Inna S Stelmakh

Inna (이나) S
@Satoshidinner
#1 Web3 Conferences & Networking Expert| MBA Crypto Executive| Building Founders Brands at Crypto Events

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@AryaNedaee_ @Satoshidinner @kbwofficial 어서 오세요!

[Arya Nedaee @AryaNedaee_]

We’re bringing Satoshi Dinner Club (@Satoshidinner) back for Korea Blockchain Week (@kbwofficial). 🇰🇷

21 seats. One table.

VCs, LPs, builders & KOLs, all in the same room.

500+ registrations already, with more than a week to go.

Only 21 will make the table.

Try your luck.

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@Cryptic_Web3 @Satoshidinner @alpheanetwork With @GavinVDL, @QuintenFrancois, @punk3690, @AryaNedaee_

[Satoshi Dinner Club @Satoshidinner]

Satoshi Dinner Club is coming to Seoul.

October 1st. 21 seats. Personally curated.

Watch the video for a look at our previous editions.

Powered by @ALPHEA and @Cryptic_Web3

With @instelmakh , @GavinVDL , @QuintenFrancois , @AryaNedaee_ and @punk3690

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@AryaNedaee_ 🤢

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@Satoshidinner NEXT CHAPTER IS COMING SOON

[Satoshi Dinner Club @Satoshidinner]

Venue 10/10. Guests 10/10. Food 10/10. Overall 10/10.

Thank you @AryaNedaee_ for being part of our @signalweek edition of Satoshi Dinner Club.

Next one coming soon. Stay close.

[Satoshi Dinner Club @Satoshidinner]

The start of something big.

Thank you @megan_crypto for joining our @signalweek edition of Satoshi Dinner Club.

Next one lands soon. TBC, but the room is worth waiting for.

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@WuBlockchain @benbybit @benbybit happy to invite you to explore opportunities to support our @Satoshidinner

[Lorenzo Valente @LorenzoARK]

Just got back from @consensus2026 Miami. Some unfiltered thoughts on the vibes:

The industry has clearly grown up. The degens are gone, the allocators are wearing suits, and your @Uniswap booth has been replaced by a JP Morgan activation with 50 year old boomers. Cautiously optimistic with a distinctly institutional aftertaste. This was not a bull market conference.

Key takeaways:

1) CLARITY Act has serious momentum. Everyone at the conference basically agrees it's getting done before summer. The urgency is real, people are done waiting. And the regulatory window feels genuinely unprecedented: CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act, a CFTC chair actively engaging with the industry, this combination has never existed simultaneously before. The institutional urgency you're seeing everywhere is directly correlated to this window feeling time-limited. Miss it and you're explaining to your board why you sat on your hands during the most favorable crypto regulatory environment in history.

2) Institutions are not dabbling anymore. They are ALL IN on tokenization and terrified of missing it. No one is debating whether blockchain rails are useful. The debate is now who gets the mandate. And quietly @coinbase , @krakenfx , @RobinhoodApp and @Bullish and others are being seen more as competitors than potential partners by a lot of these TradFi players.

3) TradFi M&A is going to keep ripping. @krakenfx just grabbed Reap for $600M. Visa, Mastercard, Swift etc they can't miss the train and they're willing to overpay for the ticket.

4) Crypto VC is consolidating fast. @a16z and @katie_haun just announced $2.2B and $1B funds respectively. Meanwhile the boutique VCs are either pivoting to AI or quietly closing shop. Same playbook is happenign as traditional VC, the big platforms eat everything and the small guys scramble. Seed and pre-seed is basically a ghost town right now. Late stage and pre-IPO is where the action is.

5) Investment themes were aggressively consensus (no pun intended): Stablecoins, tokenization, vertically integrated neo-banks, regulated or permissioned DeFi. Literally everyone is trying to be a tokenization platform. Issuance, management, settlement, curation, pick your lane, slap tokenization on it, try to raise money.

6) Building in crypto is genuinely hard now. Your competition isn't some scrappy new L1 or GMX, it's @tether , @Anchorage , and @Securitize. there are now many crypto businesses running 200M+ annual Rev with serious management teams and deep pockets. The barbarians are now the establishment. New entrants are going to have a very bad time.

7) Pure token-only plays have become extremely contrarian. Controversial take but I think the biggest returns will come from a handful of tokens that can credibly signal in a compliant way that the token remains the only value accruing asset going forward.

8) A lot of teams are in a genuinely weird spot on the token/equity dynamics. Decent products, decent teams, but a complete stakeholder clusterf*** that nobody can untangle. Many of these will simply not survive.

9) The agentic finance and agentic commerce crowd was loud. The actual substance was not. A lot of big claims, very little to show for it. Feels very early and mostly vibes. Color me skeptical for now.

