Isla is the co-founder of Zuitzerland, a society sandbox and d/accelerator based in Switzerland. She's spent 10 years exploring the frontiers of capital allocation and is particularly excited by conviction and prediction markets.

Adrian is a Security & AI Researcher at Quantstamp, where he's worked since 2022. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University, where he served on the board of Blockchain@Columbia. Adrian also co-founded the TUM Blockchain Club, which has since grown into Europe's leading university blockchain community.

As a builder in Switzerland, Adrian and fellow community members kept running into the same problem: there was no neutral, builder-focused space to connect with peers. What started as solving a problem for a few turned into Zurich3 - an initiative to give Switzerland's entire builder community a permanent home.

Aisling holds degrees in math, economics, and computer science, and obtained her PhD from the ENS in Paris in 2019. She has spent the past years working extensively on threshold cryptography and confidential computing, in both trad-fi and web3. Beyond this, she also worked on scientific and technical direction, strategy, and the legal aspects of building and using privacy tech.

Active in Blockchain since 2013, Alain started developing smart contracts in 2016 and contributed to the p2p energy market "Quartierstrom". In 2018 he wrote the Encointer whitepaper and founded an NGO for an egalitarian web3. In 2021, Alain co-founded the privacy-enhancing tech company Integritee.

BOOK AUTHOR AND CEO BRUNNER DIGITAL
Alexander E. Brunner studied at the prestigious University of St. Gallen HSG in Switzerland before gaining international experience in alternative investments and hedge funds.
He is the author of several reports and two books on the Swiss tech ecosystem: Crypto Nation Switzerland (2019) and The Big Swiss AI Secret (2025).
His newest book, The Big Swiss AI Secret, about the leading Swiss AI ecosystem, was published in November 2025. It draws on nearly 100 interviews with prominent Swiss founders, CEOs, professors, politicians, and investors.
Alexander is the CEO of Brunner Digital, a Swiss advisory company that works with global technology firms and government agencies. The company focuses on helping international fintech, Web3, and AI organizations enter the Swiss market.
He is a frequent international speaker and news commentator, a former Member of Parliament, and a former Commander in the Swiss Armed Forces.

Alexandra Lloyd is Head of Anti Money Laundering at YouHodler, a regulated Web3 wallet and payments platform headquartered in the EU and Switzerland, offering crypto backed lending, rewards and payment solutions to a global user base. She leads global compliance and risk strategy across crypto and fintech services, specialising in blockchain regulation, data privacy and cross border frameworks. Alexandra is co-chair of the Crypto Valley Association AML working group and works with the board of Women in Web3 Switzerland. With a background in international business law and earlier experience in design and sustainability, she brings a multidisciplinary, design led approach to governance and responsible innovation in digital assets.

The idea of creating something that can have positive impact on humanity always makes me excited. I'm an eternal learner, optimist but prepared, generalist and ready to overcome any challenge (sometime by not even knowing how much work it would take).

As CEO of blockful, I lead a senior team of 10 delivering blockchain security and infrastructure - from smart contract development protecting a $2B treasury (ENS Security Council) to direct engagement with Brazil's Central Bank on CBDC programs. Over $5M in security services and software solutions sold directly to enterprises and protocols.

Before founding blockful, I worked in financial infrastructure (TecBan/Banco24Horas) and B2B fintech (Bava), giving me firsthand understanding of what institutions need to adopt new technology.

I've been coding since 14, dropped CS to focus on building, and have won 15+ hackathons across ETHGlobal, SmartCon, and ETH Belgrade. Invited speaker at Stanford, with talks across the US, Switzerland, Turkey, and Latin America. Also passionated about math, winning 2 medals on Math Olympiad.

Born in Germany, raised in Brazil. Former competitive basketball player. I bring athlete discipline to everything I do - high agency, high standards, fast learner.

PhD in Computer Science focusing on AI
over 10 years managing AI and Blockchain projects

CEO of Aragon

Antonio is a Cryptographer and Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, specializing in cryptographic protocols with a focus on elliptic curves and isogenies. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on Cryptography from Ruhr-University, where his research advanced the theoretical and practical understanding of elliptic curve and isogeny-based cryptography. Antonio's work bridges foundational cryptographic theory and its applications, contributing to the development of secure systems in the blockchain space. Previously, he worked at Adobe Research Switzerland and co-authored the book OAuth 2 in Action. His research interests center on the mathematical underpinnings of modern cryptographic schemes, particularly those leveraging algebraic structures.

