J.C. has 15 years of experience building startups, as an investor, as an advisor, and as an entrepreneur. He’s helped launch and advise companies across many different technology verticals including healthcare, IoT, additive manufacturing, telecommunications and advanced materials. He is excited about the increasing scalability of Web3 technologies and how they can contribute to more decentralized societies, economies and organizations.

Oleksandr Tatura has been driving innovation in information technology for over 30 years, reshaping industries with transformative solutions.

In 2006, he co-founded SAPRAN, a leading company in SAP solution implementation, helping businesses optimize operations. By 2017, he founded Eigenmethod, achieving SAP Gold Partner status and global recognition for advanced enterprise solutions.

In 2022, Oleksandr launched Rentality, the first onchain car rental platform revolutionizing the industry with blockchain technology. As CEO, he is redefining car rentals by eliminating intermediaries and offering seamless, transparent solutions. His career exemplifies vision, resilience, and dedication to transforming industries through technology.

Brian Klein is a partner at the Los Angeles-based litigation boutique Waymaker and a former federal prosecutor with one of the nation’s leading cryptocurrency litigation practices. He has been representing clients in the industry since 2013 and has handled dozens upon dozens of DOJ, SEC and CFTC matters around the country, including currently defending Roman Storm against federal criminal charges related to his alleged involvement with the Tornado Cash protocol and Kraken against the SEC’s charges that it is an unregistered exchange, broker-dealer, and clearing house.

Theodore has been innovating in the technology sector since 1998, founding a number of IT and technology startups, subsequently entering the blockchain industry in 2012.

In 2021 he started his work at Gunzilla Games expanding his expertise into the video game industry.
He envisions a future where gamers own all their assets and can monetize their playing time more democratically.

Theodore has always been fascinated with video games, tracing back to the golden age of Atari and Commodore 64. Nowadays, he plays Off the Grid, Diablo, Elden Ring and Ghosts of Tsushima.

Amy Wong is Managing Partner of Oasis Labs, a leading Web3 labs deeply involved in research, development and investment in the crypto world. Before joining Oasis Labs, Amy had been working as an Investment Banking VP and Assets Management Partner. Amy Wong’s Blockchain involvement started with primary investment and crypto investment in 2017. Under the leadership of Amy Wong, Oasis Labs has become a leader in Venture Capital field, Incubator. Furthermore, Oasis Labs has established a ton of active communities throughout Southeast Asia. Amy Wong is open-mind and flexible leader who is willing to talk to all potential partners.

William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency-related investments and co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and most traded cryptocurrency to date, GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor, and co-founded WAX, a leading NFT blockchain platform. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip and Circle.

Prior to his involvement in blockchain, Mr. Quigley was a venture capitalist, co-founding Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, Quigley was a managing director at idealab! Capital Partners (ICP), the world’s first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com and Goto.com, one of the first companies to rank search results based on a bidding process.

Maja Vujinovic is an investor and operator, specializing in blockchain, AI, and digital payments. In 2005, Vujinovic pioneered mobile payments, developing assets worth over $700M across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Recognizing Bitcoin’s potential in 2010, she became a leader in digital assets, facilitating Tether’s first bank acquisition in 2013. As CIO of Emerging Technologies at General Electric (2013), Vujinovic spearheaded global blockchain initiatives. She introduced Ethereum, and other platforms across various sectors, developed GE’s first “blockchain-as-a-service” platform, and uncovered $5 billion in trapped cash through automation. Notably, she catalyzed the first trade-finance blockchain deal between JP Morgan and GE. Currently, Vujinovic’s company, OGroup, partners with $4B in family offices, guiding investments in crypto and AI. OGroup invests in and operates over 45 companies and funds, assisting corporates, governments, and startups with digital transformation and scaling. Vujinovic serves on several boards, including Catalan.ai, Republic Crypto, Civic, and Longevity Science Foundation. A respected voice in emerging technologies, she has spoken at prestigious forums such as the World Economic Forum, FII Institute, Consensus, Financial Times, Abundance360 etc.

