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JUST IN: Raphaël Bloch @Raph_Bloch, Co-Founder and CEO of @TheBigWhale_, joins the Content Council. We announced the council this week. Today we complete it. Most journalists covered crypto from a safe distance. @Raph_Bloch got close enough to build something. For a decade at @Reuters and @LesEchos he tracked the full arc. Banks. Financial markets. The quiet decisions that move capital at scale. And alongside it, every phase of crypto's evolution from the ICO boom to the moment institutions stopped dismissing it. By 2022 he had seen enough from the outside. He co-founded @TheBigWhale_. Not another crypto news site. Intelligence infrastructure for the institutions now taking the space seriously. Today 150+ banks, asset managers, fintechs, and major corporates rely on it to understand where European digital asset markets are actually moving. @TheBigWhale_ didn't grow by chasing retail traffic. It grew because serious capital needed a source that matched its standards. The journalist who became a builder. The builder institutions actually call. As a Content Council member, @Raph_Bloch joins the team engineering two days of dialogue at the Louvre Palace. He brings what few others on the global stage can: the European institutional perspective built from the inside. You don't want to miss: bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

42+ million lifetime views. These voices have been behind some of the most influential conversations in Web3. We bet you know them. Asking the hard questions, breaking down complex ideas, and interviewing the founders building this industry week after week. This year, the Podcast Power House steps into the Proof of Talk Media Room. @amandacassatt built @serotonin_hq into one of Web3's most respected strategy firms. Now she hosts Endgame, where culture, marketing, and Web3 collide. @andyyy hosts @therollupco. One of the most recognized podcasts dedicated to @ethereum and the builders pushing the technology forward. ~4M views since 2020. Kevin Follonier @KevinWSHPod leads When Shift Happens. 160+ episodes. 500K-1M views. Kevin has sat across from the founders of Ethereum and @0xPolygon, the CEOs of @Bitwise and @JupiterExchange, unpacking the technological and economic shifts shaping crypto's future. Marc Baumann @marcb_xyz runs 51 Insights @fiftyonexyz. 200-500K views. Featuring conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, and operators building the next generation of Web3 companies. Michaël van de Poppe @CryptoMichNL hosts @new_era_finance, speaking with voices navigating digital asset evolution. 25-35M lifetime views across 500+ videos. Market insights and macro analysis that move the conversation. Your best chance to be in the spotlight of the most respected podcast houses in the space. Be there. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

820,000 followers don't lie. When the market seeks clarity and direction, @CryptoMichNL is the person they trust. In 2022, while the market was deep in a downturn and institutions were still publicly skeptical, @CryptoMichNL was already mapping what was coming. @BlackRock adding Bitcoin to its funds. @Grayscale's legal wins pointing straight to spot ETFs. The institutional wave that most analysts would only write about a year later. This wasn't luck. It was five years of work. He entered crypto in 2017. Went full-time after the 2018 crash, when most people were walking away. Built MN Academy into a real educational community. Then MN Fund and MN Capital, running macro-driven portfolios with one thesis: understand the cycle before the crowd does. His audience learned to do the same. They held through 70% drawdowns because he did it publicly with his own portfolio. They moved when the broader economic signals told them to. They acted on calls he had been mapping since the bear market. This June, @CryptoMichNL brings that lens to the Louvre Palace. Live on stage, alongside the builders and allocators with $18T AUM in the room. Join him and other 2500 decision-makers in Web3 → bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

Defining Web3's future requires the voices that wrote its history. Backed by 1,000+ CEO interviews and 15+ years in crypto journalism. These are the leaders who have dismantled, analyzed, and influenced the entire evolution of crypto from the newsrooms of @Bloomberg, @FoxBusiness, @Forbes, @Reuters, @CNBC, @propublica, @CoinDesk, and the halls of UK Parliament. The Proof of Talk Content Council is here to shape the 2026 Agenda. No pay to speak. Only quality conversations from the C-levels actively building in the space. With us: Shaping the frontier of zero-knowledge innovation, Ben Schiller @btschiller, former @CoinDesk managing editor, now drives strategy at @0xMiden, an @a16z-backed @0xPolygon Labs spinout. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting anchors the stage. Christine Lee @christinenews brings insights forged across @Bloomberg, @Reuters, and @propublica. Breaking market-moving news before it trends, @EleanorTerrett brings her Fox Business pedigree to the Crypto in America @CryptoAmerica_ podcast. CNBC regular and former founding reporter at @TheBlockCo, Frank Chaparro @fintechfrank, now leads Content and Special Projects at @GSR_io. Covering crypto since its earliest cycles, Michael del Castillo @DelRayMan, Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. @Forbes, @FortuneMagazine, @CoinDesk, now Media Luna, charting the industry's evolution since 2011. Conducting the industry's most rigorous archival work is Bitcoin historian Pete Rizzo @pete_rizzo_, now leading @BTCtreasuries, the data engine tracking institutional capital flowing into Bitcoin. The narrative of Web3 is being written at the Louvre Palace. Secure your seat alongside the architects of the industry. bit.ly/3Pj1dEU

820,000 followers don't lie. When the market seeks clarity and direction, @CryptoMichNL is the person they trust. In 2022, while the market was deep in a downturn and institutions were still publicly skeptical, @CryptoMichNL was already mapping what was coming. @BlackRock adding Bitcoin to its funds. @Grayscale's legal wins pointing straight to spot ETFs. The institutional wave that most analysts would only write about a year later. This wasn't luck. It was five years of work. He entered crypto in 2017. Went full-time after the 2018 crash, when most people were walking away. Built MN Academy into a real educational community. Then MN Fund and MN Capital, running macro-driven portfolios with one thesis: understand the cycle before the crowd does. His audience learned to do the same. They held through 70% drawdowns because he did it publicly with his own portfolio. They moved when the broader economic signals told them to. They acted on calls he had been mapping since the bear market. This June, @CryptoMichNL brings that lens to the Louvre Palace. Live on stage, alongside the builders and allocators with $18T AUM in the room. Join him and other 2500 decision-makers in Web3 → bit.ly/3Pj1dEU