Drift DeFi Day @ Accelerate NYC
Drift DeFi Day is a highly curated event at the intersection of DeFi, innovation, and policy — set between key Solana Accelerate NYC events.
Hosted by Drift in partnership with Solana Foundation, this one-day summit brings together the brightest minds across the ecosystem — from builders and founders to institutional leaders and policy experts.
Expect a full day of programming: Drift keynotes, fireside chats, panel discussions, individual presentations, and a special demo showcase featuring top teams from the Momentum Accelerator.
Designed for high-impact connection, every moment is an opportunity to meet the people shaping the next era of DeFi.
If you're building, investing in, or shaping the future of DeFi — this is your room.
100 invites only.
Apply to attend.
RSVP for Happy Hour here - brought to you by our friends at GSR, Raiku and Blockdaemon.
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Agenda
9:30 AM – Registration 10:00 AM – Welcome Speech: An Open Institutional Platform by David Lu (Drift)
Institutions
10:05 AM – The State of US Policy on DeFi (From Capitol Hill to Crypto) by Kristin Smith (Solana Policy Institute), Greg Xethalis (Multicoin Capital)
10:30 AM – Drift’s Big Vision: Building the On-Chain Financial Institution by Cindy Leow (Drift)
10:55 AM – Real Money, Real Assets, Real-Time: Institutional RWAs by Cindy Leow (Drift), Christine Moy (Apollo), Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet)
11:30 AM – State of Solana DeFi Presentation by Carlos G. Campo (Blockworks Research)
12:00 PM – All-In on Solana DeFi (Live Lightspeed Episode) by Kyle Samani (Multicoin Capital), Chris Heaney (Drift), Mert Mumtaz (Helius), Jack Kubinec (Blockworks)
12:40 PM – Lunch & Networking
Builders
2:10 PM – Why Solana DeFi Will Win by Z (Drift), Chris Heaney (Drift)
2:25 PM – The Infrastructure Layers of DeFi by FP (Sanctum), Robin A Nordnes (Raiku), Christian Montoya (Consensys), Joanna Zeng (Soon), Cindy Leow (Drift)
3:00 PM – Internet Capital Markets by Lily Liu (Solana Foundation) and Cindy Leow (Drift)
3:30 PM – The City for DeFi by David Lu (Drift)
3:45 PM – Momentum Presentations by Reflect, Zenrock, Exponent
4:10 PM – Happy Hour
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Partners
Drift is a capital-efficient DeFi platform on Solana, enabling trading, borrow/lend, vaults and prediction markets.
Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana ecosystem.
MetaMask is a leading self-custody web3 platform, trusted by 19 million users monthly to mint NFTs, join DAOs, play games, and access DeFi.
SOON is the first SVM Rollup Stack that extends Solana-level performance on every blockchain.
Sanctum is a liquid staking protocol on Solana, unifying LST liquidity for SOL stakers.
Helius is an enterprise-grade Solana development platform offering best-in-class RPCs, data streaming tools, and white label validators.
Official Media Partner: Blockworks