I co-founded Aztec, and am currently Executive Director and board member of the Aztec Foundation. I created the Polaris Fellowship (now known on as Odyssey). I angel invest in ideological founders. I occasionally host essays on this site.

I'm most interested in talent, trust, privacy, and the future.

I'm also currently thinking about cryptography, the process of becoming, the history of technology, and the culture of technology.

Arthur Gervais is a Professor of Information Security at UCL focused on building AI systems for practical security applications. His research spans the use of modern machine learning (including large language models) for vulnerability discovery, remediation, blockchain and smart-contract security and program analysis. Arthur values the broad dissemination of teaching material, defi-learning.org, and pushed the first DeFi course at ETH Zurich.

Artiona Bogo is the Head of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink, where she leads a high-performing team of Solutions Architects delivering white-glove solutions and deep technical expertise to asset issuers, tokenization platforms, and risk curators. Her team designs and operates production-grade systems that bridge tokens across dozens of chains, architect proof-of-reserves feeds, and build smart data and NAV solutions for institutional adoption of Web3.

She began her blockchain journey in 2017 with SAP’s blockchain team, piloting some of the earliest tokenization scenarios for financial services and other industries. Prior to Chainlink, she served as Head of Sales Engineering at Figment, a leading institutional staking provider, and at Google Cloud.

With 15 years of experience in enterprise software and 8 years in crypto, Artiona has built with, sold to, and shipped for both crypto-native teams and traditional institutions. From staking to CCIP to price feeds, she has helped scale core Web3 infrastructure and led hands-on integrations across EVM, Solana, and beyond. Known for her focus on execution, she works closely with her architects, unblocks technical challenges, and ensures reliable systems are shipped on time and at scale.

Artiona holds a double Master of Science in Software Engineering from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy and the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany as well as a Master in Management from ESCP Europe, France.

Benjamin Kraner is a PhD student in the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies group. Before starting his PhD, Benjamin obtained a master's degree in economics from the University of Zürich. His background in economics provides him with a unique perspective on the design and implementation of DLTs, particularly with respect to the economic incentives that underlie these systems. Benjamin's research interests include the study of consensus mechanisms, which are fundamental to the functioning of blockchain and DLTs. He is particularly interested in the economic incentives that are built into these systems and how they affect the behaviour of network participants. His work aims to explore the impact of these incentives on the security, scalability, and efficiency of DLTs.

Incentives researcher at Flashbots, studying the economics and security of blockchain mechanisms under MEV incentives. Currently completing a PhD at Technical University of Munich.

Cedric Maire, Software Engineer @ Bitcoin Suisse, specializes in custody solutions, leveraging a Master's in Cyber Security from EPFL and ETHZ with expertise in distributed systems and cryptographic primitives. His research on anonymity offers insights into Bitcoin and Ethereum's technical challenges. An active entrepreneur, Cedric is Co-Founder & Educator @ B.T.C. Education, providing comprehensive Bitcoin and cyber security education, and Co-Founder & CTO @ Frictionless, innovating non-custodial Bitcoin fee management. He also chairs the Cyber Security WG @ Crypto Valley Association. With prior experience at the ICRC and Adnovum Informatik, Cedric is passionate about advancing Bitcoin's potential and reimagining financial systems.

Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of shaping the satellite navigation industry, now combining GPS with Blockchain in the DePIN project onocoy.

Experienced in International Business, BD, R&D, General management, Organization, Strategy, Leadership, M&A, Exits

Co-founded u-blox (IPO 2007, Unicorn status) and lead the GPS/GNSS business unit until 2021.
Started dammven (Consulting in GPS/GNSS) 2021 and acting as managing director.
Initiated onocoy (Web3 DePIN for High precision GPS/GNSS) and acting as president, thought leader and chief architect,

Electronics Engineer from ETH Zurich, a passionate Tech-geek, a Jazz nerd, husband and father

Darius Moukhtarzadeh is a Research Strategist at 21shares, one of the largest and earliest issuers of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs). Prior to joining 21Shares, he worked at Sygnum Bank, the world’s first regulated crypto bank, as well as Ernst & Young Blockchain and several startups in Switzerland’s Crypto Valley. Active in the blockchain space since 2016, Darius has experience as an angel investor, advisor, founder, and author. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Innovation from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Nicole Stuber-Berries is an economist and digital transformation expert operating at the intersection of strategy, emerging technologies and industry innovation. She advises and empowers organizations, particularly within the tourism ecosystem, to translate technological disruption into measurable strategic advantage through rigorous, evidence-based decision-making.

