William Raulin

Investor @XVentures_Fund @proofoftalk

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In closed AI, one vendor sets the capability and the price. There is no live market underneath the subscription.

Marcus Graichen @mogmachine, Founder of Taostats @taostats and one of the earliest builders on Bittensor, took the Main Stage at the Louvre for his keynote The Thin Line.

He walked through why agents amplify operators but do not replace them, how Bittensor prices capability rather than access, and why the most important AI infrastructure being built today sits on an open capability market rather than a closed stack.

Watch the full keynote.
https://t.co/LDM56dCkdx

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Lower cost of capital is what brings institutional assets onchain. Stani Kulechov @StaniKulechov made the case from the Main Stage at Proof of Talk .

The Founder of Aave @aave, the largest decentralised lending protocol in the world, sat down with Jacquelyn Melinek for Aave V4: Scaling Onchain Lending.

His argument: tokenised equity moves when onchain credit prices the assets better than the alternative.

That is when institutional flow follows.

Watch the whole session here:
https://t.co/8IntAiZUqb

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Three builders who lived through every chapter of institutional digital finance. One panel that asked which parts aged well, which did not, and what comes next.

From the Taostats Stage at Proof of Talk 2026: From Enterprise Blockchain to Tokenised Markets: The Next Chapter of Institutional Finance, with David Rutter @daviderutter1 (Founder & CEO, @inside_r3), Ben Nadareski @ben_solstice (Co-Founder & CEO, @solsticefi), and Tim Grant (CEO, Deus X Capital) moderating.

Watch the full session below.
https://t.co/1BhimI7UYQ

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Shardul Bansal @shardiban started in the Bittensor ecosystem at the University of Toronto, working on his capstone with Ala Shaabana on benchmarks for decentralised training.

He then led product at Crucible Labs before launching ORO @oroagents, Subnet 15 on Bittensor, pioneering open agents and agentic commerce through open incentives.

At the Louvre, he joined the Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk.

One of the strongest Bittensor meetups he has ever seen. His words.

The praise that matters from someone who has watched the ecosystem grow from inside it.

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Financial transformation is no longer a promise - it's a reality. In that context, @notbanklatam took part in one of the most influential conversations in the blockchain and fintech ecosystem during Proof of Talk 2026 in Paris.

The company's participation reflected the growth of an organization that continues to develop digital financial solutions for a new generation of users, combining innovation, technology, and trust into a platform with global reach.

Throughout the event, Notbank strengthened relationships with global industry leaders, explored new strategic partnerships, and shared the vision driving its growth: building a financial ecosystem where using digital money becomes increasingly simple, secure, and accessible.

More than simply attending an international event, Notbank's presence at Proof of Talk sparked high-impact conversations, created new collaboration opportunities, and reinforced its position as one of Latin America's most promising players in the global fintech and blockchain ecosystem.

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After this year’s Proof of Talk, we examined the state of Web3 capital.

Together with our Strategic Communications Partner @INPUT_global , we analyzed more than 200 startup applications from Proof of Pitch 2026, alongside an exclusive survey of 13 Web3 VC funds and public market data from Q1 to Q2 2026.

The findings are now live.

The data shows a shift: Web3 founders are becoming more commercial, capital is concentrating around RWA, stablecoins, financial infrastructure, and AI, and both founders and investors are increasingly aligned on where the next cycle is heading.

Get the H1 2026 report here: https://t.co/2aUE5a31RI

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Mark Jeffrey @markjeffrey saw Bitcoin early. Jacob Steeves @JacobSteeves3 saw decentralised AI early.

At Proof of Talk this June, they shared a stage to explain why those convictions are actually the same one.

The fireside: Decentralising Intelligence: The Unification of AI and Bitcoin. On the Bittensor Track at the Louvre.

Watch this before you write off decentralised AI as too early.
https://t.co/uRHWAjovHz

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Few voices on Wall Street have shaped how institutions think about digital assets the way Tom Lee @fundstrat has.

The Chairman of @BitMNR and Head of Research at @FundstratCap delivered the keynote on the Main Stage at Proof of Talk this June: Blockchains Are Central to the Future of Finance and Agentic AI.

His take: crypto prices and the amount of tokenised assets are highly linked. As more institutional capital moves onchain, the asset class itself reprices.

The full thesis is in the keynote. Watch it before the next institutional cycle confirms it.
https://t.co/Y1xlwjskoH

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Heslin Kim's @HeslinKim job is to make Ethereum and Canton speak the same institutional language. At Proof of Talk this June, he found a place where they already do.

The Co-Founder of @ZenithFdn builds the EVM execution layer for Canton, with Zenith holding a Super Validator slot alongside JPMorgan, HSBC, Visa, and DTCC.

At the Louvre, he joined the Canton Track conversations on cross-VM architecture, composability, and bridging DeFi to institutional finance.

And he is already coming back next year.

Thank you, Heslin. Looking forward to seeing you soon.

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15 years in private markets fundraising across Asia. Senior roles at @partnersgroup. Now leading global digital assets strategy at @hamilton_lane.

Victor Jung took the Main Stage at Proof of Talk for After the Flush: What October 10th Revealed About Crypto Market Fragility, bringing the private markets institutional view to a panel of crypto-native operators.

Watch this before the next October 10th happens.
https://t.co/mQLOgJvtjW

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What if AI agents are not about replacing buyers, but about replacing the moment of negotiation?

That is the framing @diogomonica brought to Proof of Talk 2026.

The Co-Founder of @Anchorage, GP at @HaunVentures, and Chairman of the @NEARFoundation argued on the Main Stage that agents become useful for commerce at the moment of live negotiation. Two agents discovering price together, in real time, between you and the merchant.