Jeffrey is the Head of Product at FinTax, with extensive experience in tax compliance systems and a strong background from Big Four firms. Focused on North American markets, he has successfully led multiple implementations for Web3 enterprises, offering deep insights into their unique compliance and operational needs.

Tatiana Koffman is a seasoned investor with over a decade of experience spanning investment banking, derivatives, venture capital, and digital assets. She’s widely recognized for her finance and technology expertise, frequently sharing her insights in prominent publications like Forbes, CoinDesk, CNBC, the Economist, Business Insider, and TechCrunch.

Koffman leads investment firm Moonwalker Capital, is the author of the popular financial newsletter MythOfMoney.com, and is set to publish a book with Wiley Publishing in 2024.

She holds a JD/MBA from York University and is a member of the New York State Bar. Koffman started her career in derivatives trading at TD Bank in Toronto. Previously, Koffman wrote a popular Forbes column and managed Venture Capital investments for Grammy-award-winning artists such as the Chainsmokers and Linkin Park in Los Angeles.

Additionally, Koffman contributes to academia as a visiting lecturer on blockchain at UCLA and Pepperdine. Her work has been academically cited at prestigious institutions including UCLA, Oxford, Sorbonne University, and in the Michigan Law Review.

Sven has been involved in crypto currencies since 2013 when he discovered he could use Bitcoin as a faster and cheaper way to transfer money to China where he lived as an expat at the time managing the subsidiary of a public US software company. He ran a popular regular Bitcoin meetup in Shanghai and in 2017, he became involved in Dash. Since 2021, he is a supervisor of the Dash Investment Foundation, an angel investment fund which makes equity investments in startups that support the Dash ecosystem.

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Bitcoin Opportunity Fund. 20+ years as an Investor. Prior to that was an Investment Banker in NYC

Rick Latona has been in the internet business since the early 1990s. He has pioneered the domain name and hosting industries and today is the 800lb gorilla in the domain space via his company GiantPanda.com. He’s been able to parlay his data on trending domains into being early in everything trending. That’s why he was early into crypto and that’s why he was early into artificial intelligence. He even got ChatGPT.com before OpenAI did!

As a web1, web2 and web3 entrepreneur, he’s using his contacts and experience in his role as the CEO of WOW!? With a mission to build the world’s greatest AI entertainment company.

Alex Kosloff is Head of Sales at Altura, helping game developers integrate Web3 tools to scale and monetize their games. As a BGA board member and advisor to games and projects, Alex is dedicated to advancing blockchain gaming through innovation and collaboration.

Evan Feng is a Partner on the CoinFund Investment team, where he also serves as the Director of Research. Evan started his finance career at Barclays, completing the 2-year investment banking analyst program before graduating to fundamental long/short equities investing roles at Citadel, and later Point72, where he covered stocks in the tech, media and telecom sector. In his spare time, Evan enjoys spending time with family, gaming on all platforms, outdoor precision sports, and binging nonfiction books on Audible. Evan grew up around Boston, Massachusetts before heading off to New York University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting and a minor in Philosophy.

Giga Zukhubaia is an accomplished professional with wealth of experience spanning the financial services sector. His dynamic career began as Financial Analyst in Asia, where he honed his skills in financial markets and developed a keen understanding of global economic trends. Giga also delved into Carbon Credit Research, contributing to sustainable finance initiatives. In the US, Giga joined a leading valuations team specialized in credit analytics and bank M&A. He also completed his graduate studies at the Columbia University. Additionally, Giga’s research has been featured in the Emerald Handbook on Cryptoassets. Currently, Giga serves as the CFO of Nordom, where he leverages his diverse background to drive financial strategy and innovation in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

Jake Brukhman is CEO and Founder at CoinFund, among the world’s first cryptonative investment firms. Born to two computer scientists, Jake learned how to code at the age of fourteen and achieved degrees in mathematics and computer science. Jake has expressed his passion for cutting edge, frontier technologies by being an early visionary advocate for decentralization and blockchain. At CoinFund, he’s made exciting investments in blockchain scalability and interoperability, DeFi, NFT infrastructure, zero knowledge proofs, and the intersection of web3 x AI.