Educated at the University of Oxford (Honors BA in Economics and Politics) and the University of Geneva (MA and PhD in International Relations), her international academic trajectory across Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei and Berlin shaped her global and interdisciplinary perspective on economic transformation and digital ecosystems.

Following her doctorate, she joined Accenture, rising to Managing Director, where she led digital transformation initiatives. Her work focused on digital business models, growth strategies, operational excellence, the strategic deployment of emerging technologies to redesign client experiences, build ecosystem-based value propositions and enable end-to-end organizational transformation.

Today, she serves as Co-Head, Professor and Lecturer at the Institute of Tourism and Mobility at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). In this role, she bridges consulting expertise with academic research, shaping the future competitiveness of Switzerland’s tourism industry by advancing innovation, digital capabilities and next-generation industry models.

Elodie Sogan, economist, specializes in emerging tech and finance.
Relationship Manager at Bitcoin Suisse, she helps Family Offices and HNWIs to take advantage of the crypto space and their opportunities.
She gained recognition as a crypto guest speaker on swiss radio and as a TEDx speaker in 2023.
Board member of WiW3CH & Co-founder of B.T.C. Education, she frequently speaks on conferences in Switzerland and abroad.

Eugenio Reggianini is an ISO expert at TC 307, he works with EU institutions, regulators, and industry to align decentralized identity, privacy-preserving infrastructure, and blockchain governance with emerging international standards.
Through extensive research on EBSI and its identity trust framework, he has developed a strong understanding of how verifiable credentials, zero-knowledge proofs, and data-minimal architectures can support high-assurance use cases. This foundation informs his current focus on institutional financial compliance including on-chain attestations for RWA markets, privacy-preserving onboarding, custody, and settlement flows.
Within the Ethereum community, he contributed to the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance in the past and continuously collaborates with builders across the ZK, identity, and account-abstraction stacks. His work spans modular proof systems, compliance-aligned AA modules, and GDPR-compatible data flows that connect institutional trust frameworks with Ethereum-native applications

Information Technologist, Attorney in Zug

Florian Spychiger received his PhD at the UZH Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies Group. Florian works as a senior researcher at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science where he conducts research on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and on incentives in blockchain systems. Furthermore, he is a council member of the industry association DAO Suisse that promotes DAOs in Switzerland.

Inventor, life hacker :-Y

Guil is an entrepreneur, researcher, and software engineer with over 20 years of experience in building software products. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zürich, where he contributed to his first Bitcoin-based project in 2013. As Founder & CEO of AxLabs and a Council Member of the Neo blockchain, he leads teams developing tools and infrastructure that power major Web3 ecosystems, with products used by Binance, OKX, and other global players. In the past, Guil co-founded ventures backed by the SIX Group (Swiss Stock Exchange) and VCs such as Fenbushi Capital and Accomplice. He has worked with leading Web3 investment firms, including Dialectic and APVC, and served on the advisory boards of Swiss startups. Passionate about decentralization, sovereignty, and open protocols, Guil constantly explores new ways to merge innovation with real-world impact.

Cybersecurity Master Student @ETHZ working on applied cryptography. Worked on ZKP combined with FHE (vFHE) at COMPSEC lab @EPFL. Currently exploring ZKP-based onchain identity systems.

Building at the intersection of energy markets and onchain infrastructure at Powerledger.
Always to be found where TradFi meets DeFi, especially on Solana and Ethereum.
Personal interest in prediction markets for energy: what happens when real-world commodity flows get a price discovery layer that actually clears in real time?

Johannes is the managing director of the Frankencoin Association, building the largest Swiss Franc stablecoin. Before joining Frankencoin, Johannes has built a smart contract automation platform (Nerif), a startup talent platform (cofoundme) and helped build one of the largest institutional web3 investors in Europe (L1D). Besides putting Switzerland on the map, he is also active in DePin, being the Chairman of the board of Roam Networks. Johannes holds a M.A. in Business Management from the University of St. Gallen.