Didn't make it in person? Watch the panel on Youtube.
https://t.co/qiFkgwyEiO

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Few investors bring @HadickM's combination of crypto-native conviction and traditional capital markets experience. Proof of Talk is one of the places where he keeps showing up.

The General Partner at @dragonfly_xyz, the $2.5B Web3-focused investment firm, joined the Main Stage at the Louvre for Investment Opportunities in the Rise of Stablecoins.

His path before Dragonfly: multi-stage crypto investments at GoldenTree Asset Management ($50B+ hedge fund), fintech investment and advisory work at Goldman Sachs, and PJT Partners.

The panel covered public equities, infrastructure, lending, synthetic stablecoins, yield, and protocol value accrual. Each with a different risk profile and a different ceiling.

Watch the full panel.
https://t.co/qiFkgwyEiO

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"The potential of DeFi on traditional finance and even on capital markets is really huge. That's why it's important for DeFi to grow, to test, to innovate. And that's why there is a trade-off between the regulation and innovation."

Few people in DeFi can speak for both regulators and builders. Stéphanie Cabossioras @StepCabossioras does it from inside @SG_Forge.

The Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer of SG Forge joined the Main Stage at Proof of Talk 2026 for Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk.

The full session is the conversation institutional DeFi has been needing.

Watch it here: https://t.co/q62tE7N47F@

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Maja Vujinovic @maja0G has been building in crypto since 2011.

The CEO of Digital Assets at @FGNexusio (Nasdaq: FGNX), where she oversees a $200M+ Ethereum-based treasury, joined the Main Stage at Proof of Talk 2026 for Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk.

Maja walks through why DeFi matters: the ideology of replacing the financial system we have, and the return on capital that makes it a hard institutional answer to refuse.

Few voices in institutional DeFi have been right this consistently, for this long.

Watch the full session below.
https://t.co/q62tE7N47F

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What does it look like when traditional finance and stablecoins finally meet? Franklin Templeton and Moonpay announced their partnership live on the Main Stage at the Louvre, in front of 2,500 of the most senior people in digital assets.

Jenny Johnson (CEO, FTI) and Caroline D. Pham @CarolineDPham (CEO, Moonpay Institutional) on 21st Century Cash Optimization.

The mechanics of tokenised money market funds plugging into payment infrastructure. What happens when programmable, yield-bearing cash becomes the default rail. How $1.74T of asset management moves onchain.

Watch the full session below.
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Maha Al-Saadi has been one of the people who decide what gets written into financial regulation across Europe and the Middle East. This June, she chose Proof of Talk because the agenda was built with the same care she has spent her career demanding.

Maha has advised executive teams at the @QFCRA, @DeutscheBoerse, @traderepublic, and Bankhaus Scheich.

When someone of her experience walks into a room, they notice what others miss. The thought in the agenda. The networking quality. The hard work behind the scenes.

And she chose to lend her voice to a stage at the Louvre Palace.

Maha joined the Main Stage panel Where Stablecoins Meet Credit, alongside @CoinbaseAM, @Citi, and @FasanaraDigital.

We could not be more honoured to hear this from you, Maha. The work you saw is the work we will keep doing.

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The bitcoin treasury company model is one of the most misunderstood strategies in finance right now.

At Proof of Talk 2026, @Treasury_BTC put the model on the stand.

"On Trial: The Bitcoin Treasury Company Model" was a workshop where Khing Oei @khingoei, Founder & CEO of Treasury, cross-examined the most misunderstood thesis in finance right now.

Thank you to Treasury for bringing the conversation the industry needed.

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Eddie Chong, Chairman of the @SFI_AI, on the stage:

AI Agents are emerging as independent digital economic units. But the industry still lacks the compliant, low-friction, scalable payment infrastructure to support them.

This is the single greatest bottleneck preventing Web4 from reaching mass adoption.

"For the past decade, we have been doing one thing: laying the most fundamental payment rails for Web4. Now, those rails have reached the gates of the Louvre."

SFI Foundation is the globally leading Web4 full-stack infrastructure service provider. Built across four pillars: compliant stablecoin payments, RWA real-world asset tokenisation, real-world consumer ecosystem enablement, and AI-powered quantitative trading.

Thank you, SFI, for being part of Proof of Talk 2026.

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"I don't go to as many crypto conferences as you might imagine, maybe two or three a year. And this is one of those that is always firmly on my calendar."

Marcus Graichen @mogmachine (Founder, @taostats) returned to Proof of Talk 2026 for their second year supporting the Bittensor track, and the reason is simple.

The right room. The right conversations. The people building the future of decentralised AI, Web3, and agentic networks, all in one place, at the Louvre Palace.

Thank you Marcus and the taostats team for being part of Proof of Talk 2026. Proud to have Taostats as a Diamond Partner this year.

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She has lived and breathed crypto for over 13 years, and then she chose Proof of Talk because the agenda matched the rigor she's spent her career defending.

No pay-to-speak, but challenging and honest conversations.

@christinenews has shaped the standards of financial journalism across @Bloomberg, @thomsonreuters, and @propublica.

She is a newsroom veteran whose investigative research contributed to a series awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She built @CoinDesk TV as its Senior Anchor, covered the rise and fall of FTX, and called out Terra Luna long before the consensus caught up.

When someone with her track record chooses where to lend their voice, it says something about the caliber of what we are building.

Christine joined Proof of Talk as a member of the Content Council, and one of the moderators who guided the Main Stage at the Louvre Palace this June.

Her reflection on the event says the rest.