Global Leaders

Speakers

SmartCon brings together the world’s leading voices in finance, Web3, and government to share firsthand insights on how blockchain and onchain technologies are transforming industries, institutions, and the global economy—sparking critical conversations that chart the course of an onchain future.

Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co
Johannes Göttsch
Head of Strategy & Business Development, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Austin Arnold
Founder, Altcoin Daily
Aaron Arnold
Host/Founder, Altcoin Daily
Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking
Hyung Lee
CEO, B-Harvest
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays
Ben Sherwin
General Counsel, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Sam Fagin
Director, Payments, Polygon Labs
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Dr. Axel U. J. Lode
Head of Decentralized Finance, Blocksize
Kevin Zhang
Contributor, DFX
Zubin Pratap
DevRel Engineering Manager, Chainlink Labs
Kenneth Shek
Moca Network Lead, Animoca Brands
Frank Seibold
Global Head Banking & Cap Markets Sales, Chainlink Labs
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Jake Denny
Chief Commercial Officer, Pier Two
Sam Elfarra
Community Spokesperson, TRON DAO
Ryan Lovell
Director of Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Gregory Neven
Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs
Kostis Karantias
Research Engineer, Chainlink Labs
Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash
Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital
Spencer Yang
Managing Partner, BlockSpaceForce
Demetrios Skalkotos
Chief DeFi and Protocols Officer, Blockdaemon
Omar Azhar
VP of Business Development, Matter Labs
Arthur
CTO, Swapper Finance
Luke Leasure
Senior Research Analyst, Blockworks
Jimmy Haight
Head of Community, Chainlink Labs
Jakob Palmstierna
President, GSR
Gabor Gurbacs
CEO, Hadron
Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi
Rhett Shipp
CEO, Avant
Torab Torabi
CEO, Move Industries
Emilio Rivero Coello
Product, Payments Lead, Aptos
Daniel Coheur
Global Head of Digital Assets and Fund Distribution, APEX Group & Tokeny
Edwin Mata
CEO & CoFounder, Brickken
James Wright
CEO, Multisynq
Greg Osuri
CEO of Overclock Labs & Founder of Akash Network, Akash Network

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NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity
Alexander Höptner is CEO of AllUnity. AllUnity, backed by DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital, is on a mission to launch the leading regulated EUR-denominated stablecoin to unlock greater institutional adoption of tokenized assets and seeks to bridge the Decentralized Finance and Traditional Finance ecosystems and enable market participants to access the developing on-chain economy. Prior to joining AllUnity, he served as Group CEO at 100x Group, the holding structure for the BitMEX platform. Before that, Alexander was with Börse Stuttgart GmbH and Euwax AG, where he served as CEO. Under Alexander’s leadership Börse Stuttgart exchange became a pioneer of digital asset trading and the first traditional exchange operator in the European Union to integrate crypto markets. He previously held executive committee roles for Deutsche Börse AG, operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, where he worked for 15 years before leaving to establish two start-ups for the trading of virtual assets on blockchain in the gaming industry.