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In Paris, you called it the Louis Vuitton of conferences. Careful. Names like that travel. Proof of Talk comes to Louvre Abu Dhabi. 3 and 4 December 2026. Capital meets AI & Digital Assets. The most senior lineup in the industry. 2,000 decision-makers. Every attendee reviewed. No one buys the stage. 45 partners, capped. Admission is granted. Not sold. Request your place - proofoftalk.io #AI #AbuDhabi #DigitalAssets

Before he asked banks to build on Ethereum, David Cunningham @davebarna helped build tokenised money inside one of them. He spent nearly four years at Citi as Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Digital Assets in Citi Services, where he helped develop and commercialise Citi Token Services: a platform that integrates tokenised deposits and smart contracts into Citi's global network to upgrade cash management and trade finance. He joined in August 2022, when, as he put it on leaving, "the world of digital assets in banking was full of uncertainty and big questions". He crossed to Consensys @Consensys in March 2026, and in September was named President and Chief Business Officer of the newly formed company. Consensys is the protocols and institutional infrastructure company behind Linea, Besu and Teku, in his words "foundational infrastructure that is already the cornerstone of blockchain activity at many of the world's leading financial institutions and Financial Market Infrastructure". His job is to lead its work with banks, asset managers, payment providers and financial market infrastructures as they move tokenisation and 24/7 settlement into production. His argument is a sentence he wrote the week he took the role: "The move to a 24/7 operating model in the most important global financial marketplaces is happening now, and it'll only happen once in history." What is left is production: contracts, controls, settlement that works on a Sunday. He has carried a digital asset product through a global bank's own committees, and now he builds the rails those banks will run on, so he knows which question the risk officer will ask and which one the engineer will. He was with us at the Louvre Palace in June. We are delighted he is joining us again. David Cunningham is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About David Cunningham -President and Chief Business Officer, Consensys -Former Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Digital Assets, Citi Services -Helped develop and commercialise Citi Token Services Speaker 5 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Nadine Chakar @nchakar has built an institutional digital asset business from three different seats: inside a global custodian, at the head of the technology company, and now inside the market utility that acquired it. The first seat was State Street. She came up through traditional finance, with roles at Manulife and BNY Mellon, before becoming Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Global Markets. The crossing into digital started from the inside: as Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Digital, she set up a new integrated business and operating model to carry clients through the entire digital investment cycle, pre-trade, trade and post-trade. The second was Securrency, where she was Chief Executive Officer of a provider of institutional-grade digital asset technology. The third began in October 2023, when DTCC @The_DTCC acquired Securrency. She is now Managing Director, Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets, overseeing the firm's digital asset technology, and she sits on the DTCC Executive Committee. Her own description of the work is the argument: partnering with clients and key stakeholders to transform and evolve their operating models, and to create new digital asset services. Not a product launch. A rebuild of how the market actually runs, which is the part that only counts once the plumbing moves. She has led that rebuild from the client's side, the vendor's side and the infrastructure's side, and each institution has trusted her with more than the one before. In October 2026, DTCC's tokenization service went live. Her words on the day: "This is only the beginning." We are delighted she is joining us. Nadine Chakar is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Nadine Chakar -Managing Director, Digital Assets, DTCC; member of the DTCC Executive Committee -Former CEO, Securrency, acquired by DTCC in October 2023 -Former EVP and Head of State Street Digital, and of State Street Global Markets; earlier roles at BNY Mellon and Manulife Speaker 4 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

Growth is the easy part of this industry. What a company is actually worth is decided in the weeks when markets turn, when confidence is tested, and when every decision is made in public. Changpeng Zhao @cz_binance has had more of those weeks than almost any founder in crypto. He was building for markets that break before crypto existed. Years of trading systems across New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, then Fusion Systems in 2005, writing high-frequency trading software for brokers. In 2013 he sold his Shanghai apartment and put the proceeds into Bitcoin. In July 2017 he launched Binance @binance. Inside six months it was the largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume, and it has held that position through crashes, regulatory reversals and repeated cycles of fear and recovery, in a market where stability has to be proven again every time the conditions change. He no longer runs the company. Much of his attention now goes to Giggle Academy, the free online education platform for children he founded in 2024, and he has been blunt about what he thinks the AI era punishes: building a career as a reliable cog in someone else's machine. Changpeng Zhao, known across the industry as CZ, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. Expect a view that is not hedged. About Changpeng Zhao • Founder of Binance, launched in 2017 • Founder of Giggle Academy, a free education platform for children • Investor across crypto and frontier technologies Speaker 3 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026. Request your access: link in the first comment.

