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Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS)

An in-person summit series highlighting the best of Stanford Blockchain's entrepreneurial ecosystem

Watch our 2023 BASS SBC, BASS Devconnect, and BASS Denver recordings

Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) is an official part of the Science of Blockchain Conference and produced by the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Cryptography and Blockchain Alumni of Stanford (CBAS), and Stanford Blockchain Club leadership teams. The series brings together the sector's foremost thinkers, founders, builders, and researchers to discuss meaningful progress and innovation, and to form meaningful connections.

Kicked off as an official pre-conference to the Sciences of Blockchain Conference in 2023 (https://cbr.stanford.edu/sbc23/) BASS has become the premier builder facing research event with substantial high signal attendance at the following prior events: Eth Denver 2025 (1000+ attendees), Eth Denver 2024 (1000+ attendees), SBC NYC (1000+) attendees, Devcon Bangkok (500+) attendees, Devconnect Istanbul (500+ attendees), and 1000+ attendees at the inaugural event in Palo Alto in August 2023.

We aim to highlight top blockchain startups from the Stanford ecosystem and bridge the Stanford blockchain ecosystem with like-minded global innovators driving blockchain adoption.

Past Speakers 

  • Dan Boneh - Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z 
  • Ari Juels - CS Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3) & Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs
  • Ed Felten, Chief Scientist & Co-Founder at Arbitrum
  • Eli Ben-Sasson - Co-founder and CEO at Starkware 
  • John Wu, President at Avalanche
  • Daniel Lubarov, co-Founder of Polygon Zero
  • Elizabeth Stark - Founder and CEO at Lightning Network
  • Keone Hon - Cofounders/CEO at Monad Labs 
  • Ben Fisch, CS Professor at Yale University & Co-Founder and CEO at Espressos
  • Tarun Chitra, CEO & Founder at Gauntlet
  • Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly
  • Robert Leshner, ex-CEO at Compound
  • Nathan Allman, CEO & Co-founder, Ondo Finance
  • Don Beaver - ex-Chief Cryptographer at Jump Crypto, VP of Cryptography at Nexus
  • Sandeep Nailwal - Polygon, Co-Founder & CEO
  • Sreeram Kannan - Eigen Laye Co-founder
  • Dan Boneh - Stanford Professor and Head of Applied Cryptography Group
  • Nick White - Celestia, COO
  • Juan Benet - Protocol Labs, Founder and CEO (pending scheduling)
  • Brian Retford - RiscZero, Founder & CEO
  • Illia Polosukhin  - Near Foundation, Co-Founder & CEO
  • Ben Fielding - Gensyn, Co-founder & CEO
  • Benedikt Bunz - Espresso Systems, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
  • Dan Albert - Solana Foundation, Executive Director
  • Zac Williamson - Aztec, Co-Founder & CEO
  • Eli Ben-Sasson - Co-founder/CEO Starkware
  • ​David Hoffman - Co-founder Bankless
  • ​Jens Groth - Chief Scientist Nexus
  • ​Charles Guillemet - CTO Ledger
  • Ed Felten, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs
  • …and many more