Chief Executive Officer of Tether, Paolo Ardoino leads the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, with more than $200 billion in assets and over 530 million users globally. A lifelong technology enthusiast and sci-fi fan, he began coding at the age of 8 and went on to build a strong background in distributed systems, highly scalable and resilient infrastructure, and modern cryptography.

Paolo operates at the forefront of financial and technological innovation, driving Tether’s strategy, vision, and expansion into digital assets, inclusive financial services, peer-to-peer telecommunications, AI platforms for infinite intelligence, and brain-computer interface research. Under his leadership, Tether is accelerating the global push for financial freedom and technological sovereignty. His career has been defined by a relentless focus on building resilient infrastructure, advancing economic freedom, and pioneering a decentralized, stable, AI-powered future.

With nicknames like “Iron Mike,” “Kid Dynamite,” and “The Baddest Man on the Planet,” Mike Tyson is one of the most feared and accomplished fighters in boxing history. He became the youngest heavyweight champion ever, winning the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles, and was the first to hold all three simultaneously. He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2011, and his memoir Undisputed Truth became a New York Times bestseller.

Beyond boxing, Tyson built a major presence in entertainment, appearing in films like The Hangover and starring in his Broadway show Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, directed by Spike Lee. He returned to the ring in 2020 for a high-profile exhibition against Roy Jones Jr. He is also the founder of Tyson 2.0, a cannabis brand, and host of the Hotboxin’ podcast, which has reached tens of millions of listeners.

ChiHyung Song is the Founder and Chairman of Upbit, one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges.

He launched Upbit in 2017 and led its meteoric rise to become the No.1 exchange in South Korea and at times the largest exchange in the world by spot trading volume—achieving this within just two months of launch and surpassing KRW 10 trillion (over USD 7 billion) in daily spot trading volume.
Under his leadership, Upbit has remained Korea’s dominant exchange through 2026, playing a pivotal role in establishing the country as one of the world’s most active digital asset markets. Today, more than 16 million users participate in Korea’s crypto economy, where the Korean won has rivaled—and at times surpassed—the U.S. dollar in global trading activity.
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Upbit accounts for approximately 65–70% of South Korea’s crypto trading volume and serves over 13 million accounts. It is consistently ranked among the world’s leading exchanges and has been recognized by Forbes as one of the most trusted digital asset platforms globally.
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Song has built Upbit on a foundation of security, transparency, and regulatory compliance, while expanding its presence across key markets including Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. He continues to lead its evolution beyond exchange services into broader digital asset infrastructure and Web3 innovation.

He holds degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Seoul National University.

Joey is a Partner at Founders Fund. Joey previously served as Co-CIO at Pantera Capital, one of the largest blockchain-focused investment firms, which he joined in 2017. There, he invested in the first institutional rounds of companies like Starkware, Arbitrum, and Alchemy. He is co-founder of the Forecast Foundation, which contributes to the development of Augur, and a co-founder of Eco, a simple balance that lets you spend, send, save and make money at the same time. Prior to Pantera, Joey built a sound-based point-of-sale payment system.

Joey started programming in Applesoft BASIC when in middle school after his dad bought him an Apple II GS on eBay. He studied CS in college because he enjoys being able to translate his ideas into code. He started angel investing in 2016 and co-started a top-ranked AngelList Syndicate. Joey is a Thiel Fellow and an Edmund Hillary Fellow.

Xiao-Xiao J. Zhu serves as President at the leading onchain superapp platform Jupiter. Prior to that, he was Digital Operating Partner at global private investment firm KKR where he led global digital assets strategy (incl. investments in Dragonfly Capital or Anchorage Digital) as well as tech private equity value creation (incl. Axel Springer or Landal & Roompot). Prior to KKR, he was General Manager at BCG Digital Ventures where he built and scaled new businesses such as HeyCar or Tracr. In an earlier life, he performed as a concert pianist on stages such as Berlin Philharmonie and for the likes for George Bush Sr., Helmut Kohl or Mikhail Gorbachev. He holds a MSc from London School of Economics, a BA from Humboldt University Berlin and a MA from Berlin University of Arts.

Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around multiomic sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) and Portfolio Manager, Cathie led the development of ARK’s philosophy and investment approach and has ultimate responsibility for investment decisions.

Grant Cardone owns and operates over seven privately held companies, and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets worth over $5 Billion. He is one of the Top Crowdfunders in the world, raising over $1.88 Billion in equity via social media.
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Cardone is featured on Season 2 of Discovery Channel’s Undercover Billionaire. Grant is also a New York Times bestselling author of If You’re Not First You’re Last and 11 other business books.

Tony Robbins is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the nation’s leading life and business strategist. For nearly five decades, he has impacted more than 100 million people across 193 countries through his events and programs. He is the author of multiple bestselling books, including Money: Master the Game, and has trained over 10 million people through his seminars.

Robbins is chairman of a portfolio of more than 120 companies generating over $12 billion annually. Known as the “CEO Whisperer,” he has advised world leaders, top entertainers like Aerosmith, Green Day, Usher, and Pitbull, as well as athletes like Serena Williams and Andre Agassi. Billionaire leaders including Steve Wynn and Marc Benioff have also sought his coaching.

Spent 6 years on the a16z crypto investment team, where she was a General Partner, and recently left to launch her own early-stage fund. Prior to a16z, she was the founder and managing director of Autonomous Partners, an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Prior to her investing career, Arianna spent time operating in sales and product roles at Meta and BitGo. Arianna is also an active angel investor and LP.

Tim Draper founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. Funded Coinbase, Baidu, Tesla, Skype, SpaceX, Twitch, Hotmail, Focus Media, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC and 15 other unicorns from early/first rounds.
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He is a supporter and global thought leader for entrepreneurs everywhere, and is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin and decentralization, having won the Bitcoin US Marshall’s auction in 2014, invested in over 50 crypto companies, and led investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others.

Host of The Pomp Podcast and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of investment firm Professional Capital Management, Anthony invests across public and private markets, including the incubation of several industry-leading companies across media, real estate, personal finance, and events. He has successfully launched and exited numerous businesses and invested in more than 300 private companies. He began his career at Facebook, where he led product and growth teams. Before entering the private sector, he served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry Sergeant and was deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009.

Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Anson Funds, a multi-strategy hedge fund with over USD $2.5 billion in assets. He leads the firm in delivering superior, risk-adjusted returns, a success that has garnered recognition from leading financial publications.

Nikil Viswanathan is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world's leading blockchain developer platform (AWS of crypto). Alchemy is hailed as the fastest-growing company in history after going from public launch to being worth $10 billion dollars in 16 months. With a team of only 37 at the $10 billion mark, the company also had one of the highest team-to-impact ratios in history. Alchemy powers over $1 trillion in transactions for JP Morgan, Robinhood, Polymarket, Coinbase, PayPal, Visa, Stripe, World, and thousands of other companies . Alchemy is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Silver Lake, Lightspeed, Stanford University, the Google chairman, founders & execs of Charles Schwab, Linkedin, NYSE, and many more.

Nikil was honored as Forbes 30 Under 30, received his BS & MS in Computer Science at Stanford, and formerly did product management at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. A serial entrepreneur, he co-created the #1 social app in the world, Down To Lunch, which was featured in international press such as a New York Times business cover story. He's been featured in over 200 media publications including CNBC, Bloomberg, New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and TechCrunch.

S.Y. (Seung Yoon) Lee is a serial entrepreneur and investor building infrastructure for the creative and data economies. He is the President and Cofounder of Poseidon, an open data platform for AI training incubated by Story and backed by a16z. Poseidon addresses the bottleneck of ethically sourced AI data by enabling individuals to contribute real world data, including audio, video, and sensor logs, while retaining IP ownership and receiving compensation.

As the Founder of Story Protocol, Lee leads an intellectual property infrastructure project backed by over $140M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Samsung. Story makes IP programmable, allowing creators and brands to license and remix work at internet scale. The protocol has secured IP registrations from artists such as Justin Bieber and BTS, and has partnered with Stability AI and World Network to integrate IP protections into generative AI.

Previously, Lee founded Radish Fiction, a mobile storytelling platform that pioneered serialized microtransactions in the U.S. market. Following its $440M acquisition by Kakao Entertainment as part of a $950M deal, Lee served as Kakao’s Global Strategy Officer, overseeing international M&A and investment strategy.

