Join us for Avalanche Summit London, a 3-day retreat-style experience set against the breathtaking backdrop of Hatfield House, one of England’s most iconic historic estates. Taking place from May 20–22, 2025, this exclusive summit reimagines the heart of the global financial world through the transformative lens of Web3. Here, the old world meets bold ideas — reminding us how far we've come and how much further we can go.
Designed for developers, founders, investors, and innovators, the event will feature keynotes, panels, and workshops exploring the latest in blockchain, DeFi, gaming, Layer 1 architecture, and institutional adoption. The picturesque, garden-centered venue is more than just a setting — it’s a catalyst for deep connection, learning, and imagination. Whether you're building or investing in the future of blockchain, Avalanche Summit London offers the perfect environment to reflect, collaborate, and grow alongside the brightest minds in the space.
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - Blockchains in the Nation’s Service - Emin Gün Sirer
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM - Inversion: How to Onboard 1B Users to Crypto - Santiago Roel Santos
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM - Bringing the World Onchain - John Nahas
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM - Navigating the Global Macro Landscape - Leon Marshall, Anthony Scaramucci
12:35 PM - 12:55 PM - Keynote with Lord Chris Holmes - Lord Chris Holmes
01:00 PM - 01:45 PM - Turning the Tide: Crypto's Challenges, Opportunities, and the Road Ahead - Christopher Perkins, Haseeb Qureshi
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM - Live Podcast: Crypto in America featuring Emin Gün Sirer, Ava Labs - Gerald Gallagher, Jacquelyn Melinek, Emin Gün Sirer, Eleanor Terrett
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM - Onchain Finance & Real-World Assets: Scaling DeFi on Avalanche - Kevin Chan, Sean Ford, David Henderson, Dave Sutter, Camila Russo
03:30 PM - 03:50 PM - Why the Next Big Media Franchise Will be Web3 Native - Giulio Xiloyannis
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM - (Introduction to) Avalanche: What Makes This Blockchain Stand Out - Corey Wendling
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM - Launching Your L1: Insights From Ecosystem Leaders - Dr. Ravi Chamria, Anthony Janocko, Hilmar Orth, Martin Eckardt
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM - You Launched an L1—Now What? - Amy Zhao
12:15 PM - 12:35 PM - Mine the Trillion Dollar Gap: Physical Commodities and DeFi - Maryam Ayati
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM - Unlocking L1 Innovation: Deploy, Monitor, and Scale with Zeeve Cogitus - Dr. Ravi Chamria
12:40 PM - 01:00 PM - Deploy an L1 by Hand: Setup and Maintenance of an L1 with the new Avalanche Builder Tooling and Docker - Martin Eckardt
01:05 PM - 01:25 PM - Governance Design for L1 Apps - Andrea Vargas
02:00 PM - 02:05 PM - Introduction to Network Design: Customizing Layer 1s and Beyond - Owen Wahlgren
02:05 PM - 02:25 PM - L1 Staking: Arbitrary Staking Mechanisms with the Validator Manager Contracts - Michael Kaplan
02:25 PM - 02:45 PM - ACP-99: A New Era of Validator Set Management for L1s - Gauthier Leonard
02:45 PM - 03:05 PM - Migrating a Subnet to L1 PoS: Deep-Dive into Beam's Dual-Staking with Node Licenses - Martin Kainzbauer, Owen Wahlgren
03:05 PM - 03:25 PM - How to Build the Next Generation of Privacy-Preserving Applications - Furkan Boyraz
03:25 PM - 03:45 PM - Leveraging Glacier API & Webhooks to Build Apps - Conor Leary
03:50 PM - 04:10 PM - Introduction to Avalanche JS 2.0 - Conor Leary
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM - Sports Illustrated Stadium: The Blockchain-Powered Stadium Experience - David Lane
12:35 PM - 12:55 PM - Confidentiality Unlocked: Why 2025 is the Year Big Finance Pushes Past the Pilot and Into Mainnet - Nick Mussallem
12:55 PM - 01:15 PM - Privacy: The Key to 100x Blockchain Adoption - Will Waltrip
01:20 PM - 01:40 PM - From Digital Assets to Daily Purchases: Powering Real-World Spend with the Avalanche Card - Charles Yoo-Naut
01:45 PM - 02:05 PM - The Future of Trading Onchain - Gracy Chen, Kanny Lee, Nicolas Rémond, Darius Tabai
02:15 PM - 02:45 PM - Onchain Finance & Real-World Assets: Scaling DeFi on Avalanche - Kevin Chan, Sean Ford, David Henderson, Dave Sutter, Camila Russo
03:00 PM - 03:20 PM - The Future of Permissionless Global Trading in All Assets with Enclave - David Wells, Phil Wirtjes
02:50 PM - 03:10 PM - More Than a Game: Building a Player-Owned MapleStory Universe - Dominic Jang, John Nahas
02:55 PM - 03:25 PM - How to Build (and Launch) a Successful Web3 Game - EllioTrades, Theodore Agranat, Nicholas Korsgård
03:30 PM - 03:50 PM - Why the Next Big Media Franchise Will be Web3 Native - Giulio Xiloyannis
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Epicenter: Live Podcast with Emin Gün Sirer - Emin Gün Sirer, Brian Crain
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM - The New Age of Investment: Digital Assets and Beyond with Anthony Pompliano - Anthony Pompliano, Camila Russo
11:55 AM - 12:15 PM - Bringing the Infrastructure Economy Onchain - Meltem Demirors
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM - Lunch & Live Music
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM - Top VCs on Avalanche: Here’s Why and What’s Next - Rob Hadick, Anjan Vinod, Joe Bruzzesi
