Wall Street is coming to Consensus Miami — and it’s not just to watch
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, Senator Ashley Moody, and White House official Patrick Witt will attend a Consensus event for the first time, alongside debut sponsors Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, who join returning partners Fidelity, Mastercard, Bridge by Stripe, and many more.
The conference expects more than 15,000 attendees, with institutional attendance nearly doubling to roughly 35% of the audience – representing an estimated $10 trillion in assets under management, according to Brad Spies, Vice President of Consensus.
“We have reached a moment in which finance, crypto, tech, and policy are strongly converging forces,” Spies said. “All of these things that have been so hard to achieve – policy wins, institutional adoption, widespread stablecoin usage – that have been ‘off in the future’ for us mentally, are finally at our doorstep.”
The lineup
Headliners include Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Strategy’s Michael Saylor, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Bullish CEO Tom Farley, alongside Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, and Tether U.S. CEO Bo Hines.
The institutional bench runs deep. Morgan Stanley’s Jed Finn and Amy Oldenburg, ICE’s Michael Blaugrund, Nasdaq’s Tal Cohen, and DTCC’s Frank La Salla will be joined by senior executives from Charles Schwab (Sarah Hammer), Franklin Templeton (Sandy Kaul), JPMorgan (Kara Kennedy), and Citi (Ryan Rugg and Deborah Querub). On the fintech side, Mastercard’s Raja Rajamannar, Robinhood’s Johann Kerbrat, and MoneyGram’s Anthony SooHoo round out the roster.
Key topics include the future of stablecoins in the wake of the GENIUS Act (and potentially the CLARITY Act), agentic commerce, tokenization, and quantum computing’s implications for the industry. More than 20 sessions will be devoted to agentic commerce alone, highlighted by a panel titled “The Trillion Dollar Question – What’s the Framework for Agentic Payments?” featuring Erik Reppel, founder of Coinbase’s payments protocol x402.
‘A great opportunity’
The conference kicks off with its Institutional Summit at The Ritz-Carlton on May 5, convening institutional investors and asset managers to discuss how new capital should flow into digital assets. Speakers include Vanessa Melendez of Accent Partners, Nick Maffeo of ERS of Texas, Alex Pack of Hack VC, Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital, and Timothy Barrett of Texas Tech University Systems. Sessions will cover prediction markets, equity tokenization, and how LPs are rethinking crypto allocation amid market volatility.
