Blockchain Applications Stanford Summit

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