BASS Denver 2026

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We are excited to share with you that we will host another Blockchain Application Stanford Summit on February 17th in Denver during ETHDenver.

​Confirmed speakers include:

​Caroline Pham, Chief Administrative Officer & Chief Legal Officer, MoonPay; ex-Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

​Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation

​Dan Albert, Chairman, Solana Foundation

​Melvis Langyintuo, Executive Director, Canton Network Foundation

​Keone Hon, Co-Founder & GM, Monad Foundation

​Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder & CEO, Polygon

​Oren Katz, COO, Starkware

​Alex Shevchenko, Co-Founder, Near Intents

​Koh Harada, CEO, Aleo

​Weso, CTO, Cap (Stanford Founders)

​Daniel Marin, Founder & CEO, Nexus (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Ash Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Axal

​Keccak, Founder & CEO, Nectar (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Sophia Latessa, Founder & CEO, Rover (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Ben Ward, Co-Founder & CEO, Rocksolid (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Jake Salerno, VP GTM, 0G Foundation (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Juan Bruce, Co-founder & CEO, Supernet (Stanford Blockchain Accelerator)

​Jonathan King, Investor, Coinbase Ventures

​Wei Dai, Investor, 1kx

​Joshua Rivera, General Counsel & Operating Partner, Blockchain Capital

​Harrison Dahme, CTO & Partner, Hack VC

​Davide Crapis, Head of AI, Ethereum Foundation

​David Lawant, Head of Research, Anchorage (Stanford Alumni)

​Gordon Liao, Head of Research & Chief Economist, Circle

​Nemil Dalal, Crypto Partner, Y Combinator (Stanford Alumni)

​BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem and an event series gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders; to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth. BASS Denver 2026 is the ninth edition after the SBC Stanford 2023 edition, the Devconnect Istanbul 2023 edition, the Denver 2024 edition, the ETHCC Brussels 2024 edition, the SBC NYC 2024 edition, the Devcon Bangkok 2024 edition, the Denver 2025 edition, the SBC Berkeley 2025 edition, where we will explore cutting edge innovations in Blockchain Infra, Digital Finance, AI, Policy and other topics.