10) @Bullish acquiring Equinity for $4.2B was the boldest move of the conference. @ThomasFarley and @BonannoDavid now have a full-stack RWA proposition: issuance, transfer agency, tokenization, exchange and settlement under one roof. Massive move. Very positive for the industry regardless of whether you think the price or the move were right.

11) @BitMNR and @fundstrat are apparently tired of winning and has decided to let your grandma keep her ETH... for now. The pace of accumulation is slowing. Tom, we await your next allocation with bated breath.

12) DeFi apps are moving up the stack and getting smarter about it. They don't want to be the commodity infrastructure layer getting squeezed by exchanges that own distribution. Some genuinely interesting announcements, @buffalu__ at @jito launching JTX being the highlight.

13) Nobody at the conference was talking about retail coming back. The entire conversation was institutional. That's either a sign of maturity or a sign that the industry has quietly given up on mainstream consumer adoption for now and is betting the next cycle gets pulled by institutional flows rather than retail FOMO. Probably both.

14) The L1 debate is officially dead. Nobody and I mean nobody was arguing SOL vs ETH or pitching their shiny new L1. The crowd that used to religiously defend their chain of choice has either grown up, cashed out, or both. Institutions don't care about your consensus mechanism. They care about settlement finality, compliance rails and liquidity. The L1 wars were fun while they lasted. RIP.

15) DATs are a mess. Had some genuinely productive conversations with a few of them but let's be honest most are an absolute clusterf*** operationally and very few are running anything resembling a legitimate business. The structure is a disaster at the stakeholder level and the governance makes your average startup cap table look clean. That said, the permanent capital vehicle concept is still genuinely compelling and I think a handful of these will turn out to be absolute home runs. The model isn't broken, most of the teams just are.

Bottom line: Consensus 2026 felt like the moment crypto stopped being a movement and started being an industry. Whether that's exciting or depressing probably depends on when you got in.

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@nordicblock conference -> May 26–27 | Stockholm
@thecryptovalley -> May 28 | Zug
@proofoftalk -> June 2-3 | Paris
@BTCPrague -> June 11–14 | Prague
@IstanbulBlockWk -> June 2-3 | Istanbul
@waibsummit Monaco -> June 9-10 | Monaco
@DutchBlockWeek -> June 24-25 | Amsterdam

[Satoshi Dinner Club @Satoshidinner]

One table. Twenty-one seats. Paris.
Edition one in the books.

Thanks to our partners @WEEX_Official @TRAVLS @Cryptic_Web3 for making the first night possible.

More cities. More tables. Stay close.

[Gleb Jout @Metanoeticist]

Had a wonderful time networking and dining with industry leaders as part @Satoshidinner in Paris a few weeks ago during PBW. Great evening and vibes in a beautiful city 🇫🇷

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@Satoshidinner in Paris in famous among celebrities Lafayette’s restaurant.
Glad we did it.

[Cryptic @Cryptic_Web3]

The first edition of @Satoshidinner in Paris! 🇫🇷

Some of the best moments during @signalweek didn’t happen on stage.

They happened around a table.

21 seats.
Curated guests.

Satoshi Dinner Club was exactly what it was meant to be.

Small, intentional, and filled with people who actually want to build, connect, and understand where this space is going.

Grateful for the conversations, the perspectives, and the energy in the room.

Big thank you to our partners @Satoshidinner, @WEEX_Official, and @TRAVLS for making this possible.

Stay tuned for the next Satoshi Dinner Club

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

@Satoshidinner in Paris edition
240 in a waitlist. 21 people at 1 table.
No show offs. Just real conversations.

Thanks to support of @WEEX_Official @TRAVLS @Cryptic_Web3

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

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[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

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[Cryptic @Cryptic_Web3]

SATOSHI DINNER CLUB PARIS
powered by @WEEX_Official & @TRAVLS

During Paris Blockchain Week, some of the most meaningful conversations won’t happen on stage, they’ll happen around the table.

@Satoshidinner is an intimate, invite-only dinner designed to bring together a carefully curated group of high-level founders, leading VCs, traditional finance investors, and key figures from across the crypto ecosystem.

Just 21 seats.
Personally curated guests.
A discreet and elegant atmosphere.

The purpose is simple: to create a setting where traditional finance and crypto can meet through meaningful dialogue, real connection, and long-term alignment.

April 15
19:30 – 1:00 CEST

Luma: https://t.co/zkZsKXg94N

Some things are built more quietly.

[Inna S Stelmakh @instelmakh]

Great partner @Cryptic_Web3 come onboard with us for Satoshi Dinner Club in Paris.

[Cryptic @Cryptic_Web3]

📢 We’re thrilled to announce our Media Partnership with @Satoshidinner!

A curated dinner experience where crypto leaders, investors, and founders come together away from the noise, in a setting built for real conversations.

Some of the most important conversations don’t happen on stage.

They happen at the table.

Find more details here: https://t.co/pMHWuCXxAO