WebX2026 : 13-14 July 2026, TOKYO JAPAN (original) (raw)

What’s WebX

WebX is one of Asia’s largest global conferences planned and operated by CoinPost, Japan’s leading crypto asset and Web3 media platform.

The event is held in Tokyo and attracts a diverse audience from Japan and around the world.

WebX comprehensively covers a wide range of Web3 related topics, including cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, Web3 infrastructure, NFTs, DeFi, and AI.

Major enterprises, technology companies, financial institutions, investors, developers, media organizations, experts, and general attendees gather to explore the latest technological trends, industry applications, and community culture.

WebX is recognized as one of Asia’s largest international conferences offering a multifaceted view of the Web3 ecosystem.

Past Speakers of WebX

Shigeru Ishiba

Prime Minister of Japan

Katsunobu Kato

Member of the House of Representatives

Minister of Finance / Minister of State for Financial Services / Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation

Yoji Muto

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Minister

Satsuki Katayama

House of Councillors/Liberal Democratic Party

決算委員長/金融調査会長

Arthur Hayes

Maelstrom

CEO

Hon. Caroline D. Pham

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Acting Chairman

Haseeb Qureshi

Dragonfly

Managing Partner

Hayden Adams

Uniswap Labs

Founder and CEO

Mike Novogratz

Galaxy

CEO / Founder

Heath TARBERT

Circle Internet Group

President

Nikhil B Sharma

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Hong Kong Branch

Executive Director, Head of Growth, Kinexys Digital Assets

Justin Sun

Tron

Founder

Dr. Lin Han

Gate Group

CEO

Adam Back

Blockstream

Co-founder & CEO

Akihisa Shiozaki

Member of the House of Representatives

自民党副幹事長

Tadashi Maeda

Japan Bank for International Cooperation

Chairman of the Board

Shigeru IshibaPrime Minister of Japan

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Katsunobu KatoMember of the House of RepresentativesMinister of Finance / Minister of State for Financial Services / Minister in charge of Overcoming Deflation

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Yoji MutoMinistry of Economy, Trade and IndustryMinister

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Satsuki KatayamaHouse of Councillors/Liberal Democratic Party決算委員長/金融調査会長

・Education
1985 Graduated from CSE of ENA(France)
1982 Graduated from the Faculty of Law, The
University of Tokyo
・Career
2023- Acting Chairperson (senior) Policy Research
Council
2022- Deputy Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
Chairperson, Research Commission on the Finance and Banking Systems
2019- Acting Chairperson, General Council, LDP
Chairperson, Special Committee on Foreign Workers, LDP
2018-2019
Minister of State for Regional Revitalization
Minister of State for Regulatory Reform
Minister of State for Gender Equality
Minister in charge of Women's Empowerment Minister in charge of Regional
Revitalization
2016 Acting chairman, Policy Research Council, LDP
2015 Vice-chairman, General Council, LDP
2014 Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, House of Councillors (HC)
2013 Director, Environment Division, LDP
2012 Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
2010 Elected to the member of the House of Councillors
2005 Elected for the first time as a member of the 44th House of Representatives
(Shizuoka 7th District)
Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
2004 Budget Examiner, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance
2003 Director for Legal Affairs, Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance
1989 Director, Kaita Regional Tax Office

Bill to ensure a safe and secure environment for women in women’s space
１．Background and Objectives
 In October 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision that requires "the absence of
gonads or a permanent lack of gonad function" in the law that stipulates the conditions for
gender change in Japan is unconstitutional.
 In response to this, concerns have been raised that "men who identify themselves as
women may enter women's restrooms and commit crimes," and that "women's safety and
security may be at risk."
 In response to these concerns, we are considering submitting the bill to ensure a safe and
secure environment for women.
２．Outline of the bill
 For public baths and changing rooms etc., which are used by many people without wearing
clothes, measures will be taken by the relevant ministries and managers of such facilities,
regarding the separate use of facilities by men and women, based on the premise that men
and women are distinguished by physical characteristics.
 In facilities that are normally used by men and women separately, such as restrooms,
managers of such facilities will be required to make efforts to take necessary measures,
such as providing necessary equipments and patrols, to ensure a safe and secure
environment for women to use the facilities.

