Louvre Palace Set to Welcome Proof of Talk's Fourth Edition with 120+ Top-Tier Executives Managing $18 Trillion
Dubbed the Web3 equivalent of Davos, Proof of Talk has announced its complete 2026 agenda and released final tickets for its upcoming fourth conference, scheduled to take place at Paris's iconic Louvre Palace on June 2–3.
Paris, May 18, 2026 — Proof of Talk, commonly referred to as the Web3 industry's answer to Davos, has unveiled its complete 2026 agenda and made available the final remaining tickets for the fourth installment of the conference, taking place at the historic Louvre Palace in Paris on June 2–3.
This year's conference is set to feature over 120 distinguished speakers, with 95% holding positions as CEOs or Founders, collectively overseeing approximately $18 trillion in assets under management. The event maintains a strict attendance limit of 2,500 participants. Previous editions in both 2024 and 2025 reached full capacity.
For the highest-ranking executives in the digital assets sector, traditional finance, and critical infrastructure who require a venue befitting the magnitude of the strategic decisions they face, this conference serves as their destination of choice.
The speaker roster includes prominent figures such as Jenny Johnson (CEO, Franklin Templeton), Tom Zschach (CIO, Swift), Ken Moore (CIO, Mastercard), Emma Landriault (JPM Coin Global Executive Director, JP Morgan), Kathleen Wrynn (Head of Digital Assets, Invesco), Caroline D. Pham (CLO, MoonPay; fmr. CFTC Commissioner), Stani Kulechov (Founder, Aave Labs), Michael Arrington (GP, Arrington Capital), Adam Back (CEO, Blockstream), Evan Cheng (CEO, Mysten Labs), Johann Kerbrat (SVP Crypto, Robinhood), Steven Goldfeder (CEO, Offchain Labs), Tom Lee (CIO, Fundstrat), Rob Hadick (GP, Dragonfly), Diogo Mónica (GP, Haun Ventures), Stéphanie Cabossioras (Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer, SG Forge), Tero Reuna (CEO of EU, Paxos), Chris Cox (Head of Investor Services, Citi), Moritz Platt (Capital Markets Technology Manager, Google), Matthew Sigel (Head of Digital Assets Research, VanEck), Jacob Steeves & Ala Shaabana (Co-Founders, Bittensor), among others. Further speaker announcements are expected to follow in upcoming weeks.
Proof of Pitch delivers venture capital opportunities on the Louvre platform
The fourth edition will once again feature Proof of Pitch, a collaborative initiative between Proof of Talk and Spectrum designed for early-stage startup founders to compete. Participating entrepreneurs will deliver live presentations before prominent venture capital investors, including investment partners from Arrington Capital, Dragonfly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates, and CoinFund.
Given that over 200 institutional investment professionals will be in attendance at the conference, this competition creates a unique opportunity for emerging founders to gain direct exposure to both financial backing and crucial strategic partnerships in a concentrated format.
The Golf Prelude, StableDay programming, plus dedicated Bittensor and Canton Tracks
The 2026 edition of Proof of Talk kicks off on June 1 with the exclusive Golf Prelude, a private retreat held at Racing Club de France La Boulie reserved exclusively for holders of VIP Black tickets. This opening experience assembles key institutional decision-makers for a day of golf, gourmet dining, and the intimate, behind-the-scenes discussions that have become a hallmark of the conference.
Following the main conference days, June 3 will see the Louvre Palace transform into the venue for StableDay, a specialized track devoted entirely to stablecoins, digital payments, asset tokenization, and the infrastructure supporting digital dollar ecosystems.
Moving beyond basic educational content, StableDay caters specifically to financial institutions, fintech companies, blockchain protocols, corporate entities, and regulatory bodies currently engaged in building and implementing these technologies. Programming will concentrate on market infrastructure, deployment schedules, cross-platform compatibility, and how programmable currency is reshaping international financial systems.
Throughout both primary conference days, attendees can participate in the Bittensor Track, which examines how decentralized artificial intelligence intersects with blockchain technology and infrastructure. Additionally, a Canton Track will showcase leading financial institutions that are constructing next-generation financial market infrastructure solutions.
Two exclusive dinner experiences that characterize the conference
Over its previous editions, Proof of Talk has earned its reputation not merely through its public programming, but equally through the private dialogues that occur around it.
The investor-focused dinner convenes asset managers, family office representatives, and institutional capital allocators for a confidential evening entirely dedicated to discussing capital deployment strategies, market infrastructure, and investment approaches.
The combined speaker & VIP dinner stands as one of the conference's most distinctive offerings. With almost the entire speaker roster in attendance, this gathering provides an exceptional environment where C-suite executives, company founders, policy architects, and major investors can interact directly, free from the formal structure of stage presentations.
While dinners at typical conferences serve as supplementary activities, at Proof of Talk, they frequently become the venue where the most significant and impactful discussions take place.
Event details
- Event: Proof of Talk 2026
- Dates: June 2–3, 2026
- Venue: The Louvre Palace, Paris
- Attendance Cap: 2,500
- Passes: https://tickets.proofoftalk.io/passes
Media contact:
- events@proofoftalk.io
Proof of Talk takes place each year at the Louvre Palace in Paris and brings together executive-level leadership from across the digital assets industry, traditional finance, regulatory policy, and media sectors. The conference maintains a strict no pay-to-speak policy and prioritizes a journalist-driven programming approach centered on meaningful institutional discourse, financial market structure, and developing financial infrastructure technologies.