnets.
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