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Arthur HayesMaelstromCEO

Arthur Hayes is the CIO of Maelstrom, a family office that invests across the crypto ecosystem. He is also the co-founder of BitMEX – the first crypto unicorn. Prior to entering the crypto industry, he worked as a trader in the capital markets divisions of Deutsche Bank and Citibank. Arthur holds a Bachelors of Economics from the Wharton School of Business. He has appeared on major business news networks including Bloomberg and CNBC. He is active on X (@cryptohayes) and releases a monthly newsletter (Crypto Trader Digest) read by thousands of investors globally.

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CZBinanceFounder

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Hon. Caroline D. PhamUS Commodity Futures Trading CommissionActing Chairman

[](Caroline D. Pham)

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham is the acting Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and has been a
CFTC Commissioner since her nomination by the President and unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Pham is an internationally recognized leader in strategy and innovation, with deep expertise in capital markets and
regulatory policy. Her commissionership has focused on promoting access to markets, competition, and market liquidity and efficiency. Pham has worked in law and finance for 24 years, including over 10 years of experience in crypto and digital assets. She is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Pham’s experience spans prudential regulation, financial markets, fintech, and emerging issues. Her international
engagement is across all regions, both multilateral and with senior policymakers and business leaders. Previously, Pham
was a managing director at Citi with group-level senior executive roles in the chief administrative office, institutional
clients group (banking and markets), legal, and compliance. As head of market structure for strategic initiatives, she
worked on investments and new opportunities. Pham has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington
University Law School.

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Haseeb QureshiDragonflyManaging Partner

Haseeb is Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a multibillion dollar leading crypto VC firm, and is a longtime technology-focused crypto investor. Haseeb was previously a General Partner at Metastable Capital (now acquired by Dragonfly). Prior, Haseeb founded a stablecoin startup, was a blockchain engineer at Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), an anti-fraud engineer at Airbnb, and was previously a top 10 globally ranked professional poker player. He has taught a class on web3 Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and is widely followed for his technical expertise in crypto.

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Hayden AdamsUniswap LabsFounder and CEO

Hayden Adams is the Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol, the largest decentralized exchange protocol. He began building in crypto in 2017. As his first project, he set out to build an application that fully embodied the unique properties of Ethereum: decentralized, trustless, permissionless, and secure. This project eventually became Uniswap. As of 2025, the Uniswap Protocol has processed over $3 trillion in lifetime trading volume. It competes head-on with centralized exchanges, offering 2x more liquidity than both Binance and Coinbase (two of the largest centralized exchanges) for popular pairs like Ethereum to stablecoin trades.Today, Uniswap Labs contributes to the development of the Uniswap Protocol and builds products for users to safely and securely access DeFi — including the Uniswap Interface and the Uniswap Wallet, which collectively have served millions of users.

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Mike NovogratzGalaxyCEO / Founder

Michael Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, a diversified financial services firm dedicated to the digital asset, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. He was formerly a Partner and the President of Fortress Investment Group LLC and ran the Fortress Macro fund from 2002 – 2016. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. He served on the New York Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012 – 2015.

In recent years, Mr. Novogratz has made criminal justice reform the primary focus of his family’s foundation, Galaxy Gives. He served as the Chairman of The Bail Project and is a Founding Partner of REFORM Foundation. He has held roles as a Leadership Council Member at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and on the boards of Hudson River Park Friends, Jazz Foundation of America, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club and USA Wrestling. Mr. Novogratz received an AB in Economics from Princeton University and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.

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Heath TARBERTCircle Internet GroupPresident

Heath Tarbert is President at Circle (NYSE: CRCL), a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce.

Heath joined Circle after serving as Chief Legal Officer for Citadel Securities, where he was responsible for the firm’s global legal, compliance, surveillance, regulatory affairs, and corporate governance functions.

Earlier, he was the 14th Chairman and Chief Executive of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Vice Chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He was previously Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets, concurrently serving as G-7/G-20 Deputy Finance Minister, a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and U.S. executive director of the World Bank Group.

Heath has served as a Supreme Court law clerk, associate White House counsel, special counsel to the Senate Banking Committee, and a partner at two international law firms.

Heath is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Law Institute. He is also a life member of the National Eagle Scout Association and Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his BS from Mount St. Mary’s University, his JD and SJD from the University of Pennsylvania, and his DPhil from Oxford University.