Lee was the first East Asian President of the Oxford Union, where he hosted speakers ranging from John McCain to Peter Thiel. He is a Trustee of the Asia Society, a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, and was a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia class of 2016. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Mike Alfred is the Founder & Managing Partner of Alpine Fox LP, a private investment partnership focused on value equities and Bitcoin. He has served on the Board of publicly traded companies IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) since October 2021 and Bakkt Inc (NYSE: BKKT) since September 2025. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Digital Assets Data, Inc., a financial technology and data company building enterprise-grade software and data feeds for the digital asset ecosystem, from when he co-founded the company in January 2018 through its sale to NYDIG in November 2020.

In addition to his investing activities, Mr. Alfred has advised the Chief Executive Officer of Amenify, a real estate technology company, since 2020 and has built a track record as a principal investor across the technology and consumer sectors. He currently serves on the boards of private companies Crestone Group, LLC, a national artisan bakery; Eaglebrook Advisors, a digital asset management platform for financial advisors;  and Wealthie Inc., a home equity management platform. Mr. Alfred holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Stanford University and brings extensive experience with digital assets and technology companies, complemented by a strong background in investment management and scaling growth businesses.

Aaron Weaver is President at Molecule, a pioneer in the Decentralized Science (DeSci) movement, working to transform biomedical research through tokenized IP and community-driven biotech funding. At Molecule, he leads commercial strategy and ecosystem development, working with researchers, pharmaceutical companies, hospital systems and investors. .Before joining Molecule, Aaron was a Senior Partner at Apeiron Investments, where he focused on frontier technologies in biotech, longevity, and neuroscience. He has served on the boards of theAlto Neuroscience Rejuveron Life Sciences, and was Investment Director at Frontier Acquisition Corp, a NASDAQ-listed SPAC focused on longevity.

Kendrick Nguyen is Co-CEO and Co-founder of Republic, a New York–based financial technology firm working to expand access to America’s private markets. Backed by leading institutions including Valor Equity Partners and Morgan Stanley, Republic has built one of the broadest platforms for private investing and capital formation. Prior to founding Republic, Kendrick served as General Counsel at AngelList, helped launch CoinList, and held executive roles in finance and operating businesses. A former Fellow of Stanford Law School and Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, he is widely recognized for his work at the intersection of U.S. securities law, entrepreneurship, blockchain, and retail investor access.

Co-Founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S. The platform secures $50B+ in digital assets for institutions including banks, hedge funds, and asset managers.

Luke Martin, Web3 Investor and media @ Delphi Digital. Leading voice covering crypto markets trends and leading investors/founders in the digital asset industry since 2017. He has been an active investor & analyst covering the most exciting trends, themes, and key developments that shape the crypto landscape. He’s frequently featured in leading industry publications, including CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.

Caitlin Sinclair is a national media personality and political correspondent known for her sharp, relatable commentary that connects with millions of young Americans. As the former Turning Point Spokeswoman and OAN political Correspondent, she’s built a trusted voice bridging politics, culture, and a new generation of voters—backed by strong ties within Congress and the current administration.

President, $TRUMP Game Studios. Gluck founded VGM, a video game market research firm, with $5,000 in personal savings. Today, VGM is the largest provider of custom market research to the video game industry. VGM serves more than 70 video game publishers globally and has conducted more than 5,000 market research studies in the video game sector.

VGM is an industry leader in AI-driven market research through its VGMgo app. Clients upload qualitative and quantitative data to the app, including focus group videos and raw online survey data, and VGMgo generates a comprehensive infographic report in minutes that delivers deeper insights than a team of human analysts can produce in weeks. VGMgo has expanded beyond the video game industry and now provides backend analysis and reporting capabilities to a wide range of industries.

In 2025, VGM conducted market research for the upcoming mobile game Trump Billionaires Club, and in 2026, Gluck joined the team as President of $TRUMP Game Studios. As a longtime Trump supporter, Gluck is honored to bring his 20 years of video game research experience to ensure the success of Trump Billionaires Club and future titles.