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.

Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Kevin Liu
Co-Founder, Metis and GOAT Network
Jacquelyn Melinek
Founder, CEO, Token Relations
Ji Hun Kim
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Aaron Schnarch
Founder and Executive Director, Compound Foundation
Jakov Buratovic
Master of DeFi, Lido
Dan Silverman
Co-CEO, Balcony
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Alex Zhang
Co-Founder, Pharos
Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden
Scott Dykstra
CTO and Co-Founder, Space and Time
Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America
Michaël van de Poppe
Founder & CIO, MN Capital & MN Fund
Laszlo Szabo
CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln
Rhett Shipp
CEO, Avant
Sogol Malek
Founder CEO , XTreamly
Mitchell Demeter
CEO, Sonic Labs
Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance
Andra Nicolau
Co-Founder, LYS Labs
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko
Noah Buxton
CEO, The Network Firm
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder & CEO, Anq
Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin
Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize
Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi
Ben Weiss
Crypto Reporter, Fortune
CJ
CEO, XSwap
Victor Lee
Founder, Maiga.ai
Jillian Friedman
COO, Symbiotic
Christian Pusateri
CEO/Co-Founder, Mind Network
Austin Arnold
Founder, Altcoin Daily
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
Founder and CEO, bitsCrunch
Christian Harrington
Co-Founder, QuantAMM
Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Aaron Arnold
Host/Founder, Altcoin Daily
Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Karen Ottoni
Senior Director of Ecosystem & Strategic Initiatives, LF Decentralized Trust
Pritam Dutta
Founder & CEO, Zoth
Mathew Harrowing
Co-Founder, Instruxi
Eric Turner
CEO, Messari
Patrick Delaney
CEO, Ampli Technologies
Benedetto Biondi
CEO, Folks Finance
Jonny Huxtable
CEO and Founder, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital
Solange Gueiros
DevRel Education Manager, Chainlink Labs
Kubilay Ozcelik
CEO, Matrixed.Link
Peter Van Mourik
Co-founder, Chainlayer
Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
Jake Loo
CTO, thirdweb
Bill Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, DualMint
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO, Simply Staking
Fiona Ma
VP of Growth, Falcon Finance
Rich King
Co-founder, RPS AI
Andy C
Co-Founder, The Rollup
Ilan Klein
Founder, NFT Bridges
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Mike Grantis
Co-Founder & CEO, General TAO Ventures
James Wright
CEO, Multisynq
Ryot Seo
Co-Founder, Xitadel
Joshua Gottlieb
CEO & Founder, Lendvest
Corey Caplan
CTO of World Liberty Financial, World Liberty Financial
Amy Hang
Chainlink Advocate, Chainlink Community Volunteer
Edwin Mata
CEO & Co-Founder, Brickken
Felix Bengtsson
Founder, Planet Ix
Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking
Danielle Tamasi
Product Manager, CCIP, Chainlink Labs
Vladimir Novakovski
Founder & CEO, Lighter
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Mathias Lundoe Nielsen
Founder & CEO, EntravelX
Kevin Rusher
CEO, RAAC
Artiona Bogo
Global Head of Solutions Architecture, Chainlink
Alex Bowman
CEO, Voyager
Charles Cao
Founder, Swan Chain
Yonathan Lapchik
CEO, SukuPay
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Michael So
Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenyze
Hannah Yang
Co-Founder, TerpLayer
Surendra Kalidindi
Co-Founder, COO & CTO, Hadron by Tether | Pointsville
Cody Carbone
CEO, The Digital Chamber
Bogdan Habic
Co-Founder and CTO, Tenderly
Eman Herawy
Founder, Arabs in Blockchain
Benjamin S.P.
Founder, Cap
Johann Eid
CBO, Chainlink
Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir
Kylie Poole
Head of UK Sales & Partnerships, Chainlink Labs
Sunil Sachdev
SVP, Embedded Finance and Digital Assets, Fiserv
Oleg Kron
Co-Founder, CTO, Concero
Gabriel Otte
Co-Founder and CEO of Dinari, Dinari
Andy Kangpan
Co-Founder and General Partner, Metalayer
Dennis O'Connell
President, ERC-3643 Association
Ashley O'Brien
Customer Engagement Strategist, Banking and Capital Markets, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Hong Kim
Co-Founder and CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
Nick Stoev
Founder, Mellow
Simran Singh
CEO and Co-Founder, Monaco Research

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NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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Andrew McCormick
Head of eToro US, eToro
Andrew McCormick is the Head of eToro US, the trading and investing platform with over 40 million registered users from 75 countries. eToro is a platform built around collaboration and investor education, a community where users can connect with other investors. On eToro, users can view other investors’ portfolios and statistics, and interact with them to exchange ideas, discuss strategies and benefit from shared knowledge. We act as a bridge between the old and new worlds of investing. On our US platform, users can trade equities, cryptoassets and options.

Prior to eToro, Andrew worked at leading investment firms including E*TRADE and Morgan Stanley. With his experience in traditional finance, Andrew brings his passion for promoting the transformative power of capital markets to the disruptive world of fintech. Even while he was in the world of traditional finance, Andrew started doing work in the innovative cryptocurrency space as early as 2017. Before working for those financial firms, Andrew represented companies as a lawyer in high-stakes regulatory and litigation matters while also being a rapper in a law firm and as a spirited side hustle.

Andrew holds a B.A. from University of Virginia, a JD from George Mason University School of Law, Virginia, Washington D.C., and New York Bar licenses, and the Series 7, 24, and 63 securities licenses.