Run of show
Timed run of show for CryptoMondays, Tech Tuesdays (Liberland Meetup), the two-day Hard Rock main stage, BitcoinPalooza, and the Washington Elite Investment Summit & Gala.
Sep 14
An intimate CryptoMondays evening on Wall Street. Operators and builders dig into AI security and governance, then close with a fireside on GenAI, LLMs, and what comes next for FinTech.
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm
CryptoMondays, Wall Street
As generative AI enters regulated finance, this panel examines the security controls, model governance, and accountability frameworks that keep systems trustworthy. Expect a practical look at risk ownership, auditability, and how institutions can adopt AI without opening new attack surfaces.
Sep 15
Tech Tuesdays hosts the official Liberland Meetup at Hard Rock Times Square. Doors open for networking before a headline conversation on liberty, privacy, and ownership – from Liberland to the ledger – then an open mixer.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Tech Tuesdays · Liberland Meetup, Hard Rock Cafe Times Square
Arrive early, grab a drink, and meet the Liberland Meetup crowd before the evening program begins.
The Liberland Meetup headline explores how liberty, privacy, and ownership translate from political ideals into digital systems people can actually use. Speakers connect sovereign identity, self-custody, and ledger-native rights to the choices builders and citizens face today.
Open floor networking after the headline panel – continue the conversation with speakers and fellow builders.
Sep 16
Day one on the Hard Rock main stage opens with President Vít Jedlička and Brock Pierce, then moves from liberty and the constitutional internet into AI agents, on-chain trust, custody and zero-trust risk, U.S. crypto law, and a close on energy, compute, and health sovereignty.
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Main Stage, Hard Rock Times Square
Doors settle, the room is briefed, and Day 1 of the Hard Rock main stage begins.
President Vít Jedlička opens the conference with Liberland’s case for voluntary governance and digital-era freedom.
Brock Pierce frames the week ahead – why capital, culture, and cryptography are converging now.
Opening the main stage with a values-first frame: how privacy, open networks, and intentional design can still produce a more equitable digital world. The conversation sets the week’s north star–technology that expands agency rather than concentrating control.
What happens when online life needs constitutional-grade rules–dispute resolution, due process, and policy that understands cryptography? Panelists argue why lawmakers need cypherpunk insight, and how rights-preserving architecture can survive real-world conflict.
Beyond code and contracts sits the human layer: oversight, legal engineering, and the people who keep systems honest when incentives fail. This session maps how institutions, counsel, and operators share responsibility for resilient digital markets.
Alex Lightman on staying human, resilient, and strategically relevant as AI accelerates every industry.
Regulation can clarify markets–or smother the innovation that made them valuable. Leaders from policy, sovereignty, and industry debate how to write durable rules that protect users while keeping open networks competitive and expressive.
AI without verifiable infrastructure is a black box with planetary stakes. This panel makes the case for blockchain as the trust layer–provenance, accountability, and audit trails–so autonomous systems can be governed, not just deployed.
From user intent to agent reasoning, the next stack must balance autonomy with privacy and shared infrastructure. Speakers unpack agents, regenerative systems, and interoperability grids that let machines coordinate without surrendering user control.
Governance cannot be bolted on after launch. This session explores designing AI agents, DeFi controls, and multi-cloud architectures so policy, permanence, and trust are encoded from day one–not patched in after failure.
When finance moves on-chain, risk does not disappear–it relocates across identity, custody, and machine-to-machine trust. Panelists examine who is liable when automated systems fail, and which controls make institutional adoption possible.
Verification is becoming the scarce commodity–across frontiers of trust, capital formation, and even orbital compute. This panel looks at how proof, infrastructure, and investment converge as digital systems leave the bounds of traditional platforms.
Crypto economies live or die on incentives and the jurisdictions that host them. Speakers dissect intelligent market design, jurisdictional strategy, and how thoughtful token and policy architecture shapes durable on-chain communities.
A clear-eyed brief on crypto’s legal reality in the U.S. and abroad–where clarity is arriving, where ambiguity remains, and what builders and investors should do now. Expect actionable takeaways on compliance posture without the theater.
Closing Wednesday with the human operating system: energy, compute intensity, heart coherence, and health sovereignty for leaders under pressure. The panel connects personal resilience to the same systems thinking that drives the week’s tech agenda.
Day 1 wraps – carry the conversations into the evening and prepare for capital day tomorrow.
Sep 17
Day two turns to capital: Bitcoin beyond blind accumulation, the new sovereign moment, and the rails that move the global dollar. Afternoon sessions cover emerging-market access, natural-capital provenance, tokenization, and real estate on-chain – then the hand-off to BitcoinPalooza.
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Main Stage, Hard Rock Times Square
Welcome back to the Hard Rock main stage for Day 2 – capital, rails, and real-world assets.
Blind accumulation is not a strategy. Bitcoin treasury leaders and market thinkers debate allocation discipline, risk management, and what “better” looks like when digital assets sit on corporate and institutional balance sheets.
A new sovereign moment is reshaping capital, networks, and national strategy around digital assets. Pierce, Terpin, and Kerner frame where power is shifting–and which bets still matter as Bitcoin and crypto enter the geopolitical mainstream.
Banks, Bitcoin, and stablecoins only scale if people know how to operate them. This panel focuses on securing the talent and training pipeline–skills, tooling, and institutional readiness for a digital-asset workforce.
Part one of the Global Dollar series asks whether stablecoins can deliver fairer rails for emerging markets–or simply export old asymmetries in new packaging. Speakers ground the debate in remittances, inclusion, and real user outcomes.
Stablecoin money only moves as far as its plumbing allows. Builders of the Global Dollar backbone discuss liquidity, settlement, compliance, and the infrastructure choices that decide who can send value–and at what cost.
Most Web3 pitches fail for reasons founders ignore until it is too late. Investors and operators break down sovereignty narratives, legacy friction, and the deal-killers that separate fundable teams from theater.
Pitching investors who do not care about Web3 means translating product into liquidity, risk, and returns they already understand. This session delivers a blunt playbook for founders who want capital from outside the crypto echo chamber.
Closing the Global Dollar arc: financial access as the unlock for the next billion innovators. Panelists connect rails, incubation, and regional ecosystems–showing how money movement and opportunity rise together.
Natural capital and environmental assets only become investable when provenance is trustworthy. This panel explores on-chain certification, nutrient and climate-linked credits, and the bridge from ecological value to regulated markets.
Tokenizing the real world is an issuance, IP, and capital-markets problem–not just a smart-contract demo. Speakers unpack how security tokens and RWAs can reach public-market credibility at global scale.
Property markets are opening to fractional ownership and cross-border participation through tokenization. This panel examines how real estate rails can democratize access while meeting the legal and operational bar investors demand.
From equity structures to ADUs and compliant marketplaces, on-chain real estate needs products people can actually buy and hold. Practitioners share how to ship regulated property exposure without sacrificing usability.
RWA at scale means smart tokens, real tokenomics, disaster liquidity, and a future where AI agents transact. The final main-stage panel ties issuance mechanics to autonomous payment and crisis-ready capital flows.
Day 2 closes. The floor resets for BitcoinPalooza – culture, performance, and the after party.
Sep 17
The official after party. KOVO’s art fills the floor all night while Bella Porter, Alejandro Glatt, Emily Lazar, Aaron Williams, Enyo Sam, and The Coinheads take the stage – with culture panels on art, fashion, Bitcoin, and the long game.
7:00 pm – midnight
Hard Rock Cafe Times Square
Doors open into KOVO’s floor installation – art in the room all night as BitcoinPalooza fills Hard Rock Times Square.
The after party is on: welcome to BitcoinPalooza.
Bella Porter opens the stage with a live set.
Crypto’s culture layer–art, music, fashion, and live moments–is where narratives stick. Creators on tonight’s bill discuss how special experiences get made, and why cultural craft is infrastructure for the next wave of adoption.
Alejandro Glatt’s fashion show hits the runway inside the Palooza floor.
Three long-game believers compare conviction, cost, and the bets that kept them in Bitcoin and digital assets. An unvarnished conversation about risk, patience, and what endurance looks like when markets turn.
Aaron Williams brings a live set to the BitcoinPalooza stage.
Enyo Sam performs live as the night accelerates toward midnight.
The Coinheads close the performance block with a full live set.
The party keeps going – music, art, and the floor until midnight.
Sep 18
The Washington Elite Investment Summit on the Hard Rock main stage, then the Gala. Opening and closing performances by Santiago Cumplido Del Castillo; Brock Pierce opens the summit. Panels move from UN-aligned capital and institutional infrastructure to cities, supply chains, and leaders deploying capital at global scale.
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, then the Gala
Main Stage, Hard Rock Times Square
Santiago Cumplido Del Castillo opens the Washington Elite Investment Summit with a special performance.
Brock Pierce opens the summit – capital, diplomacy, and the week’s closing mandate.
At the UN table, guidelines only matter if capital can follow. This summit panel bridges multilateral frameworks and market mechanisms–how financing instruments turn policy intent into deployable infrastructure.
Institutional allocators are evaluating UN-aligned infrastructure as a distinct category of opportunity. Speakers outline what “bankable” looks like: governance, returns, and the structures that let large capital participate responsibly.
Looking past the gala glow: how founders and operators dress for the party while building for the morning after. A candid panel on staying power, brand, and the operational habits that survive the spotlight.
Freedom, technology, and capital meet in cities, supply chains, and the human ledger of trust. Panelists connect place-based systems to digital rails–and to the people those systems are supposed to serve.
Closing vision from leaders who deploy capital at global scale. Expect a forward look at where conviction, networks, and institutional readiness are pointing–and what Blockchain Week’s community should build next.
The Gala opens with a special return performance by Santiago Cumplido Del Castillo.
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