🧞♀️ DeFAI & Restaking Day | TOKEN 2049
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6th edition of worldwide DeFi gathering — Let’s make it Epic! 🔔
After an incredible journey from Dubai’s floodwaters to Brussels’ historic charm to Singapore drift and Chaotic Bangkok, kicking off 2025 in uplifting Denver with 450+ attendees, 24 standout speakers, and 13 partners, including Eigen, Ether.fi, Symbiotic, Mode, Kernel DAO, HeyElsaAI, Coinbase Developer Platform, Solayer, and eOracle.
📣 Speakers
🎤 Agenda
10:30 — 10:20 Doors opening, networking, 🍕food & drinks🥤
11:20 — 11:30 Opening word
11:30 — 11:45 Keynote: "The Future of AI is Specialized: Why General Models Aren’t Enough" (Ram - Core Contributor) @ Open Ledger
11:45 — 12:00 Keynote: "Creating DeFi utility for AI" (Ian Estrada - Co-Founder) @ MAITRIX
12:00 — 12:40
Panel Discussion: "Liquid, Leveraged, Loopable: How DeFi Is Farming Restaking" moderated by Sofia, Head of Defi @ Kelp, and Head of Partnerships @ Kernel
Rok Kopp, Co-Founder @ Ether.fi
Misha, Co-Founder @ Symbiotic
Gaia Ferrero Regis, CEO & Co-Founder @ Byzantine
Head of my Protocol Strategy @ Figment
12:40 — 12:55 Keynote: "Shared Security Abstraction: Unifying the UX of building decentralized networks" (Abhishek Kumar - Founder, CEO) @ Catalysis Network
12:55 — 13:10 Keynote: "The 2025 Yield Stack" (Steven Pack, Co-founder & CEO) @ RockSolid
13:10 — 13:25 Keynote: "Bridging Chaos: Building a Unified Liquidity Layer for the AI-Driven DeFi Future" (Ivan Miskovic - CEO) @ Cytonic
13:25 — 13:40 Keynote: "Reactive'ating Restaking Workflows" (Ivan Ivanitskiy - Head of Developer Relations) @ Reactive Network
13:40 — 13:55 Keynote: "DeFi’s Dirty Secret: Mercenary capital, backroom deals, and how we can give Retail access" (Ben Ward - Co-founder & COO) @ RockSolid
14:00 — 14:40
Panel Discussion: "DeFi & AI: Pioneering the Future of Finance" moderated by Francesco Andreoli, Director of Developer Relations @ MetaMask
James Ross, Co-founder @ Mode
Amrit Kumar, COO @ AltLayer
Ron Bodkin, CEO & Co-Founder @ Theoriq
Harrison Seletsky, Director of Business Development @ Space ID
14:40 — 15:20
Panel Discussion: "ETH Built It. BTC Wants In. Who Restakes the Future?" moderated by Irena Timofeeva, Head of Ecosystem @ Chainflip
Luke Xie, co-founder & CEO @ SatLayer
Nader Dabit, Director of DevR @ Eigen
Piyush, Head of Ecosystem @ BIMA
Ali Boukhalfa, Head of MENA @ P2P
Petter, Sales Director EMEA @ Kiln
15:20 — 17:00 Networking! 🧞🧚
Let’s build, learn, and connect!
✨ Partners
🔸Byzantine — decentralised protocol making restaking accessible to all.
🔸SatLayer — unleashes the possibilities of BTC, the world's best economic collateral, to secure any type of dApp or protocol
🔸Catalysis — building a unified, connected shared security ecosystem. Our abstraction layer unifies security across restaking protocols, making it easier for developers and node operators to launch decentralized networks and scale seamlessly.
🔸Reactive Network — parallelized interoperability execution layer for EVM ecosystems.
🔸Cytonic — a Layer 1 blockchain designed for seamless cross-chain compatibility. It natively supports ecosystems like Ethereum, Solana, and Sui, enabling effortless interoperability.
🔸RockSolid — Maximize your staking rewards with the highest-yielding Ethereum LST.
🔸MAITRIX — a next-generation stablecoin protocol, allowing AI projects to issue their own Intelligent Stablecoin backed by their native token.
🔸Open Ledger — next-gen blockchain network for AI, providing decentralized economic infrastructure to source, fine-tune and launch Payable AI models.
🎬 Media Partners
CryptoniteUAE / Etherscan / Securities.io / IcoHolder / Bitcoin Insider / ZEX PR Wire / Proof of Talk / Crypto.News
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