Token 2049 Dubai Conference Guide

Compiled by: Golden Finance

From April 30 to May 1, 2025, the Token 2049 Dubai Conference will be held in the ancient city of Jumeirah, Dubai. This conference brings together many big names in the industry and Golden Finance specially compiles the conference guide to help you attend the conference with peace of mind.

1. Speakers

• Zhao Changpeng, founder of Binance

• Arthur Hayes, Maelstrom CIO

• Xu Mingxing, Founder & CEO of OKX

• Richard Teng, CEO of Binance

• Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner, Pantera Capital

• Eric Trump, executive vice president of Trump Group

• Paolo Ardoino, Tether CEO

• Jeremy Allaire, Circle Co-founder, Chairman and CEO

• Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR protocol

• Sreeram Kannan, CEO of Eigen Labs

• Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets, BlackRock

• Mathew Mcdermott, Global Head of Digital Assets, Goldman Sachs

• Jan Van Eck, Vaneck CEO

• Keone Hon, Co-founder and General Manager of Monnad Foundation

• Kain Warwick, Founder of Infinex

• Alex Svanevik, CEO of Nansen

• Guy Young, CEO of Ethena Labs

• Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon

• Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg

• Lily Liu, Chairman of the Solana Foundation

• Brett Tejpaul, Head of Coinbase Organization

• Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products, CME

• Avery Ching, Co-founder and CEO of Aptos Labs

• Mustafa Al Bassam, CEO of Celestia Labs

• Andrei Grachev, Partner at DWF Labs

• Fisher Yu, Babylon CTO

• Sergej Kunz, Co-founder of 1INCH

• Leon Marshall, Galaxy CEO

2. Meeting agenda

The meeting lasted for two days.

April 30 (Wednesday)

9:15AM-9:55AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Macro Chaos: Can cryptocurrencies flourish in global economic uncertainty?

Guests: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner of Pantera Capital, Zoltan Pozsar, Founder & CEO of Ex Uno Plures, Raoul Pal, Real Vision

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10:15 AM - 10:35 AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Speech: Why is the cryptocurrency bull market about to rekindle

Guest: Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes

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10:35 AM - 11:15 AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable discussion: Institutional liquidity: Insights into cryptocurrency demand and market changes

Guests: Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, Jan Van Eck, CEO of Vaneck, Giovanni Vicioso, Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products at CME, and Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst at Bloomberg

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10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Speech: Building an Internet Capital Market on SOLANA

Guest: Lily Liu, Chairman of the Solana Foundation

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11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Speech: EIGENLAYER: Verified Commitment Cloud

Guest: Sreeram Kannan, CEO of Eigen Labs

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11:15 AM - 11:55 AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable discussion: Ethereum's existential crisis

Guests: Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz, Infinex Founder Kain Warwick, ETHGlobal Kartik Talwar

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11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Fireside Dialogue: Goldman Sachs’ Attitude to Digital Assets: Using Technology to Achieve Positive Subversion

Guest: Mathew Mcdermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, CNBC anchor and reporter Dan Murphy

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11:55 AM - 12:35 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Artificial Intelligence Liberation: Building Intelligence on Open Networks

Guests: NEAR Protocol Illia Polosukhin, Intelligent Internet CEO Emad Mostaque, Eigen Labs CEO Sreeram Kannan, Chaos Labs consultant Irene Wu

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12:35 PM - 12:55 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Speech: The Road to the Next Billion Users

Guest: OKX Founder & CEO Xu Mingxing

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12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: IO.NET STAGE

Speech: Change the crypto world order

Guest: Andrei Grachev, managing partner at DWF Labs

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2:00 PM - 2:40 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Fireside Talk: CZ

Guests: Binance founder Zhao Changpeng, Real Vision Lianchuang & CEO Raoul Pal

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2:40 PM - 3:20 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable discussion: Is MEME coin dead... or is it waiting for a return?

Guests: Bullpen Ansem, Founder & CEO of Asymmetric, Carl Vogel, General Partner of 6th Man Ventures, and Jordi Alexander, Founder of Selini

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3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Location : KUCOIN STAGE

The Fireside Talk: Sands of Change: The Institutional Power of Digital Assets

Guests: Brett Tejpaul, head of Coinbase, Blockworks Jason Yanowitz

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3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Scale Stablecoins: Connecting the DEFI and TRADFI Markets

Guests: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Ethena Labs CEO Guy Young, Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick, Haun Ventures General Partner Diogo Monica

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4:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Fireside Talk: Connecting Traditional Institutions and Cryptocurrencies: A New Era of Trust?

Guest: Binance CEO Richard Teng, Managing Partner of Nine Blocks Capital Management

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4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Topic: The mainstream application of stablecoin payment has arrived

Guests: Circle Lianchuang, Chairman & CEO Jeremy Allaire

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4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Topic: L2 and FAT Applied Papers

Guest: Mustafa Al Bassam, CEO of Celestia Labs

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4:40 PM - 5:20 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Tokenization: Rebuilding on-chain global finance

Guests: Christine Moy, Partner at Apollo, Robert Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, Founder & CEO of Gauntlet, Reid Simon, Head of DeFi and Credit Solutions at Securities Agency, Suvashree Ghosh, Bloomberg Cryptocurrency and Digital Payments Reporter

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5:20 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable discussion: From boycott to leadership? The role of the United States in the future of cryptocurrencies

