SPEAKERS

The DC Blockchain Summit 2026 brings together a lineup of world-class speakers who are shaping the future of blockchain technology and digital assets. From industry pioneers to influential policymakers, these thought leaders inspire the next wave of blockchain and digital asset innovation.

2026 Speakers

  • Paul Atkins

    Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Hester M. Peirce

    Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Michael Selig

    Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

  • Gov. Wes Moore

    (D-MD)

  • Sen. Angela Alsobrooks

    (D-MD)

  • Sen. Katie Britt

    (R-AL)

  • Sen. Ted Budd

    (R-NC)

  • Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

    (D-NY)

  • Sen. Steve Daines

    (R-MT)

  • Sen. Bill Hagerty

    (R-TN)

  • Sen. Jon Husted

    (R-OH)

  • Sen. Cynthia Lummis

    (R-WY)

  • Sen. Bernie Moreno

    (R-OH)

  • Sen. Tim Scott

    Chairman, U.S Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, (R-SC)

  • Majority Whip Tom Emmer

    (R-MN)

  • Rep. Nick Begich

    (R-AK)

  • Rep. Nikki Budzinski

    (D-IL)

  • Rep. Janelle Bynum

    (D-OR)

  • Rep. Buddy Carter

    (R-GA)

  • Rep. Don Davis

    (D-NC)

  • Rep. Monica De La Cruz

    (R-TX)

  • Rep. Warren Davidson

    (R-OH)

  • Rep. Byron Donalds

    (R-FL)

  • Rep. Troy Downing

    (R-MT)

  • Rep. Vince Fong

    (R-CA)

  • Rep. Mike Flood

    (R-NE)

  • Rep. Harriet Hageman

    (R-WY)

  • Rep. Pat Harrigan

    (R-NC)

  • Rep. Steven Horsford

    Rep. Steven Horsford

    (D-NV)

  • Rep. Dusty Johnson

    (R-SD)

  • Rep. Young Kim

    (R-CA)

  • Rep. Sam Liccardo

    (D-CA)

  • Rep. Ryan Mackenzie

    (R-PA)

  • Rep. Max Miller

    (R-OH)

  • Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet

    (D-MI)

  • Rep. Barry Moore

    (R-AL)

  • Rep. Bryan Steil

    (R-WI)

  • Rep. Haley Stevens

    (D-MI)

  • Rep. Shri Thanedar

    (D-MN)

  • Rep. William Timmons

    (R-SC)

  • Rep. GT Thompson

    (R-PA)

  • Rep. Suhas Subramanyam

    (D-VA)

  • Jonathan Brightbill

    Jonathan Brightbill

    General Counsel, U.S. Department of Energy

  • Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer

    Department of Labor

  • Jonathan V. Gould

    Comptroller of the Currency, OCC

  • Bill Guidera

    Deputy Assistant Secretary, ITA

  • Travis Hill

    Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Patrick Witt

    Executive Director, President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets

  • Tyler Williams

    Counselor, US Department of Treasury

  • Prof. Pierre Yared

    Acting Chair of the Council, Economic Advisers

  • Sen. Darius Brown

    (D-DE)

  • Sen. Ron L. Watson

    (D-MD)

  • Rep. Keith Ammon

    (R-NH)

  • E. David Burt

    Premier of Bermuda

  • Trevor Bacon

    Founder and CEO, Parcl

  • Connor Brown

    Managing Director of Strategy, Bitcoin Policy Institute

  • Lisa Cameron

    Founder, UK-US Crypto Alliance | Former Chair UK Crypto APPG (ex-MP)

  • Ethan Chan

    CEO and Co-Founder, Allium

  • Jake Chervinsky

    Chief Executive Officer, Hyperliquid Policy Center

  • Avery Ching

    Co-Founder and CEO, Aptos Labs

  • Alex Gluckowski

    Co-Founder and CEO, Matter Labs | Co-Inventor, ZKsync

  • Marcin Kazmierczak

    CEO and Co-founder, RedStone

  • Jeremy Levine

    Founder and CEO, Underdog

  • The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig

    Founder and CEO, Cari Network

  • Paul Neuner

    Founder and CEO, Telcoin

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    Chris Pavlovski

    Founder and CEO, Rumble Inc.

