Consensus is one of the world's largest, longest-running and most influential blockchain conferences, bringing together people from all walks of life in the cryptocurrency, blockchain and Web3 communities. This year's Consensus 2024 will be held in Austin, the capital of Texas, from May 29 to 31, and is expected to attract more than 6,800 companies and more than 15,000 attendees from around the world. BlockBeats has compiled the main conference and surrounding activities for participants' reference.

Official website of the conference: https://consensus2024.coindesk.com/

Speakers

U.S. Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

New York Stock Exchange President Lynn Martin

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester M. Peirce

Uniswap Labs CLO Marvin Ammori

a16z Founder and Managing Partner Chris Dixon

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Galaxy and CEO Mike Novogratz

Chainlink Co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Yat Siu, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca

Casey Rodarmor, Creator of Ordinals

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple

Rune Christensen, Co-founder of MakerDAO

John Adler, Co-founder and CRO of Celestia Labs

Daniel Albert, Executive Director of Solana Foundation

Muneeb Ali, Co-creator of Stacks

Craig Bewick, Senior Director, Client Development and Sales, CME Group

Umar Farooq, Co-Head of Global Payments Sales and CEO, Onyx, JPMorgan

Agenda

May 29

Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs) and Tokenization – An Evolution or Revolution in Traditional Finance?
Time: 10:00-10:45

Location: ACC: Spotlight Stage

Guests: Justin Schmidt, Head of Ondo Finance, Adam Lawrence, CEO and co-founder of RWA.xyz, etc.

Web3 Opening Moment

Time: 10:35-11:05

Location: ACC: Gen C Stage

Guests: Natalie Bruss, co-founder of Mith/Range Media Partners, Maggie Hsu, Head of a16z Crypto GTM, etc.

Cathie Wood talks about Bitcoin’s Rubicon Moment

Time: 10:45-11:15

Location: ACC: Mainstage

Guests: Cathie Wood, Peter McCormack, host of the "What Bitcoin Did" podcast

How ETFs Reshape the Bitcoin Market

Time: 12:00-12:30

Location: ACC: Money Reimagined Stage

Guests: Ophelia Snyder, President of 21Shares, Yoann Turpin, Co-founder of Wintermute, Andy Baehr, CFA, Product Director of CoinDesk Indices, etc.

Nibiru unchained

Time: 16:00-20:00 CDT

Location: Cape Bottle Room

Meetup link: https://x.com/nibiruchain/status/1794609982991937980

Flow x Consensus Hacker House

Time: May 29th 11:00 - June 2nd 11:00

Location: 405 W Elizabeth St

Link: https://lu.ma/4neiduhm

Solana House

Time: May 29, 10:00 - May 31, 18:30

Location: 115 E 5th St., Austin

Link: https://lu.ma/solana-house-austin

May 30

Cryptocurrency, the U.S. Election and the Next Administration
Time: 10:10-10:45
Location: ACC: Mainstage

Guests: Rebecca Rettig, Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Polygon Labs, Ryan Selkis, Founder and CEO of Messari, Jesse Hamilton

The role of crypto derivatives in the future market

Time: 11:00-11:45

Location: ACC: Spotlight Stage

Guests: Craig Bewick, Senior Director of Client Development and Sales at CME Group, Pierce Crosby, General Manager of TradingView, Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Crypto Products at CME Group

The debate on scaling: monolithic vs modular
Time: 16:00-16:20
Location: ACC: The Town Square
Guests: John Adler, Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Celestia Labs, Austin Federa, Head of Strategy at Solana Foundation

Consensus Founders & Investors brunch

Time: 11:00 - 14:00

Location: Register to view

Link: https://lu.ma/founder-investor-brunch-consensus

Restaking AVS and AI+

Time: 13:00 - 16:00

Location: Chive HQ

Link: https://lu.ma/tns9qvnb

BTC Runes Happy Hour

Time: 15:00 - 17:00

Location: Register to view

Link: https://lu.ma/runeshh

May 31 Day

Crypto + AI: Hype and Reality
Time: 11:00-11:20
Venue: ACC: Gen C Stage

Guests: Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos, Allison Duettmann, CEO of Foresight Institute

The Explosion of Liquid Staking (and Re-staking)
Time: 13:00-13:30
Location: ACC: Mainstage
Guests: Sreeram Kannan, Founder of EigenLayer, Mike Silagadze, CEO of ether.fi, David Tse, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-founder of RedStone Oracles

DePIN Austin

Time: 1:00 - 5:00

Location: The Perch ATX

Link: https://lu.ma/DePINAustin

Bitcoin Innovators & Investors Happy Hour

Time: 8:00 - 11:00

Organizers: BounceBit, Blockchain Capital, Babylon & Botanix

Location: Register to view

Link: https://lu.ma/wguvr2id

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