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ABOUT THE SUMMIT
The Crypto Summit by Inc42 Plus promises to be the definitive forum for India’s new crypto economy.
Today, India is at a new juncture – the advent of the 'financial internet' with Crypto at its helm.
Join 1,000+ crypto leaders, thinkers & investors under one virtual roof for a dialogue on India's Crypto Economy.
From crypto & DeFi 101's to taxation & policy – decode how crypto can disrupt business, finance & the economy.
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WHY ATTEND
Here's why you can't miss out on TCS 2021
Who Should Attend
Why TCS2021?
To initiate a dialogue on how blockchain & crypto can unlock India’s potential
To create awareness about the opportunities for crypto in policy, finance and business today
To foster adoption of crypto in India’s tech, startup & developer communities
Meet The Speakers
Subhash Chandra Garg
Former Finance Secretary, Government of India
Raj Gokal
Cofounder, Solana Labs
Arthur Breitman
Early Architect, Tezos
Jalak Jobanputra
Founder & General Partner, Future Perfect Ventures
Ashish Singhal
Cofounder & CEO, CoinSwitch Kuber
Beryl Li
Cofounder, Yield Guild Games
Raghu Yarlagadda
Cofounder & CEO, FalconX
Sandeep Nailwal
Cofounder, Polygon
Sharad Sharma
Cofounder, iSPIRT Foundation
Shailesh Lakhani
Managing Director, Sequoia India
Nitin Sharma
General Partner & Global Blockchain Lead, Antler
Priti Rathi Gupta
Founder, Lxme
Siddhartha Jain
Cofounder, DeFiDollar
Tanvi Ratna
Founder & CEO, Policy 4.0
Piyush Gupta
Founder & CEO, PolyTrade
Tushar Aggarwal
Cofounder & CEO, Persistence
Sowmay Jain
Cofounder & CEO, Instadapp
Harsh Rajat
Founder & Project Lead, EPNS
Kaavya Prasad
Cofounder, Lumos Labs
Harvinder Singh
VP Sales & Operations, APAC, Onfido
Richa Joshi
Founder & Marketing, Growth Lead, EPNS
Siddarth Pai
Founding Partner, 3one4Capital
Pablo Quiroga
Cofounder & CRO, Star Atlas
Ashish Kashyap
Founder, INDmoney
Pratik Poddar
Principal, Nexus Venture Partners
Sharan Nair
CBO, CoinSwitch Kuber
Sanat Rao
Partner, BlockTower Capital
Amy Zhang
VP Sales, Asia, Fireblocks
Navin Surya
Chairman, Fintech Convergence Council
Yeshu Agarwal
Cofounder & CTO, Transak
Gajesh Naik
Founder, Gaj Finance
Firdosh Sheikh
Cofounder & CEO, DRIFE
Prateek Sharma
Vice President, Sequoia India
Paurav Joshi
Cofounder & CEO, Krida Fans
Sandeep Kumar
Founder, Cropbytes
Mukesh P Kalra
Founder & CEO, ETMONEY
Om Malviya
President, Tezos India
Pranav Sharma
Cofounder & Managing Partner, Woodstock Fund
Pratik Oswal
CEO, Glide Invest
Aniket Jindal
Cofounder & COO, Biconomy
Gautam Chhugani
Director, Crypto Strategy, Bernstein
Ajeet Khurana
Crypto Advisor
Joel John
Principal, LedgerPrime
Mayur Relekar
Founder & CEO, Arcana
Anuj Kumar Kodam
Cofounder & CEO, Wall.app
Jenil Thakker
Founder & CEO, Coinvise
Rameesh Kailasam
CEO & President, IndiaTech.Org
Pratik Oswal
CMO, Unbound Finance
Anirudh Rastogi
Founder & Managing Partner, Ikigai Law
Nimish Joshi
Founder & Director, Smahi Foundation
Sami Start
Cofounder & CEO, Transak
Raj Shamani
Content Creator, Investor, Podcaster
Yida Gao
General Partner, Shima Capital
Ulisse Dell'Orto
Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan, Chainalysis
Glenn Woo
Managing Director, Head of APAC, Ledger
Divyesh Dalal
MD & Country Head GTS, DBS Bank
Nameet Potnis
Cofounder & CEO, Apptuse
Lavin Mirchandani
Founder, GetEvangelized
Karan Sirdesai
Volunteer, iSPIRT
Akshay Aggarwal
Venture Partner, Draper Dragon Fund
Prashanth Swaminathan
Partner & Head of Institutional Business, Woodstock Fund
Sharat Chandra
Blockchain & Emerging Tech Evangelist
Melvin Thambi
NFT Artist & Cofounder, NFT Malayali
Mohak Agarwal
Founder & CEO, ClayStack
Ayush Ranjan
Cofounder & CEO, Huddle 01
Raghu Mohan
Cofounder, BuidlersTribe
Mikhil Pandey
Strategy Lead, Persistence
Agenda
Keynote & Fireside Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