Guests: Lightspark Lianchuang & CEO David Marcus, Zcash Lianchuang Zooko Wilcox, Hemi Lianchuang Matthew Roszak, CNBC anchor and reporter Dan Murphy

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May 1 (Thursday)

9:55 AM - 10:35 AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: From Cloud to Cable: Building the Physical Layer of WEB3

Guests: Abhay Kumar, Helium Agreement Leader, DoubleZero Austin Federa, Inversion Capital Founder, Santiago Roel Santos

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9:55 AM - 10:15 AM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Speech: Decades of Transformation

Guest: Dan Morehead, Founder and Managing Partner, Pantera Capital

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11:50 AM - 12:25 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Underfunded Alpha: Why Cryptocurrencies Still Offer Great Opportunities

Guests: Real Vision Lianchuang & CEO Raoul Pal, General Partner of Haun Ventures, Diogo Monica, Dragonfly Managing Partner, Haseeb Qureshi

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12:15 PM - 12:30 PM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Conversation: ETHENA X TON

Guests: Ethena Labs CEO Guy Young, Chief Security Officer of Open Platform/Wallets in Telegram

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12:35 PM - 1:05 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Fireside Dialogue: Fireside Talk with Eric Trump and World Free Finance

Guests: Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of Trump Group, World Liberty Financial Zach Witkoff, TRON Founder Justin Sun

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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable Discussion: Why Performance Is So Important: Scaling the Next Billion Users

Guests: Keone Hon, General Manager of Monad Foundation Lianchuang &, Polygon Sandeep Nailwal, MegaETH Lianchuang Shuyao Kong, Blockworks Lianchuang Jason Yanowitz

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2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Fireside Dialogue: Thoughts, Money and Meaning

Guests: Christian Angermayer, founder of Apeiron Investments, Zaheer Ebtikar, founder of Split Capital

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2:45 PM - 3:05 PM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Topic: Bitcoin and ETF: A powerful combination of disruptive pairs

Guest: Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg

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3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Speech: TETHER - a once-in-a-century company

Guest: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino

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3:20 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: OKX MAIN STAGE

Roundtable discussion: Is DEFI eroding CEFI?

Guests: Infinex founder Kain Warwick, founder & CEO of dYdX Trading, Drift Protocol Cindy Leow, Hack VC Managing Partner Alexander Pack

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3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: KUCOIN STAGE

Speech: The Future of Stablecoins, Fiat currency legislation and Global Payments

Guest: Sam Kazemian, Founder & CEO of Frax

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3. Surrounding activities

Monday, April 28

Topic: RWA Eco Day

Time: 9:30 - 15:30

Location: ATÖLYE Dubai

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Topic: VC Connect

Time: 11:00 - 14:00

Location: Register to view address

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Topic: 499&NEAR&KiteAI&HETU Dubai Expanded DeAI Summit 2025

Time: 10:00 - 18:00

Location: The Lana - Dorchester Collection

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Topic: Empowering the Future: DePIN and Real-World Infrastructure on Blockchain

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

Location: Emirates financial towers

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Topic: Globalization of TON DeFi: Telegram’s Trustless Asset Management

Time: 17:00 - 21:00

Location: Register to view address

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Topic: DeAI Dubai

Time: 20:00 - 23:00

Location: Register to view address

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Tuesday, April 29

Topic: Defi in Dubai

Time: 19:00 - 22:00

Location: Al Nafoorah - Jumeirah Al Qasr

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Topic: UAE: The Next Frontier of Global Web3 Innovation

Time: 8:00 - 11:30

Location: JW Marriott Hotel Marina

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Topic: 2025 Dubai DeSci Summit

Time: 10:00 - 17:00

Location: Museum of The Future

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Topic: deAI Day: The Future of AI, DePIN and Web3

Time: 10:00 - 16:00

Location: East West Atelier

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Topic: Connection and Innovation

Time: 10:00 - 18:00

Location: Dukes The Palm, a Royal Hideaway Hotel

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Topic: RWA Revolution on Blockchain

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Location: Emirates financial towers

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Wednesday, April 30

Topic: [Binance Clubhouse](https://meetup.binance.events/e/binance- clubhouse-25)

Time: 13:00 - 17:00

Location: Jumeirah Mina Al Salam - Jumeira Street - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

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Thursday, May 1

Topic: DeCIS: Web3 на русском

Time: 8:00 - 22:00

Address: Register to view the address

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Friday, May 2

Topic: AFTER 2049 Presents Seth Troxler & Monkey Safari in Dubai

Time: 19:00 - 23:00

Location: Be Beach – Dubai

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Topic: 2025 Global Digital Asset Investment Summit

Time: May 2-3

Location: The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Topic: BTC Summit

Time: 10:00 - 18:00

Location: Register to view address

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Topic: Dubai Artificial Intelligence Day

Time: 14:00 - 18:00

Location: Register to view address

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Topic: Community Sunset Meeting

Time: 8:30 - 22:00

Location: The Banc Dubai

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Topic: Forging the Future: Web3 + AI

Time: 19:30 - 23:00

Location: Register to view address

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Saturday, May 3

Topic: Aya Hackathon

Time: 13:00 - 18:00

Location: Al Safa Art & Design Library

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Topic: Degen After Party

Time: 19:00 - 23:00

Location: Marina Yachts - Yacht and Boat Rental Service in Dubai