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"The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets" was a runaway success in NYC. New York City's best frontier tech conference saw 90+ speakers, 1,000+ attendees, and 70 @Cornell undergrads come together at @cornell_tech in NYC last Friday to consider how innovation is transforming Wall Street, the tech industry, security, healthcare, start-ups, the economy, and daily life. We heard from leading global executives and builders from @MorganStanley, @RobinhoodApp, @NYSE, @Zelle/ EarlyWarning, @jpmorgan, @Citi, @EYnews, @coinbase, @RBC, @PayPal, @FTI_US, @FinancialTimes, @Mastercard, @WeillCornell , @Visa, @notablecap, and @harvey, as well as prominent blockchain executives and a dozen AI start-up founders. Full agenda details and speaker bios available at the conference website: aiblockchaincornelltech.org Cornell Blockchain's organizer team (@hrishabhayush, @bbriaaaans, @rachelt313, Paula Hirsch, @caedy_13) want to thank our co-hosts, @CTBlockchainNYC , @theBBFund, and Cornell Tech AI Society, as well as the 2026 Host & Organizing Committees, and our committed sponsor-partners: @Google, @EYnews, @DSAForg, @moonpay, @Optimism Foundation, Avax One, @AvaLabs, @cbz, @Mantle_Official, @1inch, @initc3org, @Ripple, @cryptio_co , @zerohashx, @thisisarculus, @ChainOpera_AI, @LEK_Consulting , @SolanaFndn, @akashnet, @Auros_global, @LCVentures, @palliora, @Supernet_AI, and @BlockRunAI. We are proud to have hosted academic delegations and students from across the country, the Northeast, and the NY Metropolitan Area, and offered tickets to students, researchers, professionals and founders at prices consistent with Cornell's mission of education. Look forward to many more opportunities to connect in 2026!

During this critical window for Agentic Commerce, we are excited to have @RichJWidmann , Head of Strategy, Web3 at @Google , return to the mainstage at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at Cornell Tech. Making AI-native agentic commerce programmable, compliant, and globally accessible is one of the biggest opportunities in technology today. As McKinsey & Co. stated in a recent research note: "According to our research, even under moderate scenarios, AI agents could mediate $3 trillion to $5 trillion of global consumer commerce by 2030." Google is building foundational infrastructure for the agentic commerce revolution by combining its L-1 (Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL)), the Universal Commerce Protocol, and the Agent Payments Protocol to enable AI agents to transact, settle, and operate autonomously at scale. We look forward to hearing Rich's insights into the future of machine-to-machine finance. The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain , Blockchain at Cornell Tech, @theBBFund , and Cornell Tech AI Society. Early bird tickets going fast, and are being offered at special rates consistent with the conference's deeper educational mission: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc

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We are proud to welcome Jed Finn, Head of @MorganStanley Wealth Management, as a Keynote at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at Cornell Tech. Morgan Stanley finished 2025 with $9.3 trillion in assets ($7.4 trillion in Wealth Management), and recently observed in a published note: "Digital assets have moved from niche to mainstream, briefly surpassing $4T in market value. Crypto, stablecoins and tokenized products are now embedded in global markets, offering faster settlement, lower costs and programmable financial infrastructure. Institutions, wealth platforms and regulators across major economies are rapidly integrating and formalizing the space." Embracing innovation at scale is one of the central--and most complex-- opportunities in front of global executives today, and we look forward to hearing his insights into growth and managing change. Early bird tickets are available now: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc Join us April 24th! lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA. The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain , Blockchain @ Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

On a day dedicated to scaling innovation, we are thrilled to have Vasant Prabhu, Former Vice Chair & CFO of Visa, returning to the mainstage as a speaker at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at Cornell Tech. Early bird tickets are available now: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc Vasant understands how large companies make decisions and navigate technology, markets, and change. Not only is Visa a fintech colossus of $14.2 trillion of annual total payments volume and a market cap of $640 billion, but Vasant brings insights across the global economy as he was previously CFO at NBCUniversal, Starwood, and PepsiCo International. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Intuit, Delta, and Kenvue. We look forward to a day of institutions and innovators in dialogue! See you on April 24th lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

We are proud to welcome @el33th4xor, Founder and CEO of @AvaLabs, back as a Mainstage Speaker at the AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets conference on April 24th in NYC at @cornell_tech. Early bird tickets are available now: lnkd.in/eD45RCXr Under his leadership, the Avalanche L1 blockchain ecosystem is entering 2026 with historic momentum: - The Avalanche network recently surpassed 10 billion total transactions, powered by institutional adoption from leaders such as @jpmorgan's Onyx and @galaxyhq - Avalanche’s total value locked (TVL) in Real-World Assets (RWA) reached a high point of $1.3 billion As Gün recently observed: "Assets want to be digital. We aren't just building a faster blockchain; we are building the shared layer of trust where AI makes decisions and blockchain verifies them instantly." See you on April 24th! lnkd.in/eGt3JbqA The 2026 Conference is co-hosted by: @CUBlockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, @BlockchainBldrs, and AI @ Cornell Tech.

