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 Premier sponsors:
Near, Solana, StarkWare, Blockchain Builders
Support from:
Caladan, Coinbase, PIN AI, QED, Supra, Sapien
And:
0g, Cambrian, Halliday, KiteAI, Nexus, Story, Twine, Bitmind, Hyperbolic, XTrace

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​Here is detailed agenda:

​9:00 AM Check-in

​9:30 AM Welcome Remarks

​9:35 AM Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO, Succinct

​9:50 AM Jeremy Bruestle, Co-Founder and CEO, RiscZero

​10:05 AM Carter Feldman, Co-Founder & CEO, QeD Moderator: Jonah Burian, Investor, Blockchain Capital

​10:20 AM Oren Katz, COO, StarkWare

​10:40 AM Panel: Rushi Manche, Co-Founder, Movement Labs; Smokey, Co-Founder, Berachain
Moderator: Jake Brukhman, Founder & CEO, Coinfund

​11:05 AM Keone Hon, Cofounder and GM, Monad Foundation

​11:20 AM Daniel Marin, Founder & CEO, Nexus (SBA)

​11:35 AM Shuyao Kong, Co-Founder, MegaETH Moderator: Tom Schmidt, General Partner, Dragonfly

​11:55 AM Karl Floersch, Co-Founder, Optimism & CEO, OP Labs

​12:10 PM Rachin Kalakheti, Founder, Twine (SBA)

​12:25 PM Dan Albert, Executive Chairman, Solana Foundation

​12:45 PM Shresth Agrawal, Co-Founder, POD (SBA)

​1:00 PM Lunch Break

​2:00 PM Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, Near

​2:20 PM Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder & CEO, 0G (SBA)

​2:35 PM Griffin Dunaif, Co-Founder & CEO, Halliday Moderated by Guy Wuollet, Deal Partner, a16z

​2:50 PM DeFAI Panel: Niyant Narang, Co-Founder, Slate; Ash Ahmed, Co-Founder & CEO, Axal; Sam Green, Founder & CEO, Cambrian (SBA
Moderator: Anand Iyer, Managing Partner, Canonical Crypto & Venture Partner, Lightspeed

​3:15 PM Panel on AI Agent Framework: Doug Millet, Product Manager, ELIZAOS; Hanan, Ecosystem and Growth, Virtuals; Danilo Kim, Co-Founder & CEO, Zap
Moderator: Casey Caruso, Managing Partner, Topology

​3:40 PM Nemil Dalal, Lead of Coinbase Developer Platform, Coinbase; Lincoln Murr, Lead of AgentKit, Coinbase

​3:55 PM Robert Drost, Executive Director and CEO, Eigen Foundation

​4:10 PM Panel on AI Agents: Davide Crapis, Co-Founder, PIN AI (SBA); Zi Feng, Co-Founder, Nectar (SBA); Felix Meng, Co-Founder & CEO, xTrace (SBA)
Moderator: Ejaaz, Core Contributor, Aiccelerate

​4:35 PM Jason Zhao, Co-Founder, Story 

​4:50 PM Panel on Crypto-Economics and AI: Ken Jon Miyachi, Co-Founder, Bitmind; Roger Ying, Co-Founder, dFusion; Jordan Gray, Co-Founder & CMO, PublicAI
Moderator: Jonathan King, Investor, Coinbase Ventures

​5:15 PM Panel on Training Decentralized AI Networks: Himanshu Tyagi, Co-Founder, Sentient; Trevor Koverko, Co-Founder, Sapien; Lia Muller Pena, Co-Founder, BitGPT Moderator: Tommy Shaughnessy, Founding Partner, Delphi Digital

​5:40 PM Panel on AI Data: Sean Ren, Co-Founder, Sahara AI; Anna Kazlauskas, Founder & CEO,  Vana; Stefaan Vervaet, CEO, Akave (SBA)
Moderator: Jay Yu, Investor, Pantera & President, Stanford Blockchain Club

​6:05 PM VC Panel on Market Outlook: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner, Dragonfly; Joey Krug, Partner, Founders Fund; Lauren Stephanian, General Partner, Pantera Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund