• Kristin Smith, President, Solana Policy Institute

• Rep. Tom Emmer, MN-06
• Kristin Smith, President, Solana Policy Institute

This session maps the real-world pathway from policy framework to institutional deployment, with panelists from wealth management, infrastructure, and active institutional capital exploring what it takes to operationalize digital asset adoption at scale.

• Jim Ferraioli, Head of Crypto Research, Charles Schwab
• Germán Soto Sanchez, Chief Product Officer and Co-President of Digital Assets, Broadridge
• Katherine Molnar, Chief Investment Officer, Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System
• Jeff Park, Partner, ParaFi Capital
• Owen Lau, Clear Street LLC

Patrick Witt, who’s leading the White House’s crypto policy efforts, sits down with Crypto in America for the latest on the Administration’s efforts to advance crypto policy.

• Patrick Witt, Executive Director, President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets
• Eleanor Terrett, Crypto in America
• Jacquelyn Melinek, Founder & CEO, StrataMedia

Two industry leaders with frontline visibility into where crypto adoption is accelerating, map the opportunities reshaping digital assets this fall and over the next twelve months. They’ll discuss the latest on Clarity, how regulatory clarity unlocks deployment, and emerging use cases that reshape what’s possible.

• Summer Mersinger, CEO, Blockchain Association
• Ji Kim, CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation
• Kate Ackley, Senior Reporter, Bloomberg Government

• Rep. Bryan Steil, WI-01
• Colin McLaren, Head of Government Relations, Solana Policy Institute

This session brings together the crypto tax experts to map where the law is heading, what you need to know about compliance right now, and how the next year of tax rulings, both from courts and Capitol Hill, will directly reshape your business model.

• Alison Mangiero, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of U.S. Policy, Crypto Council for Innovation
• Jason Somensatto, Director of Policy, Coin Center
• Catherine Leffert, Reporter, Punchbowl News

Crypto’s long-term viability depends on excellent cybersecurity for builders and users alike. This panel examines how security researchers, incident response teams, and protocol developers are consolidating fragmented expertise into shared frameworks and operational standards, then bringing that knowledge into policymaking conversations. When policymakers understand how the industry coordinates around security—what tools already exist, where gaps remain, and what resilience actually looks like—better policy follows.

• Jonathan Claudius, CEO, Asymmetric Research
• Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer, Solana Foundation
• Amanda Tuminelli, CEO and Chief Legal Officer, DeFi Education Fund
• Robert Chen, Founder and CEO of OtterSec

Mike Passalacqua, leading the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee, sits down to discuss what’s happening at the agency, where the regulatory momentum is heading, and what builders and institutional investors should expect as crypto markets mature.

• Michael Passalacqua, Senior Advisor to Chairman Selig and CFTC Innovation Task Force Lead
• Patrick Wilson, General Counsel, Solana Policy institute

• Blue Macellari, Head of Digital Asset Strategy, T. Rowe Price
  
• ​Rachel Horn, Chief Marketing Officer, Solana Policy Institute

Institutional traders and asset managers increasingly need onchain execution alternatives that offer both institutional-grade tooling and self-custody. This panel examines how Solana’s ecosystem is assembling that infrastructure: from non-custodial wallet-and-exchange platforms, to routing optimization, to deep liquidity venues, to the MEV infrastructure that makes fast execution reliable.

• Ethan Chan, CEO, Allium
• Chris Montagano, Chief Legal Officer & Head of Corporate Development, Orca
• Mark Wetjen, President, Backpack US
• Georgia Quinn, General Counsel, Forward Industries

Commissioner Peirce will discuss the policy pathways that will define capital markets infrastructure for the next decade.

• Hester Peirce, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Moderated by Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO, Solana Policy Institute

• Paul Atkins, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
• Miller Whitehouse-Levine, CEO, Solana Policy Institute