Markets are being rewired by AI and blockchain, and institutions are the epicenters of this transition. To navigate this era, we are bringing together institutions with innovators, executives with entrepreneurs, and professionals with technologists at Cornell Tech in New York City on April 24th. We are pleased to announced our first set of speakers for the "Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets" conference. These leaders bring global perspectives shaped by operating businesses that collectively deliver: 💼 $35 Trillion+ in annual volume. 💰 $8.6 Trillion+ in assets under management. 📊 $150 Billion+ in combined annual revenue. 🏛️ Initial Speaker Roster: * Jed Finn | Head of Wealth Management @MorganStanley * Vasant Prabhu | Former Vice Chair & CFO, @Visa * @RichJWidmann | Head of Web3 Strategy, @Google * Jon Herrick | Chief Product Officer, @NYSE * Sandy Kaul | EVP and Head of Innovation, @FTDA_US * Denise Leonhard | GM of @Zelle, Early Warning® * @el33th4xor | Founder & CEO, @AvaLabs * @desilvaneil, EIR, @initc3org at @cornell_tech; also joining: * Michael Pastor, Dean Technology Law, @NYLawSchool * Leo Schwartz, Senior Reporter, @FortuneMagazine * Matthew D'Amore, Director, Law, Tech & Entrepreneurship, @cornell_tech 📣 Stay tuned! Many more announcements to come as we expect over 60 AI, blockchain & industry speakers across 25 focused panels. 🦅 Early Bird Tickets available now and going fast. Invite and agenda here: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc 2026 Conference co-hosts: Cornell Blockchain, Blockchain at Cornell Tech, Blockchain Builders and AI @ Cornell Tech

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Attend our joint information session with @akashnet over boba!🧋 Hear from @AkashStudents about decentralized compute and from Cornell Blockchain members about the club. Register with this Luma link:

Last year in NYC, we welcomed 800+ leaders and builders across finance, tech, AI, crypto, and academia. This year, we’re expanding the conversation around what matters most to institutions now: how frontier technologies get built, deployed, and scaled. 💡 Why AI + blockchain in one day? AI is transforming how work and decisions happen; blockchain is transforming how value moves and gets verified.  Together, they are creating new infrastructure for a new economy, and NYC is where these technologies meet real use cases, real deployment environments, and real market opportunities. Expect to hear from founders and global executives on the topics that will drive the next decade, including tokenization, agentic AI and agentic commerce, stablecoins, AI-driven operational transformation, crypto in wealth management, blockchain safeguards for AI data, digital content attestation & verification, and the next chapter for finance. 📣 Stay tuned for big speaker and agenda announcements ahead! See you on April 24th! Cornell Blockchain is excited to be partnering with Blockchain at Cornell Tech and Blockchain Builders to co-host this convening.

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ April 24, 2026 | Cornell Tech, NYC The Cornell Blockchain Conference returns with “The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets.” 🎫 Early Bird tickets now live: luma.com/aiblockchainnyc 800+ leaders joined us last year—this year we go deeper on how AI + blockchain are built, deployed, and scaled by institutions. More in thread 👇

The team can't wait to present! @TangyMax @MicahDegen @HirschPaul72023

What a great time these past three days with our first of a new semesterly sites visits. Thank you so much to @FlowTraders, @artemis, @AlchemyLearn, @bcap, @WhiteStarCap, @Collab_Currency, @AvaLabs, @alliance, @AlliumLabs, @paraficapital, @okx, @solana, @gauntlet_xyz, @ElectricCapital, and everyone who could make it to our Alum and Friends Dinner! We can’t wait to see you again next semester!

We had such a good time at the @Ledger Op3n! Huge thanks to @Ledger for hosting us! Excited to be part of the @Ledger N3XT initiative 📚🔐

Huge thanks to @rrodrigovillar, former Head of Engineering at @CornellBlockchain and now at @AvaLabs, for coming by and chatting with us about what it’s like building in Web3 🚀 We learned a ton about engineering in Web3 and loved hearing how CBC alumni are shaping the future of the space. We really appreciate @AvaLabs for supporting student blockchain communities 🙌

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What does blockchain technology offer the payments industry? 📽️ WATCH this fireside chat with Vasant Prabhu (Fmr Vice Chair & CFO, @Visa), Michael Shaulov (CEO,@FireblocksHQ), and @leomschwartz (Reporter, @FortuneMagazine), to get a clear and expert distillation of this high-potential moment of change. 💡VIDEO Here:  piped.video/watch?v=Uf-H0cVO… @CUBlockchain held its annual conference in early summer at @cornell_tech in NYC, and we will share learnings as we continue building in the middle of this strong momentum in crypto.  #CornellBlockchain #USInnovationinCrypto2025 #Payments #Crypto #Fintech #CornellTech

Thank you to everyone who supported us this year! We are excited to keep building on this momentum and are locked + loaded for another great school year in Ithaca. Stay tuned and see you soon 😎