Crypto Fest 2020 – Crypto Fest

James Preston – MC

James is an accomplished tech writer and speaker and currently serves as Marketing Manager at Supra which is a vertically integrated L1 blockchain offering a full stack of Web3 tech to dApp builders. James is a South African journalist with extensive experience in the tech and media industries. He was also the Communications Manager at Zeitgeist

Ray Youssef – Keynote

Ray is the CEO and Co-founder of Paxful, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer crypto marketplace. Paxful is a people-powered marketplace for money transfers with anyone, anywhere, at any time. Their mission is to empower the forgotten four billion unbanked and underbanked around the world to have control of their money using peer-to-peer transactions. The

Taylor Monahan

Taylor Monahan is the Founder and CEO of the popular Ethereum wallet MyCrypto. Previously she founded MyEtherWallet. Monahan resides in Los Angeles, California.

Tone Vays

Tone has worked on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in

Eduardo Antuña Díez

Eduardo is the Co-founder and Project Lead at DAppNode. He is also an Ethereum DevOps and Solidity developer with an established history in software engineering during the last ten years. He has been involved with various projects including Swarm City, Giveth and audits for MakerDAO Stable Coin system. Currently his focus on the development of

Emi Lorincz

Following various roles and functions in corporate finance, Emi’s professional background has ranged from aircraft financing to commodity trading. Since 2017 her focus has been directed towards the ever evolving world of start-ups around digital assets and blockchain technology. Bringing a wealth of work experience from the traditional markets and the field of cryptocurrencies, she

Andy Flury

Andy Flury is a serial Entrepreneur and Quantitative Trading Expert. Andy is a former Swiss Air Force pilot. He led projects at the Swiss intelligence Agency and various major banks. In 2010 Andy became partner and Head of Algorithmic Trading at Linard Capital AG, a Switzerland based quantitative hedge fund. In 2014 Andy started AlgoTrader,

Nathaniel Luz

Nathaniel Luz is an award winning libertarian, lead for Dash Nigeria and one of Africa’s foremost blockchain and digital currency experts. Nathaniel Luz is the author of Digital is the Cash book, an easy guide to understanding the past, present and future of money. The book, available in English, French, Spanish and German is available

Manuel Ferrari

Manuel Ferrari is co-founder of Money On Chain, the first DeFi for Bitcoin protocol that allows the creation of Stablecoins using Bitcoin as collateral. Manuel Ferrari started his career at ABN AMRO Bank. Later he was a consultant for the World Bank, Atos Origins and for the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to Money On Chain,

Illia Polosukhin

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-founder of NEAR Protocol, a decentralised applications platform powered by scalable and developer friendly blockchain. Near is a team of Ex-Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and MemSQL Engineers who have shipped some of the only at-scale implementations of distributed sharded systems in the world. Previously Illia was Engineering Manager and Researcher at Google