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Brandon Kumar is Co-Founder at Layer3. Formerly, Vice President at Accolade Partners.

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Brandon Kumar

Balaji S. Srinivasan is co-founder of Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. Formerly the CTO at Coinbase.

Prior to the Coinbase acquisition, Balaji took over as CEO of Earn's predecessor to help turn that company around. Before that, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award and was named to the MIT TR35.

Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji S. Srinivasan

Ari Paul is the CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. Prior to his time in the crypto space, Paul was a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's endowment, as well as a derivatives trader. He is interviewed about his views on crypto regularly by publications like BusinessInsider and Forbes.

Ari Paul

The Digital Assets Management Platform is a new and unique technical service. Invest in leading cryptocurrencies with euros or let the experts choose for you.

ICONOMI

Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, he is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technology and secure election systems.

David Chaum

Blockchain analysis, Our products are targeted at spotting connections between entities on the Bitcoin blockchain. We help Bitcoin businesses detect fraud and prevent money laundering, we help banks put in place adequate controls to bank Bitcoin businesses.

Chainalysis

Jihan Wu is Chairman at Bitdeer Technologies Holding Company, co-founder of Matrixport and Bitmain.

Jihan Wu

Entrepreneur, investor, and writer helping to build the bitcoin / digital currency ecosystem. Founder of Messari, and formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys, and founding team member at the industry's most active investor (Digital Currency Group) and largest media brand (CoinDesk). Working on new ventures and angel investing.

Ryan Selkis was the Managing Director at CoinDesk, a site providing the latest news, analysis, and insights in the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces. Prior to CoinDesk, Selkis was the Director of Growth for Digital Currency Group, an investment firm focused on the crypto space. He holds an MBA from MIT School of Business.

Ryan Selkis

Mao Shixing is Founder of F2Pool. F2Pool is a Chinese mining pool, also referred to as "Discus Fish". The pool opened on May 5, 2013. This name stems from the time before the pool had an English interface. At the time they were known only by their coinbase signature, which is Discus Fish, the nickname of one of the operators.

Discus Fish

Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and  Claremont McKenna College.

Brandon Kumar

Co-Founder at Layer3.

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