SPARK kicks off with cocktails, delicious Catalonian cuisine, and a DJ set. Join us for an evening of networking with industry peers to set the tone for the week. 

Self-issue, partner with a third party, or join a consortium – the model you choose will shape your cost structure, compliance posture, and competitive positioning for years. In this session, operators who’ve made the call share what they got right, what they underestimated, and what they’d do differently. Nick Philpott from Zodia Markets frames the decision criteria, the panelists argue their corner, and you leave with a working framework for your own roadmap.

Dust off your whitepapers because it’s time to dive into which model for accessing blockspace is best for your business. In this session, we will hear from issuers on public L1s, people building their own chain and someone utilizing permissioned chains. Three institutions that made three different calls and they are here to defend them. This session goes beyond the trade-off list to the actual decision: what drove the architecture choice, what it cost, and what it unlocked. You’ll leave with a concrete framework for evaluating which blockspace model fits your use case.

During the recent geopolitical and market turmoil, the hottest trading assets weren’t crypto-assets at all, it was commodities and tokenized equities on Hyperliquid. TradFi is no longer scared to utilize crypto rails and their utility to find an edge (or a hedge) but how did this happen and where does it go from here? Panelists from different levels of digital asset and crypto adoption will join us on stage to discuss where we go from here and how we get there.

Show how our security protects against an API attack, our security team will demonstrate how the attack is setup and how it takes place and the measures Fireblocks uses to protect our customers.

Walk banks through the bank-grade stack from flexible key management to mobile-less approvals, tokenized deposits and stablecoin issuance.

Stablecoin payments aren’t one hop from wallet to merchant, they’re a relay with four handoffs, and most teams have only built one or two legs of it. This session runs the full relay live: a payment accepted through Fireblocks Flow, held in an embedded wallet, coordinated and verified counterparty to counterparty through the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), and spent through stablecoin-linked card issuance, all inside the Fireblocks platform and connected through the Fireblocks Network.

Idle balances are a missed opportunity. Native staking and DeFi lending put stored assets to work in the most secure, flexible way available, with automated distribution handling how that yield gets back to the right account.

An agent with a stablecoin wallet and no limits isn’t automation, it’s a blank check that happens to be programmable. This session is a hands-on build of the alternative: an agent paying through Fireblocks Agentic Wallets, under real spend limits and merchant allowlists, over x402 with Fireblocks’ security extension built in. We’ll follow the payment all the way to the merchant side through the Agentic Payments Gateway, with compliance checks and a full audit trail running underneath.

Stop by the world-famous Dani García hot spot for cocktails before heading out for the evening. Mingle with our SPARK ’26 sponsors as you debrief from day one of the conference. 

Tokenized assets have been a thesis for a decade. Robinhood is now running the experiment in production – equities on-chain, private markets in the pipeline, prediction markets giving retail investors exposure they’ve never had access to. Robinhood’s Johann Kerbrat sits down to separate what’s actually working from what’s still theater, where liquidity is forming, what the operational lift really looks like, and which asset classes come next.

On July 15, 2026, DTCC announced it had converted DTC-held assets into tokens and used them in real production trades – the largest tokenization production initiative to date, spanning collateral pledge, securities lending, Treasury/repo DVP, equity DVP, equity DVD, equity token transfer, and CCP margin workflows across both Besu and Canton. Over 30 firms participated, including Citadel Securities, CME Group and Digital Asset Holdings (Canton).

In this session, Citadel, CME and DTCC make the business case for tokenized assets for collateral mobility, why every buy- and sell-side institution should be paying attention to this corner of the market and what comes next.

Western Union, Visa and the world’s largest banks didn’t build the current financial system to watch it get disintermediated but they’re investing in the infrastructure that might do exactly that. This session puts two incumbents in the room for an honest conversation about the strategic tension at the heart of every major payments institution right now: how do you build on crypto rails without cannibalizing your core business, and what happens if you don’t move fast enough?

Verifying who’s actually on the other end of a transfer usually happens after the fact, if it happens at all. This session shows how the Address Registry and Identity Network verify counterparty identity before a transaction is sent, closing the gap between speed, trust, and compliance.

Most tokenization programs get stuck between pilot and production. This session runs a live end-to-end flow covering issuance, cross-chain distribution, compliance reporting, and investor onboarding, built for teams with an active program ready to scale.

Treasury operations move on a lot of fronts at once: transaction risk, DeFi exposure, reporting demands, all in parallel. In this session you will see AI moving from a feature to an operating model: Genie answering treasury questions directly instead of a manual data pull, agentic policy running routine approvals within the same guardrails as a manual signer, DeFi security screening catching risk before a transaction goes out, and AI-powered builders handling financial reporting without a separate export step.

The infrastructure barrier to launching a wallet product just got a lot lower. This session shows how fintechs and retail platforms are going live with full wallet experiences, including multi-user account structures and merchant pay-ins, faster than most teams ship a feature.

A garden cocktail hour, a seated dinner, and the grand finale – The Fireblocks Network Awards. Join us for a celebratory evening to close out SPARK ’26.