BASS Denver 2025

​​​​BASS (Blockchain Application Stanford Summit) is the in-person focal point of Stanford’s Blockchain entrepreneurial ecosystem; gathering our global community of researchers, engineers, and thought leaders to connect and explore blockchain's latest topics in depth.

BASS is brought to you by the Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Crypto & Blockchain Alumni of Stanford.

​We’re grateful for our main sponsors Near (https://near.org/ai), Solana (https://solana.com/) and StarkWare (https://starkware.co/) with additional support from QeD Protocol (https://qedprotocol.com/), Story Protocol (https://www.story.foundation/), Nexus Labs (https://nexus.xyz/), Halliday (https://halliday.xyz/) and Blockchain Builders Fund (https://www.blockchainbuilders.fund/).​

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​Confirmed speakers include:

• ​Daniel Albert, Executive Director, Solana Foundation

• ​Karl Floresch, Co-Founder, Optimism & CEO, OP Labs

• ​Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, Near

• ​Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder, 0G (SBA)

• ​Keone Hon, Founder & CEO, Monad

• ​Daniel Marin, Founder, Nexus (SBA)

• ​Shuyao Kong, Co-Founder, MegaETH

• ​Jason Zhao, Co-Founder, Story Protocol

• ​Rushi Manche, Founder & CEO, Movement Labs

• ​Oren Katz, COO, Starkware

• ​Uma Roy, Founder and CEO, Succinct Labs

• ​Ejaaz, Core Contributor, Aiccelerate

• ​Nemil Dalal, Lead of Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP), Coinbase

• ​Lincoln Murr, Lead of AgentKit, Coinbase

• ​Carter Feldman, Co-Founder, QeD

• ​Shresth Agrawal, Co-Founder, POD (SBA)

• ​Griffin Dunaif, Founder & CEO, Halliday (SBA)

• ​Rachin Kalakheti, Founder, Twine (SBA)

• ​Ash Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Axal

• ​Sean Ren, Co-Founder, Sahara AI

• ​Anna Kazlauskas, Founder, Vana

• ​Jakub Janiak, Co-founder, Slate (SBA)

• ​Jonah Burian, Investor, Blockchain Capital

• ​Tom Schmidt, General Partner, Dragonfly

• ​Anand Iyer, Founder SEKOIA, Managing Partner, Canonical

• ​Casey Caruso, Managing Partner, Topology

• ​Guy Wuollet, Deal Partner, a16z

• ​Lauren Stephanian, General Partner, Pantera Capital

• ​Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly

• ​Joey Krug, Partner, Founders Fund