Time;Teacher;Course

Time; Title; Moderator; Speakers; Description 10:00 AM ET; How to Make Bitcoin (Safely) Multi-Chain; Mod: Andre Serrano (Stacks Foundation); Alexei Zamyatin (Interlay), Engin Erdogan (Thesis), Justin Wang (Zeus Network); Chains beget bridges. Bridges beget hacks. What can Bitcoin do better than its counterparts elsewhere in the multi-chain world? These builders discuss how they are moving BTC across chains safely. 10:20 AM ET; The Case for Bitcoin L2s; Mod: Brad Keoun (CoinDesk); Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures), Rena Shah (Trust Machines), Willem Schroé (Botanix Labs); Layer 2s aren't just for Ethereum anymore. Scaling Bitcoin has catalyzed a vibrant ecosystem of builders and chains. This panel will explore what's behind this bumper crop of Bitcoin L2s and how increased throughout and functionality will drive Bitcoin adoption. 10:45 AM ET; A Global Perspective on the Bitcoin Ecosystem; Mod: Gina Abrams (Trust Machines); Daniel Fogg (IOV Labs), Melody He (Spartan Group), NFTSupply (SatRepublic), Trevor Owens (Bitcoin Frontier Fund); With the Bitcoin ETF dominating the headlines, it's easy to lose sight of Bitcoin's global footprint. While spot ETFs just arrived in the US, teams around the world have been building on the technology for years. Our panel will discuss trends they've seen in ecosystems across different continents, adoption metrics around the world, and what regions are taking the lead in scaling Bitcoin. 11:10 AM ET; Why Sotheby's Is Bullish on Ordinals; Mod: Namcios (Bitcoin Magazine); Elizabeth Olson (Xverse), Michael Bouhanna (Sotheby's), Quary (Magisat); The 279-year-old auction house is no tourist when it comes to experimenting with digital collectibles. Of late, its thesis seems to revolve around Ordinals as an emerging asset class. We'll hear from Sotheby's Head of Digital Art about why the storied institution is embracing Bitcoin inscriptions. 11:30 AM ET; The Future of Bitcoin with Muneeb Ali and Laura Shin; Mod: Laura Shin (Unchained); Muneeb Ali (Trust Machines); The halving is soon upon us — but is this time different? Bitcoin now has unprecedented institutional adoption. How will innovations at the L2 level drive growth at the base layer? What use-cases will L2s unlock? And how does renewed developer interest in Bitcoin impact users and public perception of the original blockchain? 12:00 PM ET; Signal21: Special Announcement; Mitchell Cuevas (Stacks Foundation); Jonathan Sadlowe (Gossamer Capital); Announcement! 12:40 PM ET; After the ETF: Institutional Bitcoin 2.0; Mod: Kyle Ellicott (Bitcoin Frontier Fund); Chiente Hsu (ALEX), Eliézer Ndinga (21shares), Ryan Rasmussen (Bitwise); It took Bitcoin ETFs a month to attract as much capital as the gold equivalent did in two years. But now that the seminal moment is behind us, where does the market go from here? Our panel of experts and ETF issuers will look ahead. 1:10 PM ET; Growth Spurt: What Bitcoin DeFi Should Learn From Other Chains; Mod: William Foxley (Blockspace); Alex Miller (Hiro), Jake Margulies (Galxe), Sankha Banerjee (Babylon); It's been four years since Ethereum's 'DeFi Summer.' That surge in innovation and user adoption laid bare the urgent need for scalability. Today, Bitcoin may be poised to witness the same Cambrian explosion. This session examines the lessons Bitcoin can take from Ethereum—and the ones it can leave behind. 1:40 PM ET; Understanding Liquid Stacking; Mod: Andre Serrano (Stacks Foundation); Anuj Shankar (Luganodes), Jakob Schillinger (Hermetica), Tycho Onnasch (Zest Protocol), Tim Varner (Papaya); First came stacking. Now comes liquid stacking. Hear from the DAOs and projects behind the current wave of maximizing yield on DeFi. 2:00 PM ET; Technical Session: The Life and Times of a Nakamoto Stacks Transaction; Kenny Rogers (Stacks Foundation);; We've all heard that Nakamoto will bring faster transactions, but the details of exactly what happens when you initiate a Stacks transaction can be a little confusing. In this talk, we'll go over exactly what happens during the lifecycle of a Stacks transaction and how long each step takes, from creating it and sending it to the network, all the way through to settling in its final resting place on the Bitcoin chain. You'll walk away with a concrete understanding of exactly what happens to Stacks transactions under Nakamoto rules. 2:30 PM ET; Technical Session: Preparing the Stacks API for Nakamoto; Rafael Cárdenas (Hiro Systems);; 2:55 PM ET; Unraveling the Future with Bitcoin + AI; Jason Schrader (Freehold);; 3:00 PM ET; Ready Layer 2: The Bitcoin Builder Competition; Adam Haun (Stacks Foundation);; Building on Bitcoin is here, are you ready? Bitcoin innovation culture has been reawakened and it's time to build for the world’s largest, most liquid crypto economy. Join the 'Ready Layer 2' Builder Competition, a Bitcoin Layer 2 Hackathon and Pitch Competition.