Compiled by Golden Finance
The Token 2049 Dubai Conference will be held in Dubai's Madinat Jumeirah from April 30 to May 1, 2025. This conference will bring together many industry leaders, and Golden Finance has compiled a conference guide to help you attend the conference with peace of mind.
I. Speakers
Changpeng Zhao, Founder of Binance
Arthur Hayes, CIO of Maelstrom
Mingxing Xu, Founder & CEO of OKX
Richard Teng, CEO of Binance
Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner of Pantera Capital
Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization
Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether
Jeremy Allaire, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle
Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder of NEAR Protocol
Sreeram Kannan, Eigen Labs CEO
Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock
Mathew Mcdermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs
Jan Van Eck, CEO at Vaneck
Keone Hon, Co-founder and Managing Director of Monnad Foundation
Kain Warwick, Founder of Infinex
Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen
Guy Young, CEO of Ethena Labs
Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon
Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg
Lily Liu, Chairman of Solana Foundation
Brett Tejpaul, Head of Institutional Affairs at Coinbase
Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Crypto Products at CME Group
Avery Ching, Co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs
Mustafa Al Bassam, CEO of Celestia Labs
Andrei Grachev, Partner at DWF Labs
Fisher Yu, CTO of Babylon
Sergej Kunz, Co-founder of 1INCH
Leon Marshall, CEO of Galaxy
II. Agenda
The meeting will last for two days.
April 30 (Wednesday)
9:15AM-9:55AM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:Macro Chaos: Can Cryptocurrency Thrive Amid Global Economic Uncertainty?
Guests: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner of Pantera Capital, Zoltan Pozsar, Founder & CEO of Ex Uno Plures, Raoul Pal, Co-founder & CEO of Real Vision
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Speech: Why the Cryptocurrency Bull Market is About to Reignite
Guests: Arthur Hayes, CIO of Maelstrom
10:35 AM - 11:15 AM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion: Institutional Liquidity: Insights into Cryptocurrency Demand and Market Changes
Guests: Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, Jan Van Eck, Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Crypto Products at CME Group, and Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Speech: Building the Internet Capital Market on SOLANA
Guest: Lily Liu, Chairman of Solana Foundation
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Speech: EIGENLAYER: Verifiable Commitment Cloud
Guest: Sreeram Kannan, CEO of Eigen Labs
11:15 AM - 11:55 AM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion: Ethereum’s Existential Crisis
Guests: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner of Dragonfly, Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Helius, Kain Warwick, Founder of Infinex, Kartik Talwar, Co-founder of ETHGlobal
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Location:KUCOIN STAGE
Fireside Chat: Goldman Sachs’ Attitude towards Digital Assets: Using Technology for Positive Disruption
Guests: Mathew Mcdermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, Dan Murphy, Anchor and Reporter at CNBC
11:55 AM - 12:35 PM
Location:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:AI Liberation: Building Intelligence on the Open Web
Guests:NEAR Protocol Co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Intelligent Internet CEO Emad Mostaque, Eigen Labs CEO Sreeram Kannan, Chaos Labs Advisor Irene Wu
12:35 PM - 12:55 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Speech:The Road to the Next Billion Users
Guests:OKX Founder & CEO Mingxing Xu
12:45 PM - 1:00 PM
Venue:IO.NET STAGE
Speech:Changing the Crypto World Order
Guest:Andrei Grachev, Managing Partner of DWF Labs
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Fireside Chat:CZ
Guest:Binance Founder Zhao Changpeng, Real Vision Co-founder & CEO Raoul Pal
2:40 PM - 3:20 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:Is MEME Coin Dead... Or Waiting for a Comeback?
Guests: Bullpen Co-Founder Ansem, Asymmetric Founder & CEO Joe McCann, 6th Man Ventures General Partner Carl Vogel, Selini Founder Jordi Alexander
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Fireside Chat: Sands of Change: Institutional Dynamics of Digital Assets
Guests: Coinbase Institutional Head Brett Tejpaul, Blockworks Co-Founder Jason Yanowitz
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion: Scaling Stablecoins: Connecting DEFI and TRADFI Market
Guests:Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Ethena Labs CEO Guy Young, Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick, Haun Ventures General Partner Diogo Monica
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Fireside Chat:Bridging Traditional Institutions and Cryptocurrency: A New Era of Trust?
