Kelly Stage

DeFi runs on dollars. That's a risk, not a feature. A consortium of major European banks is launching a DeFi-native euro stablecoin on Ethereum: here's the architecture, the strategy, and where builders come in. Bring your toughest questions!

Stablecoins are proliferating: almost 1,000 deployments across ~50 chains, with 12 now exceeding $1B in supply across diverse use cases. Regulatory clarity is accelerating this. Using onchain data, I'll show how the landscape is evolving and what thoughtful infrastructure design makes it work at scale.

Incentives have evolved from short-term rewards into core DeFi components, driving liquidity, yield, and user engagement. This talk explores real-world examples and best practices, showing how incentive design has become a key layer of DeFi products.

As the lines between TradFi and Web3 blur, institutions are moving on-chain. This session explores the motivations, challenges, and frameworks enabling their responsible blockchain adoption.

Euro stablecoins are finally being tested in the wild. With MiCA now in force and EURC growing >5X over the past year, this talk revisits my EthCC 2023 & 2024 predictions using data and looks into the future of the euro onchain.

DeFi Risk Ratings allow individuals and institutions to assess the risk associated with a specific strategy. Credora, as the leading provider, live on Morpho and Spark, utilizes a quantitative engine to assess the potential of defaults or drawdowns,

“Lobbying” often sounds like a dirty word, especially in crypto. This talks breaks down what crypto lobbying really is - much simpler, and far more necessary.

Family office concept started from 19th century, we believe it's now the time to modernize family office after nearly 200 years of "traditional running" and the wealth and impact will be eventually on-chain for the future of family offices

What using a CDP stablecoin for two years actually looks like, including getting liquidated by your own code. Lessons from free floating pegs, why decentralized stablecoins matter at any scale, and why 30 people agreeing on money is still money.

The first pure DeFi mortgage crowdfunded a hackerspace purchase via smart contracts - no banks, fully on-chain. Case study reveals non-speculative DeFi's real-world impact.

Stablecoins promise the future of finance, but regulators promise paperwork. With many jurisidictions rolling out their own regimes, compliance becomes a maze, leaving lawyers crying behind the scenes while projects promise universal adoption

How institutions access leading DeFi protocols whilst remaining secure and compliant to ever-evolving regulatory regimes.

After six years working on EU policy, EUCI is evolving into the European Ethereum Institute to focus on Ethereum as neutral public infrastructure. In the talk we'll share more about why is Ethereum the ideal foundation for Europe’s digital future.