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Penn Blockchain Conference 2025

The highest-signal conference of the year, hosted by University of Pennsylvania's student-led Blockchain Club

Theme of 2025: Congregation of the Contrarians

February 20-21

Welcome to the 6th Penn Blockchain Conference

Our conference is the largest of its kind, seeking to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the pursuit of building and using decentralized systems.

We bring together the brightest minds and talents around the world and provide them with the infrastructure to grow and develop.

SPEAKERS

We are thrilled to have a world-class group of global thought leaders coming in person this year.
(More to be added based on rolling invitations)

Cathie Wood

CEO | Ark Invest

Tim Draper

Founder | Draper Associates

Vance Spencer

General Partner | Framework Ventures

William Nuelle

General Partner | Galaxy Ventures

Jason Yano

Co-founder | Blockworks

Leo Schwartz

Reporter | Fortune Magazine

John D'Agostino

Head of Strategy | Coinbase Institutional

Christopher Jensen

Director of Research | Franklin Templeton

Marc Weinstein

Partner | Mechanism Capital

Chris Pizzo

Ark Innovation Fund

Tom Schmidt

Partner | Dragonfly

Diogo Monica

General Partner | Haun Ventures

Catrina Wang

General Partner | Portal Ventures

Sunny Parikh

General Partner | Reflexive

Mitchell Amador

CEO | Immunefi

Chris Yin

Founder & CEO | Plume Network

Shuyao Kong

Co-founder | MegaETH

Zon

CEO | Initia

Alex Dolesky

Founder & CEO | Uranium Digital

Matt Mudano

CEO | Arch Network

Maxime Bucaille

Investor | Draper Associates

Rushi Manche

Cofounder | Movement Labs

James Sinka

Chief Scientific Officer | Bio

Andrew Verbinnen

CEO | HairDAO

Willem Schroé

Founder & CEO | Botanix

Yi Tong

Co-founder | Nebra

Andrej

Co-founder | Grass

Sam Battenally

Co-founder | Rise Labs

Dr. Hoansoo Lee

Co-founder | ExaBITS

Niraj Pant

Co-founder | Ritual

Alex Zosos

General Counsel | Superstate

Jason Zhao

Founder | Story Protocol

Orkun

Co-founder | Citrea

Neil Bhuta

Galaxy Ventures

Eli Mohamad

CEO | CryoDAO

Justin Wang

Founder & CEO | ZEUS Network

Ren

Partner | Electric Capital

Kai Micah Mills

CEO | Cryopets

AGENDA

The conference and hackathon is being hosted in the grand and historic Penn Museum.

Day 1
Thursay, Feb 20

Welcome & Keynote

Regulatory Outlook from the New Policy Makers

Regulators Unplugged: Founders Ask, Policy Makers Answer

Debate 1: General Purpose vs. App-specific Chains

Debate 2: Scaling Bitcoin with What VM?

What's New in Real World Onchain

Debate 3: Has Ethereum Been Dethroned?

Day 2
Friday, Feb 21

Fireside Chat - Mystery Guest

Debate 4: The Battle of EVM vs. AltVM

Debate 5: Do We Really Need New L1/L2s?

The AI-Crypto Collision

Does DeSci Really Make Sense?

Elephant In The Room: How to Sell Products in Crypto?

CONTACT US

Catrina Wang
Alumni Advisor
X: @dotCuriousCat
Vikramaditya Singh
Penn Blockchain President
X: @vikramcantsingh