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Nikhil B SharmaJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Hong Kong BranchExecutive Director, Head of Growth, Kinexys Digital Assets

Nikhil heads growth globally for Kinexys Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan's digital assets platform that enables clients to develop innovative solutions using tokenized traditional assets. As a Senior Product Manager, he led the development of two solutions on the platform from concept to market launch. A tokenization enthusiast, Nikhil has authored papers on tokenization applications in capital markets and alternative investment funds. He actively participates in industry working groups shaping standards and operating models to increase velocity, efficiency, and effectiveness of cross-asset settlements through tokenization. Nikhil joined J.P. Morgan in 2019 as part of the pioneering blockchain product and strategy team that launched Kinexys, the firm's dedicated blockchain business unit. Prior to J.P. Morgan, he was with SinoPac Securities Asia Ltd., structuring lifecycle solutions for alternative investment funds. Nikhil combines over a decade of traditional finance expertise with deep blockchain knowledge to reimagine financial models.

An Electronics and Telecommunications engineer by training, he holds an MBA from the University of Hong Kong and London Business School.

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Justin SunTronFounder

H.E. Justin Sun is the Ambassador and former Permanent Representative of Grenada to the WTO, Founder of TRON, one of the world's largest blockchain DAO ecosystems, and Advisor to HTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. A protege of Alibaba's Jack Ma, Sun has been named Forbes' 30 under 30 in the Consumer Technology category several times, among other global recognitions. Sun is an avid art collector, gamer, investor, philanthropist, and space enthusiast.

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Dr. Lin HanGate GroupCEO

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Adam BackBlockstreamCo-founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back, invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function. Throughout his two-decade-long vocation as an applied cryptographer and security architect, he has held senior roles with a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, EMC, PI, VMware, and Zero-Knowledge Systems, as well as advised many more companies on cryptography and peer-to-peer finance. Dr. Adam Back holds a computer science Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.

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Audrey TangPlurality

Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s 1st Digital Minister (2016-2024), is celebrated for her pioneering efforts in digital democracy. Named one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People in AI” in 2023, Tang was instrumental in shaping Taiwan’s internationally acclaimed COVID-19 response and in safeguarding the 2024 presidential and legislative elections from foreign cyber interference. Tang is now focused on broadening her vision of Plurality — technology for collaborative diversity — to inspire global audiences.

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Akihisa ShiozakiMember of the House of Representatives自民党副幹事長

2021年7月に長島・大野・常松法律事務所のパートナー（共同経営者）を辞し、愛媛一区より第48回衆議院総選挙に立候補し当選。現在2期目。
政界転身前は長島・大野・常松法律事務所のパートナー弁護士として国内外で活躍。専門誌が選ぶアジアの年間最優秀弁護士（2017年、コンプライアンス部門）受賞、日経弁護士ランキング2位（2020年）。元内閣官房長官秘書官（2006-2007）。ペンシルバニア大学ウォートン校に留学し、日本人として初めて欧米の主要MBA校で学生自治会長に選出。
国会においては「こども基本法」「ゲノム医療法」「休眠預金活用法案」の議員立法に参画。自民党内では、デジタル社会推進本部において、web3PT及びAIの進化と実装に関するPTの事務局長として、ＮＦＴ、web３、ＡＩホワイトペーパーを起草。党改革実行本部内に設けられたワーキングチームの事務局次長として党ガバナンスコード策定に携わる。2024年12月より、科学技術・イノベーション戦略調査会事務局長及び司法制度調査会事務局長。
2024年2月には厚生労働省内にヘルスケア分野のスタートアップの振興・支援策を検討するための「ヘルスケアスタートアップ等の振興・支援策検討プロジェクトチーム（PT）」を立ち上げ、６月に最終報告をまとめる。

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Tadashi MaedaJapan Bank for International CooperationChairman of the Board

1980年東京大学法学部卒。旧日本輸出入銀行に入り、ワシントン駐在員、資源ファイナンス部長、経営企画部長、執行役員（インフラ・環境ファイナンス部門長）、代表取締役専務、代表取締役副総裁 CEO、代表取締役総裁を経て、2022年6月より現職。2010年6月～2012年12月及び2022年9月～2024年9月まで内閣官房参与として、総理に助言を行う。2011年10月～2013年10月まで原子力損害賠償支援機構運営委員、2014年より2017年まで英国国際戦略研究所（IISS）評議委員を務めた。現在、インドORF（Observer Research Foundation）のグローバル・アドヴァイザリー・ボードを務めている。