Jake spent the prior 10 years of his career in pure and financial technology, serving as Partner & CTO at Triton Research, a technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and financial technologist at Highbridge Capital Management. He studied mathematics and computer science at the Rutgers College Honors Program, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and University College London.

Yanislav Malahov, widely recognized as “The Godfather of Ethereum,” is a pioneer in blockchain and computer software innovation. As an early contributor to the foundational ideas behind smart contracts, he has been instrumental in shaping the decentralized future of the Blockchain Industry.

Yanislav is the founder of æternity blockchain, the creator of CryptoCastle.org, SuperheroWallet.com, and co-founder of projects such as DarkWallet and House of Blockchain in Liechtenstein.

With a Forbes 30 Under 30 award in 2018 and a background in Computer Science, Economics, and IT-Systems Engineering from Ludwig-Maximilians-University and Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Yanislav continues to push the boundaries of blockchain innovation, inspiring developers and businesses worldwide.

Peymon Mottahedeh is a Jewish-born Iranian immigrant who created Freedom Law School in 1996, focusing on helping Americans legally stop paying federal income and payroll taxes. For over 30 years, Peymon has not filed or paid income taxes, successfully teaching others to do the same. Despite this, the IRS has never been able to prosecute him. He has won legal battles against the IRS in various forums, including IRS Appeals, U.S. Tax Court, and Federal District Court, and has helped his students eliminate millions in unlawfully assessed taxes.

Through his guidance, his students have been completely tax free while avoiding IRS problems such as prison time, wage garnishments, or property seizures. Peymon teaches that taxes most Americans are deceived to pay income taxes that according to official government legal websites, they were never legally owed. He uses legal and practical strategies that ensure you financial independence from the deception of the U.S. government tax slavery system.

For over 30 years Peymon Mottahedeh has shown people the lawful path to legally stop paying income, payroll and corporate taxes. His students have experienced complete success in protecting their assets with a 100% guarantee.

William Wang is the CEO of Cryptic Labs (RNS.ID), leading the Palau Digital Residency Program. He advises at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Harvard Blockchain Club, and previously at Stanford DTI. William pioneers secure digital identity solutions, driving innovation in the global identity space

Michael Terpin is founder and CEO of Transform Ventures, a leading blockchain advisory and venture studio since 2013, working with hundreds of crypto projects in their earliest stages, including Augur, Bancor, Ethereum, Gnosis, Mastercoin, Neo, Tether and WAX. Current projects include Brett, Core DAO, and Shiba Inu. CNBC called Terpin “the godfather of crypto” for his long history of launching and advising iconic crypto projects. His first book, Bitcoin Supercycle, is being published by Skyhorse Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster in November 2024.

Terpin also co-founded BitAngels, the world’s first angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, which has expanded to 25 city chapters. His venture studio incubated Blockchain Wire and blockchain-based sustainability platform, OpenCarbon. A prolific angel investor, he is also a general partner at digital asset fund managers Alpha Transform Holdings and Tradecraft Capital; senior advisor and LP at Alphabit Fund and LP at four other crypto funds. He also co-founded and profitably exited the Dapps Fund, one of the first cryptocurrency venture funds, in March 2014.

Terpin is a frequent speaker at leading conferences, including 1640 Society, Benzinga, Bitcoin 2022, 2023 and 2024, Campden Family Office, CES (six-time featured speaker on blockchain), Consensus, Family Office Club, NFT NYC, Opal Family Office, Venture Cayman, and many others. Previously, Terpin founded Marketwire (now Globe Newswire), one of the world’s largest company newswires, which was acquired in 2006, later sold to NASDAQ for $200 million, and ultimately to Intrado Digital Media, a division of Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO). Terpin previously founded and sold The Terpin Group, which represented many of the early Internet leaders, including America Online, Earthlink, Match.com and the Motley Fool. The firm is now part of FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN). Terpin holds an MFA from SUNY at Buffalo and dual BA in journalism and English from Syracuse University, where he serves on the board of advisors.