  • Chas Rampenthal

    Chief Legal Officer and Co-Founder, Dinari

  • Nikhil Raghuveera

    Co-Founder and CEO, Predicate

  • Timm Reinsdorf

    Co-Founder and CEO, Particula

  • Matthew Roszak

    Chairman and Co-founder, Bloq

  • Justin Sun

    Founder, TRON

  • Alex Tapscott

    Founding Partner and CEO, CMCC Global Capital Markets

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    Richard Teng

    Co-CEO, Binance

  • Fred Thiel

    Chairman and CEO, MARA

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    Daniel Vogel

    Co-Founder and CEO, Bitso

  • Ben Weiss

    Co-founder and CEO, Coinflip

  • Miller Whitehouse-Levine

    Founder and CEO, Solana Policy Institute

  • RAGHU YARLAGADDA

    CEO and Co-Founder, FalconX

  • Jihan Wu

    CEO, Bitdeer

  • Sarah Aberg

    CLO, Helium

  • Virginia Alvarez

    Head of Content Americas, Money20/20

  • Wasim Ahmad

    Co-Founder, Vault12

  • Rachel Anderika

    Head of Global Operations, Bank COO, Anchorage

  • Hinza Asif

    President, Asia Web3 Alliance Japan

  • Anthony Apollo

    Executive Director, Wyoming Stable Token Commission

  • Chen Arad

    Co-Founder & CXO, Solidus Labs

  • Taylor Barr

    Director of Government Affairs, The Digital Chamber

  • Kevin Batteh

    Partner, Delta Strategy Group

  • Sebastian Bea

    CIO, ReserveOne

  • Jean-Philippe Beaudet

    Policy Associate, National Security, The Digital Chamber

  • Elizabeth Boison

    Partner, Chapman and Cutler

  • Perianne Boring

    Chair of the Board of Directors , The Digital Chamber

  • Jayson Browder

    SVP, Government Affairs and Social Responsibility, MARA

  • Cody Carbone

    CEO, The Digital Chamber

  • Frank Chaparro

    Head of Content & Special Projects, GSR

  • Raja Chakravorti

    Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation

  • James Cheng

    CFO, Canaan

  • Greg Collett

    General Counsel, Osprey Funds

  • Anastasia Dellaccio

    Executive Director of State and Regional Affairs, The Digital Chamber

  • Sahana Dharmapuri

    Vice President, Our Secure Future

  • Alexandre Dreyfus

    CEO and Founder, Chiliz

  • Elizabeth Duchek

    Associate Director of Gov. Relations, Bitdeer

  • Aaron Dimitri

    General Counsel - Digital Assets, Flow Traders

  • Samson A. Enzer

    Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT

  • Stephen Gardner

    Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, zerohash

  • Gerald Gallagher

    General Counsel, Sei Labs

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    Chris Giancarlo

    Former Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission  

  • Teresa Goody Guillén

    Partner, Baker Hostetler LLP

  • Joaquin Gubb

    VP of Capital Markets Legal, Crypto.com

  • Dr. Darko Hajdukovic

    Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure, London Stock Exchange Group

    CEO, DMI Private Funds

  • Jason Jiang

    CBO, CertiK

  • Ben Jorgensen

    CEO, Constellation Network

  • Jolie Kahn

    CEO, AVAX One

  • Alex Konanykhin

    Founder and CEO, Unicoin

  • Alan Konevsky

    CEO, tZero

  • Rob Krugman

    Chief Digital Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions

  • Stani Kulechov

    Founder, Aave Labs

  • Sander Lutz

    White House Correspondent, Decrypt

  • William Mack

    Co-Chair, Financial Regulatory and Compliance Group, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

  • Rob Massey

    Partner | Global Tax Leader - Blockchain and Digital Assets, Deloitte Tax LLP

  • Zunera Mazhar

    Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs, The Digital Chamber

  • Jack McDonald

    SVP - Stablecoins, Ripple

  • Andrew McCormick

    Head of eToro US, eToro

  • Jelena McWilliams

    President of Corporate and External Affairs, Plaid

  • Chris Montagano

    Chief Legal Officer, Orca

  • Silvina Moschini

    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Unicoin

  • Eleanor Mueller

    White House Economic Policy Reporter, Semafor

  • Sonya Murphy

    Senior Policy Associate, Digital Power Network

  • Mina Nguyen

    Senior Advisor, FalconX

  • Amy Oldenburg

    Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Morgan Stanley

  • Larry Pang

    Head of BD, IoTeX

  • Josh Peschko

    Global Head of Compliance and Regulatory Strategy, Talos

  • Caroline Pham

    Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, Moonpay

  • Matt Prusak

    President, American Bitcoin

  • Dr. Chris Powell

    Chief Scientist and Fellow, SAIC

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    Lee Schneider

    General Counsel, Ava Labs, Inc.

  • Jonathan Schmalfeld

    Policy Director, The Digital Chamber

  • Ben Sherwin

    General Counsel, Chainlink

  • Sarah Shtylman

    Partner, Perkins Coie

  • Scarlett Sieber

    Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Money20/20

  • Hunter Sims

    Associate Director of Alternative Finance, Cambridge Center

  • Jamison Sites

    Principal, KPMG LLP

  • Jonathan Steinberg

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WisdomTree Investments

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    Daniel Stabile

    Partner & Co-Chair, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology Group, Winston & Strawn LLP

  • Mike Senich

    Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Voter Project

  • Dean Solovos

    Chief Legal Officer, B2C2

  • Glen Sussman

    CEO, Tassat

  • Ari Redbord

    Global Head of Policy, TRM Labs

  • Norman Reed

    Senior Advisor, Binance.US

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    Brandi Reynolds

    Chief Compliance Officer, World Liberty Financial

  • Nilmini Rubin

    CPO, Hedera

  • Jonathan Rufrano

    Policy Director, The Digital Chamber

  • Jeff Rundlet

    VP, Institutional Solutions, Cryptio

  • Paul Unterberg

    Chief Product Officer, Uphold

  • Ali Tager

    Vice President of Communications, National Cryptocurrency Association

  • Ian Taylor

    Board, Advisor, CRYPTO UK and Chief Operating Officer, HT DIGITAL 

  • Eleanor Terrett

    Co-Founder and Host, Crypto In America Podcast and Newsletter

  • Mari Tomunen

    General Counsel, DoubleZero

  • Amanda Tuminelli

    Executive Director & Chief Legal Officer, DeFi Education Fund

  • Anthony Vassallo

    Senior Vice President, Crypto, Silicon Valley Bank

  • Eric Vincent

    President, General Counsel and Partner, 50T Funds

  • Adrian Wall

    Senior Director of U.S. Policy, TRON DAO

  • Sarah Ward

    Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, Chainalysis

  • Sarah Wheeler

    Director, Marfire

  • Zach Whiting

    Manager, Public Policy, Riot Platforms

  • Zach Witkoff

    Co-Founder, World Liberty Financial

  • Sarah Wynn

    Reporter, The Block

  • Tom Zschach

    Chief Innovation Officer, SWIFT

  • Joseph Ziolkowski

    Founder and CEO, Relm Insurance

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