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Speakers of WebX 2026

Hayden Adams

Uniswap Labs

Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs

Tom Lee

Bitmine

Chairman of the Board

John D'Agostino

Coinbase

Head of Strategy

Katherine Dowling

Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company

President and Board Director

Franklin Bi

Pantera Capital

General Partner

Bilal Bin Saqib

Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority

Minister of State / Chairman

Yat Siu

Animoca Brands

Co-founder and Chairman

Yoshitaka Kitao

SBI Holdings

Representative Director, Chairman, President & CEO

Giselle Lai

Fidelity International

Director, Digital Assets Strategist, APAC

Nischint Sanghavi

Visa

Head of Digital Currencies, Asia Pacific

Christian Rau

Mastercard

Senior Vice President Digital Assets and Blockchain

Carole House

Former White House Advisor, Penumbra Strategies

CEO

Chetan Karkhanis

Franklin Templeton

Senior Vice President

Fiona Murray

Ripple

Vice President and Managing Director of APAC, Ripple

David Walsh

Ethereum Foundation

Head of Enterprise

Avalon Ingram

Swift

Digital Assets Business Lead

Anthony Apollo

Wyoming Stable Token Commission

Executive Director

Sunayna Tuteja

Federal Reserve System

Former Chief Innovation Officer

Hayden AdamsUniswap LabsFounder and CEO of Uniswap Labs

Hayden Adams is the Founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol, the largest decentralized exchange protocol.He began building in crypto in 2017. As his first project, he set out to build an application that fully embodied the unique properties of Ethereum: decentralized, trustless, permissionless, and secure.This project eventually became Uniswap.As of April 2024, the Uniswap Protocol has processed over $2 trillion in lifetime volume. It competes head-on with centralized exchanges, offering 2x more liquidity than both Binance and Coinbase (two of the largest centralized exchanges) for popular pairs like Ethereum to stablecoin trades.Today, Uniswap Labs contributes to the development of the Uniswap Protocol and builds products for users to safely and securely access DeFi — including the Uniswap Interface and the Uniswap Wallet, which collectively have served millions of users.

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Tom LeeBitmineChairman of the Board

Thomas J. Lee (Tom Lee) is one of the most widely recognized and followed macro strategists on Wall Street, with nearly 30 years of experience in macro strategy and equity research. Known for his evidence-based, data-driven approach, he has made numerous timely and contrarian market calls—often going against consensus with accuracy—and was one of the first strategists to introduce institutional investors to Bitcoin. He is widely regarded as a trusted voice among top asset managers, advisors, and allocators.

In September 2014, he co-founded Fundstrat and serves as its Head of Research. Fundstrat is a research advisory firm that has grown to over 30 full-time employees and now serves hedge funds, mutual funds, and family offices in more than 26 countries.

Tom Lee founded Fundstrat Capital in Spring 2024 and serves as its Chief Investment Officer while continuing in his role as Head of Research at Fundstrat. He is the lead Portfolio Manager for the Fundstrat Granny Shots ETF suite (NYSE: GRNY, GRNJ, GRNI). The flagship large-cap portfolio, GRNY, is recognized as one of the most successful equity ETF launches of the past two decades, with over $4.6 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2026.

In June 2025, Lee was appointed Chairman of the Board of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR). He serves this role while also maintaining his roles as Head of Research at Fundstrat and CIO of Fundstrat Capital. At Bitmine, a $10 billion market-cap company, he helps guide the company’s strategic vision as an Ethereum-focused treasury model with broader blockchain initiatives.

Before founding Fundstrat, Lee was Chief Equity Strategist at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he worked from 1999 through 2014. Earlier in his career, he was a highly regarded telecommunications equity research analyst and small-cap equity/bankruptcy/reorg strategist, holding roles at firms including Kidder, Peabody and Salomon Smith Barney.

Over the course of his career, he has been ranked consistently by Institutional Investor for the past 30 years, earning #1, #2, and #3 positions for 15 consecutive years from 1998 to 2013. He is known for his data-driven approach (“analysis not opinions”), and clients view his work as both contrarian and highly differentiated.

