Pollen is disrupting the $10T index fund industry with an innovative approach which gamifies asset management in an easy way and delivers alpha-generating results to investors at ultra low costs. I am leading the commercial, business development, partnershp and investor activities. Defining the product strategy based on active customer feedback. Building an innovative partner ecosystem around the first open source decentralised index factory.

I'm the Founder of the InvArch network, the cross-chain IP composability, funding, & authentication hub built on Polkadot using the interoperable Substrate blockchain framework.I'm determined & motivated to revolutionize the world of innovation by changing the way the world approaches development from the very start - by redefining how intellectual property (IP) & copyright material can be stored, protected, utilized, shared, and empowered.

I work on building products, systems, and protocols that protect data and information in untrusted, distributed, and highly adversarial environments (such as in cloud-computing or blockchains). More info about my work: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~sgorbuno/

My career overlays product management and strategy within fintech and blockchain to also include the regulatory and compliance issues that face the cryptocurrency world today. In combining the technical, regulatory and the educational aspects of the industry, I hope to drive forward inclusive financial systems through Asia Pacific to deliver on the UN's Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Miko Matsumura is a General Partner with gCC (Gumi Cryptos Capital), a Silicon Valley investment fund with over $500M in assets including early-stage investments in unicorns like OpenSea, Yield Guild Games, Celsius Network, VEGA Protocol, Qredo, Agoric, Astar and 1Inch Network.

Entrepreneur, global leader and avid crypto-investor, Stefan Rust is a multilingual mover and shaker, turning cutting-edge technology into commercial success. Navigating regulations competing against the national telecom operator, Stefan helped change the mobile landscape in China. He then moved on to Sun Microsystems, where he worked to create an ecosystem that brought content and apps to mobile with Java. He has also advised tech giants like Qualcomm, Red Hat, Sony, Siemens, Limelight Studios, etc. In addition, Stefan has held several executive positions; most notably, he is an ex-CEO of bitcoin.com. Having bought his first bitcoin at $5 back in April 2012, he has expanded his investment and advisory portfolio across the blockchain industry. Shortly after buying his first bitcoin and using it to pay developers directly, he realized the enormous potential of this decentralized global currency. This, combined with his knack for entrepreneurship, further fueled his passion for launching 8+ companies by building strategies, raising funds and creating business development partnerships as a foundation for thriving ecosystems and business growth. He is Chairman Emeritus and founder of the Asia Pacific Chapter of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum and a Fellow of the Blockchain Climate Initiative.

Tor is the founder of Secret Foundation, an organization dedicated to building, researching, and scaling adoption of decentralized technologies for the public good, with privacy at their core. He previously ran growth, marketing, and community strategy and operations for SCRT Labs (formerly Enigma). He also advises projects and companies in the blockchain space that are looking to sustainably grow their awareness, userbases, and communities. He hosts "Sharing Secrets", an interview-driven podcast exploring the secrets to building a more decentralized and empowered future - as well as the risks and challenges along the way.

Simon is the founder of Catalyst Global, a global growth consulting firm that scales early-stage blockchain companies. In addition, he's an Executive Advisor to CUDOS, a layer one blockchain and layer two computation and oracle network designed to ensure decentralized, permissionless access to high-performance computing at scale. Starting in crypto in 2017, Simon has worked with over 60 blockchain projects to date which have collectively raised over US$700 million.

Justin is a well-known growth hacker and community builder since 2016. A prolific content creator with over 250k+ followers on Crypto Twitter and other social media platforms, he has hosted some of the largest Web3 conferences in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami. Previously he has worked on growth alongside AirSwap, Matic Network (Polygon), Gods Unchained (Immutable X), and many more.

Will Harborne is the founder and CEO of rhino.fi (previously DeversiFi). Before venturing into crypto full-time in 2017, Will was a technology consultant at Cambridge Consultants and IBM. Will entered crypto full-time when he joined Bitfinex in 2017 to lead the incubation and launch of Ethfinex Trustless which successfully scaled to the point where users could expect the same performance as a centralised exchange, which is when Ethfinex evolved into DeversiFi (now rhino.fi) in 2019.

Building crypto debt capital markets infrastructure. Previously MakerDAO, ConsenSys, PwC.

Dan Gunsberg is Co-Founder of Hxro Network - a composable derivatives primitive built on Solana. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Hxro Labs. Dan has more than 25 years of financial market experience both as a trader and in trade operations. Prior to Hxro, he served as Chief Operating Officer of DV Trading - a proprietary trading firm with a significant presence on global derivatives exchanges. He is also a former member of both the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has been active in crypto markets since 2015.

John Shutt is a smart contract engineer at UMA, building optimistic oracle infrastructure for Web3. Previously he worked on smart contracts at Ernst & Young, organized hackerspaces, and maintained encrypted communications infrastructure for journalists.

Experienced Investor with a demonstrated history of working in the investment management industry. Skilled in Equity Research, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, Hedge Funds, and Investments. Strong finance professional graduated from the University of Western Ontario.

