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Mark Jeffrey @markjeffrey wrote the book on Bitcoin. Now he is deploying capital into what he believes is the next foundational layer of the internet. This June, he came to Proof of Talk to share where he sees it going. The Partner at @stillcorecap, the evergreen hedge fund targeting roughly 1% of TAO's liquid supply through Bittensor and subnet alpha tokens, joined the Bittensor Track at the Louvre Palace. A venue nothing else can beat. Beyond Stillcore, Mark is a serial entrepreneur (The Palace, ZeroDegrees, Guardian Circle), the host of Hash Rate, and the author of Bitcoin Explained Simply and The Case for Bitcoin. Top-notch is the bar he has always built to. Thank you, Mark, for being inside the Louvre.

"You can build your product cheaper, faster, and better... It costs you 1/10th of what it'd cost you to do it any other way." @markjeffrey & @const_reborn on why the world's top talent should build @opentensor subnets 👇

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WATCH: The full @const_reborn x @markjeffrey discussion at @proofoftalk day 2 ↓

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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. youtube.com/watch?v=6NGuyp…

"Blockchains are best at moving money, value, data, and trust." @HadickM told @2084Richardson at @proofoftalk 2026 that @dragonfly_xyz is focused on the future of finance from DeFi and infrastructure to stablecoins, payments, and capital markets.👇

"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: youtube.com/watch?v=6NGuyp…@

caught up with my good friend @CryptoMichNL in front of the iconic Louvre teaser for next instalment of Between Us is coming later this week we covered: > how to assess risk/reward in this market > starting @newera_finance podcast from scratch > strategy to get from 0-10k followers on X how would you get from 0-10k followers today?

WATCH: How U.S. regulatory change is accelerating tokenization and institutional adoption 👇 Loved announcing our @moonpay x @FTDA_US strategic partnership onstage @proofoftalk with @FranklnTempletn CEO Jenny Johnson!

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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.

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You can analyze a market crash from outside, or you can hear it from someone who watched it happen on his own order book. Alex Kim runs one of the largest exchanges in Asia. On October 10th, he watched the market break in real time. At Proof of Talk 2026, Alex joined the After the Flush panel for a frank look at the liquidity gaps, leverage cascades, and operational weak points that surfaced under stress. Watch the snippet. The full conversation is below. youtube.com/watch?v=DQPACR…

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. → youtube.com/watch?v=a00M7l…

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.

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.

"What's the elevator pitch you'd give someone who has no idea what Sui is doing?" I asked Kostas Chalkias (@kostascrypto), co-founder of the team behind @SuiNetwork, former lead cryptographer on Facebook's Libra, to explain it in plain terms. "You still pay to move your own money between banks on the same continent. We broke that. You can send money for free." "You log in with a Google account. No long passwords, no seed phrases to memorize. For the first time, using a blockchain feels like using anything else you already use." "And it's not just for trading anymore. We built the memory layer for AI agents, heavy data, big operations, things you simply can't do on other chains." "Imagine an agent buying 1% of the Burj Khalifa, selling it for gold, converting to dollars, all in one transaction. For that you need real speed. I can't see how the slower chains do it." Translation: most chains are still selling crypto to crypto people. Kostas is describing something else, infrastructure invisible enough that a normal user never thinks about the blockchain, and fast enough that the next users won't even be human. That's a different bet than "number go up." If your grandmother could use a blockchain without knowing it, would that change how big this gets?

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"As you realized, there was no money lost. And this is by design." Kostas Chalkias (@kostascrypto) is co-founder and Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui. When the network halted, he was in the war room. This is his breakdown of what actually happened. "The

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Talk is Cheap. What are you willing to lock? A Bittensor Story of Conviction. Coming soon.

We sat down with @Flight3official at @proofoftalk to chat about all things Zircuit Finance 💛 @dr_zircuit walked through what Zircuit does, who's building it behind the scenes, and how the conference went 👇

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.

.@ProofofTalk brought some of the sharpest minds in Web3 and AI to the Louvre Palace in Paris, and we were glad to be part of the conversation. 🇫🇷 Our CEO of investments @viewfromhk joined a panel to discuss where tokenized markets are creating durable investor opportunity, moving past the pilot phase to ask what institutional adoption looks like today, and what conditions are needed for tokenized assets to become investable at scale. Our VP and head of Labs @Mo_Ezz14 led a panel on identity infrastructure for an agentic world, from cryptographic provenance to ZK personhood to what rights humans should never delegate to an agent. Tokenization isn't a pilot anymore, it's becoming the infrastructure of capital markets.

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~$4.1T in monthly USDC transfer volume on @base @XenBH at @proofoftalk 2026

"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. Sign up for our next edition via the link below. proofoftalk.io/invite-2026/

"BitMEX is way better than the CME." That's BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz at Proof of Talk Paris — and he had a compelling argument to back it up. We sat down with him for an exclusive on institutional crypto derivatives, the road back to the U.S., and why 2027 matters. @BitMEX @proofoftalk Full article 👇 crispybull.com/bitmex-ceo-ste…

We recently debated whether AI will break DeFi before we fix it on the stage at the Louvre for @proofoftalk,  "DeFi Under Attack" with @P3b7_, Konstantinos Chalkias, Jason Jiang, moderated by @NikolaBank. Here's where I landed: Three takes: At the scale of billions of microtransactions, human approval isn't a safeguard. It's a bottleneck. Policy-based automation is the only path. AI is a more immediate threat than quantum. Post-quantum crypto matters, but AI-driven exploits are already here. The industry hasn't earned institutional trust yet. Multisig failures and poor risk hygiene aren't edge cases. Higher standards before 2028 isn't optional. Good room. Hard problems. Full panel here: youtube.com/watch?v=9kE0PJ…

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