Merkle Meet DC 2026 returns to Washington for a practitioner-led all-day summit where digital asset professionals dig into the realities of U.S. policy, enforcement, and operational compliance. Merkle Science brings together experts who are actively navigating on-chain risk, conducting investigations, and building the frameworks that institutions actually use.
Through dynamic panels and hands-on workshops, attendees will explore the specific tactics regulators are prioritizing right now, learn what’s working in real-world compliance programs, and discover how public-private partnerships are accelerating asset recovery and delivering tangible results for victims. This is where strategy meets execution—join conversations that move past the hypothetical and into what’s being implemented today.
The day’s agenda is built around the issues decision-makers are actively grappling with:
- Sanctions evasion and criminal activity in crypto, from nation-state actors to proxy networks
- Institutional adoption in 2026, including tokenized treasuries, RWAs, and tokenized deposits moving out of pilots
- Stablecoins post-GENIUS Act, with emphasis on execution, supervision, reserves, and distribution scrutiny
- Crypto market structure reform and what current SEC and CFTC signaling implies for compliance and trading controls
- Asset recovery in action, including what works (and what breaks) in public–private partnerships
- A forward-looking crypto policy outlook for 2026, including emerging regulatory perimeters and cross-border friction
In addition to panels, the DC edition includes practical sessions designed to be immediately useful for operating teams, including product workshops and training modules covering sanction risk detection, stablecoin monitoring, and investigative workflows anchored in current fraud typologies.
Speakers include:
- Emre Konakci, CoinList
- Diego Gutarra, B2C2
- Steve Szaroleta, ConsenSys
- Sean Spaniol, Sui Foundation
- Adam Leaman, Zero Hash
- Eli Cohen, Centrifuge
- Katie Dellolio, a16z
- Jamie Udison, FINRA
- Chris Russell, tZERO
- Stephen Gardner, Zero Hash
- Mark Graves, Conduit Finance
- Patrick Wyman, FBI
- Caroline Hill, Circle
- Lee Shneider, Ava Labs
- Ron Hammond, Wintermute
- Nicolas Jacquemart, Cardano
- Kyle Schneps, Foundry / DCG
- Pierre Alain Krohn, Bitcoin Suisse
- Adam Zarazinski, Inca Digital
- Travis Wiehn, FBI
- Purvi Maniar, Laser Digital
- Kevin Wysocki, Head of Policy, Anchorage
- Jon Sabol, Aptos
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