Featured speakers
Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Lesley Chavkin
Head of Policy
Ribbit Capital
Lesley Chavkin is currently at Ribbit Capital and is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Economic Statecraft Initiative in the GeoEconomics Center. Prior to joining Ribbit Capital, she worked at Paxos, the Stellar Development Foundation and JPMorgan Chase, and also served in a variety of roles at the US Department of the Treasury, including as an international economist in the Office of African Nations, as a senior policy advisor focused on the Middle East, and as Treasury’s financial attaché to Qatar and Kuwait from 2017 to 2020. Chavkin holds a master’s degree in development economics and international security from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and international affairs from the University of Washington.
Speaking at
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10:00–10:40amThu 25 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets
MiCA, GENIUS, CLARITY and the Global Race to Write the Rules for Digital Assets
Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
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Brian QuintenzAdvisor and Board MemberUbyx, SUIG, KalshiEx
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Justin SlaughterVP, Regulatory AffairsParadigm
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Lesley ChavkinHead of PolicyRibbit Capital
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Stu AlderotyChief Legal OfficerRipple
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Vaida Česnulevičiūtė – MarkevičienėDeputy Chair of the BoardBank of Lithuania
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Candace KellyChief Legal & Policy OfficerStellar Development FoundationModerator
About this session
MiCA's 2026 deadline and the GENIUS Act's January 2027 compliance window represent two very different answers to the same question: how do you bring digital assets inside the regulatory perimeter without breaking what makes them work? The choices embedded in each framework - on reserve requirements, stablecoin volume caps, extraterritorial reach, and licensing architecture - will determine which markets lead and which lose ground. This session examines the design principles behind global digital asset regulation, and asks where the frameworks converge, where they conflict, and what a coherent global standard might actually look like.
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