Lee earned a BSE in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, with dual concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He is also a CFA Charterholder.

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John D'AgostinoCoinbaseHead of Strategy

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Katherine DowlingBitcoin Standard Treasury CompanyPresident and Board Director

Katherine Dowling is the President and Board Director of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR). Prior to BSTR she was a member of the Executive Committee at Bitwise Asset Management as well the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. She currently is a Senior Strategic Advisor for Bitwise. She also previously served in General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at several financial and private equity firms, and was a co-founder, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law School graduate, Ms. Dowling spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute insider trading, fraud, and money laundering cases, among others. She serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.

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Franklin BiPantera CapitalGeneral Partner

Franklin is a General Partner at Pantera Capital, focused on early-stage venture & token investing and portfolio development. Since joining Pantera in 2019, Franklin has led investments across DeFi, infrastructure, and Web3 gaming. He serves on the boards of Bitso, Azra Games, Pintu, MakersPlace, InfiniGods, Mezo, and Helika.

Franklin has 10 years of experience building and investing in blockchain and crypto, from seed stage to Fortune 50. Previously, Franklin was a founding member of J.P. Morgan’s blockchain group Onyx in 2015, leading many of the bank’s earliest blockchain initiatives across digital assets, market infrastructure, tokenization, and joint ventures. Franklin also co-founded Scale8 Partners, an advisory firm serving early-stage DeFi protocols, exchanges, and infrastructure projects. He began his venture career at ff Venture Capital, a top-performing early-stage VC fund based in NYC. Franklin is a graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics.

BitLending Stage

07/14 12:45 - 07/14 13:25

RWA Unlocked: How Tokenized Money Market Funds Are Reshaping Liquidity

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Bilal Bin SaqibPakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory AuthorityMinister of State / Chairman

Bilal Bin Saqib, MBE, is the Chairperson of PVARA (Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority), State Minister for Crypto and Blockchain and the CEO of Pakistan Crypto Council. He is also the Chief Advisor to the Finance Minister of Pakistan.

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Yat SiuAnimoca BrandsCo-founder and Chairman

A veteran technology entrepreneur/investor based in Hong Kong, Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, a global leader in Web3 with the mission to deliver digital property rights to the world's Internet users, thereby creating a new asset class, play-and-earn economies, and a more equitable digital framework contributing to the building of the open metaverse.

Yat began his career at Atari Germany in 1990. In 1995 he moved to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first free web page and email provider in Asia. In 1998 he set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. In 2009, he sold Outblaze’s messaging unit to IBM and pivoted Outblaze to become an incubator of projects and companies to develop digital entertainment services and products. One of those incubated companies is Animoca Brands, which was created in 2014.

In 2017 he set up the Dalton Learning Lab, an afterschool digital lab for skills not emphasized by most education systems, including divergent thinking and design thinking. He is the founder of ThinkBlaze, the research arm of Outblaze investigating socially meaningful issues in technology.

Since 2018, Yat has been an early advocate for the use of blockchain, including fungible tokens and NFTs, which enable users to enjoy true ownership of their own virtual assets, data, and, consequently, equity. With a clear vision of the potential of decentralized apps and assets, Yat quickly steered Animoca Brands to a leadership position in blockchain, gaming, tokenization, and the open metaverse. Today Animoca Brands is an industry leader that operates a series of Web3-focused subsidiaries and products, and that has invested in over 570 Web3-focused companies to build one of the largest blockchain portfolios in the world.

Yat has earned numerous accolades including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and recognition as one of the Cointelegraph top 100 notable people in blockchain.

A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.

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Yoshitaka KitaoSBI HoldingsRepresentative Director, Chairman, President & CEO

Yoshitaka Kitao is the President and CEO of SBI Holdings Inc. He earned degrees from both Keio University (1974) and Cambridge University (1978). Prior to his role at SBI, he has held multiple positions within Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (1974-1995) as well as Softbank Corporation (1995-1999). Kitao became the Representative Director, President of SOFTBANK INVESTMENT CORPORATION, currently SBI Holdings Inc., in 1999, and has led the company to become one of the biggest financial conglomerate in Japan.

