Michael del Castillo (working with Proof of Talk)

Here we go. As one of the largest shareholders of @Strike, it is great to see them going into the public markets. I am very supportive of the company, @jackmallers and this transaction. tether.io/news/tether-in…

There are rooms in Europe that have stayed closed for over a century. On June 1, Racing Club de France La Boulie opens for one day, for one group, before Proof of Talk. Founded in 1901, La Boulie has hosted French presidents, European royalty, and four generations of Parisian society. It does not host events. For Proof of Talk Prelude, an exception is being made. 70 decision-makers in digital assets. Golf on grounds most people will never set foot on. As the sun sets, Mercedes-Benz chauffeur brings you back. A private rooftop over Paris. Golden hour cocktails. A seated dinner with the Eiffel Tower in view. Just the conversations that decide what the next cycle looks like, between the people actually deciding it. Reserved for Proof of Talk 2026 VIP black ticket holders. Complimentary, by invitation only. The room is almost full. Your VIP Black ticket is here: tickets.proofoftalk.io/passes June 1, 2026 | Racing Club de France La Boulie | Versailles

@ninabambysheva Wow!

World’s largest stock transfer agent is moving into tokenization through partnership with Securitize forbes.com/sites/digital-…

@proofoftalk @moonpay Hang it in the Louvre 💜

This was such a fun read. I remember attending some of @el33th4xor's talks about the historic DAO Moratorium a decade ago. The DAO collapse changed crypto, and seeing it through Gün's eyes illuminated an important part of crypto's heritage! fortune.com/2026/04/28/ten… via @FortuneCrypto h/t @initc3org, @VladZamfir Dino Mark

@proofoftalk @SiliconJose @btlabs_ai @intel Looking forward to seeing you, Jose!

Jose Rios @SiliconJose is the founder of BT Labs @btlabs_ai, where he is leading the way for enterprise solutions around decentralised AI. Before that, Jose spent more than 25 years at Intel @intel, working across AI, datacentres, and advanced hardware. He went on to lead the creation of Intel’s first Bitcoin mining chips, designing the Blockscale ASIC as a purpose-built chip for secure and energy-efficient mining. That gives him a rare perspective across hardware, compute, and decentralised systems. His work sits at the intersection of advanced architectures, distributed infrastructure, and applied machine learning, with a clear focus on open innovation, privacy, and financial sovereignty. Now, through BT Labs, he is bringing that experience into the next phase of decentralised AI. This summer Jose returns to the Louvre. June 2–3, Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk. Use code TAO for 30% off tickets 👇

Bitcoin Opened the Door—But Institutional Adoption Hasn’t Yet Delivered the Access I Hoped For linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-… by @DelRayMan

Check out my latest article: Bitcoin Opened the Door—But Institutional Adoption Hasn’t Yet Delivered the Access I Hoped For linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-… via @LinkedIn

Anthony Bassili @SmartestBeta, President of Coinbase Asset Management, takes the Proof of Talk stage this June. @CoinbaseAM is the institutional bridge between traditional allocators and digital assets. Anthony is the person those allocators trust to walk them across. After over a decade at @BlackRock building for the world's largest institutional allocators, including leading the iShares pensions business. Now running asset management at the largest crypto exchange in the United States. At BlackRock, he spent over a decade in business development, investment strategy, and multi-asset portfolio management before leading the iShares pensions business. He knows how these institutions think, because he built for them. He brought that playbook to Coinbase, first leading Institutional Americas, now as President of Coinbase Asset Management. A CAIA charterholder and contributor to digital asset education with AIF Institute, the Global Interdependence Center, and CAIA, he's also an active early-stage investor and Web3 startup advisor. On June 2–3 at the Louvre Palace, Anthony shares what he's learning as the person bringing traditional institutional capital into crypto through one of the most trusted platforms in the industry. See you there. tickets.proofoftalk.io/passes

A @TechCrunch founder, Time 100 honoree, and early investor in Uber, Pinterest, and Cloudflare who now runs a crypto hedge fund and chairs the board of a $1 Billion XRP digital asset treasury company. Michael Arrington @arrington, General Partner & Co-Founder of @Arrington_Cap: a crypto-focused hedge fund that has become one of the more recognized institutional vehicles in digital assets, takes the Proof of Talk stage this June. Michael now also serves as Chairman of the Board at Armada Acquisition Corp. II, the publicly traded SPAC currently in agreement with Evernorth to become a $1 Billion XRP digital asset treasury company. Before Arrington Capital, Michael founded TechCrunch, the publication that defined how a generation understood startups. He built @crunchbasenews, launched Crunchfund, and got in early on Uber, Airtable, Pinterest, Cloudflare, and more. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He earned his JD from Stanford and practiced law at @omelvenymyers and @wilsonsonsini before deciding to fund the companies reshaping the internet. Now he's at the center of one of crypto's biggest institutional bets, turning a public vehicle into a billion-dollar XRP treasury. It's the kind of move that bridges TradFi and Web3 in real time. On June 2–3 at the Louvre Palace, Michael takes the stage, where 95% of speakers are active CEOs and founders, and 2,500 decision-makers are in the room to discuss what comes next. Secure your pass. tickets.proofoftalk.io/passes

Most crypto conferences are theater. @proofoftalk is one of the few that isn’t. 2,500 people in the Louvre, 85% decision-makers, no pay-to-speak. The room matters as much as the stage. The Louvre doesn’t host crowds. It hosts courts. 1,000 decision-makers, personally reviewed, in the room where history actually got signed. That’s the bar Proof of Talk is setting; and honestly, it’s the only bar worth setting in this industry right now. If you know someone who belongs in that room, nominate them. If you think it’s you, say so. See you in Paris. 🇫🇷

Max will be speaking at @proofoftalk on June 2–3, covering how SN44 turns open competition into deployable real-world intelligence. x.com/proofoftalk/st…

Score recap, 20.04 - 26.04 Score at @proofoftalk, Start in Block win in Paris, and the first private-track challenge on SN44. Full breakdown below 1/6 ⤵️

🚨NEW: A coalition of more than two dozen crypto firms and advocacy groups led by @fund_defi is calling on the @SECGov to turn recent guidance on DeFi interfaces into formal rulemaking, warning that informal statements aren’t enough to provide long term certainty. The push follows staff guidance released earlier this month from the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets suggesting that certain non-custodial user interfaces like DeFi front ends and wallets may fall outside broker-dealer requirements. The group says that without formal rules, future SEC leadership could expand the definition of “broker” to include software developers and infrastructure providers, warning the move could chill innovation and deter the development of tools that improve market access and efficiency for investors, a concern echoed by SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce.

Today's Kiffmeister #Fintech Digest features an IMF paper by Sonja Davidovic and Herve Tourpe on how agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to fundamentally alter payment system architecture, concluding that governance and institutional design, rather than technology alone, are the primary determinants of whether outcomes are stabilizing or destabilizing. For more detail go to: kiffmeister.com/2026/04/25/kif…

LAST DAY TO APPLY. We are inviting the 1000 leaders in digital assets, bitcoin, privacy and AI who have actively shaped this industry to join the yearly Davos of Web3. If you know someone who belongs in the room, nominate. If that someone is you, apply. #apply" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">minds.proofoftalk.io/#apply