DeFi for Institutions | Full Event

The DeFi Alliance and KPMG in partnership with The Block hosted a half day event exploring the intersection of DeFi and Institutions. This 4 hour event featured some of the world’s leading investors, builders, and regulators shaping the future of finance.

You can watch each segment and learn more about our panelists below. 

About DeFi Alliance

The DeFi Alliance is the leading decentralized finance accelerator. We help startups source liquidity and support from a broad industry network — the DeFi Alliance Network — that includes trading firms, founders, and investors. Together, we will grow DeFi to one billion users by 2025.

About KPMG Cryptoasset Services

The KPMG Cryptoasset Services practice helps banks, fintechs, and other financial services institutions develop and optimize core capabilities to engage with the growing ecosystem of crypto customers. We leverage our KPMG Chain Fusion suite of accelerators to help our clients deliver institutional quality cryptoasset capabilities and services.

Leveraging leading technology and frameworks, our services are designed to help clients accelerate trusted adoption of core crypto asset capabilities through a consistent data architecture that supports seamless business engagement across protocols.”

Keynote: The DeFi Opportunity

Featuring: Jim Bianco – President, Bianco Research

The Future of Stablecoins

Featuring: 

Rune Christensen – Founder, MakerDAO
Matthew Cantieri – General Manager, Terraform Labs
Robert Bench – Applied Fintech Research,  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Matt Werner – Associate Director, Product Management, Wallet, Gemini

The DeFi Stack Today & Tomorrow

Featuring: 

Dan Robinson – Research Partner, Paradigm
Amir Bandeali – Co-CEO, 0x Labs
Sergey Nazarov – Co-Founder, Chainlink Labs
Zubin Koticha – CEO, Co-Founder, Opyn

Venture Landscape in DeFi

Featuring: 

Mable Jiang – Partner, Multicoin Capital
Santiago R. Santos – Partner, ParaFi Capital
Michael Anderson – Framework Ventures
Haseeb Qureshi – Dragonfly Capital
Meltem Demirors – CSO, CoinShares

Intermediaries in DeFi: Institutional Market Making and Liquidity Provisioning

Featuring: 

Frank Chaparro – Director of News, The Block
Jake Dwyer – Head of DeFi, GSR
Evgeny Gaevoy – Founder & CEO, Wintermute
Brad Koeppen – Head of Trading & Business Development, CMT Digital
Ricky Li – Co-founder, Altonomy
Peter Johnson – Partner, Jump Capital

Intermediaries in DeFi: Data, Infrastructure, & Insurance

Featuring:

Aya Kantorovich – Head of Institutional Coverage, Falcon X 
Alex Svanevik – CEO, Nansen
Eva Beylin – Director, The Graph Foundation
Esteban Castano – Co-founder & CEO,…