Events
Merkle Science Meet: Las Vegas
October 20, 2026
| Las Vegas
| Caesars Palace Las Vegas
Duane Morris invites you to, Merkle Science Meet: Las Vegas, on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
About the Program
Join Duane Morris, Merkle Science, Aleo, Stablecon, nSure.ai, Movantis and Range for a day of in-person panels that will bring together executives from traditional financial institutions, financial technology companies, payment providers and digital asset companies—including zerohash, Cloudburst Technologies, Aztec and Aleo—to examine the practical realities behind programmable money. End the day with Duane Morris and Merkle Science for a networking event where food and drinks will be provided.
Schedule
1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. Arrival and Networking
1:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Welcome Remarks
2:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. Crypto Payments in the Age of Programmable Money
2:40 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Range Demonstration
2:55 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. AI, Risk and the Future of Stablecoin Infrastructure
3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m. Break
3:55 p.m. – 4:35 p.m. Bank-Crypto Convergence: How Traditional Finance Is Engaging with Digital Assets
4:35 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Product Demonstration
4:50 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Cross-Border Payments, Remittances and the Stablecoin Opportunity
5:30 p.m. Closing Remarks, Drinks and Networking
Duane Morris Hosts
Agatha H. Liu, Ph.D
Partner
Digital Assets and Blockchain Group
Stephen Rutenberg
Partner
Digital Assets and Blockchain Group
Joseph E. Silvia
Partner
Digital Assets and Blockchain Group
David Contreiras Tyler
Partner
Digital Assets and Blockchain Group
About the Duane Morris Digital Assets and Blockchain Group
Duane Morris' multidisciplinary Digital Assets and Blockchain Group provides regulatory, litigation, defense and transactional services to clients facing the novel and complex legal issues that arise in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries, domestically and internationally. Our team is composed of lawyers who worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Federal Reserve, state gaming commissions and the U.S. Department of Justice, with vast global banking and financial services international experience.
About Merkle Science
Founded in 2018, Merkle Science is the next-generation predictive cryptocurrency risk and intelligence platform that helps crypto companies, financial institutions and government entities detect, investigate and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. Merkle Science’s proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine enables our tools to go beyond blacklists so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and industry players may stay keep pace with the industry’s increasingly complex illicit activities. Merkle Science envisions a world powered by crypto and is creating the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe and healthy growth of the cryptocurrency industry as it becomes a key pillar of the $22 trillion financial services ecosystem. We enable businesses to scale and mature so that a full range of individuals, entities and services may transact with crypto safely.
About Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP, a law firm with more than 900 attorneys in offices across the United States and internationally, is asked by a broad array of clients to provide innovative solutions to today’s legal and business challenges.
Please contact Nicholas Napolitano with any questions.