Blockchain Life 2026 Names Speakers: Arthur Hayes, Ben Zhou, Yat Siu
Partner announcement. This material is published in partnership with the organisers of Blockchain Life. The speaker list and figures below come from them.
Blockchain Life 2026 has published its speaker list and programme. The forum returns to Dubai on December 1–2 with 15,000+ attendees from 130+ countries, 200+ speakers and 200+ sponsors, by the organisers’ count.
Who is on stage
Among the confirmed speakers, according to the organisers:
- Arthur Hayes – CIO, Maelstrom
- Ben Zhou – Co-Founder and CEO, Bybit
- Garret “Bullish” Jin – crypto whale
- Sandeep Nailwal – Co-Founder, Polygon
- Mert Mumtaz – CEO, Helius
- Yat Siu – Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Animoca Brands
- Kelvin Koh – Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Spartan Group
- Jamie King – Co-Founder, Rockstar Games
- Luke Judges – Partner Director, Ripple
- Marius Smith – Co-Founder, Ethereum Institutional
- Tony Ashraf – Managing Director and Global Head of Digital Asset Transformation, BlackRock
- Sunny Lu – Co-Founder and CEO, VeChain
- Felix Fan – CEO, Trust Wallet
- Andrei Grachev – Managing Partner, DWF Labs
- Sergei Khitrov – Founder, Listing Help and Jets Capital
- Vugar Usi Zade – CEO, MEXC
- Saeeda Jaffar – Managing Director International, Circle
- Rajat Sakhuja – Director, Blockchain and Digital Assets, Mastercard
- Daniil and David Liberman – creators of Gonka AI and Humanism
The full programme and the rest of the line-up are now on the organisers’ site.
Beyond the stages
The expo brings together 200+ sponsors: crypto projects, exchanges, mining companies, Web3 and AI teams, infrastructure providers and startups. Around the two forum days, Blockchain Life and AI Future Week 2026 counts 300+ side events – meetings, closed-door sessions, business dinners and parties. The forum closes with its afterparty at one of Dubai’s clubs, with a world-class headliner, according to the organisers.
Earlier coverage and the event card are on our event page.
Tickets
Tickets are on sale at blockchain-life.com. See you at the Forum – and get 10% off with promo code jazz.