• 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

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

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

Join us for a fireside conversation with Bo Hines, CEO of Tether USA₮ and a leading voice at the intersection of digital assets and public policy, as he and moderator Sam Enzer, Partner and Co-Chair of CahillNXT, explore the evolving regulatory landscape for crypto markets in the wake of the CLARITY Act — from the practical implications for stablecoin issuers and market participants to the emerging opportunities for compliant innovation and institutional adoption in a new era of federal oversight.

• Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill

• Bo Hines, CEO, Tether USA₮

The line between crypto infrastructure and the traditional financial system is blurring fast — and stablecoins are at the center of it. This panel brings together general counsel and senior leaders from Robinhood, MoonPay, BitGo, and Plasma to unpack the GENIUS Act's real-world impact, the unresolved yield debate, and the custody and settlement challenges shaping the next generation of digital payments.

• Greg Strong (Moderator), Partner, CahillNXT, Cahill
• Coy Garrison, Deputy General Counsel, Crypto, Robinhood Markets Inc.
• 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

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

As the government weighs using national security powers to restrict AI products, a familiar constitutional tension is emerging — what role does the First Amendment play in protecting AI developers and users? Moderated by Sam Enzer, this panel brings together De Kai of Empathetic.AI alongside Floyd Abrams, Kelly Graves, and Joel Kurtzberg of Cahill to explore how First Amendment principles are shaping the regulatory landscape for AI. With perspectives spanning constitutional law, technology, capital markets, and regulatory strategy, the panel will unpack the legal and commercial implications for the industry.

• Sam Enzer (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
• De Kai, Founder, Empathetic.AI
• Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel, Cahill
• Kelly Graves, Partner, Chief AI Strategy & Innovation Officer, Cahill
• Joel Kurtzberg, Partner, Cahill

• Lewis Rinaudo Cohen, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill
• Sam Enzer, Partner and Co-Chair, CahillNXT, Cahill