Breakout sessions
During Dutch Blockchain Week, we present a powerful breakout program featuring leading speakers and organizations from both the Netherlands and abroad. These sessions offer a unique opportunity to dive deeper into topics such as DeFi, stablecoins, Web3 banking, AI in crypto, altcoins, institutional adoption, and blockchain for social impact.
Each breakout session is a valuable opportunity to:
• Connect directly with pioneers and thought leaders;
• Gain new insights into market trends, regulations, and technology;
• Discover practical applications and inspiring use cases – from ERC-4626 vaults to proof of reserves and carbon credit markets.
Whether you’re a developer, investor, policymaker, or curious visitor, this program is designed to inform, inspire, and activate you.
Below you’ll find an overview of all breakout sessions – including topics, speakers, companies, and times.
Summit - Breakout sessions - Day 1
Summit - Breakout sessions - Day 2
Wednesday 21 of May 11:55 – 12:55
Company | Speaker Chhay Lin Lim |
Traditional Finance is failing customers. Web3 bank accounts offer a groundbreaking alternative, enabling financial sovereignty, borderless transactions, and seamless integration with Decentralized Finance. Monflo empowers users with Web3 bank accounts that provide the freedom of self-custody while maintaining the convenience of modern financial services. As a shift away from TradFi accelerates, this presentation explores how you can take control of your financial future before it's too late.
Company | Speaker Frank van Zegveld |
1. Unlocking New Market Opportunities: A deep dive into regional developments, product innovations, and the evolving institutional client base in digital assets.
2. Optimizing Your Digital Asset Tech Stack: The build-vs-buy debate for institutional infrastructure—essential tools for trading and scaling activity.
3. Regulatory Compliance: Practical guidance on navigating MiCA and building a robust, compliant digital asset operation.
Company | Speaker Jasper Verwaal |
In this session, we will take you through the lessons learned in bringing a proof of reserve solution into existence.
Company | Video | Action |
Experience the thrill of VR with Ultimate VR during Dutch Blockchain Week!
For two full days, from 10:00 to 17:00, you can join team-based VR games every 15 minutes. Sign up via the registration link or drop by Room 5 at the Summit to join the action!
Company | Speaker Scotte Moegling |
With the access to unique flows and credit efficiency that prime brokers provide to market makers, and in return market makers supporting prime brokers with stable liquidity and capital neutral revenue, their symbiotic alliance is crucial for market efficiency.
This break-out session will briefly cover the genesis of how prime brokers led to the erosion of spreads in foreign exchange, and provided an access point which allowed non-bank market makers the ability to provide consistent liquidity and pricing in areas of the market banks wouldn’t’ venture into.
From here, demonstrating how both Prime Brokers and Market Makers in the digital asset space are evolving, and as newer entrants (versions) become more involved, it will lead to a big leap in efficiency which will accelerate the adoption of this market across segments and in different ways.
Company | Speaker Jos Lazet |
This session we will dive deep into the opportunities and constraints of Bitcoin-based structured products, such as Bitcoin backed loans.
Company | Speaker Cedric |
If you can trade with zero fees, why choose anything else?
Company | Speaker Glenn Tan |
In a world grappling with climate crises, financial inequality, and fragile institutions, blockchain holds the untapped potential to transform the public good. Join the Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA) in this breakout session as we discuss deep into how blockchain is being used today—beyond hype—for real-world solutions.
From sustainable supply chains to traceable aid delivery, and decentralized identity to carbon credit markets, we’ll discuss use cases that are reshaping impact work globally. We'll also spotlight BGA’s Joint Fund model and incubation efforts that support public good startups, and how developers, enterprises, and policy stakeholders can align and explore BGA can potentially partner with your organization.
✅ Ideal for builders, policymakers, NGOs, enterprise leaders, and blockchain foundations.
Company | Speaker Rick Latona |
How ERC-4626 Vaults can best be used to optimize a community treasury
Thursday 22 of May 12:20- 13:20
Company | Speaker Garm Lucassen |
Talk in which we explain that the large stablecoin companies made $15bn+ in profits in 2024. Profit which is all being extracted from the ecosystem. We then introduce Glo Dollar and highlight all the forms of impact that we can create by using a stablecoin that donates its profits instead. We’ll emphasize our impact so far, how we plan to scale it up further and why the blockchain industry as a whole stands to benefit from this. Particularly relevant in contrast to Trump coin.
Company | Speaker Lars Heerink |
In a period where Bitcoin is continuously gaining dominance and the only other crypto use case seems to be gambling with memecoins; where are we headed?
What altcoins are actually generating value and implement blockchain technology where it could benefit our sector?
Company | Video | Action |
Experience the thrill of VR with Ultimate VR during Dutch Blockchain Week!
For two full days, from 10:00 to 17:00, you can join team-based VR games every 15 minutes. Sign up via the registration link or drop by Room 5 at the Summit to join the action!
Company | Speaker Alejandra Dito |
A deep dive into how Mastercard is enabling secure, scalable, and trusted interactions across the crypto and blockchain ecosystem - bridging traditional finance with the world of digital assets.
Company | Speakers Pieter Dalstra & Stijn Wijsman |
We will explain what onchain data is, where you can find it, and how metrics can be constructed that give valuable insights in market dynamics. We will highlight some key metrics we think are fundamental to the market in terms of Valuation-, Profitability- (of Long Term and Short Term Holders), and Risk metrics. We will end with how people can find these metrics and create a strategy around them.
Company | Speaker David Kurz |
As crypto continues to disrupt traditional finance, understanding the mechanics behind trading platforms becomes crucial. This presentation dives into the key differences between brokers and exchanges, focusing on the European market. We’ll explore how these platforms operate in the crypto space, from user experience and market access to the deep technical layers of order books and matching engines.
Company | Speaker Raoul Esseboom |
The Nodes Game is an educational and physical game that allows participants to interactively learn how consensus mechanisms work within decentralized networ`ks such as blockchain.
During the game, each participant plays the role of a node - a node that receives, monitors and stores transactions. With pen and paper, players experience the challenges of processing transactions according to pre-agreed rules, such as checking for duplicate expenditures or valid signatures.
Goal: Understand how information is distributed and validated within a peer-to-peer network, and the importance of collaboration, reliability and transparency in blockchain technology.
What you will learn:
What a node is and does
How consensus works (majority vs. minority)
What a mempool is
Why rules (such as Proof-of-Work) are important
How networks deal with errors or failures
The difference between centralized and decentralized systems
Educational Value: High - suitable for children, youth and adults without a technical background who want to understand in an accessible way how the digital future and digital truth is being shaped.
Company | Speaker Jack Tanner & Chetana Bhardwaj |
Decentralized Identity in 2025 - A Practical Guide
description: In this session Decentralized Identity Engineer Jack Tanner will take you on a practical session about digital identity. Taking different identity models as a case study we will learn about the different trade-offs made and how web3 and web4 identity models can add value to modern applications and society. Expect a 40 minute practical seminar with lots of room after for questions and 20 mins Q&A.