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Kaihua Qin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick working on information security, with a focus on blockchain security, particularly smart contract attacks, MEV, the imitation game, and how Ethereum breaks in the real world.

CTO at EVVM

Dr. Kilian Schärli is the managing partner of MLL Legal. He advises domestic and international clients in the technology, industrial, and internet sectors. He specializes in intellectual property, blockchain technology, unfair competition, licensing, and distribution. He has particular expertise in commercial and transactional work in these areas.

Kilian is co-head of the Blockchain Technologies and MLLStart! industry groups. He holds leadership roles in several local and international organizations.

Crypto economist and token engineer specializing in mechanism design, adversarial modeling, and onchain market architecture. Works on translating formal economic research into production-grade Ethereum protocols, with a focus on prediction markets and capital-efficient market design.

Ksenija is a Business Development Manager at Obligate, where she works on the distribution and structuring of on-chain fixed-income instruments for qualified and institutional investors. Her role sits at the intersection of Ethereum-based financial infrastructure, issuer needs, and investor requirements.

She focuses on bringing real-world fixed-income products onto Ethereum in a way that is operationally sound, transparent, and aligned with institutional standards, working closely with issuers, partners, and ecosystem participants to support the adoption of on-chain debt instruments.

Lioba Heimbach is a senior researcher at Category Labs, where she works on the design and dynamics of decentralized systems. She received her Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, where she was advised by Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer in the Distributed Computing (Disco) group.
Her research focuses on blockchain protocols and decentralized finance (DeFi), with an emphasis on measurements and mechanism design. She aims to contribute to the development of decentralized ecosystems that are efficient, transparent, and fair.

Luca Nicoli is a Research Scientist at CryptoEconLab, where he works on mechanism design, tokenomics, and incentive systems for decentralized networks. His work spans protocol economics, incentive design for decentralized networks, and game-theoretic analysis of cryptoeconomic systems. He holds a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa) and an MSc in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Milano. He is an Editorial Board Member of the Recerts Journal of Mechanism Design for Public Goods.

Entrepreneur and lecturer at the intersection of decentralized technology and society, Malik has built organizations ranging from bootstrapped ventures to foundation-backed initiatives and high-growth token-funded models. He is Partner at Dezentrum, holds a leadership role at Encointer, teaches at FFHS and FHGR, and serves on the board of DAO Suisse.

Marcin is the Co-founder of RedStone, the fastest-growing blockchain Oracle, and at Credora, the largest DeFi Ratings platform.

Marcin has been in the blockchain industry since 2018, ex-Google Cloud PM with a background in quantitative methods in economics. Co-founder of ETHWarsaw, the largest technical crypto conference in the CEE region. Laureate of Forbes 30 under 30 Poland. Marcin has been a speaker at global crypto events including Consensus, Token2049, ETHcc, ETHDenver, Ethereum Zurich and more.

RedStone holds the top 3 position globally by the number of clients (200+ B2B clients) and Total Value of Assets Secured ($10+ billion). RedStone is the official oracle for Securitize, BlackRock BUIDL, Apollo ACRED, VanEck VBILL, Hamilton Lane SCOPE and other tokenized funds, backed by veterans like Mike Arrington, co-founder of TechCrunch.

Marco is Head of Strategic Client Solutions at Bitcoin Suisse, where he leads institutional business development, crypto & and DeFi partnerships for Switzerland’s pioneering crypto financial services firm. A CAIA charterholder with a background in traditional Swiss Banking, he specializes in bridging traditional finance and digital asset markets for institutional clients.

Maria is a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. She works on various topics related to gas pricing, DeFi, MEV, and incentives in decentralized networks. Her interests include statistical simulation, time-series data mining, network science, and applications of Machine Learning to finance and economics. She previously worked in the fields of fraud detection and cybercrime.

She holds a Ph.D. in Information Management, where she used high-frequency telematics data to extract information about driving behavior. Previous work can be accessed on her Google Scholar profile, website, and GitHub profile.

co-founder of onocoy and Wihi, Researcher at UZH Blockchain Center, Initiator Breaking DePIN.

Mark Bentley Richardson, holding a PhD from the University of Melbourne, redirected his career from research science to DeFi in 2021, now serving as Bancor's Project Lead. Under his guidance, Bancor launched Carbon DeFi, a system that enhances user customization in decentralized exchanges by enabling strategy-specific liquidity utilization. Richardson's leadership emphasizes consistent innovation while maintaining the key principles of decentralization, user safety, and operational simplicity.

