SPARK ‘24 will feature 2.5 days of expert keynotes, panels, fireside chats with industry leaders, and hands-on labs to help you transform the future of the digital assets.
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With an ever-expanding attack surface, crypto and digital asset businesses need to ensure that security is a core part of not only their product offering but also the operational workflows and culture of the company. In this panel, Fireblocks CISO Oded Blatman will talk to some of the industry’s leading CISOs to get their perspective on how they approach digital asset security – embedding it into the organization and product itself.
Building a robust and automated risk mitigation program is essential to ensure minimal disruptions to your business. In this session, a Fireblocks customer and crypto compliance provider Chainalysis discuss the best ways to ensure compliance with Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations and Travel Rule, to prevent interactions with sanctioned entities, and to identify customer behavior.
The constant flux of digital asset regulations across the world makes it challenging for organizations looking to explore or expand into the digital asset space. Join this session as Fireblocks’ Chief Compliance Officer, Jason Allegrante, discusses an overview of regulatory observations globally with regulators from 3 different regions.
Treasury management is seldom a one-size-fits-all approach, even if it fundamentally serves the same function. In this session, we are joined by Fireblocks customers from 3 different segments — Institution Trading, Retail Fintech, and Asset Manager — to discuss how similar and/or different treasury operations look like between their organizations, and their recommendations for treasury operations best practices.
Depending on where you are on the value chain, tokenization can either supercharge your business model or disintermediate your business. In this panel, we explore how large financial institutions are pioneering completely different strategies to defend and expand their market share, and the potential impacts on downstream markets.
Within a year, tokenized money market funds and RWAs — such as BUIDL, USDY, USYC and FOB — went from zero to a multi-billion dollar asset class. In this session, we gather the people behind these products to explore where each of them are seeing traction, and the kinds of audiences who are investing in their product. Join the session to learn how these products impact retail and institutional investment activities, the additional yield that trading firms can expect, and the strategy to supercharge adoption in 2025.
As stablecoins enter mass adoption, new issuers enter the market to offer FX pairs, international payments, and post-trade settlements. In this session, we explore different approaches from single bank issuance to how the EU and Brazilian fintech consortiums are leveraging stablecoins.
Join this fireside chat to learn about Visa’s vision for 2025, where blockchain and crypto fit in, and their thought process when it comes to making decisions about products that need to be on-chain, and those that don’t.
This panel cuts through the hype and dives into the real-world applications of blockchain technology transforming payments today. Discover how businesses are already leveraging blockchain to unlock a range of benefits, including faster transactions, greater transparency, and visibility into your payment flows.
Stablecoins are making a profound impact on global settlement. Companies like Conduit and Bridge are enabling businesses in the US, EU, Latin America and Africa to bypass SWIFT using stablecoin rails, and are now processing the movement of over $5 billion a year. Join this panel to learn the true impact of stablecoins for cross-border payments and the impact it’s making in emerging economies.
Finding balance in the constant ebb and flow of the crypto markets can be challenging, and both buy and sell side companies play integral roles in the crypto ecosystem. In this panel, we gather top sell side firms to discuss best practices for navigating a complex market structure, challenges, and the key to their success.
With the backdrop of increased allocation by institutional investors, buy side firms discuss the latest market movements — trends, opportunities, competition, infrastructure, ecosystem, and potential pitfalls that may arise.
Futures and Options trading for crypto assets continue to show steady growth with increased participation from institutions. In this session, we’ll evaluate the ecosystem as it exists today, its challenges, and the opportunities that lie ahead in 2025.
As of May 2024, the TVL in DeFi had increased 75% year-to-date, reaching $94.9 billion. This upward trajectory has indicated renewed confidence and liquidity in DeFi markets. This panel aims to provide an overview of what went right this year, and how the industry can build on that momentum to achieve sustained growth in 2025.
Expanding your fintech to new markets is exciting and promises growth for your business. However, nuances exist for different geographies. This panel brings together fintechs and retail trading companies to uncover what those market-specific nuances are, potential challenges and opportunities, and best practices for establishing a strong presence from day one.
As asset managers continue tokenizing securities, new distribution channels are needed to bring those securities to the masses. Enter the fintechs, who are built to deliver and distribute these securities at scale. But how do we ensure that the issuers and the distributors remain in lock-step? What does it take for fintechs to stay ahead of the curve and in the know about new investment products expected to be available? Join this panel to find out.
Digital asset wallets have gone through several evolutions to get to where it is today, with many different implementations that suit different business types and use cases. To enable greater flexibility and control for our customers, Fireblocks now offers Direct Custody Wallets and non-custodial Embedded Wallets. But what do both types of wallets offer, which wallet type better suits your product, and how do they impact user experience? Join this session to hear from companies who have built their products using both wallet types, and how they’re viewing further advancements in the space.
Interoperability is crucial for the growth and development of blockchain technology. That’s why Fireblocks partners with leading protocols who share the same vision of building cross-chain interoperability. In this panel, we speak with a few of our protocol partners about the current limitations of working cross-chain, what it will take for us to address those gaps in an effective and secure way, ultimately working towards unlocking the true potential of decentralized networks.
If your business interacts with digital assets and crypto in any shape or form, counterparty risk is an inevitable concern across the board due to the decentralized nature of digital asset transactions. In this session, we gather different market participants in the space to draw insights on how they approach risk mitigation, improvements on efficiency and transparency in the post-trade settlement process.
Programmable money can increase transparency, visibility, and automation of payments without third party intervention. While there are many benefits, there are an equal amount of challenges holding programmable currencies back from mainstream adoption. This panel aims to discuss the pros and cons of programmable money, identify the gaps for its proliferation, and discuss the way forward.
Building a top-tier solution that offers seamless user experience requires a strong foundational backend architecture that is secure and enables your operations team to work efficiency. This session covers the fundamentals of operationalizing your fintech, exploring all the makings of a successful fintech, including:
— Challenges that a fintech faces, and the problems you’ll need to solve
— The differences between hot, warm, cold wallets, the types of customer-facing wallets (direct custody or embedded)
—Treasury management
—Additional services your fintech can offer depending on the nature of your setup
—A preview of how these additional offering can look like when you build on Fireblocks
While crypto continues to hold promise for the reshaping of the global financial landscape, the ever-evolving and high-growth nature of the industry attracts threat actors that continue to come up with new and innovative ways to hack and steal funds. In this sessions, we gather the best and brightest digital asset security experts to discuss some of the most prominent crypto hacks of 2024, preventative measure that could have been taken, and what you can do for your business to minimize the risk of hacks in the year head.
VC’s are one of the best resources for discovering the next big thing. Executives want to know what are the market segments that look ripe for explosive growth while developers are looking to figure out what they should be building next. In this session, Fireblocks’ CEO Michael Shaulov will sit down with top VCs investing in the growth of the digital asset space to discuss where these new pockets of innovation are within the industry.
Corporations across the world continue to expand into web3, primarily by building loyalty programs to increase customer engagement and drive retention. This panel brings together some of the world’s leading corporates, who have paved the way in web3, for a robust discussion on how they designed their loyalty programs, and how they built an embedded and interoperable backend to ensure the best user experience for their customers.
The growing number of blockchain networks — and the inherent lack of interoperability — has brought about fragmentation of liquidity for the DeFi ecosystem. Regulations like the Travel Rule, established by FATF, create an additional layer of centralization that could potentially inhibit the true purpose of DeFi. In this session, panelists will explore ways to solve the fragmentation of liquidity, increase interoperability, and what it will take to create an open equitable system that truly democratizes the financial system.