DeFi for Institutions | Full Event
The DeFi Alliance and KPMG in partnership with The Block hosted a half day event exploring the intersection of DeFi and Institutions. This 4 hour event featured some of the world’s leading investors, builders, and regulators shaping the future of finance.
You can watch each segment and learn more about our panelists below.
About DeFi Alliance
The DeFi Alliance is the leading decentralized finance accelerator. We help startups source liquidity and support from a broad industry network — the DeFi Alliance Network — that includes trading firms, founders, and investors. Together, we will grow DeFi to one billion users by 2025.
About KPMG Cryptoasset Services
The KPMG Cryptoasset Services practice helps banks, fintechs, and other financial services institutions develop and optimize core capabilities to engage with the growing ecosystem of crypto customers. We leverage our KPMG Chain Fusion suite of accelerators to help our clients deliver institutional quality cryptoasset capabilities and services.
Leveraging leading technology and frameworks, our services are designed to help clients accelerate trusted adoption of core crypto asset capabilities through a consistent data architecture that supports seamless business engagement across protocols.”
Keynote: The DeFi Opportunity
Featuring: Jim Bianco - President, Bianco Research
The Future of Stablecoins
Featuring:
Rune Christensen - Founder, MakerDAO
Matthew Cantieri - General Manager, Terraform Labs
Robert Bench - Applied Fintech Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Matt Werner - Associate Director, Product Management, Wallet, Gemini
The DeFi Stack Today & Tomorrow
Featuring:
Dan Robinson - Research Partner, Paradigm
Amir Bandeali - Co-CEO, 0x Labs
Sergey Nazarov - Co-Founder, Chainlink Labs
Zubin Koticha - CEO, Co-Founder, Opyn
Venture Landscape in DeFi
Featuring:
Mable Jiang - Partner, Multicoin Capital
Santiago R. Santos - Partner, ParaFi Capital
Michael Anderson - Co-Founder, Framework Ventures
Haseeb Qureshi - Managing Partner, Dragonfly Capital
Meltem Demirors - CSO, CoinShares
Intermediaries in DeFi: Institutional Market Making and Liquidity Provisioning
Featuring:
Frank Chaparro - Director of News, The Block
Jake Dwyer - Head of DeFi, GSR
Evgeny Gaevoy - Founder & CEO, Wintermute
Brad Koeppen - Head of Trading & Business Development, CMT Digital
Ricky Li - Co-founder, Altonomy
Peter Johnson - Partner, Jump Capital
Intermediaries in DeFi: Data, Infrastructure, & Insurance
Featuring:
Aya Kantorovich - Head of Institutional Coverage, Falcon X
Alex Svanevik - CEO, Nansen
Eva Beylin - Director, The Graph Foundation
Esteban Castano - Co-founder & CEO, TRM
Michael Shaulov - CEO, Co-founder, Fireblocks
Governance: A fireside chat
Featuring:
Angela Walch - Professor of Law, St Mary's University School of Law
Gabriel Shapiro - General Counsel, Delphi Labs
Aave product Reveal - A look at Aave's institutionally focused product, ARC
Featuring:
Ajit Tripathi - Head of Institutional Business, Aave
Fireside Chat with Jan Van Eck - Emerging Opportunities
Featuring:
Jan Van Eck - CEO, VanEck
Imran Khan - Lead, DeFi Alliance
Sizing The DeFi Market Opportunities for Institutions
Featuring:
Patrick O'Kain - Manager, Cryptoasset Services, KPMG
Jeff Dorman - CIO, Arca
Noelle Acheson - Head of Market Insights, Genesis
Ben Reynolds - CSO, Silvergate
Christine Sandler - Head of Marketing and Sales, Fidelity Digital Assets
Regulations and DeFi: Where are We Today? Tomorrow?
Featuring:
Jake Chervinsky - General Counsel, Compound Labs
Marc Boiron - General Counsel, dYdX
Mike Frisch - Government Litigation and Investigations, Croke Fairchild Morgan & Beres
Colleen Sullivan - Co-founder, CEO CMT Digital
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