How A Crypto Stack Can Disrupt India's Fintech
- What is a crypto stack and why it is essential to build one
- How crypto offers a new pool of wholesale capital to drive the coming cashflow lending revolution
- Hacking the enforcement of commercial contracts to solve for automated trust on both sides of any transaction
- Two manifestations of a public-private ledger — goods ledger and money ledger
- India Stack made everyone a digital entrepreneur, crypto stack will make everyone a digital banker
- The path to making India a high-trust economy with crypto
Panel
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Decoding India's Crypto Landscape
- The crypto use cases that VCs are looking for now
- The fintech opportunity for crypto builders in a CBDC world
- Reading the tea leaves on the crypto policy front from an investor lens
- What matters in an early stage crypto startup pitch deck
- How 0-1, 1-10, 10-100 stages look like in India’s crypto market
Masterclass
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Leveraging Blockchain To Future-Proof Your Fintech Product
- Understanding crypto as an analogy to the internet and Web 2.0
- Evolution of the crypto industry — Bitcoin, smart contracts and DeFi
- Why DeFi will disrupt today’s fintech — different use cases
- Teardown of star DeFi applications of today
- How to build your DeFi product through a first-principles approach
Fireside Chat
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
How India Should Regulate Crypto
- Twin lenses of crypto policymaking: crypto as an asset class versus blockchain and crypto as transaction enablers
- Pre-emptive versus post facto policymaking — defining the right approach for enabling crypto innovation while protecting all stakeholders
- Why RBI banned crypto, understanding the government’s fears, how industry players can help assuade concerns
- Thinking about crypto policy from first principles — the financial system architecture, interest rates, international compliances
- How a central bank digital currency can help lay the groundwork for a nuanced crypto and blockchain policy
Masterclass
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
What It Will Take To Create A Successful Digital Rupee Architecture
- How CBDCs will make the transfer of money smoother as settlement time becomes virtually zero
- Understanding the policy choice between wholesale and retail CBDCs
- What is the two-tier distribution model of retail CBDC
- McDonald’s, Starbucks rush to adopt China’s DCEP — what India can learn
Masterclass
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Decoding India's Crypto By The Numbers
- Cryptocurrency trends in India
- Cryptocurrency regulations in India
- Cryptocurrency regulations in other regions and learnings for India
- Building legitimacy, growth and stability into India’s cryptoverse
Masterclass
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Building The Next Wave Of Web 3.0
- Understanding the difference between Web2 & Web3
- How developers build on Web3 and the key challenges they face
- Decoding user behavior in Web3
- How Biconomy is solving for the challenges and the impact they have created
- What new applications are coming up on Web3
- The domains that can be used to build — and how to choose and use them
- Getting into the Web3 builder community and how can it be leveraged
Masterclass
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Leveraging Tezos To Build Agile Web3 Startups
- Tezos and Ethereum are twins — the thesis and journey until now
- Building a DeFi platform on Tezos
- Snapshot of the NFT ecosytem on Tezos
- Culture, language, developer relations, product testing, and tech integration on Tezos
- How Tezos is scaling up in the Indian blockhain ecosystem
Fireside
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Demystifying All Things Crypto
- The new currency and how it is different?
