BASS SBC 2026

BASS is the in person focal point for Stanford's Blockchain Ecosystem, inviting the industry's foremost thought leaders at the intersection of AI, Finance, and Blockchain, as well as up and coming founders from the Stanford Ecosystem.
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Confirmed speakers to date include:
Darrell Duffie, Finance Professor at Stanford & Research Scholar at the Federal Reserve
Vibhu Norby, Chief Product Officer of Solana
Max Segall, COO of Privy (acquired by Stripe)
Gordon Liao, Chief Economist & Head of Research, Circle
Bhau Kotecha, Co-Founder & Head of Paxos Labs
Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto, Visa
Bruno Faviero, Head of Protocol & Institutional Sales, Kraken
Brian Baumann, Capital Markets at New York Stock Exchange
Nikil Viswanathan, Co-Founder & CEO, Alchemy
Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR
Keone Hon, Co-Founder & CEO of Monad
Ala Shaabana, Founder & CEO of Bittensor
Ben Fielding, Co-Founder & CEO of Gensyn
Matt White, CTO at the Linux Foundation and PyTorch Foundation
Ari Juels, Cornell Tech Professor & Chief Scientist at Chainlink
Noah Levine, Investment Partner, a16z
Tony Pecore, Head of Investment at Franklin Templeton
Nemil Dalal, Crypto Partner at Y Combinator
Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly
Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital
Jake Brukhman, Managing Partner at CoinFund
Davide Crapis, Head of AI, Ethereum Foundation
Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder & CEO, 0G
Holly Atkinson, Chief Product & Technology Officer, 1inch
Alexander Long, Founder & CEO, Pluralis
Salman Avestimehr, Co-Founder & CEO, ChainOpera
Griffin Dunaif, Founder & CEO, Halliday
Sam Green, Founder & CEO, Cambrian
Bayley Wang, Founder & CEO, PrismaX
Mehow Pospieszalski, CEO, American Fortress
Caio Sousa, Engineering Manager for Digital Assets, Nubank
Jaeyong Park, Head of Research, Cap Labs
Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson, TRON DAO
Jay Yu, Junior Partner, Pantera Capital
Ruizhe Jia, Professor, Stanford
Gil Rosen, Steven Willinger & Kun Peng, Founding Partners, Blockchain Builders Fund
and more coming!
Thanks to our sponsors: TRON DAO, Halliday, 1inch, American Fortress, Cambrian, ChainOpera, ICME, PrismaX, Cap, Psy, and 0G