Singapore, debriefed.
Two penthouses. One race week. 1,900+ applications. Here’s what happened.
THE VIP PENTHOUSE
Wednesday, October 7 · with Diamante, The Best Event and Arcadia
1,000+ applied. Fewer than 50 got in.
TOKEN2049 opened that morning.
That afternoon, we took the conversation upstairs, to a private penthouse overlooking the F1 track.
Applications came in from Coinbase, AWS, PayPal and Citi.
The room held founders, investors and executives from Fidelity, Invesco, TikTok, TradingView, Chainlink and Mercedes-Benz.
Half the room were founders or CEOs.
The pour was The Glenrothes single malt, including the 18-year.
Thank you to Diamante, The Best Event and Arcadia for building this room with us.
This is what we do. We find the people moving this industry and put them in one room.
Who else was there, and what they’re building, goes to members.
THE PENTHOUSE: TRACKSIDE
Saturday, October 10 · with CoinRabbit, The Best Event and Arcadia
900+ applied. Fewer than 50 got a seat.
Three days later, we ran it back.
A private brunch over Marina Bay as the Grand Prix took over the city.
Applications came in from AWS, HSBC, DBS, KKR, Revolut and Kraken.
At the table: Google, Standard Chartered, OKX, Bybit, Hedera and CNBC.
One in four was a founder or CEO.
Thank you to CoinRabbit, The Best Event and Arcadia for making it happen.
The best meetings of race week didn’t happen on the expo floor. They happened at this table.
The names, the deals and the follow-ups go to members.
Where You’ll Find Us
Featured: Assets & Access, New York
Tomorrow night. Tue Oct 20, 7:00 PM ET at Pubkey.
The Industry
New York
Crypto · The Bridge, Oct 27
1,000+ executives from banks, asset managers, funds and exchanges on where TradFi meets digital assets. (Brookfield Place)
AI · Net30 by Monk, Oct 21
Waitlist only. 150 CFOs, founders and researchers on AI in finance, with Coatue's Rohan Bharvani. (Times Center)
AI · Evident AI Symposium, Oct 22
Invite-only. 350+ guests from 110+ financial institutions, with Goldman's Marco Argenti, JPMorgan's Lori Beer and Yann LeCun.
Crypto · Swell 2026, Oct 27-29
Ripple's flagship, 1,500+ attendees and 100+ speakers at The Shed. (Hudson Yards)
San Francisco
AI · Cloudflare Connect, Oct 19-21
Starts today. 5,000+ developers and security leaders, with Matthew Prince and Stanford's Fei-Fei Li. (Moscone West)
AI · PyTorch Conference North America, Oct 20-21
3,500+ attendees and 400+ speakers on the open-source AI stack. (San Jose)
AI · AGNTCon + MCPCon, Oct 22-23
3,500+ builders on AI agents, with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Cloud as top sponsors. (San Jose)
Enterprise · VentureBeat Agentic Infrastructure Summit, Oct 28
Closed-door room of about 200 senior tech leaders, by application, with T-Mobile, Box and Microsoft speaking.
Product · GitHub Universe, Oct 28-29
GitHub's developer conference, focused on AI agents that write code. (Fort Mason)
Los Angeles
AI · Music Tectonics, Oct 27-29
Music tech founders and investors on AI and licensing, plus a pitch competition. (Santa Monica)
Venture · UCLA Draper Innovation Showcase, Oct 22
Tim Draper and family put $250,000+ into startups live on stage. (UCLA Anderson)
Washington DC
Venture · DC Startup & Tech Week, Oct 19-23
Starts today. 8,000+ founders and investors over five days, with Steve Case's Revolution among the partners.
Fintech · SIFMA Annual Meeting, Oct 19-20
Starts today. Invite-only. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig and SEC markets chief Jamie Selway among the speakers.
Chicago
Venture · Invest For Kids, Oct 28
David Einhorn, Rod Wong and Justin Ishbia share their best ideas, all for charity. (Harris Theater)
Fintech · Small Business Banking, Oct 26-28
Small business heads from U.S. Bank, Citizens, Live Oak and Truist on AI, lending and payments.
Fintech · FIA Expo, Nov 2-4
The futures industry's big week, with CME Group, Coinbase and Cboe among the sponsors.
Las Vegas
Fintech · Money20/20 USA, Oct 18-21
Underway now. 11,000+ attendees and 630+ speakers, with PNC's Bill Demchak among the keynotes.
AI · Oracle AI World, Oct 25-28
Keynotes from Oracle CEOs Mike Sicilia and Clay Magouyrk. Nearly sold out. (The Venetian)
Miami
AI · Miami AI Summit, Oct 23
600+ executives, founders and investors, by application, with Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue. (Coral Gables)
Europe
Crypto · MERGE Madrid, Oct 27-29
5,000+ attendees, with Santander and BBVA speaking and Revolut, Coinbase and Kraken sponsoring. (Madrid)
Venture · Oslo Innovation Week, Oct 19-22
Starts today. 15,000 people and 404 VCs came last year. (Oslo)
Crypto · Plan B Forum, Oct 23-24
Bitcoin conference with Tether's Paolo Ardoino and Blockstream's Adam Back. (Lugano)
Fintech · MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking, Oct 27-28
800+ senior banking leaders, including Swedbank's deputy CEO. (Copenhagen)
Middle East & Asia
Venture · FII10, Oct 26-29
Saudi Arabia's flagship investment summit, with Jamie Dimon, Larry Fink and Stephen Schwarzman. (Riyadh)
Enterprise · SWITCH, Oct 27-29
25,000+ attendees and 400+ exhibitors at Marina Bay Sands. (Singapore)
Fintech · Hong Kong FinTech Week, Nov 2-6
45,000+ attendees and 1,000+ speakers across the city. (Hong Kong)
Fintech · Dubai FinTech Summit, Nov 2-3
10,000+ leaders, with Franklin Templeton's Jenny Johnson and Nomura's Kentaro Okuda. (Dubai)
THE MARQUEE SCORECARD
LAST WEEK: THE DESK’S CALL
Room of the week
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 a16z Tech Week LA (34%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜ Money20/20 USA (27%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TechCrunch Disrupt (18%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ FII10 Riyadh (13%)
🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ DC Fintech Week (8%)
Where we were
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Los Angeles (38%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜ New York (29%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜ Las Vegas (21%)
🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ San Francisco (12%)
What Money20/20 was for
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Deals (36%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜ Meeting LPs and investors (31%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ The parties (19%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Hiring (14%)
ROOM OF THE WEEK
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ROLL CALL
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