Search for who spoke at Proof of Talk in Paris in June 2026 and you will find the same document about twenty times: one press release, written by the organiser and reprinted close to verbatim by a dozen outlets. It names a few logos, quotes one speaker and moves on. It does not tell you which institution sent whom, into which session, on which stage.
This page does that work. It is organised by institution rather than by person, and it covers exactly one edition: Paris, 2–3 June 2026, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs inside the Louvre Palace. Every job title below is the title as billed at that edition. Everything is past tense, for a reason set out at the end.
What a programme proves, and what it does not
An agenda is a booking record. It proves a named executive was scheduled into a named session, at a named time, on a named stage. It does not prove what anyone said once they got there, and for most of this roster nothing else exists: no transcript, no recording and, outside a single fireside, no journalist who appears to have filed. So where an institution was booked and nothing further is verifiable, the phrasing below is that its executive sat on a panel with a given title. Claims from the organiser's post-event release are attributed to it, because that release is self-published and its many reprints are copies of one another.
The shape of the room
This was the fourth edition. Capacity was capped at 2,500 and, as in 2024 and 2025, it sold out. On the organiser's published composition figures, 85% of attendees were decision-makers, 95% of speakers were at CEO or founder level, 70% of attendance was international and the room represented €18T of institutional capital. Admission was by application and review, and no speaking slot was sold at any price. Those figures describe density. What follows describes mix, which nobody has written down.
Global asset managers
The heaviest bloc on the main stage was firms that manage other people's money.
Jenny Johnson appeared as CEO of Franklin Templeton in two Hecto Main Stage firesides on 2 June. At 11:45–12:25 she took "The Great Crossover: Asset Management for the Onchain Investor" opposite Adam Back, billed as Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream and BSTR, moderated by the journalist Eleanor Terrett. At 15:35–16:05 she returned for "21st Century Cash Optimisation: Embedding Digitally Native Money Market Funds Directly into OnChain Transactions", alongside Caroline D. Pham, billed as Chief Executive Officer of MoonPay Institutional.
The first was the only session at the event to generate broad independent pickup. CoinDesk reported it on 2 June and the story travelled through Bitcoin Magazine, Cointribune, Odaily and Crypto Economy the next day. The substance, consistent across all of them, is that resistance to blockchain inside traditional finance defends business models and intermediary revenue rather than reflecting a judgement about the technology. That is paraphrased rather than quoted deliberately: the four available renderings of her line differ materially, and at least two are translations back into English.
The organiser says Franklin Templeton's MoonPay partnership, connecting its Benji platform to institutional trading infrastructure, was announced live from the Main Stage that day. Both companies confirmed the partnership on 2 June, but neither their releases nor the same-day trade coverage mentions Paris, so the venue rests on the organiser alone.
VanEck sent Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research, onto the 2 June panel at 17:20–18:00, "Banks, Exchanges, and Asset Managers: Who Controls Institutional Access When Markets Move Onchain?", with Amy Oldenburg, Head of Digital Assets at Morgan Stanley, and Alex Kim, chief executive of Upbit Global. The roster also carried Nikhil Sharma at BlackRock, Kathleen Wrynn at Invesco and Victor Jung at Hamilton Lane, each billed to digital assets. The sessions this group sat in were about distribution and cash management, not custody or pilots.
Banks and market infrastructure
Citi put two executives on two days. Ronit Ghose was billed on the programme as Senior Executive, Citi, the organiser's own outlier phrasing; Citi's June 2026 report gives Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi Institute. He took the 2 June fireside at 15:00–15:30, "What Institutions Need From Blockchain Infrastructure", opposite Evan Cheng, Co-Founder and CEO of Mysten Labs.
He presented Citi GPS "Tokenization 2030: Wall Street On-Chain" from that stage. Every recap quotes the same single number out of it, Citi's estimate of what the tokenised asset market is worth today, which reads as an anticlimax once you notice it is the report's starting line and not its argument. The forecast is the argument: a 2030 base case orders of magnitude above the present total, bracketed by a bear and a bull case, with growth led by public market securities rather than private ones. The organiser calls the presentation a world first. The report is dated June 2026, The Defiant covered it on 1 June and Ghose was billed in advance to present it, so the accurate and still useful claim is the simpler one, that he took it to the stage.
Citi's second appearance was Chris Cox, Head of Investor Services, on 3 June at 12:25–13:00, on "Where Stablecoins Meet Credit: Rewiring Finance Through Tokenisation", with Anthony Bassili of Coinbase Asset Management and Francesco Filia of Fasanara.