Guests: Binance CEO Richard Teng, Nine Blocks Capital Management Managing Partner Henri Arslanian
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Topic: Mainstream application of stablecoin payment has arrived
Guests: Circle Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Jeremy Allaire
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Topic: L2 and FAT application papers
Guests: Celestia Labs CEO Mustafa Al Bassam
4:40 PM - 5:20 PM PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:Tokenization: Rebuilding Global Finance on the Chain
Guests:Apollo Partner Christine Moy, BlackRock Digital Asset Head Robert Mitchnick, Gauntlet Founder & CEO Tarun Chitra, Securitize Institutional DeFi and Credit Solutions Head Reid Simon, Bloomberg Cryptocurrency and Digital Payments Reporter Suvashree Ghosh
5:20 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:From Boycott to Leadership? The Role of the United States in the Future of Cryptocurrency
Guests:Lightspark Co-Founder & CEO David Marcus, Zcash Co-Founder Zooko Wilcox, Hemi Co-Founder Matthew Roszak, CNBC Anchor and Reporter Dan Murphy
May 1 (Thursday)
9:55 AM - 10:35 AM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:From Cloud to Cable: Building the Physical Layer of WEB3
Guests:Helium Protocol Head Abhay Kumar, DoubleZero Co-Founder Austin Federa, Inversion Capital Founder Santiago Roel Santos
9:55 AM - 10:15
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Speech: Decades of Transformation
Guest: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner of Pantera Capital
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
Venue: OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion: Underfunded Alpha: Why Crypto Still Offers Huge Opportunity
Guests: Real Vision Co-Founder & CEO Raoul Pal, Haun Ventures General Partner Diogo Monica, Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Dialogue: ETHENA X TON
Guests:Guy Young, CEO of Ethena Labs, Halil Mirakhmedov, Chief Security Officer of Open Platform/Wallet in Telegram
12:35 PM - 1:05 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Fireside Chat:Fireside Chat with Eric Trump and World Liberty Financial
Guests:Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, Co-founder of World Liberty Financial Zach Witkoff, Founder of TRON Justin Sun
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable Discussion:Why Performance Matters: Scaling the Next Billion Users
Guests:Keone Hon, Co-Founder & General Manager of Monad Foundation, Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon, Shuyao Kong, Co-Founder of MegaETH, Jason Yanowitz, Co-Founder of Blockworks
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Location:KUCOIN STAGE
Fireside Chat:Mind, Money and Meaning
Guests:Christian Angermayer, Founder of Apeiron Investments, Zaheer Ebtikar, Founder of Split Capital
2:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Location:KUCOIN STAGE
Topic:Bitcoin and ETF: A disruptive and powerful combination
Guest:Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Location:OKX MAIN STAGE
Speech:TETHER - A once-in-a-century company
Guest:Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:OKX MAIN STAGE
Roundtable discussion:Is DEFI cannibalizing CEFI?
Guests: Infinex founder Kain Warwick, dYdX Trading founder & CEO Antonio Juliano, Drift Protocol co-founder Cindy Leow, Hack VC managing partner Alexander Pack
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: KUCOIN STAGE
Speech: Stablecoins, legal tender legislation and the future of global payments
Guests: Frax founder & CEO Sam Kazemian
III. Peripheral activities
Monday, April 28
Theme: RWA Eco Day
Time:9:30 - 15:30
Location:ATÖLYE Dubai
Theme:VC Connect
Time:11:00 - 14:00
Location:Register to view address
Theme:499&NEAR&KiteAI&HETU Dubai 2025 Scaling DeAI Summit
Time:10:00 - 18:00
Venue:The Lana - Dorchester Collection
Topic:Empowering the Future: DePIN and Real World Infrastructure on Blockchain
Time:14:00 - 17:00
Venue:Emirates financial towers
Topic:The Globalization of TON DeFi: Telegram’s Trustless Asset Management
Time:17:00 - 21:00
Location:Register to view address
Theme:DeAI Dubai
Time:20:00 - 23:00
Location:Register to view address
Tuesday, April 29
Theme:Defi in Dubai
Time:19:00 - 22:00
Location:Al Nafoorah - Jumeirah Al Qasr
Theme:UAE: The Next Frontier of Global Web3 Innovation
Time:8:00 - 11:30
Location:JW Marriott Hotel Marina
Theme:DeSci Summit Dubai 2025
Time:10:00 - 17:00
Location:Museum of The Future
Theme:deAI Day: AI, DePIN and the future of Web3
Time:10:00 - 16:00
Location:East West Atelier
Theme:Connectivity and Innovation
Time:10:00 - 18:00
Location:Dukes The Palm, a Royal Hideaway Hotel
Theme:RWA Revolution on the Blockchain
Time:10:00 - 13:00
Location:Emirates financial towers
Binance Clubhouse
Time:13:00 - 17:00
Location:Jumeirah Mina Al Salam - Jumeira Street - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
1 May Thursday
Theme:Binance Clubhouse
Time:13:00 - 17:00
Location:Jumeirah Mina Al Salam - Jumeira Street - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
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Time:8:00 - 22:00
Address:Register to view address
May 2 Friday
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Time: 19:00 - 23:00
Location: Be Beach – Dubai
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Time:May 2-3
Location: The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Theme:BTC Summit
Time:10:00 - 18:00
Location: Register to view address
Theme:Dubai Artificial Intelligence Day
Time:14:00 - 18:00
Location:Register to view address
Topic:Community Sunset Meeting
Time:8:30 - 22:00
Location:The Banc Dubai
Topic:Forging the Future: Web3 + AI
Time:19:30 - 23:00
Location:Register to view address
Saturday, May 3
Theme:Aya Hackathon
Time:13:00 - 18:00
Location:Al Safa Art & Design Library
Theme:Degen After Party
Time:19:00 - 23:00
Location:Marina Yachts - Yacht and Boat Rental Service in Dubai
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