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. Event Website: bass.blockchainbuilders.fund Event Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/LvuPyii4GM4 Join the BASS Official Telegram for announcements and updates: https://t.me/+3e6vACGOyYs5NGVh 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, Founder, CEO & Managing Partner, 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 Carl Jiang, Institutions and Protocols, Anchorage Digital Chris Ahn, Partner, Haun Ventures Julian Love, Managing Principal, Franklin Crypto VC Daniel Marin, Co-Founder & CEO, Nexus Carter Feldman, Founder & CEO, Psy Protocol Alex Lee, Co-Founder, TrueNorth Helena Zhang, Co-Founder, ICME Nathan Ezawa, Co-Founder, Vishwa Mark Kligman, Director of BD & Partnerships, Auros Capital Pei Chen, CEO, Theoriq Pete Stevenson, Founder, PAX Markets Stark, Aster and more coming! Thanks to our sponsors: TRON DAO, 0G, Halliday, 1inch, American Fortress, Cambrian, ChainOpera, ICME, PrismaX, Cap, Psy, TrueNorth, Vishwa, Mantle, and PAX Markets.