Cory Hymel leads all things Web3 as the Director of Blockchain at Gigster, a company dedicated to helping businesses develop software applications with the speed of a startup, coupled with the quality and expertise of the most innovative global talent. The root of Cory’s passion for the connected nature of tech enhancing the future of work began in the early 2000s when he led robotic delivery research initiatives for the FedEx Institute of Technology. He went on to pioneer mobile with iPhone game development; and helped enterprises develop strategies to mobilize staff workflows and collaboration in the pre-enterprise project management app era of “BYOD to work” in the mid-2010s. Observing firsthand the impact of mobile innovation on the workforce, Cory became interested in developing technology to empower teams and their relationship to their work systems. An advocate for leveling outdated hierarchical structures within organizations, Cory has since dedicated his career focus to democratizing power levels from the ground up. He supports each and every team member’s participation in their work product from creation to profit. Cory now focuses on blockchain and Web3 development projects and manages academic partnerships with renowned academic institutions like Berkeley and Stanford. He currently manages furthering research into distributed teams and the future of work and ever-evolving organizational structures. As more and more entities and commerce become decentralized in nature, Cory studies the incentive model designs for new chains, and new individualized ownership with the democratization of data. From redefining the outdated 9-5, 40-hours/week scheduling models to empowering more workers to own a stake in their work and developing predictive analytics for distributed team outcomes, Cory is a futurist with the goal to continuously question the status quo. His research answers the questions that will define how the innovations of today will impact the work of tomorrow. Follow him on YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn and read his blog at https://gigster.com/blog.

Cole Kennelly is the Founder & CEO of Volmex Labs, the development company building Volmex, a suite of crypto volatility products. Volmex is backed by leading crypto investors and trading firms.

Don Ho build startup ecosystems for 1000+ founders and is an angel investor in 80+ companies. He is the Co-Founder of Orange DAO and as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Quantstamp (YC W18), has helped to secure over $100B in DeFi. In addition, he is a Senior Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund leading the fund’s fintech and blockchain investments and previously ran On Deck’s angel fund, Runway Fund.

Attorney Hale, the Non Fungible Counsel has been advising startups nearly 20 years, and focused primarily on crypto for the past several years. He has spoken on 4 continents, and growing. Not all advice is created equal, some is non fungible.

Jake has 18 years of working experience in both traditional and crypto finance and trading. He has held key positions in Cipher Technologies Management LP, Barrowstreet and Chicago Trading Company. Jake is an early investor in many DeFi protocols as well as Metaverse and GameFi projects.

Tatiana is a blockchain lawyer turned blockchain developer. She moved into blockchain in 2017. Since then she is an active member of blockchain communities and co-founder of MintyCode DAO, a community for blockchain software creators. She is PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Oxford and serial entrepreneur. In 2022 Tatiana was featured in European Forbes 30 under 30 list in technology sector.

Sam Kazemian is the founder of algorithmic stablecoin FRAX (currently a top 5 stablecoin by market cap) and an expert in stability economics. He is also founder of the first crypto-native CPI, as well as Everipedia, a blockchain-based Wikipedia that helped put US 2020 election results on the blockchain.

Mr. TEN is a former award-winning hedge fund manager. He started his own firm which won several industrial awards and has been a panelists for several industrial conferences and has 15 years of experience in fund management on Wall Street. He has also experience being a fund manager for several big institutional clients and has been building in FinTech/Crypto since 2015.

Brian has more than 15 years of experience in TradFi, investment banking and private equity at major financial institutions including Bloomberg, Standard Chartered Bank, China Merchants Capital and others, before diving into the world of on-chain protocols and DeFi. Having experienced the bottlenecks and pain points of TradFi infrastructure firsthand, he looks forward to building with people and technology that can realise this new financial paradigm and financial inclusion.

Philipp Pieper is a co-founder of Swarm as well as the Swarm Network, an open-source project and DAO. Philipp also co-founded Proximic (acquired by comScore), Loop Media and Bitadel Crypto Trading. Philipp has been engaged in decentralised technologies and crypto-asset trading since 2015. He is also a startup investor and mentor at Singularity University and StartX. He is a member of the AIMA blockchain committee and Digital Currency Trade Association (DCTA).

Naomi is a Social Media Manager/Writer with 4 years experience working in crypto. She is currently working at Minima, a L1 blockchain, and an NFT project. In her free time, she blogs about her DeFi experiments and helps onboard new talent in the industry, most recently as a study group leader in the Unit Masters blockchain literacy program.

Who am i? 2017 bull run crypto investors and 2021 NFT enthusiast. I decided to join the revolution by working for blockchain projects. I have worked for a year building and implementing crypto projects in the DeFi, CeFi, NFT game and DAO industry, from building the whitepaper, building the alpha to developing the ecosystem. I also worked on multiple sectors in my non-crypto life as consultant/project manager on projects such as VR and IoT solutions for the silver economy, building an RPA robot to automate tasks in financial services, end to end traceability solution for CPG sector, remodeling a business model and strategy for a business unit focus on process automation.

