Chief Digital Currency Advisor,
Department of the Treasury - FinCEN

“Michele brings a wealth of digital currency expertise, and will be a tremendous leader in coordinated efforts to maximize FinCEN’s contribution to the innovative potential for financial expansion of opportunity while minimizing illicit finance risk.”

                                          - FinCEN Director Michael Mosier, July 2021

Michele Korver was recently appointed as FinCEN's first Chief Digital Currency Advisor, to lead the agency's effort in enabling the digital asset industry, while mitigating its new risks. Having led digital currency thinking at the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division, she's a foremost expert on the dynamics of crypto and DeFi regulation. She will join DACOM for a firside chat.

Founder and CEO, FTX and Alameda Research

“I don’t think that everything is gonna move to DeFi, but I do think that there’s a world in which 10% of it does, I also don’t think it’s automatic that it’s going to happen… Decentralized systems are only going to take off if they’re really good products,"
                                                                                            - Axios, April 2021

As the founder of one of the world's largest crypto exchanges, Bankman-Fried is a renowned entrepreneur and leading expert on the potential of digital asset and DeFi products to transform financial services. He will join DACOM for a fireside Q&A.

Founder, ConsenSys
Co-founder, Ethereum

“There will be a public discussion in [the U.S.] and others and then it’ll go well. It’s just such a slam dunk how valuable this technology is. So I look forward to whether it’s me or others, to us all having the opportunity to help regulators and politicians understand why we’re on the same team.”

                                                               - Forkast News, December 2020

The New York Times described Mr. Lubin as Ethereum's "key strategist," and Consensys, the company he founded to advance Etherum's ecosystem, as "the entity that would bring Vitalik Buterin's vision into fruition." As one of Blockchain and DeFi's earliest thought leaders, he is on the forefront of the forefront of enabling it's integration into traditional finance, and beyond.