Confluence 2026:
Leading the NXT Frontier
Thursday, September 24, 2026
9:30am–7:30pm • New York City
Financial markets are changing. Digital and tokenized assets running on blockchain rails, increasingly combined with AI-based autonomous systems, are rapidly becoming critical infrastructure.
Regulatory frameworks are evolving, and legal questions once viewed as theoretical now carry real consequences. Prediction markets are facing an existential legislative threat while perpetual futures and other novel derivatives are entering mainstream dialogue. Stablecoins are becoming instruments of U.S. dollar policy. New opportunities (and risks) abound.
Confluence 2026 — CahillNXT's second annual conference — convenes decision-makers, practitioners, and technologists for a day of rigorous dialogue at the collisions reshaping finance, law, and technology.
Financial markets are changing. Digital and tokenized assets running on blockchain rails, increasingly combined with AI-based autonomous systems, are rapidly becoming critical infrastructure.
Regulatory frameworks are evolving, and legal questions once viewed as theoretical now carry real consequences. Prediction markets are facing an existential legislative threat while perpetual futures and other novel derivatives are entering mainstream dialogue. Stablecoins are becoming instruments of U.S. dollar policy. New opportunities (and risks) abound.
Confluence 2026 — CahillNXT's second annual conference — convenes decision-makers, practitioners, and technologists for a day of rigorous dialogue at the collisions reshaping finance, law, and technology.
Who Should Attend:
- Counsel, compliance leaders, and risk professionals at financial institutions, digital asset platforms, and prediction market operators
- Institutional investors, fund managers, and market participants deploying capital across digital assets and structured products
- Founders and technologists building infrastructure in regulated or regulation-adjacent environments
- Policy professionals and regulators engaged with digital asset legislation, prediction market oversight, and AI-related financial regulation.
CahillNXT Moderators
Conference Speakers
Floyd Abrams
Senior Counsel
Cahill
Daniel Barabander
Partner and CLO
Variant
Olivia G. Chalos
Deputy Chief Legal Officer
Polymarket
Aaron Fu
Director of Venture Investments
DCG
Jonathan Galea
Partner, CahillNXT
Cahill
Coy Garrison
Deputy General Counsel
Crypto, Robinhood Markets Inc.
Alex Golubitsky
General Counsel
Baton Corporation
Kelly Graves
Partner, Chief AI Strategy & Innovation Officer
Cahill
Keith Grossman
President
MoonPay
Rick Heaslip
Chief Regulatory Officer, General Counsel
Kalshi
Bo Hines
CEO
Tether USA₮
Marcus Hughes
Venture Partner
Sentinel Global
Aaron Iovine
Global Head of Digital Assets & Wholesale Payments Policy
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Kimberly Johns
Managing Director & Senior Counsel, Global Head of Digital Assets Legal
Goldman Sachs
De Kai
Founder
Empathetic.AI
Joel Kurtzberg
Partner
Cahill
Tara La Morte
Deputy General Counsel
BitGo
Alison Levine
Senior Vice President, Legal & Compliance
Blackstone
Lindsay Lin
COO
Dragonfly
Christian Lopez
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets
Cohen & Company Capital Markets
Purvi Maniar
Chief Legal Officer & President
Laser Digital & Laser Digital National Trust Bank
David I. Miller
Director of Enforcement
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Diana Miller
Global Head of Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations
OKX
Ijeoma Okoli
Senior Fellow
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
Jim Petrila
Chief Legal Officer
Dromos Labs
Brett Redfearn
President
Securitize
Joshua Riezman
Chief Legal & Strategy Officer
GSR
Joshua Rivera
Operating Partner & General Counsel
Blockchain Capital
Christopher Robins
General Counsel
Morpho Association
Nicolas Roos
Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
Ryan Rugg
Head of Digital Assets, Services
Citi
Alex Thorn
Head of Firmwide Research
Galaxy
Stephanie Vaughan
Chief Operating Officer
Ground
Frank Weigand
Partner, CahillNXT and Trading & Markets
Cahill
Jacob Wittman
General Counsel
Plasma
Agenda
All times Eastern. Program subject to change.
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Registration & Check-In
Details coming soon...
- Herb Washer, Executive Committee Chair & Partner, Cahill
- Lewis Rinaudo Cohen, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Sam Enzer, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Julie Cohen, Chief Marketing Officer, Cahill
Details coming soon...
- Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Special Guest
As prediction markets expand and decentralized platforms reshape how risk is priced, enforcement is evolving in real time. This panel brings together leaders from the CFTC, the DOJ's Securities & Commodities Fraud Task Force, and the platforms themselves to examine how insider trading, market manipulation, and AML frameworks apply to event contracts and on-chain markets.
- Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Olivia G. Chalos, Deputy Chief Legal Officer, Polymarket
- Rick Heaslip, Chief Regulatory Officer, General Counsel, Kalshi
- David I. Miller, Director of Enforcement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Diana Miller, Global Head of Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement and Investigations, OKX
- Nicolas Roos, Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Networking & Coffee Break
On-chain yield has moved beyond staking rewards into a new era of stablecoin strategies, multi-asset vaults, and programmable allocation. This panel unpacks where yield actually comes from, how vault architecture is redefining discretionary management, and what a meaningful disclosure and investor-protection regime should look like for these products.
- Sarah Chen (Moderator), Partner, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Jonathan Galea, Partner, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Alex Golubitsky, General Counsel, Baton Corporation
- Jim Petrila, CLO, Dromos Labs
- Christopher Robins, General Counsel, Morpho Association
- Stephanie Vaughan, COO, Ground
The line between traditional financial institutions and crypto platforms is disappearing. This panel explores the banking infrastructure powering that convergence, from prudential capital treatment and novel bank charters to the stablecoin-versus-tokenized-deposit debate, with perspectives from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and leaders building at the intersection of payments, digital assets, and AI.
- Gary Kalbaugh (Moderator), Partner, CahillNXT and Commodities, Futures & Derivatives, Cahill
- Marcus Hughes, Venture Partner, Sentinel Global
- Aaron Iovine, Global Head of Digital Assets & Wholesale Payments Policy, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Kimberly Johns, Managing Director & Senior Counsel, Global Head of Digital Assets Legal, Goldman Sachs
- Purvi Maniar, Chief Legal Officer & President, Laser Digital & Laser Digital National Trust Bank
- Frank Weigand, Partner, CahillNXT and Trading & Markets, Cahill
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Networking Lunch
Details coming soon...
- Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
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Bo Hines, CEO, Tether USA₮
Details coming soon...
- Greg Strong (Moderator), Partner, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Coy Garrison, Deputy General Counsel, Crypto, Robinhood Markets Inc.
- Keith Grossman, President, MoonPay
- Tara La Morte, Deputy General Counsel, BitGo
- Ijeoma Okoli, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
- Jacob Wittman, General Counsel, Plasma
Capital is moving. Investor attention has shifted from crypto to AI, token-based deals have slowed, and the builders who remain are more serious and more disciplined. This panel brings together leading crypto and frontier-tech investors to assess where capital is flowing, how tokenomics and governance are being rearchitected, and what the collision of AI, robotics, and crypto means for the next wave of venture investment.
- Brian Farber (Moderator), Counsel, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Daniel Barabander, Partner and CLO, Variant
- Aaron Fu, Director of Venture Investments, DCG
- Lindsay Lin, COO, Dragonfly
- Christian Lopez, Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets, Cohen & Company Capital Markets
- Joshua Rivera, Operating Partner & General Counsel, Blockchain Capital
3:35 pm - 3:55 pm
Networking & Coffee Break
The TradFi-versus-DeFi binary is over. The real story is confluence: institutional-grade hybrid infrastructure emerging where traditional finance meets decentralized protocols. This panel features leaders from Blackstone, Citi, Securitize, and GSR discussing tokenized settlement, institutional compliance in permissionless environments, and whether agentic finance and a generational wealth shift will accelerate the convergence.
- Lewis Rinaudo Cohen (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Alison Levine, Senior Vice President, Legal & Compliance, Blackstone
- Brett Redfearn, President, Securitize
- Joshua Riezman, Chief Legal & Strategy Officer, GSR
- Ryan Rugg, Head of Digital Assets, Services, Citi
- Alex Thorn, Head of Firmwide Research, Galaxy
Details coming soon...
- Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- De Kai, Founder, Empathetic AI Institute
- Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel, Cahill
- Kelly Graves, Partner, Chief AI Strategy & Innovation Officer
- Joel Kurtzberg, Partner, Cahill
Details coming soon...
- Lewis Rinaudo Cohen, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
- Sam Enzer, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
5:35 pm – 7:30pm
Cocktail Reception & Networking
Interested in attending?
Questions: Contact events@cahill.com.
Highlights From Confluence 2025
2025 signaled a new phase for global markets, as tokenization and decentralized finance moved from concept to execution. At last year’s Confluence, leading practitioners examined how these developments are reshaping market structure, from the digitization of traditional assets to the growing role of decentralized trading models. The conversations focused on the convergence of these systems—and the implications for how capital is raised, deployed, and regulated in the years ahead.
Interested in attending?
Questions: Contact events@cahill.com.