Global Leaders

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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.

Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Gabor Gurbacs
CEO, Hadron
Dror Gurevich
CEO, Velocity Career Labs
Jakob Palmstierna
President, GSR
Kerem Kolcuglu
Digital Finance Advisor / Managing Partner, Government of Bermuda / Penrose Partners
Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi
Ari Juels
Chief Scientist, Chainlink Labs
Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna
Nic Roberts-Huntley
CEO & Co-Founder, Blueprint Finance
Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital
Shea Ketsdever
Product Lead, Flashbots
Edward Woodford
Founder & CEO, zerohash
Ji Hun Kim
CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
Wormhole Oracle
Founder, LlamaRisk
Andre Salem
Co-founder & CEO, Cryptum
Misha Putiatin
CEO & Co-founder, Symbiotic
Krzysztof Urbański
Governance & Partnerships Lead, L2BEAT
Dan Silverman
Co-CEO, Balcony
Alex Zhang
Co-Founder, Pharos
Jeremy Ng
Founder & CEO, OpenEden
Rhett Shipp
CEO, Avant
Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Noah Buxton
CEO, The Network Firm
Marcus Hardt Filho
CEO, Balancer Labs
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder & CEO, Anq
Adam Levi
Co-Founder, Backed Finanace
Sogol Malek
Founder CEO , XTreamly
CJ
CEO, XSwap
Victor Lee
Founder, Maiga.ai
Christian Pusateri
CEO/CoFounder, Mind Network
Kevin Follonier
Founder, When Shift Happens
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
Founder and CEO, bitsCrunch
Patrick Delaney
CEO, Ampli Technologies
Andra Nicolau
Co-Founder, LYS Labs
Michael Bar Zeev
Co Founder & President, SHIFT
Bill Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, DualMint
Fiona Ma
VP of Growth, Falcon Finance
Rich King
Co-founder, RPS AI
Ilan Klein
Founder, NFT Bridges
Greg Osuri
CEO of Overclock Labs & Founder, Akash Network
James Wright
CEO, Multisynq
Edwin Mata
CEO & CoFounder, Brickken
Christian Harrington
Co-Founder, QuantAMM
Serena Leung
Head of RWA Tokenization, Polygon Labs
Pritam Dutta
Founder & CEO, Zoth
Benedetto Biondi
CEO, Folks Finance
DavideFi
General Manager, LFJ
Jonny Huxtable
CEO and Founder, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Kubilay Ozcelik
CEO, Matrixed.Link
Peter Van Mourik
Co-founder, Chainlayer
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO, Simply Staking
Andy C
Co-Founder, The Rollup
Mike Grantis
Co-Founder & CEO, General TAO Ventures
Ryot Seo
Co-Founder, Xitadel
Lorenz Breidenbach
Head of Research, Chainlink Labs
Joshua Gottlieb
CEO & Founder, Lendvest
Shyam Nagarajan
Chief Operating Officer, Hedera
Brian Foster
Global Head - ETFs | Crypto-as-a-Service | Government, Coinbase
Solomon Tesfaye
Chief Business Officer, Aptos
Yuga Cohler
Head of Wallets, Coinbase
Corey Caplan
CTO of World Liberty Financial, World Liberty Financial
Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co
Jordan Bregman
Strategic Growth Director, Chainalysis
Johannes Göttsch
Head of Strategy & Business Development, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Austin Arnold
Founder, Altcoin Daily
Aaron Arnold
Host/Founder, Altcoin Daily
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Mathew Harrowing
Co-Founder, Real World Asset Federation
Jordan Gray
CoFounder, CMO, PublicAI
Felix Bengtsson
Founder, Planet Ix
Isaac Zarb
Co-Founder and CTO, Simply Staking
Hyung Lee
CEO, B-Harvest
Zale Reeves
Founder, NorthWest Nodes
Clayton Lowery
Co-Founder & CSO, The Network Firm
Johnny Reinsch
Executive Director, Tokenized Asset Coalition
Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays
Zayi Reyes
Head of Partner Marketing, Chainlink Labs
Mathias Lundoe Nielsen
Founder & CEO, EntravelX
Ben Sherwin
General Counsel, Chainlink Labs
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Sam Fagin
Director, Payments, Polygon Labs
Kevin Rusher
CEO, RAAC
Theo Fields
GP, Bloccelerate VC
Alex Bowman
CEO, Voyager
Charles Cao
Founder, Swan Chain
Yonathan Lapchik
CEO, SukuPay
Michael So
Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenyze
Dr. Axel U. J. Lode
Head of Decentralized Finance, Blocksize
Stephen Wink
Global Co-Chair of Fintech Industry Group, Latham & Waktins
Hannah Yang
Co-Founder, TerpLayer
Luca Curan
Head of AI / DePIN, Base, Coinbase
Surendra Kalidindi
Co-Founder, COO & CTO, Hadron by Tether | Pointsville
Kevin Zhang
Contributor, DFX
Zubin Pratap
DevRel Engineering Manager, Chainlink Labs
Sunil Sachdev
SVP, Embedded Finance and Digital Assets, Fiserv
Matthew Fisher
Institutional Lead, Katana
Kenneth Shek
Moca Network Lead, Animoca Brands
Zeki Ulu
Technical Lead, Llama Risk
Will Nuelle
General Partner, Ventures, Galaxy
Adam Minehardt
Head of Public Policy, Chainlink Labs

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NOV 4-5, 2025  |  THE METROPOLITAN PAVILION

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Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co
Eliézer is Head of Strategy at 21.co, parent of 21Shares—the world’s largest issuer of crypto exchange-traded products.
Guided by a thesis that digital asset infrastructure will underpin tomorrow’s economy, he helped scale the firm from $20 million to over $10 billion in assets—shaping thesis-driven strategies that guide product, growth, and capital deployment.

He founded and led 21Shares research division, inventing industry-first frameworks—including the GCCS classification system (developed with CoinGecko)—and building real-time analytics now used by global institutions, regulators, and financial media. He co-authored The State of Stablecoins with Blockchain.com—widely recognized as the industry’s first deep dive on the topic, published before USDC’s rise. His team also launched the first public dashboards on Dune Analytics, setting the standard for on-chain intelligence and becoming a core reference for policymakers, analysts, and developers.

His research on crypto market integrity was instrumental in shaping the SEC’s approval of the first U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs—now the most successful ETF launch in history, with over $130 billion in AUM.

With over a decade in digital assets and early-stage venture capital—including backing a fintech unicorn at the seed stage—Eliézer is known for turning complex market signals into strategic clarity. He anticipated major inflection points in the industry, including China’s Bitcoin ban and the collapse of FTX, and has advised leading investors and institutions through cycles of volatility and transformation.

Most recently, he helped spark the creation of BlockSensai, an institutional-grade AI risk intelligence platform that laid the foundation for 21 Technologies, 21.co’s new business arm focused on infrastructure and data innovation.

His work has been cited by institutional investors, the global press, and RAND Corporation, where it contributed to U.S. policy and defense briefings. He lectures at global institutions on blockchain and financial systems and advises across go-to-market, product, and regulatory strategy.