JP Morgan sent Emma Landriault, billed as JPM Coin Global Executive Director, onto the 3 June panel at 15:50–16:25, "The New Architecture of Digital Cash: Stablecoins, Tokenised Deposits and Money Market Funds", with David Cunningham of Consensys and Tero Reuna of Paxos.
Euroclear presents a naming problem the organiser has not resolved. Its archive roster lists Jorgen Ouaknine as Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Euroclear; its agenda bills him, for both appearances, as Co-Chairman of the Canton Foundation. Both pages belong to Proof of Talk, so both are given here. He took "Building Canton: A Conversation with the Foundation Board" on 2 June at 14:30–14:55, and "Building DLT Infrastructure for Next Generation Capital Markets" on 3 June at 11:10–11:35.
The organiser says Euroclear used the event to confirm that its Pythagore tokenisation project is on track to go live in the fourth quarter of 2026. Pythagore is a joint undertaking with the Banque de France covering negotiable European commercial paper, and the central bank's own project page is the better source for it: that page describes the NEU CP market as the largest short-term debt market in euros in the European Union, targets first issues in production by the end of 2026 and full migration to the new infrastructure by 2028. It also gives the market's size, which the organiser's release rounds down. Take that one from the central bank.
Deutsche Börse Group was on the programme but not, as most summaries imply, on the main stage. Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director, sat on the Taostats Stage on 2 June at 12:30–13:05, on "Privacy and Compliance: Two Sides of the Same Coin", with James Smith of Elliptic, Jody Mettler of BitGo and Dr. Saj Khoshroo of the Midnight Foundation.
Société Générale-FORGE sent Stéphanie Cabossioras, Chief Strategy and Global Policy Officer, onto the 2 June main stage at 11:00–11:40 for "Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk", with Maja Vujinovic of FGNexus and Dax Hansen of Perkins Coie. Also on the roster: Julien Clausse of BNP Paribas CBI, Nico Pasquariello of Cantor, David Rutter of R3, Fabian Dori of Sygnum and Moritz Platt of Google.
A central bank supervisor, a state investment bank and a reserve manager, on one panel
The most unusual booking of the two days received no press coverage at all. On 3 June at 14:00–14:40, the Hecto Main Stage ran "Beyond USD: The Future of Euro, Sterling and Swiss Franc Stablecoins". On it: Sasha Mills, appearing as Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure at the Bank of England; Elliot Hentov, Chief Macro Policy Strategist at State Street; Arnaud Caudoux, Deputy CEO of Bpifrance; and Johannes Kern of the Frankencoin Association, moderated by Lisa Cameron.
Mills's Bank of England biography gives her a remit covering supervision of financial market infrastructures and policy leadership on payments and stablecoins. A sitting supervisor with that brief, a sovereign investment bank and one of the world's largest asset servicers, discussing currencies other than the dollar, is a harder panel to convene than anything else on the programme.
Nothing is recorded of what any of them said, and one trap is worth naming. A widely circulated piece about Mills and onchain central bank money appeared on 3 June, the day of this panel, but it sources her remarks to events in 2025 and January 2026 and never mentions Paris. The date coincidence is not evidence.
From 08:30 to 10:30 that morning, a closed roundtable ran in the Roundtable Lounge, hosted by Stablecoin Insider. The organiser says it convened senior figures including representatives of Aave, the Bank of England, BlackRock, Paxos and Robinhood. No attendees were named.
Payments and distribution
Mastercard opened the main stage on 2 June. Ken Moore took the 10:30–10:55 fireside "Beyond Stablecoins: Mastercard and the Future Rails of Agentic Commerce", moderated by Christine Lee, tagged on the programme to both the tokenisation and agentic AI tracks. His billing on every Proof of Talk page and every syndicated copy reads "CIO, Mastercard", which most readers will resolve incorrectly. Mastercard's own executive biography gives Chief Innovation Officer, leading the Mastercard Foundry organisation. Worth writing out in full.
Robinhood sent Johann Kerbrat, billed as SVP and GM of Crypto, onto the 3 June main stage at 11:40–12:20 for "Scaling the Distribution Layer for Tokenised Markets", with BlackRock's Nikhil Sharma, Stani Kulechov of Aave Labs and Tom Zschach, moderated by Bloomberg's Henry Jim.