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Giselle LaiFidelity InternationalDirector, Digital Assets Strategist, APAC

Giselle Lai is a Digital Assets Strategist at Fidelity International, where she has been
instrumental in shaping and executing the firm’s digital assets strategy since 2022, spanning
crypto investment solutions to tokenisation initiatives. She leads client engagement across
digital assets and supports the distribution of Fidelity’s digital asset capabilities. She also
contributes to thought leadership, educational initiatives, and research in related to digital
assets development.
Giselle has been actively involved in the digital assets ecosystem since 2018, driven by a
strong interest in emerging technologies and their implications for capital markets. She holds a
Master of Science in Blockchain and Digital Currency from the University of Nicosia and is an
active member of the Web3 Women association. In addition, she has served as a guest
lecturer for digital assets courses at universities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Prior to her current role, Giselle was an Associate Investment Director, specialising in Asian
fixed income and China bonds markets. She was responsible for product strategy and
franchise management for the Asian fixed income strategies, leading investor communications,
client engagement, and portfolio manager support across institutional and intermediary
channels.
Giselle joined Fidelity as a graduate associate and gained experience across various areas,
including Multi Asset Investment Directing, Institutional Business & Consultant Relations,
Digital Solutions, and Intermediary Sales in both Hong Kong and Singapore.
She holds a BSc degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong and is a
CFA and CAIA charterholder.

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Nischint SanghaviVisaHead of Digital Currencies, Asia Pacific

Current Position and Responsibilities
Nischint is the head of Digital Currencies in Asia Pacific for Visa. Based in Singapore, he oversees Visa’s digital currency business performance in Asia Pacific, including partnership strategies and developing new crypto business streams for Visa’s crypto offerings.

Other Information
Nischint is the subject matter expert on digital currency and web 3.0 engagements with key stakeholders such as banks, fintechs, regulators and blockchain infrastructure companies.

As part of his portfolio, he is also responsible for emerging stablecoin, CBDC and tokenized deposit products, leading Visa’s go-to-market efforts in the region.

Other Information
Nischint joined Visa in 2022, bringing over 20 years of experience in financial services having worked across multiple streams through the years. Before Visa, Nischint was managing fintech partnerships at Singtel and has worked with multiple digital currency business prior to that.

Nischint holds a Masters in Business Administration from Boston University School of Management and is also a Certified Chartered Accountant.

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Christian RauMastercardSenior Vice President Digital Assets and Blockchain

Christian Rau is Senior Vice President Blockchain and Digital Assets within Mastercard’s global digital commercialization organization.

In this role Christian establishes and coordinates global partnerships with Digital Asset and Fintech customers, and executes impactful initiatives in collaboration with Mastercard’s relationship management and product teams to deploy innovative digital payment propositions globally.
Previously heading up Mastercard’s Central European Product team between 2015 and 2019, Christian was responsible for the introduction of Debit Mastercard. Subsequently Christian led the Mastercard Vienna office as General Manager for the Austrian Market. Christian joined Mastercard in 2012 after having held positions in the telecommunication, internet service provider and banking sector.

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Carole HouseFormer White House Advisor, Penumbra StrategiesCEO

Carole House is a strategic technology executive who has spent her career focusing on leveraging innovative technologies to combat national security threats. She is the founder and CEO of a strategic technology and national security advisory practice, Penumbra Strategies, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center and Georgetown University CyberSMART Center. Carole recently departed the White House National Security Council (NSC) as Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. She previously served as the NSC Director for Cybersecurity and Secure Digital Innovation. During her time at the White House, Carole architected two Executive Orders driving critical steps to promote innovation in cybersecurity, digital identity, artificial intelligence, and digital assets. Carole has held positions in the private sector as an Executive in Residence at Terranet Ventures, Inc., co-founder and interim COO for a stealth fintech startup, and served on advisory boards for three financial regulatory agencies and three non-profits. She also has been recognized for her leadership in cyber and emerging tech initiatives, to include the prestigious "Fed100" award and AFFIRM's "Leadership in Crisis" award, in addition to various publications across the Atlantic Council, Bloomberg, the Small Wars Journal, and the Military Review. Carole’s prior government experience includes service as a U.S. Army Captain as well as positions leading emerging tech, cybersecurity, and national security initiatives across the White House, Senate Homeland Security Committee, and the U.S. Treasury.

