Discover how Snoop Dogg is involved in our pitch competition and how we’re bringing market and regulatory insights to Dubai this October. 2025 is set to be a year of growth—explore our upcoming plans!

Snoop Dogg to invest in our winner? 🎤
Our 2025 plans 🚀
Meet us in Dubai 21-25 of October 🇦🇪
Join online sessions about market, compliance, and regulation 💻
Digital Assets @ Duke 2025 🎓
Partnership announcement: Blockchain-Life 🤝

Snoop Dogg to Invest in Our Winner?

One of the contestants included a quote on their slide to emphasize the unfair nature of Spotify’s compensation for artists.

The quote immediately resonated with one of the judges. And true to LA’s style, our pitch competition featured a celebrity guest—Julian Broadus, the youngest son of Snoop Dogg and WAM US ambassador. Stay tuned for more updates!

The winners are:

1. 🥇 1st place winners ImmutableAILabs. ImmutableAILabs is a more secure form of eigenlayer through our proof of useful work consensus which allows for on chain data and computing (pitch deck) & http://Cosign.so is a Coinbase meets Patreon platform (pitch deck).

2. 🥈 2nd place winners http://smartblocks.xyz. SmartBlocks is a blockchain-based platform revolutionizing global real estate investment by tokenizing property assets, allowing investors worldwide to buy and trade real estate-backed tokens with as little as $50. (pitch deck) & PKTCASH. PKT is a decentralized media network on Base that pays people to stake and host infrastructure for the network (pitch deck).

Very strong teams. Check our X account to see all of the participants.

Our 2025 plans ✨

Year 2025 will be the best year for web3 - regulatory clarity after the U.S. elections has two scenarios: A - very good, B - moderately good; Web3 projects would return to U.S., and projects would restart their growth plans.

We are planning to capture the upcoming market growth in U.S. through launching our accelerator & pitches, thought leadership, and advisory & business development businesses. Roughly estimating to be at 30 events next year - Austin, Cannes, Chicago, Denver, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kyoto, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Toronto.

Accelerator & Pitches: I am in talks with 2 blockchains to launch their acceleration programs and bring more activity to their chains. For pitches - I am looking for 7 VCs that invest in Web3 at pre-seed and seed stages to be featured at our events.

Thought leadership: I am recruiting 3 projects per each topic of our interest - DeFi, DePIN, Infrastructure, RWA. Then we’ll hit a road to teach the industry on those topics in manner that would set the industry standards for web3 panel discussions.

Advisory & Business development: In conjunction to our Thought leadership our team will join 4 advisory boards and would work with 1 top VC to nurture its portfolio.

Why us? Global network of 300 investors in Web3. Unique community of 16,000 and connections with academia. Experience with regulatory & compliance. If you want to be part of our 2025 plans, please reach out.

Meet us in Dubai 21-25 of October🌍

We are on the road again to build bridges between East & West in Dubai with 5 events. Over 400 people registered for our events and growing, register ASAP to secure a spot:

21.10.24 - Roof-top pre-party & Market update - get insights from top market analyst
22.10.24 - Crypto VCs Yacht event - network with the best in a private space
23.10.24 - Investor Soirée and arbitrage strategies - network with insights
24.10.24 - After-party & regulatory update - get updates on regulatory WW
25.10.24 - Pitch competition - get exposure to our investment network

Join Online sessions about market, compliance and regulation

It’s your chance to learn each topic in 30 minutes and ask questions from professionals.

21.10.24@11:00 am EST | prof. Jimmie Lenz & Lee Reiners - Coffee & Crypto Dubai edition
21.10.24@12:00 pm EST | Patrick Bush - Crypto Market update
23.10.24@11:00 am EST | Dr. Alessio Brini - Trading Strategies and Liquidity Provision in AMMs: Arbitrage Dynamics Between Decentralized and Centralized Crypto Exchanges
24.10.24@11:00 am EST | Ari Redbord - Regulatory Update

Digital Assets @ Duke 2025 announcement

Mark your calendars for February 5th-7th, 2025. We are looking forward to seeing you all for the 2025 conference, with everything going on in the space, Lee, Nikki and Jimmie are excited about this year’s event. Every year they have a “theme,” this year DA@D will put a bit more emphasis on the retail sector of digital assets, from a number of perspectives.  This is due to the continued growth in retail interest, as well as the products that continue to roll out to this sector.  They will of course continue our broad perspectives on everything from innovation to policy and regulation.

We are reaching out to you all to remind you that early DA@D registration rates will be ending soon, if you haven’t registered yet the 2025 conference spots are filling up quickly.

Partnership announcement: Blockchain Life

We secured partnership with Blockchain Life conference, among other benefits you have 10% discount for the tickets, use promo code “dukeweb3” when checking out tickets on blockchain life website.

On October 22-23, the legendary Blockchain Life 2024 forum will take place in Dubai. Over 10,000 participants from 120 countries will come together for the crypto event of the year to share insider information on the eve of Bull Run 2025.

Esteemed speakers will provide expert market analysis, laying the groundwork for the market’s growth.

Confirmed figures include:

• CEO Tether - Paolo Ardoino 

• Co-Founder Animoca Brands - Yat Siu 

• CEO Ledger - Pascal Gauthier

• CEO Cardano Foundation - Frederik Gregaard

• CEO Dubai Blockchain Center - Dr. Marwan Alzarouni 

• Co-Founder Litecoin Foundation - Xinxi Wang

• CEO Vechain - Sunny Lu

• CEO of dYdX Foundation - Charles d'Haussy

• Founder Listing.Help, Jets Capital - Sergei Khitrov

• Founder DWF Labs - Andrei Grachev

• Co-Founder Tezos - Arthur Breitman

• CEO Trust Wallet - Eowyn Chen

• Co-Founder Osmosis Labs - Sunny Aggarwal 

• Co-Founder of Sui (Mysten Labs) - Kostas Chalkias

• Head of Investments at Maelstrom Fund - Akshat Vaidya

• Founder Notcoin - Sasha Plotvinov

• Co-Founder, CEO Celestia Labs - Mustafa Al-Bassam

• Google Cloud - Tiago Henriques

• Program Lead MetaMask - Zied Brini
  

In addition to an impressive lineup of speakers, Blockchain Life 2024 offers unprecedented networking opportunities. With a premium audience of high quality, behind-the-scenes discussions will be rich in insights and lead to extremely valuable connections.

Just two days at Blockchain Life 2024 can surpass a year of fruitful work. 

The forum is coming soon. See you in Dubai!