A Virtual Conference for Blockchain Developers

Featuring the pioneers in our industry

and supporting good causes

March 31 - April 1, 2023

Presented by Hack VC

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Learn from the experts of our craft:

Vitalik Buterin

Founder of Ethereum

Hester Peirce

SEC Commissioner

Stani Kulechov

Founder and CEO of Aave

Lily Liu

President of The Solana Foundation

Mihailo Bjelic

Co-Founder of Polygon

Sreeram Kannan

Founder of Eigenlayer

Illia Polosukhin

Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol

Winston Zhang

Co-Founder of Cega.fi

Potter Li

Co-Founder of EthSign

Evan Cheng

Co-Founder and CEO, Mysten Labs (Sui)

Felix Leupold

Co-Founder of CowSwap

John Shutt

Co-Founder of Across Protocol

Oz Rabinovich

Co-Founder and CEO of Archimedes

Tarik Adnan Moon

CEO of Affine DeFi

Jon Stephens

Co-Founder of Veridise

Roniel Rumburg

CEO & Co-Founder of Audius

Seb Audet

Co-Founder and CEO of Zapper

Don Ho

Managing Director, Quantstamp

Reza Jafery

PubDAO

Fernando Martinelli

Co-Founder & CEO of Balancer Labs

Amir Bandeali

Co-CEO at 0x Labs

Hilmar Orth

Founder, Gelato Network

Marek Olezewski

Co-Founder and CTO of Celo.org

Zaki Manian

Cofounder at Sommelier Protocol

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder & President of StarkWare

Orion Henry

General Partner, OrangeDAO

Robert Leshner

Founder of Compound Labs

Adam Jackson

Co-Founder of Braintrust Network

Sidney Powell

CEO & Co-Founder of Maple

Dev Bear

Co-Founder of Berachain

Rafael Cosman

Co-Founder of Archblock and TrueFi

Federico Kunze Küllmer

Co-Founder of Evmos

Muneeb Ali

Co-Founder of Stacks

Nic Z

Co-Founder of Evmos

Arjun Bhuptani

CEO and Founder of Connext

Tegan Kline

Co-Founder, Edge & Node (TheGraph)

Evan Shapiro

CEO of Mina Foundation, Co-Founder of Mina Protocol

Alex Shevchenko

CEO and Co-Founder of Aurora Labs

Dawn Song

Founder of Oasis Labs and Professor at UC Berkeley

Matt Cutler

CEO and Co-Founder of Blocknative

Rishab Khurana

Co-Founder at Socket

Yi Sun

Co-Founder at Axiom

Shuyao Kong

ConsenSys

Chris

Founder of Ante Labs

Philip Forte

CEO and Founder of Elixir Protocol

Will Villanueva

CEO of Element Finance

David Sneider

CEO of LIT Protocol

Elena Nadolinski

CEO of Ironfish

Xiao Xiao

Partner at HashKey Capital

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Schedule

Day 1: March 31

Time (PST)	Speaker	Title
9:00am	Hack VC	Opening Remarks
9:20am	Ethereum Foundation	Fireside Chat w/ Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder of Ethereum
10:00am	Polygon	ZkEVM - Road to Mainnet
10:30am	Aave	Fireside Chat w/ Stani Kulechov, Founder of Aave
11:00am	SEC Commissioner	Fireside Chat w/ Hester Peirce, the SEC Commissioner
11:30am	0x Protocol	Fireside Chat w/ Amir Bandeali, Co-Founder of 0x
12:00 noon	Maple Finance & TrueFi	Lending Panel
12:30pm	Balancer	Fireside Chat w/ Fernando Martinelli, Co-Founder of Balancer
1:00pm	Zapper	Fireside Chat w/ Seb Audet, Founder of Zapper
1:30pm	Mysten Labs (Sui)	Fireside Chat w/ Evan Cheng, Co-Founder of Mysten Labs (Sui)
2:00pm	Edge & Node	Fireside Chat w/ Tegan Kline, Co-Founder of Edge & Node (The Graph)
2:30pm	Eigenlayer	How to build new VMs and rollups using eigenDA
3:00pm	OrangeDAO, PubDAO, Element Finance	DAO panel
3:30pm	Cega	Derivatives in Defi and how the space is continuing to evolve (e.g. exotic derivatives via Cega)
4:00pm	Braintrust	Rebuilding the Crypto Economy Through a Decentralized Workforce
4:30pm	Affine, Elixir, Archimedies	DeFi Yield Panel
5:00pm	Gelato	Building Serverless Web3 Apps with Web3 Functions
5:30pm	Oasis Labs, Axiom, Mina, Ironfish	ZK & Privacy Panel

Day 2: April 1

Time (PST)	Speaker	Title
9:00am	Quantstamp, Veridise, Ante	Smart Contract Security and Auditing Panel
9:30am	Compound	Fireside Chat w/ Robert Leshner, Founder of Compound
10:00am	Aurora	"Fireside Chat w/ Alex Shevchenko, Co-Founder of Aurora"
10:30am	Cowswap	How DAOs can best do their DeFi Activities
11:00am	NEAR	NEAR as the Blockchain Operating System
11:30am	Across	Fireside Chat w/ John Shutt, Co-Founder of Across Protocol
12:00pm	StarkWare	Fireside Chat w/ Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder of Starkware
12:30pm	Audius	Scaling Audius To Millions Of Users And Beyond: The Path To Mainstream Web3 Adoption
1:00pm	Celo	Fireside Chat w/ Marek Olszewski, Co-Founder of Celo
1:30pm	Connext, Socket	Crosschain Bridge Panel
2:00pm	Solana	Fireside Chat w/ Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation
2:30pm	Berachain	Introducing Berachain Polaris
3:00pm	Stacks	Ordinals and Bitcoin L2s
3:30pm	Lit Protocol	Fireside Chat w/ David Schneider, Co-Founder of Lit Protocol
4:00pm	EVMOS, Cosmos	Cosmos Ecosystem Panel
4:30pm	Blocknative	Block Building: Dive into the world of MEV extraction, searching, and economic incentives
5:00pm	ETHSign	Fireside Chat w/ Potter Li, Founder of ETHSign