- The applications, innovations and the use cases
- Making of a digital rupee
- Disrupting finance systems
Masterclass
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Building Gaj Finance And StableGaj
Fireside Chat
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Building And Scaling A Company In A Tokenised World
- The crypto culture shock and other challenges when you move to the blockchain startup world
- Differences in the types of founder who are building in crypto vs other sectors
- Fundraising avenues in the crypto startup world
- Scaling up journey to India’s first crypto unicorn
- Building a crypto product in India for a token-based future
- Synergies between India’s crypto startups and financial services sector
- First principles for founders who are looking to startup in the crypto space
Masterclass
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Balancing Scale & Security For Seamless User Onboarding
- The challenges of user onboarding in the crypto world
- Why traditional methods of identity proofing fail in today’s remote scenarios
- Understanding the four pillars of secure client onboarding in the crypto world
- Role of biometrics & KYC in increasing security and confidence in identity proofing — backed by use cases & impact numbers
- Frauds, scams & effective counters in today’s digital ecosystem — examples, anecdotes & use cases from Onfido’s experience
Keynote
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
A Roadmap To 1 Billion Crypto Users
- The state of crypto in 2021 and the missing part of the grand puzzle
- Solana’s approach to scalability and how it is different from Ethereum
- What it means to empower 1 Bn users — the role of self-custody
- The dimensions of the Solana ecosystem today
- Why Solana is excited about India
- How Solana is seeding the builders — bringing developers and investors on board
Fireside Chat
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Polygon’s Journey To A $10 Bn Project: Lessons For The Indian Crypto Ecosystem
- How Polygon’s founders came together and zeroed in on the problem
- Identifying and solving for Ethereum’s scaling problem
- Finding tech and product talent for crypto in India
- Scaling Polygon to 100K-500K users a day
- What is being built on Polygon today, future use cases
- What’s next for Polygon?
Panel
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Crypto As An Asset Class In A Borderless World
- Why bitcoin could become tomorrow’s gold
- Integrating crypto as an investible asset class in a diversified portfolio
- Crypto volatility is 3X of the US stock market — the long and short of it
- Mimicking traditional financial products in crypto minus the negatives
- Products that passively track crypto coin price indexes through privately placed and closed-end funds
Panel
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Decoding The Playbook For Building Blockchain Startups
- Creating your blockhain product thesis on Day 0
- Where to find the first 5 engineers for your blockchain startup
- Essentials of getting your blockchain MVP right
- What product-market fit looks like in a blockchain startup
- When and how to pitch to a VC for your blockchain startup
- How to scale your blockchain startup to 100,000 users
Pitch42
1:15 PM - 1:20 PM
Introduction To Pitch42
Pitch42
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Discovering India's Hottest Blockchain Startups [Part - 1]
Pitch42
1:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Discovering India's Hottest Blockchain Startups [Part - 2]
Pitch42
2:35 PM - 3:15 PM
Discovering India's Hottest Blockchain Startups [Part - 3]
Masterclass
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
DeFi 101 – Masterclass On Decentralised Finance
- The essential lowdown on wallets, decentralised exchanges and automated market makers
- How to add and manage your crypto liquidity in DEXs
- Making your assets (stable coins and altcoins) earn passive income for you through DeFi
- Risk management in crytpo trading — navigating bullish and bearish markets
- Unlocking the value of your crypto via yield farming
Fireside Chat
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
How Tezos Is Powering The Web3 Revolution
- From whitepaper to $232 Mn initial coin offering — the genesis of Tezos
- Stakers and bakers: Why an energy-efficient blockchain holds key to crypto success
- Leveraging the NFT rush to acquire mindshare and gain trust of crypto stakeholders
- Why Tezos is the most agile blockhain for Web3 startups today
- How Tezos perceives the blockchain startup opportunity in India
Panel
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
How NFTs Will Propel Creator Economy To A Decentralised Future
- Creator economy, NFT boom and Amitabh Bachchan’s blockbuster entry
- Leveraging NFT use cases beyond art: gaming, music, festivals, fandom
- Crypto tools for creators — tokens, community tokens, loyalty points, IP rights, fan subscriptions
- How does one identify NFTs with good potential — evaluating valuation and market dynamics
