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Markets are being rewired by AI and blockchain, and institutions are the epicenters of this transition. To navigate this era, we are bringing together institutions with innovators, executives with entrepreneurs, and professionals with technologists at Cornell Tech in New York City on April 24th. We are pleased to announced our first set of speakers for the "Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets" conference. These leaders bring global perspectives shaped by operating businesses that collectively deliver: 💼 $35 Trillion+ in annual volume. 💰 $8.6 Trillion+ in assets under management. 📊 $150 Billion+ in combined annual revenue. 🏛️ Initial Speaker Roster: * Jed Finn | Head of Wealth Management @MorganStanley * Vasant Prabhu | Former Vice Chair & CFO, @Visa * @RichJWidmann | Head of Web3 Strategy, @Google * Jon Herrick | Chief Product Officer, @NYSE * Sandy Kaul | EVP and Head of Innovation, @FTDA_US * Denise Leonhard | GM of @Zelle, Early Warning® * @el33th4xor | Founder & CEO, @AvaLabs * @desilvaneil, EIR, @initc3org at @cornell_tech; also joining: * Michael Pastor, Dean Technology Law, @NYLawSchool * Leo Schwartz, Senior Reporter, @FortuneMagazine * Matthew D'Amore, Director, Law, Tech & Entrepreneurship, @cornell_tech 📣 Stay tuned! Many more announcements to come as we expect over 60 AI, blockchain & industry speakers across 25 focused panels. 🦅 Early Bird Tickets available now and going fast. Invite and agenda here: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc 2026 Conference co-hosts: Cornell Blockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, Blockchain Builders and AI @ Cornell Tech

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It was a special experience hosting our 2nd Dinner @CUBlockchain Dinner in SoHo, NYC bringing together CBC students, alumni, and friends. We had 30 builders and professionals across crypto, fintech, and venture share what they’re working on and how Cornell and the industry shaped their journey. @CUBlockchain members, Cornell alum working at different companies like @AvaLabs, @GoldmanSachs, @thisisarculus and previously worked at @BlackRock, @base, @avax, @Ripple joined us alongside our friends at @WhiteStarCap, @BNYWealth, @IMCTrading, @Auros_global, @ellipsis_labs, @Uniswap. Huge thanks to everyone who made it out and for supporting the Cornell Blockchain community. ​ If you’re a Cornell alum or friend in NYC who wants to stay in the loop for future CBC events, DM me!!!

We are proud to welcome Jed Finn, Head of @MorganStanley Wealth Management, as a Keynote at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at Cornell Tech. Morgan Stanley finished 2025 with $9.3 trillion in assets ($7.4 trillion in Wealth Management), and recently observed in a published note: "Digital assets have moved from niche to mainstream, briefly surpassing $4T in market value. Crypto, stablecoins and tokenized products are now embedded in global markets, offering faster settlement, lower costs and programmable financial infrastructure. Institutions, wealth platforms and regulators across major economies are rapidly integrating and formalizing the space." Embracing innovation at scale is one of the central--and most complex-- opportunities in front of global executives today, and we look forward to hearing his insights into growth and managing change. Early bird tickets are available now: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc Join us April 24th! lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA. The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain , Blockchain @ Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

On a day dedicated to scaling innovation, we are thrilled to have Vasant Prabhu, Former Vice Chair & CFO of Visa, returning to the mainstage as a speaker at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at Cornell Tech. Early bird tickets are available now: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc Vasant understands how large companies make decisions and navigate technology, markets, and change. Not only is Visa a fintech colossus of $14.2 trillion of annual total payments volume and a market cap of $640 billion, but Vasant brings insights across the global economy as he was previously CFO at NBCUniversal, Starwood, and PepsiCo International. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Delta, and Kenvue. We look forward to a day of institutions and innovators in dialogue! See you on April 24th lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

We are proud to welcome @el33th4xor, Founder and CEO of @AvaLabs, back as a Mainstage Speaker at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at @cornell_tech. Early bird tickets are available now: lnkd.in/eD45RCXr Under his leadership, the Avalanche L1 blockchain ecosystem is entering 2026 with historic momentum: - The Avalanche network recently surpassed 10 billion total transactions, powered by institutional adoption from leaders such as @jpmorgan's Onyx and @galaxyhq - Avalanche’s total value locked (TVL) in Real-World Assets (RWA) reached a high point of $1.3 billion As Gün recently observed: "Assets want to be digital. We aren't just building a faster blockchain; we are building the shared layer of trust where AI makes decisions and blockchain verifies them instantly." See you on April 24th! lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

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Attend our joint information session with @akashnet over boba!🧋 Hear from @AkashStudents about decentralized compute and from Cornell Blockchain members about the club. Register with this Luma link:

Last year in NYC, we welcomed 800+ leaders and builders across finance, tech, AI, crypto, and academia. This year, we’re expanding the conversation around what matters most to institutions now: how frontier technologies get built, deployed, and scaled. 💡 Why AI + blockchain in one day? AI is transforming how work and decisions happen; blockchain is transforming how value moves and gets verified.  Together, they are creating new infrastructure for a new economy, and NYC is where these technologies meet real use cases, real deployment environments, and real market opportunities. Expect to hear from founders and global executives on the topics that will drive the next decade, including tokenization, agentic AI and agentic commerce, stablecoins, AI-driven operational transformation, crypto in wealth management, blockchain safeguards for AI data, digital content attestation & verification, and the next chapter for finance. 📣 Stay tuned for big speaker and agenda announcements ahead! See you on April 24th! Cornell Blockchain is excited to be partnering with Blockchain at Cornell Tech and Blockchain Builders to co-host this convening.

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ April 24, 2026 | Cornell Tech, NYC The Cornell Blockchain Conference returns with “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets.” 🎫 Early Bird tickets now live: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc 800+ leaders joined us last year—this year we go deeper on how AI + blockchain are built, deployed, and scaled by institutions. More in thread 👇

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What a great time these past three days with our first of a new semesterly sites visits. Thank you so much to @FlowTraders, @artemis, @AlchemyLearn, @blockchaincap, @WhiteStarCap, @Collab_Currency, @AvaLabs, @alliance, @AlliumLabs, @paraficapital, @okx, @solana, @gauntlet_xyz, @ElectricCapital, and everyone who could make it to our Alum and Friends Dinner! We can’t wait to see you again next semester!