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Takafumi Horie

1972年10月29日、福岡県生まれ。実業家。SNSグループ株式会社ファウンダー。
現在はロケット開発、アプリや飲食店のプロデュース、また予防医療普及協会として予防医療を啓蒙する等 様々な分野で活動する。
会員制オンラインサロン『堀江貴文イノベーション大学校（HIU）』では、会員とともに多彩なプロジェクトを展開している。

著書
『小学ゼロ年生 7歳からの進路相談』『体力が9割 結局、動いた者が勝つ』『僕が料理をする理由 AI時代を自由に生きる40の視点』など

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Chetan KarkhanisFranklin TempletonSenior Vice President

BitLending Stage

07/14 12:45 - 07/14 13:25

RWA Unlocked: How Tokenized Money Market Funds Are Reshaping Liquidity

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Fiona MurrayRippleVice President and Managing Director of APAC, Ripple

Based in Singapore, Fiona Murray is Vice President and Managing Director of APAC for Ripple, leading the company’s strategy and business operations in the Asia Pacific region.

During her tenure she has played an instrumental role in onboarding key partners and products critical to digital asset trade across the region, including building out payment rails for on/off ramping and overseeing the growth of OTC in APAC.

She drives Ripple's efforts to scale enterprise blockchain and crypto adoption in this region's fast-growing digital asset hubs, including working to secure the company's landmark Major Payments Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Fiona joined Ripple in 2018 and has led the APAC sales team since 2020. Prior to Ripple, Fiona held business development positions within large enterprises, including Oracle, Fiserv and Misys (now Finastra), helping financial institutions innovate in payments across Europe and Asia. Fiona holds a Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.

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David WalshEthereum FoundationHead of Enterprise

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Avalon IngramSwiftDigital Assets Business Lead

Avalon is the Business Lead for Digital Assets, Asia Pacific at SWIFT, where she drives strategic engagement with banks, market infrastructures and regulators on the adoption of tokenization, digital assets and next-generation payment and settlement models. Her role supports SWIFT’s vision across both traditional and emerging digital asset ecosystems.
With over 12 years of experience across financial crime compliance, payments and RegTech, she has worked with AI-driven RegTech startups and served on the Singapore FinTech Association’s RegTech Sub-Committee (2020–2021). Avalon frequent speaker and moderator at industry events across digital assets, payments innovation, compliance and financial inclusion.

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Anthony ApolloWyoming Stable Token CommissionExecutive Director

Anthony J. Apollo was appointed as the inaugural Executive Director of the Wyoming Stable Token Commission in September 2023. Director Apollo brings his experience in both traditional finance (KPMG, EY) and digital assets (ConsenSys, Rensa) to the development of the first fiat-backed and fully-reserved stable token issued by a public entity in the United States. Prior to his tenure, Anthony launched blockchain-native projects around intellectual property, debt securities, multimedia licenses, and real-time payments.

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Sunayna TutejaFederal Reserve SystemFormer Chief Innovation Officer

Sunayna Tuteja is a globally recognized innovation leader operating at the nexus of finance, technology, and policy. She most recently served as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the Federal Reserve System, where she built and led the Fed’s innovation agenda across the 12 Reserve Banks and Board of Governors. Her work focused on both the application of emerging technologies within the institution and assessing the policy implications shaping the future of the financial system - including artificial intelligence, digital assets, tokenization, quantum computing, and the future of money and payments.

With more than a decade of experience as a builder, investor, and operator across TradFi, fintech, crypto, and central banking in North America and Asia, Sunayna is known for helping institutions meet the moment - by solving gnarly problems and translating bold ideas into practical execution, shipped outcomes, and measurable business value. Prior to the Federal Reserve, she built the digital assets practice at TD Ameritrade and led major digital transformation initiatives across TD Bank in both Canada and the United States.

A connector of ideas, individuals, and institutions, Sunayna has spent her career creating the conditions for active engagement between the public and private sectors. Her regularly hosted and curated (and over subscribed!) roundtables have yielded not only a forum for spicy conversations, but also positive connections and productive collaboration. When Sunayna is not nerding out about all things innovation, you can find her adventuring the skies in her Cessna.

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Japan has been selected as the host country for WebX due to its national strategy promoting Web3 technologies and the strong commitment of major domestic corporations to this field.
While many regions around the world are tightening regulations on crypto asset markets, Japan continues to promote highly transparent regulatory frameworks and accessibility to advanced technologies.
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