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
BASS SBC 2024
BASS SBC 2024 in NYC on August 6th at Columbia University's Lerner Hall
Register here: https://lu.ma/bass-sbw24
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BASS SBC is our pre-conference event to the Science of Blockchain Conference held in the same room on August 7-9. BASS is brought to you by the Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Crypto & Blockchain Alumni of Stanford, with special thanks to Stanford's Center for Blockchain Research and Professor Dan Boneh for their support.
We’re grateful for sponsorship from QeD Protocol (qedprotocol.com), Story Protocol (storyprotocol.xyz), Polygon (polygon.technology), Starkware (starkware.co), Near (near.org), Blockchain Builders Fund, Cooley (cooley.com), Nexus Labs (nexus.xyz), Mach (mach.exchange), Hinkal (hinkal.pro), PIN AI, Metalayer (x.com/metalayerlabs), Turbo Protocol (turboprotocol.xyz).
Please find the agenda below:
9:00 AM Check-in
9:30 AM Welcome Remarks
Kun Peng, Founder at Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA) & Founder at Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS)
Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
9:40 AM John Wu, President at Ava Labs & Stephen Buttolph, Chief Protocol Architect at Ava Labs
10:00 AM Ed Felten, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Arbitrum
10:20 AM Daniel Lubarov, Co-Founder at Polygon Zero & Inventor of Plonky2 and Plonky3
10:40 AM Dan Boneh, Professor of Applied Cryptography at Stanford University, Co-Director at Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Senior Research Advisor at a16z
11:00 AM Rachin Kalakheti, Founder and CEO at Metalayer (SBA Startup)
11:10 AM Daniel Marin, CEO & Founder at Nexus & Don Beaver, VP of Cryptography at Nexus & ex-Chief Cryptographer at Jump Crypto (SBA Startup)
11:30 AM Break
11:40 AM Ben Fisch, CS Professor at Yale University & Co-Founder and CEO at Espresso Systems
12:00 PM Georgi Koreli, Co-Founder & CEO at Hinkal; Nika Koreli, Co-Founder & CTO at Hinkal (SBA Startup)
12:10 PM Ari Juels, CS Professor at Cornell Tech, Co-Director of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3), Chief Scientist at Chainlink
12:30 PM Sam Trautwein, Founder and CEO at Mach Exchange (SBA Startup)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Crypto & AI Panel: Himanshu Tyagi, Co-Founder at Sentient; Naveen Durvasula, Founding Member and Researcher at Ritual; Moderator: Gil Rosen, Managing Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
2:00 PM Bill Sun, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at PIN AI (SBA Startup)
2:10 PM Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol at NEAR
2:30 PM Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO and General Partner at Paradigm
2:50 PM Shresth Agrawal, Co-Founder at CEO at POD (SBA Startup)
3:05 PM Keone Hon, Co-Founder and CEO at Monad
3:25 PM Aaron Greenblatt, Founder and CEO at Turbo Protocol (SBA Startup)
3:35 PM Break
3:45 PM Elizabeth Stark, Founder and CEO at Lightning Labs
4:05 PM Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder and CEO at Starkware
4:25 PM Carter Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO at QeD Protocol
4:35 PM Break
4:45 PM Gordon Liao, Chief Economist at Circle
5:05 PM Chopping Blocks BASS Edition: Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly; Tarun Chitra, Founder and CEO at Gauntlet; Robert Leschner, CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Avichal Garg, Managing Partner at Electric Capital
5:35 PM Onchain Assets Panel: Nathan Allman, Founder & CEO at Ondo Finance; Robert Leschner - CEO at SuperState and ex-CEO and Founder at Compound; Moderator: Xochitl Cazador, Chief Ecosystem Growth Officer at Celo
6:05 PM Closing Remarks
A huge thank you to the BASS Organizing Team:
- Kun Peng - Founder of BASS & Stanford Blockchain Accelerator
- Gil Rosen - President of Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, Managing Partner Blockchain Builders Fund
- Jay Yu - President of Stanford Blockchain Club, Stanford 2025
- Kevin Xu - Stanford GSB 2025
- Kole Lee - Stanford 2026
- Steven Willinger - Co-lead Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, General Partner at Blockchain Builders Fund
- Xochitl Cazador - Head of Ecosystem & Growth, Celo
BASSLite ETHCC 2024
Our lite edition of the BASS conference at ETHCC Brussels 2024 featured presentations from Harry Kalodner, Co-Founder & CTO of Arbitrum, Oren Katz, COO of Starkware, Lily Liu, Executive Director of Solana Foundation, Charles Guillemet, CTO of Ledger and Bryan Pellegrino, Co-Founder & CEO of Layer Zero.
BASS ETHDenver 2024
The Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) ETHDenver 2024, held on March 1st is another full day of programming bringing the blockchain industry's top thinkers and builders to share their perspectives with Stanford Blockchain community.
BASSLite DevConnect 2023:
Our lite edition of the BASS conference at DevConnect Istabul 2023 featured presentations from Flashbots' Tomasz Stanczak, Eigenlayer' Sreeram Kannan, and Succinct Labs' Uma Roy covering the latest developments in MEV, Restaking and the ZK space. Watch the recording here!
BASS SBC 2023:
The Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS) 2023, held on August 26-27, brought together a diverse and dynamic community of researchers, developers, and thought leaders including the cofounders and chief scientists of Chainlink, Arbitrum, Celestia, ZKSync, Starkware, Succint Labs, Alchemy, Eigenlayer, Celo, Protocol Labs and more. With over 800 attendees, the event was a resounding success; fostering meaningful connection and unveiling exciting technical innovations and products from the industry's most influential organizations.
If you have any questions, please contact Kun Peng at kun@stanford.edu.