Thrilled to welcome @OndoFinance as a Platinum Sponsor of #DCFintechWeek 2026! Ondo Finance delivers institutional-grade finance onchain, making tokenized real-world assets accessible to all. 📍 October 13–16 | Washington, DC Learn more → dcfintechweek.org/

Thrilled to welcome @GlobalDigitalFi as a Community Partner of #DCFintechWeek 2026! GDF is the leading global members' association advancing best practices and governance standards for digital assets globally. 📍 Oct 13–16 | Washington, DC Learn more → dcfintechweek.org/

Thrilled to welcome @Zelle as a Co-Host of #DCFintechWeek 2026! Zelle is helping shape the future of digital payments through fast, seamless money movement across trusted financial networks. 📍 October 13–16 | Washington, DC Learn more → dcfintechweek.org/

Thrilled to welcome @Ripple as a Platinum Sponsor of #DCFintechWeek 2026! At the forefront of blockchain, Ripple is enabling seamless, real-time global payments. 📍 October 13–16 | Washington, DC Learn more → dcfintechweek.org/

1/ DeFi cybersecurity standards are crucial for the integrity of the technology and the safety of users. DEF Exec Director @amandatums discussed this topic at @dcfintechweek 👇

The sessions from The Market Infrastructure, presented by @RobinhoodApp x @DavisPolkReg at #DCFintechWeek, are now live on YouTube! From investor access and tokenized assets to AI and blockchain—see how innovation and regulation reshape finance. Watch: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

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The sessions from The Application Layer, presented by @gibsondunn at #DCFintechWeek, are now live on YouTube! From AI demos to panels on AI-native products, stablecoins, and the future of entrepreneurship—see how AI is reshaping finance. Watch: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

Can DeFi stay decentralized and follow the rules? DeFi isn’t an "experiment" but is becoming real infrastructure. And the question is whether smart contracts can handle things like identity, compliance, and enforcement on-chain. That’s the tension people are trying to figure out, and it was front and center at #DCFintechWeek. Our @leelaughs5x joined experts from the BIS and Aleo to discuss what smarter regulation might actually look like and how protocol design could shift to meet it halfway. More than writing new rules, it’s about building infrastructure that can understand them. 🎥 Re-live this killer panel and discover more: youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zy13E8…

Michael Hsu discusses “AI Actionability Over Interpretability,” a #DCFintechWeek winning paper. Watch the presentation here: youtu.be/_Xgg4FAq-2c Read the full paper at dcfintechweek.org

Investing in a World with Social Media and Finfluencers, presented by @FINRA and @FlourishVC, was a standout satellite event at #DCFintechWeek. A timely discussion on how finance, technology, and social platforms intersect to redefine investor engagement and trust.

And that's a wrap for the DC DAO Stewards at another insightful DC Fintech Week (Finchella)(@dcfintechweek #dcfintechweek ). If you're in crypto, we want to meet you. Come say hi if you see us at events around the area. (@tmccarthyv94 , Radar, @ShaileeA , @JustBrendax , and @thatgerald )

Custody is being redefined. At #DCFintechWeek, Michael Shaulov broke down why: Stablecoins are unlocking wallet-enabled finance Programmable custody can exceed legacy security MPC and policy controls are the new institutional standard Liquidity and compliance don’t have to be tradeoffs This is where finance is going.

From panelists at #DCFintechWeek: DeFi can meet regulatory expectations if developers build risk controls that target outcomes, not transactions. ‣ Voices included @BIS_org, @AleoHQ, @AvaLabs. ‣ Treat compliance as risk management, not code rollback ‣ Outcome-based policy lens suggested by @BIS_org alum on the panel ‣ Tools discussed: front-end governance, sanctions-aware UX, dispute mechanisms ‣ Remaining gaps: multi-jurisdiction coverage and developer liability boundaries

Huge huge thanks to @SECGov Chair Paul Atkins, @FDICgov Acting Chair Travis Hill, and @federalreserve Board Governor Waller for joining me on stage for the first day of #DCFintechWeek 2025. Each year, the sector’s leaders around the world--from TradFi to DeFi to AI--bring their best ideas, questions, and visions for what’s next. The conference has grown over the last 8 years, as has the conversation. In years past, the notes from our regulators often reflected caution, introspection, and the weight of lessons learned. This year, however, there was a new focus—a shared conviction that whether it be the long decline in IPOs or the years long decline in new banks, energy and focus must be brought to bear on reigniting capital and economic activity. And that technology, paired with enabling regulation, can help us get there. There was, remarkably, also a very clear-eyed recognition that the road ahead would not always be smooth. Legacy firms will be disrupted. Some technologies will falter. Rules may not always keep pace. Yet amid the realism was something just as powerful—a unified belief that the cost of inaction is certain: less innovation, less investment, less access to capital, and slower growth. The take was a reminder that even for regulators, building the future of finance is not about avoiding risk, but about meeting it with courage, collaboration, and creativity. Time will tell how that optimism fares in a world of economic change, but hopefully its core spirit—of openness, innovation, and ambition—finds a lasting home in our regulatory DNA.

Highlight From #Finchella Blockchain Foundation Executive Director @cmesi closed out #DCFintechWeek at a luncheon roundtable hosted by @fintechthinksdc & @apcoworldwide. @ChrisBrummerDr & Jeff Zelkowitz led the discussion about “Borderless Technology in a Fragmented World.”

"Creating new securities that didn't exist before that are only represented by tokens is innovation. Now you're creating a whole new class of security and a whole new class of asset." - Surus CEO, @virtuallylaw at @dcfintechweek yesterday on the difference between distribution and innovation in DeFi It’s this kind of novel financial innovation that @Surus_io enables - qualified custody, reserve management, and end-to-end token issuance for builders who want to create novel financial assets. Your vision. Our infrastructure. 🚀 surus.io

The Future of Money, a private salon hosted by the @MilkenInstitute FinTech Program, was a standout satellite event at #DCFintechWeek. A timely discussion on how digital assets and stablecoins are reshaping markets, regulation, and participation in the global financial system.

I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT something I learned during #dcfintechweek: the Biden/Warren crew had a *strategy* of telling #crypto companies to get regulated solely as a means to gain information they could use to kill us with prosecutions, defamatory denials & enforcement actions. FOLKS, IT WAS DONE DELIBERATELY & IT WAS PLANNED😡. The social contract between the govt & the governed breaks down when the govt weaponizes regulation to entrap people who operate within the law, albeit differently than incumbents. Separately but related, I also received two independent confirmations while in DC that the DOJ has opened an investigation into #debanking. I'm glad, and hope @pmarca is glad too. It's time for *REAL* accountability.🙏