Nick is a serial networker. From being heavily involved in the music industry, working with Grammy award winning artists, to leading field operations divisions for companies, Nick has extensive experience in areas related to strategic partnerships and relationship management, as well as strategic initiatives and has now taken his talents to Web3 as the EVP Partnerships & Growth at Ferrum Network. He's been responsible for establishing Ferrum's robust ecosystem of nearly 100 partners, the Iron Alliance and has helped scale the team from 6 employees to over 35 full time employees now. He has played a pivotal role in the product side of things at Ferrum as well with go to market strategies and architectural insights for many of the products in Ferrum's wildly successful catalogue.

Amin Iman is a Core Contributor and Grant Reviewer at RLY Ecosystem DAO, where he helps oversee early stage funding of web3 projects building on the RLY Network. Over 10+ years, he’s utilized data analytic insights in the web2 space to design process improvement programs towards areas of operations, marketing, and logistics for the wine and legal industry. In addition to organizing startup events in the past for organizations such as Techstars and Startup San Diego, he’s moderated and contributed to multiple crypto education sessions for English and Farsi speaking communities on platforms such as Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse.

Sean is a co-founder of Stronghold, a San Francisco-based financial technology company creating virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks.

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Jazear is a core contributor to Sifchain.  Prior to Sifchain, Jazear worked on Thorchain and Peggy for Cosmos.

"With a background in communications and community management, Grant has developed a deep understanding of how to work with diverse groups of stakeholders to ensure equitability in projects.He believes strongly that innovations in DeGov will lead to a better run state of Blockchain, Ensuring projects are truly decentralized through pragmatic governance systems that utilize on-chain user data to better inform the DAO decision-making process."

Tom Crown is the host r/Cryptocurrency Podcast (4.5M), CryptoQuant verified analyst, 2021 winner “Best Technical Analysis”, 55k+ YT, 18k Twitter, 5k discord.

Roberto Talamas is a Co-Founder & Head of Strategy at ATX DAO. While working on ATX DAO, Roberto currently leads the Data Science & Analytics team at Messari supporting the data architecture of the company. Prior to his time at Messari, Roberto spent four years at BlackRock where he focused on risk management and developing high performance Python tooling for investment research.

Adam is CEO & Co-founder of MIDAO (http://midao.org), the company helping DAOs form LLCs in the Marshall Islands, the first jurisdiction that explicitly recognizes the unique structure of DAOs and ensures limited liability to its members.
Adam Miller previously provided strategy and technology consulting to help others launch & operate DAOs. He spent 6 years in Emerging Technology Research at Capital Group, a global investment management firm with over $2T in assets under management. Adam started his career investing in and founding several social web platforms, including StudyAbroad101. He has a BS in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and certificates in Cybersecurity from UC Irvine and Cryptocurrencies from MIT Media Lab.

Elena Sinelnikova is a former Government of Canada solutions architect turned entrepreneur and co-founded several startups. Metis.io, scalability and low-code solution for DeFi, NFT, and dApps on Ethereum, and CryptoChicks.ca – educational hub and accelerator for women in blockchain in 56 countries.

Sam leads the policy efforts in ATX DAO, having testified in front of city council and state congress. Sam also works on the vision and strategy of the broader City DAO movement, that aims at replicating the model of ATX DAO in multiple cities across the world.

Co-Founder of the world's largest decentrlized network, Daniel has over 25+ years of IT experience in technology, blockchain, healthcare, and nonprofit works. An entrepreneur, investor, and disruptive technology advocate, Daniel's ethos resonate with many on the Flux Team, Daniel is focusing on projects that are uplifting to humanity.

Alex Gierczyk is a crypto native and serial entrepreneur managing tens of millions of dollars in DeFi, NFTs and private equity. He is a Bored Ape owner and active in several NFT communities. He has over 10 years of experience starting successful companies in software, eCommerce and health and wellness with over $100M of sales. Alex attended the University of Notre Dame and dropped out to start his first business. Alex is involved in several projects including leading an accelerator, a DeFi protocol, music label, clothing brand and more. Alex purchased Bitcoin for the first time in 2011. Alex is a member of EO, YPO, TIGER21 and WAAMI DAO.

Ashley serves as the Educational Programs Manager for Metis, a Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum, and CryptoChicks, a nonprofit focused on blockchain technology. She has been an educator for over 12 years, with experience in public classrooms, higher education, and private training. Ashley holds a Master of Public Service and Administration degree with a focus on nonprofit management and state and local government, and she is passionate about empowering others through learning.

Host of the Best NFT Media Nominated NFT & Chill Podcast, Web3/NFT Consultant at GuidePoint Global, Contributor at Wendrop.io, Twitter Space Host, Speaker at DCentral Con Austin, & Panelist at The Global NFT Summit.