Terpin lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he received the first Act 22 tax decree granted to a blockchain industry investor and has widely been credited with being the father of the Puerto Rico blockchain movement. He also co-founded the Caribbean Blockchain Association with industry leaders Gabriel Abed and Roger Ver.

Thomas Voegtlin is a computer scientist, neuroscientist, and creator of the Electrum Bitcoin wallet.

Thomas served for 10 years as a research scientist at INRIA. Fascinated by decentralized systems, he researched learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks. Thomas created the Electrum Bitcoin wallet in 2011, after a custodian wallet hack crashed the early Bitcoin ecosystem.

Greg is the host of the “Transform” podcast, where he engages in discussions with prominent figures about the ongoing transformation markets and people and is also the Managing Partner at Humla Ventures, a specialized alternative asset manager investing in the transformation of financial markets through venture capital and secondary investments.

Greg helps world class entrepreneurs and CEOs grow their startups competitively with capital and mentoring. He has spent his life working with people trying to improve the future. Greg has a decade as a tech founder, a decade of investment banking and strategy, and is closing out his decade of venture capital.

He is a frequent contributor, lecturer and speaker on podcasts and events about Bitcoin and digital assets, negotiation technique and growth. He has spoken on these subjects at several global conferences including Consensus Invest, the Crypto Finance Conference, Davos, Bitcoin 2021-2024, AIMA, Carmo conferences, SuperReturn series and even at his Alma Mater, the Wharton school of business.

Greg is a dedicated father, digital asset futurist, snowboarder, sportsman, reader/writer, and tai chi practitioner.

A Bitcoin journalist since 2013, Pete Rizzo is Editor at Bitcoin Magazine and Editor-at-Large at the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. I conduct archival research on Bitcoin’s history, working to highlight and identify the people and events that most impacted its development. I am best known as founding Editor-in-Chief for CoinDesk, where I served as Editor in Chief from 2014 to 2019.

Luke Stokes is the Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability. He’s passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He’s been a consensus witness for the Steem blockchain since early 2018, a custodian for eosDAC (a community-owned EOSIO Block Producer and DAC Enabler) since its inception, and is both a crypto evangelist for Roundtable Media and a founding member of the Waterfall EVM Dag team. With a computer science degree from UPENN, he built, bootstrapped and co-founded the shopping cart software company FoxyCart over a ten year period and is now focused on blockchain technology as a means to create a world we all want to live in. He currently lives in Puerto Rico with his wife and three children and enjoys discussing everything from philosophy, to consciousness, to voluntaryism, to love and awakening.

Nick Spanos is a pioneer in the bitcoin and blockchain technology space. In 2013, Spanos founded Bitcoin Center NYC — the world’s first-ever cryptocurrency trading floor, which initially opened directly across from the NYSE in 2013. Spanos is also CEO of Blockchain Technologies Corp., which patented VoteWatcher, the first-ever blockchain voting platform. He is a co-founder of Zap.org, which solves one of the biggest challenges for blockchain smart contracts, by allowing real-world data and events to trigger smart contract provisions for the first time. Spanos was featured in the recent documentary, Banking on Bitcoin, and is a sought-after speaker at blockchain events worldwide.

Craig Sellars has led the development of several global blockchain innovations.

He is the inventor of the stablecoin, the digital US dollar on top of the Bitcoin blockchain as a founder of Tether, the world’s most broadly traded cryptocurrency; the NFT with Eric Pulier in 2015 at vAtomic Systems; and, as the Chief Technologist of Bitcoin’s Omni Layer, a protocol which supports the creation, movement and exchange of digital assets.