01:25 PM - 01:55 PM - Advancing Foreign Exchange Markets with Blockchain - Tianwei Liu, Fernando Martinez, Dejan Rolijic, Nick van Eck, Basil Al Askari
02:00 PM - 02:10 PM - Crypto, Capital, and Capitol: Institutional Adoption and Policy Shifts Post-Election - John Darsie, J. Baylor Myers
02:40 PM - 03:10 PM - Navigating Emerging Financial Infrastructures with Blockchain - Maredith Hannon, Wyatt Lonergan, Gabriel Otte, Ryan Barney
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM - Upgrading the Private Credit Industry with the Power of Avalanche - Juan Montero, Khibar Rassul, Lily Yarborough, Morgan Krupetsky
03:45 PM - 04:15 PM - Finding Investment Opportunities in the Crypto Markets: Key Insights and Strategies - Lewis Harland, Pranav Kanade, Paul Kremsky, Paul Piotrowski, Ivan de Lastours
11:00 AM - 11:05 AM - Getting Started with 3rd Party Integrations on Avalanche L1s - Andrea Vargas
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM - All-in-One Web3 Payment Solution Across Avalanche L1s - Gerald Pollak
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM - Love Your Data Again - Brock Haugen
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM - Securing Your L1 with Multisig Ownership Using Ash Wallet - Léo Schoukroun
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM - Building Analytics for Avalanche L1s: APIs, Indexing & Visualization Tools - Conor Leary
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM - A Deep-Dive into the Canoto Serialization Format - Stephen Buttolph
02:05 PM - 02:25 PM - Introductory Workshop to Interchain Messaging (ICM) - Andrea Vargas
02:25 PM - 02:45 PM - Interchain Messaging Improvements - Michael Kaplan
02:45 PM - 03:05 PM - Tesseract: Solving Interoperability on Avalanche - Angus Hopkinson
03:00 PM - 03:25 PM - Bootstrapping Cross-Chain Liquidity for New Avalanche L1s - Chris Fusillo
03:05 PM - 03:35 PM - Incubating Success: How Avalanche's Builders Platform Serves Early-Stage Companies - Lynette Ban, John Belitsky, Agbona Igwemoh, Alejandro Oletta, Michael Martin
03:45 PM - 04:00 PM - The Latest Updates to Firewood - Juan Leon
04:00 PM - 04:15 PM - Simplex Consensus: Consensus Optimizations for L1s - Yacov Manevich
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Understanding US Policy Shaping Blockchain and Crypto - Norma Krayem, Scott Mason, Lee Schneider, Eleanor Terrett
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Through a Lawyer’s Eyes: Regulatory Developments Around the World - Diego Ballon Ossio, Stuart Davis, Lilya Tessler, Wee Ming Choon
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Blockchain for Good: Taking Social Change Onchain - Lavinia Osbourne
02:10 PM - 02:40 PM - Democratizing Alternative Asset Distribution Models - Kat Daminova, Siiri Ruuhela, Nikhil Sharma, Itay Tuchman, Bial Jafar
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - Avalanche Foundation Grants: How to Secure Funding for Your Project - Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Daniele De Menna, Kit Sturgeon, Xenia Soborova
03:05 PM - 03:35 PM - High Performance Habits for Founders - Emily Dallara
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM - Looking to the Future: The AvalancheGO Roadmap - Juan Leon
01:45 PM - 02:05 PM - Crypto, Capital, and Capitol: Institutional Adoption and Policy Shifts Post-Election - John Darsie, J. Baylor Myers
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Blockchain for Good: Taking Social Change Onchain - Lavinia Osbourne
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - Avalanche Foundation Grants: How to Secure Funding for Your Project - Lorenzo Barbantini Scanni, Daniele De Menna, Kit Sturgeon, Xenia Soborova
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM - L1 Alignment: Cryptos Opportunity for Infinite Growth - Steven Gates
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM - Wyoming’s Digital Frontier: Pioneering State-Issued Stable Tokens & the Future of Public Sector Digital Assets - Anthony Apollo
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Fine Wine and Blockchain: A Pairing Aged to Perfection - Alfonso de Gaetano
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM - Lunch & Live Music
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM - The Future of Fan Engagement - Mark Epps, Sandy Khaund, Maximilian Stehling, John Timoney-Gomez, Pet Berisha
01:20 PM - 01:40 PM - Empowering Artists with Blockchain: A New Model for the Music Industry - Mag Rodriguez
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM - A New Approach to EVM Compatibility with libevm - Arran Schlosberg
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM - Async Execution with Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs) - Arran Schlosberg
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM - Exploring Dynamic EVM Gas Limits and Price Discovery - Stephen Buttolph
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM - The Economic Layer for Agentic AI - Scott Shi
12:05 PM - 12:25 PM - Improving Performance: Decoupled State Machine Replication (DSMR) - Aaron Buchwald
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM - Benchmarking Blockchain Performance - Aaron Buchwald
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM - The Future of Fan Engagement - Mark Epps, Sandy Khaund, Maximilian Stehling, John Timoney-Gomez, Pet Berisha
01:20 PM - 01:40 PM - Empowering Artists with Blockchain: A New Model for the Music Industry - Mag Rodriguez
03:00 PM - 05:00 PM - Closing Happy Hour with DJ Nico Stojan