Goldman Sachs, Citi and 19 other banks just committed $270 million to their own dollar stablecoin, launching in 2027. The same day, Visa added Monad to its stablecoin settlement network. Its stablecoin settlement now runs above $25 billion a year, ten times last year. Wall Street isn’t watching stablecoins anymore. It’s building them. That’s the conversation we’re bringing to Proof of Talk, inside the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

60 seconds you don’t want to miss today. Anthropic sent bankers IPO terms worth up to $69.3 billion, then pulled them back. The same day, SoftBank reported a $7 billion quarterly loss, while valuing its OpenAI stake at $99.6 billion. AI capital is being priced in real time, and Abu Dhabi is already at the table. That’s the conversation we’re bringing inside the Louvre. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

XBTO @xbtogroup was one of the first institutional market makers in digital assets in 2015. Over the decade since, it has grown into a full-service investment firm across asset management, capital markets and bankruptcy-remote custody, built to perform across market cycles. Now XBTO joins Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi as Founding Partner and Institutional Digital Asset Manager, building on a partnership that started in Paris. The stage is only part of it. XBTO is hosting a closed-door roundtable and a matchmaking lunch. Small tables, open only to those in the room. 2,000 decision-makers. Under the dome at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Proof of Talk × XBTO · December 3 and 4, 2026

Last week, one of the biggest names in AI flew to Abu Dhabi and left with agreements spanning energy, investment and government. The Gulf has been building toward this moment for years. That’s the conversation we’re bringing to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The final seats are going fast. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

The dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi is made of 7,850 stars. In less than a month, the brightest ones will be sitting underneath it. Founders who built the companies. Investors who back them. Policymakers who write the rules. The final seats are going fast. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

We have far more requests than seats for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi, so we’re taking the time to read every single one. If you’re waiting, it will be worth it. If you haven’t applied, that’s the part to worry about. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Our founders lost at chess in Cannes. They insist it was on purpose. At the invite-only Selini Summit, they sat down across the board from Jordi Alexander. The way they tell it, they threw the game so we could get Jordi to Abu Dhabi. They have also been practising at least three games a day ever since. We're not saying the two facts are connected. We're saying their version has holes in it. Either way, it worked. And word is that Selini is bringing a chess moment of its own to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. More on that soon. But first, the man of the hour. You might know him from his game theory threads on X, or from the Steady Lads podcast. Jordi Alexander @gametheorizing, Founder and CEO of Selini Capital @SeliniCapital, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. He runs a digital asset trading and investing firm and invests as an angel across frontier technologies. At the Louvre Abu Dhabi he's taking on one of the harder questions on the board: the tokenization of AI investments. Capital is pouring into AI. The rails to represent, fund and trade that value onchain are being built right now, by people who have to be right about both halves of the sentence. He'll be with us for both days. Whether our founders get their rematch is another question. About Jordi Alexander • Founder and CEO of Selini Capital, a digital asset trading and investing firm • Co-host of the crypto podcast Steady Lads • Active angel investor across frontier technologies Speaker 2 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.

The CEO of a $1.7 trillion firm made us a promise in Paris. Then she moved her calendar to keep it. Well , all marketing aside, this is the real stuff you need to see from a leader! In June, on our main stage at the Louvre in Paris, Jenny Johnson told us: "If you do an event in Abu Dhabi, I will come again." We took it as advice. Six months and one Louvre later, she is the first speaker we are announcing for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. Paris was a full day for her. She announced a tokenisation partnership with MoonPay from our stage, went live on Bloomberg Crypto with Adam Back from inside the museum, and left us a one line review: "Proof of Talk is an incredibly efficient use of time." Abu Dhabi Finance Week opens days after we close, so the efficient plan was one trip. She is making two. In for a day with us, out again, back for ADFW. Her calendar objected. She overruled it! Franklin Templeton @FranklnTempletn manages around $1.7 trillion. Time is still the one asset with no secondary market, and she is spending a day of it keeping her word. Nobody would have held a CEO of her stature to one sentence said in Paris. She held herself to it. That is the example we want our own team to see. Her bio is below and it is a serious one. What we will remember is simpler: she said she would come, and she is coming. Integrity and kindness, in a world that could use more of both. YOLO, but make it fiduciary. About Jenny Johnson - President and CEO of Franklin Templeton, CEO since February 2020 More than 35 years at the firm, with leadership roles in every major division, including Chief Operating Officer, Co-President and Chief Information Officer Led the acquisitions of Legg Mason, Putnam Investments, Lexington Partners and Alcentra - Franklin's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, known as BENJI, was the first US-registered mutual fund to record share ownership on a public blockchain Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific, and a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore - Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women four years running, and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker - Many of the firms joining us in December are deciding whether to build or buy their way into what comes next. She has done both, at scale. Worth finding in Abu Dhabi. Speaker 1 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · 3 and 4 December 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.

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