Andrew “Drew” Hinkes focuses his practice on digital assets, advising financial services clients from startups to multinational corporations on a wide range of matters including securities regulation, payment systems and money services business regulation, lending and staking, secured transactions including digital assets as collateral, structuring and governance of DeFi protocols and similar applications, anti-money laundering compliance, non-fungible tokens, stablecoins and other related technologies.

Harry Yeh is the Managing Director of Quantum Fintech Group (QFG). QFG is an investment management company focused on providing superior returns for its clients and partners in the cryptocurrency, blockchain and digital asset space. ‍ While operating Quantum Fintech Group, Harry Yeh founded and was a seed investor in LIF3 and L3 Reserve. LIF3 is a Layer-1, permissioned blockchain and DeFi ecosystem, and L3 Reserve is the issuer of L3USD, the first Variable Collateralized Stable Asset (VCS). As a fund manager, the funds and AUM managed by Harry, QFG and his partners exceeded $2B USD. ‍ As a former CTO and Co-Founder for several startups, Harry Yeh additionally has an engineering background and over 25 years of experience in Technology and Business – this has contributed to his success as a renowned Web3 advisor and serial entrepreneur who has managed and developed technology solutions for organizations between $5 to 200 Million in revenue and worked at Fortune 50, 100, 500 companies, Hedge funds, Internet Startups and dotcoms. Harry further has years of experience trading stocks, options and currencies.

Chris specialises in investment funds, corporate and commercial, insurance, banking, fintech, regulatory and compliance. Practice Experience Chris Humphries is the Managing Director of Stuarts and head of the specialist investment funds team. He is a leading individual in his field and is recognised as one of the top leading lawyers in the country for investment funds by Legal 500. Chris has been ranked as a Leading Lawyer in Investment Funds, Fintech, and Corporate and Commercial by Chambers and Partners for many years, and has earned recognition as a Highly Regarded lawyer by IFLR1000 in Investment Funds and Corporate practice areas. With over 25 years experience, Chris has acquired extensive and unique knowledge in the investment funds industry and has registered close to 1,000 funds in the Cayman Islands. There are few attorneys with the breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise that Chris has acquired. Chris joined in 2004 as one of the founding directors, from the London office of Kendall Freeman (now Locke Lord LLP), where he specialised in the financial services industry and regulatory related matters. Although Chris was born a British citizen, he has also gained the privilege of Cayman citizenship over the last 20 years. Chris is a highly experienced independent director and has sat on the board of many registered funds, private equity funds and investment vehicles. He routinely advises on regulatory and compliance issues involving funds, investment managers and fund administrators. He routinely advises on the strategic restructuring of funds, redemption restrictions as well as the use of side pockets or special purpose vehicles for illiquid assets and investor communications and disputes. Chris establishes investment managers and fund administrators in the Cayman Islands and advises on their respective regulatory regimes. He has extensive experience in all types of fund structures including master-feeder and fund of fund structures as well as the establishment of complex fund platforms using exempted companies and/or partnerships and the use of segregated portfolio companies. Chris advises on the use of side letters as well as other class rights related issues. As listing agent to the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (“CSX”) Chris has listed many investment funds on the CSX. Chris chairs the digital, blockchain and fintech working group and advises funds focusing on blockchain technology, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency strategies; and has a wide range of experience with corporate and commercial transactions for private and listed clients, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, commercial agreements and insurance securitisations.

Vladislav Ginzburg is the Chief Executive Officer at Blockparty. Ginzburg leads Blockparty and the mission to build a blockchain-agnostic platform for collectible NFTs at the intersection of art, music and culture. Blockparty launched their MVP In August 2020 with a number of mainstream oriented drops, including first digital artworks by 3lau/Slime Sunday, Adventure Club, Dave Krugman and others. Earlier, Ginzburg was Chief Business Development officer at Blockparty Tickets where he introduced blockchain as an NFT powered ticketing system to music festivals and professional sports teams, including a partnership with the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. Before entering the Blockchain and entertainment spaces, Ginzburg managed a fine art fund where he transacted more than $150 million in blue chip artworks. Ginzburg studied at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as well as The New School in New York.