Founder very early Ventures. Previously at MakderDAO, Celo, Founder Fountain.

Matthias Hafner is the Managing Director of the Center for Cryptoeconomics. He focuses on projects related to blockchain applications, token economics, and competition. He has led numerous initiatives and supported a diverse range of clients, including startups, top-tier protocols, corporations, and governments. Matthias holds a PhD with a dissertation on "Economics of Decentralized Applications in Finance" from the University of Zurich and regularly publishes in academic journals. Prior to joining the Center for Cryptoeconomics, he worked for the Swiss government.

Michael Lustenberger is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Organizational Viability at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. His work focuses on blockchain technologies, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), and the role of artificial intelligence in digital governance and organizational design. He has led applied research projects on DAO applications in digital democracy, collaborative housing, and new governance frameworks, exploring how AI and decentralized systems can enhance participation, efficiency, and decision-making in both public and private sectors.

Michael Svoboda is the CEO of Liquity Protocol, a decentralized borrowing platform on Ethereum. Liquity is known for its fully decentralized and unstoppable stablecoins LUSD and BOLD. Michael has been working in the crypto space in various positions since 2017. He has a background in computer science and economics.

Mihai builds and invests in emerging technologies. Previously, he was Director of Digital Asset Research at Messari, founded two tech ventures, and worked in AI at UBS and Swiss Re in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mihai's background is in Information Technology and Mathematics. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

Milko Hensel is Team Head TechBanking at Maerki Baumann & Co. AG in Zurich. He is responsible for the relationships with FinTechs, supports the TechBanking team of the bank in client acquisition and management and works in strategic projects of the bank. Since 2019 he is instrumental for the development, implementation and enhancement of Maerki Baumann’s crypto strategy.

Miller Mendoza Jimenez is the CEO and co founder of WeDeFin Labs, a Switzerland based team building Ethereum native, non custodial portfolio infrastructure. He works at the intersection of DeFi, risk analytics, and user behavior, focused on making risk a first class input for how people allocate, rebalance, and measure performance onchain. He holds a PhD in Physics from ETH Zürich and applies quantitative methods to portfolio design and onchain risk.

Murat Ögat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aktionariat AG, a Swiss blockchain fintech enabling the tokenization, initial offering and decentralized trading of company equity on Ethereum. He brings deep experience in blockchain technology, product leadership, mobile development, and crypto UX, having previously built award-winning mobile apps and still leading the development of Aktionariat's mobile non-custodial crypto wallets.

Nicholas is a researcher working with [[alloc] init]. He recently obtained his PhD from ETH Zürich in the group of Dennis Hofheinz. His research spans from fundamental complexity theory all the way to applied cryptography including Kolmogorov complexity, verifiable random functions, secure multi-party computation, key transparency and more.

Orest Gavryliak is Chief Legal Officer at 1inch, building non-custodial, institutional-ready rails for DeFi.

Philipp is the CFO of the Solana Foundation based in Switzerland. Before that he had the same role at Bitcoin Suisse, the leading crypto broker in Europe. At Bitcoin Suisse, he also built the company’s crypto custody solution, the first fully audited custody solution in Europe. Before joining the crypto industry, Philipp worked in corporate finance at UBS Investment Bank as well as Falcon Private Bank, the first bank offering crypto assets globally.

Arzé Karam is a researcher at Durham University Business School where she also leads a quantitative research center. She works with academic and industry collaborators on Ethereum execution, market structure, and on-chain data. She has a background in financial economics, quantitative finance and quantum finance and focuses on how trading behavior affects prices, liquidity, and execution design.
Her recent work sits at the intersection of Ethereum, market microstructure, and large-scale data analysis, with an emphasis on how real user behavior reveals information through fees, timing, routing, and smart-contract interactions. She studies how these on-chain signals propagate into prices and liquidity across decentralized and centralized markets.
Working with full-history Ethereum transaction data, Arzé and her co-authors develop practical metrics to measure execution urgency, information flow, and market stress, and uses machine-learning tools to evaluate their predictive value. Her research speaks directly to builders interested in execution design, DeFi market structure, MEV dynamics, and the role of programmable settlement layers as financial activity increasingly moves on-chain.

Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a DarkFi core developer and writer. She authored 'Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle', a text which helped create a web3 privacy revival. She trained as an artist and is a a self-taught programmer.