- Where do the FAANG companies get placed in the matrix of a decentralised future and creator economy
Panel
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Negotiating The Regulatory Flux In Money, Policy & Bitcoin
- Communicating crypto with India’s policymakers and legacy banks
- When small investors’ crypto money is at risk from the Musks and Goldmans
- The importance of self-regulation until the cloud over crypto policy clears
- How to navigate the public versus private blockchain debate
- Architecting a crypto sandbox to drive innovation
- Setting a policy agenda for a CBDC-led fintech ecosystem
Masterclass
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Making Blockchain DApps Accessible To Consumers
- Onboarding challenges to blockchain applications: wallet creation, identification, fiat on-ramp, protocol interaction and more
- How Transak onboards users from fiat to crypto
- Case studies: Metamask, Quickswap, Polymarket
- The future of blockchain mainstream applications
Panel
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Decoding The DeFi Landscape: Opportunities And Challenges
- Understanding interoperable, programmable and permissionless finance
- Upcoming DeFi use cases like payments, insurance, KYC, custodial services etc
- Decentralised lending protocols and yield farming
- Solving power arbitrage and manipulation in DeFi
- Attacking problems of ETH transaction system, scalability and complexity in DeFi
Panel
5:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Building A Secure & Open Financial System On Blockchain
- How the $200 Mn bitcoin hack by Lazarus shook up the crypto world
- Defining and prioritising the most urgent security issues for crypto and blockchain ecosystem
- What is a hardware wallet and why it is the key to securing crypto assets
- Using tokenisation to build a more DeFi ecosystem
- Security challenges for IoT devices connected on a blockchain
Masterclass
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Leveraging Game Theory To Build A Win-Win DeFi Product
- How Game Theory can be used to incentivise good behaviour and penalise bad behaviour
- Why Game Theory lends itself to the DeFi architecture
- Staging win-win games in Web 3.0
- Building a blockchain product based on game theory
- What other products can be created with a decentralised communication protocol and game theory
Panel
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Reimagining The Games We Play In A Crypto World
- The journey to expect when building a game in the crypto world today
- How blockchain-based games will become sustainable with tokenomics
- Why playing games built for the crypto universe will be more financially rewarding
- Metaverse and the future of immersive gaming
Fireside Chat
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM
How FalconX Grew Revenue 30X In A Year To Become A $4 Bn Crypto Giant
- The thesis behind starting FalconX and becoming one of the largest institutional brokerages
- The strategy of focussing on institutional customers
- Why creating different pricing models for crypto native and traditional users helped growth
- The need for institutions for a digital assets one stop shop
- What’s next for FalconX — building a 24/7 financial services platform
Pitch42
7:45 PM - 8:10 PM
Winners Announcement
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Join us at The Crypto Summit by Inc42 Plus for a deep dive into India's crypto economy!
Future
Innovations and trends in crypto & blockchain that promise to disrupt business & the economy
- Money, Policy & Bitcoin
- Crypto As An Asset Class
- Future Of Money In A DeFi World
- Center Backed Digital Currencies
- India's Regulatory Stance On Crypto
- Web 3.0 & The Metaverse
- Creator Economy + NFTs
- Can DAOs Replace Companies?
Money
Bringing you the sharpest vision of where the future of money lies and how crypto is shaping it
- Decoding The DeFi Landscape
- Banking The Unbanked Using Crypto
- Role Of CeFi In A DeFi Future
- Financing 3.0 – Powered By Crypto?
- Tokenization Of Physical Assets & Its Implications
- Capital Allocation In A DeFi World
- Taxation & Compliance
Business
Actionable insights that you can implement to transform your business with crypto now
- Crypto Startup Landscape
- Funding For Crypto Projects
- Staying Ahead Of Regulations
- Handling Crypto-Fiat Transactions
- Founders 3.0 – Developers Leading The Charge
- NFTs For Gaming & The Creator Economy
Crypto 101
Decoding the foundation of crypto, blockchain, DeFi, trading and more – a primer for anyone new to crypto
- Of Tokens, Protocols, Pools & More
- Stock vs Crypto Trading
- DeFi Lending
- HODL vs Day Trading vs Pools
- NFTs & Collectibles
- Altcoins 101
- DeFi Protocols & Use Cases
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FAQs
The Crypto Summit 2021 is India’s Largest Crypto & Blockchain Summit which is bringing 1,000+ crypto leaders, thinkers & investors under one virtual roof for a dialogue on India's Crypto Economy
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