Shayne Coplan
CEO
Polymarket
NYC Fintech Week
Finance Rewritten
by AI
April 28, 2026
SoHo, New York City
9 am – 4 pm ET
Where the banks, fintechs, and AI labs building the next financial system meet face to face.
The event
Not another crypto conference
100 executives. One room. No filler — just the people actually building the next financial system. CoBuild pairs an invite-only day in New York with a global livestream, timed to NY Fintech Week.
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Speakers
Onstage at CoBuild
Leaders from the institutions rewriting finance — global payment networks, banks, asset managers, stablecoin issuers, prediction markets, and the infrastructure beneath them.
Kristin Lemkau
CEO
J.P. Morgan Wealth Management
Dan Morehead
Founder & Managing Partner
Pantera Capital
Erik Reppel
Creator of x402, Head of Engineering
Coinbase Developer Platform
Christian Rau
Senior VP, Blockchain and Digital Assets
Mastercard
Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder and CEO
Chainalysis
Peter Jonas
Chief Revenue Officer
Paxos
Ian De Bode
President
Ondo Finance
Bill Borden
Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Financial Services
Microsoft
Edward Woodford
Co-Founder and CEO
zerohash
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder and Head of Network Strategy
Digital Asset | Canton
Nikil Viswanathan
Co-Founder and CEO
Alchemy
Joe Lau
Co-Founder and President
Alchemy
Bill Platt
Chief Operating Officer
Alchemy
Guillaume Poncin
Chief Technology Officer
Alchemy
Agenda
April 28 agenda
From the opening fireside to the closing reception, CoBuild tracks where finance is moving next: payments, autonomous commerce, tokenized assets, AI, and onchain infrastructure.
All times ET
8:30-9:30
Registration & breakfast
Coffee, breakfast, and time to meet the founders, operators, and infrastructure teams in the room.
9:30-9:55
How the world's largest bank got serious about crypto
Kristin Lemkau (J.P. Morgan) on how one of the world's largest financial institutions moved from watching crypto to treating it as a serious strategic priority.
FiresideIn-room only
9:55-10:00
Welcome & opening remarks
Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau open CoBuild with the case for why finance, AI, and onchain infrastructure are converging now.
Keynote
10:00-10:25
The future of payments: old money meets new rails
Bill Borden (Microsoft) and Jonathan Levin (Chainalysis) on how global payment networks, compliance, and onchain infrastructure are starting to meet in production.
Panel
10:25-10:50
The future of commerce is autonomous
Edward Woodford (zerohash) and Erik Reppel (Coinbase) on agentic payments, machine-to-machine commerce, and the rails required to make autonomous transactions real.
Fireside
10:50-11:20
Globally accessible equities
Peter Jonas (Paxos) and Ian De Bode (Ondo Finance) on bringing real-world assets onchain, and what it takes to make public markets more programmable and accessible.
Panel
11:20-12:30
Lunch
A long break for lunch, side conversations, and the meetings that only happen when the right people are in the same room.
12:30-1:05
Onchain infrastructure: the new settlement rail
Eric Saraniecki (Digital Asset | Canton) and Christian Rau (Mastercard), moderated by Bill Platt, on the infrastructure stack emerging beneath tokenized assets, new payment flows, and institution-grade settlement.
Panel
1:05-1:45
The grand unification: the next 10 years of AI + crypto
Dan Morehead (Pantera Capital) on why AI and crypto belong in the same conversation, and what the next decade looks like when software starts moving capital.
Fireside
1:45-2:15
What odds tell us: the future of truth
Shayne Coplan (Polymarket) and Nikil Viswanathan on prediction markets, information discovery, and why markets may become one of the internet's strongest truth engines.
Fireside
2:15-2:45
Major product announcement
Guillaume Poncin and Nikil Viswanathan unveil what we're building for AI-native financial applications, and the infrastructure behind it.
Presentation
2:45-2:50
Closing remarks
Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau close the day, recap the big themes, and send the room into the final conversations.
Keynote
2:50-4:00
Networking reception
A closed-door reception for the conversations worth having off stage.
Global broadcast
100 seats.
No limit on the livestream.
The room is invite-only. The broadcast isn't. Full production — multi-camera, live graphics, studio-grade direction — so remote viewers see everything the room does.
Half-day livestream
Every keynote, panel, and fireside — broadcast live from 9 AM to 4 PM ET.
“Built on Alchemy” spotlights
Live demos from the teams building on Alchemy infrastructure.
First-hand perspectives
The executives and technologists setting the agenda for institutional crypto — unfiltered.
On-demand replay
Can’t watch live? Full recordings available within 24 hours.
Venue
SoHo, New York City
A private, broadcast-ready venue in SoHo — timed to NY Fintech Week.
April 28, 2026
Designed for both the room and the camera. Studio-grade production, partner activations, and an immersive Alchemy experience from check-in to the networking reception.
Format
Half-day program
In-person
~100 attendees
Livestream
Available online
Location
SoHo, New York City
Register