Alonso De Gortari is currently a Product Manager for Economics at Mysten Labs. Prior to this, they worked as a Research Scientist at Novi (formerly Calibra) from January 2020 to February 2022. There, they worked on the synergies between the Diem (formerly Libra) stablecoin and payments, blockchain technology, smart contracts, Bitcoin, Ethereum, decentralized finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Alonso also helped chart Diem’s design in terms of its macroeconomic and financial inclusion goals. From July 2019 to December 2019, Alonso was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. And from September 2018 to June 2019, they were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Prior to that, they co-taught courses in International Macroeconomics and Globalization at Harvard University from September 2013 to May 2018. Alonso began their career as a Research Analyst at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from April 2012 to June 2013. Alonso De Gortari’s educational career consists of a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Economics from Harvard University, a Master of Arts – MA in Economics from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Alonso De Gortari works with and Bauer Wann – Product Manager. Their manager is Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer.

Mate is an entrepreneur at heart. He first heard about bitcoin in late 2012 and started to do bitcoin mining in mid-2013 with custom-built ASIC miners. In 2013 he founded a cryptocurrency media company called Bitcoinist.com. After a successful exit in 2015, Mate met Roger Ver and Co-founded Bitcoin.com. Mate focuses on a broader vision and communicating that vision to others while staying on top of industry trends. His passion outside of the crypto industry is watching. He has been a watch enthusiast for 20 years. His favorite brands are Patek and AP. Currently, he is the CEO of a Dubai-based media company called MetaNews.com.

Eric Galen is a seasoned lawyer and executive specializing in AI, blockchain, and Web3. With over two decades of experience, he is the COO at RFLXT (a Cardano-funded AI/web3 platform) and a Director at the VGX Foundation. His previous clients and collaborators include TikTok, Doodles, Yeezy, Microsoft, Conde Nast, Complexity Gaming, Orange, Gamesquare Esports, Will.i.am, Imagine Entertainment, Johnny Depp, Techstars, and many others. Eric’s unique experience at the convergence of media and technology positions him as a key figure in the emerging AI and Web3 landscapes.

In July 2017, Joel and Martech leader Travis Wright went down the rabbit hole of blockchain technology. They took their excitement and channeled it into the creation of The Bad Crypto Podcast. The show, heard in 180 countries around in the world, is one of the top crypto-related shows in the world. With over 400,000 downloads / month, the show provides an informative and entertaining take on the Blockchain revolution that is changing the world. Joel gives keynotes and participates on panels on the subject.

Travis Wright: Visionary Marketing Technologist, Strategic Brand Innovator, Advisor, and Digital Futurist At the intersection of marketing and technology, I stand as a catalyst for digital transformation. With over 25 years of experience, I am recognized as a leading voice in blockchain, Web3, NFTs, and digital marketing. My journey includes spearheading global digital strategies for Norton at Symantec, where I mastered over 500 marketing technologies, laying the groundwork for businesses to build robust MarTech stacks. As the author of ‘Digital Sense’ and co-host of the influential Bad Crypto Podcast and The Web3 Show, I have demystified cryptocurrency and blockchain technology for a global audience. My expertise in creating and minting 1.5 million NFTs on WAX, coupled with a seat on the Wax Advisory Board, along with advising prestigious Animoca Brands, positions me at the forefront of digital asset innovation. My role extends beyond thought leadership to hands-on strategy and consultancy, guiding enterprises and startups in digital marketing, social selling, and customer experience enhancement. Renowned for delivering over 160 international keynote presentations, my insights on cutting-edge technology and market strategies resonate with a diverse audience. I am driven by a passion for solving complex marketing challenges, aptly earning the moniker ‘shit-figure-outer.’ My goal is to continue shaping the future of digital marketing and technology, empowering businesses to embrace change and innovation.