Raphael started as a qualitative analyst for a Swiss family office before working as a researcher for Cointelegraph, and Flipsidecrypto. He became Head of Governance at StableLab and founded Anode.GG.

Co-founder, Self Protocol.
Previously an Ethereum Foundation grantee at OpenPassport (co-founder).

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Salvatore Luciano Furnari, PhD, is an Italian lawyer and chartered accountant focusing on EU financial regulation and digital finance. His work covers blockchain and crypto-assets, decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization, and the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), advising companies and financial market participants on regulatory strategy, governance, and contractual frameworks for Web3 and AI-adjacent projects. He is also active in research and public speaking on the legal implications of decentralized systems and emerging technologies. He has been recognized in Chambers & Partners’ FinTech rankings and regularly contributes to applied legal analysis bridging regulation, market practice, and technology.

Samuel Welde is a Swiss-based entrepreneur and strategist working at the intersection of Space-Tech, GNSS, and Web3. As an early advocate for the DePIN movement, he focuses on using decentralized technology to solve real-world infrastructure challenges.

Beyond his work in fundraising and community building, Samuel has been instrumental in initiating R&D grant projects, including research collaborations with the European Space Agency (ESA). He travels extensively to share the vision of high-precision positioning, aiming to make centimeter-level accuracy accessible for the next generation of global autonomous systems.

12 years in doing QR Code/mobile payments. Worked with most QR Code/mobile payments. Previously CTO at EU payment network Bluecode.com

​Stéphanie Fuchs is an international tax advisor and the founder of Stéphanie Fuchs Consulting, a boutique advisory firm specialising in cross-border taxation, blockchain, and emerging technologies. She advises corporations, DAOs, family offices, and private individuals on structuring and compliance across jurisdictions.
Before establishing her own firm, she worked for two Big Four firms, a leading tax boutique, and a top-tier law firm, focusing on complex international tax matters involving trusts, foundations, M&A, and digital assets. She has a background in economic journalism and hosts the podcast “Lesson Nr. 1: Don’t fall”, where she explores the intersections of rules, resilience, and real-world decision-making.

I coordinate academic research at the Ethereum Foundation Academic Secretariat.

My last paper (2026) was titled "Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations". Throughout 2018–2023, I was Governance Lead at Safe, a Gnosis spin-out and VitaDAO, an early DeSci DAO, contributed to Colony, DAOstack's Genesis DAO, DAO Incubator, Bundesblock, and explored the use of blockchain in international development cooperation at GIZ Blockchain Lab.

Tom Rieder is a digital asset entrepreneur and one of Switzerland’s leading voices in tokenization. As Head of Digital Assets at ISP Group, he drives the firm’s full digital asset stack across custody, trading, tokenization, and capital market infrastructure. Previously Managing Director of Tokengate and Co‑Founder of Switzerland’s first NFT art platform, elementum.art, he was also part of the Inacta Ventures leadership team until end of 2025, building and investing in Web3 startups.

Victoria spent a decade shaping policy before concluding that the more interesting governance experiments were happening on-chain. She's now co-founder of Zuitzerland, a network state and society sandbox in Switzerland, working to bring decentralized coordination principles into contact with real jurisdictions, real estate, and regulatory reality. She moves between crypto-native builders and the institutional world they're trying to reshape, and knows how both sides think

Vyara Savova is Senior Policy Lead at the European Ethereum Institute (EEI), formerly EUCI, a Brussels-based non-profit that promotes Ethereum as a core layer of public infrastructure for institutions across the EU and UK. A lawyer qualified in Bulgaria with an LL.M. in Human Rights from SOAS, University of London, she is also a PhD candidate researching privacy on-chain and the use of smart contracts as a legal and technological solution. Vyara has extensive experience in data protection, crypto regulation, and digital policy, and regularly contributes to European debates at the intersection of privacy, blockchain, and law.

Crypto protocol expert at Bitcoin Suisse

Yann is a research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation. He previously obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich.

Building adoption in crypto, blockchain and web3 finance and tech | prev Sygnum, Crypto Finance | Marketing Co-Head at Women in Web3 Switzerland.

Beyond my professional roles, I contribute to Women in Web3 Switzerland, a non-profit association connecting women to web3 ecosystems and industry across events, strategic partnerships, and community-building initiatives.