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.

Channi Greenwall
Founder & CEO, Olympix
Mitchell Demeter
CEO, Sonic Labs
Joe Sticco
Co-Founder, Cryptex Finance
Marcus Hardt Filho
CEO, Balancer Labs
Paul-Adrien Hyppolite
CEO, Spiko
Noah Buxton
CEO, The Network Firm
Ashish Khandelwal
Founder & CEO, Anq
Demian Brener
Founder & CEO, OpenZeppelin
Adam Levi
Co-Founder, Backed Finanace
Vivek Raman
CEO, Etherealize
Austin Przybysz
Co-founder and Chief Builder, Instruxi
Sogol Malek
Founder CEO , XTreamly
CJ
CEO, XSwap
Victor Lee
Founder, Maiga.ai
Christian Pusateri
CEO/CoFounder, Mind Network
Austin Arnold
Founder, Altcoin Daily
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
Founder and CEO, bitsCrunch
Christian Harrington
Co-Founder, QuantAMM
Aaron Arnold
Host/Founder, Altcoin Daily
Michael del Castillo
Founder and CEO, Media Luna
Robbie Morris
Founder, Contract Level
Pritam Dutta
Founder & CEO, Zoth
Mathew Harrowing
Co-Founder, Instruxi
Eric Turner
CEO, Messari
Patrick Delaney
CEO, Ampli Technologies
Jordan Gray
CoFounder, CMO, PublicAI
Nic Roberts-Huntley
CEO & Co-Founder, Blueprint Finance
Benedetto Biondi
CEO, Folks Finance
Jonny Huxtable
CEO and Founder, LinkPool and stake.link (SDL)
Ben Forman
Founder & Managing Partner, ParaFi Capital
Andra Nicolau
Co-Founder, LYS Labs
Kubilay Ozcelik
CEO, Matrixed.Link
Michael Bar Zeev
Co Founder & President, SHIFT
Peter Van Mourik
Co-founder, Chainlayer
Bill Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, DualMint
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO, Simply Staking
Rich King
Co-founder, RPS AI
Andy C
Co-Founder, The Rollup
Ilan Klein
Founder, NFT Bridges
Greg Osuri
CEO of Overclock Labs & Founder, Akash Network
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
Edwin Mata
CEO & CoFounder, Brickken
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
Lou Kerner
Founder, CryptoMondays
Mathias Lundoe Nielsen
Founder & CEO, EntravelX
Kevin Rusher
CEO, RAAC
Alex Bowman
CEO, Voyager
Charles Cao
Founder, Swan Chain
Yonathan Lapchik
CEO, SukuPay
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
Philip Forte
Founder, Elixir
Eleanor Terrett
Journalist, Host, Crypto In America
Sunil Sachdev
SVP, Embedded Finance and Digital Assets, Fiserv
Andy Bohutsky
Founder/CEO, Concero
Andrew McFarlane
CTO, Validation Cloud
Hong Kim
CoFounder & CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
Sandra Ro
CEO, GBBC
Dror Gurevich
CEO, Velocity Career Labs
Jillian Friedman
COO, Symbiotic
Arthur
CTO, Swapper Finance
Shyam Nagarajan
Chief Operating Officer, Hedera
Solomon Tesfaye
Chief Business Officer, Aptos
Ilya Brovin
Chief Growth Officer, Sumsub
Michal Adamski
CMO, Alaska Gold Rush
Brian Foster
Global Head - ETFs | Crypto-as-a-Service | Government, Coinbase
Jakob Palmstierna
President, GSR
Frances Edwards
Chief Operating Officer, Avantgarde Finance
Mustafa Al Niama
Head of Capital Markets, Mysten Labs
Sergio Mello
Head of Stablecoins, Anchorage Digital
Jake Denny
Chief Commercial Officer, Pier Two
Karen Ottoni
Senior Director of Ecosystem & Strategic Initiatives, LF Decentralized Trust
Andrew Clews
Enterprise Strategy & Governance Lead, The Graph Foundation
Christian Pellegrino
Partner, Head of Digital Assets, Alpha FMC
Derek Meyer
Technical Advisor, The Graph Foundation
Cody Wood
Deputy General Counsel, World Foundation
David Carlucci
Managing Partner, Carlucci Consulting
Jacob Creech
Head of Developer Relations, Solana Foundation
Simon Goldberg
Web3/Blockchain Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
Eliezer Ndinga
Head of Strategy, 21.co
Mike de Melo
Head of Finance & Strategy, RAAC
Emilio Rivero Coello
Product, Payments Lead, Aptos
Jason Allegrante
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Fireblocks
Jarryd Pretorius
Chief Technology Officer, Truf Network & Truflation
Luke Leasure
Senior Research Analyst, Blockworks
Jordan Bregman
Strategic Growth Director, Chainalysis
Rahat Chowdhury
Head of Developer Relations, Movement Labs
Tao Wang
Core Contributor, f(x) Protocol
Ian Wallis
Business Development, Linea

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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.