That panel also carries a correction other pages have not made. May's pre-event release billed Tom Zschach as CIO of Swift, so every page working from it implies Swift was on a Louvre Palace stage. The organiser's post-event archive bills him as Independent, and the archive supersedes the announcement.
Crypto-native institutions
This cohort was substantial and, more to the point, was not sequestered into a parallel track. Aave Labs was represented by founder and chief executive Stani Kulechov, Blockstream by Adam Back, Mysten Labs by Evan Cheng, Ledger by CTO Charles Guillemet, BitGo by COO Jody Mettler, Anchorage Digital by co-founder and executive chairman Diogo Mónica, Zodia Custody by chief executive Julian Sawyer, BitMEX by chief executive Stephan Lutz, Coinbase Asset Management by president Anthony Bassili and Animoca Brands by Robby Yung. The organiser reports that Sawyer used the stage to frame Zodia's sale to a traditional finance buyer as a custody milestone.
Look at where those names sat and the composition argument makes itself. Cheng was opposite Citi. Kulechov was next to BlackRock and Robinhood. Mettler was next to Deutsche Börse. Nobody was talking to their own side of the industry.
Capital, and media
The venture bench was present without dominating: Michael Arrington and Keli Callaghan for Arrington Capital, Rob Hadick for Dragonfly, Diogo Mónica again for Haun Ventures and Leeor Groen for Spartan. That ordering differs from most events in this category, where the venture roster is the roster. Here the centre of gravity sat with allocators and market infrastructure. Alongside the main programme ran Proof of Pitch, the startup competition, which the organiser says was won by ReplyCorp and Parthenon.
Forbes was on the roster through Nina Bambysheva, Deputy Editor and Head of Digital Assets. The sharper signal is who held the microphone: Bloomberg's Henry Jim, Gareth Jenkinson of The Block, Frank Chaparro of GSR and Eleanor Terrett of Crypto In America.
What happened next
The useful test of a programme is what its speakers did next, and no coverage has drawn that line. Hentov sat on the non-dollar stablecoin panel on 3 June; that same month, State Street Investment Management stood up a money market fund built for stablecoin issuers, with Anchorage Digital among its initial investors. Kerbrat sat on the distribution panel on 3 June; on 1 July, Robinhood Chain went live on mainnet with tokenised equities as its lead use case. In July, Deutsche Börse's Clearstream widened its regulated crypto custody beyond Bitcoin and Ether. In August, JP Morgan and BlackRock set out plans to tokenise selected BlackRock money market fund shares for Europe on JP Morgan's Kinexys platform, and Franklin Templeton won SEC staff relief allowing its funds to invest in its blockchain-based government money market fund.
None of that was caused by a conference, and it would be silly to claim otherwise. It does establish that the sessions were not speculative: the people booked to discuss tokenised cash, non-dollar stablecoins and distribution were weeks from shipping in that exact area.
What the composition means
Three things stand out. The main stage was weighted towards firms whose business is other people's money rather than towards protocols. The topics converged rather than sprawled: non-dollar stablecoins, tokenised cash and money market funds, control of distribution. And a sitting central bank supervisor took a public panel on currencies other than the dollar, the item the trade press missed entirely.
Worth saying plainly what this format is not. If the objective is volume of meetings, TOKEN2049 and Consensus are far larger and a reader optimising for reach should go there instead. Paris Blockchain Week, rebranding to Signal Week and moving to the Palais des Congrès for 6–7 July 2027, operates at a considerably larger scale. CfC St. Moritz has held the small, private, mountain format for longer than we have existed. The claim here is narrower and easier to check: a capped room, admission by application and review, no speaking slot for sale.
Checking this yourself, and what comes next
Every session time, stage and billing above can be checked against the archived Paris 2026 roster and agenda. Use those archive paths, not the live speakers and agenda pages, which have already rolled forward to the next edition.
That distinction matters more than a navigation note. The roster above is closed and bound to one edition: nobody named here should be read as appearing at any future Proof of Talk.
The next edition is Abu Dhabi, the inaugural Gulf edition, at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the Saadiyat Cultural District on 3–4 December 2026, capped at 2,000 with a cap of 45 partners. The Paris flagship returns to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre Palace on 2–3 June 2027, capped at 2,500. Both are organised by X Ventures. Admission is by application and review: there is no public ticket sale and no ticket price. To be considered, request access; if you are weighing a partnership, the partner terms set out what is and is not purchasable.